I run with a Garmin Forerunner 610, a device that does not have a barometric altimeter. Consequently, I would expect that Elevation Corrections would be enabled by default in Garmin Connect ("Activities recorded from devices without a barometric altimeter are enabled with Elevation Corrections by default"). However, this is not the case; elevation corrections are disabled by default in my Garmin Connect, despite the fact that my registered device is a Forerunner 610. As a result, I have to go through and manually enable Elevation Corrections for every individual activity in order to obtain accurate elevation data. Does anyone know how to enable Elevation Corrections by default for all activities? Thank you!
Can't be done. My Forerunner 210 is the same way and it defaults into the same setting, sometimes it does ~ so there's no rhyme or reason to it. I just make a habit out of clicking enabled when ever I view the data.
yeah, there's something going on behind the scenes on this one
my default changes, and what happens when I click "enable corrections" changes as well... sometimes it fixes the graph but not the total climbing, sometimes it does both, most of the time when I go back to look the old activity has re-defaulted to the incorrect settings
I emailed them about this several times - no sensible response - the above link explains it - it would seem they hope to have it back to how it was in a week or so. In the meantime there seems to be nothing we can do - clicking on enabled is accepted, but the height gain stays the same. Deleting and reloading does not help either. When Garmins work as they are meant to they are fantastic, when they don't they are a pain.
Nothing behind the scenes. They announced that the elevation correction functionality was going to be disabled last week. Have a look here.
Travis
that's a shame, the non corrected GPS driven elevation gains are so insanely off I'd prefer if they just turned the entire elevation correction feature off until they figured it out
when I go back and look at elevation gain totals, the entire batch of info is now useless with all these "non corrected" and non correctable elevation gains
just in the last couple weeks... I've had the GPS elevation data give me 750 feet of climbing in 3 miles (which was flat, no way it was even 75 feet much less 750) 375 feet of climbing on a pancake flat 4 mile run....
the GPS elevation data is tragically bad, it's not doing me any favors by giving me artificially high numbers
Interesting how the non-barometric devices default to Disabled... I ride with an Edge 510(barometric altimeter) and GC defaults to Enabled- Yes! Is the whole thing just backwards?
