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Customer support refuses to fix sync problem between Garmin and my fitness pal

Below is a copy of an email I just sent to Garmin customer support which is passing the buck on a syncing problem between Garmin connect and my fitness pal. Because this is happening to three different Vivofit's I hope others will utilize the social media to apply pressure to fix the problem not blame the other guy


Matt: I am very frustrated. My Garmin connect has refused to sync with my fitness pal since December 18, 2014. I have written Garmin customer support on at least four occasions. This problem not only involves my Vivofit/Garmin connect but also my wife's and as of December 26, my son's new Vivofit given to him as a Christmas present. The only advice customer support has been giving me is to disconnect and then reconnect which I have done on multiple occasions, and is doing nothing.

Now your advice is to contact my fitness pal, which was advice given to me five days ago and which I did to no avail. I suggest to you that it should not be my problem to sort out which system (yours or my fitness pal) is the source of the problem. You should be contacting my fitness pal, sorting out the problem or problems, and resolving them between the two systems.

Your Vivofit success depends on the interaction of these two systems. I suggest that if you have at least three Vivofit's malfunctioning in one family you have a systemic problem that the Vivofit team should be all over. Please advise me of the results of your contacting my fitness pal.

Joe Buchanan:mad:



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  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 9 years ago
    Don't want to jinx it but it seemed like all my MyFittnessPal data synced to Garmin Connect over night but not the other way around with the exception of today's data. Did this happen to anyone else?
  • Tip

    I was having sync issues... that msg saying "Right now we aren't able to sync with your MyFitnessPal account." then I did this:
    - went to MFP and disconnected the Garmin app
    - went back to GC and reconnected from there
    - went back to MFP and the app now shows 'connected'
    - went back to GC to resync pending days... worked fine now

    Trying to disconnect from inside GC wasn't working.

    Hope it helps.

    Rgds.
  • I have the same problem. I did disconnect from MFP, that says I'm disconnected, but Garmin still thinks I'm connected.
    The message I get is: Right now we aren't able to sync with your MyFitnessPal account. It looks like something temporary, so please try again later

    I do not get a gear icon of something to force a disconnect. Did delete all cookies. And anything else I could think of.
    Garmin support is not responding (as usual).

    Any help?