Workout storage full

We have an app which downloads personalised running workouts to Garmin watches, but after maybe twenty or so the workout storage on the watches seems to fill up and the user has to manually delete the workouts to continue.

This is either a very painful process via the training menu, or they have to hook up via USB to a computer and delete the files in the directory.

Is there any way around this?

Maybe (in a future SDK) if an app could optionally mark downloaded data as transient, and eligible for deletion if a new item needs the storage

Former Member over 8 years ago

abs0d,

Right now there is no access through CIQ to do this. There is constant discussion about what new things we need to expose to our developers though so I will make a feature request for this.

Thanks,
-Coleman

abs0d over 8 years ago

OK. Is there an official Garmin page to which we can direct users in the meantime, or a recommended way of communicating this issue to users?

Presumably this affects all watches with Persistable? In which case its going to hit every user who uses our app.

For reference we're not too concerned which solution is picked, whether we can mark an entry as recyclable, or overwrite a specific id, or manually enumerate and delete.

We'd love to keep recommending users towards Garmin, but we already have some quite unhappy Forerunner 235 and fenix 3 users who cannot download at all, and now even the high end watch users effectively have a time bomb in their usage :(