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10 days ago
CIQQA-3459

bug: no way to set elevation unit on vivoactive 5

This probably should also be reported in the vivoactive 5 forum, but since that's not monitored by Garmin employees, I'll try here.

A user of one of my apps reported that they can't change the elevation unit from feet to meters. I told them to do it in the system settings (my app uses DeviceSettings.elevationUnits). But it turns out that Garmin left that possibility out from vivoactive 5.

The only settings (both on-watch and via Garmin Connect) are:
distance, weight, height, temperature, pressure.

Note, it's not a mistake, it's height, with cm or inches, and not elevation or altitude that's supposed to be meters or feet.

This is vivoactive 5 with FW version 14.15

Yes, there's no barometer in va5, but it doesn't matter, because the watch displays the correct elevation based on GPS, just in feet.

See also: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/vivoactive-5-series/418980/bug-no-way-to-set-elevation-unit-on-vivoactive-5

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  • 11 days ago

    Elevation from GPS can be way off, based on where you are. Especially when it comes to ascent and descent

    This is why when an activity is synced to GC on a device without a baro, elevation correction is applied by default.  That used to be something you could turn off for an activity, but it seems that option was removed.

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  • 11 days ago

    Elevation from GPS can be way off, based on where you are. Especially when it comes to ascent and descent

    This is why when an activity is synced to GC on a device without a baro, elevation correction is applied by default.  That used to be something you could turn off for an activity, but it seems that option was removed.

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