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Automatic software update

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Christ am I annoyed!

So, after the upgrade (I  never got prompted for whether I want to or not) from 6.64 to 7.x my HR has been inaccurate for walking/hiking activities.  I tried beta 8.02, which didn't make the problem go away.   Garmin were offering to replace my watch (fēnix 5X Plus) which is just over 4 months old, but that would have meant to be w/o a watch for extended periods of time or to switch to the APAC version which I was trying to avoid for forever.

So, yesterday, with some serious googleing and lots of futzing I managed to unearth the old 6.64 beta, apply it to the watch, set the watch up again w/ all my personalised settings, made sure that auto software update is turned off because I wanted to test the HR feature today; and woke up to the watch telling me that it had upgraded itself to 7.60 overnight ... AAARRRRGH!!  REALLY!?  Why the *** am I given the option to NOT have automatic updates if the bloody thing is going to ignore the setting anyway?! 

Pissed off,

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    Auto update was set to off? settings->system->Software Update->Auto Update (off) 

  • 0 in reply to chrisdr2

    Indeed. I did that when it reached 7.60 and have been checking every time before I use Garmin Express on Mac.

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    Maybe a bug with that beta?  If that's the case you could disable phone connect to prevent update: settings->phone->status.  A bit drastic but at least you could do the HR test.

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    Prueba esto:

    1_acceder al reloj desde Android File Transfer

    2_borrar todos los archivos que me permite el reloj (mapas incluidos)

    3_ restaurar el reloj

    4_conectarlo a Garmin Espress y volver a instalar los mapas y el resto de archivos

    Cada actualización de Garmin ha provocado algún mal funcionamiento para mi (mala señal en aguas abiertas, consumo de batería excesivo, HR imprecisas...), así que hago esto cada vez que se actualiza y no he vuelto a tener problemas. 

    Un saludo

  • 0 in reply to chrisdr2

    That's a possibility.  Well, after having done the song and dance yesterday the downgrade (two-step process) took me just under 20 minutes today; I'll see if the bloody thing does it again Disappointed

  • 0 in reply to yago77

    Gracas    ¿Qué versión de software estás usando en la tuya? La versión original que vino con el reloj era muy mala - incluso falló en la esfera del reloj.

  • 0 in reply to yago77

    Parece que hay una amplia gama de comportamientos diferentes en lo referente a versiones de software y relojes individuales. El mío era casi inútil con 7.60 - la frecuencia cardíaca mientras el senderismo estaba completamente fuera de lugar (demasiado bajo).

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    So, this morning I downgraded my watch to 6.64beta.  Worked fine for my run; worked fine during the cool-down hike home, and HR stayed in the expected range (not like w/ 7.10, 7.60, and 8.02beta.

    Got home, am trying to sync, and it's taking HOURS. I have a sneaky suspicion that I'm getting another software update forced on me, and while the mobile app shows my ~ 19K steps for the trail run and walk home, it's not syncing it to the Garmin connect website.

    I saw similar slowness the last two days, and as I started "late" in the day (~1600h) the sync hadn't finished by the time I'd gone to bed (by 2150 it had done maybe 60%).  Subsequently both nights my step count was truncated I ended up w/ roughly 10k steps for Th and Fr, when I had done 15k and 13k respectively.

    I must say that I'm not amused. Why can't I just keep the bloody software version I'm on and that is *WORKING* for me? 

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    The non-sync issue is really starting to annoy me.  I did ~ 22000 steps yesterday, the Connect website acknowledges the first 147 I did before I realised that watch had yet again updated itself despite the "auto update=OFF" and downgraded it yet again.

    Garmin, stop messing with me!!!

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