First day with F5, one day too much

Former Member over 8 years ago

This is disappointing. I just upgraded from the F3 for the HR and had soo much hope for the F5.

I didnt buy for fitness, im on a diet and its basically used as a fancy activity tracker, but the first day is showing steps and active calories waaayy too high which is screwing up MFP. Also step counting is erratic at best. What i dont understand is that this isnt garmins first rodeo, and looking at the amount of issues that seem to be on these watches i dont get how its possible.

My F3 was prety perfect in terms of steps and active cals.

Is there a way to fix the issues or do i just go get a refund? Also is there a beta programme?

Thanks
Craig

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Hope

I was very heartened reading the replies to this thread. When I first saw it and OP explained that the F5 was used as a fancy activity tracker I thought "Uh oh, Here come the negative comments." Hold the cynical phone there cowboy! The replies were helpful and that is not something I can say about other forums.

Faith in humanity restored.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

I was very heartened reading the replies to this thread. When I first saw it and OP explained that the F5 was used as a fancy activity tracker I thought "Uh oh, Here come the negative comments." Hold the cynical phone there cowboy! The replies were helpful and that is not something I can say about other forums.

Faith in humanity restored.

Indeed, I bought it because i wanted something rugged and waterproof. I dont think you should have to be an athlete to qualify to buy a piece of technology. It is indeed a very helpful group of people here :)

0 Crewone over 8 years ago

There's good reason to believe neither the F3HR nor the F5 are any accurate at measuring calories:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2017/05May/Pages/Fitness-trackers-calorie-measurements-are-prone-to-error.aspx

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Makes sense, although they never tested a Garmin and i can say the HR on it is bang on (at least for me). i often compare it to my BP monitor and its always 100% accurate. That being said I have removed the calorie adjustment from MFP.

0 DialedRunner.com over 8 years ago

JamesMira

There's good reason to believe neither the F3HR nor the F5 are any accurate at measuring calories:

http://www.nhs.uk/news/2017/05May/Pages/Fitness-trackers-calorie-measurements-are-prone-to-error.aspx

According to FirstBeat which programed calories burned for the F5 should be accurate within 5-7% of laboratory measurements. https://www.firstbeat.com/en/consumer-feature/calories-burned/