Malfunction of the compass

Just installed Software Version 7.00 from Garmin Express, compass is still not stable.

Have you calibrated the compass after the fw update? If not, try this ...

yes, calibrated many times in desperate hope but no still as unreliable as ever.

Which does not surprise me as the release notes pointed to lots of improvements and tweaks but none of them indicating any change to the compass. I'd say anyone claiming this is a fix is misreading the results.

It would be great if someone from Garmin would chime in since this is their flagship watch device now and theres ample evidence theres a fault in the software/hardware and give some resolution or sense of progress. Turn the watch off, recalibrate, install software with no known patches is learning on insulting the intelligence of the customers now.. can we please get an official response?

Currently (BLE/ANT/SNS v.5,30) my compass is stable.

Just installed Software Version 7.00 from Garmin Express, compass is still not stable.

EDIT: It's more stable than it was in the beginning (first post), but it's still not like it supposed to be.

Hi,

I receive a new F5 last saturday, my previous one had a barometer problem. This new one, no problem with the barometer, but calibrate the compas is very difficult.... Compas is not stable. I did a reset with V6 and V7, no more best result. Did a downgrade with V5.30n compass calibrate with the second test. And Compas is working very well.

I did the upgrade to V7, without reset, Compass work well.

Very strange !!!