Hi All
i just notice that my Garmin fenix 5 can show me I am high stree for 3% in one day.
may I know it is accurate ?
OK, so I have an update that I think those that are suffering will be quite keen on. Since purchasing my 935, the all day stress has always been bad. A hard reset wouyld always curte it, but after a day or two it would go back to crap data. I also had an issue when upgrading to version 8.0, which screwed my elevation stats. Essentially Garmin did nothing to try and fix this issue, the only update was, we are working on it.
I called Garmin to chase up this issue early last week. Straight away I was offered an RMA, as he stated that as the issue had been escalated, this would fix the issue.
The new 935 duly arrived in two days and it came loaded with 7.60. I waited a few days, and as expected, the elevation and barometer was perfect.
All day stress started to work fine for the first two days, and then went bad again. This was my second RMA in the space of 6 weeks, as Garmin had previously replaced it due to issues over all day stress, but even on version 8.0, it made no difference.
So after a couple of days of use on 7.6, the all day stress went bad again on 7.6. Damn I thought. I then thought i would upgrade to 8.0 as i had nothing to lose. I am slightly amazed that five days later, all day stress is recording perfectly, and now looks to be sorted.
So what conclusion can we come to? I can only presume that this was a combined fix of hardware and software, as the new RMA watch only worked for all day stress on ver 8.0, and not 7.6. There was a patch in 8.0 for all day stress, so in my case, it l;ooks to have resolved my issue.
BUT, it is worth noting that a similar path, 6 weeks earlier with my other RMA, and putting 8.0 on it, did not produce the same effect. So it appears that the new watch (2nd RMA) must be different in some way to the first RMA watch.
RMA seems to be the answer, and i would encourage you to get on the phone, definately if you are still in warranty, but also if you are out of warranty and your all day stress has never worked.
I would like to know how much cheaper could the watch be if people wouldn't return it for every minor issue they think they have.
The watch is sold as a product with a number of features and functions. If one of those functions does not work corectly, then the consumer has a right to expect things to just work. As you state, the product is not cheap, so why should people settle for second best?