GPS issues after GPS firmware update

Former Member over 7 years ago

I am having GPS issues since the last GPS update.
I have attached a file as well as link to my activity.
My wife's Apple watch was more accurate and she was walking beside me.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/2713103219

Please help with this and get it fixed.
I only updated because I thought it would help fix not break things.
Before the update I had minor issues that were resolved with each update.

Garmin, why is the fenix riddled with gps issues?
It's supposed to be your flagship?

Watch info:
Software: 8.00
GPS: 4.40

0 juusom over 7 years ago

I wouldn't worry too much if this was your first activity after the update? My first 2-3 activities after the update were bit off too, but now it is performing as it was before the update.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Ill concur with juusom - Just did a 10K race and my GPS distances were almost bang on the markers. It took about 3 for mine to settle down

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Thanks, just wish I knew it before hand.
I would not have updated the firmware till after my race.
Not that I was competing, just embarrassing if you tell your wife 2km to go and then 500m later take a corner and then you see the 10km marker (12km race).
My wife now has a lot of fun because her Apple Watch was more accurate than my watch which cost almost 3 times as much.....
I will see if it improves over the next couple of days when I exercise.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

Thanks, just wish I knew it before hand.
I would not have updated the firmware till after my race.
Not that I was competing, just embarrassing if you tell your wife 2km to go and then 500m later take a corner and then you see the 10km marker (12km race).
My wife now has a lot of fun because her Apple Watch was more accurate than my watch which cost almost 3 times as much.....
I will see if it improves over the next couple of days when I exercise.

The answer

"Oh, you're putting yours on to charge - how cute!"

LOL

(Actually I like Apple stuff so it is said in jest :) )

0 jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

Did you wait for "green" GPS before you started recording/moving? After an update, maybe it didn't have the EPO data, and it would take longer to get a GPS fix.