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Elevation errors after update to 9.20 from 8.00

Former Member over 7 years ago

After updating from firmware 8.00 to 9.20 recently my watch seems to not record changes to elevation.
Specifically it doesn't seem to notice decent, but it does seem to notice ascent. Which means no matter what, my watch's elevation always seems to go up, and never go down.

This is regardless if I am doing an activity or not.

On 8.00 the automatic detection of ascent and decent worked fairly OK, both while doing activities and also outside of activities.
So this is a change (regression) after updating to 9.20.

0 pkcryan over 6 years ago

According to my 5X, I've climbed 90 flights of stairs today. All within 30 minutes of waking up... Been doing this since the 9.53 beta update, up till then it was pretty accurate on the stairs. Out on the trail it seems to behave itself and the current data matches my older hikes on the same loop.

0 erdius over 6 years ago

it looks other watches 5/5s, 935 got some sort of beta fix for elevation, i wonder why the 5x hasn't yet? I wonder if it's a hardware issue with our watch

0 renton82 over 6 years ago

it looks other watches 5/5s, 935 got some sort of beta fix for elevation, i wonder why the 5x hasn't yet? I wonder if it's a hardware issue with our watch

It's not hardware, if you roll back to 6.XX firmware, the issue disappear...

0 marcossaad_ over 6 years ago

If this is right I really don´t understand so many releases of stress and the delay in fixing...

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

Yes, I am on 9.2 as well and seeing similar issues. Hiking up Mt Baldy a couple of weekends ago it was 1000ft off on elevation when I got to 8600. I recalibrated and then did the rest and when I got to the top (about 10k) it was only at about 9300.

I live at sea level, this morning I checked my altitude and I'm at 923ft. Altitude was one of the main reasons I bought this watch, to track elevation gain while climbing mountains. Hey, while we're at it can we get an altitude data field in the hiking activity?

I have a 5X will the latest beta not fix my problems yet?

0 Doktorko over 6 years ago

Latest beta should fix the issue. Btw I realized that issue only riding, hiiing was calculated properly on version 9.72 it was.

0 nullkru over 6 years ago

I Installed the beta on the F5X one week ago. Elevation is back to normal!!!!

0 nullkru over 6 years ago

Does anyone have the new stable 10.00 FW? Is the bug gone?! I'm really happy with the 10.51 beta FW.

0 Doktorko over 6 years ago

10.52 has fixed the elevation issue too. Battery consumption also veery good. I keep that one with automatic update off.

0 caryhorner over 6 years ago

I can confirm that the 10.52 update has the elevation fixed. Here are two sample sets of data as uploaded to Ride With GPS. Both rides are exactly the same route, the first one two days prior to the second.

Recorded on update 10.00:

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/26666650

Recorded on update 10.52:

https://ridewithgps.com/trips/26711483

I want to thank everyone in this thread that mentioned 10.52. When I searched for Fenix updates I didn't find 10.52, only 10 but I was already on that version. I'm so glad to have proper elevation recording back. I received the update from 8 to 9.2 a day before I went on a 6 day cycling/camping tour in Virginia and the difference was painfully noticeable. I was pissed! If the battery life on 10.52 is all that it should be, I may never update again.