Fenix 3HR

I know I am in the wrong forum but does anyone know where did the Fenix 3HR forum go? Maybe Garmin moderator can answer that? Thank you.

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Tisztul_A_Visztula over 5 years ago +9

A full month after the forum ‘transport” am I obliged to say that Fenix 3 and 3HR related posts had been deliberately sunken by Garmin?

And may we use now bad words towards the company mirroring…
mlajas over 5 years ago in reply to RickSchippers +7

I can't believe that all the useful information the forum users had generated all over the years is gone in a web technology update....
egosumgo over 5 years ago in reply to gaijin +7

This shows the level of care Garmin gives to products that are no longer in their current production. If I would not know any better I would say that this is a deliberate action to force users to buy the…

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0 Dave 57 over 5 years ago

I've just found the Garmin Forums.
I've a Fenix 3HR that I'm happy with but as many of you have said, support is minimal, development is laughable & my experience with Customer Service has been laughable.
What a shame that a good product has such a very poor level of customer support to encourage us to stay with them or buy from them again.

Anyway, I updated my software to 5.40 yesterday & all was well until I woke this morning. Now the 3HR won't sync with the mobile anymore. This hasn't happened before & I've tried hard restarts of both the 3HR & phone several times with no success.

Anyone had the same issues?

0 Dave 57 over 5 years ago in reply to mak_kioy

I upgraded to 5.40 yesterday & wish I'd never bothered.
Woke this morning & after no issues yesterday, it now won't sync with my mobile as usual. Bloody furious :(

0 Tisztul_A_Visztula over 5 years ago in reply to mak_kioy

Mak_kioy,

the problem is bigger, because I downgraded back to 4.90, but the phenomenon did not disappear.

I was very angry, because I lost several settings in spite of backing up the whole Garmin directory from the watch.

Maybe there is some hidden standalone software for the barometer/altimeter similar to that of WHR sensor and WIFI, or GPS, and this baro software was upgraded with 5.40, but cannot be downgraded with 4.90.

I really dont know.

Are there more Fenix 3 or Fenix 3 HR owners whose watch have the slighter (20-50m) altimeter fluctuation even when being stand still? Or when pushing the buttons for several times in a row?

0 Kok_Siong over 5 years ago in reply to Dave 57

i had the same issue when i upgrade to 5.40, after that i downgrade back to 5.00, it works fine on this version.

0 .emp over 5 years ago in reply to Kok_Siong

..where Version 5.00 has severe issues with OHR firmware (had to buy the heart strap because of this). Downgrade to 4.90 is my personal favorite until now.

0 Tisztul_A_Visztula over 5 years ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula

Having seen that our special altimeter fluctuation is an isolated problem, I start to deem that we are just simply unlucky.

0 mak_kioy over 5 years ago in reply to .emp

Could you share the procedure for downgrading the firmware? Thank you

0 mak_kioy over 5 years ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula

As always after some months there will be an "update" correcting this issue and creating something new! Typical garmin stuff, you know lol

0 .emp over 5 years ago in reply to mak_kioy

Sure, this information on FB is from 2015 but still valid:

www.facebook.com/.../

0 RealBonk over 5 years ago

Hey so, I've had my Fenix 3 Sapphire for 8 days short of 4 years. I have always worn the watch and never had an issue with it.

Now, all of a sudden its not working. It powers up and shows the watch face, and connects to bluetooth, and still shows notifications from my phone. However, NONE of the buttons work. I can force power off and on, but I cannot get it to hard reset (LAP + LIGHT, or START+LAP+LIGHT) or , or enter testing mode (DOWN + LIGHT). It seems to recognize when buttons are pressed as I give up pressing LAP after 5 minutes after a boot then 15 seconds later I'm back to my regular watch face with no buttons working.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a way to force a reset thru a USB connection? Searching for 2 days came up with nothing, and it was by sheer luck I ended up here.. Any help is appreciated.