Fenix 5 in 2019

Former Member over 5 years ago

Hello all,

I recently bought an instinct after weeks of research. I loved it for comfort and ruggedness and all that. GPS was accurate but what I didn’t love was my altimeter/barometer readings after 5 miles into my 6 mile run. It will give me erroneous readings of 1000+ feet of gain when I’m running in a relatively flat city. It will also gives me storm alerts around that time. My suspicion is sweat in the port.

There’s a local guy that’s selling a fenix 5 for $200 and I was excited until I read about gps accuracy being way off as well as altimeter and barometer readings. It’s the OG f5 from July 2018 as far as I know. Have any of these problems been corrected with new firmware? If I’m running a marathon and my gps is a little off that’s fine but if I’m running a 5k and it tells me I only ran 2.5 miles then that’s a no go.

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Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to smbkrun+3 +1

I really like digging through my stats afterwards. Will I fall? No. But I like being able to look through the metrics. As far as the switch to the fenix goes, there’s a guy locally selling one for around…

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0 mehmetozturk over 5 years ago

It was an issue with fenix 2, and now with fenix 5. Ignore it. Its a none working feature. My start and end of a run is the same place. The fenix 5 never showes the same elevation. Also connected runners with Forerunner 935, 945 never have the same elevation even when they run away and back to the same place.

0 smbkrun+3 over 5 years ago

How will having an inaccurate barometer effect your run? will you suddenly fall down? Will your breathing stop? Though, paying $500 + the barometer should work. I sent back 4 935s due to the same problem.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to smbkrun+3

I really like digging through my stats afterwards. Will I fall? No. But I like being able to look through the metrics. As far as the switch to the fenix goes, there’s a guy locally selling one for around $200 which is why I’m so strongly considering it.

0 mehmetozturk over 5 years ago in reply to smbkrun+3

Today start garmin: 840m end 824. Altitute correction in Garmin Connect 834m / 834m!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

5X owner here. No worries with the GPS accuracy. Non-issue. 5X is spot on with both my 620 & 920 on runs I’ve done a crap ton of times over the years. On certified 5K courses I’m always slightly long despite my best efforts. Barometer been pretty close also, plus GC can correct if needed. I’d try a lower price for the 5. You can get a new 5X for $300 at Best Buy. That’s were I got mine. (actually for $200 using reward points).