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Instinct Solar How can I add activity like surf on my Instinct Solar (model not surf)?

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How can I add activity like surf on my Instinct Solar (model not surf)?

6559469 over 5 years ago

Hello,

How can I add activity like surf on my Instinct Solar (model not surf)?

Before, I got the vivoactive 3 model and I could add activity...

thank you

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0 trux over 5 years ago

Look at adding a custom activity at: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/GUID-A298EB1C-21D9-430F-8D06-A2CC74E5D5E9/EN-US/GUID-7B574BD8-05BB-410D-9A2A-7646D0B037B6.html

0 7276822 over 4 years ago

The surf activity doesn’t work anyway, so don’t waste your time. Surf trackr 2 on my old vivoactive3 was heaps better than the official surf activity on the Instinct Solar Surf. Their algorithm for detecting waves is trash and I consistently log 30-40 waves when I really catch 6 or 7.

0 1857137 over 4 years ago in reply to 7276822

It happens the same to my fenix 6. Also the tides are wrong. Im thinking to send it for guarantee because its a very expensive watch and works bad.

0 4241327 over 4 years ago in reply to 1857137

I guess you will just get back another refurbished Fenix. If you have the 'true black' display, I would not do this. Garmin's hardware design is fine, it's parts sourcing that sometimes messes things up, and mostly software sloppiness.

Perhaps Monkey C doesn't encourage good practice coding, and I guess they also use that on their own widgets and apps, bar perhaps some parts of mapping.