How to disable Garmins auto chopping (distance and moving time) "feature"?

Hi,

Instinct has a very annoying "feature", apparently if your hike has parts where you stop a lot/go very slowly wandering around.

This will give you significantly worse results on hikes with difficult terrain where you are very slow, stop for seconds, etc.

The following track reads as 22.59 km total distance and 6:02:14 moving time (which is unreal), both in Connect and also on the watch itself.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/5346322012

However exporting to Garmin Basecamp apparently gives me the correct distance of 24.80 km and 7:01:56 moving time.

That is a diffrerence of ~10% in the distance which is quite poor.

Checking it is Basecamp shows that the data is recorded correctly, but interpreted incorrectly in the watch/Connect app.

Can this be turned off? I have checked every setting but no luck. The watch is set to second by second data recording and autopause is off.

I think this is built in so it would be nice to be able to switch this off as it is giving false results.

Thanks,

Adam

0 trux over 4 years ago in reply to carleson

carleson said:
Yes it can measure the distance from the accelerometer only,

Yes, it uses the accelerometer to count the steps and converting them then to the distance, using the calibrated stride length. That's not really measuing the distance directly with the accelerometer, and it will not work correctly if you change pace, move erratically, do a cycling activity, and in many other situations. Rather than calling it "measuring by accelerometer", I'd use "estimating the distance using step counts", because "measuring by accelerometer" is a completely different class, and indeed requires either a gyroscope, or a limitation of the movement to a single axis (such as a train on rails)

0 carleson over 4 years ago in reply to trux

I believe we have reached consensus, thanks for the discussion. I'm sure that Garmin engineers are laughing at us as we try to understand their device.

0 K_Wall over 2 years ago

Did anyone ever figure this out? When hiking I put my hands on my hips and I think that is when it starts counting “stopped time”. It is maddening/ my moving vs stopped time can be off by 2 hours on a 10mi hike. I have the Venu 2s blnie but did not have this issue with the Fenix 5s