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MARQ series bluetooth performance (music)

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if anyone else is seeing a similar type of behaviour when attempting to play music and run/ride. I own a MARQ Expedition and have so far tried using:

Jabra Elite Active 65T Bluetooth 5 (wouldn't stay connected after switching on/off; infrequent dropouts);

-->had the Jabras exchanged for a brand new pair- same problem!

Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless Bluetooth 5 (dropouts when an activity is initiated)

TaoTronics TT-BH07 (dropouts when activity started)

TaoTronics TT-8H16 (dropouts when activity started)

Anker Slim+ Bluetooth 5 (dropouts when activity started)

Plantronics Backbeat Fit 3100- dropouts

Aftershokz Trekz Air- hurray, almost no dropouts but horrible!!!!! sound-->returned

In common for all of the above- perfect when listening to music in watch mode; various degrees of cutting out when starting any activity

Any ideas? I am really puzzled how pretty much everything seems to work fine with the new Forerunner FR945 (going by the earphones impressions thread)

Garmin-Heath

Cheers,

Nick

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Garmin-Heath over 5 years ago +1 verified

Everyone,

I wanted to take a moment to comment and update everyone. We have been working with a few of you to get some devices in that have reported issues with Bluetooth. (NYanakiev7 Thank you for your…
NYanakiev7 over 5 years ago in reply to AdamTKincaid +1

That's super strange. I even got my Expedition exchanged under warranty.

Outside of faster discovery of sensors I'm not seeing any Bluetooth improvements :S
nmyeti over 5 years ago +1

Nick,

in activity do you always have a foot pod present? I remember seeing that you have a stryd.

I have been corresponding with the software team a bit as i think the foot pod appears to negatively impact…
morpheus.at over 5 years ago in reply to NYanakiev7 +1

i had similar issues on my f5x+...then i decided to fully reset the watch.

deleted all the music. dissconnected it from gc. installed firmware completely new.

then the problems where gone and did not come…

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0 TransAtlantic1 over 3 years ago in reply to TransAtlantic1

3100 now working reliably (no drops) since I used the Poly app to switch the primary earbud to be on the same side as the side I wear my MARQ.

I also replaced my MARQ due to an elevation issue and I did notice there was some improvement with music Bluetooth reliability when running with the new watch but still some drop outs, so I believe the primary problem was not having the primary earbud on the same side as the watch

Didn’t realize until months after owning these that I could even do that switch, and given how big a difference it made feel like having primary earbud and watch on the same side should be mentioned more prominently by Garmin.