Fenix 6X Pro - whats wrong with pace and gps track?

Former Member over 5 years ago

I have bought the Garmin Fenix 6X Pro for running, cycling, hiking and as a fitness tracker. I like it very much. But one reason i bought this watch is to see at what pace i am running. My old Garmin showed it very good, my iphone shows it quite good too. But the Fenix is absolutly wrong. it shows i run at 7.30min / km while I know i am running a lot faster (just an example).

Thats what my GPS track looks like:

Is the watch broken? What can i do?

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0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Having the exact same problems. Pace is not usable. What a shame. Love the watch but it is not usable like this... hope they get it fixed. Otherwise thinking about going back to Suunto (just switched to Garmin a week ago)...

0 C.sco over 5 years ago

I agree, that track isn't very good. I would try a different GPS setting (GPS only, or GPS+Galileo, or GPS+Glonass). Whichever setting you're using is clearly not the right one to be using where you are.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to C.sco

I am trying GPS only the next run. Setting was GPS+GLONASS so far. Don't need the exactest pacing but right now it was totally off, over 5min/km whereas it should be around 4:20ishmin/km...

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Same here, pace is mostly useless. When I run with my girlfriend I have to ask her the pace on her vivoactive3!

My 6x telling 8km/min while we are running around 5:30km/min - her watch is way more accurate as far as pace goes.

0 TobiasLj over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

My 6x telling 8km/min while we are running around 5:30km/min

Can you post a link to that activity, being that far off without a reasonable explanation (like running under a bridge, very narrow and high buildings or technical trail) is not ok. I would return the watch.

The data field for current pace is not perfect you me but it is never that far off. For pace I use a custom DF that shows me an rolling average during a period of time (I either set it to 60s or 1km).

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to TobiasLj

Which custom DF are you using?

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

The same like you. Everything is really good on my Fenix 6 pro exept GPS track and live pace. But these 2 major points are the main points when you buy a sport GPS watch. That's a big problem.

Nota : I do running, cycling, hiking and swimming

+1 TobiasLj over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

I use one that I developed myself, https://apps.garmin.com/sv-SE/apps/7cd01213-e4f0-4464-9177-7f698ab43729

I have a new version for F6 but currently there is a UI bug that will require a bit more changes (from a simple data field to a standard data field). The new version has an option to give an average of on km (or mile) regardless of time.

0 3935112 over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

I experience the same thing, recently switched from Suunto to Garmin fenix 6s pro and current pace was much more stable on my previous watch :(

0 Sergio over 5 years ago

Same experience for me. I bought a Garmin Felix 6 Pro a week ago. I’ve taken it on 3 runs so far. All of them are on average more than 10% off in distance to what I measure on an iPhone or Apple Watch in parallel.

The gps track seems to be lost without reason on open spaces with a few trees on top (while the iPhone has no trouble with it). See the attached screenshot for an example. Between training minutes 35 and 45, I increased the pace from 4:40 min/km to 4:15/km and the cadence from 180 steps per minute to 200 spm. Unfortunately the Garmin was showing on the watch a pace of 7:30 or even sometimes 8 min/km. How is it possible to have wrong gps tracks for 10 minutes in a park, on open spaces without buildings?

I am running the watch in default settings.
Any fixes? I will test it 1 more week, if it doesn’t improve I’ll send it back...

Garmin training link: https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/4754975186

Strava link to Garmin recording: https://strava.app.link/E0HBgsEoy5

Strava link to IPhone recording: https://strava.app.link/WCbMArDpy5