Wrong Wrist heart rate without starting activity

Yes, the error also occurs with 7.78 beta

1. i also have the same issue when broadcasting hr. you would think that while broadcasting the accuracy would be as good as activites but not so. i was indoor biking and using the f6x to broadcast my hr. the readings was low at 60 which didn't make sense, i was working, not resting. i changed it to activity and the hr instantly jumped to 110 which makes more sense

Are Garmin developers reading these forums at all or should we all just send bug report to them?

I've also been discussiing with Garmin support but they are just playing dum and not seeing or admitting the issue.

I think the best way is to send a bug report.

And normally we should have to return the clocks.

jarivee said:

Are Garmin developers reading these forums at all or should we all just send bug report to them?

Many people have already sent bug reports, but it doesn't hurt to send your own so that they have more data available to help resolve it.

What doesn't help is posting thread after thread (after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread after thread) about this problem, which only serves to annoy all the other Fenix 6 owners who are trying to use the forum for giving and receiving advice and tips.

I realize the person who started this thread is probably only here for the first time and didn't know about the countless other threads and posts about this, but a quick browse through the first page or two, or using the search bar, would have saved him a lot of typing, and saved the forum from getting further crudded up by something that's already been discussed relentlessly.

Why is it so?

The OHR samples more frequently (and therefore is likely to have better accuracy) in Activity mode than it does in 24/7 mode. Peek under your watch as you open an activity and see for yourself as the OHR changes from strobing to pretty much solid. Of course, this more frequent sampling does use more battery.

You don't actually need to start an activity, just opening it is enough. If you don't need GPS, you could copy and rename an Indoor activity.

writing this is plain useless. the sampling rate may be less frequent outside of an activity, but if the WHR delivers totally wrong and way to low results it is simply not working, e. g. useless.

if the sampling rate is that low, they should simply disable the WHR outside of activities and remove the measurement of stress, body battery, sleep, activity minutes and more.

even if the heart rate is not read as often, it would have to adjust until it finally shows the correct value. But it sinks again. 

Even with a long load, it does not achieve the right value.

In the attached video on the left hand Fenix6X on the right Fenix5X 
and in the middle Edge using HRM-Run.

mcalista said:

The OHR samples more frequently (and therefore is likely to have better accuracy) in Activity mode than it does in 24/7 mode. Peek under your watch as you open an activity and see for yourself as the OHR changes from strobing to pretty much solid.

by the way, the 5x did not behave differently. In contrast to the 6x, the 5x was able to track the heart rate well even outside of an activity. You can see that in the video above.

further f6x test here: 

www.youtube.com/watch

I'm sorry that you feel that trying to educate and understand the root cause of problems, or even actually answering the OP's explicit question is useless.

I know I am old school like that, and completely behind the times.

I should get with the fact that maximum outrage is the only acceptable response,.

Probably you already answered it somewhere - but again te question: did you informed / open a bug / ticket officialy by Garmin or you just post it here?
Asking cuz I'm on the way to open a ticket for the same issue and would like to mention the issue number if they already exists.
To the others - for the most user is such a behaviour (wrong WHR outside an activity on high(er) load) not a deal breaker due it is a simple workaround to solve it, but it's feeling "wrong" that Garmin added a "battery saver feature" (if that was really the intetion) and changes the basic behaviour of the Fenix line.

My "problem" is that the HR drops "rapidly" after an activity - eg. running, end with 160+, stop the activity and proceed with a "cool down walk", the HR drops quite immediately to 70-80 and start slowly to raise to 100-110 in 10 minutes, when I start an activity it jumps immediatley to the correct level (over 100).