stress and body battery.

I'm an unusual case. I had a Bima heart bypass at 48 (52 now) That's when they leave the grafting and plug both chest arteries into the heart.

Supposed to have a pacemaker and beta blockers, Ace inhibitors. I have managed with none of these.

I bike about 100 miles a week, walk daily and have a Fenix 6 Pro.

My stress reading is usually just under 50. my body battery bombs to 5% and stays there.

But when the recent problems started, my stress levels dropped a little and my body battery would charge around 40- 50% sleeping. Would even go up while I was watching a film.

As of two days ago it's gone back to being stuck on 5%. Nothings changed I monitor my heart with medical equipment.

So while Garmin were off line my stress read about 20% lower.

However I know this reading to be far more accurate than the current (usual) readings.

Just thought I would post this as I can compare the Fenix to facts.

I use a chest strap when riding (dualhr) and it's about perfect, WHR struggles over 120 I find, it's quite accurate up to then.

Adam

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+1 4543228 over 4 years ago

Reboot the watch. Hold top left until it shuts down completely and then hold again to restart. My body battery will often jump from 30 to 90 instantly. It recalculates but the collected data used to recalculate is unchanged obviously. I thought it was a buffer issue but I don't really know. FW10.10 is an improvement but I usually have to reboot daily. I use a F6 Pro and a Marq Aviator. They both behave the same way.

0 Adam over 4 years ago in reply to 4543228

Hi thanks for the reply, if I hold the top left. it just vibrates and a message says "set up assistance using Garmin connect mobile" (it never used to? I can turn it off, but the soft reset seems to be broken too?

0 skopek over 4 years ago in reply to Adam

Keep on pressing when you get the "set up assistance using Garmin connect mobile" message.

0 Adam over 4 years ago in reply to skopek

that worked! Thanks

0 Adam over 4 years ago

very strange. Body battery says measuring. I went to health stats and the last 4 hours was 74 but it's dropping by around 1 a second?

Now on 43!

Thanks for the help guys, looks like a gremlin.

After a minute it's on 19 rest. (from 80 odd?)

0 Adam over 4 years ago

That's fixed it albeit temporarily.

Thanks for the help

0 4543228 over 4 years ago in reply to Adam

Yes, it will reoccur. "Measuring" is likely a label in a table the developer can display. It is misleading. They are recalculating. Ignored, it continues to degrade until you arrive at '5.' Seems rather arbitrary. Stress values dance around, whereas body battery values are damped by the nature of the algorithm. Almost certainly proprietary.

0 eezytiger over 4 years ago

My own experience is that body battery will rise and fall depending on stress and will usually restore to 100% overnight. However, it only starts to restore once stress is below 25. If your stress levels are typically near 50 I am not surprised that BB drops to 5 and stays there purely based on my own observations. I have no idea what Garmin have to say about the behaviour.

FWIW here is my graph so far today. As you will see, stress has to be very low for BB to begin recharging. This is no problem while sleeping, but a challenge during most of the time whilst awake.

That said, the message that my BB is down 28 points since waking is plainly nonsense. Clearly it is down 52 points, from 100 to 48 since waking. It is 28 points down since noon, which is how I would expect to see the message displayed late in the day, on my phone if not on the web.

0 Adam over 4 years ago in reply to eezytiger

Hi. Yeah I worked out it only seems to charge in a state of rest.

Mine seemed to have stopped that even.

Seems okay now again.

+1 Hexxer over 4 years ago in reply to eezytiger

You get 100% Body Battery *wow*

Never seen that on my watch. But i also get 60% Stress watching a clear sky in the night ^^