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Recovery time delayed/improved notification with activity tracking and HR turned off

AryehZev
over 3 years ago

I have my power savings mode configured to turn off heart rate and activity tracking (bluetooth and wifi off as well) , and I can confirm that it does not count my steps and the heart rate LEDs are off, but I'll still occasionally have my watch vibrate and tell me that my recovery time is either delayed or improved.

Is this statistic made up? Or is it still tracking me somehow even though I have all the tracking features turned off?

(running 16.70 on a F6X Sapphire, but this has been happening in many previous firmwares too, I just never made a post about it) 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    It's probably using accelerometer measurements to gauge activity level.

    As an aside, you've turned all those features off? Isn't that the primary point of the watch? Just curious, seems odd

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    You'll still get these even if you disable 24/7 activity tracking. It can't be disabled - I've had several conversations with tech support regarding this. They consider it a feature, I consider it a bug. The algorithm is supposed to use heart rate variability (HRV) for the recovery metric, but, as you stated, heart rate tracking is off. Seems like an obvious bug to me.

    As for the point of turning those features off? I can only speak for myself, but I just wanted a stylish watch with good battery life that tracks my run, bike, and swim workouts. I can do without the 24/7 life coach. Ended up switching away from Garmin because of it.