Auto lap ?

Hey guys,

I'm new with garmin, been using it since 2 days and I have a question.

Yesterday I was on a moutain trip, I've started activity on my watch and whats happening is : after certain amount of time / distance, the watch is making new "lap" automaticly and I wish it to view total time and distance since the beginning until I force it start counting new lap, not automaticly.

I've found manual and it says go to Menu > activity and apps > choose activity > set auto lap to "off" BUT ! it was already set on "off". Any hints ?

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mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to nanocube +2

Not sure if it is a lap counter, or just an hour counter?
mcalista over 3 years ago +1

Turn it on, then turn it off again?

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0 mcalista over 3 years ago

Turn it on, then turn it off again?

0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago

When you look at the saved activity are you seeing recorded laps with the auto-lap off?

Might it be an alert firing? Do you have any alerts set?

0 alan-hudson over 3 years ago

it sounds as if a Recurring Alert has been set. Activities & Apps > Alerts.

0 nanocube over 3 years ago

I just wanted to open a new thread and then saw this one. I'm having the same issues for weeks now in "Walking", "hiking" and "Mountaineering". Yesterday i was biking with the watch and the same mysterious "lap" counter appears on all time related Datafields, so it's the same problem on many different Activities. I triple checked if there are any alerts activated and disabled (and enabled and disabled again) Auto Lap many times. Are there any additional hints or tipps? Software is up to date and I also tried to reset back to factory defaults.

Also I checked the summary in the App, there are no Laps or AutoLaps marked in the recorded activity.

0 mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to nanocube

Not sure if it is a lap counter, or just an hour counter?

0 ryanspa over 3 years ago

Do you have Auto Climb On in your activity settings?
Autolap shows Primary and Seco dart fields when it’s triggered (eg Lap time, distance) but the pictures are more like a data screen.

0 nanocube over 3 years ago in reply to ryanspa

Hey guys, thanks! I just checked if anything with auto is activated in the settings and in turns out that everything is off. No auto lap, climb or pause.
I just want to see the complete time since I started tracking and I always end with some strange numbers and a counter.

Here you have a photo from the last time on my bike. I can’t see any logical issue why it started a new round/count/whatever 47 minutes before the photo. At this point we had a 5 minute break, but such small breaks happened more often on this trip. The only special thing about this one was that we were on the wrong path and turned back a few hundred meters.

0 3054881 over 3 years ago in reply to nanocube

Your timer: 2 hours, 46 minutes, 57 seconds.

0 alan-hudson over 3 years ago in reply to nanocube

The small number to the left of minutes represents the number of hours - in this case 2.

0 nanocube over 3 years ago in reply to alan-hudson

Holy guacamole! How can someone be such a douchebag... This is the most obvious and logical explanation.... Thank you! I'm going on a walk of shame now.