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Garmin Fenix 6S Issues

Former Member
Former Member over 3 years ago

Ive seen a bit on here about the issues with the Fenix series and id want to add to them.

Upgraded from the Vivoactive 4 to Fenix 6S this year. First month went well, however since then it is no where near as accurate as the vivoactive was.

Firstly, intensity minutes. One day it will log an activity accurately based on the intensity, ie 10k run @ 5.30 pace over 100 intensity minutes. Next week, same run same pace, 36 intensity minutes????

VO2Max. During an activity the watch will alert me that ive increased my VO2Max, excellent. Once complete, no update. No increase and the VO2 will disappear from the garmin connect. 

Has anyone else been experiencing these issues? Has there been any resolutions? The only thing that works for me at the moment is to, disconnect from blue tooth, turn of watch, and reinstall device to get an accurate reading. This is very annoying for an expensive and supposedly well designed sports watch.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    During activity it alerts about performance condition increase or decrease, but that doesn't necessarily translate to VO2max change. I've seen cases when performance condition increases but VO2max goes down and vice versa.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    There was a change in intensity minutes awhile ago that messed me up. If you go to your device in Garmin Connect, under activity tracking, go to weekly intensity minutes. You'll see two methods of calculating then. 'Automatic' and HR zones. 

    It got switched to automotive which is horrible, I switched mine back to HR zones and define the zones I want to count.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Hi

    Regarding intensity minutes, i've had issues too.

    I noticed that with 19.75 beta, sometimes my HR history would cease to be captured (although HR would be recorded if i had a tracked activity).

    Under those circumstances, i'd get MoveIQ intensity minutes (which were nonsensical - felt like i got intensity minutes for just walking).

    Recently though (16 Dec), i got moveIQ minutes in parallel to a tracked activity and HR was logging fine.

    To be fair, i'm running 19.75 beta firmware.

    I recently moved from the auto HR zones to manually configured ones and i feel they're more representative. Others will challenge this because i've not worked out my accurate max HR (according to lactic threshold) but i used % of HR reserve. You can investigate this via connect web, under your device settings then user settings (look for watch icon top right).

    Btw, I've a fenix 6s too. Nice watch, though compromised by the 19.20 firmware battery issues.

    What firmware are you running?

    Did you by any chance update inbetween the reported runs with the divergent intensity minutes recorded?

    Have a look too at your reported background HR over time. Check for gaps. See if they coincide with your odd intensity minutes experienced.



    cheers,

    Gary