Fenix 6 Series - 20.41 Public Beta

Fenix6X Pro

Calibration auto

Sensor auto

Same run

Elev correction disabled 

Elev correction enabled 

I'm going to reboot my watch before tomorrows run and see if I get any flat bits. One issue is it looks like if there is a 'pause' is that I'm hoping to be out a fair while tomorrow and so if its a pause of a few minutes it may not be seen too well if the timescale is short. But hopefully if there is an issue more people will see it and there will be more reports here

It started a golf activity autoatically -  weird - I thought Move Iq was only run and walk - and normally only a Move Iq detection would do something like that

Been reading the Fenix 6 forum for more than a year now. I must say, my Fenix 6S Pro has been working with almost no issues. But I DID notice that altitude gains when going on hikes are significantly less than what the official hike (tour) description says, and also around 10% less than what a friend of mine is recording with his Forerunner as we go together on the same hike.

So any improvements to altitude measurement / calculations would be hugely welcome IMO. When the SAC (Swiss Alpine Club) says that this climb is 1,250m and my friend with his much less expensive watch records just about that +/- 2% and my Fenix 6S Pro records 10% less, I think that Garmin should go back to its roots and FIX THIS.

I don't care about 70% of the other functions of this watch. I just want to go on hikes and ski runs and get the data recorded and calculated properly. Is it too much to ask?

icarus86 said:

Is it too much to ask?

When you have 'sycophants' thanking Garmin for these rubbish updates as soon as they are posted with no time to actually test the damn thing, then why would Garmin fix it?

I just checked my runs and now got flattened parts as well for yesterday's run, but surprisingly elevation averages is the same. I see no issues with elevation in the mornings, not that I saw them before switching to beta.

5135968 said:

When you have 'sycophants' thanking Garmin for these rubbish updates as soon as they are posted with no time to actually test the damn thing, then why would Garmin fix it?

I can't say for others, and their reasons for "thanking Garmin" but personally I always thanked either for working on improving things or for fixing something, any job should be appreciated.

Sometimes it's not as easy as it may seem to fix some nasty bug in a complex system, especially for such big amount of people which wear their watches in various scenarios.

And I'm really happy that they have open BETA testing, it may save the trouble for a larger audience. I'm quite sure that small scale alpha testing is happening internally before a beta released.

Also, it's called BETA for reason, people who don't want to have issues with unstable software could follow the warning on the top of the thread and wait for the release.

By no means I think that Garmin is ideal, but I've used other brands and know their limitations, so far Garmin with its openness to community and long support for their devices suits me the best. If that changes, I'll just switch to other brand  and wouldn't waste my time

And according to my altimeter test results, after 19.20 altimeter behavior is disappointing...Of course, Garmin listens only to those who applaud him, and they changed the way the altimeter works because of fenix 7 and epix2, as an experiment ... 

I suspect that the flat parts indicate that the watch falsely switches to barometer mode (assuming sensor mode setting is on 'auto'). Maybe they changed something on the 'auto' sensor mode that is not working properly. Has anybody tried a run with sensor mode to 'altimeter'?