Some issues with Fenix 7 software

i00 over 3 years ago

Ok... I have come across a few issues with the software:

Hiking - if you have Auto Pause when stopped it does not seem to resume until you get to ~5km/h or more... the issue I have with this is I do A LOT of very intensive hikes, where I can easily be traveling 500 hundred meters+ before I get up to this speed ... I am seriously considering purchasing another watch (not Garmin) because this is so frustrating!
Compass widgets etc don't work correctly when your doing a GPS activity; instead of being based on your facing direction, it is based on the direction of travel in the activity
The direction prompt while walking is just a tone, and you can see the map - if you create a new activity the direction prompt is fullscreen - sometimes the map is more useful than a full screen "blocking" prompt - this should be an option
This broke recently: when navigating somewhere you used to get an elevation plot of the route to come - now it just shows flat! ... the map still has elevations on it. This was good for pacing yourself, and it is now broken

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Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago +1

i00 said:
Compass widgets etc don't work correctly when your doing a GPS activity; instead of being based on your facing direction, it is based on the direction of travel in the activity

Try changing…
KrapfenKringel over 3 years ago +1

Also accessing 3rd party widgets during an activity stops your GPS signal. But if not enough people report that it will probably never get fixed.

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0 NYanakiev7 over 3 years ago

1) You can easily adjust the speed in settings.

2) You can also change the compass settings to true north, which should get you what you need

3) Agreed

4) Should be fixed soon, hopefully

0 i00 over 3 years ago in reply to NYanakiev7

I cannot find a setting for this.. the only setting is "While stopped" - regardless, shouldn't consistent movement away from the location where it was stopped start it again?
This is for magnetic north / true north etc..
If I am traveling south - but facing North in an activity the navigation map wants to align to the direction of travel not the way I am facing (it didn't used to be like this and ALWAYS went off the compass) - I would really want this to be a setting in the activity - but regardless if you leave the activity running and go back to the compass widget it will tell you that you are facing South when in fact you are facing North!

0 MarcoGuida over 3 years ago in reply to i00

1. You have to choose the option "Personalize" and then set the threshold speed you deem most suitable for you.

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago

i00 said:
Compass widgets etc don't work correctly when your doing a GPS activity; instead of being based on your facing direction, it is based on the direction of travel in the activity

Try changing the Compass Mode from Auto to Magnetometer.

0 KrapfenKringel over 3 years ago

Also accessing 3rd party widgets during an activity stops your GPS signal. But if not enough people report that it will probably never get fixed.

0 gaijin over 3 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

KrapfenKringel said:
Also accessing 3rd party widgets during an activity stops your GPS signal. But if not enough people report that it will probably never get fixed.

Report to whom? I assume you mean report to the developers of the third party software that's causing the problem, right?

Right?

0 KrapfenKringel over 3 years ago in reply to gaijin

To Garmin, it affects all 3rd party plugins, and works fine on the Fenix 5 and 6. It even has a ticket number and is officially acknowledged (since almost 3 months), but Garmin needs to be shown that people care for the basic functions to work.

forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-7-series---gps-track-recording-is-stopped-during-activity-when-a-widget-is-displayed