Fenix 7 hiking activity GPS data is garbage

I recently hiked to Triglav in Slovenia. I tracked the whole hike with hiking activity but the GPS data is total garbage. The mountain is in Julian Alps surrounded by other high peaks, I imagine this could make obtaining GPS coordinates. See the attached screenshot. Even during the hike I noticed that Total Ascent was reaching unrealistic values.

Is there something I can do to fix this activity?
What caused this? How to prevent this in the future?

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TigerGPS over 2 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel +1

I did not know that, only used once so far. Maybe that’s why I got full signal the entire time…

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0 LucaCast over 2 years ago

It should be a problem of integration with widgets, when you use it you lose the gps connection and come out straight lines.

0 TigerGPS over 2 years ago

Not a fix for prior activities. But I'm using this data field "GPS and Battery Info" by Alexis Lecanu to track GPS signal. If you add it as a data screen it records GPS signal strength during an activity and saves a graph you can view in Garmin Connect later. May help you understand if GPS signal was lost/weak and when.

0 KrapfenKringel over 2 years ago in reply to TigerGPS

As far as I know this never worked. Garmin only gives out full signal or no signal, but no steps in between. Or has this been fixed?

0 TigerGPS over 2 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

I did not know that, only used once so far. Maybe that’s why I got full signal the entire time…

0 entify over 2 years ago in reply to TigerGPS

This dosent work for me.. I have always all five gps signs full, but my gps is still garbage from time to time.

0 KrapfenKringel over 2 years ago in reply to entify

Yea it's (just another) very old API bug back from previous models, should work but doesn't.