Fe7 FW 18.14 swimming

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Yes it is the same 

I edited also manually distance after swimming.

3933556 said:

If FW update reset some my data.
What …Garmin ? it is horible

Your data is kept intact, but some uncritical calibration data may get reinitialized at some updates for various reasons - for example because of a change of the algorithm, or because the data format changed, etc. Under normal conditions, the calibration is reestablished within a few days.

If you do not like it, and know how to do it better, suggest an improvement to Garmin at Share Ideas | Garmin 

The question is also whether the distance estimate was more accurate before, or after the update. Since you swim with a tether, and as you tell you only swim in your pool in this way, the calibration might have not been very accurate anyway.

3933556 said:

But i swim only in my swimming pool ..

You could try some swimming in a public pool. It may work for the calibration too, though I almost exclusively swim outdoors, so cannot confirm it. If not, try some outdoor swimming while it is still not too cold in the ČR. You'll probably have a good occasion this weekend, according to the weather forecasts

well, I actually swam about 3 times in a 50m swimming pool for about 1 km, and so the watch probably calibrated itself so that 1 swimming pace is about 1 meter. and then I swam 95 times at home in a 7m batten on a swimming rubber on the spot and everything was ok. Until the FW upgrade. So now I have to go to the pond with GPS (but hey, it's really cold here today and it's going to be a horible weekend) or to the swimming pool and swim a few 50 meter sections again. If you could manually set the tech to 1.09 m, it would be great. But unfortunately it doesn't work. It's (Garmin) a shame that they delete my value in the upg and put complete nonsense there.

I never did a calibration swim with the Fenix 6, only ever OWS with GPS off. I guess the default stroke length was correct by coincidence. I tried a pool swim to recalibrate but that did not work, distance remained halved. But by all means give it a try, after all the Fenix 6 is a different platform. It would be awesome if users could confgure stroke length themselves. 

I have full GPS on Philip and even though the GPS track does measure 700m the distance given to my swim was 480m (you've seen my post) so I'm not sure what Garmin is doing with the GPS data, very little it seems....

Yes the same problem for me.

Ralph_ said:

I'm not sure what Garmin is doing with the GPS data

It depends how you swim. GPS does not work underwater, so if you do not swim clean frontcrawl, and the hand with the watch does not come regularly and for sufficient time above the surface, the GPS receiver won't get much signal. If you do now swim crawl, consider wearing the watch under the swim cap, or keep it on a float.

Try the swim cap or float methods out first, check after 100 meters. Some firmware releases did not register any distance unless they detected regular (arm) movement. On a float in choppy water on the other hand could even double the distance. Just try it, it may very well work again with this version. 

Yeah sure but it has recorded a GPS track of 700m and I do point to point where I pause for a few moments with my arm aloft until the GPS reads, so worse case is a straight line point to point, the track itself (700m) is the minimum distance I swam since I probably didn't swim a straight line, the reading of 480m certainly isn't taking that into account so I feel it's not using the GPS at all to allocate distance...