Garmin Fenix 7 GPS and pace is incredibly inconsistent

6204515 6 months ago

Hey guys my GF got me a Fenix 7 and I love everything about it except for whats its meant to be used for. The GPS on every mile that I run shows a new landmark through the same area i run everyday. My moving pace is showing something way slower than my lap time. As much as I liked garmin over the years every day I dislike it more. Anyone gone through something similar?

Below is the evidence of two runs a month in the same course and the gps showing where each mile is.

my average pace is nowhere near my lap pace in which shows how impossible and how bad the data is

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0 mamak_runs 6 months ago

There is a major issue with distance/data right now !!! 20.16 and 20.22 software is not doing good !!! I have a 2.10 mile route and on this software got 1.86 and 1.64

0 mamak_runs 6 months ago

Garmin-Laurie

0 Tosk_F 6 months ago

The two tracks are not the same.

0 David Nguyen 6 months ago

I have this problem with 20.16, but now, it is ok with 20.22 (for my case only, not sure about other cases).

0 Andreas Tarandi 6 months ago

I've been watching my distance and track quite closely since upgrading to 20.22, since I saw reports of this. I think so far (only 2 runs) it seems to be ok.

I have my Satelites set to All + Multiband (and not the default "Smart" option), so maybe it's related to that?

0 6204515 6 months ago in reply to mamak_runs

I completely agree. Do you have a source?

0 9195431 6 months ago

Well, after spending days where the watch was showing me the wrong mileage during my workouts and my pace was a disaster, since installing 20.22.

The only solution I found, after downgrading to 17.28 and seeing that the GPS was still faulty... was to do a hard reset, and today I went out to train and it FINALLY nailed the mileage and pace.

There's something the 20.22 firmware does that's messing up the GPS and not displaying the data correctly.

I hope this helps, best regards!