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How I can pause first activity, start another, finish it and resume the first activity, please?

9755017
7 months ago

How I can pause first activity, start another, finish it and resume the first activity, please? E.g. when doing cycling I visit a lake, where I want to swim and then resume the cycling on my way home.

Or I go to walk, then I'm running for a while and then walking again.

Thanks!

  • 0 7 months ago

    It is impossible (luckly). Why resume cycling after such a long pause?? Non-sense, isn't it? Just end cycling and start another session.

  • 0 7 months ago

    You can't.

    You could try to find an IQ app that records activities and you can launch from glances, this should work.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to bikej

    For rides without performance requirements it's perfectly logical - I want to have distance, track and all under 1 cycling (or walking) activity, not 2. I believe it is not big problem to add Resume in finished activities and/or due Pause to allow start second.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 9755017

    There is an option to switch to another sport in the activity menu (long press up menu while recording the activity).

    Not sure if that meets your needs, though.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to 9755017
    9755017 said:
    I believe it is not big problem to add Resume in finished activities and/or due Pause to allow start second.

    Contact Garmin and ask them. In the meantime, record the two cycling legs separately then use a free online tool to combine them into one.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

    TL;DR I'm almost 100% sure there is no "CIQ loophole" to record 2 activities simultaneously. That would go against everything I've seen in Garmin so far (in both built-in and CIQ functionality.)

    KrapfenKringel said:
    You could try to find an IQ app that records activities and you can launch from glances, this should work.

    No, it won't work. Any CIQ app which is launched from the glance list should be unable to record an activity, same as it was on older watches.

    For some background, newer devices (with CIQ 4 and higher) don't have a separate concept of Connect IQ widgets - if coded in a certain way, Connect IQ "device apps" or "watch apps" (the kind of app that can be launched from the activity/app list) can be launched from the glance list. IOW, on old devices (pre-CIQ 4) you would need to download 2 apps for this use case: one device app (for the activity list) and one widget (for the widget/glance list). Now you can download a single app that can be launched either from the activity list and the glance list (provided the developer has opted in to allowing their app to appear on the glance list.)

    Despite all of that (the fact that CIQ widgets and CIQ device apps have seemingly been "merged"), any CIQ app which is launched from the glance list (whether it's a widget for an older device or a device app with glance support for a newer device) should still subject to the same old "widget" restrictions as before:

    - it times out and exits after a certain period of user inactivity (e.g. 2 minutes)

    - it can't record an activity (I'm fairly sure about this, but if I'm wrong, I'm almost 100% sure that no CIQ app can record an activity while another activity is already being recorded.)

    At least all of that was true last time I checked. I would be shocked if something significant has changed in this regard.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to macnuts

    It does not as this also creates new separate activities, it just combines them under one name (including the one of a different type) as a "multisport activity".

    Combining them manually with external tools seems be the best workaround.

  • 0 7 months ago in reply to FlowState
    FlowState said:
    "CIQ loophole"

    Still would be interesting to try, but none of my multisport apps have the "glance option" activated (why would they). We have seen IQ data-fields record data during IQ app activity recording. Maybe we can also record with an IQ app during an regular activity on hold. Could be fun to write a short app that appears in glance to test it.

    But yes you are right about the timeout (although it's not 2 minutes anymore on the F7 in every case, during activities it's now much longer or indefinite. Since firmware 16, but with an activity in "resume later" it probably counts as outside of an activity and then it's back to 2 minutes, let me try.)

    Edit: Just tested, activity on "resume later" is handled like a running activity, therefore the 2 minute limit does not apply (F7 series after firmware 16). So an IQ app with activity recording that shows up in the glance list might be able to do it's thing (or it's a creative way to crash the watches OS).