Hi, does anyone notice after the firmware update the respiration rate become 2x or almost 2x of real value? My Fenix 8, Tactix 7 are like that. Then last night I pair my old Venu 3, it gives my a proper value. This morning, I got a new Venu 3 firmware update, after the update, it becomes as bad as my Fenix 8.
I use other devices such as the Clinic grade Masimo to check and compare my respiration rate, yes, it confirms Fenix 8 is indeed not showing proper value.
Hello. I am sorry to hear you are having this issue. I would love to help investigate this further. For this, i will reach out to your directly via Private Message, to collect the details of your experience…
Update April 9, 2025:
Our engineers have indicated they are aware of a change in respiration rate with the most recent software update. They are indicating this is by design. A March 2025 software update…
I can maybe understand more variability, but it should not affect the average respiration rate. You can clearly se the almost 2x jump in my average respiration rate after the update.
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My Sleep respiration rate has been 12-13 with my fenix 7 from the day i got it until Feb 18th when an update was installed, now it is 20bpm sleeping and 15bpm when awake. There is definitely an issue with…
Laurie
I just completed a breathwork activity. With one breath per 16 seconds. Which is 3.75 brpm. My watch says I was at 7-8 bpm. The same activity prior to the update showed 4 brpm. I understand what…
Thank goodness I checked this forum. My Venu 3 sleep respiration rate has jumped from 10-12 to 18-20 over the past couple of weeks. I thought something was wrong with me, but I see now that it’s a faulty…
To see it to belive, please watch this YouTube
Frankly, I do not see any major difference between the data from both sources, on that video. The major difference is that the data from your AW is averaged to one hour intervals, while the data in Garmin Connect is shown in 2 minutes samples. It means any peaks are smoothed out in the chart from AW.
For example the respiratory rate is 11.5 brpm @ 5:43 on AW. And although it is almost 20 brpm @ 6:03 in GC, just a few minutes before that it was at 12 brpm, which is very close to the AW value at that time. So yes, there may be a slight difference, but nowhere near 2x as you claim in the title. If you averaged the data from GC to 1 hour intervals, there would not be much difference. At least not in the case you posted in the video - the data looks rather consistent with each other.
