Fenix 8 Live Event Sharing - restart watch

Piotr1991 1 month ago

When I turn on the 'Live Event Sharing' option and start the activity, the watch restarts with a blue triangle. I’ve also done a factory reset, but it didn’t help. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

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Garmin-Laurie 5 days ago in reply to Mierzej87 +2 verified

Hello. I am sorry to hear you are having this issue. We have since released the latest Live public sw update, version 15.31. If you have not already, I would recommend installing this using Garmin Express…
Piotr1991 1 month ago +2

Any official information from Garmin about this bug?
maxcalce 25 days ago in reply to Piotr1991 +2

Live-event-sharing-crash-watch

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0 Orelln 26 days ago in reply to M_Nordlund

You are probably right that it is related to the paywall as it seems we all started to discover this issue only a few days/weeks after the release and that they indeed made modifications to LiveTrack with the new feature to send the LiveTrack links directly through SMS. But I don't think they actually modified the Live event sharing itself. Maybe only its implementation.

0 M_Nordlund 25 days ago in reply to Orelln

Can anyone confirm if it works if you have Connect+? I've contacted Garmin support and I'm waiting for a reply from them as well.

0 Orelln 25 days ago in reply to M_Nordlund

I would suggest doing a test if you plan to use it on race day. Just pick a single contact, enable it and try to start a run. Also, try and turn off your phone Bluetooth, then turn it back on and see if it doesn't crash. Be aware, if you try this, it might make your watch enter a reboot loop that you can normally exit only if you turn your phone Bluetooth off (if I remember correctly my own attempts)

0 Piotr1991 25 days ago in reply to Orelln

Doesn't work - two different watches - Fenix 8 and Forerunner 265. The same situation with blue triangle. If the phone has Bluetooth connection and Live Event Sharing turn on - bootloop directly after start the activity. A nightmare if somebody doesn't know about this bug during race day.

0 maxcalce 25 days ago in reply to Piotr1991

Live-event-sharing-crash-watch

0 4932652 24 days ago

I am having this same issue on my 955

0 8440742 20 days ago

Same issue on my Forerunner 265s :(

0 8440742 20 days ago

Same issue here on my 265s, really hope there is a fix :(

0 markcameron 11 days ago

I have a f7x pro, I don't get the blue triangle or shut down, but when I start and finish the event it pings multiple messages all the same to the same person, and during the event it sends no texts regardless of whether it's a time or distance interval setting

0 Mierzej87 11 days ago in reply to markcameron

The latest Beta SW15.27 has bug fixes related to Live Event Sharing. The problem has globally affected all models and all Beta have received an update. Stable software for Fenix 8 will be released soon. Forerrunners have already received official software from what I understand. I don't know how the situation is in the F7 series and Epix2 and the Pro version. But Garmin is gradually implementing these fixes.