Instinct 2X Solar crashes during halfmarathon

Today during a halfmarathon using the courses track and a pace pro plan the watch started to randomly crash and restart. After the restart it showed the paused activity. When i tried to resume the watch crashed again.

To say that that's extremly frustrating doesn't even beginn to cover it. Training for a long time and then I can't rely on my watch for a pacing strategy during the race... Is there a solution to this?

The watch has the latest stable release installed 16.11 (e4db611).

I can find threads about people complaing about this problem soon after the watch launched. Garmin, seriously, whats going on?

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0 mi.strnadel 8 months ago

Hi, this problem persists and has not been resolved in 2 years. Previously, a factory reset was required, with loss of activity and settings. Now it is possible to save the activity and start it again.

0 8539204 8 months ago in reply to mi.strnadel

Thanks for the info!

I find it quite astounding that Garmin doesn't at least clarifiy or inform users. If theres HW limitations, then at least inform us.

Good communication can really make a difference. Finding out during a race is frustrating to say the least...

What's the exact reason for this?
Would it have happend if I had used the pacepro without the navigation?

0 mi.strnadel 8 months ago in reply to 8539204

Yes, without navigation, the route record will run to 100%. Alternatively, it could help divide navigation into smaller, shorter sections. And navigate continuously.

0 8539204 8 months ago in reply to mi.strnadel

Does it help to limit the points in a gpx track?
Or to plan the navigation in Garmin Connect to prevent this issue from happening?

In my case the halfmarathon track was provided as a gpx from the event organization and I simply imported it.

0 blas 7 months ago

This watch is nothing more than a disappointment to me. Not being able to rely on features it offers is borderline scam for the money they asked for it.