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Lost Activity

jsky1234
over 2 years ago

I finished my ride and pressed the Stop button. Had a phone call and when I looked at the Garmin again the Activity seems to have vanished. No Discard or Save buttons just the main screen to start over again. Checked the Activities directory after getting home no data for the ride itself saved. Any way to recover the Activity?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to krazyeone

    Seems like the tracking was not auto-saved at all. No any file on device found or even cached or some process must have purged the whole recording. It was a 50K ride over 2 hours of decent hill climbing all kaput.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to jsky1234

    Just lost my ride as well on my 1040 the Cape Argus of all things, also had it paused and it just exited. 

    Did you do a file recovery and if so which tool did you use man? 

    Help would be greatly appreciated!

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 9141015

    Sorry to hear this. I was never able to recover my activity from that significant ride. Garmin Support offered to replace the unit but I decided not to as this is clearly not a hardware but software issue.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Exactly this happened to me as well today. Garmin should look into it. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to seilogramp

    D9A93053.zip

    By accident I discarded activity when was pausing it. Found 3 .fit files on edge, is it possible to repair?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to 2752614

    Were these from \GARMIN\ACTIVITY folder? Were these recovered using a 3rd-party tool? Recuva for example. You would typically need something like that to recover files that were deleted. Also, you cannot use the device at all after deleting, as this increases the chance that the recoverable fit files will be overwritten with new data. Also, these don't look like activity files, more like metrics with no timestamp records. Only 1 kb in size, I have a larger fit file walking to the mailbox. Blush 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to seilogramp

    Those are not activity files. They contain metric information about load.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    I have had this happen to me on various occasions....
    * On Saturday, I paused activity after I stopped and when I looked at Garmin screen again, I was back on home screen with no sign of my activity. I looked at the debug logs (have debug enabled) in ./Debug/EventLogs/ on device I see IncidentStatusNotification at the same time the activity was lost. So seems like an incident was detected (while I was stationary) and my activity was lost? Is this possible or was the activity discarded by an undesired touch screen activation on the discard option on the pause screen.
    * I paused activity, and rain drops on the touchscreen activated the discard button and I lost my ride.

    Yesterday, I tried searching the garmin filesystem for the discarded activity to see if there was any tmp or cached file, and also the deleted files on the FAT filesystem with no luck. Strangly enough  Excercise Load seemed to know that I did an activity on Saturday - don't know where it got the info from, because this is not available to any other Garmin function.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to jonathanlynch

    Thanks for sharing. I was unable to replicate the issue. I now always use 1040 + Another GPS device for tracking significant rides. Can't trust the Garmin alone!

  • 0 8 months ago

    Happened to me today as well. Finished and "saved" the ride. Nothing appears in Activity, but the training status got updated. I think it is related to a corrupted FIT file. I did successfully recover the FIT file by using Disk Drill, but the FIT file is corrupted. I tried to use the FIT File Repair Tool but it told "subscript out of range" and then stoped importing.