Since software version 13.12 and currently on 13.13, I have to force the synchronization in order to get my activities sent to Garmin connect. The sync takes very long time.
When I finish the activity I can leave the device till it automatically goes to a standby, it's constantly connected to a phone (not to a wifi, cause this is broken too, I have to readd networks every time I want to connect) and the activities don't go through automatically. It maybe eventually get there but I didn't have patience to wait long enough keeping the device active not to shut dow.