Venu 3 - Bluetooth interference, bad connection with music.

I recently bought a Garmin Venu 3 coming from a Vivoactive 4.

Several times now i have experienced connectivity issues with my headphones during workouts. It works for a while and then it sounds like the music actually slows down and a lot of disturbance (scratch noises) is also present. A reboot of the watch and it works again.

Tryed this with 2 different sets of headphones. Jaybird Vista 2 and Bose 700

I have tried unparring and parring again and full reset of the watch but the issue is still there.

Any one else?

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8858901 over 1 year ago in reply to 8858901 +1 suggested

I fixed it. - reset the watch, turned it off, turned it back on and charged to 100%. Hope this works for everyone else…Not sure what changed but it’s drastically different.

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0 Jef Yackley 10 days ago in reply to Jacob Said

I experienced this issue and discovered that the sound gets choppy when running without my phone because the watch is searching for my phone. If you're planning to run without your phone, turn off the phone's Bluetooth connection to the watch before you leave!

0 MetalFatigue 8 days ago in reply to Jef Yackley

This means the chip is underpowered. Which is annoying for a 500€ watch.

0 MERCADORHG 8 days ago in reply to MetalFatigue

Yeah, it is annoying.

0 1031326 3 days ago

Always had similar issue before with my Fenix 6S Pro and now with Venu 3 when starting the activity for the first few minutes hearing scratches and low quality music, the suddenly everything back to normal. With the Fenix was even worse as time to time the connection dropped and need to reconnect manually to the headphones, this is not happening so far with the Venu, thanks for the suggestion to turn off the phone connection at first as this seems to be the logical problem.

Yes quite weird that a company like Garmin is not able to address such problems even after years the same issue repeats on different of their expensive models.