Sleep detection is broken with 12.11

PRK91 1 month ago

My sleep modes start at 12:30 AM and ends around 8:30 AM. After updating to 12.11, it detects my sleep at 12 AM and provides me the morning report by 130AM or whenever I move. This happened twice and on both the days I was working on my laptop and it detected that as a sleep. Around 1:30 AM I decided to take a small walk and then it provided the morning report. This happened yesterday too and I have enabled Pulse Ox for sleep. Yesterday I decide to take a walk at 2 AM and it provided me with a morning report and Pulse Ox stopped there. Attached below is the snapshot. After returning back to bed, I did manually put my watch to Sleep mode, but Pulse Ox did not take any readings.

Pretty irritating that Garmin cannot do such basic things properly. First, Garmin refuses to give proper features to a 450$ watch and on top of it, existing features are now breaking. Is that what Garmin thinks of watches like Venu and Vivoactive series? Like absolutely no love and total trash. No company does such differentiation in software features, it is just Garmin.

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PRK91 1 month ago in reply to Amit_77 +1

One more comment... Being a Fenix user I am sure you must be understanding what I mean. Head over to the beta forums and check the change log between FR265 and Venu 3. Venu 3 receives nothing, just few…

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0 9869979 1 month ago

I had the same issue on Wednesday: my watch mistakenly logged 30-40 minutes of inactivity around midnight as sleep and didn’t update it with the 7+ hours of actual sleep I got later. My actual sleep is easy to spot, there’s always a noticeable stress drop when I fall asleep, so I corrected it manually in the Connect app.

Despite this, the sleep coach keeps telling me I need more sleep because it’s still using the incorrect duration. Combined with the other limitations of the Venu, it’s been a pretty frustrating experience.

0 PRK91 1 month ago in reply to 9869979

Exactly. Not sure what Garmin is playing here. I have always been a huge supporter and recommending Garmin to all my friends and family, but I might have to rethink that. This watch receives no love and no updates. Garmin should rather destroy this entire lineup (or stop pricing this at 450$) and just focus on Forerunner series and above. Venu 3 is a pure mistake by Garmin and I just feel looted for buying this 450$ watch.

0 Amit_77 1 month ago in reply to PRK91

I just paid $475 for this watch a week ago, to replace the whoop. So far, yes small bugs. I hope they sort them out.

0 PRK91 1 month ago in reply to Amit_77

I have been a Garmin lover since 2017, but unfortunately I have nothing positive to say about the Venu 3 as a 450$ watch.

0 Amit_77 1 month ago in reply to PRK91

I have a fenix 6 pro as well, so far it's really good to train with and screen is stunning. Also battery life is good.

0 PRK91 1 month ago in reply to Amit_77

That's great. I have nothing personal against Garmin, it is just that when they price it identical to FR265, they should give it some love and care like the FR 265. The software disparity is so huge that I would never recommend anyone the Venu or Vivo series anymore (if the price is same as FR series). Of course the FR and Fenix series are really good but unfortunately I cannot afford one now, after spending 450$ on this just last year.

0 Amit_77 1 month ago in reply to PRK91

Let's hope they improve it. I wish I'd got a FR now but hey let's continue telling garmin what we want that's all we can do.

I'm sure they can improve the software

0 PRK91 1 month ago in reply to Amit_77

One more comment... Being a Fenix user I am sure you must be understanding what I mean. Head over to the beta forums and check the change log between FR265 and Venu 3. Venu 3 receives nothing, just few IQ connect fixes here and there, Garmin is doing this selective abandonment of Venu and Vivo because that is how they see it.

0 PRK91 1 month ago in reply to Amit_77

I have the same feeling. I really wish I got the FR265, it is literally the same price as the Venu 3. I have been giving feedback to Garmin since the past 4 months, I have a feeling they don't even check the forums of Venu series. The other problem is, I live in Taiwan and we dont get much offers like US or other countries and that means I need to find a way to sell my Venu 3 and again shell 450$ to get the FR 265.

My previous posts:
1) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---11-xx-bug-reports/more-features-to-the-450-watch-please

Others feature request:
1) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---12-xx-bug-reports/12-08---are-these-the-most-important-features

0 PRK91 1 month ago

Garmin-Tracy

I have sent feedback many times, requesting features to the Venu 3, but so far none have been implemented.

If you can forward something to the development team, that would be highly beneficial to all of us.

Feedback for new features request:
1) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---11-xx-bug-reports/more-features-to-the-450-watch-please

2) https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/venu-3-series/venu-3-series---public-beta-bug-report/i/venu-3-series---12-xx-bug-reports/12-08---are-these-the-most-important-features