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activity lost during drinking pause

7267816 over 3 years ago

Hello,

This evening I did an indoor cycling activity of about 60Km.

When I stopped to have a drink I paused my VA3 as I did a few time during that activity.

But this time when I wanted to resume my activity my watch displayed the clock.

When I clicked on the button to go back I had to select the activity type again and it started again from zero.

Is there a way to recover this lost workout?

I tried looking in the activity folder but it ain't there. Only that new activity is there.

I tried recovering with TestDisk but it doesn't seem to be there either.

0 Former Member over 3 years ago

Hi,
The lost workout cannot be recovered.

I had the same situation when I paused my watch for more than 6 minutes (if I recall correctly). I was running and a tourist asked for guidance/help. I paused the activity, talked with him, discussed some stuff and when I wanted to continue my run I noticed that is dropped and my watch was on the main screen. Don't know why "cancel" is the default behaviour and not the "save".

0 Steph B over 3 years ago

I have noticed when pausing for a period of time and then restarting. The first click of the button only wakes up the watch to resume you have to click again otherwise it times out.

0 8046004 over 3 years ago in reply to Steph B

same problem.. but i often use pause function... yesterday only just for 3minutes, clock was shown... another day 10minutes pause without problems...

0 7267816 over 3 years ago

just an update while being 2 months and a lot of exercises/activities further...

I didn't have this issue anymore since I enable the auto lock during activities.

ok, there is still a risk of 5 seconds if you unlock your watch during an activity but when will you do this besides an indoor activity to pause it because there's no GPS movement.

I remember that when I paused an indoor cycling activity for a while and continue that garmin gave the correct elapsed movement time but strava only calculated the average between start and finish times. this seems to be resolved aswell as 2 days ago a colleague called a few times during a home trainer session where I used the pausing as I had to do things on a laptop. after syncing the averages where nearly the same. maybe they fixed it by checking the speed (& cadense) sensors instead of gps movement that is not there.

so manual pause is not needed for such activity either it seems.