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hr sensor always blink

Former Member over 5 years ago

is it normal that the hr sensor always blink? even when the watch is taken off. that may be why the battery consumption is high

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Garmin-Blake over 5 years ago +15 verified

We are finalizing work on a fix for this issue and hope to have this available very soon. I apologize for not having a definitive release date for this and I understand the frustration caused by that.…
Garmin-Blake over 5 years ago +0 verified

Please power cycle your device off and on if you are seeing this symptom. This should resolve this symptom, but if it does not, please post here.
3425675 over 5 years ago +8 suggested

HERE, video demonstration It doesn't stop blinking
yaatzek over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake +6 suggested

It doesn't help, the issue is still there. It gets triggered by recording an activity. The only way to fix it is to turn off/on the watch. It stops until next recording.

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0 yaatzek over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

It looks like Garmin is always pushing the updates with batches. When someone reports here he's got an update right away there are lots of people which didn't. You can try plugging the cable and updating through the desktop app but I'm not sure there will be any difference.

The update was weird, as I said yesterday I received the bt update and right after the watch booted up I had a toast message with something like: 3 packages had errors and couldn't be installed or something. Today I received the sensor update and it went smooth this time.

0 Pseudo-fed over 5 years ago

My First Avenger Model (which has whole different FW) has not gotten sensor 3.20. And Garmin told me by email to update to it. I did WIFI software update and it said "transfer completed", but it never installs. I also connected to Garmin Express an it said I was up to date. Still showing 2.30..... How to force install of update that may have been transferred to my device?

0 Pseudo-fed over 5 years ago

Well I'll be damned. On my First Avenger I'm still showing sensor 2.30, but it has been fixed. Apparently the software update that transferred over WIFI did something. I've tested it several times, and will also test it after an activity. Take watch off and after a few seconds HR stops. Put watch on and it fires right up. Hope this sticks!

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

Got a sensor update yesterday and can confirm that it turns off after an activity now :-)

0 Gizmo over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

On VA 4 or 4s? Because there is a suspicion that there was no update on 4s and the problem is still there.

0 Pseudo-fed over 5 years ago

Well, crap. Recording an activity brings the problem back. Power cycling the watch fixes it again.....

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Pseudo-fed

maybe your sensor still not update yet

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Z

Try to change the Display Design. Every time I do this, it starts blinking again. So I am interested in your experiece.

0 Z over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

What do you mean by "Display Design"?

Anyway, today after workout, HRM turned itself off when take off the watch.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Z

What is version sensor watch