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vivoactive 4 Series SW 4.90 is now live

Garmin-Blake
over 5 years ago

This update can be downloaded with Garmin Express or automatically with Garmin Connect Mobile (pending rollout). 

Change Log:

  • Improved WIFI connectivity and status messages
  • Fixed an issue with iOS messages repeatedly being displayed
  • Made improvements to broadcasting heart rate
  • Fixed an issue to ensure GPS firmware updates are downloaded
  • Fixed an issue where Connect IQ data fields could impact battery life
  • Fixed an issue where Connect IQ watch faces could impact battery life
  • Fixed an issue where pages are not displayed for the last golf widget
  • Made general improvements to stability
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    Garmin Pay seems to have stopped working. Pay is opening but NFC-tag is not recognized at terminal. I am wondering if this is due to the update. Anyone else having problems with Pay after the update? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 3998818

    seems it was not, it was just working on the first bike ride after upgrade. The rest of the rides after that is full of heartrate dropouts. Its showing the heart rate broadcast screen and the pulse is updating on the screen but it simply stops broadcasting via ant+. When you tap the screen a few times it seems it wakes up or something and starts broadcasting again (and the pulse is again seen on the bike computer).

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    I bought a vivoactive 4 because I thought Garmin is reliable, but its measurements are really exaggerated wrong. I was patient, I thought they would fix it. 1 year has passed nothing changed. The upset part is I bought for $10 a Chinese brand smart bracelet and its sleep tracking is correct.

    After this 1-year experience, what I would say to everyone around me would be don't buy Garmin products. It's enough to look at the messages here, it's not believable, no response, no action. Is anyone alive out there, is anyone alive out there, is anyone alive out thereee

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    just curious, what particular measurement is so wrong according to your experience?

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to 1906207

    It measures the times I watch TV and read a book in bed as sleep. Deep sleep duration is always very low. In my tests with Fitbit Charge 3 and Honor band 5, their measurements were very close and accurate, while Garmin was measuring sleep duration inaccurately.  How can I rely on other measurements of the device that incorrectly measures sleep start-end time, such as deep sleep, rem, stress. How Garmin can't fix this problem for years. While Garmin markets its products with the “Advanced Sleep Monitoring” label.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Is there a way to manually install this update, or in future to force a re-install for a worst case scenario of trouble shooting an inadvertent software issue.

    With the EDGE device I use, I've access to the Beta softwares which also contain the previous public release version.

    I've tried to see if Garmin WebUpdater can reinstall Vivoactive 4 software but it doesn't recognise the device.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Can someone please help 

    Do I have to buy the vivoactive legacy hero to get the Captian America theme, or is there a way to just buy vivoactive 4 and add the theme.

    Thank you for your time 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    2 VA 4 series in this month, both same problem, afer 2 days using it stress level goest too high, body battery drains to 5% and no more recharge, also the case with a venu, in total 3 watches with the same problem and as i read now the forums all Garmin is a mess, i will return again the 3rd watch in the month. in resume:

    - Stress Level too high after 2 days of hard reset (yes i have to hard reset every 2 days to have good data)
    - Boddy Battery Drains to 5% an never charge again
    - climb floors with activity ongoing goes crazy, I stepped only 4 floors it detected 7.
    - Sleep track its useless as it tracks if you are in bed reading or watching tv on night or in morning as sleep time.

    I live in Mexico, reported this to Garmin support and they told me they receive this report more than 70 days ago, until now no resolution for this for all cases they had received.  YOU SUCK!

    For the price of this watch REALLY I CAN BUY ANOTHER THING WITH MORE ACCURATE TRACKING in day to day activity.