I am still having heart rate readings that is inaccurate once in a while...
The picture here shows my wife Fenix 5 on the left and Vivoactive 4 on the right.
A difference of 44, anyway to resolve this.
I am still having heart rate readings that is inaccurate once in a while...
The picture here shows my wife Fenix 5 on the left and Vivoactive 4 on the right.
A difference of 44, anyway to resolve this.
Yes! I get this too. I've had my V4 since July, and it's generally been fine (apart from recording high stress and rapid breathing during yoga which is clearly wrong). But I tried doing runs with just…
The watch is using different settings for the heart rate measurement algorithms depending on what it thinks you are doing. If you indicate that you are bicycling or walking or running or something else…
The chest straps are significantly more accurate. Mine sometimes picks up my running cadence instead of my heart rate, typically the first few minutes of my runs. After that it is spot on. External straps…
I got really fed up with this so decided to complain to Garmin. However, before I did, I did a few runs with both the V4 and my old Forerunner 220 with both connected to my chest HRM. And the problem was … the chest strap. Mea maxima culpa. Looked up advice. I now wet the sensors and my chest with a facecloth before I run, and everything is fine, apart from the strap not liking an old Helly Hansen (static, I presume).