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Garmin 4s not measuring swimming lengths accurately

My Garmin Vivo 4s is not tracking my swimming lengths properly. Usually it can be off by a couple but yesterday it failed to record 10 lengths, about a quarter of the distance I swam.

It has also been inaccurate with some runs - I did a half marathon which was confirmed by the organisers’ app. However Garmin came in at 12.7miles.

DOra anyone have any advice please?

Thanks in advance.

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GUYEZRA over 3 years ago +1

Yesterday after 15 minutes of freestyle swimming I looked at the watch and it was 200 meters...I usually swim 800 meters in that time

After that I tried to start another interval but after 50 meters of…

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0 Bastracks12 over 3 years ago

Follow, same problem here. Garmin Vivoactive 4s

0 GUYEZRA over 3 years ago

Yesterday after 15 minutes of freestyle swimming I looked at the watch and it was 200 meters...I usually swim 800 meters in that time

After that I tried to start another interval but after 50 meters of backstroke the watch still showed rest timer

I use VA4

0 4747576 over 1 year ago in reply to GUYEZRA

I have same problem, no matter how far i swim, is just records 200m