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Vivoactive 4 Update 6.80 Heartrate / Stress / BodyBattery

Hi all,

since the last update Heartrate during Workouts are far off the charts. It's round about 40 till 50 beats under the normal heartbeat. I understand that it's not as correct as with a belt, but before the update it was way better.

I already did a factory reset, cleaned the sensors and did everything which is logical in my point of view.

Training with this watch and such a wrong heartrate is just senseless.

Any suggestions what I can do?

Kind regards

Simon

0 SfD over 3 years ago

Nothing you can do other than wait for a new update.

I too have about 20bpms under the normal, during a workout.

0 7638197 over 3 years ago

I thought so, but I had hopes that there were some hidden secret. Anyway - thanks.

0 ovekvam over 3 years ago in reply to 7638197

Is it the same for all types of activity? They are not running the same settings/algorithms.
For me, the heart rate used to be too high before the update in some activity types, and it has improved now.

0 7638197 over 3 years ago

Ah okay I didn't know. I just use the Cardio Template. I will try out another one and test it. Thanks for your advice

0 ovekvam over 3 years ago in reply to 7638197

Yes, the "cardio" was the one where I used to have close to my maximum heart rate just doing fast walking. Now I have more realistic and significantly lower numbers.

0 Caroline over 3 years ago

During a round of golf, my heart rate is measured lower than my normal resting heart rate at times. On other occasions it seems to measure the heart rate well. Before the update, the average heart rate for a round of golf was 115, now 90. In short, very inaccurate measurements during golf. Do more people suffer from here?

Kind regards, Carla

0 SfD over 3 years ago in reply to ovekvam

My example is running. I get values about 20bpms lower than before the update.

Bought a polar H10 chest strap and values measured with it are consistent with what I had on the watch before the update.

Don't know about other activities, as I haven't used them.

0 ovekvam over 3 years ago in reply to SfD

I also notice lower (too low) heart rate readings when I do interval running on the treadmill. But I guess wrist sensors are rather useless for interval training anyway.

0 9748337 over 3 years ago

Same here, around 25-30% less beats recorded for higher zones during activity. For the lower zones, the measurement seems accurate.

Let’s hope this is fixed in the next update.