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Vivoactive notification issues and other functions

fabian
over 2 years ago

I recently got a Vivoactive 4 and I'm having issues with the notifications, the app has all the permissions and is excluded from any battery saving configuration.

I also own a garmin edge 130+ and when it is turned on it receives the notifications but not the watch. I could be using the garmin connect app, viewing the HR from the watch on realtime and the watch doesn't receive notifications.

Other issues that are getting me frustrated is the sleep tracking algorithm, doesn't work very well, doesn't correctly detect the start and end of sleep and today it changed hours after I got up, when I got up it counted about 6:30 hours of sleep, hours later, it changed to 8:40 hours. I also miss the lack of a sleep score.

Previously I was using a Xiaomi watch that I bought for almost 1/3 of the price, with nicer screen, better battery life and none of these issues. I like the garmin integration with my Edge device (this is why I bought a garmin watch) but I might sell this crap and go back to the Xiaomi watch.

The watch is running the latest firmware (7.20), the garmin connect app version is 4.58 running on android 11.

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  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I am curious about your Xiaomi watch. How many days does it last on one battery charge with display always on?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to ovekvam

    I don't know, I never used the watch with display always on activated, if I could disable it on the vivoactive I would do but it's supposed to make no big difference on battery.

    The Xiaomi watch I'm talking is the Mi Watch.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to fabian

    That is a big feature on Garmin watches, and you don't need it. For me, a watch would be useless if it didn't always show me the time. That is the main purpose of a watch in my opinion. And running like that, very few other watches can compare to the battery life the Garmin watches with the display technology the Vivoactive series uses. If I had to replace this watch now, I would go for a Forerunner 255 S.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to ovekvam

    Yeah, I don't need always on display. I don't need the screen on when I'm not looking at it. If the watch correctly recognizes the gesture and turns the display on, thats good enough for me.

    But the screen or battery is not the issue

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    So I've read that the sleep monitoring data changes because supposedly it is continued to be analyzed on the servers. What I don't understand is why it just get worse with every sync.

    Here are some screenshots from the app, I think the first one is the more precise because at that time I started to sleep and the wake up time is close enough, the next updates added time to the start and end of sleep but I wasn't sleeping.

    I though the notification issue was fixed by the last garmin connect update (4.58.1) but it wasn't, it worked fine for a while but now the watch shows some notifications only.

    I've made the following test: send a email to my account, wait for the notification on the watch, it isn't shown. Restart the watch, the notification is shown on the widget, send another mail and wait for the notification, it isn't shown. Delete the previous mail I've sent (from a browser on a computer), the notification gets deleted. So, why it is able to delete a notification but not add new ones?

    I will try to return the watch and I doubt I would buy another watch from garmin.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to ovekvam
    ovekvam said:
    For me, a watch would be useless if it didn't always show me the time. That is the main purpose of a watch in my opinion.

    Exactly my opinion.

    ovekvam said:
    I am curious about your Xiaomi watch. How many days does it last on one battery charge with display always on?

    I had another Xiaomi brand watch, Amazfit, model GTR (AMOLED display), for nearly 3 years.

    With AOD on it ran 6-7 days on full battery charge (all sensors off, no sleep monitoring, a lot of notifications and calls notifications per day). With AOD off it lasted 30 days per charge - tested once (it was really cruel month without AOD).

    My current watch, Venu2, is able to run 2-3 days only (similar settings and number of notifications) on one battery charge..... I doubt the battery capacity will not degrade because of frequent charging compared to Amazfit GTR....
    OK, it has got contactless payment (no impact on battery life, tested) - the reason I swap the old watch.
    But forced automatic firmware updates too :|

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to fabian
    fabian said:
    I though the notification issue was fixed by the last garmin connect update (4.58.1) but it wasn't

    I had similar issue with the GCM app few months ago (see this thread). It's a shame that Garmin can't keep the basic functionalities of the smart watch (notifications) working - because of the bugs in the GCM app as well as in the watch's firmware :|

    That's the reason why I'm still running GCM 4.55.1... but the real pain are forced firmware updates (link in my previous post)....  I would never buy Venu2 if I knew it's not possible to disable forced updates. It's on the checklist for my future purchases...