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any utility to rescue HRM-TRI data from crashed activity?

I am pretty sure the answer is "no" but wanted to see if Garmin or any third party ever made a tool to rescue the HR data from a crashed/corrupted activity off a Fenix 5?

Typically you'd do a "download HR data" but since the activity doesn't exist (never saved, spinning circle of death) it cannot.

I have the exact start time and I saw the timer when I hit stop.

I wonder if I could take an old FIT file with similar route and edit the distance and start date/time and as long as it had HRM-TRI attached it might download but wow what a workout.

Garmin DEVs have got to have some kind of ANT+ tool but I doubt they'd ever release to public.

Really exhausted with all the Garmin crashes and corruption on the Fenix 5, I am done with Gamin unless they ever make a full backup/restore tool after hard reset

0 seilogramp over 2 years ago

Might be possible with either Fit File Repair Tool or some hex wizardry from Former Member.

Can you zip then post a sample crashed activity?

0 Former Member over 2 years ago

hi,

rinserepeat in trouble that is a first

first suggestion would be to use recuva or others to scan your F5

second would be your own suggestion, create or adapt an existing workout setting correct time frame

rinserepeat said:
full backup/restore tool after hard reset

recent devices can be managed by Garmin Connect Mobile

happy & safe sporting

0 rinserepeat over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

I think there is a serious misunderstanding/ignorance that the HRM-TRI only communicates via ANT+

There are no files to restore/undelete, only a Garmin watch can "talk" to it.

Garmin devices stupidly do not write FIT files until an activity is complete, they store them in memory, so if the device crashes during activity and before the file is saved, all is lost.

The HRM-TRI has local "store and forward" memory to download HR data. The Fenix can trigger that download via ANT+ even days later but the current method requires an existing activity for the watch to download into.

It's an easy bet Garmin developers have more sophisticated apps for ANT+ communication to the HRM-TRI but they have never released them to the public.

Since the HRM-TRI is end-of-life and Garmin should release any utilities they have to the public to encourage users in knowing they will not be abandoned and buying other Garmin devices in the future is not a waste of time/money where a device will be useless in a few years.