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Activity Tracker Stops on It's Own

9945457
24 days ago

I have had this happen a few times. I have added an activity to the list of the watch for snow shoveling. It can be done and has worked. However, I have got it started and several times now it has stopped on its own. I got done and went to to stop tracking and then save the activity but it had already stopped. I don't know what would cause this. It is winter and cold and I have on a coat with a layer under it. But I don't see how a coat or sleeve could press on the start/stop button.

Sometimes I pause a bit as I'm shoveling and am not moving or active for a little while.

It is also kind of hard to get around on the screen and press buttons while also trying to hold the coat sleeve up so you can get at this stuff.

I'm pretty happy with the watch, except this is an a strenuous activity worth tracking and keeping track of separately  from just general background activity. Today I only logged 2 minutes of htis activity which took considerably longer than that. i think this was probably when I went to stop it and it was already stopped I wound up starting it again.

I know today I started the tracking while sitting in my car and was preoccupied for a few minutes after I first started it and this time, unlike normally I actually got the GPS signal before I cot started. I have gone for walks and just started before GPS was ready and it apparently worked just fine as there was a report and a map of where I went. Maybe I might have missed a few steps.

  • 0 23 days ago

    Is touch off during activity if you have it under your coat? 

    Also it is possible to hit the stop button with wrist bent (well I can ) and with a thick coat cuff might do that also.

    get a chest strap and wear the watch over your coat sleeve, I do that for my winter running. then you can at least see the watch

  • 0 22 days ago in reply to S.M.R.

    Thanks. I checked and touch was set to on. I turned it off for that activity and will try that and see what happens. I'll look into the chest strap as well. With the watch over the coat though it won't pick up things like heart rate. It will sense steps and distance moved. But there isn't all that much moving around place to place.  Seems like heart rate would be used by the watch to adjust for intensity level and calories burned, etc. Wet snow is pretty heavy.

    That sort of leads into another question about adding activities using with the connect app and/or dashboard. I started wriing it, but realized I realized the instructions I was trying to follow were for the app rather than the dashboard.  I think maybe I can figure this out on my own or at least redo it after trying with the app and doing it as a separate post.

    New to this and there are lots of details and settings. It takes some time to learn them and have them sink in.

  • 0 21 days ago in reply to 9945457
    9945457 said:
    With the watch over the coat though it won't pick up things like heart rate.

    Yes, thats why the HRM chest strap is great for winter. I use mine for every activity apart from just a gentle walk , whatever the climate , as its far more accurate than the OHR especially for intervals etc. Of course I come from teh time alos before OHR on the devices where we a HRM strap was the only way.

    9945457 said:
    That sort of leads into another question about adding activities using with the connect app and/or dashboard

    You mean adding an activity manually in connect? I dont think that will impact all the othere metrics correctly AFAIK.

    Yes there are many nuances one finds over tine. Good luck!

  • 0 20 days ago in reply to S.M.R.

    OK, I understand now. That requires either preparing in advance or going back inside & removing several layers if clothes as well. A behavioral change on my end.