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Lap button triggering by itself

Former Member
Former Member over 6 years ago

All of a sudden in my last three runs, a lap has triggered without my touching the watch. On all these runs I was following a Gamrin Training plan scheduled workout. I would rather not disable the button as I like having the option of finishing cetain training sections earlier or later. At first I thought I must have hit it accidentally but yesterday my hands weren't anywhere near the watch and the issue happenned again

Has anyone else had this problem? any idea of what is happenning?

Thanks all

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    If you rule out accidental press, then the watch is defective and needs to be replaced. Contact Garmin support.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    It did also happen on my latest run. My cooldown was skipped without pressing the lap-button while following the Garmin standard trainingsession. To be sure i disabled the lap-button. But my quess is that's it's software related.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 6 years ago

    I have this happen very frequently. I think I have over 50% chance that at least one step in a workout will complete in under 1 second. I thought it was something wrong with the TrainAsOne app I installed on my watch but today it also did it for a workout I had generated within Garmin Connect.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    Had this happen a few times with garmin coach and ruins the workout. Maybe the watch is confused when your autolap is too close to your coach/training plans laps

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    This happened to me this morning, it was my first run after 2.90 firmware upgrade and first workout created on GarminConnect.

    I used to have 310XT on which even with autolap on when doing a workout the autolap is disabled (which is pretty much logical to me) since you have defined laps/steps within the workout.

    This is not a case on the FR245 (not sure if this is by design behavior), autolap is still on during a workout so after I figured that out I have disabled autolap during the workout and after few workout steps the watch acted as lap button was pressed and somehow ended running on the Recover step (Recover step was active on the watch when the Running step was supposed to be active). Also from the log I can see that there are two consecutive Recover steps/intervals...

    I don't know if it is issue only when you have autolap ON during a workout or it could happen even when autolap is OFF.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    I've seen weird laps triggering during workouts without any button presses.

    The first was with a workout I built on Garmin Connect where I finished a 10x(1' run, 1' recover) workout and a lap was triggered immediately when the cool down began. This shows as a 0:00 duration lap immediately after the last 1' recovery period.

    It happened again today while doing a workout with the 245M's built-in Interval function. With warmup/cooldown enabled, I programmed 5x (4' run, 90" recovery) and it did an auto lap immediately after the second last 90" recovery which resulted in the final 4' run interval being skipped.

    It seems to be somewhat random (second last repeat, at the start of cooldown) so I'm not really sure how to workaround this except to go back to my old reliable Forerunner 220 for workouts... Disappointed

    I've had the auto lap disabled both times this has happened and I've had the lap button enabled (although I don't use it during workouts). The next time I run a workout, I'll try disabling the lap button and maybe that will prevent the random lap triggers until Garmin can figure out this issue.

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    On this forum I found people complaining about the very same issue noticed even on the MARQTm Athlete... How can we file an issue/bug to Garmin or get there attention about this ?

  • 0 over 6 years ago in reply to gjoregj

    I emailed Garmin support - https://support.garmin.com/. I'd encourage everyone having the issue to do the same

  • 0 over 6 years ago

    Happened to me as well. Extremely annoying. I have emailed Garmin Support.