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Open water mode PLEASE

9572976 over 5 years ago

Please, add the Open Water sport... is necessary for this model. Thank you!

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lucab over 5 years ago +1

This request have been done multiple times here. Adding OWS on the 245 it would be phenomenal, but it seems like Garmin considers this activity an exclusive feature for premium watches, with the only exception…
Anderson_Soares_Silveira over 5 years ago +1

Seria excelente

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0 lucab over 5 years ago

This request have been done multiple times here. Adding OWS on the 245 it would be phenomenal, but it seems like Garmin considers this activity an exclusive feature for premium watches, with the only exception for the Instinct model. It’s weird though...

0 4296316 over 5 years ago

that's why i bought garmin swim 2

0 Salty over 5 years ago

If this was a tri watch I’d agree. But I don’t think it’s an essential.

0 Anderson_Soares_Silveira over 5 years ago

Seria excelente

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I've installed Swim sports+ v1.12.1 from the store. Free demo are 7 or 14 days or you can pay 2,45$ for a 1year licence. I've tested it with my Forerunner 245, and I didn't get calories, o r heart rate measures, and distances (and obviously visual waypoints in the graph) were not acurate due to each time it goes underwater it loses signal... As I have read, watches with better OPEN WATER options, correct this through algorithm that should take more parameters in consideration, so maybe this could be better... Anyway, I correct distance with maps after analyze it... But it could be better... You can check it in my example below... Obviously I did not make such kind of jumps... :-( Here you can see even jumps into jetty stones, where obviously I did not were swimming.