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Wrong course loaded into watch

PatrickHC
over 4 years ago

With firmware 5.20 and 5.30 of Forerunner 245 music, I have had issues recently with courses. I have successfully used courses and navigation in the past many times.

Recently, maybe starting with firmware 5.20 or Connect app update (unclear), when I was loading a new course into my watch, a different course was in fact displayed and tracked! I've had the issue twice, with different courses.

It seems to be worse for courses with long-ish names "Lange Geer 32 k" vs "Lange Geer 32 k big loop".

To get rid of the issue I deleted all the loaded courses, and then uploaded only the one course, and the issue was reproduced. 

This is quite clearly a bug with a minimal working example. Please fix!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    bloody hell!!...i knew it wasnt me..i uploaded a course a few weeks ago, didnt really pay much attention and on the run i noticed it wasnt tracking me and not giving me directions...when i finally stopped (was a 20 Miler) i noticed the run it was following was from the week before! i always delete courses from watch when done and when i opened garmin connect it was still on the page showing me the map of the run i wanted uploading!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    There is a name letter limit.  I don't recall exactly the number, but I'm sure you can search the forum to find the info.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I have the same issue since firmware 5.20/5.30

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I'm reaching out to everyone who has commented on this individually; anyone else experiencing this, @me and I'll reach out to you as well to gather information. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I think i've had that as well on 5.0 FW, I edited existing track and pushed it to the device (previous version was deleted from the watch) only to end up with an unedited track version...

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I also experience this issue. When I edit a track, the old unedited version gets uploaded instead using Garmin Express (7.1.4.0). Deleting the course from the 245M (v5.50) before upload does not help. Restarting the 245M does not help.

    What works is creating a duplicate of that course on Garmin Connect, and then uploading that course to the 245M. Could the bug be on Garmin Connect sending the wrong course to the 245M?