Forerunner 245 Series - Recent Threads

no training status

7055982 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:38:17 GMT

I have a forerunner 245. I've had and loved this watch for 7 years. My training status now says 'no status'. I am on a recovery training period so lower than usual mileage, however this past 7 days i have still been for 4 outdoor runs all at least 25 minutes. I have also done an hours outdoor bike riding.

Any ideas how this can be fixed?

PacePro doesn’t understand unequal loops

Aviatrix — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:00:13 GMT

The course I want to race has two loops of the park, the first following a slightly longer route. If I create a course from a run over the correctly followed route, and turn it into a PacePro run, it will tell me during the first loop that I am off course, somehow believing that I should be already on the second loop. Is there a known workaround?

I hope they made the Garmin Connect PacePro badge in order to elicit feedback on the feature. It needs work. Other issues are:

- elevation-based splits are not triggered by the same changes in grade that make sense to runners (noted by another user in a thread that was locked before anyone replied)

- when pacepro reaches some undocumented and insufficient limit on the number of splits, it silently fails to save any changes.

- reversing a course and reversing it back sometimes changes its length

Sone days I miss my old Forerunner that was a giant red box with all kinds of charging problems, but fricking immortal, and the virtual partner feature was perfect.

M'a montre se déconnecte de mon téléphone xaomi redmi A 5

9166187 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:41:24 GMT

Régulièrement, m'a montré se déconnecte du téléphone et je dois remettre un nouveau code de connexion. Comment régler ce problème ?

Strange battery issue

flocsy🤠 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:20:57 GMT

I have a fr245 for 5 years and bought a 2nd hand music for my son half a year ago. Both worked without any issue until 2 weeks ago, and we charge them about every 5 days.

My son's fr245m however started to loose battery very fast in the past 2 weeks. It sometimes doesn't even hold a full day. Yesterday afternoon we left home with 97% and today at noon it already turned itself off and we didn't do any activities.

I was trying to think what could've changed in the past 2 weeks. No new all installed, no new firmware. No change in usage, except one thing: he's been to the pool for the first time since he got the (2nd hand) watch. So I am thinking, that maybe the water somehow causes this? It luckily doesn't show any fogging so I don't think that's the issue, but also can't point at anything else.

Ah, and because it looses battery so fast now it reached 0 a few times in the past 2 weeks, so it even "self" restarted.

I tried to compare the 2 watches to see if there's any sign that the 2nd hand watch maybe had it's battery replaced, but I can't be sure. There's no definite sign, but there is some more "ware" than on the watch I own for 5 years. It could be that it was opened and not sealed perfectly.

Is there anything I can do to improve the battery life? I mean I expect it to degrade (I even took it into consideration when I bought 2nd hand) but I'd think it's a slow linear process and not jumping from 5 days to 1/2 day in a week.

My Garmin 245m is telling me 50hr recovery time??!! whaa??!! FR 245m Recovery Post Exercise Data Stored Location?

oldnevada — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:25:15 GMT

Can I find that data stored on my connect.Garmin or on my HRM?

Maybe it's sitting in front of my nose, but this is the first time I want to check what my Garmin is telling me my "Recovery" time should be. I had two consecutive day/runs, Day 3 thought just do a light cycle.

Thanks group.

Gary.

Assunto

2633909 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:06:07 GMT

Quero liberar

Non responsive

8052579 — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:31:26 GMT

My watch suddenly has gone blank, after displaying horizontal lines on the screen. I did the soft reset and now nothing displays on the screen. Need help

my forerunner 245 timer doesn’t work, and goes to 0 no matter what time I set for it.

7077083 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:50:18 GMT

I have already reset the device, this doesn’t work.

open water swim

7532670 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:49:53 GMT

I would like to measure distance on open water swim but the 245 does not have an open water swim widget. I have tried to use the walk feature while swimming and it does track my water route but the distance and speed seem way off. It seems weird that the Garmin connect IQ store has a professional open water swim app which can be downloaded for a fee. This should be included with the Garmin watch. I am a long time Garmin costumer with my second Garmin watch over 15 years, a Garmin Edge and four Garmin Inreaches. You would think Garmin could do a better job supporting their users.

How can I personalize my heart rate zones using my 245 Forerunner music?

Jannie49 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 09:09:02 GMT

I would like to be able to set a min HR and Max HR on my 245 Forerunner music. So that I can run within this band for long distance running. I used to be able to do this on my Polar watch, which I enjoyed. It beeped when I dropped below my set min HR and beeped when I went above my set max HR?

display issue

WDM2662 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 21:02:56 GMT

Unit has thick black stripes. I thought there was an exchange program for display issue. Any input is appreciated.

Forever 245 / edge 540 conflicts

1669853 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:16:34 GMT

both my devices are listed as primary which is giving some really confused performance data. How do I fix this? My forerunner should be primary as I do more activities with this device and only record bike rides now and then on the Edge.

Forerunner 245 music disconnects

lenjg — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:21:34 GMT

My Forerunner 245 music disconnects a couple of times per week. Is this a known issue? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

PacePro and custom distance

4113483 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:12:24 GMT

When creating a pacepro strategy for a custom distance in Garmin Connect, the app returns to the select a distance screen and doesn't let me go any further.

Has anyone else experienced this issue, my wife is also having the same problem.

Using a predefined distance works okay.

Using the web allows me to create the custom strategy and sync with Connect, but I cant open it in Connect.

Has anyone experienced a GPS signal loss on their Garmin Forerunner 245? I can’t seem to get a signal anymore, even though all the other check marks seem to be fine. I tried resetting to factory settings, I tried the soaking method and nothing seems to be

6985312 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:04:33 GMT

Whenever I try to save location it says the GPS signal is stronger outside, away from trees and tall buildings. When I go outside, I get the same message.

GPS is set to GPS+GLONASS

In Settings/ System I see that the GPS version is 6.6 and the CPE is set to current.

Wifi 7 support?

TheTimidWildOne — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:21:28 GMT

I just upgraded my 10 year old wireless router to a current model and now my Forerunner 245 Music cannot connect/sync because the new router is Wifi 7 (802.11ax).

Even when configuring the router to use older protocols, the watch still won't connect.

I found some links which indicate that Garmin devices don't support Wifi 6 (802.11ac) or 7 and only can connect to more legacy wireless standards.

Are there any plans for devices to support newer wifi standards? Now I have to sync my watch through my phone instead of wifi, but the whole reason I chose the Forerunner 245 Music was so I didn't have to pair to my phone.

treadmill = no training status

1022512 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 14:29:54 GMT

I've read that it takes two outdoor runs or bike rides to maintain training status. Great, except the outdoor temperature is single digits with lots of snow and ice.

Forced to run on treadmill, but it doesn't count. Seems wrong since it is still tracking heart rate and distance.

Tips or ideas?

Forerunner 245 Music: BT Cutting Out During Activity

5875162 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:48:21 GMT

It appears my problem is not a new one...

My music from Spotify plays well normally on my Forerunner 245 Music thru headphones (JBL Go Air Sport+), but starts glitching/cutting out when I try to use GPS to track an activity. I've tried pausing/playing, using different headphones/speakers, forgetting/re-pairing headphones, system update, and a full reset of the watch. At this point, there's no way I'm paying over $100 for a refurbished one just to have the same issue.

The music capability is the main reason why I wanted a Music model... what's the point if it doesn't work while you're running?!

10k six week running program

4658641 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 11:52:12 GMT

I am moolking for a six week program to improve my 10k time

Why does my Forerunner 235 not show my route map anymore.

willowyman — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:28:39 GMT

Why does my Forerunner 235 not show my route map anymore.

Forerunner 245 M does support skipping last recovery of interval session.

Maurice — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 07:41:26 GMT

I have a strange issues with my FR245M.

A couple of weeks ago I notices the possibility to skip the last recovery phase of the last fast session.
I only saw this on the webversion of connect, not in the app and also nothing special on my watch.

During my training it worked as expected. Last fast session followed by the cooldown.

Two days ago I made a new workout on my phone and while synchronizing it with my watch I got a notification that my phone doesn't support this function.
(And the check box has also disappeared from the webversion of Connect.)

And indeed, during my training it went from fast session to recovery and then cooldown.

What is going on?

Unreasonably large jump in VO2max

toddsdn — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 14:45:31 GMT

I recently used my FR245 over three nights to get my resting heart rate while sleeping and it is 50 bpm. However, I have always used my "awake" resting heart rate of 75 bpm to calculate my heart rate zones using %reserve. So I changed that to 60bpm (sort of splitting the difference between 50 and 75). Then, on my most recent 5K run, using my older FR630, my VO2max jumped up from 43.56 to 45.49 - that's about 2 full points!

The run was definitely my hardest effort of the year and PB for the year. I am kind of an aerobic base junky. Also, it was about 15 F cooler than my previous runs. Figure hard effort and much cooler weather would give me a little vo2max boost, but not 2 points.

So question is what made such a huge VO2max jump?

Different watch? The 45.49 was from the FR630 which I rarely use anymore.

Hardest run of the year? My typical 5K's are about 10:45 pace but this last one I pushed to 9:20.

Much cooler weather? Recent runs have been in 70's and 80's, this last one was in upper 50's.

Different resting heart rate used for zone calculations? Went from 75 to 60 for resting heart rate to calculate zones base on HRR.

A combination of some or all of the above?

I have been running since 2017 and have never seen a VO2max jump even close to 2 points.

el idioma de las indicaciones es en inglés

2118956 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:28:49 GMT

Tengo un forerunner 245 y tengo activadas indicaciones de ritmo y zona cardiaca cada 2 minutos. Aunque esl reloj está configurado en español, desde hace un tiempo, las indicaciones que me da son en inglés. ¿como puedo ponerlas en español?.

Décharge rapide de la batterie

1659812 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 10:33:01 GMT

Bonjour,

depuis 15 jours, brutalement, l'autotomie de la batterie de ma forerunner 245 est tombée à 3 heures sans gps. La montre a eu 2 ans en juillet 2025. Est-ce de l'obsolescence programmée, une mise à jour qui a mal tournée,...?

Après des échanges avec le SAV, Garmin considère qu"elle est foutue en me disant que c'est un problème du soft et pas de la batterie. Le soft, c'est eux, non?? Comme ils comprennent ma déception et ma colère, Garmin me propose, dans sa grande générosité, une Forerunner 265 à 337 €. J'ai payé la mienne 165 € il y a 2 ans !!!!!!!! Elle me convenait très bien jusqu'à sa panne.

C'est honteux de voir ce qu'est devenu la fiabilité de Garmin et le peu d’intérêt que porte garmin à ses clients. C'était ma deuxième Garmin et ce sera la dernière. Je vais me charger d'une publicité adaptée à leur comportement.

Je vais me tourner vers une marque moins cher me proposant des caractéristiques plus complète. Le SAV et la fiabilité ne sera pas pire que Garmin de toute façon.

Cordialement,

Un client dégouté et en colère

Custom workout transfer?

Lynn — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 23:30:44 GMT

I have a FR245. For a week or so, I have had a problem transfering custom workouts to my watch.

- At some point in the last week, the custom workouts were appearing only under one "running" activity (for example, they appear under workouts for a regular run activity, but would not appear under the "treadmill running" activity).

- Now, tonight, I am not able to transfer any custom workout to my watch.

This problem occurred a few years ago but had been resolved; it now appears to have returned.

Am I the only one experiencing this problem? It makes my watch essentially unusable...