Forerunner 255 Music - Intermittent Earphones Connection

This is interesting, thanks for sharing. I would hardly call airpods budget so you would think the quality of the components would be adequate spec. I went for a run at lunch and even though I rebooted the watch and checked charge was good on devices I still experienced some stutter albeit not as bad as the last runs episode.

The garmin site states that wireless earphones should work as I was probing for any mention of certain conditions, manufacture or chipset as I have noticed on other threads where people are feeding back. I will test the wife's airpods just to include another make and model to the mix as getting to the bottom of it would be nice.

I’ve since bought a rather expensive pair of earphones using one of the newer chip sets. I turned off connectivity between iPhone and watch and turned off WiFi on the watch. The stuttering is still there. In all honesty I wish I hadn’t bought the music version and I’m contemplating a ‘vest’ so that I can take my phone with me. Garmin, you need a stronger chip sending out a better signal. 

interesting, so my issue hasn't been a stutter, more of a cackle/static that stops when I hit pause then unpause the pods. The time inbetween the static has gotten shorter which I am attributing to sweat? I've found I don't have the issue when I'm just walking and listening to music, off either my phone or the watch, but am experiencing the cackle from both when running. Admittedly yesterday the cackling started fairly early in the race, I think too early to attribute it to sweat, so it's possible it may have been due to all the foliage since I was in a park for the first half of the race, but the second part was on a very wide boulevard with (unfortunately) very little cover... so at this point who knows what's going on.

So we need more feedback debunking the chipset theory. I dont fancy buying *another* set of buds just to find out its not the earphones.

OK I have an update after a couple of weeks testing. If I turn off my watch roughly 30mins before the run and basically power cycle I never had any issues with the earphones.

I've been putting this of in order to be sure, but the problem is worse than ever now. The playback stops and I have to reconnect my earbuds in order to get some seconds more playback, before playback stops and I have to reconnect again. Today I couldn't even get playback going inside my own walls, both with and without wifi on. Using spotify btw. Could be update to 19.18, but I don't think so, I don't know really.