distance anomaly

6520522 23 days ago

I use forerunner 255, past two months, its showing distance wrongly, which affects my walking pace. what is the use of getting such a watch with a premium. have raised the issue with garmin support but of no use. Tried all suggestions, nothing working. Garmin has let me down.

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2648128 21 days ago +1

Have you obviously checked in the system settings that the "data recording" option is set to "every second" instead of smart?

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0 S.M.R. 23 days ago

Is this in an activity with GPS activated?

0 9820003 22 days ago

but literally thousands of people do ise gps on fr255 with no issues. so either you have some gps settings wrong (long press while tracking walking and scroll to gps section) or your watch is faulty, can't be much more than that

0 6520522 22 days ago in reply to S.M.R.

Yes of course, GPS gets activated after 1 minute still there is difference in comparison with Strava

0 unimatrixzero 22 days ago in reply to 9820003

FullAck!
But it's easier to blame someone else than to confess, or better to think about that I made a mistake using the tool

0 Leszek C 21 days ago

I’m experiencing the same issue with the FR255, and I’ve read about similar problems from users of other models. Since a certain firmware version (though I can’t recall which one), setting it to "only GPS" causes significant inaccuracies in distance tracking. For example, a 25 km hike can be recorded as 35 km, which is an absurdly large difference. This issue didn’t exist in earlier firmware versions.

Only when I switch the GPS setting to “All + Multiband” does it provide accurate results, but this drains the battery significantly. It’s suitable for a few hours of running but not for a full day or two of hiking. This bug emerged during firmware development, and Garmin seems does'nt want to recall to previous version of this.

0 2648128 21 days ago

Have you obviously checked in the system settings that the "data recording" option is set to "every second" instead of smart?