Pool Swim - Randomly does not record distance

Hi,

How do I log a support ticket with Garmin? I am based in the UAE but bought my Forerunner 945 LTE through Amazon US since the LTE watch is not available here, so I cannot get local support.

My watch is randomly deciding not to record distance on the Pool Swims. Then I have to restart the watch, after which it will usually record distance when I start a new session. A few times I've had to restart the watch twice before it would record distance. This is really irritating because it happens randomly, so sometimes I'm already 200m or 300m into my warmup before I realize the watch is not recording distance.

I'm aware of kicking hard off the walls, I don't have an issue with this because when it is recording distance, my laps are always accurate.

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Salvilla over 2 years ago +1

If it is a known problem. I opened a post here myself.

Reading the changelog of the latest version, it seems that they have NOT corrected it... it makes me want to go to Wahoo or Coros... because it's…

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0 drhodes2 10 months ago in reply to FransRotterdam

Happened to me today, so very frustrating!!! I didn’t figure it out until I was don’t swimming a long hard workout, because I always trust the watch is working as it should

0 nord0296 10 months ago in reply to drhodes2

Strange and frustrating indeed.

This thread has been inactive for around 2 years and I personally have not seen it in likely even a bit longer than that. Any chance you have some really old firmware? It's probably worth reaching out to Garmin Support to investigate.

0 7291529 6 months ago in reply to nord0296

Happened to me this week. I have FR955 on that current firmware. Halfway through my swim, the distance would always be zero. Stopped the activity and started a new one but still didn't work. Logged the rest as drills.