Audio alerts in earbuds function only when playing music: bug or by design?

"[email protected]") or is this by design (in this case I will write to "Garmin.ideas")?

I don't have an answer for you, but are those legit e-mail addresses, or just tongue in cheek?

1- "[email protected]" is correct and can send mail only user that have the beta firmware installed in their watch

2- for the second, the correct name is https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/ and everyone can send suggestions. I don't know if Garmin then reads them

Thank you .. much appreciated.

Today 18 october I did another run and this time I couldn't replicate the issue. I was listening to music and I could hear the "audio prompts" every minute. Then I pressed the pause button and the music stopped, but I continued to have audio alerts.

I don't know what caused the problem the other day, it's possible that it's not a problem of the watch but a problem of the earbuds Jaybird Vista.

What seems to happen to me, with Trekz Air headphones, is that if I stop the music then the BT connection seems to timeout and even if I restart music I hear nothing until I turn off the headphones and on again and force the watch to reconnect. Never have this issue with my Android phone playing and pausing to the same headset.

Today another run and I had the same issue again. I was running with only one earbud, the right. If I recall correctly, I always have this problem when I run with only one earbud. When I run with both earbuds, I can hear audio prompts also after pausing the music. In theory the earbuds Jaybird Vista should work correctly even if I wear only one earbud.

I did some test and this is what I discovered with the headphones Jbird Vista.

If I have both earbuds on, I first connect the headphones to the watch beginning to play the music. If I pause the music, and I start a running activity, I always hear audio alerts even if the music is paused.

If I have only one earbud, usually as soon as I pause the music, the audio alerts stop with the music. If I want to run only with one earbud and I don't want to listen to music but I want to listen to audio alerts, a solution, not very elegant indeed, is this:

1- wear both the earbud

2- connect the headphones to the watch beginning to play the music

3- pause the music

4- the audio alerts remain in both earbuds. Now if I shut down only one earbud,  I can listen to the audio alerts with the other earbud even if the music was stopped.

I tried multiple time and this seems to function always and in a consistent way.

Firmware beta 3.15 and headphones Jbird Vista updated with the latest firmware as 2 November 2019.

pgalbavy said:

is that if I stop the music then the BT connection seems to timeout and even if I restart music I hear nothing until I turn off the headphones and on again and force the watch to reconnect

This happen with the Jaybird Vista also but only rarely  and not in a consistent way.