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Abnormal Heart Rate Issues.

bdub25
over 4 years ago

So last night around 3:30 am EST time, my wife was feeding our new born and then my watch alarm starts sounding, my wife is like "what is that?". I looked at my watch and it said my heart rate was 129... this caused panic and I immediately grabbed my iPhone and opened the stopwatch and time my heart rate.. I counted 12 beat for 15 seconds so this means my pulse was actually 48 beats, but the watch still showed 129 and was going up. Now I'm really starting to panic and I counted my pulse over and over ( about 4 times ) and each time I consistently got around 46-48 beats a minute except for once I got 69 because of me starting to panic. When I woke up this morning, my resting heart rate was normal 42. I also have notice that the watch has been giving me credit for activities when I'm not really active at the time. I didn't have either one of these issues a couple firmwares ago.    

Does anyone else find that Garmin's abnormal heart rate notification worthless? I've really been trying to be satisfied with the 945, but it seems like with every update they fix one thing and break 9 others. 

Does anyone here use Polar? I was thinking of getting rid of the 945 and getting the Grid X.    

Thanks for any feedback. 

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago

    I went for hiking today. when I was climbing a slope and my heart was beating hard, but my 945 showed only 100 bpm. It suddenly dropped from 156 to 100 and stayed there. This was ridiculous. I need to monitor my heart beat during hiking and setup a high alert due to heart disease. After this issue, I decide to use my original 935 and no more 945 until all bugs are fixed.

    Final word to Garmin, we are users and customers but not field tester or debugger!! If you don't hear our voices, that is fine and we can quit.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Recently, I also created a topic with a similar question. The optical sensor data in the latest update (4.40) sucks. It’s sad that this update It’s sad that this update came out more than 3 months ago! Hey, Garmin, are you all right? 

    Previously, I was also a Polar user and everything suited me, but I decided to try Garmin and my headache started ... 3 replacements under the F5 guarantee due to marriage, a disgusting battery on the F5 +, Now there are eternal problems with firmware on 945 (one will fix the other to break). Also in the near future decided to return to Polar. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Same for me. several times but also before update. Therefore i prefer wearing the Hf belt.

    pulse Hart rate sucks.

    By the way i have interest in you 945 if you sell it. my collegue wants a 945 as well ;-)

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    It's been *really* bad since the last update.  I was sitting at my computer not moving a muscle, and the alarm went off.  Heart rate:  176!!  I took off the watch, put it in the penalty box, put it back on, and after "Measuring..."    it gave me 55.  L O L.  Thinking there's a reason Garmin is taking so long with any further software updates.  Did the entire software team quit during the pandemic and leave our watches in the lurch? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I had exactly the same a few times. Checked my HR too, and it was far below 60...

    You're rigt, it's a unreliable feature that scares the hell out of you. 

    Shame on you Garmin :-(

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I took another hiking today and same route. same thing happened and HR suddenly dropped from 150 to 100 and kept at 100 even my heart beating hard.

    What should I do now? Trash this fxxxxxx watch!!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    The abnormal heartrate notification from Garmin is not even worthless, it can be actually misleading and dangerous.

    Especially as it is utterly silly when you are sleeping and having a vivid dream or nightmare, it is absolutely normal that your heart rate will be high during that dream. And Garmin's alarm will go off, which happend a few times now for me. Checking the heart rate graph in the app showed that there was absolutely no reason for concern, it simply was a dream.

    This feature is totally useless and might concern you for no reasons, especially it can disturb your sleep and in case you have someone else in bed their's too.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Funny story, I have my watch sitting on the table and I forgot to turn it off, and this morning it alerted saying heart rate is abnormal... looked at the graph it was 169... I didn't know air had a heart rate. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to bdub25

    Did something hit the table by chance?  I tend to have nervous leg when I'm sitting still thinking, and that's typically when i'll hit the "abnormal heart rate" bug. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to rtperna

    nope it was sitting in a room with no one in it.