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Garmin 945 and GPS Fix

As we see, the Sony chip is not the fastest. Please tell us how long are you waiting for the fix. Minimum maximum average time would be nice and location. If you finde a fix for the problem (settings or so) please let us know. Would be great if Garmin fixes this ridiculously problem. At the end we payed for a premium device and received a not well working pice of hard/software.

So I'm living in Vienna Austria and the minimum time is 2 minutes maximum was18 minutes average at the moment is 5 minutes. Accuracy is most of the time OK. 

  • It takes about 2 min in Łódź, Poland. About 2-3 months ago I would get a fix in about 40 seconds. Deleting the CPE file or syncing right before starting an activity didn't help. It's the same for GPS and GPS + Glonass.

  • Can get GPS lock indoors after 30s-60sec and outdoors maybe 5-15sec in north central united states (20 miles from major city)

  • For me in UK with 945 either GLONASS/GALLEIO it's fast around 5 seconds and under 30 indoors. In South of Spain it took longer but under 2 minutes, I was living near the coast and there were lots of high rise apartments around me (the GPS tracks and instant pace sucked there). Holland is pretty fast and so is South Africa. Whenever I travel to a new place even if I have been there before it takes a while a couple minutes to find a GPS but each day it locks on faster. I'm done with the 945, want a 935 again. The only thing that matter is GPS and heart rate.

    I did test against the FR10 at the same time and both watches reported the same distance and overall pace but as I am wearing the 945 the instant pace bounces up and down whilst the FR10 locks on solid. I can do 1K intervals and lock on pace the whole reps with the FR10 but with 945 it messes my head up as it bounces up and down. I think it's okay if you train with lap pace. I like to aim for a pace and keep it the whole rep.

  • Its crazy, pace bounces are realy a problem, learned not to watch actual pace, i more look at total pace (not a solution for all circumstances). In Austria its realy bad, today it taks 9 minutes for a fix.... I saw that, if you do a time sync (takes 30 to 40 seconds) before starting the fix is done in less then 5 seconds. This tells me, that there is something wrong with the way gps is starte in normal training mode. I'm disappointed about garmin. Hope that they fix it, i will send them a mail about what I found out, let's see what they say......

  • Central London, 5-10 seconds

  • Cant understand why it takes so long in Vienne to get the gps fix, except you sync time before start. Is it a setting or a bug?

  • I made your same report to Garmin Italy, answer: Buy RDP, which I already have by the way and Garmin itself says it does not calculate the instant pace, time wasted! I bought a foot pod and solved it, it is impossible with satellites at 20,000 meters to have an accurate data at 10/15 km / h

  • What is rdp? 

    Can't be the solution to buy more stuff, not if you bought a device for the money they ask for the 945, it should be able to do it by itself. Definatly don't want to buy foodpod, they can send me one for free.....

  • Running Dynamic Pod, with sensors on the wrist even if you spend 1000 euros you will never have accurate data, it is not a question of Garmin, look at the professional athletes how many sensors they have on while they train on the treadmill, I use heart rate monitor on the arm OH1, RDP and foot pod, everything is perfect even comparing the various graphs, there is no other way, if instead you are not a maniac of numbers like me use only the clock.

    • I use heart belt (the tri version), I'm ok with not 100% I learned not to look at actual pace (because it is more than terrible sometimes it bounces  2 minutes, which is same niveau as china parts). But, at the end it is all about gps, how long the fix takes and how accurate it is. If gps is not stable you also have bouncing pace, its as simple as that. And here the 935 is much better than the 945. So in my eyes garmin did a real mistake in choosing the Sony chip (and I also think it is not better in batterydrain).