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FR955 (FW 15.19) Auto Pause works poorly

I enabled Auto Pause by selecting When Stopped. But it works poorly - activity (Walk) may be resumed/paused several times even if I am standing still.

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7419217 over 1 year ago +2

"That's the way GPS works" it's not something you can accept. GPS it's a sensor, it's streaming raw informations, software is needed to translate this informations in something useful.…
jambongris over 1 year ago +1

I stopped using auto pause for runs when I realized that it already breaks the activity into run/walk/idle in Connect and it shows you elapsed pace and moving pace.
Aslam over 1 year ago in reply to Sergey_Kessel +1

Or they could fix it, where stopped means when stopped.

Using your logic, we would have had no improvements to both GPS and wrist based HR tracking, since it's imprecise technology.

In 2023, with things…

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0 Sergey_Kessel over 1 year ago in reply to Aslam

Bug is a bug.

Limit on technology is a different thing.

Reading your words it looks you consider software to be a magic. It is not. There s huge work behind and there's limitations and there's a trade off between different things that not everyone is going to accept.

And yep, wrist based HR is total crap for me, totally unusable. I cannot trust it. There might be some progress, but for me it looks more like marketing gimmick. That's another example of limitations by the way, for some people it works fine (either they don't care or they have different body parameters - I don't know)

0 Sergey_Kessel over 1 year ago in reply to Aslam

Have you considered that "how good they are on tracks" maybe just the trade off for not being able to get a stop? Hardware (GPS chip) if rumoured to be the same, so it looks they round things more in some way?

0 Aslam over 1 year ago in reply to Sergey_Kessel

Why are you getting so riled up about other people posting bugs in a support forum? We are not asking you to fix it.

These bug reports are directed at Garmin moderators who will hopefully forward it to the software engineers, who will know how to fix it, instead of being like oh software is limited/not magic.