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Open Water double distance

jbraarup
over 1 year ago

When I use my FR955 for Open water swims the GPS track looks fine but the distance is doubled. I could understand that it could struggle with keeping a GPS signal, but as this is not the case I cannot understand how the watch can be so much off. It sucks big time as it screws up all the swim related metrics. What do I need to change in the settings to avoid this? 

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Hi,

    I have the same issue on FR955, on both versions 15.19 and 16.17.

    When activity is exported into Google Maps or Google Earth distance is different from Garmin, about 40% shorter.

    Looks like the bug is not in GPS or GPS recording but in UI distance calculation.

    , can you please look at the issue.

    Thank you.

    P.S: Interesting issue raises, if training affect and other metrics are calculated based on distance, it is a whole another issue.

     

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Leon

    Thank you for taking part in the Forum thread. In order to further assist, we'd like to gather more information: 

    • Do we have permission to email you?
    • Do we have permission to view you Connect account?
    • What country do you live in?
  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Inder

    Hello.

    Yes, yes, Israel.

    Please be aware I had manually fixed the distance. The rest of the data is intact.

    Thank you.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Leon

    Although the requested permission to access account is not directed towards me you are more than welcome to email me, access my Connect account and I live in Germany for the record.

    As with Leon I also manually changed the distance. 

    The issue is quite annoying as it also means that the energy consumption is way off as the swim speed is super fast

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Inder
    Hello,

    I think I had found a remedy. It worked with 100% accuracy today - Garmin distance was perfectly matched with Google Maps.

    Here is what I did:

    1. Disabled auto lap and lap button. Inside open water settings menu, there is "Laps". I turned off everything.

    2. Waited for GPS lock, before starting the activity.

    There is a semicircle on the top of the screen when entering into activity, it is white and red at the begging, I had waited for it to become green.

     I'm happy now.

    Good weekend for everyone.