Forerunner 955 Solar - Cross Country Skiing pauses immediately after starting (version 18.22)

Maybe the option Auto pause was added to the activity Settings, with default set to "When stopped". Can you check? Then, it pauses when you are not moving (which you don't, as you seem setting at your computer).

Auto Pause is set to off in both Classic and Skate Skiing activity types. I tried at this a ski trail this afternoon and the same thing happened. I even restarted the watch on the trail and no dice. 

OK, then this might be a bug. I have still 17.26 and there is no Auto pause setting for these activities at all, so Garmin might implemented it wrong. Which is sad.

Thank you. Do you know of any way to roll back the software version?

Obviously not possible for 955, unfortunatelly.

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-955-series/f/community-discussion/361434/returning-the-firmware-to-the-latest-official-release

Yes, broken for me too, had to disable the auto pause for XC skiing at the start of winter. Haven't tried it after that. 

The Skate Activity is working as expected/before without any issues since yesterday morning. 

The Classic Activity has the issue. I found another interesting bit: If I start the Classic Skiing Activity before the watch acquires GPS signal, the clock/activity keeps ticking. The activity goes into pause shortly (within 1-2 seconds) after the GPS signal has been acquired.

Hopefully Garmin folks release a fix soon.

I have 18.22, on freestyle skiing the autopause works correctly, but I switched from beta 18.21 where it was already working.
Try autopause on/off a few times, reset the watch, switch the watch to a different regional language and then back to your own. Reset light apply, hold down the Light button until the screen goes off.

This was very helpful, Igor.

I turned the Auto Pause on and off for the Classic Skiing activity, and no luck. So, I set the Auto Pause to off.

Then, I switched the language to Spanish, restarted the watch, and voila, Classic Skiing no longer automatically/erroneously pauses upon starting and acquiring the GPS signal!

So, I switched the language back to English and the solution stuck.

I don't know how you figured it out but THANK YOU SO MUCH!!

I'm very glad it helped.
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