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HRV has been poor since the update to 20.18

JPM
4 months ago

Hello,

Since updating to the new version 19.18, my HRV has dropped drastically in one fell swoop.

I can't really explain this physically.

Even resting for several days doesn't change anything nor a restart.

Is there a known bug here?

Greetings 

Pascal

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  • 0 4 months ago

    Perhaps you are ill.  Have you done a Covid test?

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to PubBike

    Nope, that was what i meant with " i cant explain this physically"

    No illnes at all

  • 0 4 months ago

    Well, my HRV has been going up the last two weeks - which is explainable to me, as I was on vacation and hiking but nothing else (=low load) and sleeping long and good.

    So personally I cannot confirm, it might be a bug, at least not on my FR955 with FW 19.18

    Are you sure it started right away after installing the new firmware? You installed it after the 5th of June, then?
    Did you reboot the watch or even made a "soft reset" (=hold upper left "light" button for around 15 sec until the watch shuts down, wait a little, start it again - this is supposed to also clear caches and stuff...)?

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to Grumpy from dawn till dusk

    Of course, I have restarted the watch....also several times because of the HR problems Wink.

    I'm 95% sure that the problems started with the update

  • 0 4 months ago

    I agree that something is not right with the recent updates. In fact going all the way back to an update in March ( which I think included the new "nap" function) apparently I no long sleep in the REM stage. Same with HRV numbers, they do not represent my actual feeling of recovery and wellness. Personally, I just hide everything that uses sleep and HRV and just use the watch for tracking my runs. Doing this has actually decreased my the stress I "feel"  Joy. I just use the Morpheus App and a Scosche rhythm 24 arm strap to track my recovery every morning now, way more accurate! Pretty disappointing that I have to resort to multiple devices considering how much we pay for these watches.    

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to pitbull97685

    That's exactly it, I also think that it doesn't reflect my body feeling.

    I had a brief upswing last week, but now it's gone down again.

     A few months ago I told everyone that the Garmin data always made sense to me. But for some time now the data has been incomprehensible to me

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to JPM

    I think the optical HRM is garbage and Garmin keeps trying to adjust the algorithm to compensate for the inaccuracy. The sad thing is you can buy a far more accurate HRM for much cheaper. I have own many Garmin watches, but, prior to the FR 955, I tended to stay with the cheaper models (e.g. FR 235). Personally, I will not buy a higher end Garmin product again.  

  • 0 4 months ago

    I've been following the Daily Suggested Workouts for a while now.  Since I started doing that two things have happened: My training status has moved to "Productive" and has stayed that way, and also my daily HRV has completely stabilised in the middle of the range, increasing very slowly.  Also my overnight HRV averages do not swing so wildly as they did before when I was training more erratically.  This all makes sense to me and suggests at least in my case this part of the watch is working as expected.

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to PubBike

    I did that for a while, but I don't get enough rest and I injure myself too often. So now I train every two days at most and then I usually, but not always, stick to it

  • 0 3 months ago

    Now another nice example, my HRV has now remained relatively constant. 

    Now I've had a bad cold for 3 days with a fever of up to 40°C and the HRV remains where it is and I'm supposed to do Vo2Max training Rofl