Bug report - Walk activity issue - 42949.7 distance alert spam

7726537 1 month ago

Hello,

I am experiencing a weird bug somehow related to distance alerts after starting Walk activity.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a custom run workout and send it to watch (i.e. my was Run Repeat 35x, Distance 285m)

2. Start a Run activity with that workout, Alerts off, AutoLap off, so only interval alerts after each 285m will be triggered.

3. Finish the run - I did all 35 repeats and continued for couple of seconds - so I exceeded my custom run workout.

No issues so far

4. Start a Walk activity, Alerts off, AutoLap 1km

5. After starting, the watch just vibrates and spams 42949.7 distance alert like crazy, disappears after stopping activity, reappears after resuming.

The issue is not happening when starting a Run or Bike activity instead of Walk.

The soft reset after the run didnt help at all.

Looks like there is a simple workaround though - add new distance Alert into Walk activity and remove it and then start it.

Software version: 20.29

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7726537 1 month ago in reply to FlowState +1

No, I dont have interest to join the beta program.
I just tried to replicate it and didnt get these alerts anymore so I slightly edited the step 3 - you need to finish the run and exceed your custom workout…
FlowState 1 month ago in reply to 3709521 +1

Just my two cents, but I don't think the Stryd Zones data field (or any CIQ field) can cause this issue, but I think it's possible this issue could cause a CIQ field to crash, if part of the issue is that…
FlowState 1 month ago in reply to 7726537 +1

7726537 said:
I thought this forum is a place to report bugs also.

I mean, that's often what happens, but it's not guaranteed that Garmin will notice any bugs that we report here :/. It's primarily a user…

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0 7943806 1 month ago

thank you!!! the workaround worked for me too

0 Garmin-Sierra 1 month ago in reply to FlowState

Yes, we are aware of this and investigating. It looks like everyone here may have already fixed it, but we have a workaround that avoids having to reset the activity settings:

Toggle ON, then back OFF the type of alert you're seeing in the activity profile. For example, if you see in the Walk profile the inflated numbers with a stopwatch symbol above the numbers (it's hard to tell without seeing a picture), that is a time alert. You should toggle on a time alert in the Walk profile and then toggle it back off. Then, retest.

0 3837177 27 days ago

I have forerunner955. I had the same symptoms as you yesterday. However, I get symptoms when I start to shake my arm in treadmill mode. In my experiment, if I don't shake my arm, I didn't get symptoms, and I didn't get symptoms in outdoor running mode. Also, I did the default, and the symptoms still remain the same.

0 3837177 27 days ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

Thank you for sharing.