Couple years after release. +20 major firmware updates later. VO2 max does not work properly. Lactate treshold detection does not work properly. Many serious bugs from beta verisons still not fixed. Many UX blunders either not fixed or new are created. I bought top device for top money from allegly reputable sport technology manufacturer. And yet I filled I was scam in a third world bazar... or by a modern corporation.
I am in a similar position with my FR965 purchased 9 months ago. I cannot remember a single day when everything worked as it should. There was always something: LT detection not working, bizarre training…
Long term bugs from one release to the next do seem to be ignored in favour of tweaking recent changes.
While new bugs are getting introduced constantly.
YEs....
What we expect to see:
Fixed reboot issue
What we get:
Fixed light off during night skiing.
My FR955 Solar has become almost unuseable. There are several problems:
- The heart rate measurement on the wrist constantly freezes or fails. All data is then falsified or useless. Under "Info" is often for BMX: 0.0.0 and for WHR also 0.0.0. But at some point not anymore.
- The vibration partially fails or does not stop for several seconds (~10 sec.).
- Yesterday, after a short break during the run, the watch continued the activity only with a time delay, there were (above mentioned) Vibration problems and at home I then saw that the FIT file was probably damaged from this point on (Strava, for example, could not display the rest of the activity). With the GPX file it then worked manually.
- Other errors, e.g. the watch says the battery level is too low to connect to Wifi, although the battery level is 70%.
Everything has expired after the warranty. Overall, this is all very frustrating. I have also tried everything: latest update, hard and soft resets, factory reset, etc.
I wrote to Garmin support a few weeks ago, but never got an answer...
