Is my barometer dead ? ( lots of fake floors )

Piotr 14 days ago

Hi,

Since few months I would say ~24.xx update i've been experianceing lot of fake floors. My watch somehow count like 50-200 floors climbed per day while i just walk on flat surface and most of the day spend in front of my computer.... before i had normal values. Also i have more of fake storm alerts... so I'm wondering wether it's firmware update issue or is my watch barometer dead ?

Some of you guys are also experiencing this issue ?

( I bought the watch > 2 years ago so i guess contacting garmin support is useless now )

0 Cristox 13 days ago

Try to contact Garmin via their service chat.

Chances are high that you will get a recertified device in exchange for your broken one.

0 Bit 11 days ago

Unfortunately the baro sensor is likely broken, but of you have not tried it already, soaking the watch in warm water to clean the sensor port is worth a try. As the watch will be out of warranty Garmin will probably charge for replacement but the expected lifetime of a smartwatch is 6 years (source: Consumentenbond) so you would reasonably have expected the use of a defect-free watch for far longer than 2 years.

0 Piotr 9 days ago in reply to Bit

thanks, yes i tried cleaning the baro sensor but it didn't helped. I'll try to contact garmin because if i'm alone having this issue indeed it's probably a hardware failure ;(