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Need to be fixed: Power Alerts

JRUNTR
I know it has been discussed elsewhere, but here's my situation.

I've create a workout on garmin connect. The workout is composed of several intervals at different target power.

Let's say the target power is 250w to 250w. So it is not a range but a single target. All alerts are disabled, but I still receive alerts for too low/high power. So Yesterday, I switch alerts ON and set the low end to 0w and the high end to 4000w. No more low/high alerts. Today I try the same workout and even the 0-4000 tricks doesn't work anymore, no firmware update or anything.

One more thing, every time I hit the target power, there's a screen "In desired zone" that appears. So, workouts are useless and frustrating if you use power, because you always have a screen on the display showing your power is too low, in desired zone or too high.

I tried anything possible. After rebooting of the device, the behavior of the alerts are different (0-4000w thing), so it is clearly a bug.

We are entering the indoor season where workouts are the most useful, so there's a need for customer to get it fixed.

Anybody found a workaround ?

Thanks.
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    When I want to do workout in, let's say, 250-260 zone, I set it up to 250-1000 W in GC. This way when your power is too low it's easy to go back to 'desired' zone and that stupid notification does go away after few seconds too. Not ideal especially that workouts were the reason why I bought 520. At the moment it's impossible to use it on the road without constantly seeing those stupid messages.
    The whole workout screen should be redesign. This is my wishlist:
    1. No information about previous step. This is wastespecially of space.
    2. Display power, cadence and heart rate at all times.
    3. Inc warm up screen (who needs speed during warm up)
    4. No stupid alerts (power alerts, you're in the zone, next step)
    5. Screen should look like this: activity, time or distance remaining, power 3s, cadence, heart rate.

    Do "Garmin people" read this forum?


    Not sure about how you would like the page look like (used it only once actually), but totally agree that currently it is not user-friendly (tried HR zones)
    Message simply hovers above data fields making them invisible, why?

    Simple BEEP is more then enough to show that you're out of zone. A nice option would be to show red (above)/ green (in the zone)/ yellow (any other color below) the data field.
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    0 Former Member
    Same here! We need an update for this, is terrible to workout with this big and nothing informative warning... Garmin please, UPDATE!
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    I absolutely agree that the workout alerts need to be revised to show more info. Each time the screen comes up, it basically blocks the rest of the info.
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    Also agree.
    Not sure why do we need a full screen warning that is displayed for 3-5sec. The 520 has a color screen should be used red for over and lets say yellow for low with also a sound notification (maybe user configurable colors)
    Hope that Garmin do read this forum.
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    Yes I've also tweak my workouts to use wider range, since alerts are annoying.

    Best workaround I've found is:

    I've create a custom screen for workout only.

    As soon as I start the workout, I switch to this screen.

    Let's say I want to target 250w for a given step, I set the workout to 200-300w, on the 520 it will show the middle of the range, so 250w.

    Alerts, even if disabled, stays active, but I have to go out of 200-300w range to get alerts, so it never (rarely) happens. No more annoying fullscreen alerts, and all the field I want to display on my custom screen, I agree Previous step just worth nothing...well the whole workout screen doesn't have a great value for me.

    I prefer to see total time - current power - average power for current interval - Heart rate - target power for the current interval (will show middle of the range)- cadence.