The watch quality is good.
I use it as an activity tracker and the step counter is great.
The heart rate monitor Im not convinced is correct.
Notifications are great. Glance at the watch to see a message or email. Saves taking my phone out of my pocket if its not important.
It does not sync with myfitnesspal as they both claim. Plenty of complaints about this on here.
Battery life about 1 week with HR on constantly and GPS off.
The watch quality is good.
I use it as an activity tracker and the step counter is great.
The heart rate monitor Im not convinced is correct.
Notifications are great. Glance at the watch to see a message or email. Saves taking my phone out of my pocket if its not important.
It does not sync with myfitnesspal as they both claim. Plenty of complaints about this on here.
Battery life about 1 week with HR on constantly and GPS off.
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-Thanks for your support TIMGROSE
> My FR235 has got the HR right from start to finish 1 out of 10 times, the Tomtom does it right 9 out of 10 times. -NOT HAPPY
I tend to put mine on sometime before I want to start a run. Not had any "start up" problems since doing so.
-Me too, have learned from Tomtom. I have big problems with cadence lock too.
> GPS/GPS+Glonass accuracy seems strange when running. It really cuts corners even set to 1s. My measured 2,0km lap is 1,8km according to FR235 and 1,9km according to Tomtom - NOT HAPPY with either
Measured by what? Can you post the GC link for a closer look. Are you sure you had GPS is Ready before you started running?
-Measured by calibrated bike wheel and from map just to be sure. This is a 2km public running path. Please look att attached picture for comparing Garmins and Tomtoms different path on the same path. The Garmin (bottom) really cuts corners
-Yes I Always wait until GPS-ready.
> The FR235 eats battery when shut off. 3 days off=dead, 2 days off=60%, 2 days off=85% ??? -NOT HAPPY
Haven't seen that although I don't power off my watch as when not on my wrist everything, apart from time of day, should be shut off.
-Bug
> The time is the same when I start the watch as when I turn it off sometimes. 2 days off... and will not sync time over Garmin Express... I started indoor biking and the GPS started, the watch corrected the time itself and I got 2 days of indoor biking - NOT HAPPY
After sometime powered off, it might help to get a GPS again to ensure time of day is correct.
-There sure is a bug with Power off...
> Some indoor biking the GPS starts (as it is NOT set to do) but sometimes not - NOT HAPPY
That was a bug that was fixed in the 3.25 beta
-Not very interested in beta testing, takes to much time
> Garmin Connect sets units to not metric, solution=not using Connect only use Express - NOT HAPPY
Some issues have been reported generally with all devices about units changing. Changes made in GC try to get sent to your watch. Think Garmin are looking further into this.
-OK, thanks
> All-day-tracking does not work as I think it should - Don't really care
HR or steps?
-HR. The unit seems to guess a value (66?), then looking for the correct HR.
> Sleep monitoring does not work - Would have been fun to see anyway
Seems reasonable for me. What exactly are you seeing or rather not seeing?
-It says that i am awake all night... Now I have not tried it since last update
On 12/19 I originally posted on this thread and said how much I loved my 235. Well, that was v3.10/2.20. It's been a week since I updated to 3.20(30)/2.40 to get the "improvements". HUGE MISTAKE! I now have less frequent HR sampling, (this was, and still is very important to me), my HR always "defaults" to 72 before it goes to my correct HR, I'm now consuming 7-8% MORE battery life after they took away from the HR sampling to improve battery life, and I can walk uphill for 30 mins, stop and get a "move" alert 10 mins later. I'm beyond the point where I can return my 235. I'm currently looking for a new device, take my loses, and put my 235 on eBay.
