Sleep tracking is pretty much broken garbage.With that, I agree.
No notification when hitting step goals is ludicrous. Again, why have this functionality if you're not going to notify the user of hitting their goal?As I've replied in the other thread, the goal is used by Garmin Connect for a number of things – determining the presentation of each bar in the Steps chart, determining the length of the user's goal streak, etc. I don't think it is necessary for an activity tracker to advise the user the moment he/she reaches the daily step goal; being able to see it on review some time later, either on the watch face or (better still) in where the tracked data is meant to be reviewed – i.e. Garmin Connect Mobile app or Garmin Connect online – is sufficient if the user wants to know.
Not being able to add custom activities is nonsense.I disagree. Inasmuch as it would only be of benefit to me as a product owner and user to get Garmin to include more features and more flexibility, I've worked for long enough in industry to understand why it is both sensible and justifiable (and hence right, commercially speaking) for vendors to limit features, flexibility, extensibility, future-proofness, etc. when they don't just have one model at one price point to sell in the market.
I understand that you don't feel as though Garmin "owes" us this stuff, but why include things like sleep tracking and step goal tracking if they're going to put in such weak implementations of those features compared to *any* competing product? It makes them look bad for the price they're charging.I had (and used) a TomTom Spark Cardio+Music for several weeks before returning it for a refund, and ended up buying a Garmin Forerunner 235 in its stead. The two cost me effectively the same amount of money ($11 or 3.3% difference, after the respective discounts offered), and I think it is fair to say the SC+M is a direct competitor to the FR235. My opinion, from first-hand user experience, is that sleep tracking is at least equally as poor –*if not outright poorer – on the SC+M, and the step counting on it is so far off the mark that as a function it is worthless irrespective of goal-setting. (It also did not have any alerts for reaching a goal, until a firmware released months after I returned it.)
Hi all,
Is it a 4.70 issue as well (I was using 4.60 when I flashed 5.03 beta)? Should I open another thread or should I stick with the existing 5.03 beta and 4.70 threads?
I have also switched back to English locale (I was using Italian), and my FR235 is connected to an Android phone (OnePlus One with the stock 13.1 CyanogenOS).
Thanks for any help and/or recommendation.
Anyone having problems accessing setting of any connect iq apps in iOS mobile app? None of the apps I have installed can access their settings under 5.03b installed on the device. Worked fine with 4.7......
It's a known problem and has been reported to Garmin. For now you can't change CIQ settings from Garmin Connect Mobile, but I was able to do it with Garmin Express (I have a 230 and the same thing happens with it)
