Firmware v5.20 user discussion / feedback

anyone have a link to download the 4.6 firmware?

I was able to revert back to 4.70. So far nothing adverse.

Trouble is I deliberately stayed at 4.6 as everyone was saying 4.7 was shyte.
Now I'm stuck at 5.2 which is even shyter.

Sort it out Garmin, this bloody thing is 9+ months old now, we are well past teething troubles.

Hmmm, pace/speed problems are only the instant variant right?

I usually work with avg or lap pace and that seems to be fine to me in my case. Calories, not sure, had a pretty active day (walking the dog twice, ran 15k and doing household chores) so while 3757 calories is a lot (my weight is about 65kg) it might be true. Run was already ~900... Haven't noticed weird calory counts earlier either.

Overall no complaints on this firmware from my side, although I'm not quite sure if it's a worthwhile update from the 5.07b which also worked great.

To be clear, it's not just a problem displaying current pace. It's actually recording the wrong pace, which affects workouts, lap/avg pace, etc. It's just that it probably averages out to be close enough with a wide enough pace window.

This morning I had a 0:10 pace window in my workout, and it was beeping at me to slow down for 8:15 pace when it felt about 9:30. It took a LONG time before it settled in.

You can easily see the difference in pace graphs on Garmin Connect. It's much jumpier now.

Short term I'd be happy with a 3/5/10 second average pace, the instant is so jumpy that I can't really use it...

Just had a thought, has anyone with a foot pod tried going into its settings and selecting it as the pace source always? (Rather than only when there's no gps). Ie. Is the pace bug jumpyness only with gps pace?

Erratic current speed/pace in 5.20

after updating to firmware 5.20, ran a half yesterday with my fr235. i also observed the erratic current pace/speed that the watch now indicates. personally i rely quite a bit on the current speed/pace to tell me whether to speed up or down cross referencing with my HR for my runs.

as many mentioned, the lap pace appears to be accurate as it averages out the erratic ups-and-downs.

I didn't have this problem in 4.70. Is there a way for me to push the watch to 4.70? Is Garmin gonna fix this issue? I too have a race coming up in 2 weeks time. Not exactly a good time to have the watch bugging up on me now.

My pace is also crazily all over the place. Watch is virtually useless to me now. Please fix!!

Yesterday , i was ready to connect and recharge my watch for todays run, and i have no clue on why the update started because i'm 100% sure that i didn't pressed the buttons.
But ...well,... here we are.

Today Long Run (15K - 1h30') with FR235 with FW 5.2
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1303249605

• Heart Rate: It took just 3 seconds to show me the NEW aleart "Wrist HR ready" , nice, less than what it took to the GPS+GLONASS to acquire signal.
  
• Apple Media Service: Tested with Spotify, and Podcast. Working fine. LOVE YOU!
  
• Watch Faces: Those that stopped working properly on the previous v4.7 update, now working fine.
  
• Alerts Vibration: This time , configuration was kept properly.
  
• Pace: I used to use the avg pace, that seems to be fine, then i can't tell you how the instant peace it is.
  
• Whatsapp Notifications Repared: No more reverse text.
  

Seems that Garmin sent a bunch of repairs on this FW. But i still think that it's not admisible to have this kinds of bugs, or errors.

Note: During the afternoon, the Watch Face went crazy, and when trying to list all the watch faces to choose the previous one, it was imposible. Restarted the FR, and now seems to be working fine.

I was able to revert back to 4.70. So far nothing adverse.

How did you do this? I downloaded 5.07 beta and tried as per the readme but not been prompted and if I got to updates on the watch it just tells me to check the garmin website?


Connect your Forerunner 235 to your computer using the USB cable.
Download and unzip Forerunner235Beta.zip. Place the GUPDATE.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder of your device's internal storage drive.
Disconnect your device from the computer, approve the update on the watch, and wait for the update to finish.
If you would like to revert to the last public release software, follow the above steps but place the GUPDATE-470.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder. Rename the file to GUPDATE.GCD before disconnecting your device. NOTE: If you revert to an older version of software, all of your settings will be reset to defaults.