freezes with notifications, requires hard power cycle, loses current time

You need to get a GPS lock to GE the correct time

HTH

CW

Not sure why the notification froze the watch, but when you hard reset as you did, the time will always be wrong when you reboot. The time/date is set by GPS ... go outside under sky and start a GPS enabled activity (Run), wait for GPS Ready, and when you go back to the watch face, the time/date should be correct.

Max

After the most recent batch of firmware updates, there have been a couple times when I got a flurry of notifications, after which the watch completely froze with a notification on-screen. The first time it happened, I left it on-screen a solid 10 minutes before holding down the power button 'til it shut down. On restart, the watch had lost its current time setting -- it was something like 13.5 hours off. I left it alone for a couple hours (with "set time automatically" toggled on), but it never updated to current localtime, even persisting through multiple sync cycles with my phone. I set the time manually so I didn't miss my wake-up alarm, went to bed, plugged it in to charge while I was in the shower, and when I got out of the shower, the *manual* time I'd set was wrong. So I toggled "set time automatically" back on and it flipped to current localtime immediately. :confused:

The notification-flurry-freeze thing just happened again a little while ago, so I powered off the watch, powered it back on, and connected it to my PC/Garmin Express, thinking that might trigger a time sync. Nope. So I reset the thing to defaults, thinking there might be a bug caused by my watch face (Actiface) or one of the widgets I use. Nope again: When it reset, it still had the wrong time, even after re-pairing with my phone and syncing with Garmin Express.

As I sit here, it's 3:16pm, but the watch says 5:48 am.

Ain't nobody got time for this, right?

Any ideas for how I can get a stable watch again?

I have had the same issue in the past fewweeks - probably 6 times or so.

I started a service ticket with Garmin - hasn't went anywhere...

But ironically I haven't had a lockup since.... :-) (week or more)

I couldn't pin point it to an update of firmware, possibly an update to Garmin connect app (droid) and/or a little bit after a droid update to Marshmallow.

Same problem here. Lockup on Notification screen has happened twice in two days. I am new the the FR235. It upgraded to 5.40 the first time I connected so I can't identify if this was a problem prior to 5.40.

Same problem here. Lockup on Notification screen has happened twice in two days. I am new the the FR235. It upgraded to 5.40 the first time I connected so I can't identify if this was a problem prior to 5.40.