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Garmin 235 isn't uploading activities through bluetooth

Former Member over 7 years ago

This started to happening recently, even though the watch appears synced in the garmin app it doesn't sync the activities, everything else seems to be syncing (e.g. Daily steps)

This is very frustrating, I bought a watch to sync the activities correctly through bluetooth and it only works through USB.

Does anyone have any solution?

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

I have exact same problem that has now appeared this week.. I've tried reboots, cache clears, but doesnt't help. It says "Sync failed" on the device screen in the app. It seems to be something related to new software since it says sometimes that it is sending new SW release but it looks this doesn't complete since the SW version is the old 7.50.

0 boardsilly05 over 7 years ago

I have started to experience the same problem as of yesterday (first activity in about a week). It is just as ddmonteiro describes: steps are OK but activities do not transfer from the Forerunner to the phone.

If I manually try to sync, the word "Transferring" appears with a spinning circle and stays that way until I cancel the sync. The activity doesn't transfer, apparently because the transfer never completes.

I tried re-pairing Forerunner to phone and that did not help.

I temporarily managed to fix it yesterday by doing the following. I uninstalled the Garmin Connect app from my (Android) phone; turned the Forerunner off; re-installed Garmin Connect to my phone; turned on the Forerunner and re-paired with the phone. At this point everything worked again.

But today I have done a new activity and again it is not uploading (with the same symptoms). Could something have updated in the meantime?

This issue really renders the Forerunner useless to me, as steps are of little interest to me, it's the activities I want to track.

0 boardsilly05 over 7 years ago

Update: literally while I was typing my entry above, the activity has synced (automatically, no intervention from me) and also uploaded to Strava. That's about 4 hours after I completed the activity. I have no idea why it has suddenly uploaded.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

The problem disappeared after I connected my Forerunner to a PC with the USB cable and updated the SW that way. After installation of 7.60 the sync has again started to work.

0 Max556 over 7 years ago

I experienced the same thing, including my notifications stopped working ... a watch restart seemed to have solved it ... or at least my activity showed up the next time I ran and I have my note's back too.

Max.