Swim activity alerts

Thanks. That does appear to be the case. Now I'm getting confused between Apps and Activities! There's some not very intuitive stuff with this watch!

Took a lot longer than I though to sort all that out. But it's done now. Distance alerts in place for 25m and 50m pools.

Happy to be put right here, but I can't see how to add a distance alert for a pool swim. The only options I see under my 50m and 25m pool swim settings, Alerts. Add New are for Time and Calories. I have options for Custom, Time, Distance, Stroke Rate, Calories and Proximity for Open Water.

Before I contact Garmin, is anyone able to verify the alert options omit a distance alert for a pool swim?

What's stranger is that I do get an alert every 100m. This might be happening because I copied over my Settings and Sports from my 920.

This is a bug I found in the 920 but nobody seemed to care. So you saved your settings so you could easily put them back on your 920 (so you don't have to set each screen) WELL... that part works, the problem is if you have any alert, the alert WILL COPY OVER but you CANNOT CHANGE IT...(it's invisible) I even got a reply from DC Rainmaker, he basically said it was a Garmin problem. What you can do is set the alert first on the watch then copy over your settings and the option to change the alert will be there. I actually think it is a good practice to wipe the watch once or twice a year and restore your setting, seems to make the watch work better.

Please, this is a post in a 935 thread about the 935. I copied my settings from my 920 to my 935 in an attempt to save some time. Clearly it did not work properly. So I've spent the last couple of hours doing what I should have done in the first place - input all the new settings and activities on the 935 manually.

As an aside, I never lost alerts when putting saved settings back on my 920 after a factory reset.

Please, this is a post in a 935 thread about the 935. I copied my settings from my 920 to my 935 in an attempt to save some time. Clearly it did not work properly. So I've spent the last couple of hours doing what I should have done in the first place - input all the new settings and activities on the 935 manually.

As an aside, I never lost alerts when putting saved settings back on my 920 after a factory reset.

I guess I wasn't clear enough, the alert problem happened on the 920 but I haven't tried to copy settings back on a 935 yet. When you did your factory reset on your 920 were you able to change the alerts after coping back the setting?

This is a bug I found in the 920 but nobody seemed to care. So you saved your settings so you could easily put them back on your 920 (so you don't have to set each screen) WELL... that part works, the problem is if you have any alert, the alert WILL COPY OVER but you CANNOT CHANGE IT...(it's invisible) I even got a reply from DC Rainmaker, he basically said it was a Garmin problem. What you can do is set the alert first on the watch then copy over your settings and the option to change the alert will be there. I actually think it is a good practice to wipe the watch once or twice a year and restore your setting, seems to make the watch work better.

I had EXACTLY the same issue with my old Fenix3 when restoring apps and settings after a full reset. Also reported to Garmin but seems nobody cares about it.

That's why I didn't even try to restore my Fenix3 backup to my new 935 when it arrived last week. Had to set up the watch the old fashioned hard way...

I had EXACTLY the same issue with my old Fenix3 when restoring apps and settings after a full reset. Also reported to Garmin but seems nobody cares about it.

That's why I didn't even try to restore my Fenix3 backup to my new 935 when it arrived last week. Had to set up the watch the old fashioned hard way...

I'm pretty sure if you put set the alerts first then copy over the settings the alerts options to change alerts will be there.

When you did your factory reset on your 920 were you able to change the alerts after coping back the setting?

Yes.

One thing I have learnt from this is that it is perhaps not a good idea to copy settings over from a different device. It would be nice if it worked, but clearly it doesn't.

I had EXACTLY the same issue with my old Fenix3 when restoring apps and settings after a full reset. Also reported to Garmin but seems nobody cares about it.

That's why I didn't even try to restore my Fenix3 backup to my new 935 when it arrived last week. Had to set up the watch the old fashioned hard way...

Yes I had the exact same problem when I restored my custom sport FIT files from my 935 backup, after resetting to factory.

I'm pretty sure if you put set the alerts first then copy over the settings the alerts options to change alerts will be there.

Yeah, if you get into that state, resetting the sport settings to default should fix it. Then you can set the corresponding alerts and copy the file over from your backup. Of course, if you restore from an old backup, you might not remember what alerts you had set. Especially if they were custom alerts.

I actually fixed it by manually editing the fit file by hand (yes, I like to do things to hard way, and I also wanted to see if I could figure it out).

Hypothetically someone could write a program to automatically clear all the alerts in a sport FIT file, to "clean" the file before you copy it over. Or Garmin could just fix their bug.

Yes.

One thing I have learnt from this is that it is perhaps not a good idea to copy settings over from a different device. It would be nice if it worked, but clearly it doesn't.

Nice idea but given different watches have different sets of settings due to different features would be a stretch to think one size fits all. Your 920 file would not have settings for any "new" features the 935 has for instance. Should be OK with activity FIT files as more standard format.