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Why is my Venu Sq starting activities on its own?

I woke up to see I was in the process of a 3+ hour walk twice overnight. I discarded each time. I thought maybe the screen had just landed on the wrong thing in my sleep. But after I was awake and know it was on the normal home screen, it started a walk again. It was a GPS walk each time, which is further down in my activities menu.

Why is this occurring and is there a way to prevent it? It dropped the battery over 30% looking for GPS while I slept. I did a reset (?) where I hold down the first button for around 10 seconds to shut down and when it turned on it was on the save/discard activity screen again showing an 8+ hour walk even though I keep discarding. This also would have started my walk almost 3 hours before I went to sleep, but I know there was nothing on my watch at that point, plus I did a breathwork activity just 5 hours ago that saved fine. My body battery/stress shows I was active that entire time (the walk shows 0 steps) and kept the body battery at a flat line the whole time I was asleep (about 5 hours of the 8 hour activity). It's not recognizing any sleep time at all.

I am on 2.7.

  • I don’t know why this is happening to you but the first thing I’d do is turn off the Auto Activity Start under the device settings in Garmin Connect.  I’d probably turn off move IQ also.  This will at least stop that from happening.

  • I ended up resetting it because the watch faces wouldn't let me choose one.

    After resetting I've had issues with installed watch faces not working, and especially with notifications not working. I can get some but some apps don't work at all since the reset. I've reinstalled the Connect app and the app that's not giving notifications but no luck. I just did another device reset and same thing still. The notifications were fine before I reset it after the phantom activity tracking. I don't know why my Venu Sq is suddenly having all the issues. I don't think I've had an update since the one a few weeks ago.