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Do Garmin acknowledge that Venu has issues. (Hit and miss wrist gesture)

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Hi All

I've had my Venu for about a week now. I love the watch but Damn if there aren't some glaring flaws.

The worst for me by far is the hit and miss wrist gesture for turn on. The other watches in the market place ie apple, samsung have this kind of thing working well. 

Venu on the other hand is hot mess when it comes to all the kinds of refinements expected from a smartwatch rather than a sportwatch.

Venu looks more and more like a Vivoactive with an OLED slapped on it. And yes I know that is how it is advertised but at the moment it doesn't work.

The turn on time for all the custom watch faces is also shockingly poor.

So perhaps some of you that frequent this forum can tell me what has been Garmin's response to all of this. Head in the sand?

Are we going to have to wait for Venu2 before they fix this stuff.

I'm happy with everything else with the watch but the wrist gesture being hit and miss on and OLED watch is a deal breaker. If they can't get that right I'm not getting a Garmin again. 

  • Just wanted you to know that you are not alone. My Venu works great except for the occasional times when the wrist gesture seems to be turned off. I have to hit a button to get it to display the time. Very annoying.

  • My wrist gesture is not hit and miss, but the delay in rendering any third-party watchfaces when AOD is not turned on is incredibly long. I read somewhere that this is because the default watchfaces that come with the Venu reside directly on the chip.

    • So is ms,very annoying. They say that I can return within one month on website, but when I contact that they said to send them photos of watch ad they will check for. Foults then they will send it back.they didn't send me address only asked me again to send photos with foults. I couldn't believe it.the oxygen doesn't work right as well. Shows me 89% all the time and this was why I bought this watch in first place. Advise every one not to buy. To dificolt to set anyway.