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Sleep tracking is not working at all

Former Member
Former Member over 4 years ago

First night I went to bed at 2am, got up at 7am, The sleep tracker said I went to sleep at 10:15pm. I was walking around at that time.

Second night, I purposely looked at it after I woke up, it looked like it measured my sleeping time correctly. 

Later i checked it and it was completely wrong, it changed it to have extra hours. it says I was in REM sleep when I was walking around.

Is it randomly making up information? How can I trust any readings from the watch.

The Fitbit I had before this worked perfectly well tracking sleep. if the Garmin is just making stuff up, I'll return it

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Well, the sleep tracking on Garmin devices is to put it nicely - primitive. So until Garmin improves it there's nothing you can do about it. I switched from fitbit too and I don't regret because my Venu is far more superior. But the sleep tracking is absolutely useless.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 4703647

    Yeah, compared to Fitbit, Garmin's sleep tracking is useless.  I have to adjust every day, based on my best guess.  Otherwise, it counts all my reading or just lying in bed as light sleep.  It's like something from 2013.

    I know that Firstbeat has a sleep tracking algorithm, does anyone know if it's any good?

    If it is even a little better, Garmin should push it to the Venu, because as is, the Venu is largely useless as a sleep tracker.

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to 4757287

    So sad... too late to view this, I just got my Venu. T_T

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I think many people will. I am sure the Venu is a present for many and the sleep tracking is really a let-down. My fitness band from Honor which was around 30 $ was pretty accurate when it comes to sleep tracking.

    The Firstbeat sleep tracking is hopefully better but I feel we don't get any more major features on that watch. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 3590507

    Anyone knows if the sleep tracking is better when you switchthe data recording to each second from intelligent? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to 3590507

    No, smart recording affects GPS position recording and has nothing to do with sleep tracking.