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Random Tracking while stationary

Hello everyone,

I am very happy with my Garmin Venu and use it frequently.

About a week ago I went on a bike ride and had a break at a café. During that time I did not pause the recording but kept it going.

While sitting at the table and having a coffee the watch showed, that I was doing 20km/h and going back and forth.
Do you have any Explanation to this or do you have some tips on how to stop this? I think I added about 3 kilometers during my coffeebreak..

In the screenshot you can see the yellow dot from that café. Thats where I was sitting...

Thank you for any help!

Best wishes,
Frederik

0 tmk2 over 4 years ago

The explanation for the phenomenon is quite simple. While indoors, GPS signal reception is severely degraded, potentially causing rapid jumps in calculated position, and as a result, making the device think that it is moving around. Ways to avoid it:

1. Make sure that the watch gets no GPS signal while indoors (like for example sitting farther away from windows). Might not always be practical.

2. Turn off GPS for the period when you are indoors. Not all Garmin watches have the capability of disabling GPS while the activity is still running. I dont know if the venu can do that.

3. Pause the activity while indoors.

0 Garmin-Kevin over 4 years ago

Hello Frederik. Please see the FAQ below for more information on your question:

What Can Cause GPS Accuracy Issues on My Fitness Device?

0 Frederik over 4 years ago

Hello, I am not aware that this was an issue anymore. This bug report can be closed.
– Frederik

0 Frederik over 4 years ago in reply to tmk2

Hello tmk2,
Thanks for the advise. I was sitting in more of a patio or inner courtyard, but I guess its still difficult for the venu when there are walls nearby.

I will just pause the activity the next time around.

0 Frederik over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin-Kevin

Thank you. I will have a look into that.

0 Frederik over 4 years ago in reply to Frederik

I think this is the wrong Frederik. But the thread can be closed regardless.