Auto Activity Start

And something just happened which makes me wonder if I know what's going on. The one time it buzzed on screen was a request to carry on the activity or not. I'm wondering whether the buzz is supposed to be followed by an on screen prompt to carry on the activity and it's somehow not showing. Right now I've paused to type this and I got the buzz and a pause screen

Perhaps that whole pause bit is bugged. If you're not seeing the activity start it may be running throughout the day and causing your battery drain as well

I wonder if something like this is going on...

Chris wakes up in the morning, feels confident as its a sunny day and sticks AA on.

He goes about his business, when all of a sudden his watch buzzes and lights up. He looks at it, sees nothing and thinks "Bloody Garmin"

HOWEVER what has happened is an AA has started with that first buzz, and is not showing as starting.

Throughout the day he gets more buzzes (possibly from where the watch is asking "Ooooh you've paused, shall I continue")

As there doesn't seem to be an AUTO STOP, this activity carries on running all day, sucking GPS battery till it drains the battery.

As the activity is never stopped, when the watch dies its is lost

Sound a possibility??

I tried that, having auto-activity setting on only for Walk only. Now it vibrates less often than when I had the run auto-activity setting on also, but it still vibrates at random points with nothing displayed on the screen other than the regular watchface. So I had to turn it off again.

Another weirdness, setting auto-activity for Walk to any setting in Garmin Connect Mobile seems to have no effect on the watch setting even after syncing. I had to set it separately on the watch itself.

Unfortunately it does it if Chris is still laying in bed !!

On the Fitbit Surge I had Auto Activity worked well, basically if you continued an activity over a set period of time it recorded it. This is what the Garmin should be doing which it does do with MoveIQ just without the activity data.
I think we'll have to agree its a bug and wont work until it's fixed.... I want it to notify me at the preset time I input and record the data until I stop the activity. Which is what I think it should be doing but isn't.

Also take no notice of VO2 max unless you're recording the data off a chest strap. Using the OHR I was a poor 37, (fitness age 50), wearing the chest strap with accurate HR recording I'm a 48, which at age 54 gives me a fitness age of a 20 year old.

Slight difference.

One thing I did notice after my AA test was that even after disabling it battery drain was definitely higher (nearly double, thanks to that battery widget for showing me the discharge rate)

So I've disabled it and rebooted and charging