Vivoactive3. What a piece of junk

Am I the only one who finds this comical? You look across this forum at the different product lines and see the same people posting how Garmin is worthless, their products are garbage and how disappointed they are with their device. You look at the history of their post and it's always the same negative things. What I find funny is they're the same people who include their extensive list of current and retired Garmin products. It makes it really hard to take anything they post seriously.

Or anybody who don’t agree with you.....lol. All i ask is the announced functions to work. Is that too much to ask for ?

Jano22222 What makes you think I was addressing you? :rolleyes: Of course it's reasonable to expect announced functions work correctly. But that has nothing to do with sharing the same opinion as me and what my last post was about. I'm pointing out that it's comical (in a sad way) that people are always complaining about their purchase, yet they keep "feeding the beast". Maybe "gluttons for punishment" by their own hands describes them better? You've been a member of these forums since 2014. You constantly complain about Garmin and then list all your Garmin products? Do you really think this doesn't minimalize your post? Are you familiar with the adage, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."?

I couldn't agree more with the above.

To be fair there is a simple solution, contact Garmin and get it swapped, if that doesn't work return it to the retailer and buy something else.

No more bellyaching on the forum

I couldn't agree more with the above.

To be fair there is a simple solution, contact Garmin and get it swapped, if that doesn't work return it to the retailer and buy something else.

No more bellyaching on the forum

Won’t help much with a swap here, the whole construction of the altimeter is wrong. A serious company would swap this clock for free . If you look to the original VA HR, the altimeter port is on the side, not under, it works very good. excited to see when people start report about how the new music version behave, they have apparently moved the altimeter back to where it should be.

I couldn't agree more with the above.

To be fair there is a simple solution, contact Garmin and get it swapped, if that doesn't work return it to the retailer and buy something else.

No more bellyaching on the forum

OK, I would loved to get something else...
I was an early adopter of the VA3 and got mine on Oct/Nov 2017... The retailer won't take it back since the design flaw is the responsibility of Garmin, not the retailer !!!
My VA3 is being swapped for the second time... I suspect the replacement unit will have the exact same behaviour since the design flaw is on the location of the sensor (against the skin under the watch). No future software/firmware release can fix the fact that the sensor can't get the air it needs to measure the pressure since the holes are sealed by the skin under the watch !!!

If Garmin were prepare to refund me my VA3, I will go with a Fenix 5+ (and therefore spend even more money with them!).
The Altimeter on the Fenix is on the side and does work as expected!

Won’t help much with a swap here, the whole construction of the altimeter is wrong. A serious company would swap this clock for free . If you look to the original VA HR, the altimeter port is on the side, not under, it works very good. excited to see when people start report about how the new music version behave, they have apparently moved the altimeter back to where it should be.

construction of the altimeter?
so based on another thread, you claim that since the hole is under the watch...that the skin / wrist covers preventing air from getting there that it therefore gives an inaccurate reading...right?
so meaning, if its OFF THE WRIST / with nothing covering it, that it should give the correct reading.

but i'm pretty sure both ways will give the same reading.

And i am pretty sure you are wrong. People report better accurancy when use it for bicycle and mout it on the handlebar. Is it very difficult to imagine that when you run or walk and sweating, this position is not good. After all, that port is there for something, and what will happen when it’s blocked ? What do you think ?

regardless, i want u to prove me wrong by trying it urself.

I have both the VAHR and the VA3 , the VAHR give me correct values, the VA3 does not. And why you think they relocated the port on the VA3M ?