Vivoactive3. What a piece of junk

Nobody's luck is that bad. 5 for 5? I think a lot of your problems are related to your phone and how you use/wear the watch. Yes, there are problems with the VA3. You are the first and only person I heard of going 5 for 5 with a "defective" devices with any of Garmin's products. Yeah, I know you're going to tell me how you know how to use the device and that everyone you received is defective, but I'm not buying it. One yes. Two? Bad luck. Three? Hmm, something's going on here. Four +? Yeah, I see the issue now.

So this HR Dropout, Bluetooth and Ant+ disconnections ate all normal for the VA3 ? Then just tell me how to properly connect the VA3 to the phone)iphone 7+ ) and how to use the VA3 to avoid thiis? You might be the key to solved this..

No, it's not normal for the VA3. Again, you are the only one I heard of having 5 out of 5 "defective" watches. My wife has one and I gave my mine to my son. The two were bought at different locations. One last September and the other in October. Both on Android. Both no problems. I can't solve your problems because I don't know what's causing your problems. What I can say is you are the only one that has posted 5 out of 5 defective watches out of thousand sold. That being said, the odds are overwhelmingly that the problems you have are user related and not with the device itself. Sorry, but I'm not buying the 5 of 5 bad VA3 story.

No, it's not normal for the VA3. Again, you are the only one I heard of having 5 out of 5 "defective" watches. My wife has one and I gave my son mine (The two were bought at different locations. One last September and the other in October). Both on Android. Both no problems.

You know, i am a rasonable person, i just dont return stuff for the sake of returning it and get a new one and besides i spend $ for returning it its not free, I just want this expnsive device to function the way it should be and be consistent with all the advertised features to work flawlessly if not accurately, thats all.

No, it's not normal for the VA3. Again, you are the only one I heard of having 5 out of 5 "defective" watches. My wife has one and I gave my mine to my son. The two were bought at different locations. One last September and the other in October. Both on Android. Both no problems. I can't solve your problems because I don't know what's causing your problems. What I can say is you are the only one that has posted 5 out of 5 defective watches out of thousand sold. That being said, the odds are overwhelmingly that the problems you have are user related and not with the device itself. Sorry, but I'm not buying the 5 of 5 bad VA3 story.

Normally i would agree with this, but when you read here in this forum i am not so sure. It seems that this is one of the worst Garmin ever. I’ve been with them for many years, with a lot of different models, but can’t remember something as bad as VA3 . Nothing seems correct, or even near , anjd i use only the «basic» functions. No messages, weather, Garmin pay etc....Yesterday when i woke up, i was 32,2 meter above sea level, today 15 meters. The worst is the lack of support, instead of inform the users ,and correct the problems,they keep on rolling out new modells.

The stairs counter is a total disgrace.

No, it's not normal for the VA3. Again, you are the only one I heard of having 5 out of 5 "defective" watches. My wife has one and I gave my mine to my son. The two were bought at different locations. One last September and the other in October. Both on Android. Both no problems. I can't solve your problems because I don't know what's causing your problems. What I can say is you are the only one that has posted 5 out of 5 defective watches out of thousand sold. That being said, the odds are overwhelmingly that the problems you have are user related and not with the device itself. Sorry, but I'm not buying the 5 of 5 bad VA3 story.

If your not buying it is none of my business, after all you dont know what’s causing the problem right? and if you think its a user related issue then like i said, show me the proper way on how to use the VA3 like you did so to avoid this problems.. it might be a big help to other users who are the issue and not their VA3.

Hi guys,

I use VA3 for 2 weeks now (change my fitbit blaze). Mostly I am happy with this device, but today I experience that touch screen is unresponsive. So I turn off/on device, touch screen was fine but after that all today data were removed (?). This never happened before on Fitbit.

hungrykid Look, I'm not saying you're an unreasonable person. I'm personally familiar with owners of four VA3's. Mine, which I gave my son. My wife's and two friend's of mine. None of these watches have problems. When you read in a forum that someone says they are now on their 5th watch that was released about nine months ago, one can't help but question why. Are you familiar with Occam's Razor? In a nutshell, when there are competing answers to a problem, the one with the fewest assumptions is most likely correct. Yes, there are several threads about problems with the VA3. That's the nature of forums. I don't know the exact percentages, but I'm willing to bet the negative or "problem" threads represent a very small percentage of owners. So, when thousands of VA3's are sold and the majority are problem free, I made my statement about not buying it when someone says they've received five defected watches. The reasonable assumption would then be user related. Let me give you an example. There are post across several devices with barometric altimeters that their watch is defective because they started their run at 50M elevation and finished at the same location with an elevation of 25M. When asked what the temperature, ambient and barometric pressure was before and after their run, you usually get an "I don't know", or "What does that have to do with it?" answer. It has everything to do with it. Because they don't understand how a barometric altimeter works and they expect the start and finish to be the same, they think they have a defective watch when in reality there is nothing wrong. Returning or exchanging the watch doesn't validate that it was defective either. It could mean that person was just persuasive and it's the easiest solution for Garmin. Again, I can not help you because I have no idea how you are using your watch or what phone or accessories you are using. You may very well be the most unlucky Garmin consumer ever, but in my defense, my conclusions seems very fair and reasonable.

Jano22222 I too have used several Garmin models throughout the years. I remember the FR235 being a nightmare for a lot of people when it first came out. Now it's a great dependable watch. I've read how this or that watch was the "worst ever". I think this is currently the label the VA3 has because it's newer and fresh in people's minds. There's no doubt we'll read how future Garmin releases will be the worst ever and how we don't remember any other devices being that bad.

It’s a differens between one of the worst ever, and« the worst» ever. By the way, today i am living 30.6 meters above sea level, mean that i have moved at least 4 floors during my sleep.

i have moved at least 4 floors during my sleep.

You didn't state what your elevation or barometer reading was prior to going to bed and then when you woke. I'll assume your "4 floors" were an ascent. Four floors is roughly 50', or a mere drop of .05 inHg in pressure while you were sleeping. This is perfectly normal. You're exactly one of the people I described in my example in my last post.