A few issues especially with updates

clutsch

I have been using this watch for the best part of a year, having previously used Garmin. Here are a few issues I have encountered:

When stopping a recording and saving it, I’m asked "how did it feel?'. I have no interest in recording this. However, I cannot move on from this screen for several seconds. This has put me in situations where I’m at the start line of a race, only to be waiting for my warm-up “feel” to be recorded, and missing starting my watch when the race starts. I know this can be switched off, but (see next point):
Every.single.time there is a software update my settings revert to the default. For me this means auto-lap on (which I cannot stand since I freely want to record whatever intervals I’m doing) and auto-pause off (which means my average speed when cycling is significantly affected and makes the data fairly meaningless), so I have to manually change the settings every time there is a software update, sometimes I don’t even know when these updates have taken place.
The pool swim setting has a lot to answer for. Firstly, I have not been able to find a way to manually measure my splits, I have tried every setting, but it doesn’t seem possible. So I’m having to rely on automatic splits. And they are not accurate (even a 2 second difference can be crucial). Firstly, it never knows when I’ve taken a short rest (say 5 seconds) and subsequently records intervals as one long swim. Secondly, it often misreads my stroke, a single dolphin kick off the wall into front crawl is often recorded as butterfly. Thirdly, when I’m kicking it has no idea that I’ve swum at all. And as above, every time there is a software update, the pool length reverts back to 25m whereas I often swim in a 50m pool.

Wondering if other people have noticed the same issues. Maybe there are solutions, but as with these mini computers, finding them requires more time than I’m willing to spend on something that should be straightforward.

Samuel Pirttikangas

You can turn this off in the workout settings.
Even if you have that turned on and it asks you for the feeling, you dont have to choose any feeling. Just click the middle button without scrolling down to a feeling you dont have to wait for it to disappear.