Battery is another one. Whenever mine starts playing up and i’ve tried the usual tricks (cleaning the contacts etc) then it’s often that the battery is getting low. Not leaving the ‘pod’ connected to the strap permanently helps.
I bought some ultasound gel off amazon and put a bit of that under the contact points of the strap and never have an issue with odd readings now. Only a couple of quid a bottle and lasts for ages.
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Another one is the strap can just die over time. It’s the key advantage of the detachable pod design of earlier HRM’s, as you can just get a new strap. The new polar soft strap is pretty nice (I use it with my Garmin pod for all running). I stick to a crappy Garmin strap for the turbo where I’m sweating buckets
How much are just new straps? I had a quick 30s look the other day and saw ~£80 but assume that must be full HRM?!
£8
These are mint, if you are/were a fan of the old 305FR hard Garmin straps:
The one I have is currently £26, but that’s the very latest version. They go up down in price. The original polar soft strap I got for about a tenner at points in the past. There are also cheap unbranded ones, but I find they only last a few months. The polar one’s last much longer.
The £80 ones are the new Garmin Run / Garmin Tri straps that give you all kids of useless information like vertical oscillation. Think I paid about 30 notes for a normal replacement one.
Cheers all, assumed/hoped I must have found wrong thing. Might be worth replacing then, given I already do wattbike sessions on a bike that doesn’t transmit ANT so nil in TP if HR fails.
Wahoo Tickr is £35-40; expect to get around a year out of it. HRMs seem to be built as consumables nowadays.
Anyone else have a ride from the weekend on an Edge810 that won’t upload via Garmin connect on an iOS mobile device? Apparently a known issue that Garmin are working on.
Well, 7 months, that’s how long the Barometer has lasted on my 935 
Garmin wearable longevity is rubbish.
I noticed on my ride yesterday no elevation, then today I see the temperature is stuck on 295 degrees. Is there even any point in me trying to do anything about it, other than send it back to Wiggle for an exchange/refund?
Seriously, I need to consider ripping off the Garmin plaster and going back to Polar.
One of the reasons I went for the 735XT, no barometer to go wrong. Accepting battery life isn’t sufficient for some.
It’s weird. I had that barometer issue on my 910 twice, but I’ve now had the 920 two and half years, and not one issue. I wear 24/7 (unlike the 910 which wasnt that kind of device). Do you shower with yours? I wonder if the regular hot water exposure helps?
Yes, I never take it off. I even wear it in the Steam Room! It was working fine…until it wasn’t. Must have gone tits-up on Saturday maybe. I only cleaned out the sensor hole about a week ago. The 3D barcode sticker came off several months ago, looks like there are some sensors there too.
Ultimately, these things are built like Austin f*king Rovers.
I have a question. I went to use my 810 the other day and I can’t find it. Any ideas where it is?
I guess I have until next April to decide what to replace it with, if I just return it to Wiggle! Maybe the 945 will be the same price by then (WTF am I thinking!)
First I’ll take the strap off that covers 2 small sensor holes, clean those and soak it in warm water for 20 mins as I saw suggested online. The I’ll do a hard reset. My money’s on none of this working.
On my 910, Garmin support were able to get me to go into some diagnostic mode over the phone, and from the readouts were able to determine the altimeter was broken, rather than just blocked.
Well, glad I decided to wait it out!
@stenard - You mention you wear your 920 all the time, a 920XT?
Like this one?
That’s the one I use - but it doesn’t have optical HR, so wondering why you’d wear it all day?
@Jorgan - On strava desktop, under elevation, there’s a link. Click that, then “Correct Elevation”.
You can do this on mobile, too, by requesting the desktop site in Chrome (very fiddly)
There’s only one Garmin 920 device, whether you include the “xt” part or not, so yes, that one (albeit in black/grey colour scheme).
- It’s my watch to tell the time
- It counts my steps, although I don’t really care about this so much
- It tracks my sleep (approximately)
- This way I don’t forget it for a training session
- It hides the lovely tan line 2.5 yrs of wearing it 24/7 has created!
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The barometer died on my 920 too; again a common issue. Garmin just can’t seem to make them robust enough.