longtrousers wrote:
Had to buy a new watch here in Kona after my Fenix 3 died: I decided again for a Garmin and bought a Fenix 6X from which I expected improvements because of the larger screen inter alia.
Already my Fenix 3 had the problem, as the Fenix 6X, that you have to wait before open water swimming until the GPS says ok, because otherwise he does not notice the distance at all, during the whole swim.
So I put the watch in triathlon mode and the swim screen came up and the GPS was found rather quickly and the watch waited for the start button push.
The case here in Kona is though, that you have to swim to the startline which costs several minutes. The Garmin software- developers are than so "smart", that they notice you do not press the button directly so the watch started to display some bloody messages at the start which I had to push away, I was happy the swim screen came back and by pressing "start" the watch started,
So far so good? No. Of course it had lost its GPS so it did not measure the distance of the swim. After a 4 minute transition the watch picked up the GPS not only before about 3 minutes on the bike.
So I would say the watch is rather useless in triathlon-mode, just because the software-developers try to be smarter than the user.
Did you updated your power save timeout setting for Open Water?
https://www8.garmin.com/...E6-44CF8F872D79.html
Janyne