Garmin Tech Question

[pianoteacher]

Absolutely love my new Garmin Forerunner 35 but for some reason it's giving me my pace at the mile markers instead of km. I've googled it but it's not telling me anything I don't already know! I've got it set up to use kms and it's giving me all my stats on the app correctly but the watch is wrong.

Any ideas?

[Ripcurlrana71 Graduate10]

Hmmm...just been fiddling with my watch and can’t see where they can be changed. Think it’s only on Garmin Connect app? Sorry - not much help. x

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Ripcurlrana71]

Just found Units on the watch and it's definitely set to kms - so is the app?? There's a couple of Garmin forum posts with people having similar problems so maybe it's a bug?x

[Ripcurlrana71 Graduate10 in reply to pianoteacher]

Oh...I don’t like seeing miles on the app but can’t seem to change that to KM. x

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Ripcurlrana71]

It's in Settings - User Settings - scroll down to Unit of Measure x

[Ripcurlrana71 Graduate10 in reply to pianoteacher]

Perfect! Thankyou! x

[tony_a Graduate10]

Try activity settings on the watch itself and then Laps. If that’s set to miles it might be it. Not sure though. I remember seeing a setting but can’t find it now 😞

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to tony_a]

Thanks - I've gone into Laps and it say it's set to Auto Lap 1km. I've turned it off and on again in the hope it might work! x

[sallenson Graduate10 in reply to pianoteacher]

Don't you have a syllabus to learn?... C'mon... Off with you....

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to sallenson]

Not til this afternoon - Clarinet practise for the next hour

[sallenson Graduate10 in reply to pianoteacher]

Eww. Stick with the Garmin. Fewer squeaks and springs....

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to sallenson]

Oi! I've obviously not practised hard enough today - It's been logging practise as moderate exercise up to now but I think I might have been rumbled 😂

[Sqkr]

I've nothing super constructive to add, but I had this issue at first too—there seem to be several places you need to switch the units to get it consistently measuring in km. I wish I could be helpful enough to remember where those menus all were! But if it still has mixed units then check through the watch and Garmin connect to make sure you've not missed a sneaky 'miles' setting, there were more in there than I expected.

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Sqkr]

Thanks I'll keep looking - there are so many sub menus!x

[Razouski]

Hope you get it sorted. Enjoy your music practice too.

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Razouski]

Thanks x

[Welshcake7]

If you manage to get it sorted please post the details. I’m also struggling with this

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Welshcake7]

Will do! I've fiddled with every menu on the watch and can't see anything that would be causing it. I'm going out for a walk later so I'll see what it does then x

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Welshcake7]

It's miraculously working now?!? If I knew why I'd tell you! One thing I did do was go into the watch menu and changed it to miles and then back to km - maybe I confused it into working

[Welshcake7 in reply to pianoteacher]

Thx for that. Will try it today. Hopefully I’ll confuse mine too!

[51mc Graduate10]

I bought a forerunner 35 about three months ago, and had the same problem. Kept on trying different things then one day it just changed to Kms. No idea why. Luckily it has continued in metric! Good luck.

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to 51mc]

Just been for a walk and it's fine now?!?

[Sqkr]

Have you tried syncing it lately? Maybe some of these changes need to sync with the garmin cloud to take effect?

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Sqkr]

Thanks - working now x

[Pedro7]

Found a forum elsewhere suggesting the following for a different Garmin watch. It may help:

Managed to find a solution. I'd set the units to metric and the autolap "on" in the app. On the device itself, I set the units back to Imperial, turned autolap off then back on again, then set the units back to metric.

Autolap distance is now 1km. Whether it is the order of setting autolap on and setting to metric in the app, or whether you have to do it on the device to actually get it to force the change.... I have no idea. But at least for others with the same problem there is some information to help.

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Pedro7]

Excellent find! That's sounds pretty much like what I think I did - I was just a bit more random about it My boyfriend is in IT and he thought it was some kind of bug so I suspect the order you do things in is probably part of the problem x

[Welshcake7]

Can you believe it?!? I changed back to miles then back to K’s and it’s worked! Hurrah!!

[pianoteacher Graduate10 in reply to Welshcake7]

Brilliant! I'm glad you've got it working x