Why Is The Elevation On The GPS Of My Vivoactive 4s Inaccurate?

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Health & Wellness vivoactive 4 Series Why is the elevation on the GPS of my Vivoactive 4s inaccurate? Related This discussion has been locked. You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion Why is the elevation on the GPS of my Vivoactive 4s inaccurate? GillLockett over 4 years ago

The elevation has become quite inaccurate. Today it told me my highest point (not total ascent) was higher than the hill I was on, and a couple of days ago it gave me a minus figure for my lowest elevation, meaning I was below sea level, which clearly I was not.

Can anything be done to correct this manually or will I have to wait for an update?

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• GillLockett over 4 years ago in reply to 9899006 +1

  Sorry. I don't think so. I had a choice of two settings on my watch, either full reset and lose data or reset and retain data.

• GarminXP over 4 years ago in reply to GillLockett +1 suggested

  so everything ok after reset ? elevations now accurate ? after reset watch faces still there ?

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• 0 1707649 over 4 years ago

  I had the same issue, probably associated with the last fw update, facrory reset solved the elevation (but not the increased battery discharge)

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• 0 GillLockett over 4 years ago in reply to 1707649

  Thank you for your reply. I will do a reset. I have also made sure that autopause is on as I discovered it was off and apparently that can affect readings too.

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• 0 9899006 over 4 years ago

  My wife is also having problem with her VA4, showing usually -70 meters below sealevel. Before activity starts, she waits about 10 minutes during warm up.

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• 0 GillLockett over 4 years ago in reply to 9899006

  I haven't experienced any other problems. I have changed to autopause on (on walks settings) and done a full reset (without losing data) - this is fiddly in itself. I am going out on the moors tomorrow so I will see if this rectifies the problem and report back.

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• 0 9899006 over 4 years ago in reply to GillLockett

  Wife is using Lachesis (Light) watchface and Fat Burner datafield, will those be affected if doing a full reset? And how to do the full reset correct?

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• 0 Martin over 4 years ago in reply to 9899006

  I had this issue a few firmware versions back. A reset to factory settings did the trick. Also reduced my devices battery consumption.

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• 0 9899006 over 4 years ago in reply to Martin

  And how to do the full reset correct? Yes, I can Google but since I am here... you get the picture.

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• 0 GillLockett over 4 years ago in reply to 9899006

  I really don't know. I'm just a user myself. A full reset will be different on different watches. If on the vivoactive 4 or 4s, I imagine they are the same. Hold down bottom button until menu comes, scroll down to settings, then scroll down to system and reset is in there. On mine, it asked me whether I wanted a full reset losing my existing data or whether I wanted to retain my data. Good luck :-)

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• 0 9899006 over 4 years ago in reply to GillLockett

  Sorry, Vivoactive 4S here. Full reset will delete everything in Garmin Connect?

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• 0 GillLockett over 4 years ago in reply to 9899006

  Sorry. I don't think so. I had a choice of two settings on my watch, either full reset and lose data or reset and retain data.

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