Hi I’m looking to buy a vivoactive 5 just wondering what exercise it has on the watch.

Suddenly some functions stopped working on my Vivoactive 4s. I've had the watch for six months.

I can't swipe from left to right to go back anymore to go back and I just cannot click on the icon that connects/disconnecs my watch from my phone and I can also not click the lock-function.

I restarted the watch, I removed it from the app and connected it back - but nothing seems to fix it. Has anyone ever experienced this?

I've been noticing the calories burned on the elliptical in machine and my vivo active 5 are very different, with an average difference of about 80 calores, does anyone else experience this issue?

Hi,
I love to ride bike and there are cases when I am not aware of route. Usually I put the location on google map and then using my phone I took directions.

I'm wondering is it possible to get those notifications of google map directly on my garmin watch , I tried few things but it didn't worked. This way I don't have to look on my phone in mid by stopping my ride

I've pretty much decided to buy a Vivoactive5 for my wife for Christmas. I read that some people use a screen protector and wonder what I should get?

First post here - Recently purchased the Vivoactive watch on recommendation from my doctor.

I'm trying to add workout exercises to my workouts - and I'm trying to add an exercise ...

Training & Planning -- Workouts -- [your selected workout] -- + Add Step -- Exercises

... for more than 100 exercises listed (e.g. Band Good Morning) - is there somewhere in Vivoactive's support that has an animated/video example of each of the exercises - it would be great if they had a central place to look up how each of these exercises are done.

Since getting my vivoactive 5 about a month ago, all it ever says is that I am stressed out. My sleep is stressful, my days are stressful. I see this just about every day: High stress today has drained your battery. I also see that I got a good amount of sleep, but it was very stressful - like an average of 36.

I thought it might level off after getting enough info, but it hasn't.

I am not this stressed, but if it keeps saying these things, I might get that way. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Hey, how long does your vivoactive 5 battery last? Mine lasts about 3 days🤔 can not make past the third day without charging

My Dad has a Fenix 5 with a cool widget called stargazer that shows constellations and planets. I know there is the Skywatch app for the vivoactive, but it's too laggy and runs poorly on my watch. I tried getting the Stargazer widget from the Connect IQ store, but I couldn't find it. Does anyone know where I may be able to find the Stargazer app, or if there is something similar currently on the Connect IQ store?

Hi, can someone tell me what this means? It is listed in the specs for vivoacive 5 in addition to event detection during an activity. Does that mean it will detect a fall at any time, even when not logging an activity? I couldn’t find a definition anywhere. Thanks.

I just got the watch and it seems fine. I am however afraid I will start experiencing disconnection issues tha some people report. I just got update from 10.20 to 11.16. Should I update or not?

I currently have had my VA-5 for about a year and love it. I came from a Fitbit when it just decided to die on me. I love the metrics you get from the Garmin Connect. I recently started a running training through connect. I will start week 5 on Sunday. My question is, am I missing out on anything with the VA5 that I would get if I had the FR255? Thank you.

I got my Vivoactive 5 a few weeks ago and I'm loving it, but it keeps on losing connection to my old Huawei P30 (and waking me up in the night with a glaring verify bluetooth pin code screen)
Since I was considering a phone upgrade anyway I'm in the market for a phone that works well with the watch.

Any recommendations?

I'm looking at a Motorola Edge 50 but I can find any reviews that mention garmin connectivity specifically (it's fairly niche I suppose).

Hi,

Is it possible to select Mountain Bike ride with Vivoactive 5? I can only find normal 'Bike ride', and when it's synced to Strava it is transformed to normal Ride, not Mountain Bike. How can I do it?

Thx

Is there a way to see what's playing on my phone from the workout screen quickly? Or do I really have to swipe out of it and go to the music app or widget. Seems like a massive design flaw?

Can't seem to find a recent post on this on Google.

Vívoactive 5.

Thanks

I have a Google phone and just got the vivoactive 5 few weeks ago. It is really annoying that I need to set up the connection every other day because it disconnects and asks to set up again. Thinking of returning for this reason. Any ideas why thia happens and how to fix ? Thanks !

Hoi, ik heb een Garmin vivoactive5 en sporadisch schakelt mijn watch hartslag en body battery uit. Ik heb nochtans nergens een batterij bespaarmodus of dergelijke aanstaan… iemand een idee waar dit aan ligt? Bedankt!

Yesterday (Friday) I went through a stressful and traumatic event at work, several minutes later my Vivoactive 5 produced a message stating that fact and a reminder to take time to relax. I'm curious to know if anyone knows how it was able detect it , I.e. the tech behind it. Thanks !

I have a Vivoactive 4 and the activity tracking is incorrect. The first mile is always correct, but the second mile always jumps ahead by 0.1 mile. Then the subsequent mileage is correct. This always causes my runs to be 0.1 longer than it should be. I always wait till I have full satellite connection, and keep up to date on software. Has anyone else experienced this? Please leave advice, or send me a message!

Eg. Me 1 My friend 1

Me 2 My friend 1.9

Me 3 My friend 2.9

Me 4 My friend 3.9 …

(This happens with everyone I run with, so I know that it’s my watch)

Hi, my garmin vivoactive 5 sporadically turns off body battery and heartrate tracking without me changing any settings… does anyone else have this problem? Quite annoying 🙃

Anyone know how I can stop getting random body battery notifications on the 5?

My fitbit charge 5 just died after only having it for a year, I am pretty annoyed about it since a year is barely any time at all. Is the Vivoactive 5 reliable? Does it last a good amount of time?

I see some people on this subreddit having issues with it and I just want to be sure that I am not going to have to return or replace it too soon. I just want a reliable watch that is worth the money and doesn't die for no reason. Thanks in advance