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Jul 2020
1:52pm, 25 Jul 2020
91 posts
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sweetpeas
Hmm. Laptop doesn’t seem to find the USB connection to my Garmin Vivosmart, am I right thinking it should just show up in This PC when connected?
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Jul 2020
2:23pm, 25 Jul 2020
1,884 posts
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PenW
I think it's supposed to sweetpeas. Mine did earlier, then when I tried again later it took a bit of disconnecting and reconnecting to show up. I have a Mac though.
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Jul 2020
2:42pm, 25 Jul 2020
171 posts
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SusiesueH
mine did sweetpeas although my antivirus scanned it before it would let me use it. might be worth temporarily switching yours off to see if that helps?
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Jul 2020
3:39pm, 25 Jul 2020
3,498 posts
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RevBarbaraG
This ransomware attack on Garmin is really worrying.
I have a Vivoactive 3. Garmin Connect started crashing on my phone every time I went into it, so I rebooted my phone. The app ran and invited me to log in.... but then said it couldn't. Now I've confused myself about what my password is.
Stuffed, big time. I just hope my watch keeps working as a fitness tracker at least.
Anyone know if there's any way to export my activities to fetch right from my watch?
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Jul 2020
3:51pm, 25 Jul 2020
3,726 posts
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K5 Gus
Rev -
1. connect your watch to laptop/PC by the charging cable. The watch should show as a drive in "This PC" in Windows Explorer.
2. In Fetch go to Train - Add Training - then click on FIT
3. Click "Choose File" and navigate to your device, then folder Garmin - Activity
4. Click on Date Modified column to sort in date order and choose the activity you want to load
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Jul 2020
4:48pm, 25 Jul 2020
92 posts
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sweetpeas
My watch still seems to be working as a HRM, step counter etc, I might just leave the rest and take photo at the end of the day or something. I was getting way too obsessed with it anyway TBH!
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Jul 2020
4:59pm, 25 Jul 2020
552 posts
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CreatureOfTheHill
Does this mean cheap Garmins on EBay soon 
Do all logging manually from the Etrex anyway, gave up on watches and went Fitotrack on Android and cheap non GPS watch.
But if there are bargains to be had, well....
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Jul 2020
5:04pm, 25 Jul 2020
6,524 posts
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The_Saint
As I mentioned a few pages back, there seems to be a gap in the market for a website/app that does what Garmin Connect does only ideally without needing the website to be up for it to work to any extent. I don't know whether this would be contravening something.
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Jul 2020
5:19pm, 25 Jul 2020
553 posts
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CreatureOfTheHill
Not used Garmin Connect for a while. But did, via phone app.
What does it do that say Fetch or strava doesn't? It seems to the casual observer that Fetch/Strava/Connect all do pretty much the same thing.
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Jul 2020
5:22pm, 25 Jul 2020
30,584 posts
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SPR
I've only had my latest Garmin for as week, lol.
Saint - Do you mean take stuff via bluetooth (or other means) direct from phone? Pretty sure Garmin wouldn't allow that. Servers would need to be up to do what Garmin Connect do anyway (can't see how you send stuff to other sites without them) so they'd fail in the same way to an attack if they got caught by one.
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