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The 255 for €219 is an absolute steal, it’s the same chipset and hardware as the 265/965, just lacking the oled screen (which uses more battery), and the Training Readiness functionality, which I don’t think is much use personally. If I only ran when my watch said I was ready, I wouldn’t be running much!

Id never use the mapping on the 965 either.

Having issues with my Garmin watch, just wondering if anyone has ever managed to resolve anything similar.

It's a vivoactive 4 watch. You can start activities such as going for a jog, and at the end, you have an option to save/discard the activity. My watch was running out of power at the end of a cycle and it actually died while the "save/discard" screen was displaying.

I charged it up, and the same screen was showing when I powered it on. But it wouldn't let me swipe up or down to choose either option. I was able to swipe out to the main screen but could not do anything worthwhile as it was still in 'activity mode'. I couldn't re-sync through the garmin connect app at this time, it just failed.

After 5-10 mins it buzzed, and said "activity auto-save in 10….9….8…" etc. After the timer expired, it saved and the syncing issue disappeared. Everything seemed back to normal. Later that day, I cycled home and afterwards, back to the same issue….couldn't save or discard the activity, couldn't do anything else and, bizarrely, when I pressed the top button on the watch, most of the 'apps' were greyed out. Including, for some reason, the power button symbol and the do not disturb symbol.

I tried hard resetting to no avail. Tried booting it in diagnostic mode, as it initially looked like the touch screen wasn't working, but that showed no errors. I then had the genius idea of un-pairing it with my phone, which I did. It was only after I did this and I was trying to re-pair it that I noticed I cannot tap the settings symbol to open the settings menu. Most of the time it opens the 'history' menu option which is right above it, but it's like the option is unselectable, same as the save/discard.

I then decided to factory reset the watch, but that option is hidden in the settings menu, which I cannot access.

Has anyone encontered similar issues and managed to find a fix? If I use the garmin express app on my PC, can I update the software version or factory reset it though that? Anyone with any other advice or tips?

Thanks for the reply, apologies for the delay in getting back to you. Support said to send it back for a repair that seems quite costly.

I've done a bit more fiddling with it to see what's going on. It looks like part of the touchscreen isn't registering any inputs……..or they're not registering at the right point of contact. It's not registering anything at the very top or bottom of the watch, and anything in the lower/top third registers as a touch in the middle, if you get me……so I'll select an option that's towards the bottom of the screen but it will open up one of the options in the middle instead. The options/settings menu is at teh bottom. I cannot press it directly and there's no way to scroll past it so I can figure out a workaround. Pity, I liked the watch but don't know if I'll be splashing out on an expensive one again.

Thanks for the replies. I'm fairly sure I want to stick with MIP over AMOLED so that rules out the 570/965/970.

I've done some research since my last post and it seems there are plenty of people in the same position as myself. The general recommendation is to stick with the 955 so I think that's what I'll do.

Never understand the fear of AMOLED, I've had one on mine for the last few trouble free years and it's some much better in terms of usability and comfort than the MIP ones I've had over the years.

Have a month old FR970 with HN receipt if any one is interested, pm me

I sold it yesterday and picked up a F8 Solar for the MiP screen.

It was my 2nd AMOLED and just wasn't a fan

How long before you look at replacing your Garmin?

My Venu about 4 years old, and while it's still working ok the battery is definitely not lasting as long. Wondering what the average life span is?

I've a 6 month old Forerunner 965 I'm thinking of selling to trade up for the bigger battery Fenix 8. If anyone's interested let me know. It's in perfect condition and have 2 spare straps (all black silicon and grey ultrafit nylon) that I can include.

If I recall correctly, they had a Black Friday sale last year but the latest models were not included.

I have a Forerunner 265 and when I look at my Personal Records it only shows 3 Half Marathons although I have done 6 now. My PB was in the DCM Half this year but the time shown in the list of personal records is about 1.5 minutes less than the actual Garmin time for the race. So I presume that Garmin has a preset distance for a HM and took my PB from the time I did that distance in?

The distances that are shown in my list of Personal Records are 21.3 km, 21.28 km, 21.35 km and the distances for the three not included in the list are 21.20 km, 21.45 km and 21.26 km.

Can anyone she any light on this?

sorry to hear it.

I’ve used the bray-to-UK process twice - no issues the first time, full warranty replacement sent out, and the second time the issue was the oh Pod! box that UPS asked me to drop the return parcel, and it sat there uncollected for 3 weeks - but I contacted Garmin and they agreed to sent the warranty replacement ahead of receiving my watch based on proving it was in the UPS system.