At 2.5 ounces, it’s a hefty watch, though it’s not quite as large as the Garmin fenix 6X Pro Solar Edition ($899 to $1,049), which is 2.9 ounces and is otherwise the same size as the Enduro. Save big on holiday gifts for everyone on your list. VÍVOACTIVE ® 5 GPS SMARTWATCHES. Health and fitness insights lit up on an AMOLED display This morning, as I always do, I drove 22 miles to work in the North west of England. According to several websites there is a difference in altitude between my start and finish points of circa 220 feet, the altimeter on my Fenix 5 shows no difference in altitude at any time in the last 4 hours. Fenix 6s Pro Altimeter wrong by 50 meters. 2526827 over 4 years ago. Hi, I have tried calibrating my altimeter for more than 5 times in the past week. I have done it manually by entering my altitude above sea level from Google maps which is 57 meters. Every night I check the altitude and it goes way off from 90 meters to 15 meters. If I go for a short out/back walk and calibrate the elevation at the start and then monitor the altimeter widget during the walk, the elevation is usually higher on the way back as the watch temperature decreases. Comparison to Fenix. I understand that environmental factors affect the altimeter, but I have seen other watches perform a lot better. The fenix 3hr, is a great watch. If you just want to track basic fitness stuff, you can't go wrong. Only if you REALLY want the newer metrics the 5(x) is worth it. I myself have a fenix 5 plus sapphire, but my trainer is still going strong on a 3hr sapphire. I've installed another one, did an GPS altimeter calibration again, it worked fine even after a restart, but only for a couple of hours. Now, again, the altimeter doesn't show anything. I did 2 soft resets, pushing the Light button until the watch stoped but still the same problems with the altimeter but now the watch face works just fine. The watch will in the default configuration attempt an automatic altimeter calibration during sleep if connected to a phone. It will ask the phone for coordinates (it will not use its own GPS), and then it will look up the coordinates in the internal DEM map to find the map altitude for those coordinates. Jose over 4 years ago. I recently bought a Fenix 5x and I've been having issues with the altimeter readings. For example, yesterday I manually calibrated it at a known elevation location near where I live, after that went for a walk around the neighborhood (not recording any activity) and by the time I got to the same spot the elevation was off f0echVP.

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