Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen

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Post by rsto » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 1:52 PM UTC

Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen
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Re: Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen

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Post by rsto » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 1:52 PM UTC

Users report their Garmin devices becoming unusable and the devices getting stuck in a boot loop. This not only seems to impact Forerunner devices. I experienced the same on my Garmin Forerunner 255 when I went running this morning.

There's also Forbes article now but it refers to the Reddit post: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwilliams/2025/01/28/garmi...

Re: Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen

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Post by noja » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 4:57 PM UTC

I bet it’s the positional data for the satellites being out of date.

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Post by drtournier » Tue, Jan 28, 2025, 6:57 PM UTC

Thank goodness it is a bug. For a second, I thought I was on the new squid game.

Re: Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen

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Post by noja » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 12:31 PM UTC

noja wrote: post #3

I bet it’s the positional data for the satellites being out of date.

Update: it was. See https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2025/01/garmin-watches-are-crash...

Re: Garmin Forerunner stuck cycling through triangle screen

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Post by aivisol » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 4:31 PM UTC

rsto wrote: post #2

Users report their Garmin devices becoming unusable and the devices getting stuck in a boot loop. This not only seems to impact Forerunner devices. I experienced the same on my Garmin Forerunner 255 when I went running this morning. There's also Forbes article now but it refers to the Reddit post: https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewwilliams/2025/01/28/garmi...

yep, happened to my Fenix 7 as well immediately as soon as I activated workout mode (i.e. started GPS).

Ended up with factory reset and restore from Connect App backup.