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  • Grumpy_chap
    Grumpy_chap Posts: 18,325 Forumite
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    Everything synced into the Garmin app correctly and it discarded one set of heart rate, steps etc data so the daily record is all as expected :)  One thing that has tricked it is both walk activities have come across as events - I will watch until 8 pm to see if one deletes itself, otherwise I will manually delete the right wrist (secondary) activity.  I guess it is an outlier event to actually wear two devices at the same time while doing activity.
    The duplication did not automatically clear through syncing the devices so I had to intervene and manually delete the secondary recorded activity from the Garmin app.  This successfully resolved the parallel universe as the duplication quickly then erased from MyFitnessPal.  Mission accomplished.
  • Grumpy_chap
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    A little grumpy just now.  Went into my Garmin Connect App and found an advert popped into the screen. 
    First time ever and rather annoying given the app is the only way to use the Garmin devices for which we have paid handsomely.
    I am wondering whether this is a one-off or a setting that I previously had disabled and somehow enabled ads.
    Any ideas?
  • Sea_Shell
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    None here...yet.

    Will keep an eye out, but yes, it would be annoying.

    Does everything have to be "adified".

    Was it related to Garmin or fitness, or completely random ?
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)
  • Grumpy_chap
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    It was for a new launch Garmin watch.
    It was quite well targeted insofar as, even though I deleted the ad immediately, I still visited the website to have a sneaky look.  Very desirable it looks, too.  Not at £500, mind.  Plus, my main Garmin watch is new still - well, only 3.
  • Sea_Shell
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    Well I suppose that's sort of OK, if they are only advertising their own products.   Obviously, if you've bought one, you may like another, at some stage.   Like you say, it "worked" on you!!  ;)   

    I thought you were going to say it was for Washing Powder or something equally random.  
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)
  • Emmia
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    I'm not getting the advert -  nothing obvious in the settings either which might enable/disable
  • Grumpy_chap
    Grumpy_chap Posts: 18,325 Forumite
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    Another advert popped up today - so I was not imagining things last time:


    Really quite annoying.
  • Sea_Shell
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    I still haven't had one, thankfully.    Very odd mind.
    How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 2.60% of current retirement "pot" (as at end May 2025)
  • Grumpy_chap
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    edited 20 September 2023 at 8:54PM
    The other week, it was the Venu 3, £500.  Looked fantastic but expensive.
    Today, the Vivoactive 5, £250.  The update of my Vivoactive 3, so more logical for me, but it has fewer features (no floor count) than the current watch and the price seems to have more than doubled from when I purchased the current device.
    Either way, I don't want to be so rudely interrupted :(
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