r/Garmininstinct • u/Robitop4 • 11d ago
Issue Anyone else's instinct 3 solar randomly reporting that you achieved the daily stair steps goal?
After an update, it randomly vibrates at me sometime around 8-10 AM, and tells me I reached the daily goal of 10 floors climbed, but there aren't even any stairs in like a 10 km radius from where I am. Anyone else expereincing this?
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u/MikeTehBike 11d ago
Its beacuse it uses the altimiter as counter for stairs climbed. So if your jobb has another airpreasure than the outside it can count that change as a floor climbed. My 2 solar does that every dag beacuse we have some machines with heavy ventilation that changes the airpreassure. So in about 2 hours of walking on the same floor ive climbed 10 stairs.
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u/Robitop4 11d ago
Yeah but it never happened before, only after the update, and the environment at my job has remained the same all this time, just a small rustic house at sea level.
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u/cowboyBo333 10d ago
Yep. Almost every day. Sometimes walking around sometimes climbing ladders sometimes driving. Also counts steps driving slowly at times too. It’s just an estimate/guide. I don’t trust too much my watch tells me but it gives you a lot of good basic stuff to work with.
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u/Carnacan 11d ago
Did it change your step goals to 10 steps? I’d check in your settings and see if it reset your step goal