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Garmin down? Reports surface of many Garmin watches crashing – are you affected? | Garmin Forerunner, Venu, Fenix and Epix watches are going down
Garmin Forerunner, Venu, Fenix, Epix, Vivoactive, Lily and Instinct watches are going down
(Image credit: Future / Matt Evans)For some of you, we imagine this is a minor inconvenience, such as not being able to get any Strava kudos on your 5km run or being unable to grab a limited-edited badge. However, a bricked cycling computer may mean that a user can't find their way home or has to go much slower and use a phone with Google or Apple Maps, stopping to check it regularly. Our reader reports getting his watch up and running again by doing a factory reset, which effectively erased all his data, and to add insult to injury he's unable to reconnect to Garmin Connect yet.
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