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vívoactive ® Owner’s Manual April 2016 190-02044-00_0A...
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Garmin Connect Settings ............10 Letting the Device Set Your Heart Rate Zones ...... 3 Device Settings on Your Garmin Connect Account ..... 11 Broadcasting Heart Rate to Garmin® Devices ......3 User Settings on Your Garmin Connect Account ....11 Tips for Erratic Heart Rate Data ..........
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Fitness Goals ................16 About Heart Rate Zones ............16 Heart Rate Zone Calculations ........... 16 Wheel Size and Circumference ..........16 Software License Agreement ........... 16 BSD 3-Clause License .............. 17 Symbol Definitions ..............17 Index ................18 Table of Contents...
VIRB VIRB camera status ® • If this is the first device you have paired with the Garmin vívoactive HR alarm status Connect Mobile app, follow the on-screen instructions. • If you have already paired another device with the Garmin...
Activity uploads to Garmin Connect: Automatically sends ® You can view wrist-based heart rate data on the heart rate your activity to your Garmin Connect account as soon as you widget. When both wrist-based heart rate and ANT+ heart rate finish recording the activity.
You can broadcast your heart rate data from your vívoactive HR distance traveled, calories burned, and sleep statistics. device and view it on paired Garmin devices. For example, you Intensity minutes: Tracks your time spent participating in can broadcast your heart rate data to an Edge device while ®...
Downloading Connect IQ Features Your device creates a daily step goal automatically, based on Before you can download Connect IQ features from the Garmin your previous activity levels. As you move during the day, the Connect Mobile app, you must pair your vívoactive HR device device shows your progress toward your daily goal with your smartphone.
(Pairing ANT+ Sensors, page 12). with the Garmin Connect community. Pair your ANT+ sensors, such as a heart rate monitor, speed You can also add Connect IQ activity apps to your device using sensor, or cadence sensor (optional).
Select to set the score. Before you go play a course for the first time, you must Select download it from the Garmin Connect Mobile app (Connected Your total score is updated. Features, page 1). Courses downloaded from the Garmin Connect Mobile app are updated automatically.
Select to start the timer. Duplicate activity names include a number. For example, Walk(2). History is recorded only while the timer is running. Select an option: Start your activity. • Select Use Default to create your custom activity starting Swipe up or down to scroll through data screens. from the default system settings.
• Select Delete to delete the selected activity. Garmin Connect account and keep it as long as you want. Viewing Your Time in Each Heart Rate Zone Analyze your data: You can view more detailed information...
If necessary, select the toggle switch to enable the data Using Garmin Connect Mobile screen. You can upload all of your activity data to your Garmin Connect Select a data field to change it. account for comprehensive analysis. With your Garmin Connect...
(System Settings, page 11). You can customize your device settings and user settings on If necessary, you can customize the data screens to display your Garmin Connect account. additional lap data (Customizing the Data Screens, page Customizing Your Device...
• From the settings menu in the Garmin Connect Mobile app, About: Displays the unit ID, software version, regulatory select Garmin Devices, and select your device. information, and license agreement. • From the devices widget in the Garmin Connect application, Time Settings select Device Settings.
Pairing is the connecting of ANT+ wireless sensors. The first • Update your fitness user profile information (Setting Up Your time you connect a sensor to your Garmin device, you must pair User Profile, page the device and sensor. After they are paired, the device •...
(Managing Notifications, page Thoroughly rinse the device with fresh water after exposure to • Stop broadcasting heart rate data to paired Garmin devices chlorine, salt water, sunscreen, cosmetics, alcohol, or other (Broadcasting Heart Rate to Garmin Devices, page ®...
™ Before you can update your device software, you must have a ◦ Sync your device to the Garmin Connect Mobile app using Garmin Connect account, and you must download and install your Bluetooth enabled smartphone. the Garmin Express application.
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%HRR: The percentage of heart rate reserve (maximum heart Interval Strokes/Length: The average number of strokes per rate minus resting heart rate). length during the current interval. 24-Hour Max.: The maximum temperature recorded in the last Interval SWOLF: The average swolf score for the current 24 hours.
LICENSE AGREEMENT. PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT Wheel Size L (mm) CAREFULLY. 12 × 1.75 Garmin Ltd. and its subsidiaries (“Garmin”) grant you a limited 14 × 1.5 1020 license to use the software embedded in this device (the 14 × 1.75 1055 “Software”) in binary executable form in the normal operation of...
Software remain in Garmin and/or its third- party providers. You acknowledge that the Software is the property of Garmin and/or its third-party providers and is protected under the United States of America copyright laws and international copyright treaties.
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