Venu 4 sleep tracking
Bought a Garmin Venu 4 a month ago to help manage stress, but it has turned into yet another source of stress.
The main issue is sleep tracking. Two or three times a week, I wake up after a perfectly normal 7–8 hour night of sleep and see either "Sleep not detected" or something absurd like "You slept 16 minutes."
My bedtime routine is fairly consistent. During the last hour before sleep, I either watch something while sitting at my desk or read a book while lying in bed. Interestingly, those mysterious "16 minutes of sleep" are often recorded during this period. After that, I actually go to sleep and manually start Activity → Sleep on the watch.
I've tried pretty much every suggestion I could find online:
- Disabled Evening Report
- Disabled Morning Report
- Adjusted my sleep schedule
- Manually started Activity → Sleep before going to bed
- Tightened the watch strap to the point where my fingers were practically going numb
- Installed the beta firmware (currently 17.19)
Nothing has helped.
As a bonus, I discovered that once you're on beta firmware, you cannot downgrade to the stable release unless the stable version number becomes higher than the beta version currently installed.
At this point, my bigger concern is trust. If the watch is this unreliable when it comes to something as obvious as sleep duration, how can I trust any of the other metrics it reports?
Am I doing something wrong? Has anyone else experienced this? Were you able to fix it?