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Elevation not visible in tracked activity

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‎04-11-2024 07:43

‎04-11-2024 07:43

Hello,

for my college study, I have to correlate heart rate with elevation gain while going up and down the stairs. I am using Charge 4 with dynamic GPS option.

I have come upon the following problem: I have turned on the "walk" activity, I have waited for the GPS to connect, I have started the activity, and I have walked up and down the stairs 3 times. However, that activity on my phone and on my dashboard on the website only shows heart rate and calories burned. I am wondering why is elevation gain not visible? I have repeated this experiment 5 times, and every time elevation gain couldn't be visible. A few of the times the watch shoved a message that went like "Couldn't establish connection with GPS". Is GPS essential for tracking elevation gain, or does the activity need to be longer than x number of minutes? Or something else?
I have recorded activities while walking outside before and on activity review it showed everything: GPS tracking, heart rate, calories burned, elevation gain...

Thanks in advance.

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