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I did a quick search of this forum and didn't see this problem but if someone can point me to a thread with some solutions, I'd be grateful!
I have a Garmin forerunner 610 that I bought last fall. It's worked great for close to a year but just yesterday I put it on the charger and the battery % went down instead of up. I googled and found some suggestions on the Garmin forum (cleaning contacts and applying olive oil to contacts) which didn't solve things for me. I haven't done a hard reset yet, that's my next step. In the meantime, I'm hopeful that one of you smart people will have a solution : )
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I've had this problem too. I think it was caused by a sloppy connection with that magnetic and spring loaded cradle. (I did find others on the net reporting a similar problem). I purchased a new charging cradle. Haven't had a problem since.
I had the same problem. The design of the cradle is the issue. I purchased one of these from my local hardware store and it fixed the problem (I bought the $2 dollar knockoff version).
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I had the 405 and for the past year I have had a thick rubber band wrapped around the charging clip in order for the garmin to charge. Could be a similar loose-connection issue with your 610.
I have this same problem all the time and it drives me crazy.
The best way I have found to deal with it is by cleaning the contacts on both the watch and the charger with wet wipes before every charge and using a clothes pin to hold the watch on to the cradle.
Then I check it to make sure the charge is going up instead of down if it is going down I pull it off and re-seat it on the charger a few times and that tends to do the trick.
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I have this same problem all the time and it drives me crazy. The best way I have found to deal with it is by cleaning the contacts on both the watch and the charger with wet wipes before every charge and using a clothes pin to hold the watch on to the cradle. Then I check it to make sure the charge is going up instead of down if it is going down I pull it off and re-seat it on the charger a few times and that tends to do the trick.
I do something similar with my 620 -- it used to charge down instead of up, and I tried a few different things before I found what seems to work for me. It's more of a problem when it's hot out and the watch gets sweaty (as opposed to when I'm wearing it over a long sleeved top), so I dry the contacts right away, and if I see that it starts to look like it's corroding, I dab them with a cotton swab dipped in rubbing alcohol. Did the trick for me so far.
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Sorry to hear I'm not the only one but thanks for the ideas!
I cleaned the contacts with windex and a toothbrush (didn't help) and tried putting a small drop of olive oil on the contacts (google leads to weird ideas sometimes; also didn't work). I'll try clipping or rubber banding the charging cradle to the watch before I try the hard reset : )
I think Garmin wants me to do a firmware upgrade on the watch (a message popped up the last time I downloaded data) but I don't want to do that as I'm concerned it will make uploading to RA harder. It took me a couple of weeks to get back to where I could upload to RA after I installed new drivers or whatever to put new maps on my Garmin Nuvi.