Garmin added new country requirement - Country setting and actual location

With the Garmin Asia Run Series badges Garmin added a new type of requirement for badges that we have never seen before: You have to set the location in your Garmin account AND do the activity in a specific country.

It is pretty odd to require both. 

If you do an activity in the required country but haven't changed the country you will not get the badge.

The badge description didn't say that you had to do the activity in Malaysia except that it got the word "Malaysia". Usually the geo locked badges got a very clear description that you must do the activity in a certain place. If someone lives in Malaysia and got the location setting set to Malaysia and are on vacation in another country they will not get the badges either.

The races badges are geo locked to a certain course, but they do not require that you change the country setting. Just do the required activity in the correct location and you will get the badge. I think that Garmin should have used that mechanism instead of this one with two requirements that can cause issues for the users.

Garmin Badge Database
Garmin Connect
Change country setting

Comments

  1. Luke14 September, 2022 19:49

    Tapei badges are available now

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    1. e7andy14 September, 2022 22:26

      Thanks. Added to the database now. I will write about very soon.

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  2. Msdought15 September, 2022 15:29

    Also didn't help that there were no course fit files to download that contained the requisite GPS points in-country.

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    1. Zul Husni17 September, 2022 01:27

      I do have the gpx files of this event. What the differences between fit file and gpx file?

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    2. e7andy17 September, 2022 08:36

      Different file formats. I don't think that GPX files can be used for getting badges. You need to convert it to a FIT file, add a Garmin device and a time if it is a course.

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    3. Zul Husni17 September, 2022 16:19

      How to convert the file to FIT file? For a Garmin device and time i think can be adjusted once uploaded in the Garmin account isn't?

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    4. e7andy17 September, 2022 16:25

      I use Fit File Repair Tool. The device can't be added in Garmin Connect. Fit File Repair Tool can add the device as well.

      Delete
  3. StevenD18 September, 2022 09:37

    FFRT will allow you to import a gpx file into a fit file to get an event badge. Check my posts to get the Garmin Ride Out Badges in august.

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