Another garmin issue - heart rate monitor

[pixy0stix]

I finally paired my heart rate monitor with my vivofit, which worked surprisingly well. EXCEPT, 20 min later the strap was still reporting to the vivofit that I was wearing it. They never unpaired. So I've got a 20 min space in my data that is reporting my resting heart rate even when I didn't have it on. Is this common with other devices? The strap was sitting in my gym bag which was next to me on the car seat.

[bluedaisyus]

I know I've read elsewhere to unsnap one side of HRMs to conserve battery because they will continue to send out a signal as long as they're hooked up, even if they're not connected to you. Usually it doesn't matter so much since other devices you're only recording for the time that you're doing the activity, but I'm guessing that since it was so close to the vivofit and it's a continuous monitor it just kept on recording. I guess that would be my suggestion, to make sure that you unsnap it to break the connection when you're not using it.