Repair a broken activity file
Your file never leaves your device — conversion happens here in your browser.
Garmin Connect is fussier than most platforms about how a TCX or GPX file is put together. Garmin's own TCX schema expects XML elements in a specific order, and Garmin Connect's importer isn't always forgiving when that order is off — which happens more often than you'd expect with a file that's been hand-edited, exported by a third-party tool, or reassembled from another format. The result is a silent rejection, an error with no useful detail, or an import that technically succeeds but is missing laps or a chunk of the route. It's a frustrating problem because the file often looks completely normal if you open it in a text editor. FitFileHub's repair tool checks the things that actually cause this: a corrupted or malformed header (common after a file has been through another converter, and something Garmin Connect will refuse outright), out-of-order or missing timestamps, and duplicate points — all of which can distort the structure Garmin Connect expects to parse cleanly. It shows you exactly what it found before changing anything, so you're not guessing which part of the file was the problem. If you need the output specifically as TCX, FitFileHub's writer follows Garmin's expected element ordering, which sidesteps the structural mismatch that trips up hand-rolled or loosely-generated TCX files in the first place. Everything happens locally in your browser — the file with your GPS route never gets uploaded to fix it, which matters if you're already wary of bouncing a file between random online converters just to get it into Garmin Connect. Free for files up to 25 MB, three at a time.
Questions
Why does Garmin Connect reject a file that opens fine elsewhere?
Garmin Connect's TCX importer expects a specific element order and a clean, well-formed header. A file can display fine in a map viewer or text editor and still fail Garmin's stricter structural check.
Why did only part of my activity import — like missing laps?
Partial imports usually trace back to a structural issue partway through the file, such as out-of-order timestamps or a malformed section, that stops Garmin Connect's parser partway through rather than failing the whole file.
Does converting to TCX with FitFileHub guarantee Garmin Connect will accept it?
It removes the most common cause — element ordering and structural defects — by writing TCX in Garmin's expected order and by fixing the underlying corruption first. It can't account for account-specific issues on Garmin's side.
Do I need a Garmin account to use this tool?
No. FitFileHub doesn't connect to Garmin Connect or any account — it just repairs the file on your device so you can upload it yourself afterward.