Could the Light Button wake up watch faces, please?

Maybe I'm the only one who has some problems to wake up watch faces by a flick of the wrist. Anyway: I wonder why the light button does not wake up watch faces, because when the user presses the light button, he/she os obviously willing to spend some battery charge but wants to "see" something in expense. This is particularly useful if a watch faces hides some status information for most of the time, but displays it when it is not sleeping.

Comments?

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 9 years ago

Interesting question, and one for which I don't have an answer. I'll forward this on for consideration (at at least to find out why this design decision was made).

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

I like this idea. It's just like a "gesture" that drops a watchface out of low power!

Former Member over 9 years ago

I'll throw this one out as a possible similar enhancement:

Have on options in settings to automatically turn on the backlight with the same wrist-flick gesture that puts the watch into high power mode. I know all people wouldn't want this so it should be an optional setting.

I have this on on one of my G-Shock watches and really like that the backlight turns up when I look at the watch. With all the smarts in the Fenix3 you could even make it smarter and ONLY turn the backlight on with the gesture when the watch knows it's dark out. :-)

Nikeow over 9 years ago

what I want -

Backlight on when user is in an activity and it's dark out.
say like run app is on, user can set the backlight to be on from 5am till sunrise at 7am. Could be something configurable. (just like the sleep monitor thing)

Former Member over 8 years ago

A friendly bump...

I'd really like this feature and since there was a thread for it I'll just bump it