All watch hands, or just the second hand? Are you familiar with low power and high power mode?
Connect IQ watch faces would take too much battery to update every second all the time since they take far more power than the native built in watch faces. Therefore a low power mode exists where the watch face is updated less frequently. In this "low" power mode, the seconds or second hands are usually not displayed and therefore disappear after a number of seconds when the watch transitions from high power to low power mode.
You are right, it's the low power and high power mode
It disappears only the second hand (and the other data like the step number, bluetooth icon etc.). I thought this is a bug with the analog watch faces. The second hand (and other data) appear if i shake or move the watch, but it takes about 1 second. That feels quite sluggish to me :(. Stupid, that the iq watch face consume so much power :confused:.
CIQ watchfaces often display much more data than the default ones (like steps/cals/movebar, etc). and if a watch is in lowpower mode all day, the watchface updates 1440 times (24x60). If it updated every second, it would update 86400 times (24x60x60). Low power mode makes sense, as out of those 86400 seconds during the day, how much of that are you looking at the watchface?
If you have the need to see seconds on a longer term basis than 10 secs at a time, a watch APP can be run that shows seconds during the time you need it.
Entering low power mode with CIQ watch faces is very frustrating. Can you disable 'low-power' mode? The Garmin analog watch face has a continual second-hand and does not enter 'low-power' mode. Even CIQ watch faces with just a second-hand and date will enter 'low-power' mode. Is there a setting to turn this off? Thanks for your help.
I'll let you in on a little secret: The default watch face does not run on the main processor, but instead runs on a much lower power micro which doesn't have enough memory to run Connect IQ. It honestly doesn't have enough memory to hold the screen buffer; I work with some mad/crazy embedded hackers here at Garmin. All that for a second hand.
We face similar challenges to other smart watches when it comes to balancing functionality and power usage. I think all smart watches have been figuring out how to offer the customize-ability of custom watch faces without killing the battery for the use cases the devices is intended before. We're starting with a conservative approach, but it could evolve over time.
