Epix (gen 2) with 13.22 - onEnterSleep fires before watch sleeps

Has anyone else noticed an unusual quirk with the latest epix software and the onEnterSleep function timing? I noticed this myself, and I've had some customers write in asking for help.

For ConnectIQ watch faces (mine and other developers'), the onEnterSleep() function seems to be getting called a few seconds before the device actually sleeps. This causes the low-power mode version of my faces to display before they're supposed to.

Video of the behavior (from a customer) is here:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/cg3TQPYRGtECi3Ve8

This customer has AOD off. Around the 8-second mark, my watch face goes into the low-power mode. But the watch face doesn't actually turn off for another few seconds.

This seems to be impacting all my faces now, and it's also impacting other developers' faces I downloaded from the store. All mine were all built with 4.2.4, and they were working fine until customers updated to 13.22.

Notably, built-in Garmin faces are not having this issue, so it seems related to Connect IQ only.

Thanks!

Mike

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Jinsuu over 2 years ago +1

The power and light behavior of AMOLED devices is different from MIPS devices.

I noticed the same thing, and for AMOLED devices this issue was not present before 13.22.

If the backlight timeout is set…

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myaro over 2 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

Yes, that's related to this issue.

Another issue is that tapping the touchscreen sometimes don't extend the wake state (e.g. if you tapped repeatedly on the watch face in a prior firmware, you could extend the wake state indefinitely, which was helpful when reading data-rich watch faces). And it also sometimes doesn't wake the watch if it's just gone to sleep.

Chris in the forums from Garmin acknowledged this issue, made a ticket, and said it's being considered for the Q3 release. Probably the next major software update.

I'd suggest DMing him with your details to apply further support to this.