C-IQ 2 datafield limitation on fenix5X

Hi,
I am quite annoyed these days because I have just purchased a stryd power sensor.. As I already had a Smo2 BSX Insight and want to use a specific datafied presentation (Datarun) compatible with power management, I am blocked by the 2 CI-Q datafield limitation.
Do you have any clue or roadmap to extend this feature ? It is quite surprising that the FR735X with less memory has a 3 datafield limitation.
Thanks for your help,
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tmk2 over 7 years ago

It is quite surprising that the FR735X with less memory has a 3 datafield limitation.

The FR735XT gives you one additional datafiled at the cost of not giving you access to any widgets (including IQ widgets) when an activity is running. I guess memory is not an issue here, but rather computing power. For 2 datafields the watch needs to run 2 IQ virtual machines simultaneously, and those are CPU-intensive.

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

(There's actually a bug on the 735xt after being in the stop state long enough the activity times out and you can access the widget loop which has as a side-effect that the 3rd ciq data field is killed upon resuming. Anyway rare case which has as workaround to just save the activity instead of letting it time out. But i guess this story also proves that the memory is really limited to what it is).

having said that I think it's not realistic to see the limit increased on existing devices but i do hope that future watches will have the ability to run more data fields simultanously.