Acknowledged
1 month ago

22.22 FR165 DrawRadialText symbol not found

Since the last update, 22.22, method Dc.drawRadialText stopped working on the FR165 and FR165m.
It works fine in the sim, but crashes on a real device with error "Symbol not found".

I reported this last month when it was still in Beta as well: 

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-165-series/forerunner-165-series---bug-reports/i/public-beta-version-22-xx/drawradialtext-symbol-not-found-in-dc

Now the software is rolling out, apps that use this will method will crash (including two of my watchfaces) with no easy way to work around this.

GreenBlack
  • 1 day ago

    Richard,

    thanks a lot! I can confirm that the FR165 family is back on track. I'd like to take back my mean accusations from my last post and keep on being a loyal CIQ developer in the future ;-)

  • 1 day ago

    An update to the Forerunner 165 and 165 music device configs have been made and pushed to production. I have checked that they no longer cause symbol not found errors in the simulator or on device.

  • 1 day ago in reply to aceholgi

    I'm unsure what happened so I will look into this and make some inquiries to the FR 165 product team and the CIQ Tools team as to why the device configurations aren't supporting it.

    The device has the true type fonts available and it shouldn't require a GPU to render angled and radial text.

  • 1 day ago

    So the issue isn't solved after 2 months. With SDK 8.x, support of drawRadialText() and drawAngledText() was dropped on the FR165. Therefore we have currently two choices: Discontinue support of FR165 on existing apps when compiling with SDK 8.x. Or stay with SDK 7.x for existing apps to further support customers who paid in the past for the app - but then the app won't be available to new devices like the Vivoactive 6, which isn't available under SDK 7.x. That's a BAD situation and totally avoidable by Garmin.

  • 1 month ago

    In the dev forum, Kyle.ConnectIQ said (2 hours ago):

    forums.garmin.com/.../1909530

    > An update to the fr165 and fr165 music should be starting to roll out next week with the fix. Once that starts to roll out we'll get the device configs updated as well.

    I assume this refers to a production firmware update.