Display Mode in the sim and MIP devices shouldn't have Always Active

To be clear, for anyone else reading this bug report, the Settings > Display Mode menu item in the simulator currently has the following options:

- MIP devices (e.g. fr955): High Power, Always-Active

- AMOLED devices (e.g. fr965): High Power, Always-On, Off

> On a MIP display, it is always active.  They do have low power mode, which changes how often the display updates and allows for onPartialUpdate on devices that support it.
> I think for MIP devices, "Always Active" should be changed back to "low power"

Is the objection here simply to the name of the option ("Always Active" vs "Low Power Mode")? Or is there something wrong with the behavior of the "Always Active" option?

I tried both options on fr955:

- High Power causes onUpdate() to be called every second (and onPartialUpdate() is never called), as expected

- Always-Active causes onPartialUpdate() to be called every second (and onUpdate() is called once per minute), as expected

So unless I'm missing something, the behavior is correct.

As far as the name goes, according to the CIQ watch faces documentation, "Always Active Mode" is basically synonymous with Low Power Mode for MIP devices. I realize that you're thinking of "Always Active" as the feature which allows the watch to stay in low power mode indefinitely (as opposed to very old MIP devices, for example, which could not do this.) But Garmin is obviously using "Always Active Mode" a bit differently in this context.

I think the reason they renamed it is because they want to distinguish between MIP low power mode ("always active") and AMOLED low power mode ("always on"), since the behavior from the end user's POV is different (as there are different rules regarding what the screen can display in the two low power modes.)

Perhaps it would've been clearer in a way to call it "MIP low power" and "AMOLED low power" but I understand why they didn't do that.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/user-experience-guidelines/watch-faces/

To be clear, for anyone else reading this bug report, the Settings > Display Mode menu item in the simulator currently has the following options:

- MIP devices (e.g. fr955): High Power, Always-Active

- AMOLED devices (e.g. fr965): High Power, Always-On, Off

> On a MIP display, it is always active.  They do have low power mode, which changes how often the display updates and allows for onPartialUpdate on devices that support it.
> I think for MIP devices, "Always Active" should be changed back to "low power"

Is the objection here simply to the name of the option ("Always Active" vs "Low Power Mode")? Or is there something wrong with the behavior of the "Always Active" option?

I tried both options on fr955:

- High Power causes onUpdate() to be called every second (and onPartialUpdate() is never called), as expected

- Always-Active causes onPartialUpdate() to be called every second (and onUpdate() is called once per minute), as expected

So unless I'm missing something, the behavior is correct.

As far as the name goes, according to the CIQ watch faces documentation, "Always Active Mode" is basically synonymous with Low Power Mode for MIP devices. I realize that you're thinking of "Always Active" as the feature which allows the watch to stay in low power mode indefinitely (as opposed to very old MIP devices, for example, which could not do this.) But Garmin is obviously using "Always Active Mode" a bit differently in this context.

I think the reason they renamed it is because they want to distinguish between MIP low power mode ("always active") and AMOLED low power mode ("always on"), since the behavior from the end user's POV is different (as there are different rules regarding what the screen can display in the two low power modes.)

Perhaps it would've been clearer in a way to call it "MIP low power" and "AMOLED low power" but I understand why they didn't do that.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/user-experience-guidelines/watch-faces/