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over 1 year ago

FR645 and others since fw 7.20: major issues with custom fonts

ConnectIQ apps, watchfaces, widgets with custom fonts are failing and showing the IQ! symbol. See these topics for more information:

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/324531/major-issues-with-custom-fonts-after-latest-device-fw-updates

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/324099/forerunner-645-firmware-7-20-errors

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-645-645-m/324599/iq-watch-face-broke-after-7-20-update/1574757#1574757

I'm seeing many reports of unhappy users with failing watchfaces. Please fix this as soon as possible Garmin. 

VAW.BE
  • over 1 year ago

    Also GPS is worse with 7.20 update. Still think they do all this on purpose to buy a new watch.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to 2769103

     wrote:
    "Infocal" watchface is broken for example.

    I know apps are crashing. We know that the firmware change causes app crashes for fonts that have unusual attributes. As far as I can tell this issue only occurs for fonts created manually by a developer, which is a very common trick used to efficiently do icons in watch faces. Right now I'm looking for anything that shows this problem isn't isolated to hand edited .fnt and .png files).

    The post from  is exactly what I'm looking for. If I can reproduce the problem with a font that is not hand edited, then this becomes a totally different issue than we had originally understood.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Travis.ConnectIQ

    "Infocal" watchface is broken for example.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Travis.ConnectIQ

    Hi Travis,

    This is a BMFont config file used to generate a font which (without any manual modifications) causes the crash according to ERA.

    It uses the DejaVu font which you can download for example here: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/dejavu-sans

    Will this be sufficient?

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Travis.ConnectIQ 

    # AngelCode Bitmap Font Generator configuration file
fileVersion=1

# font settings
fontName=DejaVu Sans Condensed
fontFile=
charSet=0
fontSize=-14
aa=4
scaleH=100
useSmoothing=1
isBold=1
isItalic=0
useUnicode=1
disableBoxChars=1
outputInvalidCharGlyph=0
dontIncludeKerningPairs=0
useHinting=1
renderFromOutline=0
useClearType=1
autoFitNumPages=0
autoFitFontSizeMin=0
autoFitFontSizeMax=0

# character alignment
paddingDown=0
paddingUp=0
paddingRight=0
paddingLeft=0
spacingHoriz=1
spacingVert=1
useFixedHeight=1
forceZero=1
widthPaddingFactor=0.00

# output file
outWidth=256
outHeight=256
outBitDepth=8
fontDescFormat=0
fourChnlPacked=0
textureFormat=png
textureCompression=0
alphaChnl=0
redChnl=0
greenChnl=0
blueChnl=0
invA=0
invR=0
invG=0
invB=0

# outline
outlineThickness=0

# selected chars
chars=32-126,176

# imported icon images