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Bug: Profiler Inconsistency

the-ninth
- Acknowledged on Jun 23, 2025
- 3 Comments
I'm currently working on performance optimizations using the Connect IQ profilers, but I'm encountering highly inconsistent results. In several cases, extremely simple functions appear to take disproportionately long to execute, according to the profiler...
- Jun 22, 2025 6:01 PM
Proposal: Watchdog Budget Indicator and Built-in Task Queue Support in SDK

the-ninth
- Acknowledged on Jun 23, 2025
- 0 Comments
I'm developing an app that processes large JSON data structures and uses them to instantiate and update a complex CustomMenu hierarchy. During this process, I frequently encounter Watchdog limits. To mitigate this, I’ve implemented an asynchronous task...
- Jun 22, 2025 5:35 PM
Proposal: Allow Larger Stack for Recursive Data Handling

the-ninth
- Acknowledged on Jun 23, 2025
- 1 Comment
I'm developing an app that processes large and deeply nested JSON data structures, where the structure is beyond my control. When handling recursive data, it's easy to hit stack overflow errors. To work around this, I had to rewrite recursive logic to...
- Jun 22, 2025 5:23 PM
Extended code space (:extendedCode) is not supported for some of the newest devices

RoWe
- Acknowledged on Jun 23, 2025
- 2 Comments
All new devices starting with API level 5.1.0 should support the ":extendedCode" option, but my compiler tells me WARNING: instinct3amoled45mm: Extended code space is not supported for device 'instinct3amoled45mm'. The (:extendedCode) annotation will...
- Jun 22, 2025 9:21 AM
Enhance documentation and development tools for the extended code space

9811827
- Acknowledged on Jun 22, 2025
- 0 Comments
The current description for the (:extendedCode) annotation lacks technical details about extended code space, and the memory view in the simulator doesn't seem to take into account the existence of extended code space (only the regular code size has smaller...
- Jun 21, 2025 2:40 PM
Request for Documentation and Simulator Accuracy on makeWebRequest() Limits

the-ninth
- Acknowledged on Jun 21, 2025
- 0 Comments
It appears that the API enforces a response size limit for Communications.makeWebRequest() , returning a -402 error when the limit is exceeded. Unfortunately, the documentation does not specify these limits, and behavior seems to vary between the simulator...
- Jun 21, 2025 6:14 AM
Calling ActivityRecording.createSession with invalid SPORT or SUB_SPORT causes exception

trudelta
- Acknowledged on Jun 21, 2025
- 6 Comments
Calling ActivityRecording.createSession on an actual device with SPORT or SUB_SPORT that is invalid for the watch model causes an exception. While this may be by design, there is no documentation with respect to the valid selections for a specific watch...
- Jun 20, 2025 1:03 PM
CIQ SDK 8.2 announcement and online API doc contradict each other about magnetometer support in :synchronous mode of Sensor.registerSensorDataListener()

flowstate
- Acknowledged on Jun 21, 2025
- 1 Comment
CIQ SDK 8.2 announcement: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/connect-iq-sdk-8-2-now-available :synchronous If true, samples from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer will be synchronized...
- Jun 20, 2025 9:09 AM
SDKManager 8.2.1 for Windows (connectiq-sdk-manager-windows.zip) is recognized as a Trojan

RoWe
- Acknowledged on Jun 20, 2025
- 2 Comments
sdkmanager.exe is recognized as a Trojan (Trojan:Win32/Bearfoos.A!ml) by Windows 11 and quarantined/removed
- Jun 20, 2025 6:25 AM
SDK 8.2.0 - No local documentation for Linux

9811827
- Acknowledged on Jun 20, 2025
- 5 Comments
Package "connectiq-sdk-lin-8.2.0-2025-05-27-67ddf1dcb" does not contain local HTML documentation. "README.html" redirects to "./doc/docs/Readme/Getting_Started.html", but there is no directory "./doc/docs".
- Jun 19, 2025 1:59 PM