Odd "flashlight" type indication when selecting Activity Start button

WD over 5 years ago

Since upgrading to v10, I now have this odd behavior when I select the activity START button, or END (exit activity mode) button. My screen will just momentarily turn a very light, translucent white (sort of like flashlight mode). I don't recall it even doing that. I wanted to see if anyone else had seen this. It just flashes, and then goes away. Everything else seems normal.

And it's not the backlight. I have actually seen it more after enabling the backlight with the light button.

**UPDATE**

So just on a whim, I changed my watch face to a Garmin default, and it doesn't do it. So its my watch face... in case anyone else sees it.

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Artivis over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil +1

As far as I can tell it applies to all CIQ watch faces I tested while having different brightness values set in the watch. It disappears when you use stock watch faces (or have same brightness values)
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0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago

Which watch face?

0 WD over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

infocal and half time are the two I have installed at present

0 Artivis over 5 years ago

I have the same effect

It seems to happen when you have a custom watch face and different brightness values for normal/activity display.

0 Dr Phil over 5 years ago in reply to Artivis

Which watch face? Need to be specific as otherwise it might be thought that this applies to all CIQ watch faces.

Have you contacted the developer of the watch face?

0 Artivis over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

As far as I can tell it applies to all CIQ watch faces I tested while having different brightness values set in the watch. It disappears when you use stock watch faces (or have same brightness values)

Seems like some delay in changing brightness levels when a CIQ watch face is used, rather a firmware problem then watchface specific.

Oh, and it happened also on last betas before 10.0

0 WD over 5 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

For me, it’s every third party watchface I install. And yes, I did inform the dev of the one I use consistently.

0 Sam201176 over 5 years ago

Yes I have it on all my installed CIQ watchfaces.....

A flash of blank screen ...... more prominent going back from activities/ apps... I don't see it moving back from a widget.

As already said... It started with the recent software version.

Doesn't effect functionality .....but its a bit weird to see.

0 WD over 5 years ago in reply to Artivis

I saw your comment about different brightness levels. I had not checked my levels until this AM. Mine was set to 20% on both, so I changed to 30% for each, and then 20% Activity and 30% non-activity, and I still have the same issue with same or different levels.

0 Artivis over 5 years ago in reply to WD

Ok, well maybe it is a deeper problem then.

I wrote to Garmin support about three weeks ago, still on beta 9.76 firmware.

They asked me first to film it and then send them the movie. I now I see that just before Christmas I got an email asking me to send the watch back to them for a replacement.