Navigation course : no full screen display available

Photo.. Attempt..

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xz3acmn5dggrsaq/2017-04-11%2012.47.14.jpg?dl=0

Hope this works..

Well, I give up. I must have tried every combination of settings related to map, routing, navigation, data screens (so much so I wonder if I should factory reset to ensure everything is back as it should be) and can never manage to get the map full screen when navigating a course.

+1 !
Nevertheless, whatever the config to do to have this full screen map, F5x Garmin UI is unclear (even with 0 field, I have a field displayed... ) !!
If you achieve to determine the right config, I am interested :)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/xz3acmn5dggrsaq/2017-04-11%2012.47.14.jpg?dl=0

Hope this works..

Thanks for posting this. I genuinely found it difficult to believe the field could be removed because I have tried absolutely everything (except obviously whatever you did, hahaha).

I'm also interested in this thing, it's absurd than i can't remove this data from navigation map!

Configuration.. So far.

Run settings
Data screens
The map screen is actually configured for layout 3 fields. Field 1 lap distance, field 2 lap time, there is no field 3 setting.. None of these fields show on the screen during use!

Map configuration.
I just have the one map configured for each activity..
Topo for running. Bike for bike.
I've tried lots of third party maps and while the detail can be a lot better, they have been rubbish for routing so far. So stick with garmin.

Use system settings. Off
Detail. High

Routing
. Activity. Hiking
. Courses. Follow course

That's about all I've edited.. I think!

Navigate a Course and screens

OK, just got my F5X and have had a quick play with the navigate course features.

Firstly, I downloaded a trail course for my locality as a fit file. It was converted from a tcx file in my desktop SportTracks with Courses Plugin. I included some selected turns. [This is a whole other story.]

There are two ways to use that course: with Navigate or within an App Activity.

With Navigate:
From watchdace, Start and select Navigate > Courses > [select downloaded course] > Do Course.
When I use this I have a map with no lower screen data field and I get my chosen TBTs as I do the course
(is this what Swoody was doing rather than second method below?).
The only screens I get are those I setup in Navigate settings.
When saved and uploaded this appears as 'Other' in Actvity Type on GC.

From within an App Activity:
From watchface, Start > Trail Run (or your chosen app).
Before start press long up (menu) > Navigation > Courses > [select downloaded course] > Do course.
Then when you have a GPS lock press start.
The map this time has a lower data field that I can not get rid of (I have tried every which way, including Swoody's).
This time I get all my setup Trail Run screens and the Navigation screens.
When complete it is saved to GC as a Trail Run.

The second method is my prefered as it would I am sure be for others using their chosen app activity. In which case they are stuck with the map screen being severly obscured by a data field. [Edit: by data field I should say information data rather than a prescribed data field that you can set within maps; I set that option to zero. That setting has no effect on the appearance of the data information field that is the issue.]

With Navigate:
From watchdace, Start and select Navigate > Courses > [select downloaded course] > Do Course.
When I use this I have a map with no lower screen data field and I get my chosen TBTs as I do the course
(is this what Swoody was doing rather than second method below?).
The only screens I get are those I setup in Navigate settings.
When saved and uploaded this appears as 'Other' in Actvity Type on GC.

Even when doing this I get the distance field at the bottom of the map. Either there is a bug here and depending on "something" you get the field or not, or there is some setting somewhere we do not appreciate which is affecting this.

Same I have deleted the field, and re added the field, routing is set to follow course and I still have the distance field. I am on ver 2.90.

Another bug I have noticed is if you start the navigation app and click on a course but don't start the activity, then exit it and then go to walk app, it still thinks you're trying to navigate a course. In practicality it doesn't matter because you have no reason to open the navigation app and not start a course, but it's quite amusing to me. If you're good at beta testing, finding bugs like this is quite easy. Amusingly, whenever I report bugs to Garmin support, they spam me with the "reset your watch" or "update your watch" drivel rather than accept someone who codes might know a little about bugs.

I don't think I will sodomise my brain cells by reporting this but if someone else wants to, be my guest haha.