Fenix 5x 2.90 software bugs

Former Member over 8 years ago

I have noticed these errors. Please add yours below; I haven't seen a thread regarding bugs with the current firmware.

If I open the "navigation" app, go in the menus of it but don't start the activity, then exit the app, sooner or later the watch will crash. Even if I start the activity, it has been known to crash. Weirdly, the clock will still work as normal but none of the buttons will work. I then have to hold the backlight button and restart the watch. If the backlight was already on, it will remain on.
The watch doesn't seem to automatically zoom the map unless in navigation mode. Perhaps this is normal, I'm not sure.
If you start the navigation app, load a course but don't start the activity, exit the app and then start the walk app, you'll see it still thinks it's in navigation mode.

The crashing is especially annoying and hopefully it is just a software bug. Read my separate post to replicate the fault.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Having sporadic issues with HR display in watch face data fields. With default garmin faces it displays 46 statically. With downloaded watchfaces it displays nothing or -- depending on how the watchface was programmed.

The HR widget works fine and displays the last 4 hours of HR without any issues.

When picking a watchface the HR displays the right number on the selection screen of custom faces but after applying the face it nulls out.

It might 'stick' like this with no data or a static 46 on the Garmin faces for considerable time, 3 hours I think is the longest I've noticed.

The 46 matches up with my average RHR over the last 9 months of having a Garmin device. I'm 'assuming' that the HR data field on the Garmin fields is the current heart rate but if it is the total average that makes sense as to why it doesn't change.

Restarting the watch has no immediate impact, the numbers just start displaying again eventually.

I made a custom watchface with some googlefu just for displaying current HR and saw the same sporadic display using the below code which displays 255 when it breaks.

using Toybox.ActivityMonitor as Act;
var hr = View.findDrawableById("HRLabel");
var HRH=Act.getHeartRateHistory(1, true);
var HRL=HRH.next();
hr.setText(HRL.heartRate.toString());

0 pr0wler over 8 years ago

Face IT watch faces doesn't work

I can't send custom watch faces from the Face It app anymore. Someone else seen this?

I also tried to start a Live Track by starting a navigation. This rendered no tracking online even though the Live Track was started and everything looked good on the watch. This should work right? However, I don't know if it worked before 2.90.

0 Former Member over 8 years ago

Can't seem to initiate "pairing mode" -- manual says to hold light button and press select...does not work; only toggles Bluetooth on and off

Holding the light button goes into the quick menu and my guess is that it's just a quick way to enable/disable the connection but not pair it. Have you tried going into settings and pairing the phone that way? Good luck :).