I previously emailed [email][email protected][/email] before the 5.10 release and they said something along that it's by design even tho it's clearly a bug, you may want to email them and let them know.
Same here. It's ridiculous actually. I was miffed when I got rid of my Fenix 3 and got the 5 only to find that the manual "Go to Sleep" option available on the Fenix 3 was non-existant on the 5. In a utopian world I would go to sleep and wake at the same time every day, even weekends. Alas, I often swap between showing to work in the morning on a normal schedule and the sometimes shifting to nights. As such my sleep schedule is in constant flux and the go to sleep function was great on the 3. I just manually put it to sleep when I climbed in bed. This was essentially DND- no alerts, no backlight and locked keys. When you hit a key other than the backlight the watch asked you "wake up - yes or no". You selected the right option. When you hit wake up that was your wake time in connect. Heck, I even figured out if I synced with connect after my sleep, if I put the watch to sleep for a nap and then synced again upon waking the watch counted the sleep as a nap! Magical. Yes I had to manually hit the go to sleep but it was way more acurate then using sleep times and the watch catching things like me sitting still watching TV on a night I stayed up late when I got home from work and counting it as sleep.
Now I have a 5 and none of this works. They had a crappy sleep time setting and DND, neither of which work for my life and probably quite a few others. This new firmware makes it worse! Didn't think they could manage to make sleep tracking functionality worse after the loss I describe above from the 3 to the 5, but congrats you managed to Garmin.
Guess I'll send an email to garmin as well citing all this and asking why the go to sleep function on the 3 can't be ported to the 5. Can't be an issue with the fact sleep is tracked via servers- worked on the 3 with connect servers.
Some may need the watch to sense for them with auto DND and sleep times, but others need a manual option to work with crazy (and sliding) sleep schedules!
Same here. It's ridiculous actually. I was miffed when I got rid of my Fenix 3 and got the 5 only to find that the manual "Go to Sleep" option available on the Fenix 3 was non-exsistant on the 5. In a utopian world I would go to sleep and wake at the same time every day, even weekends. Alas, I often swap between showing to work in the morning on a normal schedule and the sometimes shifting to nights. As such my sleep schedule is in constant flux and the go to sleep function was great on the 3. I just manually put it to sleep when I climbed in bed. This was essentially DND- no alerts, no backlight and locked keys. When you hit a key other than the backlight the watch asked you "wake up - yes or no". You selected the right option. When you hit wake up that was your wake time in connect. Heck, I even figured out if I synced with connect after my sleep, if I put the watch to sleep for a nap and then synced again upon waking the watch counted the sleep as a nap! Magical. Yes I had to manually hit the go to sleep but it was way more acurate then using sleep times and the watch catching things like me sitting still watching TV on a night I stayed up late when I got home from work and counting it as sleep.
Now I have a 5 and none of this works. They had a crappy sleep time setting and DND, neither of which work for my life and probably quite a few others. This new firmware makes it worse! Didn't think they could manage to make sleep tracking functionality worse after the loss I describe above from the 3 to the 5, but congrats you managed to Garmin.
Guess I'll send an email to garmin as well citing all this and asking why the go to sleep function on the 3 can't be ported to the 5. Can't be an issue with the fact sleep is tracked via servers- worked on the 3 with connect servers.
Some may need the watch to sense for them with auto DND and sleep times, but others need a manual option to work with crazy (and sliding) sleep schedules!
This exactly!
I never had the Fenix 3, but the sleep tracking on the Fenix 5 is completely useless for me; I more or less travel for a living. Constant time zone changes and disruptive schedules mess with my sleeping habits. The sleep tracking as it is on the Fenix 5 is therefore not usefull for me. And - as mentioned by Denroe75 - probably for many other users as well.
Sleep tracking the way you describe it from the Fenix 3 would be the way to go. Can't be that difficult to implement if it was already existent on the Fenix 3.
Thanks everyone for follow up on DND being impacted by this latest update. We are working to resolve and will include it in an upcoming update. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks everyone for follow up on DND being impacted by this latest update. We are working to resolve and will include it in an upcoming update. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks for the quick reply! Any idea on the feasibility on porting the 'go to sleep' functionality found on the Fenix 3 to the 5, or is this something Garmin has abandoned? Do I need to send a functionality request in for this, and if so where do I send it? Thanks!
Yeah, I emailed the beta team about this before the general release as well - I guess they thought it was more important to get the release out than fix this first.
