Fenix 5S/5 - 9.10 Public Release Candidate

Hello Fenix 5S/5 users,

We have new beta software ready for your upcoming adventures!

Fenix 5S: http://www8.garmin.com/support/downl...s.jsp?id=11661
Fenix 5: http://www8.garmin.com/support/downl...s.jsp?id=11663

Note: Please allow for the updates to propagate across all servers. There is no need to post that the link does not work. It will after a bit of patience.

9.10 Change Log Notes:

Version bump System SW to 9.10. *Please be patient as this update may take longer to install than previous versions*

Please send all bug reports to [EMAIL="[email protected]"][email protected][/EMAIL], and indicate which model of the fenix 5 series you have in the subject line.

Please note, the beta updates released on these forums are not suitable for APAC region devices.

0 peteholloway over 7 years ago

Installed and booted up without a hitch.

0 piotridzikowski over 7 years ago

Installed without problems. Why no mention of "Added support for REM sleep phase detection and improved the accuracy of the existing sleep algorithm."? (as for FR 935)

0 Bandit over 7 years ago

could someone from garmin please answer my question!?!?

after fw 8.99 the distance of any activity is NOT added to the daily total distance. if my steps make 3 km and an activity is 20 km, my total distance of a day ist 3 km. this was not like this in fw 8.99 and before.

is this meant to be like this in you new opinion or is there something wrong with the new betas???? who cares about the distance taken by steps only?

if you make fundamental changes in calculating/displaying data and results, you should tell about it.

0 nmyeti over 7 years ago

Which distance field are you talking about? Is this something on a watch face?

0 Bandit over 7 years ago

i am talking about the total distance of a day. the distance is wrong in garmin connect (online), on my watch face and in a widget. including fw 8.99 and before the distance of activities was added to the total distance of a day.

see on the screenshot how it looks now: 3.287 steps + a mountain bike tour of 37,18 km makes a total distance of the day = 2,8 km ???ciq.forums.garmin.com/.../1357450.png

0 nmyeti over 7 years ago

I see what you mean now. My 14 mile bike ride was not included in that figure yesterday, but my 5 mile run and the rest of my walking was.

0 adammiarka over 7 years ago

Installed without problems. Why no mention of "Added support for REM sleep phase detection and improved the accuracy of the existing sleep algorithm."? (as for FR 935)

Would be interested to hear if this is included as well. Seem like it would be if the 935 got it.

0 Bandit over 7 years ago

I see what you mean now. My 14 mile bike ride was not included in that figure yesterday, but my 5 mile run and the rest of my walking was.

but it is not acceptable that the distance of (at least some) activities suddenly isn't added to the total distance anymore. this was done until fw 8.99 and this is the normal behavior one would expect - distance is distance.
the fenix is expected to be more on the professional or serious side of sports devices and i want to know the total distance of a day including all activities - not just steps.

i already wrote about this problem after fw 9.02 came out, but garmin doesn't even care or respond or fix this. fw 9.10 is a release candidate, so i have my doubts, that this will be fixed any soon. i am really angry about the way garmin behaves and releases one piece of software worse than the other (no matter if it is firmware or the ios garmin connect).

0 nmyeti over 7 years ago

Bandit, This could be a connect server side error. It may not be a cause for them to hold up the watch firmware release. I'll email the beta team as well and i'm sure they will fix it if possible. It just may not happen as fast as you'd like. I can only imagine that the "physio true up" stuff has made all sorts of back end web changes. I doubt that the Fenix team is uninterested in fixing this issue.

0 Bandit over 7 years ago

nmyeti, i doubt that this is a connect server side error. i would think that the data is first on the watch and then the watch is sending the data to the server. at least on my watch face and a widget the total distance was correct before, as it was on garmin connect online. now the total distance isn't correct on my watch either.

but you may be right with the assumption, that that "physio true up" messed up things.