Fēnix 5 Series and Chronos - 19.74 Beta Release

Hello Fenix 5 series and Chronos customers,

We have new beta software ready for your upcoming adventures!

Fenix 5s: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11661
Fenix 5: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11663
Fenix 5x: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=11665
Fenix Chronos: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=14862

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.

19.74 Change Log Notes:

Made miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

Note: Users who found corrupted settings after installing version 19.72 will need to manually change these settings back to their intended values. We recommend a master reset of all settings as the most thorough option for resolving any potential corruption.

Please send all bug reports to [email protected], 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 JM_Zogg over 5 years ago

Has somebody experience with the 19.74 Firmware Beta Release?

0 nicoti200 over 5 years ago

No issue here (no drain/ no BT issue with iphone ). Made a run with GPS/Galileo 40 min, 4% drain only. So far so good.

0 RonHi over 5 years ago in reply to JM_Zogg

My Stress widget started working again. I don't check it often but I think it was not working while I was on 19.73 Beta

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

I'm frequently still seeing discharge rates of ~1.5-2% per hour after charging. It usually takes multiple restarts and/or soft resets to get down to a "reasonable" .4-.6% per hour.

0 Doktorko over 5 years ago

I can confirm, that notifications disappear after timeout set on this version, so it looks fixed. I tried bike yesterday and also looks OK.

0 Merial over 5 years ago

For me this is the best version I have ever installed on the Fenix 5. There is finally no battery drain anymore and the version looks stable. Thank you to the team!! :)

0 Cedricg_38 over 5 years ago

What about open Swim ? I never had such a bad tracking with 19.1FW: 4km instead of real 3km swim and track is almost never in water but way off ...

0 Merial over 5 years ago in reply to Cedricg_38

The GPS was not updated in this version, same GPS version as the previous one.

0 Cedricg_38 over 5 years ago in reply to Merial

I used FW 12.0 before 19.1. I regret to have installed 19.1, 12.0 had no issues for me

0 Doktorko over 5 years ago in reply to Cedricg_38

Cedric, you can go back to that version at any point. Each version have option to go back to previous version. You just install back date file (in this case it is backdate file from beta 12.21. Though I would not recommend that as there were many fixes since that version.