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Instinct Solar - 10.00 Public Release Candidate

Hello Instinct Solar users,

We have new beta software ready for your upcoming adventures! This is our public release candidate that is slated for release next week.

Please read the 'notes' and 'installation instructions' in the 'Updates and Downloads' page found in the link below. We look forward to your feedback!

Instinct Solar: https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=15394

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.

10.00 Change Log Notes:

Version bump to 10.00

For those who want the full list of changes since our last public release (9.40):

Added support for viewing battery percentage in main menu.
Added support for viewing recovery heart rate from the activity paused menu.
Added ability to delete and reinstall language files on device (Menu > Settings > System > Language ).
Made improvements to Alarms and Timers.
Made improvements to Solar Intensity chart.
Fixed potential crash during navigation.
Fixed an issue where the device would intermittently fail to save an activity.
Fixed stress recording during Yoga activities.
Fixed issue with Hourly Alert setting when accessed from SET menu.
Fixed issue where map datafield was not visible after using pan/zoom.
Fixed issue with Sleep Pulse Ox setting when accessed from the Activity Tracking menu.
Fixed possible crash and reboot when powering down.
[Tactical] Fixed issue with Jumpmaster setup.
[Surf] Brought in Surf improvements.

For any issues that you encounter, please send an email to [email protected]. In your email please include the software version, and a detailed description of your issue, along with any steps to reproduce. Please note that you may not get a response to the email unless we need more information on the issue you report.

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0 KarsiyakaRocks over 5 years ago

Hi all, especially Garmin_ODQA

Garmin's claim is 24 days battery life plus 30 days additional battery life if i daily solar-charged it 3 hours/day under good sunlight. As a result of my analysis (that it is hard to explain here) the watch has to gain %1 charge in 35 minutes under bright sunlight. Today i put my watch into a glass cup with water filled under the bright sun light for 45 minutes in battery saving mode.Then i checked it and saw that the battery increased from 80% to 82%. That means it gained approx. 2% in 45 minutes under sunlight.

As a result I can say clearly that there is no solar charging problem in version 10.0

And in addition we all wish a additional battery consuming page to the watch. That could be included a battery percentage - time graphic also indicates the source of energy "usb or solar". Thanks in advance

Regards.

0 Former Member over 5 years ago

Garmin_ODQA said:
installation instructions

Greetings fellow Instinct Solar owners! I recently jumped on the Garmin bandwaggon. I wish to manually install the 10.00 Public Release Candidate on my Instinct Solar but I can't find any instructions on how to do it. Could somebody spell out the installation instructions or point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance!

0 Odie21 over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin_ODQA

If this is “intentional”, then you may want to go back and have a conversation with your programmers.

0 Garmin_ODQA over 5 years ago in reply to Odie21

I had a conversation before posting the confirmation to you. This is indeed by design.

We wanted to give our customers a clear-cut visual difference between a charging/non-charging state.

0 WaleczneSerce over 5 years ago

The screen goes blank while running, is this on purpose? or any mistake?

0 Volker over 5 years ago in reply to WaleczneSerce

Take a look on the device via computer, if there is a debug folder with a ram files and other files; if yes, copy this folder and send it to the instinct fw team.

0 WaleczneSerce over 5 years ago in reply to Volker

After completing the run, the run was correctly saved, I think that "battery saving" may affect it

I'm waiting for some administrator to confirm.

0 Garmin_ODQA over 5 years ago in reply to WaleczneSerce

This will occur if you have a power mode enabled that disables the display. (ex. Menu>Settings>Power Manager>Power Modes>Max Battery>Display>Time Out)

Gesture and button press will wake it back up. This same feature is on fenix 6 series/MARQ.

0 Skyliner over 5 years ago in reply to Garmin_ODQA

Now with the new 10.00 firmware I noticed that the charging diagram in the watchface shows higher bars than in the solar widget. Before, the bars were always at the same height. I added the two photos where you can see it well.

0 Skyliner over 5 years ago in reply to Skyliner

Why does neither the Garmin Connect App nor the Instinct Solar Watch inform you that a new update is ready to be installed? I only see this when I go to Settings> System> Software Update on the clock.