I'm on 7.2 and after a period of not moving my wrist, the display turns completely off (this is after the expected dimming) even though I have Always On selected. I hope this is a bug and not one of the ways it gets the 6 days of battery life.
I'm on 7.2 and after a period of not moving my wrist, the display turns completely off (this is after the expected dimming) even though I have Always On selected. I hope this is a bug and not one of the ways it gets the 6 days of battery life.
Updated October 18th, 2022:
If your display was turning off despite your settings, the v9.37 software update has fixed the issue.
This picture will help and the Support Center article…
Thanks, Chris. Yes, that does help but given those specifications there isn’t really an option for a display that is always on so “Always on Display” is misleading (and now it makes sense how Epix is able…
I hope the 7 works out better for you. I’ll never be able to go back to that muted screen after having the Epix for a week.
To reiterate my experience, AOD on, gestures off, and I literally never…
It'll be interesting to see how much it affects battery life.
Apart from the non-AOD, the only niggle for me is that you cannot turn the brightness down even further. Here it's dark 6 months a year and lowering the brightness could've saved me quite some battery.
That's actually one more thing a cannot understand. Why wouldn't Garmin let us lower the brightness more? I cannot see a single downside with that, for anyone.
I agree, I tend to like very, very dim displays not for battery as much as just preference. But I suppose one possible reason might be that it's not possible to dim further without flickering or color issues? Purely a guess.
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I remember reading of someone having trouble with slight flickering on the lowest brightness setting, on a certain watch face,I think it was.
Yes, when I'm reading or working on the computer (basically most of the day when I'm not running), it's off all the time. Typing is not enough to keep is awake. It also doesn't wake with just a twitch. It doesn't take quite a full gesture to wake, but usually it's a pretty reasonable shake.
This is really worrying since previous reports have been telling how very sensitive it is.
It seems it is more and more of a false advertising calling this an AOD.
AOD should at least be connected to having a reading from the HR sensor. As long as it has a reading, it should stay on the whole time.
I sat here tonight trying to get it mine to go off and I wasn't able to do so without removing from my wrist. I set mine up same as my 5x. With AOD on and gestures off in general mode and gestures on during activities. Seems to stay dim nicely though can still make out the sweep hands while dimmed. On the couch watching TV trying to slow my hr below 30 the Epix stayed on/dimmed. Sleep mode works well on schedule blacking out the screen and set so takes a button push to display. Only had the watch since noon today, though took for a run after fully setting it up as I thought best, then monitored it through the evening. I am hopeful set up as is will match my run time or best that of my 5x which has been roughly 6 days with 1-2 hrs of gps daily.
Did you update to 7.2 fw? The previous fw (actually it was a rc fw) acted differently.
It is not so extremely sensitive. During office ours (typing, phoning etc.) it is off 50% of the time.
Yes. Updated to 7.2 right away.
**update. This morning I was able to see the screen go dark. In the bathroom. Lol. Where I go to completely relax. And sitting very still at the computer. Any slight motion brings back the dimmed screen though.
Are you using Garmin watchface or 3rd party one?