Display behavior when off wrist

I was yesterday bike riding with Epix in handle bar. It was somewhat frustrating, because I had AOD set to off, but still the display was on most of the time. It seems that every bump keeps display active. I'm not happy with this, because most of the time the screen is in dimmed state, which I cannot see properly. So basically display just drains the battery with no use for me. Another problem is that, when the screen is in dimmed state I cannot get it to full brightness without performing some other action, i.e. if press up/down screen goes to full brightness, but the same time it changes also the screen which I don't want to happen. If the screen could just work the same way as in wrist (i.e. turn off after 8 secs), I could wake it to full brightness without performing any other action at the same time when I need to see it. Now it seems that there is not much difference if AOD is on or off, when the watch is off the wrist. I would think that setting AOD off should save the battery, but now it doesn't. I really don't understand why the screen is working differently depending is the watch on or off the wrist.

0 jaamgans over 2 years ago

When you AOD was off, was wrist gesture on?

AOD off for an activity works very differently compared to AOD off general use. with general use it absolutely requires a wrist gesture. With activity there is less movement required, and also works off a height/level setting - and it will also stay on longer if the watch is kept at same level (makes sense if you are say running and want to see a metric, you don't want it timing off after 8s). Due to this I can fully understand why your watch kept on longer than expected. I would suggest switching off wrist gesture if you are going to put it on a bike mount, and instead use touch/button to wake screen as necessary - palm touch will also turn off screen.

0 Jakabob over 2 years ago in reply to jaamgans

Yes, wrist gesture was on. I will test next bike activity with wrist gesture off if that helps. Only problem with that is that it cannot be set individually for each activity. It is quite annoying if I have to toggle it from system setting each time I start different activity.

0 Stefan over 2 years ago

For me when riding a bike with the aod turned off and gesture mode turned on, the display would turn on regularly and stay on indefinitely on every bump, movement, etc.

0 jaamgans over 2 years ago in reply to Stefan

wrist gesture is picking up on the bumps etc - as explained it works very differently when in activity to general use. The changes they have made make sense for running and some other sports, but will give issues to other sports like swimming, paddling etc - unless they have written a dynamic gesture into the software so the behaviour changes based on sport profile.

0 Jakabob over 2 years ago in reply to jaamgans

Then it should be possible to set wrist gesture for each activity separately or with power profiles.

0 jaamgans over 2 years ago in reply to Jakabob

should be like the touch option under power management options, unfortunately we currently don't have it. But if you raise it as a request like others have done so perhaps it may get added to the add to feature list set and perhaps one day we will.