Gesture Backlight Not Working Each Morning

My gesture backlight stops working after the watch has been resting all night and when I put the watch on in the morning.

I thought it might be a DND issue so I turned it off last night and this morning when I put the watch back on the backlight still didn't activate.

The only way I can seem to get it work is by turning the DND on / off

Any ideas?

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cdmackay over 3 years ago +1

Note that both DND and "sleep hours" disable the gesture backlight. For me, it was the latter.

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0 Steve000 over 3 years ago

I have gesture turned on for activities and no activities.

I've only had the device a couple of days.

I'm wondering if it could be a glitch and I need to do a mater reset?

0 mcalista over 3 years ago in reply to Steve000

It may be worth looking at the backlight settings in Battery Saver in Power Modes, and how this works with your designated sleep hours.

0 Steve000 over 3 years ago in reply to mcalista

all of these seem fine so I'm a little stuck as what to do.

I'm gonna see what its like tomorrow morning and if its the same do a master reset

0 5693709 over 3 years ago in reply to Steve000

the operation sounds like you might have it set to "Gesture - after sunset", but from your reply it sounds like you have it set to "Gesture - On", can you confirm that's what its set to?

0 Steve000 over 3 years ago in reply to 5693709

No idea how but I managed to fix the issue.

0 5526610 over 3 years ago in reply to Steve000

How did you managed? I ve bought a fenix 6 solar and i have dnd off both backlight gesture on and the *** don't do anything

0 cdmackay over 3 years ago

Note that both DND and "sleep hours" disable the gesture backlight. For me, it was the latter.

0 1394671 over 3 years ago

I had similar issues after setting my gesture to on and dnd to off. Still did not work. I decided to turn on battery saver mode, then turn it off. That seemed to work…may have re-applied the regular settings.