Hello, is this normal ? I miss calls due to that so I've to keep my smartphone always with me. Fenix 6.
Hello, is this normal ? I miss calls due to that so I've to keep my smartphone always with me. Fenix 6.
I just started an online petition since nothing seems to be done.
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/letter-to-garmin-extend-vibration-on-incoming
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Thanks for the effort. What I wanted to achieve with the petition was to gather all requests from several people. Hope this could be useful. I can't figure out why not adding a very basic feature like…
I would be nice if we could select the number of alerts on a menu, like from 1 to as long as it rings
I know it is a hassle to pair your eatch to another phone, but if you and your wife could test this, it would help so much.
If a FR 255 + the iphone have endless call alert, maybe other (AMOLED) Forerunners also have this. You could then ask for example FR165 owners how it works for them. And then you could perhaps exchange the Vivoactive for a Forerunner.
FR165 does not have the same color as my wife wants. Ok, somehow I will try to connect my FR 255 to the iPhone.
Hi guys. I found this bug report from the forerunner 955. I am sure you will find this interesting.
Seems like this watch had continuous vibration until recently, and it is actually a design decision by Garmin to reduce it to only two vibrations. The same must have happened for the fenix series longer time ago.
I really wonder who takes these decisions at Garmin....
The shity update arrived today and I also have two vibrations during a call. This is a very bad situation because my phone is always on silent mode. And I can't miss work calls. I will get the old Amazfit and look for a replacement for Garmin, Polar or something similar. A very big disappointment.
I have a proposal to bombard them with letters, because it is not necessary for them to respond to the forum, but the letters control them. I understand that there will be standard unsubscribes, but let them see that there are many of us and this is a really big problem for users.
And you know what my fenix 7 is really capable to produce a wonderful 'telephone ring' sound, it does it to alert my pace when I run... It's a wanted limitation in my view, there's some marketing-related, perhaps GARMIN wants to keep that features for the less sporty versions
Yesterday I noticed an incoming call (Fenix 7) for the first time in years! It only added to my frustration though.
I am 99% sure that my old Forerunner 935 had continuous call alert. Unfortunately, it broke :-(
As to why this short alert came to be, maybe, I guess: I remember that I sometimes hated the continuous alert while I was out running because pressing Start/Stop answered the call and pressing Start/Stop again to pause the activity would hang up. (Maybe I never mastered the art of receiving calls properly). So if I thought that the call could wait, I would just let it buzz (mildy annoying) until the caller gave up or landed in voicemail. But most important was I did not miss urgent/important calls, even while running with a lot of noise (wind, traffic).
I think a good solution would be a configuration option to have continuous call alert always, never, and per activity: yes or no.
In the topic to which a link was thrown above, the representatives of Garmin answer as if they are not at all aware of what is being done with the firmware. It seems to me that everything is not so simple here. It would be good if they tested some new features, but there is no need to disable one of the important functions of the watch.
the point is...who produces and develops perhaps don't use the products, as we do...no other explanation. Or, there's marketing need not to implement certain features. Probable.
Maybe yes, but it is worth paying attention to user reviews, I believe that there are not many of us yet, but we still exist. It is worth showing them.
So, in my complaint about double vibration, they answered that this should be the case for my device. they gently sent me away.