Observations on 27.00 Change Log

Also, is there any documentation for new features like "Added Device Settings Backup and Restore"?

the documentation is not already updated.

Our respected User Guide is now available in version 8 as of June 2023 --> fenix66s6xpro

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We tried to reverse engineering this based on the other watch series

https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/fenix-6-series/f/community-discussion/349612/beta-26-xx---new-feature---back-up-restore

Is it possible to go back to v26? I haven't noticed any improvements but at least CIQ faces worked for me.

Thanks

regarding the RD Pod bugs, the HRM-Pro-Plus is also suffering from bugs, I suspect the accessories development team at Garmin has lost some major people,  just a guess but that's what it feels like because the firmware is now static for a long long time

I'm kinda worried about what the heck is going on because leaving the Garmin ecosystem would be very expensive

Why would there be a change to the altimeter software?

Why would there be a change to the altimeter software?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.garmin.com+fenix+6+altimeter

Enough to read there.

My fenix 6 pro solar updated to 27.00 by accident, i have forgot and left it connected to wifi for a day. Also it in the beta channel test as i am not using it any more as a watch since the time was 4 hours behind after a week. 26.97 fixed the issue. Now Garmin have taken pages from "microsoft cr@p" and now !! updating without consent !!. Does anyone have the GCD file for 26.97B because lovely garmin not providing the flashback gcd anymore.  More annoyingly there is no "UPDATE.GCD" on my watch, hoewer the damn thing keeps telling me every day randomly that there is an update to 27.00 available and install will begin t-something over and over. Funny thing that my watch is offline, and it still doing it OFFLINE. This is exact copy of microsofts idiot handling of customers. If someone has the downgrade please share it.

There were no changes from 26.97 beta to 27.00 public firmware (at least according to Garmin), so there should be no need to go back. Maybe this is also the reason that it updated without consent? Or do you have auto-update enabled? 

Downgrade files are only provided to public firmware, so you could downgrade to 26.00, but you would still additionally need the update files to beta 26.xx 

Auto dismiss of alarm feature still not present. If one is not with your watch, it will just buzz and ring until it dies. Amazing that a cheaper watch can do it. even my new coros has this feature.