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Backlight Gestures

wkel24
over 3 years ago

My backlight doesn't activate when set to "after sunset"?

Works fine when set to "on" 

Same on both during activity and general settings 

Does anyone else have this problem?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    @philipshambrock That may be the case...not sure if it would still record sleep data as I wasn't able to find that information in the manual or elsewhere (I don't find the manual very helpful in terms of the consequences of specific switches).  Besides, if I have Battery Saver on and Backlight set to off would mean I couldn't turn on backlight while sleeping at all.  I do like being able to turn on watch function during the Sleep Mode (backlight by button or touch as well as the Flashlight).

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to ItsMeKen

    There's a separate section at the bottom of the 'DND' list just for wrist gestures.  I believe it doesn't directly relate to the backlight, but turns all wrist gestures off (including backlight gesture)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to jylong

    @jylong - I'll give that a try and see if it does the trick. Thanks!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to ItsMeKen

    No probs.   I definitely does work when I manually turn on DND during the day, so there's no reason it shouldn't when DND is automatically activated by sleep mode.  Good luck!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    I have the same Settings. System. Backlight, but if i increase the brightnesss value in General use, nothing happned, to the brightness.

    what i doing wrong?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to OscarL

    The backlight via gesture does not work for me during running activities (running, hiking).
    However, the gesture works for the strength training activity.

  • 0 4 months ago

    Today was the 2nd occasion I faced with no backight after gestures.

    After a thorough test

    - first I thought that it was something to do with Sleep mode, DND or Battery saver meaning something had been struck

    - then I thought Compass had to be calibrated again to teach my Enduro 2 for gestures

    I realized that the reason why GESTURES was inactive is simply due to the fact that WHR was tied to gestures. In other words when I removed the watch from my wrist and put it on a jacket, independetly from the fact whether I did use HR strap or not, GESTURES was inactivated. When I placed the watch to my wrist back and the green lights were activated on the back of my watch, GESTURES worked and I could use the backlight.

    Since my whole experiment today was when the watch had sw 16.22 I decided to update back to my earlier favourite sw 18.16 to check whether this bug was still present when 18.16 was launched.

    EDIT: FYKI if WHR is set  to OFF there is no bug, only if it is set to ON, but it cannot read your pulse.

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to Tisztul_A_Visztula

    Alas, the situation did not change between 16.22 and 18.16.

    So my advice is that if you wear your watch on such a piece of clothes which is dark and homogeonous enough to make WHR unable to read any - even fake - HR readings then you should manually switch off WHR temporarily.

    I would not be surprised if this tie between WHR and Gestures would be still the case at sw 20.XX.

    But I am not ready to test it the majority of the users around here use some of the sw 20.XX., they can easily test it.