Fenix 7X Solar Sapphire Software 16.22

After accepting update yesterday I woke up to a dead watch! On powering up the watch goes into a constant loop of rebooting - never getting past the splash screen - no BT connection - nothing! A disaster of an update - totally useless watch now!!!

0 Stefan over 1 year ago

I had the same after a Bluetooth update, I fixed it by doing this:

* turn off the fenix by holding top left button for 5+ seconds.

* Then press and hold top right, bottom right and bottom left buttons.

* While holding these buttons press top left to turn on the watch and keep holding te other buttons until the fenix logo appears

* release other buttons.

After that my fenix booted correctly and I got the 'updated to 16.22' message

You can also check here: forums.garmin.com/.../fenix-7-flashing-off-and-on-since-update-16-22

0 ThomasJohnLynch over 1 year ago in reply to Stefan

This is interesting....I am just noticing I have upgraded to the version and my sleep is suddenly not recording. I will try this cold boot as well. I did have an app abort yesterday and the watch rebooted and reported it as a "run" in error.

0 ThomasJohnLynch over 1 year ago in reply to ThomasJohnLynch

tried this and got a weird message about using the Garmin Mobile app for assistance when I turned off the watch.

Something fishy here in Garmin Town? I had an activity abort yesterday and defaulted/reported it as a Run (this seems to be a default failure mode for Garmin. Last time this pointed to some library screw ups that get pushed to the third party developers and screws up their applications.

The last time I have now a medal for a record marathon run speed. (I don't run EVER after 5 knee operations - just cycling)