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Too low brightness in low ambient light.

Istvan
4 months ago

Hi,

Just received my Fenix 8 AMOLED 51mm and sadly noticed its new feature, which significantly decrease the brightness in low ambient light. Not to be confused, I do not mean the configurable timeout (4, 8 or 16 sec) or focus or red shift either.

Imagine I am in a dark room. Brightness is set to maximum, battery saver is off, gesture is on. When I raise my arm, the screen comes up, but it is too dark. If I illuminate the watch display by a flashlight, the brightness goes up automatically. When I switch off the flashlight and keep the display busy, the brightness goes down again after a few seconds.

In this dark mode I hardly see the display, and can not see the small letters/numbers at all. I had no this issue with EPIX, of which brightness was independent form the ambient light.

Unfortunately I did not find any settings to get rid of this kind of dimming.

Any thoughts?

Best regards,

Istvan

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  • 0 3 months ago

    Same here, no option to change tha auto dimm when in low light environment.

  • 0 3 months ago

    Honestly, I think Garmin did it on purpose so they could present a 'battery improvement'.

    They might as well sell us a beautiful AMOLED watch with an Always-Off screen. The battery life would be infinite Face palm‍♂️

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to ShukiMann
    ShukiMann said:
    Honestly, I think Garmin did it on purpose so they could present a 'battery improvement'.

    Do you promise not to complain about battery life if you're allowed to crank the screen to max brightness in all scenarios? Smile

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to 2529455

    It's never been about battery life though. Amoled just can't be left on at max brightness all the time or the display would degrade pretty quickly. 

    As for the minimum brightness I think this should be as configurable as possible to be honest. There are moments such as at night where I want my amoled displays to be as dim as they can go.

  • 0 3 months ago

    I spoke with Garrett with Garmin Support, they are aware of the issue and working on a fix

  • 0 3 months ago

    Its not an issue, its a feature, if you use external flash on the watch display will increase its brightness.

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to chrabcio

    What do you mean by this? Using a external flash?

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to brecatto

    Some Garmin employees are apparently aware and some Garmin employees are not. I spoke to someone from Garmin yesterday and today who both happen to be wearing the Fenix ​​8 and they both didn't even notice that the screen gets very dark in dark environments lol..

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to 2529455

    What do you mean complain about battery life in a watch with 29 days battery? The same was with Epix PRO 51’ i replaced.. but the deeming was not there.. watch was always visible in all circumstances.. Fenix 8 is UNUSABLE in the night unless you put it under a lamp or your mobiles torch.. ridiculous!! THIS IS A HUGE SOFTWARE BUG!!  

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to chrabcio

    YES right dude, in the night i will carry an external flash to bright my fenix 8 screen so i can read it.. What a joke for an 1300Euros watch.. its not a feature.. its A HUGE BUG that makes FENIX 8 unusable in the night..