Speaker & Scuba Diving

Odie21 9 months ago

Coming from an Apple Watch Ultra 2, this is a handy feature that that watch has and this one does not. I’ve already done roughly 10 dives on this watch (Fenix 8) and one thing that I don’t like is that there’s water that’s in the speaker and it dims and drowns out the sound for notifications. I don’t know if there’s a functionality from a software standpoint that can be added to blow out the water like the Apple Watch Ultra 2 does (or any modern AW).

You can manually blow the water out, but it doesn’t work nearly as well if it’s coming out towards me.

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Garmin-Laurie 9 months ago +1 verified

Hello Odie21

This is a factor Garmin is aware of. And they have a FAQ in the support center regarding this concern:

My Garmin Watch Speaker or Microphone is Muted After Being Exposed to Water
Garmin-Laurie 8 months ago in reply to Volker +1 verified

Using the water ejection feature will help likely help with audio, but will also avoid long term damage from the water. However, it may still be necessary to allow this to dry for up to an hour after contact…

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0 akiakic 9 months ago

One easy DIY method is to save YouTube video that plays this sound that expels water from speaker. Convert it to MP3 and save to watch and play it after diving. By the way, how is the watch behaving as a dive computer? Everything works fine?

0 Odie21 9 months ago in reply to akiakic

It basically takes the “Big Numbers” version of the MK3i and imports it into the F8. Overall, its user friendly and even a bit easier to change the dive settings than the MK3i.

0 2529455 9 months ago

Welcome back from Apple land!

0 akiakic 9 months ago

Does your F8 AMOLED increase brightness when you flick your wrist up when in diving mode? Mine keeps the same low brightness. If I press a button it goes full brightness but with gesture it doesn’t do it. It works fine on all other activities except diving mode.

0 spatty999 9 months ago in reply to akiakic

My F8 does not respond to gesture and increase brightness while in Apnea mode, requires a button press. Sounds like yet another bug.

0 akiakic 9 months ago in reply to spatty999

Yes. Thank you for confirming. Garmin-Laurie hi Laurie could you please confirm this bug so we can get it fixed in the next update. Thanks

0 Volker 9 months ago

With 11.81 beta they have added the water ejection future to the device (kicks in automatically after saving a water sports/diving activity or you can trigger it (first add it) via the controls menu).

+1 Garmin-Laurie 9 months ago

Hello Odie21

This is a factor Garmin is aware of. And they have a FAQ in the support center regarding this concern:

My Garmin Watch Speaker or Microphone is Muted After Being Exposed to Water

0 Volker 9 months ago in reply to Garmin-Laurie

Is it an old text only transferred to the F8 faq, because it didn’t mention diving at all? Should be updated asap and there should be added the info about the water ejection feature, too!!

0 Garmin-Laurie 9 months ago in reply to Volker

Volker said:
Is it an old text only transferred to the F8 faq, because it didn’t mention diving at all? Should be updated asap and there should be added the info about the water ejection feature, too!!

Since water ejection is still public BETA phase, this will updated once released as a full software release.