Morning Report/Race Day Widget topic yet again!

It was the best part of the beta.  Maybe it was a little teaser to get us to buy more expensive watches

It was, they claim not so it is what it is. I love the Garmin platform but when shady stuff like this happens it opens the door for me to jump ship all together. I’ll hold on to the 11.14 beta until the add it back or I’m forced to update at that time I’m out. And this isn’t against the techs as I’m sure they want to do the right thing but it’s ultimately up to the big dogs in the company. 

all I can say from this point is prove me wrong!

So you are still on 11.14?

If so, would you be willing to share GUPDATE.GCD from you /GARMIN/REMOTESW/ folder on your watch?

I'm about to downgrade the firmware to get the Morning report back, but unfortunately, only downloadable version is 11.12 Alpha 

I guess they need to fit a certain schedule when releasing betas and decided to ditch broken features and defer them till next update cycle (probably in two months). We don't know whether those features are proper implementations or hacks around watch/OS limitations. This is exactly what public beta is about - people do deeper testing and unpredicted things happen. I really think they have no doubt that people REALLY like and want those features, but the watch is struggling stability-wise in comparison to say Fenixes. 

Yeah but there was no clear answer on why it was pulled which makes it sketchy. It didn’t perform as expected? Well I’ve yet to see any finalized update run correctly! It’s because nothing can be left alone as with any technology we use today. I’d rather it not be released at all to prevent issues but since it was now many of us expect it. How about make what we have perfect and leave it alone for a solid year or two. Work on new stuff to release at the end of that timeframe. If the watch wasn’t capable or running it I’m sure they would have known that well I’m advance. Did it crash everyone’s watch? No, we’re there any major issues at all? No, everyone reported it ran perfectly or had a slight delay. No different than every single update thus far! 

when we have major issues we blow it up on here! Where are those posts? Don’t see any.

I’ll rest my case if we at least get a better explanation and a yes or no it won’t be implemented in a future update. 

I got plenty of activity crashes with those newer firmwares. It managed even to crash during lactate threshold guided test. The morning report itself worked fine and new suggested workouts too, but other parts suffered. I do agree however that it would be nice to know why exactly it was pulled out.

That’s really what I’d like to know! Quite simple information. I mean honestly what’s the point of the beta program if we as consumers cannot give and receive feedback from the developers? We are doing them the favor of making their jobs easier in which they indirectly ask for by giving us the beta program. We could simply buy a new garmin watch for the first time and be like well this thing is garbage then move on to the next brand! Instead we choose to put our time and hard physical work in testing them/reporting back with issues to get a simple “it didn’t work to our standards”. That is not how you keep people interested in your products! Again I’m not directly targeting any of the developers that reach out to us! I’m sure it isn’t them directly making last minute decisions like this. These kind of post need to be directed to those who do though! 

I have never been on a beta with the morning report, could someone share what it included and how it worked?

Maybe it would be possible to create an own app that does about the same thing

Morning report was a set of user-defined screens that replace watchace in the morning. You can select which screens it should present (weather, sleep etc). After cycling through them the watch would dismiss the report and go back to regular watchface with glances. Before Garmin actually rolled this feature I was tinkering around a CIQ watchface with similar features. Implementing different layout for morning hours was really easy, however I could not figure out how to hijack buttons so the user would be able to scroll through several watchface report pages instead of going to glances.

I think it's irrelevant now - bringing back the morning report looks like a question of time, so no need to hack another solution for this :)