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Di2 battery level display used to be shown as a number, now it's an icon. Can I change it back?

CReed over 3 years ago

Tiny screen items are impossible to see while riding.

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Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago +-3 verified

In order to support shifting systems with multiple batteries, we updated shifting system battery status fields to graphically represent the component and status. This change applied to all fields to maintain…
Southerner over 3 years ago +10

Agree with what’s being said here , the new battery level icon is a backwards step.
The actual percentage figure was great and to change it with this latest update is just daft and obviously programmed…
6510476 over 3 years ago +4

I used "di2 battery" for my E-bike with steps e8000, is horrible to loos the % value
i hope it will come back, i dont wont buy a "ew-en100"
dton over 3 years ago in reply to ic3cold +4

agreeing with ic3cold, bring back %

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0 HaPeG2015 over 3 years ago

I need the% value for my e-bike. In the bar graph, 41% are identical to 60% and are therefore not meaningful. This means that everything after version 8.20 can no longer be used for me. please change again

0 Southerner over 3 years ago in reply to HaPeG2015

Email them and complain, I have.

0 ic3cold over 3 years ago in reply to HaPeG2015

Call it in too. The guy I talked to couldn’t make sense of why they would change this LOL.

0 wes-m over 3 years ago

Well having had it for a while, I can say that the graphical battery indicator is terrible. I got the low battery level warning with 2 bars left. My ride partner couldn't even read how many bars were shown. Why did we go from nearly 100% of the field being used to display useful information to something like 10%??? That's just nuts! The "other" gear battery status could probably use an upgrade to percentages.

0 dton over 3 years ago in reply to wes-m

To add insult to injury Garmin just sent me an email telling me the battery status has now improved. grrrr

0 ic3cold over 3 years ago

I keep pressing the install later button LOL.

+1 Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago

In order to support shifting systems with multiple batteries, we updated shifting system battery status fields to graphically represent the component and status. This change applied to all fields to maintain consistency across all shifting systems. You can also see the % in the Sensor Details UI as well. We are evaluating future improvements.

Battery %	Battery Status	of Bars Displayed (out of 5)
0-10%	Critical	1 (red)
11-25%	Low	2 (yellow)
26-50%	OK	3
51-90%	Good	4
91-100%	New	5

0 HaPeG2015 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

this field shows me the remaining capacity of my shimano Steps e8000 ebike. and it's about getting ahead or standing still. in order to continue using version 9.1, i would have to buy new Steps hardware for several hundred euros. that makes no sense. and thus all future updates are obsolete.

0 Cedricg_38 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

Seems OK for me, it’s a good thing for new di2 systems. I don’t understand the need to have more precision as autonomy is very big. It’s not a phone or an edge !

0 ic3cold over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

When I talked to Garmin support on the phone about this change even they thought it was a step backwards. Tiny icon with tiny bars vs numbers you can see.