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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 ic3cold over 3 years ago in reply to dton

I haven’t upgraded but I know you could go and see the battery status in worlds (eg OK). Goto sensors. Select the sensor you want to check. And then I think click details or something like that. You will see the serial number, name and battery status. Not sure if it is a % now.

0 aweatherall over 3 years ago in reply to ic3cold

It reports the status as a string "New, Good, OK, Low, Critical"

0 freewheeljay over 3 years ago

Who asked for this change? Why can't a % or a graphic be alternatives chosen by the user (they guy who paid lots of bucks for the 830)???

I was having an issue with my di2 battery not fully charging. The % charged was very useful in diagnosing the problem. The graphic just hides the detail I needed.

Make it a user/owner choice... PLEASE.

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

Except that no other gauge works that way, and because no one (outside of us) knows it, they assume otherwise. 99.99% of people will assume it works like their old flip phone battery indicator.

0 raiderma over 3 years ago in reply to dton

It does not show % in sensor details. I checked mine today and it just said "Good". No % anywhere.

0 leginswal over 3 years ago

Going by the logic of the person who created this idea and implemented it and thought it would be a step forward, when in fact it is garbage, in the future will we see the data fields "Distance to go", "Distance to next" etc replaced with a, four or 5 bar graphic with each bar representing a specific distance?

0 dton over 3 years ago in reply to leginswal

Brilliant idea, get rid of all those pesky numbers and replace every field with 5 bars. I'm sure it will be very popular.

0 raiderma over 3 years ago in reply to dton

Garmin could price their products in bars. It would then be up to the consumer to determine how much a bar is worth.

0 rgwis over 3 years ago in reply to leginswal

They could provide more customer satisfaction by replacing all the number fields with bars, such as with temperature, speed, elevation, grade, cadence, power, and even better yet with heart rate. Time of day would be good too, as well as many others. But one good thing is that the Garmin 830 still reports it's battery level in %. Oops, probably shouldn't have mentioned that.

0 peteb478 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

Are these status descriptions and percentage levels uniform across all Garmin products e.g. Varia radar? I use the light field as a way of monitoring the Varia battery level.