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Can you display hours as large as minutes on timers?

dsmccormick
over 2 years ago

Since getting my 840 (which I love) I noticed that all the timer displays now make hours very small numbers; the display now seems to have large minutes and seconds (MM:SS), but the hour is tiny, to the point of being nearly unreadable. I do most of my rides over 1 hour in duration and I don’t care about elapsed seconds. I really want to see HH:MM. 

Is there an option anywhere to change back to the HH:MM display of yore? 

Thanks.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    There maybe a CIQ data field that does this, otherwise you can reconfigure the layout of the data screen to make the timer data field a full screen width data field. This should stop the hour switching to use a superscript. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I never tried it, but there is a ConnectIQ with a datafield to bring back the old timer, called ‘OldTimer’ ( https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/12553a0d-0ae8-416b-9e07-4e7480ad6588 )

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to EdwinW

    I found it on the Connect IQ store. Thanks for the lead. I’ve installed it and see if it works on my next ride. Many thanks!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 1 year ago

    Is there any way of doing this without using a connectiq data field?   I have 10 data fields.  It's annoying with the really small 1 or 2 for hours.    I don't care about seconds.  My 530 didn't behave like this. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Former Member

    Hours will stay full sized in a full width data field

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Former Member

    it is a hidden visual acuity test (by Garmin) to check the user's eye sharpness. So if You dont see it easily, your eye is bad! Blush

    Honestly , i have no problem with it (and i am not young already...), i can read it easily, but i know by closed eye how long am i out there as i know by closed eye how much power am i holding exactly within a +-10w range (i do my power interval trainings too without "Frooming", so i dont watch the display all the time, only periodically as a self-control)

    But probably (i really hope) in the newer firmwares the Garmin will make the datafield layouts much more configurable (letter size and style, layout, color , etc)

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Garmin, please let give the user the option to choose whether seconds will be shown or not.
    Most simple way. Offer 2 different data fields.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    Old timer works. But there are a lot of other fields having the same issue.
    Just yesterday I hopped into the trap with time to destination.
    I had a look and thought this could not be the case.
    Then I realised the very small "1".
    To be honest, this is so small, that it does not make sense in any case.
    I would propose either to show seconds only in the wide field or offer to type of fields for the small option.