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Manual Brightness 4.67 bug?

dhj49er
over 3 years ago

Updated to 4.67

First the good part.

Manual brightness 10% level is now lower than auto brightness low setting.

Unfortunately manual brightness  still changes with changes to ambient light level. I reported this as a bug in the beta, but Garmin haven't changed it, so is it a bug or designed to work like this?

If it is designed to change with ambient light, then isn't that how auto mode works?

Surely, manual is a fixed setting? 

If not why didn't Garmin just increase the auto brightness from 3 to 10 levels?

At the moment, as far as I can tell, thats the only difference between the 2 modes - both auto, one with 3 levels and the other with 10 levels.

I have asked Garmin to provide descriptions of the 2 modes.

Unfortunately they have yet to provide it and probably won't.

Interestingly when changing brightness modes on the watch, it displays the message auto brightness off, when selecting manual mode.

Clearly that message is wrong or is the message right and manual mode still has the bug?

Either way something is not right.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Gosh....am I the only one who thinks Manual Brightness is Auto Brightness with 10 levels?

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to dhj49er

    10 levels and auto brightness exceeds the existing auto with 3 levels.

    Garmin might as well delete the auto with 3 levels or perhaps replace it with a real manual setting.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    You're totally right. When it says "Auto Brightness: Off", that is wrong. I'm able to see the brightness go up and down in my testing.

    Hmm, my testing is to shine a bright flashlight at it in a dark room. Maybe it has an emergency direct sunlight mode that stays enabled?

    I tried turning the watch off and on, and re-checked that my selected brightness setting remained.

    Whether it's a bug in behavior or a bug in the message, the watch is not doing what it says it's doing.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    In my experience, manual doesn't go as dim as auto in a dark room. It changes with light but not as drastic as it changes when set on auto. I'm not sure why one would want to use manual versus auto on this watch, but it's there if you want it. I didn't see any difference in battery consumption with auto versus manual on 20%.