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Watch faces no longer detecting high power mode when raising watch after updating to 3.5

Former Member
Former Member

In order to help preserve battery life, some watch faces will only update the screen once a minute until you raise your wrist and the backlight turns on. In this "low power mode" things such as HR and seconds don't get updated all the time, which is great.

However after updating to 3.5 my watch faces no longer detect this gesture, and they will remain in low power mode until I tap the screen or press a button.

Yes, tapping the screen or pressing a button is the only way to get the watch faces to truly "wake up" and start updating things such as HR or seconds.

I know the wrist raising gesture is still getting recognized by the watch because the backlight still turns on. It's just the watch faces that don't wake up properly.

Has anyone else noticed this? Or is there a setting somewhere that I'm missing?

This is very annoying, and was not happening before I updated to 3.5.

Thanks!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 5 years ago

    It's a Garmin requirement to break two more features for everyone they fix. :)

  • Yes, I have the same behavior. And even the Phone Connected Status with third-party watch faces always delivers true.
    I hope that will be fixed soon.

  • Well, looks like that mine never uses low power mode. I'm using one of the built in analog watch faces and seconds hand is always running.

  • Your watch uses the low power mode, the seconds can also be displayed in this mode.
    Depends on the implementation.
    I have installed the seconds either always, so even in low power mode or only in high power mode should be visible.
    In high power mode, there is the problem that the clock changes to this mode only when touched and not by hand