Version 5.80 discussion

Upgraded from 5.75 beta. Thus far losing 7% battery overnight (no pulse ox with sleeping - that used to drain 25% and was very inaccurate) but lost 30% battery with a round of golf today. No scoring just distances. I know golf only uses GPS, so will try using the walk function when I next play golf to see what GPS and Glonass does.

I'm beginning to feel the best way to use my VA4 is only to use it as a watch. If I do anything else tracking wise, it eats battery !!!

So my VA4 also doesn't show Chinese characters in notifications, still only squares. Plus I am also experiencing an increased battery drain after the update. This watch is really cursed!

for me it used just 2% of battery during cardio training with HRM per one hour which is rather good, I don't remember exactly how much I had on 5.60 but I think it was around 4-5%

My battery life is the same, as before the update. 

I haven’t noticed any issues at all but then again I seem to have missed 5.80 and have 5.90 installed. 

UPDATE - Looks like you need to connect the VA4 to the computer and update it with Garmin Express. That way it will install the Asian fonts. Now my watch displays Chinese characters.

that's weird, I can't see any mentions about 5.90 anywhere...

Did not work at the first place. But after a day it suddenly work perfectly for no particular reason.

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