Elevation No Longer Displaying?

OK.  Talked to Garmin and learned some things I will post here for others that may come across this thread.

The issue was with my not fully understanding how the 245 hardware works.  It is not that intuitive but I will explain as best as I can.

I knew the 245 does not have a barometric altimeter but uses GPS for apps, watch faces, data fields, etc. to show elevation.  However, elevation only shows when GPS is on.  Enabling GPS on the watch does not "turn it on" all the time.  The only time GPS will be on is when an activity is being run and recorded.  If no activity is going, GPS is off.  This is to save battery.

So the reason I am not seeing the elevation on the watch face now is that I am not actively running an activity.  And the reason I did see it on the watch face before was that at that time I was actively recording a hike.  At first I did not understand how I could have seen elevation on the Four Fields watch face when hiking as the default screen when hiking is the screen showing all my custom data fields for my hiking activity.  However, during that activity, you can scroll down a few screens to display the watch face rather than the hiking activities data fields.  When you do that, and I did do that, because you are technically still in the activity, and GPS is running, the Four Fields watch face will display elevation. 

So the take away from this is that my 245 is working as it should, and Garmin should have included a barometric altimeter on this watch.  I still love the 245, but the barometric altimeter would have been a very good hardware addition as that probably would have allowed elevation at all times rather than just during activity recording.