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16.19 Backlight Bug

The dreaded backlight is back!

My Backlight settings During Activity are as follows: Keys>Off, Alerts>Off, Gesture>Off, Timeout>None, Brightness>50%

During an activity, without me pressing the Light button, I have been noticing that the backlight is on and staying on, unnecessarily causing huge battery gain.

In sunlight, it's easy to miss that the backlight is erroneously on, unnecessarily decreasing battery life.

This has been fixed in the past, but subsequent updates keeps breaking it. Why?

These battery draining bugs defeats one of the main reasons for buying a Garmin.

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6125703 over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra +2

There's a lot of wiggle room in "unexpectedly"... From reading the thread, I think Aslam is desiring/expecting a possible setup where the backlight only changes state when LIGHT is pressed…
Garmin-Sierra over 1 year ago in reply to Aslam +1

Thank you for further explaining and sharing those links. I changed my settings to reflect yours, but I was unable to reproduce what you're describing. My backlight did not unexpectedly turn on. In order…
Garmin-Sierra over 1 year ago in reply to Aslam +1

Thank you for those examples, Aslam. Like 6125703 said, it does sound like most of these instances are by design. I was unable to reproduce number 3, and will need to test number 4. If you would like any…

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0 Aslam over 1 year ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

Thank you for your assistance. It is indeed no longer turning on the activity summary.

I do find it strange that backlight comes on (by design) for alerts (lap, km, training condition, etc) when the backlight setting for Alerts during activity is set to Off. Perhaps they should remove this setting to remove confusion?