I had my forerunner 935 connected to my macbook and if you don’t properly disconnect your watch it will freeze or crash.
This time it crashed. Really crashed. I could turn it of, but when I turned it on again there was the triangle of death. Tried multiple times, same triangle.
What to do? Nothing left than a master reset
- Power off watch (press and hold Light, Yes on prompt)
- Press and hold Start/Stop and Lap/Reset.
- Press and hold Light (three buttons should now be pressed in)
- After first beep, release Start/Stop.
- After second beep, release Lap/Reset.
- Release Light.
I had to reconfigure the device again, but thanks to true up I still had my vo2 and training load. (The morons at garmin cannot or will not implement a settings backup feature.)
But what I noticed afterwards:
1. reconnect via bluetooth to my iPhone in the morning (after a long do not disturb period) suddenly works again without me pressing reconnect on my phone.
2. Battery consumption in gps mode is down again. Before the reset it was a lousy 10% usage per hour, now it is down to almost 5%.
Probable a temporary fix, but for the time being I got rid of 2 of my major irritations.
Don’t expect Garmin will really look into the large amount of bugs in their software. Or they can’t fix them.