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Heart rate does not update continuously

1095283
over 5 years ago

Hi,

I have noticed on a stock watch face that heart rate is not updated continuously, but once every minute

Even if you take the watch from the shelf and put it on your wrist, the heart rate on a watch face will not show, until next minute passes and updates the screen

If you push up/down button and come back to the watch face, heart rate will update for a few seconds and then freezes until next minute passes

This regards the watch face only, and not the heart rate widget

This happens only when seconds animation is switched off. When it is on, then the heart rate is also updated continuously

Can you please help me out with this please?

Best regards,

Paweł

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    Well, disabling seconds is a power saving measure, the watch face will be updated every second or every minute.

    So if you want the HR to be update every second, do not disable seconds.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jmto

    So it works as expected, then. Thank you for the information

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jmto

    Are you sure it indeed works as intended? Does it also work like this on your 945? I contacted Garmin Support and got conflicting replies from them. Garmin Europe claims it works as expected, whereas Garmin International claims that a case needs to created regarding this issue. The guy there at Garmin International claims that on his device the heart rate does update more often, than once every minute, on a watch face, when the device recognizes a lot of movement

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 1095283

    I can't be sure without RTFS, but to me that sounds logical way of doing it, and RTFS isn't going to happen as I don't have access to Garmin's source code, how it's supposed to work.

    "When device recognizes a lot of movement".. So there might be some other rules to trigger screen refresh of a watch face, but to me that sounds stupid. If you want to save battery, you just update it every minute regardless of some activities.

    I think updating step count could be behind that "a lot of movement" , but if it does that, pretty pointless..

    Also then the question of which watch face are we talking about and have they used the same and so on....


    Ps. I have my seconds turned on.