Forerunner 945 System SW 3.30 is now live

If you are out of luck, several days. They change the title when the next step of phased rollout is done. I hate that, why can't they provide it via link like every beta? Once, in the good old Fenix 3 days, public releases where also provided for direct download.

If you need 6 data fields to survive, instal 3.15 beta. Its in there.

IIRC, a year or so ago, there was a Forerunner 935 update that "broke" the watch and they only found out during the 20% roll-out phase. They pulled it after that so they could fix the glitch and a new revision was pushed shortly thereafter.

I suspect as well that an over-the-air, phased rollout instead of allowing people to download willy-nillie lets Garmin monitor which devices are getting the update to isolate issues. (Rev A, B, C)

It's a prudent approach that follows project management and software development best practices.

Only the techno-fetishists seem to complain about not being first.

I can understand a staggered roll out with Windows OS for example, when the user base are made up of thousands and thousands of different hardware configurations. But with this watch example maybe 4 different revisions? (and not every revision is hardware based) This approach seems to me like Garmin don't have a robust beta testing program with a good scope of testers before they release updates.

Eric said:

This approach seems to me like Garmin don't have a robust beta testing program with a good scope of testers before they release updates.

OH, I find that completely plausible too!

DCRainmaker wrote as much in his recent article titled "Garmin’s Biggest Competitor Is Their Own Software Instability".

Playing armchair quarterback here... maybe Garmin doesn't WANT a lot of beta testers (aside from existing user base) as it represents a possible source of leaked info their competitors could use. *shrug* We'll never know - the inner workings of Garmin are a black box.

I will retract slightly on my earlier comment I did not consider the different mobile hardware that could be possibly paired with the watch. If you include the myriad of phones in the market today old and new there is possibly a lot that can go wrong and unnoticed during testing. But again it comes down to having a robust test program that covers the majority of mobile devices out there.

Can someone who already updated? drop update file?

ps: Former Member - it would also be pretty nice if the next fw update will include also some fenix6 watch faces ;-). such a nice design and such a shame that only f6 users get them...

Agreed, new stock watch faces are always welcome! (I know we can download others)

yeah...but i'd expect garmin ones to have a better resource (aka battery) management :-) -hence my request...