FR 945 - no Updates since months?

Dr Phil said:

Extra features are nice to have but we're content with what we currently have and the stability of the watches currently.

Fine for you. Others have different expectations when it comes to smartwatches. Its 2020 and my expectation is that I will get regular updates for a timeframe of about three years. More or less stopping updates after one year is not what *I* expect. Especially when a Fenix does get updates regularly.

A Garmin watch nowadays is surely 70% software and 30% hardware. Obviously Garmin sees this the other way round. Just like the car industry in Germany - where I live - and now gets beaten by newcomers like Tesla.

Very happy for you. But after the last update, the optical sensor is not working correctly for 4 months. Accordingly, of the 9 months that I have 945, almost half the time they are useless. The optical sensor is responsible for most of the metrics - body battery, recovery, stress, etc. And even judging by this forum, dozens of users have encountered this problem. I was a Polar user for a year and had absolutely no problems, all the declared functions worked perfectly. For two years I have been using Garmin - three replacements under the F5 guarantee, problems with the battery at the F5 +, now lack of support for 945 ... I am now waiting for one, that there would be an update and I could sell a working device and return to Polar. 

while i mostly agree with you :-) - i think this time you're not right; close to 4 months of no feature updates / fixes sends a really bad signal to the fitness customer base; indeed, all the features in the 945 work - but this is not the point - the F6 is regularly getting new useful features but its fitness counterpart don't and the flagship is barely catching up; as i've already written, if i knew all this, i would have waited for a F6S and now i would have been a happy customer

Yes I have one but currently it just collects dust inside a drawer as I do not use it. Since 4.40 the data link with the HRM-Tri is erratic, there are big gaps in the recording. So I continue to use my old but working FR935 now which is now at SW version 20.0 (!!) and does not show any issues that would bother me.

As long as you use the FR945 like a simple activity tracker, to count steps and check the current time, you will be allright. But the more advanced functionality requires massive rework For me that watch currently does not deliver.

This is exactly what I am facing now. Now I use 935 and put 945 aside (waste of money). What a shame!!

Well I do find the 945 to be extremely slow to react when you push buttons. Painfully, sleep analysis a complete disaster...Could do better for a triathlon flagship 

if you're using a 3rd party watch face, that will be most probably fixed. the vivo/venu- series got an update where the response time is improved - https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/venu/233133/venu-sw-4-90-is-now-live

They're talking about the screen wake time when using a custom watch face, not the button press delay.

And if they could fix it, they won't fix it for the 945 / 245 since we don't get updates anymore...

fyi firmware version 4.5, 4.6 and most recently 4.7 has been out for apac version of fr945. we are still stuck on version 4.4 for months