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Sensors keep turning off

badbri
over 4 years ago

This began with the latest FW version 5.0 and I (and others) have commented on it other threads but this problem has persisted for me.

My ANT+/BT sensors continue to turn "off" on their own from day to day on my watch.  I'll turn them all on before starting an activity, then the next time I go to do another activity I noticed that my HR and footpod are not connecting and sure enough in the settings they have been turned "off" again.  

Only my Varia Radar for my bike and my Garmin Tempe stay "on" in settings...everything else including HRMs, footpods, power meters, speed/cadence etc get their status to "off" somehow between activities.

Anyone else seeing this?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Update - Mine survived "the overnight" without turning themselves back off.  There goes one theory I had where some kind of overnight sync/update was creating the issue.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    My experience is it has something to do when the watch uploads to Connect.  I had to turn my on before my run this morning, the run uploaded and now all the sensors are off again except the Varia 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to huskertko

    For whatever reason mine have stayed on since my post on Friday.  Keeping fingers crossed.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I don't know if this is related or not but I have noticed my battery consumption has gone back to what I consider "high" since I got this update and consequently regularly set all my sensors back to "on."  High for me is .8-.9% per hour whereas when I first got this FW 5.0 I was getting record low battery consumption around .3-.4% instead.

    Could it be as simple as sensors constantly searching for connection that's using that much battery?  Seems like it would be obvious to only "search" for sensors when an activity is started but maybe that is not possible in the logic coding.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to badbri
    badbri said:
    Could it be as simple as sensors constantly searching for connection that's using that much battery? 

    I don't think so, but try :D Wear HRM and look if the watch notices it, I would say it won't, until you to to activities and then you got notification about it.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    I don't think so, but try :D Wear HRM and look if the watch notices it, I would say it won't, until you to to activities and then you got notification about it.

    Well I would've definitely guessed the same but darned if I'm not back at <.3% in the short time since I've started this experiment of turning them all off.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to badbri

    But BT is otherwise still on? Sounds really weird... As most aren't experiencing that and if that would be the case, then turning off & on again, should probably normalize the situation also, as why would they start searching sensors before starting activity if there would be some bug leaving the sensor search on...

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Yup. I never have any issues with fw of fr945, and now sensors are keep turning off. Had to manualy turn it on. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    as why would they start searching sensors before starting activity if there would be some bug leaving the sensor search on...

    When you access the Sensors menu and scroll down do your sensors all show as "searching..."?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to badbri

    Searching while you are in the Sensors menu makes sense.  That doesn't mean they are always searching.  I'm actually pretty sure when you are just on the WF, searching isn't active.  ConnectIQ WF's, for example, can't directly access sensors.  The only way for a CIQ WF to get external sensor data is in a background process, but background processes are limited to running once every 5 minutes and will get terminated if they try to run too long.  This is all done for lower battery usage.