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Beta - Forerunner 945 5.09 now available!

Garmin-Blake over 4 years ago

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Notes:

For any issues that you encounter please fill out the form included in the download and attach it to an email to [email protected]. Please note that you may not get a response to the email unless we need more information on the issue you report.
Although this software is believed to be reliable, it has not yet been released for production and should be used at your own risk.

Changes made from version 5.00 to 5.09:

Added support for Daily Suggested Workouts, which are recommended based on previous activities. You can disable this from activity settings. (Run/Bike > Menu > Training > Workouts > Today's Suggestion.)
Added support for the Track Run activity, which allows you to record outdoor track data, including lap splits and distance in meters, on a standard shape 400m track.
Added support for Improved Recovery Time, which takes your stress, sleep, relaxation, and physical activity into consideration.
Added support for Bouldering and Indoor Climb activity profiles.
Added support for Grit and Flow features for mountain biking activities. Grit measures the overall difficulty of a ride, and Flow measures how well you maintain your speed throughout the ride.
Improved optical heart rate performance.
Updated the look of the Alarm screen.
Updated the main workout data screen to indicate High, Low, or In Range for the current target.
Various other improvements and bug fixes.

Installation Instructions

Connect your Forerunner 945 to your computer using the USB cable.
Download and unzip Forerunner945_509Beta.zip. Place the GUPDATE.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder of your device's internal storage drive.
From the RemoteSW folder in the unzipped download, copy the GUP3114.GCD and 006B310705.GCD into the \GARMIN\RemoteSW folder on your device.
Disconnect your device from the computer, approve the update on the watch, and wait for the update to finish.
If you would like to revert to the last public release software, place the GUPDATE-500.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder. Rename GUPDATE-500.GCD to GUPDATE.GCD before disconnecting your device. NOTE: If you revert to an older version of software, all of your settings will be reset to defaults.
To downgrade your peripheral software, place the GUP3114-604.GCD and the 006B310705-440.GCD from the RemoteSW\Downgrades folder into your device's \GARMIN\RemoteSW folder.

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0 jmto over 4 years ago in reply to jmto

Dunno what triggers the notification. Now I got it.. It's the same text:

jmto said:
"Nice! Your restful day has speed up your"recovery. Your recovery needs are still high, so take it easy today."

Added with title "Recovery Time Improved" and ending with "Recovery Time 42 hours". So over 3h hours later it triggered notification but the situation seems to be same as it was when i added my first comment (minus the hours between these which might be because the rounding 4 hours, or I got extra hour during that, dunno).

0 pgalbavy over 4 years ago

Oddly, this momring, my "recovery" went from zero hours to 2 hours because of poor sleep. Which was true, but not expecting it to move off zero once it is ther...

0 f|33tStA over 4 years ago in reply to pgalbavy

seems, we will get soon an Beta update, because Fenix 6 got one, think the bold one are for us too:

11.76 Change Log Notes:

Improved the reliability of capturing sleep results.
Made several improvements for Track Run.
Made several improvements for suggested workouts.
Fixed a couple of issues with the Sail Race activity. (Quatix 6 only)
Fixed an issue where the device might crash when connecting to ANT sensors.
Fixed an issue where segments were not working as expected.

0 AOM over 4 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

A new Beta version?

0 f|33tStA over 4 years ago in reply to AOM

looks like soon!

0 marcon4712 over 4 years ago

This update fixed my problems that no heart rate was recorded during indoor cycling

0 Montezumeflex over 4 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

Hi f|33tStA , I just found your comment about the option to change from power to heartrate, but im unable to figure out where to change this. When I go to cycling, training, workouts, todays suggestion, it says I need a recent V02 Max. when I hold the options button I just goed back to the cycling activity screen. Could you help me out?

0 UgeneBolt over 4 years ago

OHR had always been pretty accurate for me but since updating to the 5.09 Beta software during Run activities my OHR spikes up to 160, 170, 180 when I’m barely making any effort at all and if I stop running and walk and count my pulse with my finger I estimate as much as 50, 60, 70 bpm less than what my 945 is reporting. On one occasion yesterday it was also reporting very low, between 90-110 bpm but I was jogging and estimating 120-140 myself. Spiking high above my actual heart rate has been the main issue though and has happened in multiple Run activities. It's so bad I can't rely on my OHR at all now and Garmin says I'm being Unproductive this week because it thinks I've been pushing myself so hard when I really haven't been. I'm reverting back to 5.0

0 f|33tStA over 4 years ago in reply to Montezumeflex

Montezumeflex said:
Hi f|33tStA , I just found your comment about the option to change from power to heartrate, but im unable to figure out where to change this. When I go to cycling, training, workouts, todays suggestion, it says I need a recent V02 Max. when I hold the options button I just goed back to the cycling activity screen. Could you help me out?

Do you use a Powermeter for cycling?
it looks like you haven't, you only get a vo2max for cycling with a PM!

0 9386496 over 4 years ago

I am now getting 0.272% battery drain 13.7 days at 89% it has gone down from 95 to 89 in 24 hours (only in smart mode) so that is great. This is using battery info widget from iq store and I didn't sleep with it or wear it today.

airplane mode

10%

ohm on

pulseox off

wifi off

no extra widgets

standard watch face