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Backlight option: Backlight on after sunset if doing an activity

Chris_Ffm
over 4 years ago

Hi guys,

I'm looking for the option to set backlight to "on" after sunset during an activity. Means during the complete activity.

I had this on my 935 and found that pretty fine.

I know that the 945 has the gesture option. But for e.g. tempo runs it is really unhandy to permanently rotate the hand and waiting until light is going on. During the gesture I do several steps until light goes on. During this time I'm running with the arm lifted in front of me....

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  • 0 over 4 years ago

    From the watch face, hold the Menu symbol.
    Select Settings > System > Backlight.
    Select During Activity or Not During Activity.

    For your case, you can go to during activity > timeout and change it to never timeout. This will keep the backlight from turning off during activity. If you don't always run at night don't forget to turn it back off so you don't have it draining your battery if you don't always need it during every activity.

    For me, my gesture has been pretty responsive with a quick turn of the wrist, but I can see how that would be pretty annoying when you are constantly trying to check in the dark.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Parker
    Parker said:
    For me, my gesture has been pretty responsive with a quick turn of the wrist

    For me, I've noticed that the watch will have backlight on really often even if I'm running and not doing the gesture which uses just too much battery :( 

    I would like to see the gesture detection to be improved.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    For me, I've noticed that the watch will have backlight on really often even if I'm running and not doing the gesture which uses just too much battery :( 

    Check the backlight intensity settings. Each 10% of intensity burns about 1.5% of battery per hour. At 100% intensity, that is about 15% of battery per hour, which is pretty major. At low backlight intensities, a 1 hour run in the evening or early shouldn't burn that much battery.

     I find 5-10% backlight is just fine for nighttime runs.

    If the backlight is coming on often, you may want to turn backlight for alerts to Off.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to jmto
    jmto said:
    For me, I've noticed that the watch will have backlight on really often even if I'm running and not doing the gesture which uses just too much battery :( 

    I would like to see the gesture detection to be improved.

    Ditto, however I don't want it improved such that the sensitivity is so low that it doesn't register a wrist flick when I WANT it to show.  Right now it's very close 100% of those but with a few false positives occasionally too.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I had to train myself with the first watch with gesture option (I think it was the Fenix 2?) to do that gesture properly. After that, I dont have problems with the light off when I need it and on when I dont. It even switches off when I flick it back down.
    On throughout the whole activity was possible on Fenix watches, seems like one of that small little cuts the FR945 got to separate it below the Fenix 6.

    Your arm will be in front of you lifted for some steps, or how do you see anything on the watch? :-D


  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to mcalista
    mcalista said:
     I find 5-10% backlight is just fine for nighttime runs.

    Had it at 20%, dropped to 10%.

    And I have the gesture after sunset, it does come on because of "gesture" which I'm not doing.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Parker

    @Parker Thank you, for pointing to this. Works fine! Thumbsup

    However, @Garmin, there is room for improvement. I'm pretty sure, that on my 935 I could set different backlight settings based on activity type. Couldn't I?

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Chris_Ffm
    Chris_Ffm said:
    I'm pretty sure, that on my 935 I could set different backlight settings based on activity type. Couldn't I?

    No

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Dr Phil
    Dr Phil said:
    No

    Concur. Never heard of this feature on any of my Garmin watches.