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Backlight 6.20 turns on when it wants

Igor Petrov
over 3 years ago

On firmware 6.20, the backlight is disabled for all modes. However, the backlight turns on when the menu is launched.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Welcome to Garmin's proofed software rollouts :-)

    They really tested, before going live with this. NOT.

    I'm curious to see which bugs they manage to introduce by fixing this (if at all).

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Hello Igor, is there any chance you could upload a video of what you are seeing? If you could start from you back light settings, go through not during and during activity, and then go through one of the menu's showing that the back light comes on. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Brooks

    I checked everything again. The video link below is attached. When starting the Menu, pressing the top left button turns on the backlight. 

    Backlight doesn't turn on when activity starts.

    https://disk.yandex.ru/i/8HcxK8fASULnIw

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Igor Petrov

    I assume you have "activate backlight on button press" setting on. The top left button manually turns on the backlight for the time indicated in the settings. The backlight is not usually on otherwise unless set to "turn on with wrist turn" (which wastes a lot of battery).

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Igor Petrov

    At this time, that is how the backlight reacts to accessing the Control Menu; an experience inquiry has been created to track customer interest in a change being made.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Brooks

    Sorry but what's the point in that decision Garmin made? If I turn off all backlight options in the menu, I certainly DON'T want the backlight to be turned on while accessing the radial menu with LONG pressing the upper left button. Which it didn't in former firmware versions. Whats the purpose of this behaviour? In the daylight it just shortens battery life. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Geroelltrampel

    Regarding your question why, it makes it easier to see what icon your about to select on a screen with nothing but small icons on the screen. As far as battery life impact that's going to be negligible at most unless you are on that screen all day long and continuously turning the backlight back on, (the default is to time out after 8 seconds) and if you are concerned about any excess battery drain, a second tap turns the backlight back off immediately. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Brooks

    Thank you for your quick reply.

    I'm not totally convinced that this is negligible at battery life, because in normal daylight users may not notice backlight turning on if not expected. Any time they go through some more actions by pushing more buttons, the backlight will keep on working (which of course is a very useful function, if backlight was explicitly activated by the user). But in daylight this definitely does not help to extend battery life :-)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Geroelltrampel

    Repeated use of the light (even with 8 secs time out on) definitely degrades battery life over time. I have mine off always and manually turn on and off as needed.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Brooks

    Thanks for your reply. The Fenix 6 Series now has the same backlit behavior when exiting the menu. For me personally, this is not very important, since I always use 5% backlighting when pressing buttons. Let me give you my opinion, if the backlight is off, it shouldn't be turned on at the discretion of the development team. It can be called in another way. But I respect your work and wish you success in your future work on software modernization.