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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

    I don't like this new behavior too. The long press of light button to call the radial menu definitely should not turn the backlight on, given that all corresponding backlight options are off.

    If I'm in a dark environment at daytime, I would rather press light button shortly first and then hold it to access menu. It should be exclusively my decision, if I need some backlight to see the icons or not.

    This behavior has impact on battery life. Backlight stays on while you browse menus. And turning backlight off manually is not an option at all, because it is more natural to NOT use the backlight at daytime than use it. So, an explicit action should be taken by user to turn the backlight ON when needed in rare cases rather then turn it manually off most of the time.

    Garmin should really consider reverting this "feature" to previous normal behavior.

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    For all who also doesn't like new behavior: I've filled in the Feedback Reporting Form and have sent it to [email protected],
    [email protected] and [email protected] emails, here is the link to the document https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I299XRA7AidMY72_Dl_VyQU_gVCm0Lk-/view?usp=sharing

    Feel free to download and send as well, though I don't know if it will make any effect, but I gave it a try.