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Hello. why Garmin has not integrated a function that turns off the screen when it is on and in time mode, to save battery.

like many oled screen watches today.

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BeneGi over 4 years ago +2

Because the always on mode of the Garmin watches is one of the selling points differentiating the watches from OLED smartwatches.

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0 BeneGi over 4 years ago

Because the always on mode of the Garmin watches is one of the selling points differentiating the watches from OLED smartwatches.

0 mcalista over 4 years ago

Because the transflective screen of the 945 is not a battery sucking vampire like an OLED screen.

0 Thenono1 over 4 years ago

ok thanks for this answer

0 Thenono1 over 4 years ago

pity that it is not possible to deactivate the seconds on the standard watch face

0 Chris_Ffm over 4 years ago in reply to Thenono1

This is not how it works. If you don't want to have standard watch face design just select another.

0 ben.hartley over 4 years ago

Because the "many watches today" you refer to are mostly employing OLED screen technology, which by its nature consumes a lot more power than the Memory-in-pixel (MIP) display tech used in watches like the 945. Very few Garmins use OLED screens and those that do have this power saving "screen off" feature you speak of. This is why I hope that the serious sports devices don't move to OLED screens - they currently don't need to turn off the display to save power.

0 Dr Phil over 4 years ago in reply to ben.hartley

ben.hartley said:
I hope that the serious sports devices don't move to OLED screens

Unless they manage to keep the battery usage low and the time between recharging long. For me that would be at least one week of 24/7 with around 15hrs of GPS use.