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7.75 beta

eronb over 3 years ago

I've installed the beta and so far no issues with:

Run with GPS and playing local music through Bluetooth headphones.

Haven't used it much but it seems fine.

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-- over 3 years ago +4

Thank you Garmin developers for the continued development. Hope it will bring improvement in battery consumption for those users who experience excessive battery usage, although the changelog does not…
-- over 3 years ago in reply to phn55 +1

There's the Device Usage widget in each beta, which shows some statistics, and logs hourly in a file on the watch, which isn't super high resolution, but at least it doesn't use up a lot of…
ben.hartley over 3 years ago in reply to MZ +1

It's been discussed a few times before in other threads for the previous firmware(s). I agree it's somewhat inconsistent that the menu is documented yet not available on the watch. I assume it's a feature…

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0 -- over 3 years ago in reply to spruitp

spruitp said:
interval workout

Unrelated to this beta thread, but what's the difference between a user-defined interval workout with lap-button ends to intervals and rests? Set it to 99 repeats and end the workout when your desired number of laps is done.

0 David over 3 years ago in reply to cull_27

I went for an hour run today with the 7.75 Beta and jaybird vista's and it worked flawlessly; which is promising since I haven't had a run without dropout issues since before the last update. Also I left the phone and wifi connections ON in the settings menu, where with the last revision this would have caused a dropout within the first 5 minutes.

0 rtperna over 3 years ago in reply to David

That's promising - hoping they fine tuned the sleep tracking, trail running VO2Max (it's stupidly combined with regularly running), and battery life. Once that stuff has been fine tuned, this watch is pretty much perfect IMO.

0 MZ over 3 years ago in reply to rtperna

Those of you who updated, do you have this menu item?

forums.garmin.com/.../battery-saver-feature-missing

0 eronb over 3 years ago in reply to MZ

Nope, don't have this menu.

0 ben.hartley over 3 years ago in reply to MZ

It's been discussed a few times before in other threads for the previous firmware(s). I agree it's somewhat inconsistent that the menu is documented yet not available on the watch. I assume it's a feature to be implemented at a (hopefully not too) later date.

0 David over 3 years ago in reply to David

So, its been a few days since I last reported. Everything was going okay, but today during my run the jaybirds started dropping/disconnecting again. The only thing that seems to get them to work for any amount of time while I was on the run was to switch playlists. The only other thing that was kind of weird was yesterday I did a long run, and when I got back my watch was at around 50% so I didnt bother recharging. But overnight it completely drained and was dead when I woke up.

0 Bertil Dator over 3 years ago in reply to David

Yes, there would seem to be some battery draining issue, seeing it here as well.

0 FlipStone over 3 years ago

No issues with batteyr here, but calories burnt seem to be very high the last 2 days or so?

(Mainly 'active' calories).

Yesterday I had one run, accounting for ~670 calories but in total I had 4300 calories (of which 2400 active). I only had a few walks with the dog and a small bike ride...

Anyone else noticing weird (very high) burnt calory counts?

0 David over 3 years ago in reply to FlipStone

I don't normally pay attention to calories, but looking back at my history, I don't really see much difference between previous sw and the 7.75 with the calories. So it seems normal for me.