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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 FlipStone

I sometimes get insanely high erratic heart rate during bike rides over uneven pavement (with any OHR-capable watch). Maybe it's that? Can you see something in the 24hr HR graph?

0 FlipStone over 3 years ago

Thanks for the input but I think it's fixed...

No clue what happened but looked like an activity wasn't saved (terminated?) properly and caused this. I suddenly also had no sleep data during the night...

What happened was, I accidently canceled/exited a workout after pausing. I started/resumed a new one to finish it but after saving it didn't appear in the activities, it was just gone. Didn't think much of it and just added it manually but that's when the weird calorie (and sleep) stuff started.

After a soft reset of the watch it immediately asked if I wanted to save that resumed (missing) activity again, which was very weird, but I exited that and the calory stuff still happened. Soft reset again (to see if I still got the msg about the activity after a restart), it processed as expected without any activity mentioned and since then it seems to be working fine again.

So it FEELS as if the watch was still in 'activity' (running) mode calculation or something causing the calories to get bumped/multiplied or so?

Really strange and first time this ever happened, but at least all seems fine now and hopefully just a one off.

0 PJohann over 3 years ago in reply to --

Thanks for sharing this information. I never saw this widget...Is there a way to keep it with "final" firmware ?

Do we know how the prevent ANT and BLE scanning to save battery life ? Phone option on the watch is turned off....

0 -- over 3 years ago in reply to PJohann

Just set Settings->System->SoftwareUpdate->AutoUpdate to Off. And save the downloaded betas just in case.

BLE off is a matter of 'phone' off (as you did)

ANT+ is very, very energy efficient. I don't see a reason to not use it. Back in the day you could use a coin-cell powered sports watch like a Forerunner 60 with ANT+ heart rate strap and foot pod for ages. Maybe an ANT+ chest strap is more energy efficient than using the optical HRM.

If you delete all defined (paired) ANT+ sensors, the watch won't use ANT+.