Related
This discussion has been locked.
You can no longer post new replies to this discussion. If you have a question you can start a new discussion

Touch screen navigation improvement

MikeDozer
over 2 years ago

Coming from oryginal Epix (those with rectangular screen) with touchscreen. Map browsing was very good on it. When touch screen arrived on FR955 i though "finaly!".

Unfortunetly there is still much to improvment.

Now, to use pan and zoom, we have to use multiple buttons taps to activate, when using livetrack or power meters. To activate pan/zoom on map you have to hold up button and then select pan/zoom option which, depending on situation, in diffirent spots of the menu. When you simply use a run/hike etc profile it will be the first. But when you have power meter (bike profile) attached on using livetrack option, you have to click several times to go to pan/zoom option.

See screens 

Two solutions:

Possibility to activate touch screen pan/zoom feature by DOUBLE tap on the screen like on Epix (it was working fine! why it was removed?)

Make pan/zoom option appear ALWAYS on the top. 

And in that moment, managing map is a pain in the ass :/ 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 2758248

    To be fair, not everything is broken on FR 955. One thing is the Instant keyboard - it just works fine.

    I guess you might have it disabled in Garmin Connect Mobile? (Menu -> Settings -> Instant Keyboard)

    And maybe in addition you need to grant some permissions? I am not sure, I don't remember what it asked when I was installing it some months ago.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Absolutely agree!!

    Same thing on every forerunner I owned. Somehow garmin manages to always start from scratch. As if the forerunner 9x5 is the ugly Fenix brother, that doesn't deserve any love...

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Btw, I see my thread regarding the inconsistent zoom control is transferred to this topic:

    https://forums.garmin.com/beta-program/forerunner-955-series/public-beta-bug-reports/i/bug-reports---beta-12-20/touch-zoom-working-inconsistently

    But I don't really actually see it mentioned in here? That's a good way to get things missed... So just in case, as it still is not improved, I want to explicitly mention it here again

    Using the touchscreen interface to zoom in (touch the onscreen +) works fine and as expected

    Using the touchscreen interface to zoom out (touch the onscreen -) works hardly at all. At times it registers it as a zoom out, but 9 out of 10 times it brings the cursor to that spot and doesn't work at all. The button works, but the onscreen - doesn't seem to register at all.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    In the Fenix 7 if the touchscreen is active the pan/zoom is enabled by touching the map screen (single or double tap, not sure).
    I hope the same works for the 955, if not they need to include this in the coming updates.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 9970217

    Confermo che nel Forerunner 955 non funziona ne singolo tocco ne doppio per attivare la funzione zoom.

    • 3 mesi che faccio attività in cui ho bisogno di mappe e ogni volta una fatica...quando sistemano? 
    • Nei Fenix 7 c'è anche la possibilità di impostare regole di risparmio batteria per ogni singola attivitá? Su fr955 no
  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Albertone

    Garmin er klar over problemet og er som de nævner ved at dykke ned i problemet og finde en løsning, så du skal nok bare have tålmodighed lidt endnu.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    All,

    Please see our recently released beta software for a fix addressing this report. If you prefer to not install this beta software, we hope to be rolling out a public software update soon, though I do not have a timeline for this release. If you are still seeing this issue after installing the beta software, please contribute your observations in the appropriate beta bug reports section of the beta forums for your specific device.

    Enrolling in Garmin Beta Software Program

  • +1 over 2 years ago

    All,

    We have released a fix in the latest (non-beta) software release that should resolve the report for most users experiencing these symptoms.  The software release should continue rolling out to all users in the coming days.  If you are still experiencing symptoms like the original report here, please start a new thread in the main forum.