Forerunner 955 Series Missing 5% Backlight Option on Watch

You can still get 5% through GC on your phone.  It's weird to have this discrepancy between the phone and watch setting.

I tried the phone options however 5% and 10% have no effect, the brightness remains the same

hassan987 I'll be damn, you are right!  I also verified that there is no actual brightness difference on 955 when I select either 5% or 10% on GC.

Garmin-Kevin this is another bug.

The bug might be that 5% is available at all. It is possible the hardware can only do increments of 10%.

Also seeing this as well.

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Hi Garmin-Kevin. This is already the second time that I am asked to participate on bug hunting by giving permission on a public forum and then potentially go through the cumbersome process of copying all 955 memory, and then manual delete the maps *.img files before upload.

Given the current state of constant bugs, wouldn't it make sense for Garmin to invest on some more automated way to collect telemetry?

Alternatively, again given the state of how many bugs are out there, potentially give us better tools to report and track the bugs ourselves.  It is very very painful as it is...

Yes, this thread should serve as evidence. Garmin should be easily able to replicate most of these bugs on an internal device. The 5% setting is now also missing on the 255.

And in the end Garmin says "Its a feature not a bug"

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