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Beta 15.09

jonesbmr over 2 years ago

Now available to download…

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Tiago78 over 2 years ago +8

I already have and report 3 bugs in the first 5 minutes. The Beta on my Fenix 7 solar works like a charm. I'm starting to hate the forerunner series and team development
road-run over 2 years ago +6

Weren't the beta bugs supposed to be reported/discussed in the beta forum?
FlipStone over 2 years ago +4

Could anyone try if navigating to a saved location is fixed? Don't see anything listed concerning this and if this is still there I'm really officially utterly freaking disappointed and p*ssed with garmin…

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0 Miky over 2 years ago

Let's talk about important things....

When this beta will become a official firmware? I don't see major bugs report, so...let's go!

0 ethcz over 2 years ago in reply to Miky

Here it is claimed, that the 15.09 official release is supposed to be during Q2, without more details:

https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-955-series/322300/fr-955-solar-doesn-t-navigate-to-saved-location-after-14-08-update/1599699#1599699

And here, DC Rainmaker shows some details about the Garmin’s quarterly firmware releases process:

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2023/03/garmin-adds-new-beta-features-to-fenix-7-epix-product-family.html

0 nowster over 2 years ago in reply to Miky

I did suggest a few months back that the betas not become public releases for at least three weeks, just to allow enough time for showstopper bugs to be discovered, reported and fixed.

Too often in the past a "release candidate" beta has been so buggy that when it was made the public release a week later there were cries that there were still major bugs in it, even though that beta's bug forum had plenty of reports of those bugs but had been closed immediately when the public release came out.

I'd welcome a beta 15.12 this Thursday fixing some of the major problems (eg. third party watch faces causing boot loops).

0 derek87 over 2 years ago in reply to Miky

i think there are a lot of minor but i would classify one as major: somehow the watch losing its ability to properly deduce sunrise and sunset times, even on the same day a GPS activity has occurred. that has consequences for many things including gestures and behaviors set by sunset.

there are other bugs listed, and minor of course is in the eye of the beholder...

0 4297054 over 2 years ago

Any clues about when it is going to be released as an official software update?

0 nowster over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

4297054 said:
Any clues about when it is going to be released as an official software update?

When it's ready and the obvious bugs are fixed, I hope. At the moment it's not quite at the quality needed for a general release.

Anyone who really wants it can get it now, this instant, by joining the Beta program and asking the watch to download it.

0 ethcz over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

4297054 said:
Any clues about when it is going to be released as an official software update?

Just read 4 posts before your question...

0 rmullins08 over 2 years ago in reply to 4297054

15.11 just released to beta.

0 patrickd123 over 2 years ago

Well well well, look at that! Looks like 15.09 FINALLY fixed my since-my-daughter-was-born old problem regarding navigating to Saved Location. Looks like I can start living again lolllllll