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Backlight issue after 17.26 update

After I updated my Forerunner 955 to 17.26 backlight started living it's own life.

Most days I don't have backlight at all (button press, gesture, nothing work), sometimes it comes back during running or other activities, someday it can work almost all day but disappear on the next day.

I tried changing related settings for general use and during activity:

Key&Touch On/Off

Alerts On/Off

Gesture On/Off

Different value for timeout and brightness

But nothing help, if my watch decided to not give me light today, than I can't force him. Also I did hard reset few times, but it didn't help.

And as I know there are no way to return back to previous firmware.

0 jjbadon over 1 year ago

If it helps any, I had issues with the backlight as well. It was'nt related to a software update, I think. It seemed a hardware problem, sometimes it would work (20%), sometimes not (60%), sometimes it would flicker (20%). This was in May 2023 when my 955 solar was almost a year old. It was replaced by Garmin without issue.