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[20.26] Regression in the map feature (zoom buttons are black, forest not green)

Orienteering runner
4 months ago

Hi

Update 20.26 also brought a deterioration in the performance of maps. I see 2 problems.

1. The zoom buttons are black, they are no longer transparent.

2. The color of the forests is no longer green and has become green-brown.

I remember both problems were there in the past but were fixed. Now they are back.

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to Orienteering runner

    Since it would have been an internal change which shouldn't have affected the users (if there hadn't been any bugs), there wouldn't have been any reason to mention it.

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to Bitti
    Bitti said:
    But it's possible that the new engine doesn't support partial transparency on MIP. Impossible to know, but it would explain why the background is always black on 955 but translucent on 965.

    Yes, that's possible, but again, 945 LTE had this bug much earlier (maybe 1.5-2 years ago, right around the time that it was synced up with the UI/code from FR955), and it was previously fixed on that device too. I believe both of those things happened before FR955 even had the bug.

    About 8 months ago, 945 LTE stopped receiving major updates, so it's no longer in sync with 955 now.

    Even if your explanation is the correct one, it goes back to how some devices suffer when several devices with significant differences share the same firmware code base.

    945 LTE was also hit by a change in how map panning worked (a single press of the UP or DOWN buttons would pan the map by a single pixel, and holding the buttons did nothing), which basically made panning impossible. This change was also annoying on the newer devices (like 955 and Fenix 7), but less of an issue because panning was possible using the touchscreen. 945 LTE doesn't have a touchscreen, though, so making the buttons useless for panning had a much greater impact on that device.

  • 0 4 months ago in reply to FlowState

    Ok, then I'm probably wrong and the bug is caused by something else.  Let's hope they get it fixed for 955 also.

  • 0 2 days ago

    In 22.18 (beta), the pan/zoom button background is translucent once again.

    It works properly in both dark mode and light mode.

  • 0 2 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Thanks. 

    I'm not in beta program but that's what I assumed based on change log:

    • Fix map pan/zoom bar coloring

    Are there any changes in the color of the rendered forest? Is it still so dark that it's hard to see the watercourses?

  • 0 2 days ago in reply to Orienteering runner
    Orienteering runner said:
    Are there any changes in the color of the rendered forest?

    Well - for me, this is already fixed!
    I live with a forest area nearby and it is not brownish-green (like I could confirm before, see my older comment), but straight green again. And this is for some time now, already - but I cannot say, if it changed with a software update or maybe a maps update...

    I am on Software Version 21.22 and Topoactive (Europe) Maps 2024.20

  • 0 2 days ago in reply to Grumpy from dawn till dusk

    Thanks for really good news. 

    I'm waiting for the official release of the 22.xx.

    It looks like Garmin has finally started to make 21.xx usable. I've refrained from updating because of problems with functions that are important to me. Maybe there's still that unfortunate automatic LT with OHR, but I'll disable this functionality in the menu as workaround and only enable it when I want to consciously measure LT.