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20.26 beta to final Varia Radar STILL NOT WORKING PROPERLY

kansasironman
2 months ago

Having posted 3 times during beta (with each update) with many other people also commenting, Garmin still releases FINAL 20.26 with Varia Radar not properly working with 965. With no idea of how or why, the screen will sometimes show green/yellow/red bars with number of vehicles, BUT MOSTLY JUST HAS HALF BUBBLE ON TOP SAYING VEHICLE APPROACHING AND SHOWING NO BARS OR VEHICLES. It will then give an "all clear" beep. This makes the radar mostly useless! Come on Garmin, get this fixed!

  • 0 1 month ago

    Can someone help me explain how to flash firmware v19 or even 18? I can't have radar not working, it's not safe for me. I have a PC and cable. Thank you.

  • 0 1 month ago

    Can someone help me explain how to flash firmware v19 or even 18? I can't have radar not working, it's not safe for me. I have a PC and cable. Thank you.

  • +1 1 month ago

    All, 

    Thank you very much for your participation in this thread. We have a fix coming in a future software update. Thank you very much for your patience, I greatly apologize for this disruption. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to Garmin-Sierra

    Hello,

    sorry to hijack this thread, but it's related. I've noticed a new beep signal, and from my experience from edge devices I believe it's the "all clear" signal which happens when there are no more cars behind (and the chart turns green).

    If this is true and it's a new feature, I believe (as with every new feature) there should be a way to disable it. I tried to search the watch but found no options for that (the configuration of radar is limited compared to edge..).

    For you to understand, I wear my watch on the wrist while cycling and don't watch it all the time, the distinct sound of radar and vibration is enough for me and I don't have to look at the watch. HOWEVER now, there's a new beep (WHICH IS SAME as any beep for notification), so it's now unclear whtether this is "all clear" or "incoming call".

    Please please, consider 1) changing the beep to be very distinct from other ones  AND 2) give an option to disable this "feature". You're changing the behaviour of the watch, sometimes for the worse without even realizing it. One cannot stay on old firmware and in the same time is not allowed to "not use" new features.

    BTW, I'm software quality engineer, you should have some bug tracking system and better quality control. this is insane.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to 5065641

    I actually think this is part of the bug. But since they say they have fixed it let's see what happens when they roll out the new software

  • 0 1 month ago

    Not sure if this is to the group or not, but fyi I updated to system 20.31 before my ride this evening and THE VARIA NOTIFICATIONS ARE WORKING PERFECTLY AGAIN. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to TonyHoffman

    mine, after update, still fail to work as before. Virtually no changes.

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to TonyHoffman

    I can confirm that after updating the 965 to version 20.31 the radar variator notifications work perfectly. Great Garmin for fixing the problem in such a short time. 

  • 0 1 month ago in reply to TonyHoffman

    UPDATE ON TODAY'S RIDE: like magic, the radar worked like it's supposed to from the beginning of the ride. For the entire 100km ride. The only thing I did was reboot the watch yesterday before riding. And no false positives. Praying it continues to work 

  • 0 1 month ago

    The latest update fixed this issue for me. I did restart the watch after the update, which I think is always a good idea after any updates.