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Gesture during running with AOD off

flocsy🤠
8 days ago

Yesterday I tried running with the AOD disabled during activity. It's horrible!

I am not very surprised because Garmin is not good in gestures, even in the watchface it doesn't really work (usually I have to move my arm 2 or 3 times, or touch the screen to wake it up) but at least there's a way to wake it up!

During running the gesture did not work in 90% of the times I tried, nor the touch (touch is turned off for activity, but I mean, if gesture doesn't work, then at least make it possible to wake it up with a touch!)

  • 0 8 days ago

    Interesting. What kind of run did you do? I've been using 965 with AOD off for two years, and I have almost no issues while running. Maybe once in every couple of runs I have to raise my hand twice, but that's it (and I have touch disabled too). So it must have something to do with the way people run and raise their hand (but of course that didn't help people with problems).

    But I wouldn't like allowing touch to light up screen when touch is off. The reason I have touch off is that my wet sleeve constantly activated the touch when I had touch on. So if touch would still light up screen, I would practically have AOD for the wet and cold season.

  • 0 8 days ago in reply to Bitti

    I haven't run for 6 months because of injury and yesterday was the 1st time I tried running. Slow pace, easy run, 5k.

  • 0 8 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

    That kind of confirms my feeling that this might depend a lot on peoples' natural way of raising their arm and the watch's inability to recognise all different kinds of arm-raises. Practically the only times I have any problems with waking up the display is during intense intervals (and I've heard the same from others). During base runs I have practically zero problems. Lucky me, but doesn't of course help those who have problems. Re-training your arm to raise differently doesn't sound like a reasonable solution... Slight smile

  • 0 8 days ago in reply to Bitti

    Still more likely than Garmin improving gesture detection Disappointed