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Laggy UI on forerunner 965

1049290
16 days ago

Hi everyone, i recently bought my first running watch, the garmin 965. I am very satisfied with all the functions and insights it is able to produce. 

There is just one thing that is bugging me. The UI keeps freezing up when i am scrolling through the widgets.

It happens when i am using the buttons and the touch screen. 

It is a small thing that keeps irritating me more and more. 

Do someone else have the same problem? And has anything worked to resolve the issue?

  • 0 3 days ago in reply to eliobell
    eliobell said:
    But what does "UI" mean? Why not use the exact name and not these boring acronyms?
    1049290 said:
    “ user interface”

    I wonder how many native English speakers know what a "user interface" is if they don't know the acronym UI tho. (I realize not everyone in the forums may be a native English speaker.)

    I actually agree that ppl in tech (and some in the Garmin forums) use too much jargon and acronyms, but at some point ppl have to assume some baseline shared vocabulary in order to communicate.

    Everyone in this thread uses "glance", "widgets" and "Connect IQ" without explanation, and those terms are far more obscure than "UI". Nobody other than Garmin users would know the exact meaning of those words/phrases (in relation to Garmin), but many non-Garmin users would know what "UI" means.

    And it's actually a lot easier to look up the standard definition of "UI" then it is to look up any of those other words.

    As a matter of fact, Forerunner 965 (and other modern Garmin watches) technically don't have widgets at all. The easiest way to see this is to use the Connect IQ store mobile app, select your modern Garmin device (such as FR965) and notice that the search bar has filters for Apps, Data Fields, Watch Faces, and Music, but not Widgets. But if you select an old watch like FR945, the search bar will still have the Widgets filter. You can also see that the 965 manual only mentions the word "widget" once (probably left over from older manuals). In contrast the 945 manual has 96 matches for "widget".

    This proves that users don't even use the word "widget" in exactly the same way that Garmin does. This isn't a criticism, as all the popular sports tech bloggers do exactly the same thing (e.g. DCR talks about "widgets" all the time.) It's more of an observation that "widget" has a certain meaning for users even if Garmin has a different "official" meaning.

    TL;DR communication is hard, meaning is fuzzy, and both speakers/writers and listeners/readers have a bunch of built-in assumptions they make, such as the assumption that most people know what "UI" means