Feature Requests and Suggested Improvements

I suppose there's no use in asking for software features any more, as we haven't had any updates for more than 3 months...

Not if all you're hoping for is that Garmin will do a bunch of work to increase the (functional and/or residue) value of the device to you, so long after you've already spent money on the one-off purchase price.

If you think there is value in one day seeing a Garmin device model with more of the features you desire in a running watch, then keep the suggested improvements coming, so that they may perchance make it into the FR240/245 or FR250/255 while you'll consider buying. After all, if you get more access to features and you spend more money with Garmin, then it's a win-win.

Asking for additional value-added features to be retrofitted to current models, without any intent on spending any more money on your part at this point, is too one-way to be of any use in the first place.

Not if all you're hoping for is that Garmin will do a bunch of work to increase the (functional and/or residue) value of the device to you, so long after you've already spent money on the one-off purchase price.

If you think there is value in one day seeing a Garmin device model with more of the features you desire in a running watch, then keep the suggested improvements coming, so that they may perchance make it into the FR240/245 or FR250/255 while you'll consider buying. After all, if you get more access to features and you spend more money with Garmin, then it's a win-win.

Asking for additional value-added features to be retrofitted to current models, without any intent on spending any more money on your part at this point, is too one-way to be of any use in the first place.

It depends whether certain things are working properly or in a sensible way in the first place. There is still some room for sensible fixes to functionality that dont require a lot of work and probably should have been there in the first place.
We also have the true 24/7 HRM that was 'removed' from the original firmware. A simple means to turn it back on again is not asking too much.

I see this both ways. People dont expect to get new feature after new feature, but they do expect things to work in a logical manner and improvements made along the way help to persuade people they want to buy into the next Garmin device rather than become frustrated and jump ship.

Separate steps from activities

+1 vote for the option to separate steps inside activities from outside (i.e., subtract out steps taken during recorded activities from total daily steps), so that they don't "double count" when syncing with health/fitness ecosystems.

This would help my 235 as well as Vivoactives. Should be easy -- would be very helpful. Menu settings option.

Thanks

Garmin's lawyer

Your claim is demonstrably incorrect.

Just now, as an experiment with my FR235, I selected the Bike Indoor activity profile (and clicked through until a data screen was showing), then long-pressed and selected Music Controls from the menu. I checked that Play/Pause was successfully controlling the music player app on the connected Android device, then left the watch in that state (without starting the timer on an activity). Twelve minutes later, my FR235 was still showing the Music Controls screen, and when I pressed the music player responded immediately.

There you go. Problem solved.

You can find out how many steps to exclude, though, because the number of steps is recorded for each timed run, and you can see it on the Activities page in Garmin Connect online.

Perhaps a FR630 (if you wanted a touch screen) or a FR735XT (if you specifically do not want a touch screen) would have been a better replacement for your FR610, when they both offer not just three, but four user-customisable data screens.




For starters, the FR235 does not have the same screen real estate as the FR610. With the improved screen resolution, the selection of fonts seemed to be rounder and less squat (or wide) to make the characters look better. Then it appears a decision has been made to increase the amount of white space to improve at-a-glance readability.

Sorry AsMugDIll I ready many of your post and I can't understand why you always defend Garmin; are you a Stakeholder, a Shareholder, a Board Member? Get a Garmin Badge to be put in your comments so we know who you are. To Say increasing white space readibility is better is simply false. About the other points (diminuished features in the watch and in GC), am I free to complain? Of course at Garmin have a good legal department (may be bigger than sw development) and for sure I can't sue them for what was promised and sold. But their respect for the customers is less than zero, and everybody are looking and hoping a new brand can satisfy our needs.

I can't understand why you always defend Garmin;

Perhaps that's because that is neither the motivation for nor the point of my posts, and so your approach to ‘understanding’ is wrong?

are you a Stakeholder,

Yes, insofar as I'm a customer – just as you, and the vast majority of fellow forum members here, are – who spent money on Garmin products and is getting value from the use of such, I want Garmin to continue producing and providing things that I may acquire and use for my enjoyment; that is my ‘stake’ in the matter, and my reason for wanting the company to do well.

To be clear, Garmin has done more for me than, say, you as a fellow consumer or community member has, and so if I were to take a side – either out of self-interest or a sense of reciprocity – it would be the company's and not yours. However, taking its side is not actually my intent.

a Shareholder, a Board Member? Get a Garmin Badge to be put in your comments so we know who you are.

I don't have shares in the company, and I'm neither a Board Member nor an employee. I don't do any paid work for or with the company, directly or indirectly; and, none of my family or my friends do, as far as I'm aware.

To Say increasing white space readibility is better is simply false.

I said a decision was made with that intent; and, irrespective of your perception and preferences, most typography books and courses support the notion that more surrounding white space improves readibility.

If the chef makes a decision to put pepper into a dish to add flavour, it doesn't necessarily mean you as the diner will find the dish more flavoursome. It's quite possible you think it actually kills the flavour, but even then you won't and can't disprove what the chef's reason was, just because you don't agree with his decision.

About the other points (diminuished features in the watch and in GC), am I free to complain?

Of course you are, just as I am equally free to respond in an open discussion forum as a fellow member and customer, unless I'm told by the forum's host (in this case, Garmin) that somehow you're allowed to say your piece but I'm not.

This is the ‹Feature Requests and Suggested Improvements› thread in a discussion forum, not the Garmin Ideas submission web page. Surely you'd expect the requests and suggestions to be considered and discussed by fellow forum members, and not just left alone (that is, ignored) or uncritically endorsed?

But their respect for the customers is less than zero, and everybody are looking and hoping a new brand can satisfy our needs.

You're wrong, because I'm a member of ‘everybody’ as a set, and as I said earlier, I'm quite happy with Garmin's products – much more so than I'm with the competition, some of which I bought and returned (on the grounds that they aren't sufficiently reliable or fit for purpose), and others that failed to attract my custom in the first place (for being too chunky in design, or not water resistant, etc.) – so I'm not looking or hoping for non-existent alternatives.

snooze on the alarm

The missing Snooze on the alarm is such a dealbreaker...

Is there anybody from Garmin reading and following this thread?

Do you receive any feedback guys?

Another one here with a Forerunner 235, and would like to have continuous vibration during incoming phone call. It vibrates only once, and that is very easy to miss...

You could also improve the alarms (the ability to select individual weekdays for example - even Xiaomi Mi Band 2 has this), and the snooze function would be another great addition...

This are really simple things...

For me, an incoming call vibrates about one a second. It's a long pulse as well, different to notifications

CW