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Wrist Turn: How to?

From the Forerunner 235 Owner's Manual:

Wrist Turn: Allows your device to turn on the backlight automatically when you rotate your wrist toward your body.

While this would be invaluable during a run, I'm having a hard time making the feature work. Is there a magical hand motion one must master to get the backlight to turn on automatically? During a night run, I got this to work 2 out of 10 times. And when it worked, there was a lag, that I tend to reach out with my right hand to turn on the backlight manually.

Any tips, suggestions or videos would be greatly appreciated.

Kind regards,

0 timgrose over 9 years ago

Just tried it sitting down. I find you need to give it a fairly full turn. You may need to turn it away a bit to give a big enough turn.

One thing I noticed is that you view the "underside" of your wrist (i.e. the buckle) then flip it 180% (to see the screen) then it always seems to work.

TBH though on a "night run", I would tend to set my backlight to be always on but that will of course mean you may need to charge more often.

0 philippe.berini over 9 years ago

I have a watch face that shows seconds on wrist turn. I noticed that when sitting a wrist turn was not enough, it also needs a "upward" movement of the arm. Like when having your arm hanging neutrally besides your body and then looking at the watch.

0 Nighthawk700 over 9 years ago

I'm left handed, and wear the watch on my right wrist. The flip never seemed to work for me, unless I tried it on my left wrist. Has it worked for others on the right wrist?

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

I'm left handed, and wear the watch on my right wrist. The flip never seemed to work for me, unless I tried it on my left wrist. Has it worked for others on the right wrist?

Hello fellow lefty!
I too wear my watch on my right wrist, and find that the 'full 180' as described above pretty consistently works 50-75% of the time. So not perfect, but fairly useful. Hope this helped!

0 Former Member over 9 years ago

I find it works 99% of the time when you work out the arm movement required.

The action is something like bringing your arm from by your side where your fingers are pointing down and the watchface it is facing away from your body to the 'looking at your watch' postion, where the watch face is pointing up to the ceiling.

I believe the critical part of the action is the latter such that you can bring your arm in from other positions but you must hold that final watchface-to-sky position for a second or two.

0 kingdave82 over 9 years ago

I've found the easiest way to turn it on (especially while running) is to turn my wrist just over 90 degrees until it is facing my body, while at the same time raising my arm so the watch face is almost at eye level

0 robkalinsky over 9 years ago

For me (on v3.30), it seems that the wrist turn does not work when the watch is in "do not distrube" mode. Is this a feature or bug? I could see it either way, although I wish it did work then.

0 chunkywizard over 9 years ago

That's a feature, not a bug. Otherwise when you are sleeping the backlight would keep coming on!

CW