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Forerunner 645 Beta 5.74 is now available!

Garmin-Blake over 6 years ago

The beta is available here.

Notes:

For any issues that you encounter please fill out the form included in the download and attach it to an email to [email protected]. Please note that you may not get a response to the email unless we need more information on the issue you report. In the process of troubleshooting reported issues we may access information in your Garmin Connect account, such as your activity files. More information about Garmin's privacy
In the process of troubleshooting reported issues we may access information in your Garmin Connect account, such as your activity files. More information about Garmin's privacy policies can be found at: www.garmin.com/.../privacy-statement
Although this software is believed to be reliable, it has not yet been released for production and should be used at your own risk.

Change History

Changes made from version 4.20 to 5.74:

Add support for Incident Detection and Assistance.
Enable phone position injection to improve GPS fix times after moving long distances.
Correct an issue where Treadmill Calibration could give incorrect values.
Correct an issue where the Garmin Coach widget could become inaccessible.
Fixed an issue where one couldn't Race an activity from the activity history menu.
Fixed an issue where the device will reboot if using Broadcast Heart Rate with the system language set to Russian.
CIQ Improvements 3.0.10
Improved sensor error detection.
Various stability improvements.

Installation Instructions

Connect your Forerunner 645 to your computer using the USB cable.
Download and unzip Forerunner645Beta.zip. Click on the Beta folder. Place the GUPDATE.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder of your device's internal storage drive.
Disconnect your device from the computer, approve the update on the watch, and wait for the update to finish.
If you would like to revert to the last public release software, download and unzip Forerunner645Beta.zip and click on the Public folder. Place the GUPDATE.GCD file in the \GARMIN folder of your device's primary internal storage drive. Disconnect the device. NOTE: If you revert to an older version of software, all of your settings will be reset to defaults.

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Labronico over 6 years ago +1

As reported in the other thread in Garmin Connect for iOS section, my 645 froze with the blue triangle while reducing the map size running dwMap.

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0 sabeard over 6 years ago

So why did the CIQ version go back to 3.0.10 when beta 5.73 was listing 3.1?

0 Scorp1981 over 6 years ago in reply to sabeard

Because this is for the non-Music Version (at last!)

0 Eldrow over 6 years ago

Can this beta be applied to APAC units as well?

0 Labronico over 6 years ago

WATCH FACE BUG: set a different watch face from the stock one (I have Luceo); starting from the watch face screen, going down to the first widget and up again to the watch face, everything is OK; going up to the last widget then down again to the watch face: the default Garmin 645 watch face is shown.

The change is temporary: switching to the watch face from below reverts to the desired watch face.

0 jkissane_ over 6 years ago

The CIQ apps that were on my watch (Power Race, Simple Walk & Hike2 +) no longer work after the update. I've tried uninstalling them & reinstalling but didn't make any difference.

0 sabeard over 6 years ago in reply to Scorp1981

Ahh! Good catch. Glad I did not try to put it on my wifes FR645m.

0 jim_m_58 over 6 years ago in reply to jkissane_

Try a simple reboot of the watch.

Hold the right button until it turns off and the back on

0 jkissane_ over 6 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks for the reply, I've tried many reboots already (after the initial install it stopped sending HR data to the app until I rebooted it once). The apps are on the list of activities but pressing the button after selecting them does nothing.

0 jim_m_58 over 6 years ago in reply to jkissane_

Make sure all the CIQ apps you have on the watch are the "store version" (not just copied from another device), and that they are all up to date. I heard of something similar where an old version of an app from Strava somehow caused issues with the start button for CIQ apps.

I wrote Simple Walk and Hike2, and I know they run fine for me with the latest FW.

0 UweLehmann over 6 years ago

watch feezes after aktivity has uploaded via wlan.

Hold the light button until it turns off and turn on again.

sync the time and it works again.