Feature requests and suggested improvements

Although despite a head torch, flashlight on my iPhone being on and 2 "lit" Garmins, I did get stopped by a car driver the other night who said I also needed a rear light as he could not see me (well until he stopped for a chat one presumes!). I had only "popped" onto that bit of road right at the end of a run. Useful reminder though seeing your way is only one side of it. Maybe need to wear the Vario bike light round my waist or something. Anyway I digress...

wow took me a week to find this and see it in print?????

Timeout only applies to activities and/or if browsing the menus. Once you go back to low power mode/clock screen, the backlight only stays on for 5 seconds regardless of this setting.

I normally set all my Garmins to "Stays On". In the dark, it is also fairly useful as a safety device so people might have half a chance of seeing you approaching.

WOW, like a dictionary without the first letter? I have been setting this stupid parameter and rebooting and trying to figure out why 15 second or 30 second or even always on as I am setting it in setting????

now I see it doesn't matter what i set it to if its in power saving mode which my watch seems to be in all the time???

this is crazy where do I control this powersaving parameters? they are intimate to each other, so why arent they together.

now I see it doesn't matter what i set it to if its in power saving mode which my watch seems to be in all the time???

this is crazy where do I control this powersaving parameters?

What do you mean? When your FR735XT is showing the watch face, it is in low power mode (although there are exceptions, which you as the user cannot control by way of settings). If it is showing a widget, in an activity profile, or running a Connect‑IQ watch app (but not just a CIQ watch face), then it is not in power-saving mode. If you want to exert control and not let the watch go into power-saving mode, then start a timed activity (or a CIQ watch app).

Please please please can we get the backlight timout settings moved into the activity settings, so we can have different settings for each activity.
It makes no sense to have a single backlight timeout that applies to both outdoor and indoor settings. In the same way we can set different alert, gps, auto lap etc settings we should also be able to set the backlight per activity, or at least override a default setting.

Could we also get an icon on the screen when the backlight is on, as it is impossible to tell in daylight.

Thanks

Backlight timeout confusing and poorly implemented/explained

What do you mean? When your FR735XT is showing the watch face, it is in low power mode (although there are exceptions, which you as the user cannot control by way of settings). If it is showing a widget, in an activity profile, or running a Connect‑IQ watch app (but not just a CIQ watch face), then it is not in power-saving mode. If you want to exert control and not let the watch go into power-saving mode, then start a timed activity (or a CIQ watch app).

You can defend it and try to justify it, its NOT intuitive OR the way most other devices or software operates. If the back-light is being set to 15 or 30 seconds it should be set for 30 seconds, not only on odd numbered Thursdays or in this power mode or that power mode? whats the point of the parameter and being able to set it if it only works on specific profiles or activities or etc etc.

Featuritis at best......poor User Interface and confusing more likely. That's what I am talking about. (35 years in IT and decades in software product marketing and dev.)

You can defend it and try to justify it, its NOT intuitive OR the way most other devices or software operates.

I have neither a need nor the desire to justify it. Nobody else needs justify anything to you, for that matter.

It is the way it is, and that's a fact. You're powerless to change it, and that's a fact, too. Or would you like to argue with that?

Please Garmin provide us a widget with recovery time for 735xt

Thanks!

What I would love to have (and what I miss from my old 310XT) is a course elevation profile screen while navigating a course. Pretty please! :)

About the backlight on my old vivoactive if the timeout was set to 30s the backlight stay on in all conditions for 30s...and I can triggered the vibration intensity...

Also for my isn't a good functionality design, because is a global setting and not an activity setting...

Bye!