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Orientation and backlight gesture issue

Anyone tried this...

I set up the watch for left hand, button facing left (side swipe on the right). I did this because I thought the side swipe would be easier to use in this configuration. However, it seemed like the backlight gesture was not reconfigured; it would light up when I _lowered_ my wrist and then turn off when I raised my wrist.

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Christopher Pan over 5 years ago +3 suggested

EDIT Oct 2020: I have tried using my own fix, but as someone has stated in their reply, I am also having to constantly adjust this setting whenever the watch button is facing to the left. The backlight…
2273711 over 4 years ago in reply to Christopher Pan +1

Would love to use the watch as intended (ie. my way (on left wrist with button facing left)). But given up as I need to reset settings regularly, sometimes as much as daily to get gesture to work correctly…

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0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to 2273711

yeah, one of the most frustrating things about it. I've have my Vivoactive 3 for about 10 days and have had to reset it at least twice a day... not great, so I may end up changing the strap and the orientation back to button on the right :(