FAQ

Sunset/sunrise info not presented

After clean install or upgrade sunrise/sunset/day duration is not presented - please run any outdoor activity to get gps coordinates, then came back to watch face.

After GPS is set, last location is stored in the settings and updated always when watch gets new coordinates.

Weather or Altitude info is not presented

Weather info is available only for Garmin devices with 3.2 IQ SDK, - it is taken from Garmin new API to get already cached & present in watch weather data from Garmin.

Can not uninstall watch face

Sometimes users are reporting issue with uninstalling watch face. This is on Garmin side, not developer. Try first to change to another watch face on your device, then to uninstall it using GCM (Garmin Connect Mobile)
It's not watch face depended and developer can not help with that.

Feature is not available on my watch

For selected "legacy" devices adding new features is limited due to its' limitations (no. of supported colors, iQ SDK less then 3.0, small memory itc).

Legacy devices has its' own settings & source (fr45, swim2, fr230, fr235, fr630, fr735xt, d2bravo, fenix3, fenix3hr, approachs60 )

Due to memory limitations development for those legacy devices has been frozen on 2.2 version - please do not expect future changes.

Some other features can be specific version of Garmin IQ SDK depended e.g. weather info.

Wrist gesture does not work

On Vivoactive 3 & 4 there is confirmed bug in Garmin firmware preventing from sending wake up event from sleep mode after wrist gesture: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/onexitsleep-not-being-called-on-va4

One of the potential reason is a situation when you have switched on 'do not disturb' option in Garmin watch settings.

Watch face is not responding after tapping / swiping into touch screen

Watch face developer has no access to touch screen events, so can not react on such action. So all reactions on swiping/ touching the display is in Garmin firmware which translate then into standard key pressed events.

Is a clock able to display seconds ?

No, it's not because of the following reasons:

  • no place for second field in the layout design

  • adding seconds always drains more battery

  • idea is to display only meaningful information

How to change to 24h or 12h clock, C fo F temperature, kilometres to miles distance, meters to feet altitude

Use standard device settings in your watch - usually under Settings / System / Time and Settings / System / Units

Settings are in English only. Why not in my language ?

I am developing this watch face in my spare time for fun - I don't have time to prepare and maintain settings & description in tens of localisation.

From time to time drop icon is presented above the clock - what is it ?

This is an alert of low blood oxygen saturation. You can set in the settings a level of this alter (and set it to 0 when not needed)

Why heart rate icon color is changing ?

Heart rate icon color depends on alert levels (low and high) defined in the settings.

Whether, wind, temperature data are not refreshed or disappeared.

Weather data (with temperature) are taken from Garmin watch - so you have to check if it's synchronized with you mobile app.

Once it will be synchronized and get the weather data, watch face would take it from the watch.

Is a watch face safe for AMOLED displays ?

Watch face mechanics compiled to all Garmin rules to be able to display clock all the time in bur in in protection mode: floating clock, below 10% pixels are on, no single pixel displayed more then 3 minutes. It also tested in the Garmin simulator against this rules as described here.

Can body battery or stress level be added as a field ?

From version 3.6.0 this fields are available to configure for all devices with Gamin System 5 firmware (meaning SDK 4.1.1 or above). Please check on Garmin site if your device is capable to get this update.

After upgrading to newest version all my settings are lost.

In release 3.3.0 there was huge refactor of watch face settings and all settings would be lost. You have to reconfigure watch face again. I hope to minimize this situation in the future.