Just bought Race - struggling very dark or Off screen
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I bought a Race on Ebay - very pleased as it was under £250.
However I am really struggling to keep the display on ir bright enought to be readable - always On display is enabled
- The watch will briefly shoe a pretty watchface but it seems there is a timeout that either turns it Off or goes to a very simple grey digit only screen made up of flickering lines (the flicker is really offputting as I see it out the corner of my eye), I can only bring it to the full watch face by pressing buttons. I cannot get any sort of ‘raise to wake’ function to work properly (for a second or two if I am lucky)
- In activities things follow a similar pattern - the screen starts bright but dims after a few seconds. In sunlight it is impossible to read and the only way to make it visible is to press the middle (crown) button which brightens it. But this only lasts a few seconds before it dims again. On a bike on a mount its completely unusable due to the need to take a hand of a handlebar to press the middle button!
I feel I must be missing a setting but I can find nothing relating to the display in Activities to keep it to a decent brightness during my runs and Always On then in General/Display I am at Medium, Always On (Enabled) and Full Wake Mode
Nothing is behaving as I expect - the display is really nice when its actually On fully but its so fleeting and much of the time its so dim (especially in sunlight) its unusable
Did I buy a faulty watch?![alt text](![image url](![image url](image url)))
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@cumbrian-runner
this is all by design and intention to save battery and extend screen life time -
@cumbrian-runner the always on display during activity was disabled to avoid burn in for AMOLED devices. I will come back with a user warning when enabling it.
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Thanks, when you say it ‘was’ disabled this is a Sunnto design choice?
I am failing to find any setting that keeps it on. What setting do I need to change to see this warning? I will take the risk as a completely black screen I see when used on a bike mount is useless and also poses danger to the user as the only way to wake the screen is pressing the middle button. Needing to do that every 5 seconds is terrible for safe cycling!
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@cumbrian-runner i have same problem with this suunto amoled solution… its it dissaster without end
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@cumbrian-runner said in Just bought Race - struggling very dark or Off screen:
What setting do I need to change to see this warning
It will come back with a user warning when enabling it.