Display should dim in pause mode?

[Olaf Gottschalk]

One of my use cases for commute is to not end an activity right away, but keep it in pause while I am shopping, eating, whatever.

I noticed: when you do this, the display stays turned on, fully illuminated and burning down your battery for as long as you are in pause.

Maybe the watch should act just like when in watch mode and turn off / down the display and react on raise…

This would be much more energy efficient.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Olaf-Gottschalk agreed passing this to PO to know

[Highlands]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Wouldn’t it be even better if one could have a “Resume later” option, so that not only the display turns off but the gps as well? You go outside, push the upper button and the gps and the display fire up?

[Mauerwegler]

@Highlands said in Display should dim in pause mode?:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Wouldn’t it be even better if one could have a “Resume later” option, so that not only the display turns off but the gps as well? You go outside, push the upper button and the gps and the display fire up?

I agree. When I pause my Spartan Ultra and go shopping, I see all my zig zag moves in the supermarket in the breadcrumb display because the GPS is on. Feels unnecessary. (I don’t expect an update for the SSU, leave its fine firmware alone! )

[MiniForklift]

@Highlands said in Display should dim in pause mode?:

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Wouldn’t it be even better if one could have a “Resume later” option, so that not only the display turns off but the gps as well? You go outside, push the upper button and the gps and the display fire up?

I vote for this too, I used this a few times when I had my Garmin Enduro and it was very useful. For example cycling into the city to meet friends for lunch, pause the activity while you eat and then resume it when you’re ready to cycle back

From memory once it was paused it just went back into normal watch mode, then to get back to it and pick up where you left you just go to start an activity as you usually would do and the ‘Resume Activity’ is there

[Olaf Gottschalk]

@Highlands of course that would be much better, but I wanted to make this small improvement possible without asking for the “whole thing”

Garmin has this function and honestly, it was one of the few things I really had to weigh into the decision to nevertheless buy Suunto…