BUG: Off-route label at the bottom of all data screens is stuck
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Yesterday when I briefly went off-route and then rejoined the route, the “off-route” blue label at the bottom got stuck permanently displaying zero distance to the route on all data screens. That continued until I went into the watch in-activity navigation menu, to the list of data fields, and then exited the menu.
Earlier, more than once, I’ve seen a similar bug where going off-route may disappear and not re-appear a “distance to next” data field at the bottom of the map screen.
Also, earlier, on Race I observed a weird bug when some event, probably also temporarily going off-route, caused the watch display being stuck being on at full brightness for a few hours until some other event had cleared it. I was worried that the watch would burn through the battery too fast.
My concern is not with these specific bugs that are mostly minor but with the fact that bugs like this randomly pop up from time to time but can’t be reliably reproduced. To me, as an experienced software developer, that says that there is some deeper core part of the software stack, like the event queue or event distribution mechanism, or some core state machine functionality, that is fundamentally not 100% reliable.
The main concern is that bugs like this are manifestations of the same root cause that may also be responsible for occasional crashes.
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Being a software developer myself I share your concerns.
Also, quite a few watches missed the summer firmware update, and the one for last quarter was postponed for all series (except the run 2). This is also not a sign the developers have everything in control.
It’s not the only department that worries me. Support isn’t any better. The whole year they promised to keep me up to date about the list of bugs a reported, but they seem the be unable to even get even the simplest questions answered.
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