Fenix 8 V2 - Changelog

• Fix for AOD always on seconds
• Always on seconds now using background color instead of black. Make sure to set the right color
• Fixed white mips theme
• Fixed circles still being dark with white background on MIPS
• Added timer option
• Added sunrise set to top title options
• Added Purple Gold theme (thanks Mikel!)
• Fixed alignment of circles with background lines

• Fix for AOD always on seconds

• Added Support for Descent G2, FR570 and FR970
• Minor bugfixes

• Added percentage sign back after last update
• Attempt to clear the buffers after an update
• If you're seeing random icons instead of the time, restart your watch and it will be normal again

• When setting "Keep as is" for aod progress bars, it will include the background overlay, making the top progress bar look the same size.
• Fixed background not coloring with gradient overlay on fr165 and vivoactive5
• Added Garmin weather UVI and visibility on devices that support it
• Added stacked status icons
• Fixed progress bar color when using custom color
• Fixed day marker can become offset when day switches in sleep mode
• Fixed progress bar sometimes not moving with AOD shift
• Added support for vivoactive 6

• Fix for battery drain issues.
• Added top progress bar and side progress bar AOD options (turning off by default)
• Added checkbox to display weekdays in English, ignoring the syste, language
• Fixed bottom progress bar label color
• Fixed pace units
• Added goal for weight, you an now set a start and end weight
• Progress support for Hydrate+
• Custom complications now use both short and longlabel
• Synced up a few weather icons with Garmin weather icons
• Added option to turn everything gray in AOD mode (Amoled only)

• Changed moon age (%) to Moon Illumination
• Changed date shortcuts to open calendar
• Merged bike/run distance week to always use Garmin Connect data
• Replaced date shortcuts to Calendar since "date" doesnt open anything

• Workaround for crashes people were still experiencing
• Fix for preset not loading top progress bar colors

• Fix for broken Garmin weather. This should stop the crashes while the weather service is broken.
• Fix for loading presets through touch not applying gradient setting

• Fix for background issues. Please restart your watch if you still see this issue (turn off and back on)

• Optimisations, fixing background issues some people were still having

0.37r

• Fixed crashes on Amoled devices with Full AOD enabled after last update
• Fixed weather icon not switching to moon at night

• Fixed center circle not centering when circle label is disabled
• Possible fix for touch stopping to work after saving settings. Try restarting the watch if this still happens to you
• Fix to stop the need for a restart after update. My apologies to everyone who needed to restart their watchto this the time now showing
• Fixed some issues related to complications

• Fixed an issue with custom complications causing high power usage
• Fixed OWM not getting updated after first data pull on some devices
• removed Weight rounded, replaced by weight with one decimal
• Fixed weather not updating
• Fixed weekly data adding an extra day
• Aligned circle icon and data slightly lower
• General bugfixes and optimisations
• Big update is in the works and coming soon

• Fixed bike and run distance week from garmin connect.
• Possible fix for screen not lighting up when center touch is enabled and trying to wake with touch
• Fix for crash after last update. Thanks Roberto for making me aware!

• Added 28 day distance fields
• Fixed complications sometimes not updating or showing 0
• Fixed sunevent issues. If you're seeing "--" start an activity to get a GPS fix and give it about 10 minutes
• Rounding steps rounded down, so 9999 will show up as 9.9k instead of 10.0k
• Fixed random pixels at the edge of the screen on MIP devices
• Fixed pressure showing pulse ox instead of pressure
• Added working progressbars for sunevent, sunset, sunridse and time to next sunevent
• Added gradient quality to settings
• Fixed strange offset behavior in AOD
• Fixed smearing in AOD
• Fixed AOD dim for VA5
• Fixed progress bar sizing in AOD
• Various other bugfixes

• Fixed pressure
• Fixed time to sunevent missing 30 minutes
• Added Hydrate+
• Fixed distance week/month nut adding up correctly on some devices
• Replaced BT icon and Fog icon and fixed some arrow icons

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• Added support for Instinct3
• Better AOD support for VA5, and fr165
• Fixed crashes after last update related to "from activity" distance fields
• Fixed can't activate using garmin connect
• Added fallback for body battery. If last measurement is empty, use previous measurement
• Steps rounded now always shows a K when above 1000
• Fixed sensorpressure being the same as pressure
• Fixed a few fields that were missing a pro star [*] and fields that had a star but are not pro

• Rewrote PRO handler to be more accurate.
• Showing [*] in front of the options to make it easier to see what field is a pro field
• Final touches to OWM

• Completely rewrote OWM functionality, this should solve all issues people were having
• Added OMW cloud cover and percipitation
• Added on watch setting to clear all OWM data
• Fixed battery/battery day not working

• Fixing error in OWM doesn't clear when saving settings
• Added Capitalized Day Month Day field
• Fixed OWM min/max showing 0
• Fixed OWM updates are irregular

• Fixed OWM doesnt update after last update

• Fixed wind gust for OWM
• Added Baro Pressure arrows for sensor and OWM
• Switched to OWM One call API. If you weren't using a key (using my key), you now will need to add a key. See FAQ
• Added OWM UVI index
• Added OWM Dewpoint
• Added OWM Snow 1h
• Fixed OWM min and max reversed
• Added OWM temp min/max/temp for tomorrow and day after tomorrow
• Fixed down fast and up fast arrows for CGM
• Fixed getting out of reach of phone and back could freeze complications
• Added Windspeed + wind Direction
• Fixed monthly/weekly values not calculating correctly on some devices
• Optimized monthly/weekly calculations
• Pixed potential crash on Venu2
• Fixed top progressbar looking slightly bigger in AOD
• Fixed screen not clearing on MIPS when always on seconds are on, resulting in smearing
• Fixed bottom progress bar disappearing in full AOD on amoled
• Added "Weekdays + Hide Circle, show marker" bottom option
• Added "Time + L/R Circle Fields + bottom" AOD option
• Fixed AOD shift not working properly with battery saver disabled
• Fixed heartrate not using min/max heartrate correctly for process bar
• Changed sunevent label to show next event (rise or set)
• Fixed weather not updating regularly. Use OWM update frequency to set to max time the weather data is cached (default 30 minutes)
• Fixed active calories not using goal properly
• Fixed run/bike week from Garmin not using defined goal
• Various other small bugfixes

• Updated CGM field with trend arrows and progress support
• Fixed the CGM field. 1000x thanks to Brain for supplying data!
• Fixed weight in decimals rounding

0.23 - Bugfixes

• Fixed CGM not displaying any data
• Fixed issue with weekdays not caching correctly
• Fixed crash when pausing activity and having distance field selected on the face
• Fixed issue with weather not displaying value when it should
• fixed crash when setting a broken goal in the settings
• Fixed Altitude not following system units
• Fixed steps to go progress circle

• Fix for crashes when having sunevent
• Fix for weather icons
• Added

• Added support for progress in custom complications
• Added Hydration PRO support
• Added Better CGM support (bruder Jacob CGM app). Let me know what other apps that have complication support you want to use. See the FAQ to set this up.
• Cached weather data and complications. Old data will show with a star, to indicate it's older than 10 minutes.
• Added steps week rounded
• Added pressure with 2 decimals
• Fixed DND icon
• All colors are numbered now, so you can find them a lot easier using the palette in the FAQ
• Added Dew Point for OWM and Garmin weather
• Date values now have a calandar icon instead of a clock icon
• Fixed Outlined drawing lines on left and right
• Added GOLD and RED MIPS themes, more to come!
• Added 3px outline backgrounds

• Fixed alignment when not showing leading zero and having battery savings disabled.
• Set FULL AOD top bar to use full height instead of half height

• Fixed settings sometimes not deploying when in sleep mode
• Added settings to disable battery savings, this will speed up going from AOD to regular mode, but redraws the screen every second, using more battery if your fields don't update much
• Fixed other apps (eg: OWM MB) showing black screen when using this face
• Fixed fields not showing up randomly after coming out of AOD
• Reduced lag on Epix, Fenix8 Amoled and FR965 (turn off battery saving for faster response)
• Removed BPM unit from heartrate
• Fixed top progress bar missing in FULL AOD
• Categorized Colors a bit
• Fixed potential crash when saving settings (got rid of layers)
• Upgraded to CIQ 7.4.3
• Fixed overlapping of minute and hour in AOD
• Fixed AOD mode keeping fields showing randomly

• Added on-watch gradient quality selector. This setting resets when the face restarts for now.
• Improved the quality of the gradient from 7 to 5, so it looks a bit smoother now
• Possible fix for blank screen on Tactix and Fenix 7 solar after notification or coming back from menu.

• Added weight with 1 decimal field
• Added battery percentage and days in one field
• Fixed title offset issue where the offset would add up every second, making the title walk away....
• Fixed hour/minute offset applying twice
• Update to CIQ 7.4.1

• Fix for fields being empty after coming back from AOD or getting back from activity/app list on Venu
• Fix for Month (11) not working
• Moved bottom circle label slightly down on 416x416 res (venu2, Epix 47mm, etc)
• Changed bottom date to align differently, so bigger fonts dont drop down
• Fix for turn screen off AOD mode where the time would still show

• Fix for lag on Epix models
• Fix for on watch settings not working for FR965
• Reduced lag on watchface selection menu
• Fixed lag on coming back from menu on some models (Fenix 7 )
• Possible fix for missing fields after returning from AOD when AOD is disabled on watch. Please let me know if you still have this issue aftert his update

• FR165 is fixed. Special one color only background introduced for this watch.
• Reduce sleep -> full power lag on Fenix 8
• Added non transparent background for devices without transparency

• Another attempt to fixing crash on FR165. I should be getting a 165 non music today so I can actually properly test this on a real device
• Fixed Preset 5 not loading
• Added lightweight background. Try this when it loads slow coming out of AOD (venu2, epix?)
• Fixed contrast on Moon icon
• Changed battery icon to have solid core, so it looks better on MIP

• Fix for crash on FR165 after saving settings or loading the face
• Fix for hour/minute offset not applying
• Possible fix for settings not applying when watch is in sleep/aod module
• Fix for time color not updating when selecting theme in watch settings.

• Fix for Venu not showing recovery time
• Added 3 themes with white background (best for MIPS)
• Added white overlay background, also best used with MIPS, works on amoled as well, but AOD requires a black background, so contrast might not be great in aod.
• Added touch shortcut option to loop through your color and or field presets (center touch only)
• Fixed top touch shortcut not working

• Another attempt at fixing the Beta software bug. I think I got it this time.

• Possible fix for crashes on Fenix 8 and FR965 with beta software
• Fixed bottom left/right field in settings (left and right were swapped)
• Moved Touch settings up a bit in the menu to make it more visible.

• Moved center bottom date slightly up for most resolutions, giving a bit more space between weekdays
• Fixed center bottom date fields being cut off when bottom left or right updates
• Added AOD option Full AOD, keeping the lower date fields.
• Added Retro Neon theme (Thanks Bruno!!!)

• Fix for pulse ox stopping to work after a few hours
• Fix for setting fields to "Nothing" crashes face
• Fix for blinking background on 0 seconds, or getting back from AOD
• Less chance of crash when using BETA software for the F8 or FR965. I'm still working on this issue, seems to be a bug in the beta software.

Fix for flashing background on load after AOD on some devices

• Fix for touch shortcuts opening the wrong field
• Recompile of all fonts

First release