Garmin Fenix 8 – Astounding Number of Bugs So Far Fixed

I’m unsure if this is a good or bad news story about the Garmin Fenix 8.

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It’s good that Garmin has addressed so many bugs so quickly, or it’s just truly awful that there were so many in the first place…and still many more as yet unresolved. There is even news that hackers have now discovered a way to take control of the watch’s boot process. Yikes! Still, they grabbed our cash, and I guess we’ll all eventually be happy to own what will turn out to be the best sports adventure watch…ever.

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Here are the fixes so far that have made their way to the latest beta version.

1. Fixed potential shutdown when modifying heart rate zones using Garmin Connect Mobile.
2. Fixed potential shutdown on boot.
3. Fixed potential increased battery drain after completing an activity with incident detection enabled.
4. Fixed issue with trolling motor pairing sequence.
5. Fixed issue with maps showing doubly thick lines in some cases.
6. Fixed the issue causing BaseCamp to fail to recognize the device.
7. Fixed Water Ejection when DND Enabled.
8. Fixed Volume Menu Alignment.
9. Fixed Nap Timer Not Sounding.
10. Fixed inability to do Strength Free workouts.
11. Fixed Crash in Battery Saver for Various Languages.
12. Fixed ClimbPro Behavior in Active Navigation Loop.
13. Fixed alarm volume adjusts when using buttons.
14. Fixed Navigation Turn-By-Turn Alerts.
15. Fixed Water Ejection Pausing Phone Music.
16. Fixed Accidental Touches During Phone Calls.
17. Fixed a Broken Redial Button After a Missed Call.
18. Fixed Bug affecting pairing with an InReach Device.
19. Fixed Bug preventing Workout Cancellation.
20. Fixed Button and Touch Screen Handling of Backlight in Do Not Disturb Mode.
21. Fixed Button Functionality for Transfer Call to Phone Feature.
22. Fixed CIQ Activities to use the Activity Focus Mode.
23. Fixed ClimbPro Preview Visibility.
24. Fixed potential for Battery Drain after saving Activities.
25. Fixed Golf Map Rendering (Solar models).
26. Fixed Incorrect Active Timer Count.
27. Fixed Incorrect Waypoint Elevation in the Saved App.
28. Fixed Map Cursor in Pan/Zoom Mode.
29. Fixed Missing Weight Values on the Strength Workout Page.
30. Fixed Potential Crash when Searching for Locations in the Weather App.
31. Fixed Save Location List Layout in Hunt Activity.
32. Fixed Saved App Listing Items Out of Order.
33. Fixed Scrolling in Very Large Lists.
34. Fixed Ski Run Descent Value Truncation.
35. Fixed Some Charts Not Displaying Properly when Launched from the Recents Menu.
36. Fixed Workout Scheduling in the Calendar App.
37. Fixed the issue causing activity calories and the number of activities to reset to 0 after completing Health Snapshot.
38. Fixed the issue causing Garmin premade workout animations to be missing.
39. Fixed the issue causing missing pan/zoom on the map during navigation for finding my phone.
40. Fixed the issue causing Outdoor Maps+ downloads to get stuck at 0%.
41. Fixed an issue that could cause Connect to fail to display which course was used for the activity.
42. Fixed issue when navigating the watch would the distance to the destination in feet/meters instead of Mi/KM.
43. Fixed the issue where the golf glance could display a 0 value when using Stableford scoring.
44. Fixed an issue with a missing keyboard switch icon in some languages.
45. Fixed issue with strength workouts rounding the weight to the nearest whole number.
46. Fixed potential issues with the connection of external Bluetooth sensors.
47. Fixed potential issue with GPS track during snowshoe activities.
48. Fixed potential issue with the cursor on the golf map.
49. Fixed potential screen distortion on the watch face.
50. Fixed potential shutdown after receiving a flag measurement from a Z30.
51. Fixed potential Wi-Fi lock-up when requesting software.
52. Fixed an issue potentially causing 0 distance to be recorded for pool swim activities.
53. Fixed an issue leading to the loss of elevation data in multisport activities that start with swimming.
54. Fixed an issue causing a delay in the flashlight turning on when using a Connect IQ watch face.
55. Set Default Position Format to DEG.
56. Made Various Fixes and Improvements to Adventure Racing.
57. Improved map controls for better user experience.
58. Improved race time predictions.
59. Improved Visuals for Disabled Power Controls.
60. Improved Always-On Watch Face Brightness (AMOLED).
61. Improved Off/Disabled Images for Power Controls Menu.
62. Improved Power Consumption on the Map Page.
63. Improved Processing Time of Large Courses.
64. Improved Update Rate for the Solar Watch Face Graph.
65. Improved Waypoint Draw Speed on the Map.
66. Improved heart rate zones to allow setting by BPM.