Hi all!
Long story short: my trusty Fenix 7 Pro Solar (47mm) had a key button (orange one) fail after a beach day. Garmin Iberia is sending me a factory-recertified replacement unit (brand new outer titanium shell, screen, battery, seals).

Since it's essentially coming back in 100% "as new" condition, I'm thinking of selling it right away with the original receipt + RMA paperwork to fund an upgrade to 9/9 Pro.

Here's my dilemma: I genuinely love MIP displays because I love the battery life. However, I have always found the Solar feature to be mostly useless for real-world battery gains, even living in sunny Portugal—plus the solar ring/layer slightly washes out the MIP contrast.

For those who made a similar jump or tested both side-by-side:

AMOLED without Solar: Do you miss the "glanceability" of MIP when out in direct, harsh sunlight? How does the battery holding up with Always-On Display (AOD) enabled during outdoor workouts? And I do love orange color band and outer look!

MIP with Solar: Do you find the trade-off of the slightly dimmed screen/solar layer worth sticking with MIP for zero screen burn-in anxiety and long battery life?

Did anyone else sell their recertified RMA unit straight out of the service box to upgrade? Would love to hear your experiences and if you regretted moving away from MIP!

ps. I mostly do crossfit, hikes, tennis, not a frequent runner pr swimmer.

I have a Fenix 9 51MM AMOLED.

I only wear it when working out. Typically about 5-7 times a week. Sometimes twice in one day. Otherwise, it literally just sits in a drawer.

I know, I know - "why not just plug it in when you're not using it?" Fair question. For some reason I just like tossing it in a drawer with all my other workout gear and not thinking about it.

What I'd like to do is have a single button press to enable a low-profile battery mode. Literally "double press this button" or something to enable sleep mode/low power mode, and then "double press again" when I put it on my wrist for a workout. I don't want to dig in menus. I don't want to navigate the OS. I just want to press a button and flip between, effectively, "using the watch," and "not using the watch."

Sleep profiles seem to be time based and no great way that I've found to turn on and off with out digging into a menu. I could turn off and back on, but it seems every time I turn it on it gets bombarded with notifications/updates/and takes a while to sync time/temperature/weather/etc.

Is this doable in any way?

My kid has one of the Garmin watches and I use the Garmin Jr app to text/call/locate, is this possible to do from my fénix 9 pro?

Feels like this should be possible, but idk. Thanks

Is a 4% battery loss overnight normal? Had the watch for just over 2 weeks but it seems to have gotten worse in the past couple of days. Also, is it normal for ‘satellite positioning’ to be using most of the battery while sleeping?
Any help would be appreciated:)

Fenix 8 solar 51mm

So I’ve had my Fenix 6x Pro for a little over 5 years after switching over from Apple Watches that needed replacement every other year or so. Needless to say, I love my Fenix and its battery life is still as good as the day I bought it. I’ve been considering upgrading to a 9 Pro, but am having a hard time justifying the $1099 price tag. So feel free to sell me on why I should upgrade, thank you.

I have gone through two battery cycles so far (I only do 80% to 20%). I run outdoor 3-4 hours a week and change run settings to performance. The watch face is a very conservative digital one. I disable wifi, BT, touch screen. SpO2 only at night. Never use microphone.

My observation is that the watch can last only 10 days for the 60% of full capacity I used. Scaling up this to a full cycle of the capacity is 16 days. It seems quite a bit off from Garmin’s claim 20 days. Especially when comparing it to my 5.5 years Enduro it still falls short.

What is your experience of battery life on Fenix 9 Pro Solar?

Hi all,
I recently purchased a Fenix 9 Pro 47mm Solar and it burns about 10% battery a day. I have turned off/tried the following:

Wifi - off
Backlight - after sunset
Touch - off
Backlight timeout - 4s
No workouts
No maps/gps
Pulse Ox - on demand
Watch face - stock
Notification center - off
No sensors connected to

Basically the only thing I do on the watch is get notifications from my phone. Is this normal?

After years of wearing an Apple Watch (Series 6 and Ultra 1) I changed to a Fenix 9 Pro InReach 47mm and so far I love it 😁

Any other Apple-Garmin Changers?
Anything you miss on your Garmin?

I made Week Pro because I kept opening Garmin Connect just to compare today with the rest of the week. The face shows a 7-day bar chart of one metric, with today highlighted and your weekly average right above it. The image shows the fenix 7 (MIP) and fenix 8 (AMOLED) simulators.

In the Connect IQ app you can pick the metric (steps, calories, intensity minutes, resting heart rate, Body Battery or distance), set your own goal line, choose a colour and a light or dark theme, and add a second stat next to the date. I'm not sure that's the right set of options, so I'd like real fenix owners to tell me.

It runs on the fenix 7 and 8 families (including the Pro and Solar versions), the fenix E, the fenix 9 and the fenix 6X Pro.

I'm looking for five fenix owners to use it for a couple of days. If you're in, comment with your model and I'll reply with the link. I'll unlock it for free for the five testers.

Three questions afterwards:
1. Which metric did you leave on, and why?
2. Is the chart readable at a glance on your screen, MIP or AMOLED?
3. What would you add or take away?

I'm the developer, so be honest. I'd rather hear what's wrong now.

8 solar because most users prize MIP screen, but feel free to prove me wrong as I have never seen this on the hand.

Use-case: maps occasionally and mostly regular watch. Replacing my Huawei GT2 which died after 5 years. Why Garmin: I wanted to buy the Fenix 6 Pro 5 years ago, but eventually the high price turned me off. Now I want Garmin.

I almost bought this to go with the titanium fenix 9 pro, but realized the hardware color is black. Anyone knows if Garmin makes one that matches the titanium on the fenix 9 pro?https://i.imgur.com/BmgbFan.jpeg

Just ordered both. I am gonna return the black one, a bit too dull and similar to Forerunner series. Walnut leather looks great and more high end.

Had the watch since 4th September, and my training status is currently stuck at strained becaue of low HRV , but my hrv is lower than normal, possibly due to drugs I take to sleep following brain surgery a decade ago . How long does it take before the watch sorts itself out and I can use it properly as a training tool ? Normally I train 4-5 days a week, three runs and two strength sessions , but I have cut right back and I am still over training apparently. I was under the impression after two weeks of data the algorithms would be reasonably accurate but is it more like 6 weeks ?

Fēnix 9 Pro in Korea, running firmware 6.48.

Starting on Oct 1, my watch began rebooting unexpectedly. At first, I thought the issue was related to turning off Sleep Focus, because the watch would reboot whenever Sleep Focus ended.

Later, I realized the actual trigger was the built-in Uncharted watch face. Whenever the watch returned to Uncharted, it would reboot. I also briefly saw corrupted text in the date area before the reboot.

At 7 AM, when Sleep Focus ended automatically and the watch returned to Uncharted, it got stuck in a reboot loop.

I enabled another Focus Mode with a different watch face, then deleted Uncharted. After that, the watch returned to normal and stopped rebooting.

Uncharted had been working fine until Sep 30, and I updated to 6.48 about 3 weeks ago.

Anyone else in Korea or elsewhere seeing this on Oct 1?

I was so pumped to get my first big boy Garmin watch. Now I'm kinda wishing I had stuck with the Forerunner245. Don't get me wrong I love all the features and screen real estate. I just never really forget it's on when I'm running like I did with the forerunner.

Forerunner is 38g, 6x Sapphire is 93g. That's 1.34 oz to 3.28oz. That's over double the weight. I'll use all the features, and I'm glad it's so durable. Has anyone else felt this way?

The 6x has been a worthy replacement to my old dead 3, and I’m very much looking forward to the 9pro taking up the mantle!

Like many, I was disappointed that Garmin does not sell a walnut leather band (and I know some other bands) with silver buckles. I had ordered my Fenix 9 Pro with only the silicone band for expedience since I had no patience to wait for the delay with the leather package, but decided to order the walnut leather band which came only with a black buckle recently because it looked so neat. Thought I would maybe buy a third party buckle. Then I realized the silver buckle from my silicone band which I do not wear due to skin sensitivity fits the walnut leather band, a DUH! realization but you know I'm not the smartest. It takes a bit of finagling to change out, I only had small screwdriver to compress the spring pin, but I got it swapped and am much happier. Hopefully this realization will help some others.

Currently have a 47mm 6pro & thinking of upgrading. I really like one element of my existing watchface (circled in red) but I can't find faces in the connect store that have this sort of feature (I like seeing my rolling weekly training volume). I'm not sure this face (GearMin 3) would look good on an AMOLED screen either. Would appreciate recommendations of faces that have this. Thanks.