I’ve been pretty happy with the 11.10 firmware release, except for one thing. They introduced indoor trainer control, but in the process broke heart rate capture for the activity – making it impossible to determine load (doh). Fortunately that is an undocumented fix in the BETA release of 11.75, which also includes a ton of other useful features. Like “Suggested Workouts” (apparently I need some base :)).
Changes made from version 11.10 to 11.75:
- Added support for Daily Suggested Workouts, which are recommended based on previous activities. One can disable this from activity settings. (Run/Bike > Menu > Training > Workouts > Today’s Suggestion.)
- Added support for the Track Run activity, which allows one to record outdoor track data including distance in meters and lap splits on a standard shape 400m track.
- Added support for Improved Recovery Time, which takes users stress, sleep, relaxation and physical activity in consideration.
- Added support for configuring non-zero power averaging for Biking activities. (Activity Settings > Power Averaging)
- Added support for configuring backlight settings during the sleep window. (Settings > System > Backlight > During Sleep.)
- Added support for training and breathwork workout categories to properly handle launching workouts from calendar view and prompting yoga, strength, cardio, breathing, and pilates workouts.
- Added Training Status explanation tip in the Training Status widget.
- Added support for displaying the map scale when panning/zooming the map.
- Updated the Clocks list layout and icons.
- Updated the Applied Ballistics bullet database to version 1155 (tactix Delta AB only).
- Improved the pairing experience for Bike lights/radar.
- Improved compass smoothness.
- Improved the poor wrist HR detection which will lead to more accurate VO2 Max and Performance Condition estimates. (Requires 8.00 Sensor Hub)
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Navigation’ hotkey was not working as expected for certain use cases.
- Fixed an issue with the wind speed field on watch face.
- Fixed an issue where open water swim activities were capturing an erroneous position in the track log.
- Fixed an issue where the device would fail to load the elevation plot when navigating to a POI.
- Fixed an issue where the elevation plot would intermittently get doubled while navigating.
- Fixed an issue where expired weather data was being displayed on the watchface.
- Fixed potential GPS communication problems. (Requires GPS v4.60)