User Manual

4. Settings
4.1. Button lock and screen dimming
While recording an exercise you can lock the buttons by keeping the lower right button
pressed. Once locked, you cannot change the display views, but you can turn on the
backlight with any button press if the backlight is in automatic mode.
To unlock, keep the lower right button pressed again.
When you are not recording an exercise, the screen dims after a short period of inactivity. To
activate the screen, press any button.
After a longer period of inactivity, the watch goes into hibernation mode and turns the screen
o completely. Any movement reactivates the screen.
4.2. Backlight
The backlight features can be adjusted from the settings under General » Backlight.
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The Standby setting controls the screen brightness when there is no active backlight
turned on (e.g. triggered by button presses). The two Standby options are On and
O.
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The Raise to wake feature activates standby backlight in regular time mode and activates
backlight in exercise mode when your wrist is lifted to watch reading position. The three
Raise to wake options are:
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On: Raising your wrist in regular time mode or during an exercise will activate
backlight.
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Exercise only: Raising your wrist will only turn on the backlight during an exercise.
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O: The Raise to wake feature is turned o.
NOTE: You can also set the backlight to be always on. Keep the middle button pressed
to enter the Shortcuts menu, scroll to Backlight and toggle the switch to force backlight on.
4.3. Tones and vibration
Tones and vibration alerts are used for notifications, alarms and other key events and actions.
Both can be adjusted from the settings under General » Tones.
Under General » Tones » General, you can select from the following options:
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All on: all events trigger an alert
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All
o: no events trigger alerts
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Buttons
o: all events other than pushing buttons trigger alerts.
Under General » Tones » Alarms you can switch vibrations on and o.
You can select from the following options:
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Vibration: vibration alert
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Tones: sound alert
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Both: both vibration and sound alert.
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