What’s new
This update mostly focuses on adding great new options to customize and manage color themes:
• Background texture
An additional display element, which can be set to ‘Off’ or to the color of your choice. Note that while enabled, the enhanced visual appeal brought by the texture comes at a cost of slightly increased battery drain and slightly reduced responsiveness. The impact may be more noticeable on devices with less memory such as fenix 6 or Enduro. If you don’t like the appearance of this new element, or are concerned about the performance, just set it to ‘Off’.
• Time background
Another new display element, you can set it to the color of your choice, or to the background color to hide it when the texture is ‘Off’.
• Custom colors can be entered in RGB 6-digit format allowing access to the full pallette
Now there are two ways in which any of the 4 custom colors can be defined: Either by entering the color number in the 64-color palette (from 0 = black to 63 = white), or by entering a 6-digit hexadecimal RGB color code (from 000000 = black to ffffff = white). The first method allows to access the colors typically supported by most MIP devices, while the latter allows choosing any color that is possible on a given device (65536 colors on AMOLED devices).
• Updated default color themes
If you update from an earlier version of Rails, your existing color themes will be preserved, with the exception of the texture and time background being added to them. To see what a new theme looks like, choose ‘Reset’ from the ‘Theme manipulation’ drop down list and save the settings. If you want to preserve your old theme, now you can do so by using the ‘Export’ option in the list.
• Option to export/import themes
The ‘Reset theme’ option has been removed and instead a new ‘Theme manipulation’ drop down list has been added in the settings, with these options:
Off – inactive
Reset – select and save the settings to bring back the factory defaults for the current theme
Import – select and save the settings to import the theme copied into the ‘Export/import color theme’ field
Export – select and save the settings to export the current theme. When you open the settings again, the theme can be copied from the ‘Export/import color theme’ field. Note that you MUST enter the settings twice to do this, this is a limitation of how Garmin’s settings system works
• In power save modes rails are drawn including their data
Previously only the rails outline was drawn, now it is shown together with the data as in full power mode.
• Weekly steps count
In addition to counting your steps daily, now you have an option to show the count for the whole week. The first day of the week is defined in the user profile in Garmin Connect.
• New device (Venu X1)
Rails takes full advantage of its rectangular screen shape by adding 4 more data fields, in the top and bottom icon rows.
