AERIS F.10 User Feedback

[Giobbi]

The alarm - i can hardly hear it, only three beeps?? Want more, louder, it ain't enough to wake me up in the mornings..
- Vote for date in log too.
- Trow in a heartrate monitor and log in the new firmware too while ur at it.. : )

Anyone know about the OFF in display? Thats what i see on my watch, the fabulous word OFF, no time, just OFF. I wonder what that means. I can't set it either, only display temperature below or not.

 

[Fondueset]

Thanks scorp - the down counter I noticed at Dean's and had forgotten - I'm pretty sure Free Mode is OFF when I turn it off - but I will check that tomorrow. - I know mine won't get out of wet mode until its sorta dry - by that I mean basically just not underwater - I've turned it off in the shower before.

I've got to spend more time getting to know this thing before I start blasting off suggestions.

Date and temp in the log (date is stored and shows on the pc software but the watch does only log 100 dives)

Repeatable down timer - to be clear - this is where you set a certain time interval and it snaps back to zero when you hit the button then repeats - for interval training.

Shorter refresh interval for the dive counter - 12 hours or user adjustable.

Not hang in dive mode for so long - maybe 30 minutes or something if at all.

Louder and longer alarm clock function.

It seems odd, but I really like mine - but for a few firmware things, which are to be expected - it has been rock solid.

Once this list is grown I'll send it to Doug. I'll also ask him about the firmware revision.

 

[Fondueset]

Scorp - the Mode button (upper-left) doesn't toggle you out of it?

 

[Scorp]

you mean out of FREE mode? of course it does. M-button for more than 2 secs, and I am in watch mode again. but the FREE mode, although not visible in watch mode, keeps on logging the time after tha last dive, and I suspect that as long as this logging process continues, the F10 will enter dive mode if submerged deeper than 1.2m, despite wet act set off.

 

[Scorp]

Giobbi Re: AERIS F.10 User Feedback
The alarm - i can hardly hear it, only three beeps?? Want more, louder, it ain't enough to wake me up in the mornings..
- Vote for date in log too.
- Trow in a heartrate monitor and log in the new firmware too while ur at it.. : )

Anyone know about the OFF in display? Thats what i see on my watch, the fabulous word OFF, no time, just OFF. I wonder what that means. I can't set it either, only display temperature below or not.

Did you try to kinda reset the F.10 by taking out an reinsert the battery?

 

[Fondueset]

Doh - sorry Scorp - I got that - I meant to say Giobbi- being stuck in off.

 

[Giobbi]

I try the battery trick, thanks.

No, the strange thing is that my watch is always in OFF mode now (I manually activate FREE mode, no auto activate). If i press mode, i see time, then, after some time, i only see OFF again.

I see if the battery trick helps..

 

[WillUnderwater]

It's been a month or two on my replacement and still no low battery indication so all seems to be well there.

The wet activation still is very unpredictable. I did five dives in a day and never went into free mode - and it logged 3 out of 5 dives - I never touched the watch once.

I think the biggest flaw is this and hope they will incorporate a way to turn off wet activation regardless of the current free mode and I will be happy with the computer.

 

[Giobbi]

The battery trick worked, i now have a watch again. : )

 

[Fondueset]

Be mindful Giobbi - if its a static problem it might come back!

 

[DivingDane]

If OFF mode is showing after the standard time screen this is normally your alternate time. so if the alternate time function is turned off then the unit will simplyy show "OFF" on the screen until you enter another screen OR turn alternate time zone on.

not sure if this is the solution to your earlier issue or not though.

DD

 

[Giobbi]

Yes DivingD, right.

My problem was that i couldn't "do" anything with the OFF, just press it away, not change it to alter time. Also it was the default mode on the watch witch is not desirable. : )

 

[DivingDane]

ah a friend of mine had the same issue a couple weeks back, did the old battery pull out and put back and hasnt had a problem since! been dived a truck load sicne which is a bonus.

DD

 

[Giobbi]

I keep my fingers crossed DD!

BTW: I really like the F10, regardless of the minor bugs. Only one thing bugg me, the light, I'm lefthanded so i can't see it. Will be forced to learn using my other arm now.. : )

 

[mightyblues01]

Hey Fellas,

For the record, my F10 seems to be working fine... touch wood!!

Scorp, I had a play with the watch at the pool today after reading your post about the free mode continuing to count the surface time. Mine seems to work as Fondueset said - that is, once it's "dry" I held down "M" for two seconds to put the watch back into normal mode. When I held down "M" again for two seconds afterwards, to put it back into Free mode, the surface count started again from zero. I tried a few more times, and the same thing happened, so it seems that getting out of Free mode once the watch is "dry" does actually stop the surface count, for my watch anyway.

However, I'm not without problems! I forked out for the cable when I was in Australia, as I thought getting it delivered to Brazil later would be difficult. With some help from this thread I eventually got the software installed and working on my laptop (with Windows 7). I found the software to be pretty poor considering the price of the cable, and there were a lot of defects / errors with the dives that were being downloaded. However, I then noticed that the software wasn't installed properly - the labels on some of the forms were missing, as were the data fields on others, etc, etc. So I uninstalled both the driver and the software, downloaded them again from the Aeris site, and installed them again. The software seems to be all in order now, BUT... I now cannot download anything from my F10! When trying to download from the watch, I either get "Starting Handshake..." and then after around 5 secs it says "Time Out", or I get the message "Invalid Product. Process Terminated"!

Anyone else had these problems and / or knows how to fix them?

Cheers

 

[mightyblues01]

Ah, forgot one thing... Giobbi, I didn't understand your comment about the light. I'm left-handed and I don't have a problem with the light - do you mean that because you're left-handed you like to wear your watch on your right arm? If so, I still don't really understand how that changes anything...?

 

[Fondueset]

Probly wrong software - mightyblues.

 

[mightyblues01]

Aeris Computer Interface, version 2.2.2. I have the choice of the F10 as a dive computer when I go to download the dives from the computer. How many softwares are there??

 

[Fondueset]

I had that problem when I downloaded the wrong stuff but this sounds like something different.

 

[mightyblues01]

Yeah, not sure, thanks anyway Fondueset. I wasn't sure which driver to download (ie. 32 or 64 bit) so I downloaded them both. When I went to install the 32-bit driver, however, a message appeared saying that I need to use the 64-bit driver, and then the 64-bit driver installed fine, so that didn't seem to be an issue. I've uninstalled and reinstalled a few times, and it's the same thing. I might try on an old laptop (Windows XP) and see how that goes, otherwise may be the connection on the cable perhaps??