Backlight not activating on my selfmade watchface

Watchapp/Face Developers Corner
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Dear devs,

I have a seemingly strange issue: My backlight simply does not activate on my selfmade watchface, no matter how hard I flip my wrist and no matter the sensitivity setting.

With most other watch faces it does work, but others seem to have the issue as well. E.g. on Mr. Robot 2 - Pebble Appstore I don’t get the backlight on anymore as well. (But I am absolutely sure it had worked on this one before, as I used it a lot.)

So it seems to have to do with the watchface’s performance/code somehow - but also maybe with a software update? Does anyone have an idea?

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That’s odd. Can you post the link to the GitHub source code, and we can check it out?

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Hey @eric,

honor to talk to you!

Here’s my source code: GitHub - Ascendor/PebbleFace · GitHub

I do know that it’s really inefficient, I will do it differently in the future - but as I also had it with Mr. Robot 2, I thought it would not only be my inefficiency.

But to add to the oddness: It does work again now with at least my watchface.

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Btw, I’ve refactored the watchface, it’s much more lightweight now.
Issue hasn’t come up yet again - I’ll report back if it does in fact return.

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we fixed a related bug in PebbleOS 4.32.0, that might be the fix

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If I get the release notes correctly, 4.32.0 had been somewhere in between end of July and beginning of August. I don’t think that fits to me, I do usually patch as soon as I can.