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sndag 6. februar 2011

How to reset the Polar RS800cx (and

change display contrast)
It was kind of ominous to read in the manual that the watch had a function
for resetting the watch. Does it really need that? Is it just an extra
precaution?
Is is also easy to exchange battery on the RS800cx.
I prefer a gadget with lots of useful functions, but which may need a reset
once in a while, over another gadget that is 100% stable, but miss all
those nice functions.
I never shut down my PC and only rarely reset it, and I have notice that
the USB IR adapter that is used to transfer data to and from the watch,
works a little less good each time I use it, since last reset. There is also
always a chance to get the IR adapter out of position during a transfer. I
think a combination of those two things happened when I was transferring
a new planned training to the watch. It took a much longer time than
usual.
When I started the exercise, the training zone alarm started sounding at a
way to low HR. Afterwards when trying to transfer the session to the PC,
there were some extra phantom sessions in the watch memory also. The
training session memory and the planning memory looked pretty garbled. I
immediately set this into relation with the problem transferring the
planned session. I can imagine that missing data or bad data can cause all
sorts of problems, if you allow that to happen. I managed to get out my
training sessions, so I didn't loose any training data. I was able erase all
training data in the watch, but I never managed to clean the planned
training data. It was still pretty garbled. Then I recalled the reset function.
Here is the description of it from the FAQ:
"Reset the training computer by pressing all the buttons simultaneously for
two seconds until the display fills with digits. Press any button and set the
time and date in Basic Settings after the reset. All other settings are
saved. Skip the rest of the settings by pressing and holding STOP."
Holding down the 4 buttons (excluding the start/stop button) surely reset
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the watch. I guess that during the reset, the watch did a check of the
memory and found out that it was garbled and decided to do a full reset.
The result was that I lost all settings on the watch. Most settings can be
easily set from the PC software, Protrainer 5, so this is not a problem, but
also the LCD display contrast setting were reset. This made the display
much more unreadable. If you have never adjusted the contrast on a
black/white LCD display, it is hard to explain what is is. If it is too strong,
the "off" state or "white", gets too dark compared to the surroundings, the
"on" state or "dark" also gets darker and thus more clear. It has to be
balanced to the rest of the display background for maximum readability.
Nowhere in the manual or FAQ did I found where to change this setting.
Luckily, someone posted a description on the Polar forum after having
been in contact with Polar customer support. I will copy that here. The key
is that you get the watch into the internal test mode, which allows you to
change this setting.
- Press and hold all four buttons to reset the watch.
- Press Stop x1 immediately followed by Up x1 to get into the Monitor
screen.
- Press Up x1 to get to the Internal test screen.
- Press Start to get the sub menus.
- Press Up x3 to get to the LCD Adj. menu. You will have a number here
for the current setting (mine was 5).
- Press and hold Start and then press Up and/or Down until you have the
contrast you want (selectable values are 0 to 15).
- Press Stop x4 to get to the basic settings dialog.
- Press and hold Stop x1 to exit from the basic settings dialog.
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5 kommentarer:

emi 11. oktober 2011 kl. 22.11

Exactly the same thing happened to me (well, about! I lost
infact my latest training data :S) and the solution to reset
the contrast is the one described here!
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Anonym 15. november 2013 kl. 13.46

Thanks, just had the same problem....
Svar

Anonym 10. januar 2014 kl. 11.17

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Bardzo pomocne. Ju mylaem ze co si zepsuo. Dziki :)

Svar

Nigel Dyson-Hudson 6. mars 2014 kl. 05.53

And if you hold the two right buttons, up & down, you will
cycle through Logo; User Name & Player Number; Player
Number.
thanks for the information
Svar

Anonym 6. mars 2014 kl. 10.08

Perfect I solve the Problem after battery change!
Svar

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