Wahoo ELEMNT 'DARK MODE' Update for ROAM V2 and BOLT V2

Wahoo have quietly rolled out "Dark Mode" to their ROAM V2 and BOLT V2 cycling computers. This video covers all the details and shows a number of on-road comparisons between modes.

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[galenkehler]

I like this kind of content, even when its products like this that I dont own

[speedfrx]

Good job on shedding the light on dark mode, Shane!

[MultigrainKevinOs]

Wow that lookahead feature is really fantastic, I am quite envious of it now. Thanks for the great content!

[miguelesteban]

They should put also auto switch dark and light mode (sunrise and sunset). That would be cool.

[wsbygt]

Thank you, I might try it and now at least I know my Roam has a Dark mode, BUT,
it makes sense that the pixels beeing turned on(to darken the screen) do hinder battery.
Cheers for the complete take on it!

[marcuswhiterocks]

Now all we need is DARK MODE IN STRAVA. You hear us @STRAVA ?

[rfa]

Stoked for dark mode!

Be nice if Strava got the memo 😉

[MrJwmurph]

On the battery charge not being 100%, I've noticed variability in the battery life depending on the charger and cable used on my Roam V2. At all times the unit says 100% but with the same sensors / phone paired the battery life can vary between 10hours and approx 17hours. Searched the forums and saw that the Roam V2 needs to use the USB C cable it came with and a non-apple charger that has an output in excess of 2 Amps in order to get a full charge. Since using a specific charger / cable combination the battery life in consistently close to the Wahoo claims, I was about to return the unit up to this change in charger.

[graemehill]

Thanks for this. My first question was about battery life and of course you did a deep dive on that. Nice job as usual!

[liutang]

I would PAY to get a firmware update for it to tell Strava what bike I'm using for the ride. I know Wahoo listens to you. MAKE IT HAPPEN!

[RembrandtKruyt]

I really like dark mode on the 'normal' datafields. The contrast is really good.
However, on the map and profile it is horrible. The chevrons for a route are also black, so yo don't see the route. And the details are not clear to me.
So I would like to see a possibility to have light mode for map and profile and the possibilty for dark mode on the other pages.

[Robutube]

Thanks for sharing this Shane. Not an option I'll use on my Bolt V2 having watched your demo; seems like you lose some detail in dark mode.

[midhc]

Still looks better and more easily readable in light mode.

[lellotrello]

Route chevrons are black in dark mode and nearly impossible to see, so its unusable for me as of now :(

[speedfrx]

Dark mode will not affect battery life unless screen is OLED, which isn’t the case here.

[acidrums]

Things I'd like to see in an update:
- Serious work about shortening boot time (it's taking more than 2 minutes ffs!)
- Better battery life when idle (it sucks way more battery when paused than when running... Why?)
- Profiles: the option to set profiles for a single device. I'd like to select between road/mtb/whatever BEFORE starting a ride, and associating each it with a bicycle
- That when you're on something which inclination it's between 0 and 1, it showed the actual inclination value - for everything between 1 and 0 it shows only 0!
- something like a thin colored bar at an edge of the screen or a tiny icon inside the start/pause button that tells battery life or whatever stat you choose

Things I didn't wanted in an update:
- "Dark mode"

[ptjazz]

Have you noticed that wahoo does something to control the lighting in Garmin varia lights? There used to be a notification about the light mode on the car detection bar, but now the lighting turns off automatically when you finish training. there is no mention of this in changelog.

[SonnyDarvish]

At least it makes me appreciate this feature existing on Edge :)

[LeicaPunk]

Is it only me, but in 4:00 theres no line visible on the dark mode. In the bright mode you can see a black line for the path thats already been passed, but in dark mode theres also a black line which cant be seen on the dark background.

[rasmuswi]

Seems I'm not the only one who's already flying downhill when my Wahoo thinks I've reached the summit. 🙂