Garmin Edge 840 users

I have an Edge 530 and I’m fairly happy with it, save for a minor annoyance. After dark when the backlight is off, I can only see the information on a data screen when I “wake it up” by pressing a button. This will have to be one of the two “scroll” buttons which means that the data screen rolls off to screen 2, which means I have to press it again to get back to screen 1.

Does the 840 handle this any better? For instance, does pressing the touch screen wake up the backlight?

It does on my 830, I’m sure the 840 will be the same. The backlight occasionally fails to fire, when that happens I just press stop and start quickly, which fixes it.

Don’t have the same issue on my edge 530. Back light stays on at night, screen display ‘reverses’ to white text on dark background. Not sure if there is an option in settings to turn back light to ‘always on’ ?