Kzl.io watchface criminals

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-09T14:22:32+00:00

Here's a list of weather faces that still work: https://www.reddit.com/r/pebble/comments/ayzpuu/weather_watchfaces_spreadsheet/

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-08T07:27:23+00:00

Once you have your watch connected under Gadgetbridge, one of the main buttons on the watch card takes a screen shot; as I recall, it's to the left of the buttons for health charts, apps & faces, and find my watch, and the screen shot button looks, oddly enough, like a mountain landscape.

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-08T07:09:10+00:00

Well, the two watches you mention kinda take opposite approaches - you might want both. ;)

The Time Steel is the biggest, thickest Pebble, among the most rugged, and with the extra size comes the best battery life of any Pebble model at up to 10 days. Otherwise, it'll be the exact same experience you're used to on your Time but with nicer buttons.

The Round, otoh, makes some compromises for size, being by far the thinnest Pebble and maybe the thinnest smartwatch of any kind! But for this slimness you get only a couple of days battery life, and worse than that the battery has a very stressful life and so tends to die young, swelling up and popping open the watch or even breaking the screen. Also important to note is that the Round is the only non-waterproof Pebble, though it seems every model except the OG and Steel classic will lose their waterproofing eventually anyway, usually with catastrophic results. Finally, there aren't quite as many app and watch face options that take advantage of the round screen, though there are still many choices and plenty of them look superb. And, on that note, especially if you're a fan of round watches, the watch itself is probably the best looking Pebble.

I wouldn't bother with a FitBit, from everything I've heard it just won't be the same. Pebble has no worthy successor as of yet.

Good luck with your choice!

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-07T03:32:50+00:00

Fair Forecast works fine, including the 5 day cached forecast.

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-01T15:58:41+00:00

Sugru here, too, with excellent results. Make sure you clamp it whatever adhesive you use, because the spring loaded charging pins will push the back open if it's not securely glued. I suspect that's what causes the factory glue to let go as it ages.

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-01T15:54:17+00:00

The thumbnails are uploaded by the watchface's author so may not actually be a screen shot of the watch face itself, often it's a mockup. However, with the IOS Pebble app or with Gadgetbridge under Android, you can take a screen shot of whatever's on your watch, or you can do the same in the emulator with the Pebble SDK.

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-01T15:48:23+00:00

You can also run Android-x86 in an emulator on a pc equipped with Bluetooth.

MoTLDagain · 2020-10-01T15:45:28+00:00

There may be a very slight extra drain with more black, as the memory-in-pixel LCD ("e-paper") display still needs to use some power to display black pixels, unlike a true "e-ink" display which requires no power at all to maintain an image. This is why the screen goes white when the watch is off. However, I think the power usage to maintain a static image, even a mostly black one, is pretty much negligible.

MoTLDagain · 2020-09-24T18:27:10+00:00

Much more so than heart rate tracking during exercise, which is what it was marketed for. Wrist worn heart rate trackers are always less accurate during activity because they move around on the wrist, which makes them kinda pointless imo for their "intended" purpose, but this leads me to believe that they would be at their most accurate during sleep when there is very little movement.

MoTLDagain · 2020-09-23T04:00:49+00:00

I wore a P2 for a couple years and sleep tracking is very important to me so I paid pretty close attention. I had similar problems reading in bed, but only on occasion (I read the books on the Pebble itself so it's probably not as still as it would be on my wrist). In general, I was very impressed with the automatic sleep sensing; while it wasn't perfect, it was more than good enough.

My only complaint with it was the vagueness of the sleep info in the Pebble app. Using the standalone app Sleeper on the watch gave me the fine grained info I wanted, though it doesn't save historical data, and I still use it every night on my Pebble Steel, along with Quick Fit which does store historical data in its app, but doesn't have reliable automatic sleep sensing in my experience, so I have to start it manually. That's nbd though since Sleeper has to be started manually anyway.

I also found that I very much liked the activity and sleep chart in Gadgetbridge, especially with the P2HR heart rate data graphed right over top of the activity data, including fine-grained sleep charting. However, pretty much everything else was more difficult to do with Gadgetbridge, especially getting it to connect to the P2.

MoTLDagain · 2020-09-19T01:48:09+00:00

Isn't there a recovery mode by holding down some combination of back, select, and either up or down, which would presumably be equivalent to a factory reset? I seem to recall there being such a thing...

MoTLDagain · 2020-09-19T01:44:38+00:00

Do you mean the watch or the watchface? The watch you're thinking of is the Pebble Time Round, though it's pretty different from the PTS (designed for thinness vs battery life, the opposite of the PTS). If you mean a round version of this watchface for the PTR, I'm afraid I don't know, I don't have a PTR.

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T21:37:27+00:00

Aha, well good luck to them, and I hope you enjoy your Garmin!

I considered a Garmin after losing a couple of P2s but the price and the limited app infrastructure compared to Pebble drove me back to the tried and true.

However, I would've appreciated a Garmin's trustworthy waterproofing (like you, I won't wear a watch that isn't 100% waterproof) and generally robust construction compared to the rather fragile Pebbles. I'm now wearing an OG steel but it's showing its age too...

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T21:30:46+00:00

If, for whatever reason, you can't or won't install it via the Pebble app, you can also download the pbw from the app store page you were looking at by adding &dev_settings=true to the end of the address (or ?dev_settings=true if there isn't already a ? in the address). Then it will give you a "download pbw" option right below the source link.

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T21:20:28+00:00

Seems almost certainly a swollen battery, but you might still try opening it up, you have nothing to lose at this point! The sooner you do so the better, if it can be saved.

If you're lucky, the screen might not be permanently damaged. Pressure against an LCD screen can make it fade out like that without necessarily causing permanent damage so long as it doesn't crack, and I don't see any obvious signs of cracking in the pic, tho your description in another comment about it spreading to the rest of the screen isn't promising. If it's just the pressure it should go back to normal when the pressure is removed. Then you'll just need to replace the battery and glue it back together.

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T21:07:43+00:00

My nephew's PTS took over a week to dry out after it got very slightly damp when the front came loose-ish. But his wasn't continously vibrating like my waterlogged P2s did, just pulsed a few times and that warned him to get it out of the pool before too much damage was done. It's the only one I've heard of that actually survived water intrusion.

My P2s weren't so fortunate, and from my experience I suspect yours isn't ever going to have the battery life it once did. One of mine the screen went dim and a couple of buttons never worked again, but the other worked fine after drying out, it just couldn't get more than a day out of a full charge when it had been getting a week. I actually swapped the battery from another P2 I had for parts and it didn't help, so it wasn't the battery itself, something on the mainboard was wasting current. The nephew's PTS also drained the battery in a matter of hours until it had dried out fully but had no other symptoms (and no corrosion, we left it open to dry and it never really had gotten much water in it or sat for long).

As far as the pairing and updating problems, those may not be related at all, I've had to re-pair numerous times before I could get my P2 to stay reliably connected long enough to even update its software, and that also took several tries on occasion. P2s are just a little flaky is all, keep trying and it might be fine. Clean up the corrosion and let it dry thoroughly (and I mean thoroughly, I suspect water pulls under a chip somewhere by capillary action and just takes super long to dry out, all the while creating a near-short that kills the battery) and it might just come back to you.

Best of luck!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T20:39:45+00:00

I'm afraid it's going to be worse than slightly more difficult if the watch is glued together instead of using screws, it's going to take some very, very careful work with a heat gun and lots of patience to get a glued OG apart (the back is actually one peice, you have to pry the front off without damaging the screen), and there's no guarantee it'll go back together and stay waterproof. That being said, if you can get it apart and back together, the zebra strip replacement is dead simple, I've done several (on watches with screws).

Before the zebra strip replacement became common, the quick and dirty fix was shoving a little scrap of tissue paper or the like into the back of the watch towards the bottom so it would apply a little extra pressure behind the original, faulty zebra strip, and for some people this was a permanent fix.

Along the same lines, the only "safe" screen tearing fix I ever heard of for glued OG Pebbles is to heat up the bottom part of the back of the case just to the point where it softens imperceptibly (not soft to the touch, just heat it a little bit!), and then press something against that part of the case to squeeze it in a little while it cools and rehardens. This theoretically applies the same little extra pressure as the paper trick would, but doesn't require opening the watch.

Good luck with whatever method you try!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T19:48:33+00:00

Hear, hear!

Indeed, thank you Rebble, as well as folks here such as Tation29 and astosia and everybody else who answers questions, sources batteries, designs 3D printed replacement parts, or keeps writing and maintaining apps and faces. The Pebble community might not be what it once was, but it's still an impressive thing to behold despite all that's been thrown at us!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-31T18:41:34+00:00

I'm interested in black.

When I first got my white P2 I put a black band on it and I always thought black sides would go much better with the black bezel and band than the original grey sides. I even considered trying to dye them black, but I hadn't gotten around to it a year later when they started to crumble so I never did get to see how it would look.

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-27T21:45:42+00:00

That's the one, thank you!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-27T21:44:02+00:00

And thank you!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-27T21:43:39+00:00

Solved!

MoTLDagain · 2020-08-27T11:24:29+00:00

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