06-17-2020, 10:12 AM
(06-16-2020, 09:17 PM)ichibon-brosan Wrote:(06-14-2020, 06:37 PM)ichibon-brosan Wrote: In short, you don't easily charge the watch. You would think with a handy adapter provided, you could plug in the charging pod, and place the watch on it, but there is no LED or anything to indicate charging is taking place, and unless you have some kind of current sensing device, you can only hope it is charging, which leads to some number of two hour periods after which you press the button or touch the screen and hope for a response. That is how I spent my day, and frankly I found it unsatisfying. I am actually getting bored with buying things that don't have clearly written startup instructions. With a hardware cost of $25, it doesn't take long to waste hours of your time, and suddenly you realize the time you have wasted has exceeded the cost of the hardware many times over. I am sorry now I bought this and wasted my time struggling with it. The investment of my money and time would have been more valuable with something well documented that would have left me with experience and skills to use later. I don't recommend fooling around with this.Well after charging for a day or so I had the following experience. With the rubber band still wrapped around the assembly, I pushed the button and nothing happened. I took the watch off the magnetic charging base and it was still dead. I started to put it back on the base and it lit up, showing the battery as 3/4 full, but when I pulled the watch away from the charging pad again, it was dead. My best assumption at this point is that the battery isn't holding any charge and the connection between the watch, it's back and the charging pad are4 so intermittent that you have to be occasionally lucky just to see a flicker. My hardware may be faulty. This doesn't sound like proper behavior to me.
The firmware that comes with the watch does have a charging screen. I saw it multiple times while trying tape, rubber bands, etc. to hold the back on. Of course if you resort to putting a heavy book on the watch the charging screen is useless.
When running the original firmware the normal status of the watch screen is off. It will come on if you press the button or through tilt-to-wake. The screen only stays on for three seconds (unless you are touching the screen). I could not find any way to change this. This is probably done to achieve excellent battery life.
Hugh
