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• Watch does not turn on after long period of disuse - and it's a $2 cable

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• Watch does not turn on after long period of disuse - and it's a $2 cable

  in Bangle.js • 1 month, 4 weeks

  

  I could easily be remembering the time wrong. I updated the firmware the last time I wrote to whine, er, ask a question, so months ago but not the original.

• Watch does not turn on after long period of disuse - and it's a $2 cable

  in Bangle.js • 2 months

  

  Hi, Gordon,

  I did turn it off using the Setting menu.

  Also, it isn't your fault. Turns out it was the old cable from the previous watch that failed. The cable that worked has the little "direction of the charger" tag on it with a Bangle picture. Sorry about the mistake.

• Watch does not turn on after long period of disuse - and it's a $2 cable

  in Bangle.js • 2 months

  

  ... also maybe a month of disuse shouldn't cause a turned off watch to have zero charge?

• Watch does not turn on after long period of disuse - and it's a $2 cable

  in Bangle.js • 2 months

  

  What with not leaving my house much for some reason, I hadn't turned on my Bangle for a while, probably over 3 weeks. When I tried yesterday, it was dead. I tried button 1, then 1+2, then every combination I could think of for 10 seconds at a time. Nothing.

  I charged it for a couple of hours and tried again. Nothing still. That is, I magnetically adhered the cable that came with the watch, which was plugged into a voltage source.

  I was literally in the middle of posting this message when my years of experience with USB cables kicked in and I had to revise. USB cables fail. So I found the charging cable from an old smartwatch, which happened to be identical to the Bangle cable, plugged that in, and the watch started immediately. It had run down to zero power during the long disuse, and coincidentally the Espruino-supplied charging cable had failed. Luckily, another cable I had lying around coincidentally could be a substitute.

  So, this message went from "request for help" to "maybe you need higher-quality cabling," I guess.

• Bangle loses time/date and freezes

  in Bangle.js • 4 months, 3 weeks

  

  Thanks again, Gordon. That "runs automatically" aspect isn't clear, at least to me, from the description. Appreciate your taking the time.

• Bangle loses time/date and freezes

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• Bangle loses time/date and freezes

  in Bangle.js • 4 months, 3 weeks

  

  I tried to install default apps. I got "App install failed". The second time I tried, it seemingly worked.

  App loading appears to be working normally now. Thanks!

• Bangle loses time/date and freezes

  in Bangle.js • 4 months, 3 weeks

  

  @Gordon, thanks. I did not realize that a widget never appears in the ap list on the Bangle ... which then raises the question of how to remove it, aside from a total reset as you advised above. I'll be trying that now.

• Bangle loses time/date and freezes

  in Bangle.js • 4 months, 3 weeks

  

  GPS Auto Time said it was installed, but as I wrote above, it never actually appeared in the app list.