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• BangleJS boot loop/glitched

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• BangleJS boot loop/glitched

  in Bangle.js • 2 months, 1 week

  

  After leaving the watch to charge, I was able to flash the noflash build and, apart from the display occassionally flickering and the backlight having a mind of its own, boot the watch and install apps on it successfully.

  Unfortunately, I guess with the size of the internal flash, once I install anything more than the Android app, Messages and the Pebble++ clockface + dependencies (after uninstalling all stock apps I didn't need), it's far too easy to trigger storage compacting, which locks up the device at "updating boot0" and only "Install default apps" from the app manager can recover the device. I hit it just now updating LCD settings to try to work around the backlight issue

• BangleJS boot loop/glitched

  in Bangle.js • 2 months, 1 week

  

  I installed the iflash build yesterday and that did get me as far as "No Clock Found" and "No Launcher Found" when pressing the button on the Bangle (minus backlight and I wasn't able to get Gadgetbridge to connect to the watch), but I guess as it was still attempting to write to storage I couldn't install any apps from my Desktop.

  I just tried flashing the noflash build but the screen of the watch turned off mid-install and after a few seconds I started seeing console errors in devtools indicating writing to the device was failing. I'm going to leave it charging for a few hours just in case the battery ran out and will try again if it recovers

• BangleJS boot loop/glitched

  in Bangle.js • 2 months, 1 week

  

  Hey, sorry for the slow reply on this! I got in touch with the retailer I purchased my Bangle from and they're going to arrange to replace it once they have more in stock since it was still within the 2 year warranty period. It was raining the day it happened, but I wouldn't have thought heavily enough to impact the Bangle, and I used my normal OnePlus charger with the default Bangle cable so no risk of a device being wired differently or the cable being pushed on incorrectly. I've left the Bangle inactive for a while but haven't seen much of an improvement.

  Is there somewhere I can get the binary for the firmware that doesn't use the flash chip? I'd like to try it in the meantime to see if I can recover the Bangle!

• BangleJS boot loop/glitched

  in Bangle.js • 3 months, 2 weeks

  

  Hey!

  I've had my BangleJS 2 for just over a year and for the most part it has been super reliable. Yesterday when plugging it in to charge the screen on my Bangle flickered quite drastically, and the Bangle started to heat up to a pretty hot temperature. I detached the watch from the charger and left it overnight to cool and see if it recovered, but now I can only get as far as the recovery menu - the test screen says all green other than "fw: boot undefined" and any other screens either glitch out or eventually present a mangled "loading' image and hang.

  I've tried reinstalling the firmware through DFU with no luck, it seems like nearly there's an issue with storage? In some instances while booting I see "check storage" followed by "too many files" but most of the time the watch either reboots back into recovery, or the screen flickers quite a bit and then the watch turns off.

  I haven't been able to reinstall any apps/factory reset either as it just displays the mangled loading screen or hangs on the "uploading app..." screen. The backlight also seems to have stopped functioning this morning.

  I tried factory resetting with the IDE attached and see the following:

  FW addr 0x0001b300 fail
  Status 0
  -
  Write complete.
  
  > 
  
  

  Has anyone hit an issue like this before? I've attached a photo of the glitched screen but I'm a little conscious of trying to boot it up and take more when it was heating up

  Thanks!