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Last evening I updated to 2v12.55.

Every time I open a menu item in Settings I get "[AppName]: Error in settings! BTN1 to go back" and then the Settings menu freezes for 3/4 seconds.

I already use the Rewrite Settings/Reset Settings but nothing changed :-(

Does it happen to others?

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Is downgrading the firmware (from .55 to latest stable release) a safe operation?

I forced a sort order of "10" throught Widget Editor to keep the battery widget top-right.

It depends if you have set your phone up to pass on these to GadgetBridge.

Precisely! I can receive a notification from a Calendar app/RSS reader/a game etc. "Notifications" is a more generic name but it's only my opinion :-)

100% agree.

In my opinion the messages* app would be better with gestures:

• remove all buttons: more space for content/bigger font
  
• replace the "back" button with a swipe right ("mark as unread", keep in message list)
  
• replace the "tick" button with a swipe left ("mark as read", remove from message list)
  
  

In my free time I could try to write some code. I promise nothing but I'd like to contribute :-D

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*By the way, why is the app called "Messages"? Wouldn't "Notifications" be a better name? The app does nothing but show notifications ...

Does your wife have lots of messages she leaves unread?

There are really not so many messages, mostly less than half a dozen.

Yesterday I set her watch's Debug Info to Log.

This morning the screen was "strange": is this expected? I just set the Log on my watch, no issue for the moment.

Her firmware is release 2.12, mine is v2.12.31.

Ok, just fixed LCD brightness (and any numeric item with a 'step' value)

I found another issue with the LCD brightness menu: the level set is 1.0 but if I open the menu the selected value is always 0.2. It seems that var step = item.step||1; always returns 1.

My wife says she reads the notification on the watch (she loves this feature) but she usually does not open the message so after 60s the blinking envelope appears in the widget bar.

@Gordon Could the blinking envelope/unread messages be related to the freezing issue? Maybe there's a memory leak somewhere... It just popped into my mind, I don't know if it makes sense :-D (I'll try to replicate the issue)

Ok, that's interesting, thanks for checking! I see Gadgetbridge when I run it! Must be my tools then - I'll make sure it's all up to date.

I noticed that "Apply Changes & Restart Activity" does not reload the strings.xml. To see the updated strings you must rerun the app.

(I'm using Android Studio 2021.1.1 Patch 1 on Windows 10.)

They'll be able to use the App Loader and the various 'customiser'/'interface' tools in there initially.

Excellent :-)

When the menu system gets easier to use I think less people will see the need for it.

The new menu system is great but there are things I wish I could also do via app (add recurring alarms, timers, change Wake on X, etc. on the fly) but I understand it's not a priority, no problem.

having said that you could theoretically replace E.showMenu on the watch with one that forward menu entries to the phone, and then run the original Settings app - so basically the whole set of Bangle.js options would appear on the phone screen. At least then there's not duplicate code.

This is interesting. I could work on it when I get more familiar with code :-)

I forked and downloaded your branch.

but I'm damned if I can get app_name or anything else in the main app to be overwritten by the info in strings.xml. As far as I can tell I'm doing everything that's suggested online but it's just not working for some reason.

Sorry but I don't understand your problem. If I edit some strings in app/src/banglejs/res/values/strings.xml and run I see the new values in the virtual device.

Am I missing something?

Take a look here

Does a ~2 sec button press do anything, or is it a full reboot (via the bootloader) that's required?

Nothing, it need a full reboot.

When it's frozen, can you connect by Bluetooth? / If you plug/unplug the charger when it's frozen, does the Bangle vibrate?

I don't know, I haven't tried :-( If it happens again I will do these checks.

Thanks for now :-)

It happened two more times :-(

The first time yesterday morning: my wife noticed the time was ~1h behind. After she rebooted the time was correct. Her clock was Nifty-A Clock. She had only the default apps/widgets + the pedometer widget, android, message & Swiper Clock Launch.

Yesterday evening I installed the default apps (via the web utility) and then android + message + pedometer widget on her Bangle to see if the problem was Nifty-A clock.

The second time just now, again ~1h behind. This time her clock is Anton Clock (the default).
She says that while the time was wrong the Bangle didn't receive notifications. Again, after a reboot the time fixes itself.
Also before the reboot she cannot open the launcher, the ui was frozen.

Now I just factory-reset her Bangle. Hope it's not faulty :-(

Thank you for your answer.

(I moved the discussion in a http://forum.espruino.com/conversations/373035/ ;-))

Note: the original conversation started here from an off-topic question. I opened this new thread because I think this is an interesting topic :-)

@Gordon says:

Yes, so basically Gadgetbridge has a big core value of not needing the internet for anything. They will not ever allow any part of Gadgetbridge to directly access the internet - one of the reasons why even getting Weather on it is a pain. They also don't like the Play store, which sucks for most people that just want to get it from a 'safe', easy place.
So for the KickStarter I said I'd do a new app, but then I got talking to Andreas who is the creator and one of the main maintainers of Gadgetbridge, and we came up with something which I think works well for everyone.
We agreed that I'd do a new build of Gadgetbridge for Bangle.js, but will try and merge most of my changed upstream so we're working from the same codebase. I'll probably leave all the support for other devices in there anyway, but it'll be on the Play Store, and it'll have internet connectivity and will also be able to host the app loader so you don't have to do a Gadgetbridge disconnect thing to upload apps.

This sounds great!

Will the user be able to modify Bangle's settings from Banglebridge? It would be a handy feature! Many smartwatches can be managed through their companion app, eg. the Mi Fit app. When the user want to change something it's usually easier to use the app (e.g. set a recurring alarm, configure the brightness, change a wake on... settings.) In my opinion this would be a great feature :-)

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@Alessandro actually if you're able to help, I'm currently having a hard time just with gradle. I created a new productFlavor for Bangle.js (https://codeberg.org/gfwilliams/Gadgetbr­idge/commit/2a53219a14accdf5c78e02cc3af5­7f3940baf008) and it builds fine and includes a different icon, but I'm damned if I can get app_name or anything else in the main app to be overwritten by the info in strings.xml. As far as I can tell I'm doing everything that's suggested online but it's just not working for some reason.

I need to install/configure the dev environment but in the next few days I'll try to take a look!

My wife's watch button has always been a bit mushy but for now it works fine. She uses it more often now, should we start worrying? :(

Ok, just fixed LCD brightness (and any numeric item with a 'step' value)

Thank you, the menu seems ok now!

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Another problem: the bangle freezes & reboot after some settings update (see attached video) It seems to happen only when Vector font is on) I noticed a similar issues yesterday while changing the pedometer widget settings (without the automatic reboot)

Hello,

The doc of Bangle.getStepCount() says

Returns The number of steps recorded by the step counter

but I noticed that all the apps get the step count using Bangle.getHealthStatus("day").steps.

I just send this code to my Bangle2 as a test:

Bangle.on('step', function(up) {
  console.log("getStepCount: " + Bangle.getStepCount());
  console.log("getHealthStatus.steps: "+ Bangle.getHealthStatus("day").steps);
});

The output is not what I expected:

getStepCount: 6442
getHealthStatus.steps: 3494
getStepCount: 6443
getHealthStatus.steps: 3495
getStepCount: 6444
getHealthStatus.steps: 3496
getStepCount: 6445
getHealthStatus.steps: 3497
getStepCount: 6446
getHealthStatus.steps: 3498
getStepCount: 6447
getHealthStatus.steps: 3499
getStepCount: 6448
getHealthStatus.steps: 3500
getStepCount: 6449
getHealthStatus.steps: 3501

Why is there this difference?

Thank you :-)

There's something strange with the LCD brightness settings: only value 0.1 is allowed.

@Gordon Sorry I didn't know that the flasher is not recommended. I read about it somewhere and I thought it was the way to update!

I'm not a fan of analog clocks but AC-AC is impressive!

Hi!

Bangle2 2v11

Could you try to update to the latest stable firmware, 2v12? You can do it trought the Espruino Web IDE (top right icon, flasher)

edit by Gordon: Please don't use the IDE to upgrade firmware unless you have to. Use the firmware update app at https://banglejs.com/apps#fwupdate - instructions are at https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js2#firmware-updates

Great, thank you!

I installed it before lunch and I played with it for a while. I like it, the UI now is much more usable!

• I got some random freeze here and there. Three times in a row the bangle freezed in Settings -> App -> Pedometer Widget . I had to long-press the button to reboot (I think this is an issue with the widget itself)
  
• I'm not a fan of the red "back" button in the widget bar (what if my bar is full of widgets?) - a swipe gesture should be better in my opinion (maybe a setting?)
  
• Could the menu name be show in a E.showMessage style instead of hamburger + name? (see screenshot)
  
  

Nice!