How did you go I found the eBay batteries dodgy and the LCD never lit up properly and the low battery indicator turned on. I didn’t have a single crash or lockup of the software. Garmin Vivofit replace battery or replace unit bluedufflecoat on - 09:04. The machine I used, Dell Latitude E6440 running openSUSE Tumbleweed. My first foray into doing video with Kdenlive and so far, I like it very much… once I figured out what I was doing. Oh, one last thing, I have also created a short video on this repair and edited it with Kdenlive. This thing is a fine watch and I don’t care about status symbols so until this thing has some catastrophic failure, I’m not likely to upgrade. Truly, I think trackers are kind of dumb but I like the metrics it gives me and there is something fun with the dumbness… like the competitions with friends on steps. Still far less expensive than $109 for a replacement from Garmin. The total cost of this repair was $10.58. Since the thing is mostly a watch and I don’t need anything fancy, this will do just fine for now. The batteries were a bit more than I wanted to spend but replacing the batteries was still cheaper than a new tracker or even a decent watch. Who knows when I might come up with a use. Instead of just tossing the batteries into the recycling, I decided to hang onto them. Out of curiosity, I wanted to see what voltage the old batteries were to know how much voltage was not enough voltage to power this wearable.ĥ.327 volts was the magic number. I let it do its thing of synchronizing with my mobile and that was it, the job was done and I have my watch back. Upon putting the thing back together, the device immediately reactivated. Popping out the batteries was easily accomplished with a flat-head screwdriver. Inserting the batteries, only required a bit of pressure to seat them properly. When I looked on the shelf of the store they turned out to be the most expensive batteries on the shelf at $4.99 each.īefore doing another thing with it, I cleaned the gasket and housing with rubbing alcohol because it was two years sitting on my arm and looked terribly gross.

I didn’t have the proper battery, the Vivofit 2 takes CR1632 batteries which are far more expensive. Once apart, however, an unpleasant surprise greated me beneath its dirty shell. In preparation for this repair, I pulled out my card of CR2032 batteries thinking I could just pop in the batteries on hand. It ended up lasting over two years which makes me start to believe that these button cell run times are all underestimated. This device, of which is primarily my watch, was supposed to last one year on two Lithium button cell batteries. As far as watches go, this thing has lasted longer than any other. No heart rate or altimeter to tell you how many steps you’ve climbed, that said, this is also the first “smart” wearable that has lasted longer than 6 months. All this tracker does is time, date, steps, estimate of distance and calories burned. It is a Vivofit 2 that is very plain and ordinary with no bells or whistles, as compared to other trackers. A short time ago, my step tracker and watch went dead.

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