- Nov 4, 2011
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So, really cool watch but it's methodology is flawed. It's simple but it's simply flawed.
It has two sides to the touch screen, left and right. Left does not function before the right has recently been activated. The right brings up the display, The LEDs don't display the time until then. Once the right has been touched the left then can be activated to allow setting modification. Further activation of the left side will then advance the field under consideration for manipulation and the right will change the value.
The problem is, it's very touchy and just brushing an object or wearing a sleeve will throw the display into eschew.
I think that if I can set the internals and then permanently disrupt the left side from registering further input, I can fix my problem and have a neato and fully functioning watch.
It had no vulnerability to open it but I've gotten it open anyway. Needless to say the engineer that made it wasn't very wise in his trade.
I'll provide pictures at a later time when i have more to spend jockeying my devices to suit my whims but I'll now provide a description of the accessible functionality of the touch screen I'm working with.
It's a thin piece of plastic overlaying the LED display. It has a conductor printed around the edges. The print is interrupted in two places, on the far left and on the bottom center. The print is on the underside on the plastic and the only connectivity to the gadget appears to be on the left side which just looks like a solid piece of plastic that the film wedges over and between an overlapping jut of plastic that the film wedges between and the rubber conductor.
I could fit a thin piece of plastic film in with the watch perhaps but I'm not sure if it will interrupt a left side input.
I feel that the left side input come from the quarter printed conductor on the bottom left. Perhaps scratching that would eliminate the left side functionality while still giving me the ability to activate the display as needed.
There is an upside down J visible, perhaps running along and inside the plastic film. It's two ends meet the circumference where the printed conductor is twice separated.
It should be noted that to advance the display to date in mo/dd format and then with a third tap to 4 digit year. A fourth tap displays the current 12h vs 24h methodology of display.
It has two sides to the touch screen, left and right. Left does not function before the right has recently been activated. The right brings up the display, The LEDs don't display the time until then. Once the right has been touched the left then can be activated to allow setting modification. Further activation of the left side will then advance the field under consideration for manipulation and the right will change the value.
The problem is, it's very touchy and just brushing an object or wearing a sleeve will throw the display into eschew.
I think that if I can set the internals and then permanently disrupt the left side from registering further input, I can fix my problem and have a neato and fully functioning watch.
It had no vulnerability to open it but I've gotten it open anyway. Needless to say the engineer that made it wasn't very wise in his trade.
I'll provide pictures at a later time when i have more to spend jockeying my devices to suit my whims but I'll now provide a description of the accessible functionality of the touch screen I'm working with.
It's a thin piece of plastic overlaying the LED display. It has a conductor printed around the edges. The print is interrupted in two places, on the far left and on the bottom center. The print is on the underside on the plastic and the only connectivity to the gadget appears to be on the left side which just looks like a solid piece of plastic that the film wedges over and between an overlapping jut of plastic that the film wedges between and the rubber conductor.
I could fit a thin piece of plastic film in with the watch perhaps but I'm not sure if it will interrupt a left side input.
I feel that the left side input come from the quarter printed conductor on the bottom left. Perhaps scratching that would eliminate the left side functionality while still giving me the ability to activate the display as needed.
There is an upside down J visible, perhaps running along and inside the plastic film. It's two ends meet the circumference where the printed conductor is twice separated.
It should be noted that to advance the display to date in mo/dd format and then with a third tap to 4 digit year. A fourth tap displays the current 12h vs 24h methodology of display.
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