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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by gnicholas on Saturday January 27, 2024 @02:43AM (#39153520)
The Amazfit GTR4 is also quite nice, with a crisp display, multiple physical buttons, and weeks of battery life. However I found it became unpaired from my phone every week or so, and I didn't feel awesome about entrusting my GPS-based location to a company that I don't know/trust. I also wanted better music controls via the physical buttons, which it didn't really do well.

How did you hack the BIP, and what did you do with it then?

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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by graphe on Saturday January 27, 2024 @03:05AM (#39153634)
It was a Russian forum, but I can't find it. https://github.com/MNVolkov/libbip https://likeapp.soft112.com it's called BipOS.

The device is safe since on iOS I restrict the Zepp app from any internet, but you need to refresh your GPS with the app. On Android it's much safer with something like gadgetbridge.

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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by gnicholas on Saturday January 27, 2024 @02:08PM (#39158749)
How do you restrict an app from internet on iOS? I know how to turn off cellular access but didn’t think it was possible to cut off all access (other than going into airplane mode before opening it, and turning off background refresh).
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by graphe on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:20PM (#39160875)
It is in cellular, you can disable wifi in the apps when you scroll. Lots of cool features get buried or are unknown in iOS.
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by gnicholas on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:24PM (#39160900)
When I go to Settings > Cellular, all I see is a list of apps and a toggle to turn off cellular access for the apps. If you can help me find the wifi toggle, that would be amazing.
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by graphe on Saturday January 27, 2024 @06:32PM (#39160947)
I deeply apologize. https://old.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/qus47i/has_apple_ever_... It seems to be only a jailbreak or a Chinese feature. It's not standardized like the new apps store. Mine looks like this. https://ibb.co/k474nBH
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by wkat4242 on Sunday January 28, 2024 @06:54PM (#39171188)
Yeah gadgetbridge is great. The app doesn't even ask for internet access permission.
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by graphe on Sunday January 28, 2024 @11:49PM (#39172806)
I believe it does, I use another privacy based app that can use location and requires data to download the weather stats, but it's optional.
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Re:Fossil Is Quitting Smartwatches by wkat4242 on Monday January 29, 2024 @02:50AM (#39173814)
Gadgetbridge doesn't. That's why it needs an external app to be able to show weather if you need it. I use the German weather app but there's several.
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