Fossil Smartwatches Hack 5.1.7 + Redeem Codes

I’m a bit old school, don’t really like the tech these days. Resistant, you could say. But I, like most, am leashed to my cell phone. With a family, and career. I need to be connected. I wanted a watch with hands and minutes and numbers like the old days. While shopping the fossil site. This watch caught my attention. Simply with classic style and primitive low key posture. Then as I read further I saw it was a smart watch! DANG, I thought.. I just wanted a plain classic watch. Well after getting it because of its beauty. I went ahead and paired it to my phone. WOW! I love it! It’s given me freedom I forgot we had. And the ‘Ring my phone” feature is BRILLIANT!!! For a busy guy like me, it’s been a fantastic distraction! I’ll never get stuck in an unwanted conversation again! “Oh, excuse me, I gotta take this call!” We’ll catch up later! Steve out!

Now that they’ve fixed the bugs that kept my watch from syncing, it works like it is supposed to. Everything they intend the app to do, it does, and it does well.
However, I want to be able to compare the graphs for each day to each other on a single screen. Currently, you can only see each day’s graph individually. I want to be able to dive into the data for each day and see what’s up hour by hour, at a minimum. There is so much they could do with this app and watch combination. The potential is there, their execs and designers just don’t seem to have the vision to make this app spectacular and really useful. I used to wear a Misfit, and they had a pretty great app. I feel like this app is sort of a downgrade.
But I love the watch itself. I’ve been wearing it for several years, and it’s great. (and I wear one of the hybrids (the Activist- specifically because of battery life, and it looks like a regular watch) I HOPE that they continue making the older style hybrids without the digital screens. They are so great. Y’all should try them out. Can you imagine six months of battery life‽!!‽ Sure, no heart rate monitoring, but do you really need that?

Im in love with this watch. Im an optician and recently we made a huge purshase of fossil frames and as a gift they gave me a fossil q hybrid watch... i have it for a week now and im in love. But! There are some features i miss and love to have to make it whole, things that i think are easy to add. As an optician i use the timer on my phone a LOT! so it would be nice to have that feature in my watch also, so with a button i can start the countdown... also... a snooze feature for the alarms, cause sometimes i put an alarm to remind me to call a patient for example but at the moment the alarm goes off im busy i could postpone it... the ability to put name to the customize goals and maybe the ability to track every single goal by its own... that one could be more difficult but ypu get the gist of it. I really think that what u guys are doing is super cool but a couple more things would make it awesome... i hope you sometime take at least one of my ideas

I got the fossil Garrett hybrid as a Christmas gift! I’m a watch fanatic, as a first time user of a hybrid or smart watch of any kind I thought this was awesome! It held the “old” timeless look of the watch while having the moderen day functions of a smart watch. It worked for a month and I would get on the app a couple times a day and track my steps then in the morning track my sleep schedule. Then about a week ago the watch wouldn’t sync to the app, however I was still getting vibrations from notifications I have programed into the watch. The watch was still connected via Bluetooth to my phone but refused to sync with the app and after countless times talking to people on customer support they didn’t have a clue and would throw me around to “higher up professionals” to help with the issue, and still nothing but after some research come to find out that many people have/had this issue as far back as 2 years ago. Therefore this is an on going issue that has not been addressed. And I’m highly disappointed with fossil.

Every few weeks, the app refuses to sync data with my watch and suddenly drops it. The notifications still work, so it often takes me a while to notice. At that point a month of data is missing, which is the whole reason I was interested in this watch. Thankfully, each time this has happened I have eventually been able to get the watch to sync again and restore the missing stats by essentially playing with it for a half hour—turning my phone on and off, turning Bluetooth on and off, removing it from my Bluetooth menu so that the app prompts me to add it again, etc. However, this has been very frustrating. The app has also permanently shown a low battery sign after the first time I replaced it, which means it gives me no indication of the actual battery life and I have to guess at when that really needs to be changed. This watch would be a much better purchase if the app were more cooperative. It doesn’t seem to be very well integrated.

When I first got this watch years ago, this was great. Then I started noticing last year that the sync was no longer working. I’d load up the app and it would instantly crash or just wouldn’t connect with my phone. They finally updated to its current version and I was able to sync, but now my data is lost from the day before if I don’t sync before midnight. Pretty stupid since I was out walking from evening until 4am, and I lost tens of thousands of steps. That’s fine if your routine allows, but if I’m on a night shift, I won’t have time to interrupt work just to sit and wait for my watch to sync. If I’m on vacation, I’m not going to whip out my phone at the club just to catch the last few moments that I can keep my steps.

I love my hybrid watch since it was a gift from a loved one, but this has been a terrible experience in the past few years. As mentioned if you’re cool with the idea of your data getting wiped from your watch before you can sync, then fine. The app can keep one star. But I’m over it and plan to move on.

I’ve had my fossil watch for a few years now and I absolutely love it! The ability to ring my phone and use a stopwatch are invaluable! Prior to the update a week ago, I was able to have my watch vibrate/have the hands point to a specific number if I received a text message or a phone call. It still vibrates/points when specific contacts call or text me, but after the update, the phone calls and text message notifications are gone. This is frustrating, considering that I depend on the watch to alert me if someone is calling and I’m not in the same room as my phone. I always have my phone on vibrate and prefer not to have the ringer on. PLEASE BRING BACK THIS FEATURE! I would be so grateful!

Edit-3/8/23: So I didn’t have to sign in to the fossil app with an email address initially, so my information on the app was only there. Today I open the app, and fossil forces me to make an account. I do that, and the last FIVE years of step tracking, sleep tracking? Gone. Thanks, Fossil.

I’ve wanted to get into smart watches in the last year but have not had chance to buy (plus they are expensive still, for me). I decided to give Fossil Hybrid Watch a try - as an introductions to smart watches. So far - I love it! Its simple and provides me with the information I need to stay notified. The app itself is simple, aesthetically pleasing, and intuitive. The only improvement I would add the watch is to include more options for notifications on the Hybrid watch. For ex: I am not allowed to adjust my watch to notify me whenever I receive an iMessage. I can adjust it to notify when a specific person on my contacts writes to me, but no general messages (however, I am allowed to include all messages from Whatsapp so it is a slight gripe). Anyway, I would recommend a Fossil smartwatch to anyone seeking a clean looking watch with minimal features (or anyone looking to breakaway from the Samsung/Apple)

EDIT: The previous issue I had was resolved, i still believe the app is not as intuitive as it should be. A new issue has come up that I can’t assign notifications from specific contacts. Apps work just fine, but every time i try to assign a specific person, it won’t take it. The app has shown that it’s buggy at best, and I wish I could say better things about it

The previous version of the app has the ability to customize the button functions, set alarms, and assign contacts for notifications. These are literally the reasons I bought this watch. With the new update, these features are lost. My previously set alarms, notifications, and buttons are still active on the watch but I cannot change them. If I had not already set these, this watch would be nothing more than a glorified fit bit. Fossil, please fix the app and include the features that were removed.

As far as I can tell the only positive of the latest update is the organization of the watch faces. The buttons now remain the same regardless of which face you select (which is infuriating as I previously had buttons and faces/information on them matched up and now must manually change both every time I alternate which I do 3 times daily). The commuter button, which I used multiple times a day is completely gone. And on a personal note, multiple inquiries about the changes have gone unanswered.

I have warned all of my friends with fossil hybrid watches to avoid this update if at all possible and let them mess with my updated app to see if they even WANT the update. All have agreed that they should try to avoid it.

I am currently searching for a method to remove the update and restore my once excellent watch. If you are used to the features of the app, avoid the 5.0 update.