Sorry for the delay, Mike. I was finishing up the rest of my experiment.
OK, since reverting to Clock-Fit-Versa-Old on my Versa 2 worked, I then tried loading the published Clock-Fit-Versa as my current clock face, and deleted Clock-Fit-Versa-Old, and ran for another day. Clock-Fit-Versa still sucks power, using up about 28% in 24 hours. So I re-loaded Clock-Fit-Versa-Old from the private link above (the one that ends in 1375), deleted Clock-Fit-Versa, ran for another half day so far, and it again is using power at the low rate, about 10% per day. Note there were no soft resets involved, just me re-loading the version of Clock-Fit that I wanted to run, and deleting the other version. No other clock faces were in my dock when I was doing this. So I take it something about the published Clock-Fit-Versa is interacting with the firmware in a way that Clock-Fit-Versa-Old is not.
But what you really need, Mike, is a procedure that will get you back to running any version of Clock-Fit without the power drain. I have to admit your experience with bricking your original Versa 2 scares me, and I don't want you to have to go through that again, so I'll try to be as precise as I can. I suspect that as long as you stay away from the "factory reset", you'll be OK.
So here goes. The first difficulty was trying to follow the instruction to remove all the clock faces in the dock. You can't remove the last one -- the watch needs at least one clock face. I thought about using Clock-Fit-Versa-Old as that one remaining clock face, and that may work, but what I did instead was find the most simple looking, benign Fitbit clock face I could, one called "Light" under the "By Fitbit" category. I loaded it as my current clock face, DENIED (=unchecked) the two permissions that it asked for ("Internet" and "Run in Background"), and deleted all other clock faces in my dock. I wanted to leave as little in whatever internal watch memory as possible.
Then I did the soft reset, where you push the watch button for several seconds until it reboots, with the analog watch hands of "Light" coming up as the clock face. Only then did I load Clock-Fit-Versa-Old, the October 2020 version, using the private link above (again, the link that ends in *1375), this time granting the requested permissions. I removed "Light" from the clock face dock, so Clock-Fit-Versa-Old was the only face left in the dock, and for me and my Versa 2, that showed the familiar classic Clock-Fit face, and it didn't drain the power. I hope that's enough detail to get you up and running, too. If not, we'll continue the conversation until it works.
I don't know if loading the whole dummy clock face "Light" is necessary, but I needed to tell you what I did, not what I THINK will work.
OK, so one last item. Since Doc Robin was asking about clock face arrangements, I do have a request for my ideal version of Clock-Fit. Since my default step goal is the standard 10,000 steps, I find the goal percentage on the classic face to be redundant. When I'm at 5,000 steps, it's easy to know I'm at 50%. 7,900 steps, 79%, etc. I don't count calories, so I don't want that, and that's a big number that takes lots of space. But the "distance" value is one of my goals in the Fitbit app, so I would rather see that in the upper right corner than the step percentage (maybe in blue?). There already is a face similar to this (the last one in Clock-Fit), but it has that calorie count down where I am used to seeing heart rate. Honestly, I didn't even know there were multiple sub-clock faces until discovering this thread. Classic really works just fine for me, but as long as you're asking ...
I apologize for the long post,
- brian
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