Crazy-Fritter wrote:
I respect your determination.... you're like a pitbull with this watch and all the road blocks it's given you 😮
But I have to wonder, at this stage of it's release is it really worth all this time and stress? You can always return the watch and just wait a while for them to (hopefully) iron the bugs out.
I would never fight an expensive watch this much, for 300 bucks plus tax you shouldn't have to.
I spent 3 days fighting my surge before I took it back to the store. And that was just evenings.
Well, I am a very literate computer user, going back to my first home computer in the days of iOS and then the early days of Windows. Yes, the Ionic in several ways just doesn't work very well, though I've been in this forum as people first started getting their hands on it, and I was aware that people were having plenty of difficulties before I decided to head out to Best Buy and join the misery, myself. I certainly am critical of Fitbit for providing insanely little in the way of documentation, and even hiding the full user manual on its web site with a link to it utterly buried at the very bottom of its "How to use" document. If it just simply worked easily as it should have, it would have been ok, but obviously people are going a long way to figure out how to get things to work. All of the suggestions people have offered about the Weather app is a very good example of how Fitbit just doesn't offer hardly any proper documentation at all. Where on Earth is the "Oh, you have to go out, turn the GPS on, and let that sync with your Ionic first," and so on? But I've been in forums like this for over 30 years, and groups of people like this have always managed to figure just about anything out.
But what anyone needs to comprehend about Fitbit is how a lot of its users truly need their devices. I am a heart attack and triple-bypass heart surgery survivor with Type 2 diabetes, and I have been recording my daily progress with Fitbit devices and other information on a very detailed spreadsheet for many, many years. I have tried other brands, but just take "sleep tracking" as an example -- I sure haven't found anything else that's even in the ballpark that Fitbit plays in. I'm frankly quite happy with my Charge 2, but it just leaves a bit to be desired as a "watch" -- if nothing else, just having the same functionality with a watch face that I can easily and reliably read will make the Ionic worth the price, to me. And really, I've got my Ionic working properly, except for this dang Weather app, which has always been 100% unresponsive. But it's not like I don't walk out the door without seeing weather information from the TV, my phone, and other means -- I don't really need it on my wrist. But again, I would really just like to know what the temperature outside is at any given time. Is that too much to ask? Well, so far....
I think I have done everything that anybody has ever suggested -- getting the GPS to work, and on and on and on, yet the Weather app remains 100% non-responsive. I think it's like the app simply didn't get installed fully, or something like that -- utterly nothing is helping, whatsoever. My thinking is it goes back to my decision to set up and install my Ionic with a Windows 10 notebook computer, with Windows 10 popping up in here as being a relatively common denominator for those who haven't been able to get the Weather app to work. Certainly, I didn't set the Ionic up with the device that it ultimately needs to work with every day -- my phone. So, at this point, I think I'm simply going to have to do a factory reset, and try, try again -- but this time, setting it up with my phone. Absolutely, utterly nothing else has managed to wake this dang Weather app up for me, so it's time to clear off my schedule, and spend quite a few hours going through the setup routine one more time.
In the end, I'm really quite happy with the Ionic so far, and would be entirely satisfied if only I could get the Weather app to work. Given that I now know that the weather information will sync up quite often, I think the app would do what I want it to do -- so I'm now willing to blow up the whole setup work done so far, and try, try again. I have tried a number of smart watches in the past, and I haven't even been able to get a simple watch face to work that I liked -- and I'm very happy with the "Moment" watch face with a blue background and white text, so it not only is a Fitbit device that I want to remain with, but it works very well as a "watch." So, you bet, the Ionic is the wrist device I want, and it's worth a bit more work if I can indeed get the dang Weather app to work some day. It's certainly worth another try with the setup routine.
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