Goodbye My Fitbit One

[Richie9911]

Today I have to say goodbye to my Fitbit One. I want to thank Fitbit for this awesome tracker. I think my One has run its course. It's too bad that the One is no longer available. I would buy another one in a heartbeat. The Fitbit Inspire is not an option for me. My one lasted me 6 years. 

24,840,324 steps, 35209 floors for a total of 11,222 miles. RIP my friend.

[JEH1]

@Williger 

Thanks. I have neither skills nor solder gun. We are in lockdown here in Vancouver,so I might have to wait to get the battery replaced but your post convinced me to try replacement. Does
anyone know what kind of shop would do that sort of thing?

[Odyssey13]

Did any of you see this - click to view - recent post from PureEvil where he posts step by step pictures and information on replacing the battery on the One? Seeing  the devotion people had to their One Fitbit, I really wished I had gotten one myself!

[JEH1]

Thank you so much @Odyssey13 @Williger for pointing this out!

i took screen shots. I am afraid to do it myself but I am

going to see if there is a cell phone repair service around North Vancouver. Otherwise, I will be buying all the equipment I need. It’s worth it!!

[Williger]

@Odyssey13 yes, I'd seen and added an important case comment on his thread. I'd appreciated his detailed steps. I'd also shared how I'd done mine (less than a 5-minute installation which retained the existing glue) in case useful for others. I love my one 🙂 

[Williger]

@JEH1 YW. I hope you do get yours fixed. We're also on lockdown here in the states. I'd received my battery from eBay in around a week and the soldering iron I'd purchased specifically for this tracker from Amazon in a few days (possibly will be longer currently due to corona delays). Overall, took me only 5 minutes and I'd never soldered anything before. You don't really need to solder, merely warming the wires to remove the old ones and rewarding the solder to accept the new ones. Any electronics repair shop like the cell place you mentioned would likely be able to handle this, as well as a TV or radio repair place. Mine went shockingly smooth. I'd literally warmed the case, pried it open, warmed the solder, removed old, added new, and it had enough battery charge that when I'd attempting testing the case fit, it snapped closed and lit up and has been working perfectly since; over a week between charges too. Cheers!

[Williger]

@Odyssey13 additional note, if that post is useful to you, consider saving it locally with Evernote or any other web scraping app as Fitbit tends to delete "how to repair" posts. I had a detailed explanation when I'd first done mine, as well as another user who had some cool repairing tools posts, were both removed. Some of my in-thread responses still exist about repairing it you can reach from my profile, but it appears Fitbit doesn't appreciate self-repairing and may remove it. Hopefully, they won't, just a word to the wise 😉

[JEH1]

Hi @Williger and @Odyssey13 

what is rewarding the solder? I thought it might be rewarding but wanted to check.

[Williger]

@JEH1 I'm assuming it was an automatic word replacement, I'd typed reWARMing (it just tried to change it here too, as rewarming apparently isn't a word, LOL). Basically, I was saying I was able to reuse the solder by simply warming it up, removing the old wires, and warming it again while inserting the new wires. The whole job was done in minutes. Bringing my old tracker back from the dead was certainly rewarding, so that works too 🙂

[JEH1]

Hi @Williger ,
thanks!

sorry to be dense, but did you use your crafts solder gun to warm the solder?

[JEH1]

Hi @Williger 

LOL.I just saw that “re-warming” never made it into my own reply.

[Williger]

@JEH1 you're welcome. yes, I held the soldering iron tip to the existing solder which allowed the old battery to loosen and remove, then re-warmed the same way adding the new battery. the replacement was slightly larger than the original but fit perfectly. cheers!Two soldering points for battery

[JEH1]

Hi @Williger 

This is so encouraging! You have convinced me to try. Step 1: order the battery.

Hopefully, you won’t mind being a consultant along the way.

Thanks so much!