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What updates are we expecting to improve battery life on the PT2?

We were told that software updates should get the battery life to 30 days. But what particular changes through software are we expecting to actually improve the battery life? I'm happy with the battery life I'm currently getting, I'm just curious.

Edit: Yes battery life is fantastic. Yes I'm getting like 20 days of battery now with my current settings. Yes its far better than other watches. I'm not saying otherwise to any of that. I'm just saying the team said battery life was not at their 30 day target and they said they could get there with software updates and I'm curious what those changes would be. I'm not disparaging anything.

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u/The_cooler_ArcSmith — 7 hours ago
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The new Pebble has issues. That's kind of the point.

So I've been reading through the complaints. Coating scratching off, cracks on the B&W units, the Time 2 screen situation. All real, all valid.

But I think people are losing the plot a little.

This is four people. Not four hundred. Four. And they're not just making one watch — they're doing three hardware products, the mobile app, and the software stack all at once. In small batches. With suppliers who frankly don't care about your order when it's this small.

You don't get Gorilla Glass Victus at this volume. You don't get to run three production test cycles before shipping. You get what suppliers will do for you at your scale, and that's it. The B&W crack thing? That's exactly what happens when you don't have the budget for a materials engineer to catch a stress point before it goes out the door. It's not a conspiracy. It's just hard.

I did hardware once on a small team. We made embarrassing mistakes. Stuff we should have caught. When you can't afford to run the same test ten different ways, you kind of just have to ship and find out. It sucks but that's what it is.

The 30 day warranty feels short I know. But warranty logistics are genuinely a whole operation — intake, verification, return shipping, failure analysis. They don't have that yet. Maybe someday.

Anyway. If you bought one of these you're a beta tester. I don't mean that as an insult, I mean that's literally what early hardware adoption is. If that's not what you signed up for, Garmin makes a great watch.

But if you're into it — design a bumper case, post the STLs. Found a fix for something? Write it up. Got a cracked unit? Document exactly what happened and tell the team directly, not just here.

That's kind of what this community is supposed to be good at.

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u/Annoying-Lamppost — 5 hours ago
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This is really a test of patience...

I was so happy seeing my pebble out for delivery and then... "Checks are underway on the shipment. Contact Support."

The carrier's customer support couldn't tell me what the issue was and told me to contact Core Devices directly.

I already contact them and waiting for response so this post is really just to vent some frustration and maybe see if anyone is in the same situation.

I had already made peace with the fact I would have got my pebble when it was time (pun intended) and I rode this roller coaster through the delays and the problems with my original P2D order, but now it really seemed like it was time!

Seeing it so close to be delivered and then held by the carrier felt just unfair... I really hope it's an easly solvable problem.

UPDATE: it's out for delivery again! Finger crossed

UPDATE 2: IT'S HERE!!

u/davideb263 — 11 hours ago
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Does this CPU usage track for battery life?

I'm getting around 10 days of battery life out of my new Pebble.

Almost 80% of that is to the CPU. Everything else is basically negligible except the heart rate monitor.

That seems high to me, but I don't know what I'm comparing against.

u/rob132 — 12 hours ago
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PT2 in constant reboot after firmware update

I got alert last night about updating to 4.9.178 so I tapped update. I am on a iPhone with latest software. I have tried updating 4 times and it installs then the pebbles OS screen shows then it goes to the settings menu and then it reboots again until I get the QR code screen on the watch. Should I just do a hard reset?

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u/jdmac29 — 8 hours ago
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PT2 dynamic backlight logic seems backwards

EDIT: Some of what I said below is not 100% accurate. See bottom of my message for some new edits.

I have the new PT2 and have really been enjoying it, for the most part. But one thing that irks me to no end is that the backlight is just too dim in dark rooms with dynamic backlight enabled.

I was playing around with the watch tonight to try to improve the situation and I’ve realized: I think the dynamic backlight logic is set up for an LCD screen, not an e-paper screen. On an LCD screen you need to dramatically ramp up the backlight level as the ambient light level increases, but an e-paper screen is just the opposite. In bright sunlight you don’t need the backlight at all, and it’s in a dark room that you need the most backlight help.

If you go to the backlight settings you can see the current backlight level as you change the various settings. Play around with it yourself, but what I’m seeing is if you have the ambient sensor enabled along with dynamic backlight, the higher the ambient light level the brighter the backlight (and correspondingly in dark environments the backlight level is very low). This makes it virtually impossible to read small text on the screen in the dark, even with the max brightness level set to blinding.

Obviously I can “fix” this by turning off the dynamic backlight, but I would prefer to keep it dynamic to optimize battery life since, if this were working properly, the backlight should get very little usage in day-to-day bright-light situations.

Are others seeing the same thing?

I’m on the latest firmware: v4.9.176

New findings as of 5/21/2026:

I played with this a bit more and found the current behavior is not exactly what I was describing. It's currently behaving a bit more like a bell curve, as ColorIsTheNewBlack described below, it just doesn't do a very good job of it, IMO. At very bright ambient light levels the backlight doesn't turn on (good), at low-medium light levels it's willing to bump up to max level, then at lower ambient levels it ramps it down significantly, often choosing 10% (which appears to be the minimum backlight level).

The bottom line is that there are too many cases where it's choosing 10% at low ambient light levels where that's just too dim for me, and there appears to be no way to influence this while retaining the dynamic backlight. Adjusting the max brightness level seems to have little-to-no effect on the shape of the brightness curve, especially at low ambient light levels. It seems only to make it willing to go higher when you're in that sweet middle-zone of ambient light where it calls on max brightness. Otherwise it's just as eager to go down to 10% in many other circumstances.

I recognize that it is a balancing act to determine what level of customization to offer users and I can imagine many options for resolving this, but ultimately I'd really love to be able to retain the dynamic backlight for battery reasons while being able to increase the brightness level selected at low ambient light levels.

I've taken out this GH issue: https://github.com/coredevices/PebbleOS/issues/1355

u/maskaski — 18 hours ago
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ForecasWatch 2 v1.33.0 — now updated for the larger PT2 display!

u/mattrossman — 1 day ago
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Best place or way to sell a new Duo?

I've got my Time 2 and now want to sell on my Duo as I only bought it to fill the time waiting for the new Time. Don't want to profit but don't want it to sit in a drawer unused. FB marketplace is a sh&$show, fleabay stings you for massive fees, other sites are full of lowballers and no shows. Makes me wince even just thinking about trying to sell it. Is there a good forum? here even?

Located in Aust

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u/Slight_Scarcity6548 — 20 hours ago
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Increased battery usage with 4.9.176?

I've gone from 3.7% a day to 4.2% after updating with no other changes.

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u/alexgreen — 18 hours ago
▲ 159 r/pebble

BIG-LCD by Dalpek – Huge Digits, Custom Colors – For PT2 & PR2

u/dalpek — 1 day ago
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Longer Emulation Time on Cloudpebble

I'm stoked for the Round 2 I preordered, and it's been fun emulating all these creative watch faces on Cloudpebble to see how they operate. However, the emulation times out very quickly, leaving me no time to explore the customization settings of individual apps and faces.

Is there any way to extend how long emulation runs before timing out? Maybe some workaround to run it locally instead of in a web browser?

Thanks!

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u/AmbassadorFunk — 1 day ago
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Battery graph not updating since yesterday

Anyone else have the new battery graph randomly get stuck at 0%? I restarted my watch last night and the graph has been stuck at 0% since. Thankfully Muninn still works but I'd like if the graph did too so I knew what was draining battery (as it is unfortunately going down quite fast)

u/joelnodxd — 24 hours ago
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Answer phone call with Pebble Time 2?

I used to be able to answer phone calls with my Pebble Time Steel with the Dialer for Pebble app. It had a companion app that appears to be deprecated, and I have not had any luck getting the Pebble app to work on the PT2. Does anyone know if there is a way to answer phone calls with the Pebble Time 2, either through this app or any other available one?

u/Bazirker — 24 hours ago
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What happened to the silver/blue production?

It seems like that's the only color nobody has received yet. Batch 2 is in full swing but silver/blue orders from batch 1 still haven't been received? Production problems?

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u/clemobrown — 1 day ago
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PSA - quick-release knob on watchband could dent plastic body of PT2

Don't be an idiot like me.

I had taken my PT2 off of my wrist and was playing with the watch band by bringing the top and bottom watchbands together. I could feel some resistance as I was doing this. When I took the watchbands off, I could see that the quick release knob on the band had scooped out a little hole on the plastic part of the watch (and a tiny bit of the metal frame)

I don't think this will happen with normal use and may only happen with certain bands.

So just be careful that you don't bend your watchbands inwards past normal tolerances.

Edit: Doesn't happen with stock silicon band.

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u/joshrj45 — 1 day ago
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Can't get a heart rate on PT2

I cannot get the Time 2 to show me a heart rate. I've searched the forums, youtube etc and can't find any answers either. I have an iphone so aren't expecting it to sync but I thought it could read heart rate on the watch. Did I miss a memo?

u/Slight_Scarcity6548 — 1 day ago
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I think I may have a problem (Obligatory "Just had mine delivered post")

Pebble collection rundown, because yeah, I might have a problem.

New/Sealed

  • 2x Pebble Time 2 (new) - one silver/black, one silver/grey
  • 2x new bands
  • 1x old silver quick release band (for Pebble Time Steel)
  • 2x Pebble Time Steel, Silver - brand new in box

Boxes Only

  • 2x Pebble Time boxes
  • 2x Pebble Time 2 HR boxes (red/black and black)

Loose/Used Watches

  • Pebble Time Steel, Silver with Amazon band - current daily driver
  • Pebble Time, Black with a Gadgetwrap cover - my first daily driver
  • Pebble Time Steel, Black
  • Pebble Round Silver, 20mm
  • Pebble Round Silver, 14mm
  • Pebble Round Black, 20mm
  • Original Pebble Steel
  • Pebble Time 2 HR, Red/Black (with Amazon Millanese band)
  • Pebble Time 2 HR, Black (with gray 3D printed wrap)
  • Pebble Duo, White (with red 3D printed wrap)

So yeah. Might have a problem.

u/CoachCamBailey — 1 day ago