International firmware - update from SD Card (No FlashTools) - for KOSPET Prime 2 updated 2021.06.26

[noidremained]

then I guess your only options is to either flash it or to let it stay at v1.4 for as long as you have the watch

[Michel56]

Hello Dear Pablo11,
IT’S ONLY A QUESTION! NO “PRESSING” ! This update is compatible with lem14? Or there will be a new update for lem14 at some point? Again: it’s not pressing! I have patience and time.🧑‍🦼 Thank you for your patience with me!
Best Regards
Michel56

[bolzanos]

Flash is complicated for me and I’m afraid of going wrong, but thank you. Maybe it will appear directly in the updates in kospet prime2

[noidremained]

maybe, but I wouldn’t be surprised if such updates turns out to give the same error

[none]

Getting this firmware as official OTA is currently highly unlikely.
It might be possible that this project will be shutdown, check this post for more information:

International firmware - update from SD Card (No FlashTools) - for KOSPET Prime 2 updated 2021.06.26

Thanks for the feedback, we will have a look at this @Dotsfar. As long as it doesn’t break something else - it should be ok. On a serious note, we are bound by the brands and the solution provider to a large extent. So we run it past them first if it is a change but mostly they are very flexible. We must remember that this is not a “custom rom” This is a collaboration and an exploration into the software requirements of watch users around the world. Speaking honestly, I am a little surprise…

[Bozley]

I’m curious about why they wouldn’t make this the standard firmware. Don’t they want their customers to be happy?

[Dr_Andy_Vishnu]

If they originally thought it wasnt needed and now see the slow uptake why would they ? Its a terrible shame especially after all the hard work @pablo11 and @none have put into this

[Bozley]

Yes, a huge shame if the project is ended. Thanks again @pablo11 and @none, your efforts were not in vain, some of us at least are very happy. If Kospet or other maker puts out another watch with a broken OS like the original Prime 2 OS I will make sure they are aware a change is needed.

[G1NT0N1C]

In fact, I think 95% of all users who have tested it find it a significant improvement. If it were released as a global update, the percentage would be about the same. Unfortunately we haven’t reached enough users to receive extensive feedback. Most users are not organized in any community. Most users buy a watch and update the firmware as soon as an update is shown. No more and no less. But my conviction is: All these unorganized users would love this update too.
Annoyingly, however, I cannot substantiate this assumption.

[Kospetp2]

Little info on the battery, if it can be useful. At 9:00 am 100% battery, at 7:00 pm 50% battery. Smartwatch with active bluetooth connected to the smartphone, active 4g data. I received notifications from watchdroid all day, listened to music with Spotify from my smartwatch with bluetooth earphones and made couple of calls of a few minutes. I did what I wanted to do without bothering to save battery. Gentlemen this is the Prime 2 , I am very satisfied. I just wanted to ask, if it was possible maybe with the next update, if you could fix the upside-down image in WhatsApp calls.

[none]

It was planned to move the camera switch toggle to the powermenu, but this was not received very well.
For now the camera will be changed back to ‘selfie mode’ until there is a better solution available.

[noidremained]

Maybe it could be done by making a second, virtual camera, so that the individual apps can decide for themselves if it is to be in selfie mode or main camera mode

[6eats]

I was very exited about the camera flip toggle but if not now :[

[machmandp]

I really dont want to come across as negative here especially because of all the hard work that is done for all the community and this site has made my watch worth using.

But originally when the new firmware came out as i have stated in previous topics the flashing process was a bit confusing to say the least.

Then the newer firmware was released that didnt need a flash tool but you needed to be on the older that 2.1 firmware that most would have taken.

Now the version released can be flashed over 2.1 you are saying that because of lack of feedback this will probably be abandoned and so anyone with this firmware wont be able to use the official OTA unless flashed back to an official release again

So just as i was waiting to try this there seems to be no point.

Sorry to hear that as i was looking forward to trying this firmware out but because of this i like many wont do it if its not going to be developed.

I dont know what they expected us to say but anything that makes the watch better is welcomed and should not need wide community feedback if thats what it does.

In honesty if this firmware is the way forward then everyone needs to get behind it from the mods to the users , that means a commitment to it and easy to use guides for it from the start.

Also what feedback do you need ? most will say they love it and its an improvement, every post i have read on here from who has tried it says the same , so by popular consensus its good

If you need specific feedback then if there are no major issues then you wont get any as people only ever write on forums usually when they have an issue.
You rarely hear how good a product is but you always know when it has problems

So please let us all know what you need us to do , flash the firmware obviously but what specific feedback do you need other than its great ?

[G1NT0N1C]

The feedback from the community was excellent and also very helpful. The lack of quality was not lacking, but quantity. But this is not a reproach. We would have liked to have reached more users than we actually reached. I don’t think this project failed. I would want to consider it a startup problem.

[noidremained]

If I understand you correctly, you are basically saying that you would rather use an inferior firmware that is likely to see some improvement rather than a superior firmware that might not see any improvement. I don’t see why anyone would think this way. How can the likeliness of future updates be more important than the actual quality of the firmware?

[machmandp]

Wow thats so far from what i said ?

But taking that point why would anyone ever move from Windows XP to any other version if XP was just as good as they needed, Or why bother with a custom rom version of android on a phone ?, Its because however the firmware is now updates always bring improvements whether that is on the current OS or even updating to a newer OS and eventually hoping to bring new and better features.

I would rather have the FAW firmware and have that updated but if its a choice between a firmware that yes may work better now but could have issues that will then never be fixed due to the fact its not active or a firmware that will get regular updates and features then i would have to choose the latter.

I was hoping that i came across as constructive in that i wanted to know what we needed to do to make this work and make it clear why i think it wasnt working at the moment, so i think you missed the point completely.

[Red_Crowx]

Another one testing this firmware. So far so good! This is way better than the stock firmware.