Hey forum, just thought I’d share a few thoughts and end with a question.
I bought the Prime 2 back in July 2021 and after some attempts to workaround the then limitations of the software, gave up and stuck it back in its box.
Fast forward to now in 2025 and I once again thought I’d give it a shot with all the latest firmware and forum updates to see if it could meet my needs as an exercise device - these were simple requirements:
a. volume up/down hardware buttons with long press to skip tracks forward/backward
b. single button press to turn off/on screen and when the lock screen is opened, the last open app is there waiting
c. standard lock screen audio player widget for different apps (spotify, deezer, etc.)
d. everything else can be tolerated
With those requirements laid out, here’s my ask to Kospet - why?
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why only 2 buttons, was it technically impossible to have 3 dedicated hardware buttons? power, volume up/down. Just one more and standard android features would have been so easy - call volume, music volume, ring volume, etc.
I spent so many hours trying to figure out some combination of the Button Mapper app and tap to wake and watch face volume slider just to get a basic control experience and it is still just such a terrible experience imo. (no disrespect AT ALL to all the forum members who poured their hearts and time into this to try to make it a great user experience). -
but since there are only 2 buttons, why not use each separate button as volume up/down and then use both buttons pressed at the same time as power? Is that something that could be implemented with a low level firmware upgrade that remaps the hardware signals?
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was it not possible to add a native controlled zoom feature so that apps could use the full round watch face and you just pan in set jumps to see different parts of a full screen app? This would let you zoom out to rectangular mode to see the full app screen and then zoom in to full round screen in whichever section you wanted in a frictionless manner instead of swimming around an app page with accessibility settings zoom feature.
With all that said, I understand that the Prime 2 has been discontinued for a few years at this point and I don’t see ANY full android watches being made anywhere now.
So now the question, if number 2 above is possible, is the Kospet team and the people on this forum who worked with them willing to open source or make available the Prime 2 software stack so someone can try to make the above fixes happen?
If number 2 is not possible, is there any willingness to make a Prime 3 with just one more hardware button, a native zoom/pan feature and a more stock android interface? Clock face widgets could also be made available still.
I mean, even as it is now, it is still the smallest portable wifi hotspot you can buy in an easy-to-wear form factor. I’m just really surprised at the complete abandonment of this space by every company as they all retreat to closed-source, highly limited watch-only operating systems.
Anyway, if anyone makes it this far, thanks again for all the hard work put into this forum to get the Prime 2 to where it is now.