If you want to look at my expired watches you are most welcome. I am in Strathfield, I would be happy to drop them in a post box on my way to my next blue mountains hiking day lol
So I am still interested in a reflective screen daylight readable. The Kronos would be a fun recasing hack. As long as it has a reflective screen, I’d take two of them.
aupost.com.au has a novel about lithium batteries but I think the size and fact its in an electric device says it’s ok.
https://auspost.com.au/parcels-mail/calculate-postage-delivery-times/#/option/international/AU/US?fromPostcode=2000&toPostcode=98007
Or some page said shipping could be as low as $39 via air. US or AU? I dont know. $39AU = $25US. Not too bad.
So, would you be willing to sell me two devices with reflective screens (preferably booting devices)?
How much?
Take Venmo or Paypal? I’d pay it all up front.
Yeah, battery is not a problem with Auspost.
I’m sure it will be fine if @aeger really want to part with it.
The Zeblaze Thor pro has the same screen and runs Android 5.1.
Has BT calling as well, just dug mine out to test it. 
I am happy to part with my Thor Pro and Kronos (reflective screens) and I would throw in the Thor Pro Dual for fun (non-reflective screen). I have no idea how much you should pay but first, give me time to dig them out and package them, then see what postage costs to the US, I am presuming that is where you are…alternatively. If you are willing to wait until the end of April 2024, I am visiting Las Vegas and Colorado. SO could post them when I arrive there lol. Just to advise, the Thor Pro has a dodgy SIM card bay. i.e my sim card corroded in it…plus I lost a screw that holds the tray in and substituted it with a non-standard screw.
I guess it’s only fair to warn you that porting the screen and TP driver is not possible above Android 7.
For example, getting it to work with another device is not really going to be possible without the driver source for the LCM and the touch panel.
Very custom drivers and only used by one factory and that was a few years ago now.
I don’t want to put you on a downer, but I just wanted to make sure that you understand the reality of the situation.
Your best bet is to restore these to working order.
I think what Pablo is saying is that you can’t do a Frankenstein with parts on these things!
Yes, that’s what I mean.
Can’t just swap the screen and off you go.
That’s why I said it’s better to restore the devices rsther than mix and match.
They are good devices in their own right and can be serviced fairly easily if patience and care is applied.
And you have a good work environment, of course 
All great info guys thanks!
- I can wait till 2024 if you want to shuffle them over to USA and ship from there. Still going to be $10 to ship. I dont mind either way.
- I’ll let you think of a fair price. Please just consider wear and what I could buy a new FAW for. I bought the $99 APPLLP 9. It was solid…till I bricked it…still working on it. It is nothing like the features or quality of yours but it is new… I’m flexible…just not rich.
- Cool with all the frankenstein stuff. Cool with restoring to original sw stack. Happy with just some notifications plus see well in the daylight.
- dead sim doesnt bother me…I dont use cellular…that’s why I have the phone with me.
Im sure we can come to some good price. If someone sold new reflective/transflective daylight readable FAW…I would have paid a lot for it.
- side bitch. I think all companies must offer right to repair. This is currently being fought for in the USA law system. No longer sol…give away the ROMs with md5sum so I can at least get back to stock. and the rom tool. Give away tech details so that breakable bits can be purchased. If you dont sell it, its free info (LCM, touchscreen). We should be able to buy parts from a 3rd party if the orig manufacturer does not sell them. If you buy the parts from the original manufacturer, the entire device can be built from parts for original price + no more than 20%. Sure without a warranty but you add that law and now companies cannot exploit society.
Exploit society? Where does the phone in your pocket go when it dies. A landfill. What happens when the materials (batt, screen, plastics, epoxies) degrage? Toxin. The company all companies should be forced to design as close to 100% recyclable as possible and not pass expensive recycle costs onto the public. In USA…my trash fees pay for that landfill…that stays there forever…
vent mode off
aeger, Im still interested in older smart watches.
My goals are pretty simple: read in daylight, decent battery life running almost no apps, audio and vibration notifications.
Too many life interruptions for me to stay on top of this.
If you are still interested in selling…I am interested in buying…not much money for the effort…just thought I’d offer.
(Im in the USA).
Anyone, I’m really interested in a transflective display watch.
You might have a look at this one, I guess it’s a rebranded Kronos Blade Genesis. So it’s not transflective, just reflective. But it’s readable in the sunlight.
-https://a.aliexpress.com/_EIxmp6N
@Dr_Andy_Vishnu found it.
@Jason.Gonzalez ,
@Kronos_Blade : just to let you know
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Thanks, I wish it were a bit cheaper.
Still looking.
@billsaun Good luck
Let us know how you get on.
It’s a tough market at the moment and always interesting to see what comes up.
Cheers
I was in the USA in early August, so if I had my act together, I could have brought over something and sent it in the local mail. Now I am back in Australia. Returning to USA in February 2025. My problem is I have stuck these watches in a drawer and no longer have much confidence in knowing which charging cable goes with with watch! But if you remind me in say January next year with a bump message. Hopefully I can come up with something for you. But really, they are so old now, I wouldn’t have much hope of them being very functional.
This is so overpriced I would call it a scam
Yeah it’s insultingly over priced and then the ridiculous postage costs on top 
It’s not realistic in any sense of the word.
That factory really did a number on Jason and always insisted that they were going to sell it to other brands 
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The shipping costs are extremly ridiculous. When I linked it, shipping was free.
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I’ve been smartwatchless now for about 6 months. My APPLLP 9 died. Took it apart a cuple weeks ago to try to “shock” the battery awake. Battery connectors are flat ribbon with some rectangular press to fit to motherboard connector. Not a slide in ribbon cable but a socket and plug. Can you say tiny? Can you say microscopic? My old eyes, with too many bottles of rum shaky hands gave up. Tried to just read voltage on battery as a site showed very low 1.x, chock, then 5.x. i never got my multimeter to read anything. Probably the eyes and the hands.
Looked at that link before and balked at the whole alibaba thing.
In america our Lords form corporations, pay lobbyists to elect officials, who pass laws for patents, who are serviced by an army of lawyers.
Hence even though the first FULL Android watch was my MOTOACTV from 2011. Yes, 2011. (I may have gotten in in 2018 cause Im cheap).
So spend $400 on a watch where all of your data will be vendor locked down and you will have no control…or spend $150 on a watch that is obscured behind non-existent support structure.
I really want the fairphone equivalent of a smart watch. unlock boot loader … simple…flash /e/os… simple … relock bootloader…simple…uninstall any application…simple…get root…simple.
Give me that, give me 2x JTAG pins so I can guarantee it’s not brickable…
I think I’d pay $300 for that.
Especially if I could tune it…ie thinner? give up HR, longer battery? ok it’s a little thicker…transflective? no problem, …
Imagine if your watch was like your PC…want a fancy gaming video card? just put it in.
No pipe…but I live my life in a dream.