{"id":3633,"date":"2024-07-09T22:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T21:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/?p=3633"},"modified":"2024-09-13T20:28:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:28:16","slug":"charging-amazfit-band-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/2024\/07\/charging-amazfit-band-5\/","title":{"rendered":"charging Amazfit Band 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

i’m a happy user of Amazfit Band 5. it’s dirt cheap, paired with gadgetbridge<\/a> – works fine without sharing any data with cloud-hosted big brother, all in all – it helps to keep me moving around each day. i had few occasions when i needed to charge it [ every ~2 weeks ] and did not have original charger at hand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

this unsophisticated smart watch can be charged with cut in half USB 2.0 cable. pads at the bottom of the Amazfit Band 5 seems to have the following polarity:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: https:\/\/the-gadgeteer.com\/2020\/11\/12\/amazfit-band-5-smartwatch-review\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

USB 2.0 cables tend to have color scheme where black wire is GND, red – +5V:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Source: https:\/\/www.etechnog.com\/2021\/07\/usb-wiring-diagram-connection-pinout.html<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

with a bit of patience and cable holding – i can charge my band to ~30% in ~15min. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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during my attempts of charging i’ve connected + and GND incorrectly more than once… still my band and charger survived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i’m a happy user of Amazfit Band 5. it’s dirt cheap, paired with gadgetbridge – works fine without sharing any data with cloud-hosted big brother, all in all – it helps to keep me moving around each day. i had few occasions when i needed to charge it [ every ~2 weeks ] and did […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unimportant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3633"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3633\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kudzia.eu\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}