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Simply Binary

· v1.15.6.0
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A simple binary watch face including battery status and activity bar at the top and date bars at the bottom. On supported devices seconds are also updated in low power mode with CIQ 2.3.1. At the bottom you can find indicators for phone connection (left) and notifications (right). Alternatively these indicators can be located inside first hour colum via dots. If either sleep mode or dnd is activated the watch paints an arc around the watch face to signalize the current state. Alternatively these indicators can be located inside first minute column as dots. Solar intensity indicator can be activated in first seconds column. It shows the solar intensity as a partially filled dot, depending on the intensity (0-100) Available settings in Garmin Express: Activity Bar (top): - Step goal - Current heart rate - Floors climbed goal - Activity minutes per week goal Date bars (bottom): - Show day of month and month (1-12) - Show week of year and day of month - Show day of week and day of month Colors: - select foreground color (clock) - select activity color (activity bar at the top) - select date color (date bars at the bottom) - select color for phone connection status, notification status, sleep mode status and dnd status - select color for solar intensity status Show/hide - Battery status - Phone connection status - Notification status - Sleep mode status - DND status - Solar intensity status Dot style: - rectangle or circle Bluetooth/Notification Status style: - bottom indicators - dots in first hour column DND style: - ring around watchface - dot in minute column View style: - vertically grouped (default) where hours, minutes and seconds are grouped vertically in columns - horizontally grouped, where hours, minutes and seconds are grouped per row (more traditional binary view) - radially grouped where hours, minutes and seconds are grouped around a circle For reference how to read the binary clock please refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary-coded_decimal

What's new

1.15.6 - fixed potential crash with watches in wheelchair mode 1.15.5 - added support for some new devices 1.15.4 - fix issue causing the watchface to not update after settings have been changed 1.15.3 - fix an issue causing dots to be updated incorrectly in some cases 1.15.2 - fix issue that causes wrong time to be shown when "always power save" option is activated 1.15.1 - fix small layout issue for solar intensity indicator when dnd indicator was selected as "ring around watchface" 1.15.0 - added option to always use power save mode (hide seconds) even if watch supports partial updates 1.14.0 - added support for multiple AMOLED devices providing a low power mode only showing hours/minutes, battery and date bars 1.13.4 - add support for Fenix8 Solar and Enduro 3 devices 1.13.3 - fixed an issue with calculating week of year when first day of week was configured to be monday 1.13.2 - fixed issue with updates for solar intensity 1.13.1 - added support for D2 Mach 1 and D2 Air X10 - optimized burn in protection to avoid screen being disabled because of too many active pixels. 1.13.0 - added option to show solar intensity on watchface - fixed problem with rendering dots correctly in radial mode 1.12.6 - added support for Fenix 7 Series 1.12.5 - fixes a memory issue on devices with lower amount of memory 1.12.4 - fixes a redraw issue on areas like activity, battery and date. 1.12.3 - fixes an issue with old devices that caused the hour column to disappear 1.12.2 - fixes an issue causing switch of view type to wrong rendered dots 1.12.1 - fixed an issue with drawing status ring 1.12.0 - major update on battery life. Optimized logic to assure battery life last as long as possible. 1.11.4 - added support for D2 Air, Descent MK2, Forerunner 745 and Venu SQ 1.11.3 - added support for Approach S62 1.11.2 - DND ring now has an increased width for devices with screens bigger or equal to 240x240 1.11.1 - added support for Captain Marvel and First Avenger 1.11.0 - added support for Fenix 6 series, Venu, Vivoactive 4 series 1.10.0 - added support for MARQ family, Forerunner 45, Forerunner 245, Forerunner 945 1.9.0 - added new view that groups the binary dots in circles 1.8.0 - added additional time view where hours, minutes and seconds are shown grouped horizontally per row. This is a more traditional binary view. - fixed compatibility issue with devices running CIQ version lower than 3 1.7.9 - fixed issue with calculating week of year when first day of week is set to "monday" - added different week of year calculation for devices where first day of week is configured as "Sunday" or "Saturday". 1.7.8 - added support for D2 Delta family. 1.7.7 - added option to define the "preferred top bar". For devices that do not provide enough vertical space to show activity and battery bar, the user can choose now which one should be shown. 1.7.6 - added support for Descent Mk1 and Forerunner 645 1.7.5 - changed reading direction of date and activity fields when showing binary data. RULE: Binary values are always read from right to left, percentage values (battery, goals) are read from left to right. 1.7.4 - added option to define whether dnd/sleep mode status should be shown as ring around watch face (default) or dot in minute column 1.7.3 - fixed issue with dnd/sleep status ring that was not correctly removed after status change 1.7.1 - fixed translation issue 1.7.0 - added additional view for phone connected/notification status. Instead of showing it at the bottom it is shown in the first hour column as dot. That way the status is now also supported on devices where height does not suffice for bottom indicator. Option can be changed in app settings. 1.6.0 - added support for vivoactive3 1.5.9 - fixed rendering issue for date rows on devices supporting buffered bitmaps 1.5.8

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Compatible with 229 devices
Updated Jun 24, 2025
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