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New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 dic 2018, 03:27
da revjim2000
I love my new Bip, and I got one for the wife, too.
We both want bigger fonts, without having to hack this and alter that.
Any help?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 dic 2018, 04:44
da N1njaDerp
You should maybe change the size of the image for each text file. It takes a lot of work, but making a watchface is a lot of work in general.

Cheers,
N1njaDerp

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 27 dic 2018, 12:41
da funkateer
I think revjim2000 asked for general font size for better readability of eg. notifications.
It would be absolutely great if there would be a way to change this.
I'd also love to have a slightly bigger font in menues and especially notifications.
Sadly this hasn't anything to do with the watchface and should be directed to huami/amazfit directly.

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 27 dic 2018, 12:58
da funkateer
HEUREKA! I just googled it and the very first hit was the solution:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpo ... stcount=13
- install Gadgetbridge
- download and unpack the "Bip fonts.zip" on your phone.
- I then use ES file browser to "open with" the FONT_BOLD_v4e.ft file with Gadgetbridge's "FW/App Installer"
- You read and ignore the warning (this is NOT messing with the firmware itself) and hit install and wait a few secconds.
- Voilá ... a much more readable font. (I have 1.5 diopter aged eyes ;-)

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 29 dic 2018, 07:02
da TXK
funkateer ha scritto: 27 dic 2018, 12:58
HEUREKA! I just googled it and the very first hit was the solution:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpo ... stcount=13
- install Gadgetbridge
- download and unpack the "Bip fonts.zip" on your phone.
- I then use ES file browser to "open with" the FONT_BOLD_v4e.ft file with Gadgetbridge's "FW/App Installer"
- You read and ignore the warning (this is NOT messing with the firmware itself) and hit install and wait a few secconds.
- Voilá ... a much more readable font. (I have 1.5 diopter aged eyes ;-)
Can you paste a photo of the font size of the notification interface to see the effect? Thank you!

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 29 dic 2018, 10:03
da funkateer
Here you go:

Immagine


Some special characters are not made bold but at least show up:

Immagine

Bold v4 is a bit wider too, so some menues might be a mm too long.
On the Russian Forum there also is a BOLD v5, which has the same width as the original (but lower case Umlauts jump up).
However I find the v4 to be the one with better overall legibility.

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 29 dic 2018, 10:17
da funkateer
Newest Version of this font is v4o which can be found here:
https://myamazfit.ru/threads/bip-cor-sh ... sija-4.75/
... but you'd need to sign up on the Forum to download it.

I decided to put both the newest v4o and v5o bold fonts in a shared folder of my Google Drive

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 30 dic 2018, 10:17
da TXK
funkateer ha scritto: 29 dic 2018, 10:03
Here you go:

Immagine


Some special characters are not made bold but at least show up:

Immagine

Bold v4 is a bit wider too, so some menues might be a mm too long.
On the Russian Forum there also is a BOLD v5, which has the same width as the original (but lower case Umlauts jump up).
However I find the v4 to be the one with better overall legibility.
Thanks you!

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 20 feb 2019, 08:32
da Rush2112
Thank you Friend I did install FONT BOLD V4 with no problem question can you have FONT_BOLD_v5e.ft and can you tell me how to have real emoji faces ????

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 15 mag 2019, 13:06
da centrinum
Hello,
I hope somebody here can help me.

After the last update of Mi Fit, the font seems even smaller and harder to read.

In my search for a way to enlarge the font, I came across this entry here.

Unfortunately, the procedure (see link obove to the russian forum) does not work for me.

After the ft-file was uploaded with the GB APP/FW-installer, the clock stops responding. The display shows "Connect APP to update".

I delete the connection in GB, terminate GB and start Mi Fit.
Mi Fit connects to the clock and begins with an update of the fonts. After that I have the small font again.

GB v. 1:48
Mi Fit v. 4.0.0
FW v. 1.1.5.36

Greetings from Berlin

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 21 mag 2019, 08:40
da Anja2012
I have the same problem.
As bigger fonts are more important for me than german languade, I tried to go back to 3.6 APK, made a factory reset of the Bip, but no chance.
No connection possible unless using Mi Fit v. 4.0 and after connecting it starts updating and the fonts are small again :(

Is there any chance to get bigger fonts?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 23 mag 2019, 08:29
da osmat
All the necessary information is on this forum in the posts above.

- install Gadgetbridge
- download and unpack the "Bip fonts.zip" on your phone.
- I then use ES file browser to "open with" the FONT_BOLD_v4e.ft file with Gadgetbridge's "FW/App Installer"
- You read and ignore the warning (this is NOT messing with the firmware itself) and hit install and wait a few secconds.
- Voilá ... a much more readable font. (I have 1.5 diopter aged eyes ;-)

I decided to put both the newest v4o and v5o bold fonts in a shared folder of my Google Drive

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 31 mag 2019, 07:31
da Crileo
For me it's the same, with the new firmware 1.1.5.36 there's no *.ft file that work. Like Centrinum after installing every file I have display shows "Connect app to update" and the only way is to re-install the built-in font v.73......but are to small for me.
Any file that are compatible?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 02 giu 2019, 10:14
da fabris
Crileo ha scritto: 31 mag 2019, 07:31
For me it's the same, with the new firmware 1.1.5.36 there's no *.ft file that work. Like Centrinum after installing every file I have display shows "Connect app to update" and the only way is to re-install the built-in font v.73......but are to small for me.
Any file that are compatible?
Hello, I had to go back to firmware 1.1.5.27
The new font was terrible (not even all the emojis) and I couldn't install any other font

Once I downgraded I could change fonts again

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 03 giu 2019, 14:47
da Crileo
OK, I've done it! Now all is OK for me with firmware 1.1.5.27.

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 05 giu 2019, 10:31
da osmat
Try this should work on the latest firmware.
BOLD_v6.9_9.ft.zip
(37.27 KiB) Scaricato 1441 volte

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 12 giu 2019, 10:50
da Dacoco
Hey,

i first tried the fonts from the first page with firmware .36 and encountered the same as you guys (connect to phone message). I should have read till the end :)

After that i installed the one from osmat (thx!) and it works great. Mi Fit doesn't overwrite it (which is great) BUT German "umlauts" aren't shown properly (a instead of ä, o instead of ö, b instead of ß). At least when showing messages. The DND message ("nicht stören") works.

Do you have a font with "umlauts"?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 20 lug 2019, 14:59
da Sami121
i need arabic font for amazfit bip, any help?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 lug 2019, 16:17
da irha
I just got the new Bip Light model and want to update the font. I unpaired the watch, paired with "GadgetBridge Unofficial" that I downloaded from Playstore. When I tried to open the bold font with it, I got the error message "Element cannot be installed". Since Bip Light is very similar to Bip except for the lack of some sensors, shouldn't this work? Could I be missing some step?

Update: Never mind... I did miss the "extract the zip" part :)

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 lug 2019, 16:32
da irha
OK, now I am seeing the issue reported by centrinum. Right after I updated, I lost connection with GB and when I connected back to MiFit, it took sometime "Updating fonts" and effectively there was no change :(

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 30 ott 2019, 05:58
da Crileo
osmat ha scritto: 05 giu 2019, 10:31
Try this should work on the latest firmware.
BOLD_v6.9_9.ft.zip
fabris ha scritto: 02 giu 2019, 10:14
Crileo ha scritto: 31 mag 2019, 07:31
For me it's the same, with the new firmware 1.1.5.36 there's no *.ft file that work. Like Centrinum after installing every file I have display shows "Connect app to update" and the only way is to re-install the built-in font v.73......but are to small for me.
Any file that are compatible?
Hello, I had to go back to firmware 1.1.5.27
The new font was terrible (not even all the emojis) and I couldn't install any other font

Once I downgraded I could change fonts again
For me with the firmware 1.1.5.56 doesn't work....

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 30 ott 2019, 09:22
da osmat
Crileo ha scritto: 30 ott 2019, 05:58
osmat ha scritto: 05 giu 2019, 10:31
Try this should work on the latest firmware.
BOLD_v6.9_9.ft.zip
fabris ha scritto: 02 giu 2019, 10:14
Crileo ha scritto: 31 mag 2019, 07:31
For me it's the same, with the new firmware 1.1.5.36 there's no *.ft file that work. Like Centrinum after installing every file I have display shows "Connect app to update" and the only way is to re-install the built-in font v.73......but are to small for me.
Any file that are compatible?
Hello, I had to go back to firmware 1.1.5.27
The new font was terrible (not even all the emojis) and I couldn't install any other font

Once I downgraded I could change fonts again
For me with the firmware 1.1.5.56 doesn't work....

Try this one
BOLD_v5s.zip
(28.37 KiB) Scaricato 625 volte

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 17 nov 2019, 17:13
da irha
osmat ha scritto: 30 ott 2019, 09:22
Try this one BOLD_v5s.zip
Will this work with the latest firmware on Bip Lite?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 nov 2019, 21:20
da Cdhnbch
Can someone post a youtube video on how to increase the font size. I keep trying to follow the written instructions and it not working. Maybe the instructions are out of date?

Re: New to Bip - HOw do I change the font size

Inviato: 26 nov 2019, 22:08
da Cdhnbch
Any chance someone could post a youtube video on the most current way to increase the font size. I'm just not figuring it out.