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I was give a garmin vivofit 3 as a gift and was soured by the fact that I had to create an account and log in to set the time.

I've been very slowly working on a fork of gadgetbridge[1] to support the vivofit 3 for a while now and can successfuly set the time with no account!

1: https://github.com/mjsir911/gadgetbridge

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Exactly the same here, except I got Vívomove HR. My fork with WIP implementation for Garmin is at https://github.com/mormegil-cz/Gadgetbridge/tree/garmin-wip Basically everything (time, FIT data sync) is working except the primary thing I wanted (notifications) which seems to work fine, except it does nothing. (And the code is ugly and sometimes problematic.)

> to set the time.

A month or two ago I was stumped by this on my Forerunner 735: the time was wrong but I could not find a way to set it, even after a factory reset. Turns out the time sets itself from GPS after a solid lock, but you have to make it trigger a lock, by e.g starting an activity. Only after the on-device setup and having a correct time did I sync it with the app (it wasn’t even phone paired)

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