How To Reset A Fossil Watch
Does your Fossil watch ever get stuck or frozen? When this happens, you will have to reset it to unfreeze the watch. Read on, and we'll help you with how to reset fossil watch.
Ways To Unfreeze Your Fossil Watch
There are two commonly used ways to reset your fossil watch. There is a soft reset and hard reset. A soft reset is the most basic way, and often, the first troubleshooting step one does when attempting to unfreeze the watch. It allows you to reset the watch without wiping out all the store data of the watch. A soft reset is just power cycling the watch, turning it off and then back on.
The second way to reset is hard reset wherein you restore the watch to its default factory setting. It means that doing this will erase all data stored on the smartwatch. Data that includes your active notifications and cards, fitness data, any installed third-party application, and any data they have stored, system settings and preferences cannot be restored.
Soft Reset Fossil Watch
Follow the steps below on how to reset fossil watch by force restart.
- Step 1. To start the soft reset process, press the middle button of the watch to wake up the screen.
- Step 2. Press again the middle button to open the menu.
- Step 3. Once you have accessed the menu scroll down and tap Settings
- Step 4. Next, scroll down and tap the System
- Step 5. Then tap the Restart
- Step 6. Tap the checkmark to confirm the action
Hard Reset Fossil Watch
Follow the steps below on how to reset fossil watch by hard reset.
- Step 1. To start the reset process, press the middle button to wake up the screen.
- Step 2. Press again the middle button to open the menu.
- Step 3. Once you have accessed the menu scroll down and tap Settings
- Step 4. Next, scroll down and tap the System
- Step 5. Next is find and tap the Disconnect & reset
- Step 6. Finally, tap the checkmark to confirm the action
Top Fossil Smartwatch
Giving you the list of the top Fossil Smartwatch you can buy.
Fossil Gen 5 - This is by far the best Fossil smartwatch you can buy. It has a long-lasting battery, great display, and performance. It has a sleek design with plenty of color options.
Skagen Falster 3 - This watch fixed all the performance and battery issues that troubled the first two Falster smartwatches. Its specs are similar to Fossil Gen 5. It has excellent custom battery modes and a built-in speaker.
Fossil Hybrid HR - In terms of the look of the watch, Fossil Hybrid HR is one of the best-looking smartwatches you can buy in the market. Its e-ink display is perfect for outdoors as it allows the watch to last over two weeks on a single charge. However, it doesn't have third-party app compatibility and onboard music support.
Conclusion
Important reminder after you reset your watch to factory settings, you will have to pair your Fossil smartwatch with your phone again.