Learn Pebble Watch to understand Russian.

Good time, readers Habr.

In this article I want to share the way in which I managed to teach my Pebble Watch to understand SMS messages in Russian and correctly display the names of callers from the phone book. The method is not mine, and peeped, links to the source, of course, I will give. However, the heated discussion in this review, and the number of negative opinions regarding the lack of opportunities for Pebble Watch to read sms in Russian, allowed me to judge that the majority of Habrayuers did not hear about this method.



To begin with, I will allow myself a small digression — the background to the appearance of the Pebble Watch in my life.



For the first time I heard about Pebble Watch back in the fall of 2012, I heard it, I watched the overview video and I was excited to want to have this gadget. Having pre-ordered the kickstarter, I waited patiently for the letter of happiness, but it never came. Then a week ago, in comments to the Pebble Watch review, I signed off with Mikaelo , who was ready to part with his Pebble Watch copy. His separation and my acquisition was a success, and here is the long-awaited gadget in hand, more precisely on hand. The fact that Pebble Watch can not show SMS in Russian and display Russian names from the phone book, I knew. It upset me, but not so much, as I expected that soon the developers should make an update for the Russian-speaking users. Having renamed some contacts to translit, I was happy riding a bike and seeing the name of the subscriber calling me.

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A couple of days ago, at about 2 o'clock in the morning, ending with writing a competitive work on an uninteresting topic, just before going to sleep, I decided to once again google on the Russian language topic for Pebble Watch and this is what came of it.



The way to teach Pebble Watch to the Russian language is to flash using a computer via bluetooth.

First we need this archive https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24536855/pebble_rus.zip , windows-based PC, and usb bluetooth whistle, or bluetooth built into the laptop.



1.



We download archive, we unpack, we put, for example, in a root of a disk C.





2.

We connect Pebble Watch with PC via bluetooth.



3.

Run cmd command line



4.

Making cd in this folder





For the next step, we need to know the pebble ID, it can be seen in the menu - settings - bluetooth clock and in where bluetooth pebble is written - 4 ID digits. For example, I have this F5E8



5.

Being in the folder with the unpacked archive do

 pebble F5E8 112_rus.pbz 

pebble ID firmware_name.pbz

After that, the PC will notify that the Pebble device wants to connect and this requires user permission. Select the option in which you need to enter the confirmation code bluetooth and enter the code 9999



6.

Observe a successful flashing process





We are waiting for a couple of minutes and get Pebble Watch, able to show SMS in Russian. True, the Pebble utility in the iPhone has begun to notify that there is a new firmware version for my Pebble Watch, but I ignore this message.



Link to the primary forum click . In addition to the method described above, they are uploading and discussing firmware, in which all the Pebble Watch menus are translated into Russian, and other additional features.



upd. Extremely for today (08.29.2013) firmware version 1.12.1 with Russian letters dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24536855/pebble/pb-v1.12.1-rus.pbz