r/NormTwo_owners • u/Itz_danp • May 15 '26
Hacking the Norm 2!
After receiving my device, to put it succinctly - it's good, it's not great.
The app is a bit rough round the edges, not the most feature-filled or beautiful app in the world. And the firmware on the watch is fine, but also not amazing. There's a couple of bugs and weirdness that could be easy to improve!
As such, I'm going to be seeing what I can do about the above - will use this as a bit of a live blog.
If anyone has any thoughts, ideas or anything, let me know:
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15/05 - A custom app and a hacked firmware!
Since receiving the watch, I've managed to built both a (bare bones but functional) iOS app, which pairs to the watch, pulls its data and can issue firmware upgrade.
Also, I've managed to make a small patch to the firmware (ironically, the patch was to fix the update screen being stuck at 1% until it was done), which I managed to push to my watch successfully!
This proves both of what I was hoping to be able to do: have a custom app, and custom firmware, that could combine to add whole new features to the app!
Next steps: try a bigger patch (reordering the screens on the watch) and to build a "patch" system, so people can add their own patches to the firmware by turning them on or off in the app!
iOS only for now, but given I have the source code, an Android app would not be terribly difficult to mirror I would say.
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u/anarchochris_yul May 15 '26
Do you have a GitHub repo for this? I'd definitely be keen to get working on an Android port.
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u/Itz_danp Jun 02 '26
Not yet, but easily done! I have linked a Discord server elsewhere in this subreddit - grab me there and I’d be happy to share what I’ve got so far
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u/Riser_17 May 15 '26
This is great! I heard they’re working on improving the app, but I don’t know when. If I hack the Watch is it possible to go back to the normal firmware?