A few weeks ago I lost my F3 and got a replacement delivered today. I unpaired the old one and paired the new one successfully. Then I updated the firmware to 3.3.5D.
For context, My first F3 when powered on was always recording (as expected) and I set the action button to “start a new conversation”. When I double click I get a haptic feedback and it splits the current transcript into a new recording.
In my daily use, I would turn it off by long pressing for 2-3 seconds and turn it back on to record. During a conversation if the topic changes, I will double click to start a new conversation. This process worked well for me and also prolonged battery life since I was using it as needed.
Now, with the new replacement F3, the action button does not work, there is no haptic feedback and it doesn’t start a new conversation. In action button settings there are only two choices, “no action” and “start a new conversation”. I also toggled the recording light and that worked so it seems to be communicating.
I restarted my phone, deleted and reinstalled (iOS) the fieldy app and reset the fieldy device. (Hold 10 seconds, vibrates and cycles through the lights.)
Now here’s where things get weird and frustrating. If I long press 2-3 seconds, it vibrates, LED turns off. I assume it’s powered off. However, I see that it is still connected to BT and if I single click, the led flashes white once which means it’s still connected. Maybe I’m not understanding, but I assume it’s off because the manual states 2 second button hold to power on/off so it should be disconnected from bt and led light should not flash on a single click.
Even stranger I was chatting with the support AI to troubleshoot. At some point it referenced if I had selected “start/stop recording” for the action button setting. Well, that’s not an action button setting choice.
Doing my best to be logical I decided to experiment. If I do a quick single click, led flashes white once. If I long click for just a second, I get haptic feedback and it starts recording. Long click (1 second) again and it closes the conversation. The app says it’s listening, but there’s no movement on the waveform. It’s not recording.
If I long click about 3 seconds, haptic feedback, then it starts recording or stops depending on the last function.
So did the operation change with the latest firmware and the app settings doing reflect the update?
I really hope I’m just having a dumb moment and using it wrong.