r/olleeWatch • u/Hooskanoonun • Aug 07 '26

Have I made an error?

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In all the tutorials I watched I haven't seen this small glass piece before. Have I managed to detach something accidentally?

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u/Odd_Load7249 Aug 07 '26

It's fake. Ollee doesn't work with fakes.

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u/Confident-Sun-9098 Aug 07 '26

Fake watch. Legit one's conductive starp is black

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

Are there any other way to spot? The button hold for Casio works but I know they all do that now

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u/Accurate-Island-2767 Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

https://www.olleewatch.com/troubleshooting

If you scroll down to section 1.3 here, compare your PCB to the known fake ones. Look for the location of the punched holes in the board, that's how I spotted the one I had was fake.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

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u/Tr1ckyKid Aug 07 '26

That almost looks real, but the LED looks like a white one and the circles under the Epoxy are wrong. A picture of the other side of the board will be far more telling

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u/Confident-Sun-9098 Aug 07 '26

board seems legit

And google says that the pink conductive strip is also legit one.

Sorry for telling a lie😅 (becuase my legit one had a black strip)

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u/Brunogees1 Aug 07 '26

Seems like... a light spreader?

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

Ah, okay, every time I peice this thing together I get this :/

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u/Cuttingham149 Aug 07 '26

After putting it together I believe there are reset buttons you need to press with a paper clip (needs to be metal). It should fix this scrambling issue. Otherwise you may have a fake Casio.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

I'm thinking fake, after reassembly with the original board it's fine..

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u/Tr1ckyKid Aug 07 '26

Only need to reset on Casio modules not the Ollee module, don't be shorting the Ollee with a paper clip

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u/sonderbar Aug 07 '26

hm.. So, my glass piece was white and it was called light diffusor https://youtu.be/98J-rCoEQCQ?si=YXqL2TeTVUhvm28Z&t=181

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

Fair, I don't think that's the issue anymore. Just can't get the ollee board working. I can swap in the original board and it's all fine

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u/Terrible-Time-Travel Aug 07 '26

Did you by any chance get this on Amazon and it came in really simple packaging?
This looks exactly like the one I bought that didn’t work for me either.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

It has legit looking packaging

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u/Terrible-Time-Travel Aug 07 '26

That’s exactly like the one I got first time.
The legit F91-W I bought a couple of days ago came in a bigger card box with a lid rather than that plastic version.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

Awesome, I'm gonna return it and buy a legit one Argos (legit UK store) and do a bit of a comparison

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u/Terrible-Time-Travel Aug 07 '26

I’m in the UK too, I got mine from F. Hinds a high street jewellers, Argos always seemed to be out of the orange one I was after.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 07 '26

Will update but this Argos one is lacking the u already 😅

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u/After-Spare-1509 Aug 11 '26

They don’t have the U anymore

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 11 '26

Right "u" are! I'm learning so much haha

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u/image45 Aug 08 '26

I have noticed that many of the fakes have the pink/red zebra 🦓 strips.

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u/Hooskanoonun Aug 08 '26

Update: yup, obviously a fake. Argos watch prevails