Tidbyt Gen1 at end of life?

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Hello all,

I’m a Kickstarter backer for the original Tidbyt, and we basically use it every day for one aspect of daily life or another. Unfortunately, our unit has begun to display some odd behavior in that it will sometimes be entirely powered down, which is odd considering it doesn’t have a power switch. Other times it will just get stuck on one of the apps we have cycling withing our feed.

In order to get it back up and running, all it takes is a quick unplug and reconnect to power and it will be back in a flash, but does this occasional behavior possibly indicate that out Tidbyt may be nearing end of life?

Anyone else has this issue occur?

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Both my Gen1 and Gen2 display this behavior of getting stuck on one of the apps. If the app has animation, it won’t even play the animation… it just “freezes” until I unplug and reconnect the power, just like you described. I use the clock mode during the night, sometimes when I wake up it’s frozen showing the time in the past.

If I remember correctly, this must have started since 2 or 3 months ago.

@rohan, any inputs on this?