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Freestyle Shark Watch Settings Instruction Sheet Too Small to Read

The Freestyle Shark Watch, the watch that I use for biking and kayaking is a worthy workout watch, but its physical design doesn’t always agree with me. The watch is programmed using four big knobby buttons. The buttons get accidentally set when I am doing activities that bend my wrist back and forth… easily done when paddling or riding.

I’ve had the watch get into funky modes where the time would disappear or the watch would beep every few minutes, and no combination of pressing buttons would restore the watch function, until I was able to get the instruction sheet out.

Well that brings up another issue, the instructions are printed in such small type that I can barely read it. So to better help me use my rather expensive (>$100) watch, I post here without permission a cut/paste from the PDF file I found on the Freestyle web site support page.

Freestyle Shark Watch Instructions (readable by me!)

Freestyle Shark Watch Face

1. Hour Hand
2. Minute Hand
3. Second Hand
S1 – Start/stop button
S2 – Lap/reset button
S3 – Mode button
S4 – Light button

TO SET THE ANALOG TIME

1. Pull crown out to frist click position B.
2. Turn crown to set time.
3. Push crown back to position A.

DISPLAY MODES

The watch has four display modes:HOME TIME (TIME), HOME TIME, ALARM (ALM1), STOPWATCH (STW) and COUNTDOWN TIMER (TMR). To change from one display mode to another, press S3 button once. The mode description will appear for 2 seconds before the selected mode is activated.

HOME AND FOREIGN DISPLAY

To display FOREIGN TIME, press S2 button when HOME TIME is displayed. The mode description (TM-2) will appear shortly before FOREIGN TIME is displayed. To change back to HOME TIME, press S2 button. To display the daily FOREIGN TIME ALARM, press S2 button when HOME TIME ALARM is displayed. The mode description (ALM2) will appear shortly before FOREIGN TIME ALARM is displayed. To change back to HOME TIME ALARM, press S2 button.

TO SET THE DIGITAL TIME AND CALENDAR

1. Press S3 button to select time mode.
2. Press S2 button to toggle between HOME TIME and FOREIGN TIME mode to set.
3. Press and hold S2 button for two seconds until the “SET” message
appears and the second digits blink.
4. Press S1 button to reset the second digits to 00.
5. Press S3 button, the minute digits will blink.
6. Press S1 button to set the minute digits. Holding down the button will speed up the process.
7. Press S3 button, the hour digits will blink.
8. Press S1 button to set the hour digits.
9. Follow the same pattern to set date, month, day (of the week), hour format and calendar format.
10.To set the hour format, press S1 button to toggle between 12-hour
and 24-hour format. The P.M. indicator may be displayed to indicate the time period 12:00A.M. – 11:59 P.M. in 12-hour format.
11.To set the calendar format, press S1 button to toggle between M-D
(month-date) and D-M (date-month) format.
12.After finish making all the settings, press S2 button to confirm.

NOTE: The chosen hour and calendar formats will apply to both HOME TIME mode and FOREIGN TIME mode.

NOTE: In FOREIGN TIME settings, only minutes, hours, date, month and day are open to setting.

TO SET THE ALARM TIME

1. Press S3 button to select alarm mode.
2. Press S2 button to toggle between HOME TIME ALARM and FOREIGN TIME ALARM mode to set.
3. Press and hold S2 button for two seconds until the “SET” message
appears and the minute digits blink.
4. Press S1 button to set the minute digits. Holding down the button will speed up the process.
5. Press S3 button, the hour digits will blink.
6. Press S1 button to set the hour digits.
7. After finish making all the settings, press S2 button to confirm.

TO TURN ON/OFF THE ALARM AND HOURLY CHIME

In alarm mode,
1. Press S2 button to toggle between HOME TIME ALARM and FOREIGN TIME ALARM mode to set.
2. Press S1 button once to activate the alarm. Alarm indicator will appear.
3. Press again to activate the hourly chime. Chime indicator will appear.
4. Press the third time to activate both functions. Both of the indicators will appear.
5. Press the fourth time to deactivate both functions. Both of the indicators will disappear.

WHEN AN ALARM OR HOURLY CHIME GOES OFF

A tune will go off by the hour if the hourly chime function is activated. An alarm tune will be emitted for around 20 seconds at the designated time when the alarm is activated. To stop the tune, press any button.

TO USE THE BACKLIGHT

Press S4 button to turn on the backlight

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