By | August 23, 2020

install watchfaces on the Xiaomi Mi Band 5

It has been a short time since the Xiaomi Mi Band 5, the new improved activity bracelet has reached our hands. Like previous models, it is a bestseller thanks to its low cost and performance.

One of the virtues is the new customization with the widgets on the main screen. But, you can also download and change the watch faces on the Mi Band 5 for a custom one.

The color screen provides a lot of games for users, and we can do anything we imagine. You just need to have a Xiaomi activity bracelet, in this case, the fifth generation, and a smartphone where you have the Mi Fit app installed and linked to the watch.

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How to install watch faces on the Xiaomi Mi Band 5

To achieve the maximum customization of our activity bracelet, which always accompanies us in our day to day, would be to create watch faces on the Mi Band 5 by ourselves.

But in this case, we will only download the already compiled .bin file to change the watch face’s on the Mi Band 5.

As we mentioned above, one of the great novelties of this new device is the ability to change the information that comes by default on the home screen thanks to the widgets.

We have three default screens, and in addition to the time or date, we can include other topics such as the steps we have taken, the weather, etc.

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But what if I want to change the wallpaper of the Mi Band 5? Maybe you want to put the image of your favorite superhero, just a solid background, or an image of yourself to be present on your wrist.

The possibilities are endless, the limit is set by your imagination and the capabilities of the Mi Band due to its panel and the number of things it can do.

You should know that changing the spheres or watch faces on the Mi Band 5 is quite simple, it will take just a couple of minutes.

Once we have selected and downloaded the wallpaper you want to install, you can do it from this web page, the new screen that will be synchronized with the Mi Band 5 we will have to go to a file explorer.

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In this, we must access Android / Data / com.xiaomi.hm.health/files / watch_skin_file / 59 to find the folders of the original watch faces that have been previously synchronized.

Now, you just have to find the skin you want to replace with the new one, copy and rename the .bin file as shown in the video that you can see below.

We can also modify the .bin by ourselves to create designs that we can share with the community. Have you already personalized your Xiaomi Mi Band 5?