Downgrading Onewheel Pint & Pint X: Reclaiming Control 

NOTE: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="300">5:00</a> / <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="437">7:17</a> - If you're unlocking a Pint X, you will need to go to the 'Flash' tab instead of the 'Backup' tab. The 'Extractor' is not compatible with the Pint X.

This literally saved my riding. I wasn't enjoying riding outside of my commute because of haptic buzz. My Pint X would dip the nose if i even hit a crack in the pavement because of the haptic buzz. I also thought that i had wrecked my battery during the winter since my board would just feel sluggish even at 70-80%. Now, it may be placebo, but my board feels much better down past 50% now and the nose doesn't give out to cracks in the road. It also seems like the battery just lasts longer in general. Now a quick tip with the Pint X process, have the unlocker tab and the flash tab open and pair the board to both tabs and get the flash page ready and loaded all the way to the point of clicking the flash button. Then do the steps for the unlocker and then hit flash right away once the unlocker shows the green text. I think it all has to be done in less than 20 seconds give or take. That's how I got mine to work after many attempts since I didn't realize I could pair to both tabs at the same time. Thanks for saving my board!

Absolute game changer! I bought a Pint pre-owned, saw there was a firmware update when first connecting it and, downloaded it without thinking anything of it. I was so pissed when I realized how much the haptic buzz update screws you out of.

Straight to the point, easy to follow and super informative! This is so great for the community. 🎉 Thanks for the great video.

just posted this on reddit but wanted to paste it here as well: I've had my pint since 2020. Once I got the knack of it I wanted more range. Didn't necessarily care about going much faster but range anxiety was real. A couple years later a friend of mine installed the chi quart battery along with a new Burris wheel from TFL and that changed everything for me. Fast forward a couple years later and OW came out with their haptic buzz update. I mistakenly installed it and had no clue that by doing so would basically mean my quart wasn't being fully recognized. Like so much that I started getting power surges in places I hadn't before. The same friend took my board, flashed the firmware (thanks ffmwheel!), and made it so that pushback doesn't occur until 20mph. I have always been a slower rider usually averaging around 11-12mph. Now I'm riding at 14-16 and I can't even begin to describe how this has increased my overall confidence in the board. It's a wonderful and freeing feeling that I never experienced early on and it rides leaps and bounds better now. At this point, I don't feel a huge rush anymore to upgrade to a bigger board because this one is serving me so well right now. Just wanted to share my thoughts and experiences with everyone...cheers!

Thank you for this tutorial. I got sucked into the upgrade and thought I was doomed to haptic. You saved me!!

This is awesome, praying this is possible soon for other affected models

Thanks for the knowledge my man!!

Fantastic!! Thank you SO much for sharing!! I have several homies here in Costa Rica who want to upgrade to a Quart battery and haven't been able to since the haptic buzz update 😓. The quart makes a HUGE difference for folks on group rides, as the OG Pint battery (especially on an older board) is a joke.

Amazing, now please please get an Xr down grade sorted! Updated by accident and now my cbxr isn’t working on the new upgrade. Gutted! Thanks for all your hard work in the community my friend 🙏

Justin is the G.O.A.T.

Thanks for sharing dude.

Bruhhhhh! so gratefull for this, the haptic buzz killer was taking away the last little slice of the available duty cycle! I can finally go downhill again with this bad boi

i never updated my pint but i'm glad there's a way to go back for the ppl that did move forward

glad to be seeing this, Vesc is the way i'm going.

Thank you Bro ♥️

🎉Now we need this for the XR

Sick thanks man. Now the quart is an option once again!!! Unfortunately or fortunately i already ordered a Floatwheel but may still throw a quart in this pint so i can have a lightweight and a heavyweight board option....

This is very helpful thanks for the video! So I have a few questions. Does the app show the accurate firmware it is now on? (My app says my firmware is a 5040 after I went through your "Onewheel Firmware Modification: Improve Performance of Your GT & Pint." Does this make my board compatible with 3rd party batteries now? (Quart's website says confirmed working with 5314/Gemini 5050). Lastly, what's a safe pushback value to set my pint at? Theoretically with a quart and stock battery? Thanks so much.

Thanks for the video. It went very quickly and included examples of rewheeljng and connecting to program that may it be necessary depending on the board? Can you post a step by step, in text, for pint and one for PintX, please? Including links and verbiage around what to do and where to click?

Thanks! I didn't update my pintx so I'm good, but is there a way to prevent the black notification from showing in the fm app?

NEED this for my GT. Update killed my WTF rails

Will this allow me to see battery voltage in the app? I bought a used Pint with a quart battery. Updated the firmware when I brought it home. I just want to see voltage to estimate my range.

Nice job! Idk about pushing 20mph on a Pint lol

Thanks for the video!! What value did you set your pint speed?

How do i know what firmware i have . i have og green rail paint that has not been connected to app in awhile so no buzz but i did open app i really want to rewheel. this board is my sanity please help

I did the update, but now my pint says it has firmware Gemini 65520 where do I go from here? Do I need to flash something for the re-wheel?

hey where can i get the file. for flashing my pint x

As a heads up even if it dose brick you might be able to fix it by opening the onewheel it will detect corrupt firmware and fix it

Hi! @fixmypev , tried this method, and 2 times in a row this tool corrupt firmware on Extract Bootloader step. Pint, 5314, gemini 5100. Any ideas why this could happen? In case I have such a problem , should I try to proceed withouth backup?

mine isn't working for my pint it connects downloaded and everything but the light stays colorfull what do you do where it says the dump thing etc...

Thanks bro ! The main reason I want to downgrading my pint is, to replace the battery to custom made one or Chi battery, whill this downgrading work with that battery plan?

I was able to use the unlock tool, and flash the update, but now the process is hung after I click dump bootloader. It seems to get to 10-15% and then just gets stuck. I am able to reload the page and reflash the update (to 100% no problem), but everytime it gets stuck on bootloader dump. Any ideas to help, or should I be looking into VESC at this point :P -Pint -HW version 50xx (cant remember before I started, but pretty old) -SW version before this was 5100 After trying this out, the unlocker tool is reporting HW 5000 SW 65520. The unlocker tool now just says "This tool only works with pint pint x boards." Now that the rewheel tool can flash, I am not sure I need it anyhow. The rewheel tool also now has me select the board model before it begins the flash (from a dropdown list). When the extractor hangs, the LED's on the foot pad change to BRGBR. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

My pint X was just updated to 5100. How would I go about turning it into a pint in order to then re wheel?

I have pint hardware 5314 and firmware 5100, will this work?

Thanks for the video. So helpful. Just bought a used board and was able to easily downgrade. One question : with XR spoofing on a Pint , does custom shaping work? Mine seems wonky.

Thanks for the info. Can we get the same thing for the GT and the XR?

I put a quart in my brothers pint a few years ago and rewheeled it last year. Then he updated it to haptic buzz and now he's bricked. This will fix that? I can use my android?

If I don't have old Gemini 5076 firmware files for Pint X am I out of luck?

I have a pint with hardware 5326 can I still upgrade my battery to the quartz battery?

Does this downgrade process work for GT?

Well, when I didn't update my pint x, can someone tell me how to check the battery level or change the driving mode without an update?

Will this help with being able to put a bigger battery in it?

Tried downgrading then flashing, the update failed and now my board won't stop flashing yellow and blue.. have I hit the deep end or is there something I can do to fix the problem?

With this can we use extended battery packs like before

Hello and thank you for this. Would anyone know if this works on a Pint X with 7314? Thanks!

Hey my pint is 5314 on gemini 5100. I followed the process step by step but now my board says HW 5000 and FW 65520. The lights on my board are rainbow coloured. What do i do now? Cheers

If i update again through the app, will it undo all the patches? If so, can i no longer use the app?

I followed the video and my pint turned into a rainbow color. what do i do? I followed your video exactly and now it's saying im on firmware 65535 and HW 5000? EDIT: I went through the entire rewheel process and it worked!

Does this reset the app odometer?

If I have firmware Gemini 5059 am I good to rewheel without downgrading software?

Thank you! Is something like this possible for the GT? If not today, in the future?

Hey there , I was wondering if there is anyway to do this to the XR , I have a 4209 with a cbxr and that latest update screwed me taking the range from me 😢

So if my board is exactly 5314 can i do this?

So basically if you get the newest Pint X with Haptic buzz, there'll never be a way to mod it?

Hi there, I tried it, everything looked good until it was the time to run the Firmware Backup again, it read Pint(5301)/Firmware 65520, clicked on Flash Extractor and got an Error. Ran the Unlocker again and got a Red message that says that "this only works with Pint/Pint X Boards". Board is flashing Blue and Yellow lights and the Firmware Backup (if Connect again) reads Pint(5000)/Firmware 65535. Please help. Thanks

I wiah i still had the app for my xr but the haptic shit can buzz off

my computer isn't picking up my onewheel on Bluetooth. I have the quart installed and every time i open the onewheel app it says incompatible hardware but i was able to get like 5 rides without any troubles before it shut off and now every time i turn the onewheel on, the light flashes red. Would that possibly be an issue if the light is flashing red and thats why im not seeing the onewheel on my computer?

Once downgraded, wouldn’t we keep on getting the upgrade message from app again?

Fm isnt going to patch this next week are they?

> has not been tested on Pint X hardware versions above 7323. unlocker has been developed on a 7326 board.

So I can custom shape my pint x for wtf rails???

What about xr board riders?? 😢

On the OG pint, I cannot pass dumping bootloader. Board have been downgraded and when I try to dump bootloader it is stuck on random values from 9 to 17% :( I think now its just bricked xD

¿¿My Hardware is 5315 so im basically fucked right ?? Got the Onewheel months before the haptic buzz

ReWheeling a pint X is possible. Just have to load pint firmware on it, relatively long and complicated method but indeed possible.

mine wont get past the connect stage and I get an error that says GATT Server is disconnected. Cannot retrieve services. (Re)connect first with `device.gatt.connect`.

Will this work with pint x hardware version 7326