Do I need my SmartBand SWR10 anymore? - Sony Smartwatch 3

I have the SmartWatch 2 and SmartBand combo. I just ordered the SmartWatch 3.
Does the accelerometer and other Lifelog features negate the need for the SmartBand?
What would I be losing, other than vibrate alarm clock alerts, from not using the SmartBand in favor of the SW3?
Thanks

paulgendek said:
I have the SmartWatch 2 and SmartBand combo. I just ordered the SmartWatch 3.
Does the accelerometer and other Lifelog features negate the need for the SmartBand?
What would I be losing, other than vibrate alarm clock alerts, from not using the SmartBand in favor of the SW3?
Thanks
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Just upgraded Lifelog app started to collect data from SWR50, but it does not do sleep tracking (so far) - which is big dissapointment. As you mentioned - the vibrate clock alarms are also not here.

Vibrate Clock alarms? I was able to get an alarm set on the watch to vibrate during sleep. Is there another alarm that you're talking about? Thanks.

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[Q] Replacement Alarm/Clock that doesn't continue forever

The android clock and alarm when it goes off never stops. I used to have a wimo phone that would sound an alarm but stop alerting after a few minutes. Does anyone know of a clock/alarm app that works in a similar way?
has anyone found an alternative alarm that doesnt go off forever?
I use Alarm Klock, which is free in the market, and I like it a lot. Good snooze feature.
hankbear said:
I use Alarm Klock, which is free in the market, and I like it a lot. Good snooze feature.
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after the alarm goes off, for how long does the alarm keep ringing? I want something that will stop alarming after a few minutes.
It's a setting: 1, 5, 10, 30, or 60 minutes.
HTH!
I use Gentle Alarm which is a paid app. It's highly customizable, and if you like you can control down to the minute how long the alarm sounds.
Other than that I love how it fades in, so it gives me a chance to turn it off before blasting my brains with loud sound and night mode, muting notifications while you sleep but allowing calls to ring.
berardi said:
I use Gentle Alarm which is a paid app. It's highly customizable, and if you like you can control down to the minute how long the alarm sounds.
Other than that I love how it fades in, so it gives me a chance to turn it off before blasting my brains with loud sound and night mode, muting notifications while you sleep but allowing calls to ring.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have to try that one out, too. I used GAlarm when I had a WinMo phone, and I miss how customizable it was.
berardi said:
I use Gentle Alarm which is a paid app. It's highly customizable, and if you like you can control down to the minute how long the alarm sounds.
Other than that I love how it fades in, so it gives me a chance to turn it off before blasting my brains with loud sound and night mode, muting notifications while you sleep but allowing calls to ring.
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awesome! this is what i was looking for thanks.
Digital clock and digital clock widget has a pretty nice alarm clock with the snooze function. I've been using it for a little over a month and love it. They are both free in the market.
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Vibrate alert not working when phone alert is also only vibrate

I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
It's not a bug. As far as I know, the moto360 will currently only vibrate when your phone has ringer(ringtone/notification sound) enabled. Mine doesn't vibrate at all if the phone is on vibrate.
RodrigoKim said:
It's not a bug. As far as I know, the moto360 will currently only vibrate when your phone has ringer(ringtone/notification sound) enabled. Mine doesn't vibrate at all if the phone is on vibrate.
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It may well be the current design, but if that is the case it's stupid! Why wouldn't you want the watch to vibrate if the phone vibrates?!
jonstatt said:
It may well be the current design, but if that is the case it's stupid! Why wouldn't you want the watch to vibrate if the phone vibrates?!
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I agree with you. It's completely stupid. I came searching for an answer when my Moto 360 didn't vibrate with my Note 2, and I found this thread. I want the watch to notify me of a message or whatever the notification may be instead of the phone. This seems like an easy thing to make an option and I'm unsure how they missed the boat on this one.
I was also wondering why the watch was not vibrating. I have 99% of my notices sent to silent, no vibrate and just flash the LED indicator (I'm using PA on a Samsung Galaxy S3). I then stumbled across this thread and found my answer. I had to change the notifications in the various apps to vibrate and then the watch vibrates.
This seems quite silly to me. I don't want my phone to vibrate, I just want the watch to vibrate. One would think (hope) that you'll be able to set the watch/wear vibrate notifications independent of the phone notifications in a future upgrade.
jonstatt said:
I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
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i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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ffeingol said:
I was also wondering why the watch was not vibrating. I have 99% of my notices sent to silent, no vibrate and just flash the LED indicator (I'm using PA on a Samsung Galaxy S3). I then stumbled across this thread and found my answer. I had to change the notifications in the various apps to vibrate and then the watch vibrates.
This seems quite silly to me. I don't want my phone to vibrate, I just want the watch to vibrate. One would think (hope) that you'll be able to set the watch/wear vibrate notifications independent of the phone notifications in a future upgrade.
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in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
wiredout46 said:
in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
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Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. I'll be interested in seeing what it does tonight in the charging cradle. Really don't want that buzzing/vibrating all night.
jonstatt said:
I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
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I have a Moto X, and my 360 vibrates regardless of sound or vibrate mode on my phone.
Kind of makes sense that Moto works best with Moto.
I ended up having to go back to the alert on both option. With it set on wear only it mutes the phone, which is not what I want.
wiredout46 said:
i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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+1
Maybe my notifications would make noise if I didn't have my phone on vibrate all the time I don't know... But since I don't keep my phone in a purse I don't need a loud noise to realize a call is coming in
wiredout46 said:
i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
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Where is this setting?? I keep my phone on vibrate all the time, and my Fit vibrates with each notification. This "smart" watch doesn't seem to do that...
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Custom notifications, vibrations on watch, not on phone?

Hello!
Just got the 360, curious if there is a way to limit vibrations to the watch only and not my phone. I had the pebble and it would only vibrate when I wanted it to, but the 360 seems to vibrate when the app is set to vibrate.
So if I want my texting app to be silent on my phone, but vibrate on the 360, is this not attainable?
Thanks for any ideas!
So you the only vibrations you want to get are the ones on your watch? No vibration on your phone?
There is a option in the Android Wear app for your phone, on the top right you have the settings button and there you can set this option.

Anyone else find Android Wear watches useless post 5.0?

Has anyone else updated their phone past 5.0 and their watch past 5.0 only to find the thing next to useless now? Let me explain.
In 4.x I could have my phone set to silent while my watch would subtly vibrate for notifications, great for at work or anywhere you don't want the loud vibrate of your phone going off but still want to be notified of things.
After updating my Moto X to 5.x and my Moto 360 to 5.x the notification setting on the watch reflects whatever the setting is on the device. Why in the Hell would this be desired functionality? It would be one thing if the Moto X could be told to be in All Notifications mode (not Priority or None) and have vibrate turned off, but sadly theres NO option to disable vibrate.
If I have the Moto X set to All but the volume all the way down, it and my watch will vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to All and Android Wear set to "silence connected Android" it functions just like the above.
If I have the Moto X set to Priority, same thing, both it and my watch vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to None then both my phone and watch never notify me of anything.
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
Peace Love Coding said:
Has anyone else updated their phone past 5.0 and their watch past 5.0 only to find the thing next to useless now? Let me explain.
In 4.x I could have my phone set to silent while my watch would subtly vibrate for notifications, great for at work or anywhere you don't want the loud vibrate of your phone going off but still want to be notified of things.
After updating my Moto X to 5.x and my Moto 360 to 5.x the notification setting on the watch reflects whatever the setting is on the device. Why in the Hell would this be desired functionality? It would be one thing if the Moto X could be told to be in All Notifications mode (not Priority or None) and have vibrate turned off, but sadly theres NO option to disable vibrate.
If I have the Moto X set to All but the volume all the way down, it and my watch will vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to All and Android Wear set to "silence connected Android" it functions just like the above.
If I have the Moto X set to Priority, same thing, both it and my watch vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to None then both my phone and watch never notify me of anything.
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
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this makes android wear useless how?
n00bpwner said:
this makes android wear useless how?
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Because they took away one of the main features? Notifications on your wrist while your phone is silent.
Peace Love Coding said:
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
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For me, in the Android Wear app, click the gear icon, and enable the "Mute phone alerts & calls" checkbox.
"Mute calls and notifications on this phone while it's connected to your watch."
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thebobmannh said:
For me, in the Android Wear app, click the gear icon, and enable the "Mute phone alerts & calls" checkbox.
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There should be a quick toggle in our notification shades for a setting like this......
Mod developers... get to work!
*please*
My phone is on silent all the time with notification muted while connected to the watch. My watch tickles my wrist and my phone does nothing. Maybe you missed something
In the wear app, gear, toggle "Mute phone alerts & calls" (mute calls and notifications on this phone while it's connected to your watch)
Then priority or all only control what buzzes you, not the volume.
@thebobmannh pointed this out above
Can somebody help me on doing that on v5.0?
Like 4.3 or 4.4, I just want to silent my phone completely and vibrate mode on my Moto 360?

Alarm silent when ringtone is.

I set the ringtone to vibrate or silent so as not to be woken while asleep. Unfortunately my alarm is also silent. The volume for the alarm is set to almost max. I even tried through bixby as it has an independant volume but same result.
I have had HTC and Huawei and they have separate alarm clock volume.
Is there a secret?
Wolfslasher said:
I set the ringtone to vibrate or silent so as not to be woken while asleep. Unfortunately my alarm is also silent. The volume for the alarm is set to almost max. I even tried through bixby as it has an independant volume but same result.
I have had HTC and Huawei and they have separate alarm clock volume.
Is there a secret?
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Hi,using “Do not disturb” option would solve that secret. [emoji3]
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The secret is solved Thank you
Wolfslasher said:
I set the ringtone to vibrate or silent so as not to be woken while asleep. Unfortunately my alarm is also silent. The volume for the alarm is set to almost max. I even tried through bixby as it has an independant volume but same result.
I have had HTC and Huawei and they have separate alarm clock volume.
Is there a secret?
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Go to alarm then hit the three dots and turn off vibrate for alarms. Same thing happened to me. Was late for work first day with phone.
Thats exactly what I was looking for. I'm getting old and I'm missing such simple things.
Thank you

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