Two very disappointing things. I got the mesh band watch and noticed right off the bat that the watch is very poor at recognizing wrist gestures. It does not show the main watch face unless the wrist is flicked strongly.
Is there any way to keep the main watchface on all the time instead of it being replaced when the watch is not being looked at? What's the point of these fancy watchfaces if they do not stay on?
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1. I've heard gesture control is spotty on these things.
2. I think you're talking about ambient mode. It kicks in after 10-15 seconds to save power, otherwise, the screen will drain quite quickly. You can also tap the screen or use the button on the side to return to the normal watch face. I don't know of a way to disable this but I know I wouldn't want to.
incisivekeith said:
Is there any way to keep the main watchface on all the time instead of it being replaced when the watch is not being looked at? What's the point of these fancy watchfaces if they do not stay on?
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Some 3rd-party watch faces offer options to disable the minimal ambient mode, so the "main" watch face is displayed all the time, even when the screen dims. This will definitely drain battery quicker though.
agentdr8 said:
Some 3rd-party watch faces offer options to disable the minimal ambient mode, so the "main" watch face is displayed all the time, even when the screen dims. This will definitely drain battery quicker though.
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Since my OP, I've discovered Android Wear more and settled on the watchfaces: Ranger, Skymaster and Odyssey. I think those are the best watchfaces out there and it's disappointing that there aren't many well-designed watchfaces even after a year of Android Wear.
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Since my OP, I've discovered Android Wear more and settled on the watchfaces: Ranger, Skymaster and Odyssey. I think those are the best watchfaces out there and it's disappointing that there aren't many well-designed watchfaces even after a year of Android Wear.
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Apparently you've done a lot of research. Lol ?
vvveith said:
Apparently you've done a lot of research. Lol ?
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Indeed.
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Maybe I'm missing a setting, but there seems to be something wrong with setting alarms. If I set an alarm on my 360 it doesn't go off on the phone, and if I set an alarm on the phone it doesn't vibrate on the watch.
Is there something I need to set up??
TIA!
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Maybe I'm missing a setting, but there seems to be something wrong with setting alarms. If I set an alarm on my 360 it doesn't go off on the phone, and if I set an alarm on the phone it doesn't vibrate on the watch.
Is there something I need to set up??
TIA!
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The watch and phone have different alarm systems. They are not connected to each other in any way. The alarm on the watch is embedded within the Android Wear OS clock itself. When you set it on your phone, it is embedded into the clock app specifically for your Android phone/tablet/whatever. Unless a developer creates an app which syncs alarms over both devices, they shall remain disconnected. Unless Google decides to change that with a newer version of Android Wear
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The watch and phone have different alarm systems. They are not connected to each other in any way. The alarm on the watch is embedded within the Android Wear OS clock itself. When you set it on your phone, it is embedded into the clock app specifically for your Android phone/tablet/whatever. Unless a developer creates an app which syncs alarms over both devices, they shall remain disconnected. Unless Google decides to change that with a newer version of Android Wear
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Thanks for the reply! I can't believe what I'm reading... that should be like one of the DEFAULT features in Android wear. This OS is feeling more and more like a beta OS. >=/
siciliano777 said:
This OS is feeling more and more like a beta OS. >=/
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Which has been pointed out in nearly every mention on any Android Wear device. The OS is a couple months old, of course there are improvements to be made.
I can't believe this either. I've not got a wear device yet so was invisaging managing my alarms with my watch. The fact that I won't be able to set alarms with the watch that I'll be able to hear is pretty disappointing, even if I did sleep with my watch on the vibration would never wake me up up making it pretty useless.
akellar said:
Which has been pointed out in nearly every mention on any Android Wear device. The OS is a couple months old, of course there are improvements to be made.
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I know the OS is in its infancy, but that shouldn't be an improvement IMO, it's something that should have been working in 1.0. That's such an obvious feature to include...
We're talking about Google... they know a thing or two about OSes in general.
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I know the OS is in its infancy, but that shouldn't be an improvement IMO, it's something that should have been working in 1.0. That's such an obvious feature to include...
We're talking about Google... they know a thing or two about OSes in general.
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Apparently the developers at Google disagree.
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Apparently the developers at Google disagree.
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It's not that they disagree, they just rushed to get the OS out without including some common sense.
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It's not that they disagree, they just rushed to get the OS out without including some common sense.
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Huh guess I didn't get invited to that meeting. What else did they share with you?
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Huh guess I didn't get invited to that meeting. What else did they share with you?
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They only shared the part about leaving out the common sense. lol
I have another issue on clock when I connect my Moto X Style (Android 5.1.1) to Moto 360 2nd gen (6.0.1).
When I set my clock on the phone, on the morning, the phone clock alarming, however, occasionally, the alarming was tuned off. But I never touched either the watch or the phone.
Is there anything wrong?
I see this option in screenshots all over the internet, yet it's not in the options in my android wear app. My 360 is on 5.0.1, and my wear app is version 1.0.5.1630507.
Is there a newer wear app version or something? I've restarted my phone, and cleared the cache in the wear app and no joy.
Much better yet though, would be an option to INCREASE THE SCREEN TIMEOUT!!! How is this not an option yet?!?!?!
Come on Google - wake up!!
TIA!
Swipify has an always on option and a brightness slider .... When used with theater mode ...all is good
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siciliano777 said:
I see this option in screenshots all over the internet, yet it's not in the options in my android wear app. My 360 is on 5.0.1, and my wear app is version 1.0.5.1630507.
Is there a newer wear app version or something? I've restarted my phone, and cleared the cache in the wear app and no joy.
Much better yet though, would be an option to INCREASE THE SCREEN TIMEOUT!!! How is this not an option yet?!?!?!
Come on Google - wake up!!
TIA!
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Use watchmaker app for watch faces... It has adjustable screen on time up to 30secs
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siciliano777 said:
I see this option in screenshots all over the internet, yet it's not in the options in my android wear app. My 360 is on 5.0.1, and my wear app is version 1.0.5.1630507.
Is there a newer wear app version or something? I've restarted my phone, and cleared the cache in the wear app and no joy.
Much better yet though, would be an option to INCREASE THE SCREEN TIMEOUT!!! How is this not an option yet?!?!?!
Come on Google - wake up!!
TIA!
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check this for screen timeout increase, http://youtu.be/aKNJeqU5eww
suadsecure said:
check this for screen timeout increase, http://youtu.be/aKNJeqU5eww
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Thank you!! Well worth the $1.
I tried watch maker, but I couldn't find a nice watch face.
I seriously can't understand why Google hasn't added this feature by now. It's a no-brainer, and wear has been in development how long now?! It's mind bogglingly stupid.
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Thank you!! Well worth the $1.
I tried watch maker, but I couldn't find a nice watch face.
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Lol...
You can import any .face or .watch watch face file to watchmaker
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I'm currently using the app Wear Aware to alert me on my watch if I leave my phone behind. I'd also like the opposite... I want my phone to alert me if I leave my watch behind but I think this is beyond wear's scope. Anybody know of an app that can do this?
Thanks!
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I'm currently using the app Wear Aware to alert me on my watch if I leave my phone behind. I'd also like the opposite... I want my phone to alert me if I leave my watch behind but I think this is beyond wear's scope. Anybody know of an app that can do this?
Thanks!
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I feel like a simple tasker profile that warns you when the phone is out of bluetooth range of the watch would suffice.
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I feel like a simple tasker profile that warns you when the phone is out of bluetooth range of the watch would suffice.
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You're probably right... I guess I could look into this but seems like this would be something that someone has already created an app for.
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You're probably right... I guess I could look into this but seems like this would be something that someone has already created an app for.
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Maybe? But having a bunch of apps running in the background seems less efficient than having one doing a bunch of things, if you use Tasker for anything else.
I'm with you on the inefficiency thing. I did try with tasker and it seems like I got it half working some of the time. Rather than continue to troubleshoot I just started downloading a bunch of wear compatible find phone apps. I ended up finding one that has the functionality I'm looking for. I loved the simplicity of Wear Aware but now I'm using "Find My Phone" (nice name, right?) by Nick Apps link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.nickapps.wear.findmyphone&hl=en. In order to get the exact setup I wanted I think I had to pay $2 but so far so good. Thanks for your help.
I have not done the Nougat update yet and was wondering if anyone can comment on how the new doze features do, or do not, possibly interfere with apps that use GPS to track activities. These would be apps like Strava, RideWIthGPS, RunKeeper, etc. I use RideWithGPS and simply start it, put my phone in my pocket and let it track me with screen off the whole time. My understanding of the new doze is that it might kick in and stop the tracking whereas MM doze does not because of motion. So if anyone on the official (not beta) 7 uses these kinds of apps with screen off all the time I'd appreciate it if you could comment. Does doze interfere and stop the tracking? Did you need to exclude the app from battery optimization? Other issues/comments?
I'm not rooted (and not looking to do so) so experience/solutions/comments that refer to rooted options are interesting but aren't really what I'm after.
Tracking apps will not be affected.
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Tracking apps will not be affected.
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Have you used any on 7? I tend to think they will be ok too but an looking for real world feedback.
adobeman said:
Have you used any on 7? I tend to think they will be ok too but an looking for real world feedback.
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I haven't. I use a GPS watch now that syncs with Strava so I have no need to use it on my phone.
It worked fine on MM which also used doze (though a less aggressive version). If it were an issue tracking apps would be getting terrible ratings on the Google Play Store right now. If you really want me to test it I can run one of the apps for you on my ride tomorrow.
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Wow. That's a really kind offer. If you track it with ridewithgps that would be awesome. It's free but you will probably need to set up an account. So I understand if you don't want to do that.
Enjoy the ride!
adobeman said:
Wow. That's a really kind offer. If you track it with ridewithgps that would be awesome. It's free but you will probably need to set up an account. So I understand if you don't want to do that.
Enjoy the ride!
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This one?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ridewithgps.mobile
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Yup. That's the one. It doesn't have all the social aspects of Strava but it's been solid for my needs. Thanks again.
adobeman said:
Yup. That's the one. It doesn't have all the social aspects of Strava but it's been solid for my needs. Thanks again.
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Rode with the Ride with GPS app and it went well. I don't know if the phone ever dozed. In fact the battery stats show it was awake the whole ride. I doubt that the app will allow the phone to sleep or doze.
Thanks. I appreciate your doing this for me.
as above, how do i monitor the battery level of my phone on the watch?
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Find a watchface that has that info.
http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=U1buYqN5qZ
Nevermind the poor reviews. As long as you install the companion app which allows phone battery communication to be sent to the watchface, this should work (at least it has for me). The ones which show phone battery on the display through Facer will not likely work.
If you swipe up-down, you will see shortcuts menu. At 12 o'clock it shows battery level.
try this watchface... completely free and great reviews
http://apps.samsung.com/gear/appDetail.as?appId=NV2IvtPjbx
Use watchface with Watchmaker and you can add this info. You can also use app like "Toggle Gear".
jemfalor said:
as above, how do i monitor the battery level of my phone on the watch?
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I use Facer and there is many watchfaces there that do show the phone battery no problems.