I have Ambient Mode set to off which has been stated to save battery life. I was also wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in battery life while having auto brightness turned on vs off?
ericdmiller said:
I have Ambient Mode set to off which has been stated to save battery life. I was also wondering if anyone has noticed a difference in battery life while having auto brightness turned on vs off?
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I am going with both ambient screen on and ambient mode on today. Yesterday I had both off and had ~6.3% per hour decrease using it. Today with both on, 10hrs into my day it's ~7.2% per hour discharge. I got about as much calls and texts and emails and disconnects when I walk up front or other side of the building in my office.
So far ~.9% difference with both ambient screen and ambient mode on. I'll test with ambient screen on and ambient mode on the watch to level 1 to see if there's any difference tomorrow.
kpjimmy said:
I am going with both ambient screen on and ambient mode on today. Yesterday I had both off and had ~6.3% per hour decrease using it. Today with both on, 10hrs into my day it's ~7.2% per hour discharge. I got about as much calls and texts and emails and disconnects when I walk up front or other side of the building in my office.
So far ~.9% difference with both ambient screen and ambient mode on. I'll test with ambient screen on and ambient mode on the watch to level 1 to see if there's any difference tomorrow.
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What's the difference between ambient mode and auto brightness mode? Ambient mode just keeps the display on most of the time?
ericdmiller said:
What's the difference between ambient mode and auto brightness mode? Ambient mode just keeps the display on most of the time?
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Ambient mode is what I refer to is the setting on the watch for auto brightness. When the watch is awake, the watch determines on how bright the display should be according to the light sensor on the watch. I normally turn my brightness to level one on my g watch and I lasted 14 hrs easy.
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Ambient mode is what I refer to is the setting on the watch for auto brightness. When the watch is awake, the watch determines on how bright the display should be according to the light sensor on the watch. I normally turn my brightness to level one on my g watch and I lasted 14 hrs easy.
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Are you aware there's an Auto Brightness setting as well? Trying to determine what the difference is between the two.
ericdmiller said:
Are you aware there's an Auto Brightness setting as well? Trying to determine what the difference is between the two.
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The term "ambient setting" on the phone? That's pretty much the same as the "screen on" setting when I had the g watch. Actually it was actually the same setting on the Moto prior to updating to 4.4w.1.
The "auto brightness" is the where the light sensor on the watch is used. The difference is that the autobrightness will use the sensor where if you choose one of the other levels, from my understanding, will then not use the light sensor and the "Ambient" setting is just another fancy way of saying dimmed rather than off.
I've had my watch for a while now and can't seem to get it to go into Dim-Mode after looking at the face. Whenever I turn the watch face on to look at the time, after a while it go off completely without showing me the dim mode. Is there something I am missing?
It sounds like you're looking for "Ambient Mode" just go to the setting and turn it to "Ambient Mode: On"
I like Ambient mode too because it makes it very quick and easy to glance and check the time!
I am new to android wear and just got my SW3 but there are a few things I'd like to configure on my watch but I just cannot find the appropriate settings. Is there anyway to achieve the following?
Disable the automatic exit from ambient mode
Disable touch screen to exit ambient (go button only?)
set deifferent actions for button press
set a "sub" ambient mode
The last one there probably needs an explanation, I have a number of watch faces that present entirely different faces when in ambient mode and will not show them when active. What i'd really like is to be able to see these ambient screens with the back light and colouring.
I have ambient mode on. I do noticed that it does not wake up from ambient mode and I either need to tap screen or click on the crown to wake it up (I verify by seeing the seconds hand showing up ). Is this normal? Gesture setting is off.
NM. I didnt see tilt to wake on watch settings, it was on Phone Android wear.
For some weird reason, my ambient mode goes brighter than when my watch is active (when I use it). I want to lower the ambient brightness... Anyway to do that?
By the way I'm using watch maker premium, and it does it for every single watch face....
Figured it out... It was due to an app called "advanced settings" and how it manages the screen saver brightness...