Watch Maker is super easy to use, definitely try that.
Android Wear |OT| 2nd Gen is Here
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Does it work with square watch faces or only round ones?
Admiral Woofington
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nothing much outside of tell time and fuck around with settings. It directly communicates with your phone for google search, music control, etc...
Earthanoid
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There are some apps on the watch that will work separately, basic stuff like timers, alarms, and heart rate. If you have Keep you can take notes and make lists. If you've stored music on the watch you can play that music back and control it with the watch, although IIRC the amount of memory you can use to store music is pretty small. It will still give you basic calendar reminders if they were synched to the watch earlier.
Alright. That pretty much seasls the deal for me. Guess I'll be ordering one sometime next week! Thanks, everyone.
It's finished:
Figures on the right are: AM/PM, battery percentage for the watch, battery percentage for the phone and current heart rate from top to bottom.
The image in the top right is the moon phase (I didn't want to repeat the current weather, as it's already in the calendar part).
Just round, sorry.
You can download this (WatchMaker) face here: http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/persona-4-14c1d77e0c6
Figures on the right are: AM/PM, battery percentage for the watch, battery percentage for the phone and current heart rate from top to bottom.
The image in the top right is the moon phase (I didn't want to repeat the current weather, as it's already in the calendar part).
Just round, sorry.
GuitarAtomik
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Awesome job!
I just installed the wear mini launcher and it was hidden away,mebut now I have a little icon permanently on at the bottom of my watch face showing the last app I launched. If I tap it, it switches to a padlock icon which seems to keep the watch on (and therefore kills the battery). Anyone any idea what that is?
Admiral Woofington
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That's weird. Might be a setting in mini launcher because mine is simply something that when I swipe from the very left of the screen to the right I get the list of apps in my watch.
Motorola has the standard warranty if it stops working by itself. But it's the same shit every other company has that lasts like a year. And congrats man. Be ready to have coworkers ask you why they can't see your watch face over and over again haha
Thanks! Ordered it yesterday. Should be here someitme next week. So now what do I do? Do I download some apps to my phone?
Jzero
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I would wait until you actually have the watch so the apps sync with the watch as you install them.
Install the apps i put in the OP when you get it though.
No need to wait, in the Wear App you can "Resync Apps" and it will upload whatever has a Wear component to your watch.
Jzero
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Yes you can disable those. They are definitely spammy. They need to add better ways to manage what you want and don't want to see.
I just got a cheap pebble off kijiji to introduce me to smart watches. Looking into Android Wear in the near future, just really wish battery life was better. I can't wait until this tech explodes, I already feel like I am in a science fiction movie. I love this pebble very much.
This is the first time in a long time I felt the excitement of new tech. (Although I believe trying an oculus rift will do this too, I want one of those so bad)
So ready for more smart watches, let's do this.
This is the first time in a long time I felt the excitement of new tech. (Although I believe trying an oculus rift will do this too, I want one of those so bad)
So ready for more smart watches, let's do this.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
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Idk if this was posted already but Google Intel and Tag Heuer team up to make the luxury smart watch to end all luxury smart watches
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-s-smartwatch-could-change-the-game-for-apple
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-s-smartwatch-could-change-the-game-for-apple
Code found in Android Wear suggests Google is already working on iOS compatibility
Would be cool but probably a bad idea to jump the gun with such limited access. I don't doubt that they'd go full-on when (if?) Apple opens up more access.
Would be cool but probably a bad idea to jump the gun with such limited access. I don't doubt that they'd go full-on when (if?) Apple opens up more access.
I picked up that LG G smart watch last week at the Verizon store for $99,- , considering it is normally a lot more.
The new pebble steel is actually on my wishlist , but for the price they were asking for the LG I figured I would give it a whirl especially since I had a 14 day return policy. And after a week I already got used to this thing .
It is not the perfect watch , or the prettiest , but for the cost/feature especially it is really good and makes me now more excited about the whole thing. I have used /looked at my phone much less. Do not miss any important text anymore in a silent phone area. It took me a bit but now I am mostly used to the watch user interface and gestures..
I look forward to what the next generation will bring.
The new pebble steel is actually on my wishlist , but for the price they were asking for the LG I figured I would give it a whirl especially since I had a 14 day return policy. And after a week I already got used to this thing .
It is not the perfect watch , or the prettiest , but for the cost/feature especially it is really good and makes me now more excited about the whole thing. I have used /looked at my phone much less. Do not miss any important text anymore in a silent phone area. It took me a bit but now I am mostly used to the watch user interface and gestures..
I look forward to what the next generation will bring.
I kind of like google now on my phone though, and it looks like the two are tied together
Jzero
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Never heard of that happening. What do you mean chinese edition? If it's a bootleg then that's your problem.
It's made in China and has an overseas charger not the US one.
Huh that's strange I haven't had anything like that happen before. So when you are talking to the watch the words are disappearing on screen right as they pop up? How does it look?
Here it is:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-wear/AxispxZuOYM
I'm having the same problems. Also, I'll ask it to play music, the command will go away and then either it will play the music a minute or two later or it just won't play at all. Then I'll look at my phone and the music that was suppose dto be playing is paused.
It mirrors the phone.
But if you have Tasker, AutonoNotification and AutoWear you can intercept those notifications and push whatever vibration pattern you want to your watch. ☺
Have you also got the Nexus 5? Wondering if it's a problem specific to that.
EDIT: It isn't
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/android-wear/yYpgRM3Goe8[1-25]
Dude there has the same with an all Samsung setup.
EDIT 2: Reading through that, it might be some temporary server side issues with Google.
Oh wow yeah I'm sorry I have no idea :/
Anyone have trouble with their watch not syncing? I had to reset my S5 which meant resetting the watch and now I'm having trouble syncing again. Setting up an Android Wear device has to be the most frustrating thing I've done in a while.
No problem, man.
I have a Galaxy S5. Good to hear that it's a Google problem though.
No problem, man.
I think I'd like android to copy Apple's approach to pushing information to the watch. Initially I thought it was silly to hide 'glance' information behind a swipe as then you can't really glance, but I'm getting annoyed at irrelevant information obscuring my ability to see what the time is.
Things like the music player controls are really handy - but I don't need them on the screen all the time - I'd be perfectly happy to swipe up to reveal them. Not being able to dismiss them on android wear is annoying. Likewise with weather and steps info popping up all the time. I'd be happy to do a quick swipe to check the weather.
Things like the music player controls are really handy - but I don't need them on the screen all the time - I'd be perfectly happy to swipe up to reveal them. Not being able to dismiss them on android wear is annoying. Likewise with weather and steps info popping up all the time. I'd be happy to do a quick swipe to check the weather.
Jzero
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I can swipe down on the audio controls and other cards to hide the cards for later. You probably need to update your watch.
I wish for something similar as well. I also feel weird just getting shoved a deck of cards to swipe away every once in a while, as it feels like a chore after a little when you're getting cards you don't care about. But I think that's something I can fix with a little tinkering of the notification blocker.
Earthanoid
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I use a digital watch face with the time displayed at the top. The cards at the bottom don't block the time readout. I personally don't like the fake analog watch faces (I have real analog watches if I wanted that) so it's not a big deal for me, but if you don't like the digital faces you may be out of luck.
Are you talking about the full audio control (back, forward, stop, pause) or just the name of the song and the pause button? I can swipe away the full audio controls, but the name and pause button does stay up. With the digital watch face I mentioned it's not a big deal personally but I guess it could be annoying with other watch faces.
There's a way to limit how often the steps and weather pop up, I know because I did it and they don't pop up very often (like 1-2 times a day at most). But I can't remember how I did it.
No, if you swipe down on the main card popup that appears over the time, that card will disappear from the watch face until you navigate back down through the menu. So you essentially make any notification "disappear" from the watch face until you actively navigate through the notification hierarchy again. It's different from swiping a notification to the right, which will dismiss it. Swiping the card straight downward just hides it from watch-face view.
Jzero
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They would just prefer if you didn't have to "swipe away" notifications to see the watch, but to "swipe in" the glances.
On the AppleWatch you always see your full watch face without interaction, and you'll be able to see notifications if you use a second hand to interact.
On AndroidWear, (missed / not-yet-dismissed) notifications are the first layer you see when the watch screen turns on and you can (have to) dismiss them to see your full watch face.
At least that's each platform's behaviour as i understand it. cmiiw.
If you have 5 missed notifications on your Android Wear device, can you get to your watch face without using a 2nd hand?
Your watch face is always visible. The most recent notification will display over that watch face but persistent activity like music controls will always have priority over those. If you use an analog interface it can be problematic for times where the hands are obscured by the card so for those, you'll need a second hand because a portion of the lower screen will be blocked. If you use the digital clock, you can always see the time over any card.
There's also an option within the Android Wear settings to never show notifications over the watch face. Just go into "Card Previews" and deselect that option: your watch face will remain pristine and free from popups unless you actively swipe up to view your notifications.
so this is what mrklaw would have requested, i guess?
I don't use it so I only now just remembered it. =P Also, if there's irrelevant information that he doesn't want to be seen, there's an option that exists to the far right of every card that allows you to "Block" a notification permanently.
ph1l0z0ph3r
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Got my Asus Zenwatch coming in Friday and I'm hyped anything I should do with it first?
RaySpencer
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It took me a while to figure out that you have to swipe down on the actual card, not just a swipe down on the screen. heh
Ah, that would have been a better way to describe the gesture.