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!
siciliano777 said:
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.
siciliano777 said:
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.
siciliano777 said:
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?
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hello, I opened a thread in the forum "windows phone and feature suggestion," if you like my idea Vote it
http://windowsphone.uservoice.com/f...titasking-add-the-ability-to-leave-an-applica
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This is a must. Today only when was downloading some YouTube videos via easy tube and left it the download paused. I have to keep the app open until it finishes the download. It's not good at all.
True multitasking is a must.
Voted for the feature.
lekhwani said:
This is a must. Today only when was downloading some YouTube videos via easy tube and left it the download paused. I have to keep the app open until it finishes the download. It's not good at all.
True multitasking is a must.
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it should be possible to continue downloading using a background task.
since resources are limited they must restrict what can run at the same time.
this is already possible with a background agent, I know supermusic continues to download music in the background.
elcapo24682 is right, I have a timer app that carries on in the background so it's down to devs to use background agents. True multitasking would ruin battery life anyway.
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Peew971 said:
elcapo24682 is right, I have a timer app that carries on in the background so it's down to devs to use background agents. True multitasking would ruin battery life anyway.
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yea and we can ask the android users how that's working out.
I don't care about "true multitasking". I just want to be able to pin an app to the switcher, so I know it will be there for a fast resume when I need it.
RoboDad said:
I don't care about "true multitasking". I just want to be able to pin an app to the switcher, so I know it will be there for a fast resume when I need it.
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if u refresh the app every once in awhile it will remain in the switcher.
elcapo24682 said:
if u refresh the app every once in awhile it will remain in the switcher.
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Duh. That is kind of obvious. My point is that doing that is an unacceptable and highly annoying "workaround", and in no way excuses the lack of the feature that I want.
RoboDad said:
Duh. That is kind of obvious. My point is that doing that is an unacceptable and highly annoying "workaround", and in no way excuses the lack of the feature that I want.
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its not annoying at all. the background agents work fine for what u want, at least in the apps I use.
elcapo24682 said:
its not annoying at all. the background agents work fine for what u want, at least in the apps I use.
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Don't tell me what is or isn't annoying. That is a typical fanboy attitude, trying to other people what to think or feel.
RoboDad said:
Don't tell me what is or isn't annoying. That is a typical fanboy attitude, trying to other people what to think or feel.
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well it doesn't annoy me or most other wp7 users.
Is there a way to keep YouTube running music in the background as I'm exploring other apps? Coming from a pre there was a patch for this
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Already a multiple page thread on this.
Never been possible on android and probably never will be.
noobdeagle said:
Never been possible on android and probably never will be.
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It was doable before, but not anymore with the new update
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martonikaj said:
Already a multiple page thread on this.
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Sorry, my bad.
Not used android before, I will also assume there isn't a hombrew/overclocking/patching repository and app like preware?
Also no way to enable flash in the background when flash becomes available?
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Seems pretty silly having multi-core processing without the ability to multitask, doesn't it?
DirkGently said:
Seems pretty silly having multi-core processing without the ability to multitask, doesn't it?
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You don't know much about Android, do you?
Android does have ability to multitask. It is just an effective multitasking. Applications can be left 'running' without them actually running. They are written in memory and kept there, without taking battery, until they are called back and continue on from where they left off. But Android also allows applications to open services in the background, triggered by specific time or event or by an application, that allows them to work while the application is not in focus. Many music players are done this way. Also a lot of apps synchronize in the background in this manner.
It is entirely the application developers decision to do what is best for the specific application. Android 4.0 gives all the tools the user needs. This is not Windows desktop where every working application and process takes processing power to keep running.
Would be awesome then if someone made a YouTube app that worked in the background
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It'll never happen for the same reason that not all videos are viewable on mobile. You're using the service to watch something, not listen.
rmoney said:
You're using the service to watch something, not listen.
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Not really. There are many people who use youtube for music playlists.
mcgon1979 said:
Not really. There are many people who use youtube for music playlists.
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i know a jailbroken iphone has an app for that
iOS supports background audio in the browser and youtube app. I was hoping that ICS will support it.
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!!
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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.
siciliano777 said:
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.
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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incisivekeith said:
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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