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I have just purchased the official Galaxy SII Desktop Dock. I'm new to Android but I have switched to using Launcher Pro as my launcher and I'm wondering if there is any way to stop the device switching over to the Samsung "Desk Clock" application when it is placed in the desktop dock. Every time I hit the Home button when the device is in the Dock, the Desk Clock application comes to front, rather than the default launcher. I prefer not to use the Desk Clock application.
In the manual for the Desktop Dock it states:
"You can set whether to launch the Desk Clock application on your phone when you connect a Samsung phone to the desktop dock. For more information about the Dock settings, see your phone user manual."
I can't seem to find any reference to this. I'm hoping it's just my ignorance.
The only reference to "Dock Settings" I can find in the full user guide (from the Samsung website) doesn't say much:
Dock settings● Audio output mode: Set to use the connected dock’s speaker when your device is connected to a car or desktop dock.
And that's it... no mention of the Desk Clock
Thanks. That's exactly what I found.
There has to be some way to stop the home button from displaying this special mode when it is in the desktop dock.
Dock No-Op did the trick.
Should have spotted this before but I'm new to Android and still getting used to the fact that the Market has a lot more than I'm used to with my last phone, which was a Windows Mobile
Does that mean that it doesn't show that clock after some number of minutes of idle in the dock? Even with the brightness turned all the way down that thing is way to bright at night.
Have you tried Kaloer Clock...? It's the mutts, and you can customise it till the cows come home (inc your desired brightness....)
Great app really works and prevent to sleep the phone...the only question is: can I damage (burn out) pixels when using it whole night and every night?
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kultus said:
Great app really works and prevent to sleep the phone...the only question is: can I damage (burn out) pixels when using it whole night and every night?
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Which app...Kaloer Clock? You can set it to run in screensaver mode to prevent this....
To prevent what??? BTW when I woke up this morning SGS2 slept so the system still lock phone and turn off the screen even when I ticked prevent phone from sleep or something like this in kaloer settings...any suggestion???
edit: you're right!!! in screensaver mode the time is every two minutes or so changes position whoooo cant wait for dock...
Dark maps in Google Navagation??? in car dock mode
sin(x said:
Dock No-Op did the trick.
Should have spotted this before but I'm new to Android and still getting used to the fact that the Market has a lot more than I'm used to with my last phone, which was a Windows Mobile
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When I connect to my Car dock I get dark maps in Google Navagation???
How can I reset that to a normal light map?
I use the dock to charge the phone at night but the clock keeps coming on in the middle of the night by itself
id love to have this all the time but im really scared about burn in,
as it automatically changes position every two min is there a chance in burn in still?
treva23 said:
I use the dock to charge the phone at night but the clock keeps coming on in the middle of the night by itself
id love to have this all the time but im really scared about burn in,
as it automatically changes position every two min is there a chance in burn in still?
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....................anyone?
treva23 said:
....................anyone?
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You would only possibly get burn in if it were to stay put in the same position...I say possibly, because I'm sure the Sammy techies would've thought about this and tested for it because it is an obvious concern to have.
When the clock's screensaver mode kicks in though, the time moves every minute or two as you noted, so there will be zero chance of any burn in of the screen.
I use Kaloer Clock though, so I'm not sure about the standard Sammy desktop clock coming on by itself in the night...maybe it's a setting in there that makes it wake on the hour or something...don't know tbh, but it won't be doing any damage.
treva23 said:
....................anyone?
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Just push the sleep button and it wont come on.
wressus said:
Just push the sleep button and it wont come on.
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yea i push the sleep button but through the night the phone screen wakes when fully charged, as i am sleeping this means i cant put it back to sleep, therefore clock comes on after a while and thus for the rest of the night.
but i love the feature and would have no problem with it if not for burn in.
as for Willie_Heckerslyke's comments it is logical that sammy would have tested this as feature has been put on the phone.
Will having the S2 attached to the official dock all the time when being at home affect battery life?
Feel like spamming every dock thread with this question.
I don't think that it has a big affect on the battery. But the worst thing that could possibly happen is that you'll need a new battery in a year. So i wouldn't care about that
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I see, but how come the phone shows the popup "Battery is fully charged, remove it..." .. I mean, why even show it then?
I don't own a dock but i guess its the counter part of "your phone is fully charged. Unplug it"
I'm not sure but i guess it decalibrates the battery more if you charge it longer than necessary. And maybe reduces the max capacity of the battery a tiny bit every time. But this won't stop me feom charging my phone overnight.
Btw: i do have a very unhealthy charging habit.. i always put the phone next to my pillow without airplane mode or so.. if it catches fire while charging (i read that could theoretically happen) i've got a problem too.. :-/ so i should be more worried about my health than my battery's..
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Thanks for your help and sarcasm. I will from now on, charge it during the night, get up at 4 am unplug the phone and go back to sleep. Will have a glass of water next to me in case, as you said, a fire starts and I need to cool out.
thanks
1. Turn off ambient mode
2. Set brightness to 1
3. Limit screen on time by disabling notifications on apps you don't really need to view from the watch, and always covering the display to turn off manually when you are done looking at it.
tcollum said:
1. Turn off ambient mode
2. Set brightness to 1
3. Limit screen on time by disabling notifications on apps you don't really need to view from the watch, and always covering the display to turn off manually when you are done looking at it.
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thanks!
Also, if you leave it in its charger, and don't use it, it's battery will stay at 100%.
Use a watch face that doesn't have a second hand.
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1. Don't use a watch face that didn't come from motorola pre installed. Wait for google to open it up to developers. Right now the way the watch faces work is through apps and that uses more battery.
2. Ambient off
3. Turn off any crazy notifications you get on your phone that you dont care about like twitter
Alcoholic said:
1. Don't use a watch face that didn't come from motorola pre installed. Wait for google to open it up to developers. Right now the way the watch faces work is through apps and that uses more battery.
2. Ambient off
3. Turn off any crazy notifications you get on your phone that you dont care about like twitter
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Actually getting a 3rd party watch face that doesn't have a second hand or animation helps battery life a lot.
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ChrisNee1988 said:
Actually getting a 3rd party watch face that doesn't have a second hand or animation helps battery life a lot.
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I concur! Installed custom watch with no "seconds hand", ambient mode is ON, 8am to 10pm drains to 30-35%! Standard Minimal watch face with the same options = 10% at the end of day.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-360/general/moto-360-2-day-battery-test-graphs-t2880565/page2
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Has anyone tried Wear Battery Saver app?
http://tinyurl.com/lkua8dk
Alcoholic said:
1. Don't use a watch face that didn't come from motorola pre installed. Wait for google to open it up to developers. Right now the way the watch faces work is through apps and that uses more battery.
2. Ambient off
3. Turn off any crazy notifications you get on your phone that you dont care about like twitter
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Actually the notification I care more about it is Twitter.?
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Has anyone tried Wear Battery Saver app?
http://tinyurl.com/lkua8dk
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haven't tried it...doesnt seem too convincing to me.
Try downloading mini wear launcher. If you swipe left to right twice you can dim the screen to super dim. I use it when i'm in the office so i dont have a super bright screen for no reason.
The only thing that's made a noticeable difference for me has been turning off ambient mode. For the last week I've been wearing the watch for about 17 hours / day. At the end of the day I usually have 25 - 40% left in the tank. Today I decided to try it with ambient mode on. I'm 10 hours in and I'm already at 38%. So it makes a big difference to me. That's still not bad since I'm averaging 6% / hour so I could potentially make it last my normal 17 hours. But it's a bit too close.
Also, I know I can drop it on the charger for 10 minutes and I'll pick up another 10 - 15% or 2 hours of ambient or 3 - 4 of non-ambient time.
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haven't tried it...doesnt seem too convincing to me.
Try downloading mini wear launcher. If you swipe left to right twice you can dim the screen to super dim. I use it when i'm in the office so i dont have a super bright screen for no reason.
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I've tried that super dim mode. It seems to be pretty good indoors, but I can't see ANYTHING outside. I wish the auto-brightness was able to use it though so I don't have to manually switch it.
With ambient off, how accurate the watch screen will wake up when you bring your wrist up see the screen?
Stop using your watch like a phone
Can you tell us what watchface from 3rd party you use that doesn't have second end
Thx.
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Can you tell us what watchface from 3rd party you use that doesn't have second end
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If you are using facer, here are a few hundred to choose from: http://facerepo.com/app/
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I've tried that super dim mode. It seems to be pretty good indoors, but I can't see ANYTHING outside. I wish the auto-brightness was able to use it though so I don't have to manually switch it.
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Autobrightness does use the super dim mode for me. If I'm indoors and there's not a lot of lighting changing the brightness to 1 will usually make my screen brighter.
Even if you use a face with a second hand in facer, just delete the second hand layer and all is good
So I found this one app " Swipify" that lets me keep the watch face on full time. I like it but it drains the battery a bit faster then I would like. Also when charging the watch the round charge progress bar does not advance so I have no idea how charged it is until I take it off the dock. So I un-installed it. I am looking for an app that will let me keep the watch in the dimmed "Ambient mode" full time and then when I lift the watch to look at it, have it to the full watch face mode until I set my arm back down.
Anyone make such a add-on app by chance? :fingers-crossed:
Or should I start learning how to code apps?
Any chance they (moto) will update with such features?
Thanks,
-DK
I'm not sure if such an app exists, but I'm just about 100% sure that Motorola will never add this feature. The current 5.1.1 software version was significantly delayed because they were trying to optimize battery life. I think it's a combination of a small battery and an old, power hungry processor that is the main problem.
I find that since upgrading to 5.1.1 I can go the entire day on one charge in ambient mode but I have to leave the watch sitting flat in order to test it. But by the end of the day I still have 25-25% charge left with it running the entire day in Ambient mode as long as I do not get to many notifications during the day which of course I can control those with no problem.
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I find that since upgrading to 5.1.1 I can go the entire day on one charge in ambient mode but I have to leave the watch sitting flat in order to test it. But by the end of the day I still have 25-25% charge left with it running the entire day in Ambient mode as long as I do not get to many notifications during the day which of course I can control those with no problem.
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Huh? What's the point of having a watch if the only way you can get it to work is to lie it on the desk and not touch it, oh and to disable notifications, aka the only thing that makes the "watch" something more than juts a watch?
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Huh? What's the point of having a watch if the only way you can get it to work is to lie it on the desk and not touch it, oh and to disable notifications, aka the only thing that makes the "watch" something more than juts a watch?
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That is why I am looking for an App similar to Swipify to keep the ambient mode on full time. And I only let it lie flat for a day to test the battery life and it makes it through the day with the screen on full time in ambient mode. So I know the watch is capable of doing what I would want it to use it for.
And I said "as long as I don't get too many notifications", I never said I disabled notifications. I still have those on.
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That is why I am looking for an App similar to Swipify to keep the ambient mode on full time. And I only let it lie flat for a day to test the battery life and it makes it through the day with the screen on full time in ambient mode. So I know the watch is capable of doing what I would want it to use it for.
And I said "as long as I don't get too many notifications", I never said I disabled notifications. I still have those on.
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Gocha. No need to be defensive, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Still seems like you'd always be on the hairy edge of running out of battery in a real-world scenario. Hell, I'm ambient mode off but tilt-to-wake on, and some long days I barely make it to the end of the day. Never had luck with even the fake ambient mode the Moto provides.
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Gocha. No need to be defensive, sorry for the misunderstanding.
Still seems like you'd always be on the hairy edge of running out of battery in a real-world scenario. Hell, I'm ambient mode off but tilt-to-wake on, and some long days I barely make it to the end of the day. Never had luck with even the fake ambient mode the Moto provides.
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All good, sorry to come off as defensive. :good::highfive:
Been using it with tilt-to-wake turned off and I am finding that by the end of the day I still have plenty of juice left.
With Ambient on and tilt-to wake off I find I have about 35-40% left at the end of a 7am - 11pm day. That is with receiving some email and text notifications (maybe 15-20) during the day.
I know everyone has different uses and ideas of how to use their Moto 360 so everyone's setting are going to be different, but what I am after is a always on "dimmed" or "ambient" mode with the option to turn on tilt to wake so I could test the battery life both ways. I would also like to use my 360 for home automation control and I I know with "Autowear" it is possible but from the little testing I have done so far it would kill my battery way to fast so perhaps on a future SW that will be something I will be doing.
Pausing and starting Netflix or HBOgo or Plex from my 360 is working pretty good for me as a start.
Think I will try and contact the owner of the Swipify app and see what he can do for me...... :laugh:
With the latest update LCA44B, when ambient is on and tilt is off, the screen will stay on all the time. However with ambient on and tilt on, it is same as previous behavior, screen will turn off when you put your arm by your side.
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With the latest update LCA44B, when ambient is on and tilt is off, the screen will stay on all the time. However with ambient on and tilt on, it is same as previous behavior, screen will turn off when you put your arm by your side.
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That is very good news! Can not wait to try it out!
Since the 1.4 update my watch seems to lag displaying the watch face. It seems to happen more on certain stock faces than others.
I don't use always on mode so normally I would tilt my wrist and the normal face would show straight away. Now I've updated to 1.4 when I tilt my wrist the watch shows the ambient face for a second then the normal face.
I've tried unpairing the watch which now performs a factory restore as of 1.4 but this hasn't resolved the problem.
Has anyone else noticed this? I can get around the lag by having always on mode enabled but I don't know how this effects battery life.
Thanks all.
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I use always on in combination with SWApp Dark app to reduce brightness of ambient screen and getting 2 days out of battery for my usage.
Not a solution to your problem, though.
Yep, same here. It like wakes up in Ambient mode for about 1 to 2 seconds from time to time. Not always and I notice it a mix on some faces more than others.
My daily driver face does not do it but my secondary does it all the time.
This issue is happening to Moto 360 Gen 1 and 2 watches as well. Loads of people are experiencing it, hopefully it'll be fixed soon.
Anybody noticed the little green light on the back of the watch staying on, even when you take it off and pop it in charger?
Tried changing from frequent to never in settings but stayed on.
The only way I got it off was switching off the watch?
well, mine doesnt have green light on, it is on only when measuring heart rate, and even measuring, the green light will only keep blinking rapidly. So i couldn't find a moment where the green light would stay on, like your situation..
EDIT: I think this may be your problem. On your watch, go to Samsung Health app, scroll a little bit down, and click on the Heart Rate, on the right side, you will see 3 vertical dots, click on it. Then, click on the "Gear" icon to go to Heart Rate Settings. Change it to Frequent or Never.
I think you may had the Heart Rate Monitor set to Always measure, which is why the green light keep lighting up as it was measuring your heart rate every second.
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well, mine doesnt have green light on, it is on only when measuring heart rate, and even measuring, the green light will only keep blinking rapidly. So i couldn't find a moment where the green light would stay on, like your situation..
EDIT: I think this may be your problem. On your watch, go to Samsung Health app, scroll a little bit down, and click on the Heart Rate, on the right side, you will see 3 vertical dots, click on it. Then, click on the "Gear" icon to go to Heart Rate Settings. Change it to Frequent or Never.
I think you may had the Heart Rate Monitor set to Always measure, which is why the green light keep lighting up as it was measuring your heart rate every second.
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No, as I said - Tried changing from frequent to never in settings but stayed on. Never used always since new.
One correction though, when I say it stays on, I meant it stays on flickering fast as if it's taking a reading.... it's just not on my wrist and won't stop flickering
sorry, I missed out your statement. It could be other apps installed is using your heart rate sensor.. or even watch faces. does resetting your watch to factory help? I guess that is the last resort
Just tried the reset I read about in another thread (after I backed up of course)
Not easy holding down power then multi pressing, pressing the back key to select reset from miniscule letter choices.
Anyway it seemed to reset, but not sure if it was the right one!
Didn't realise Samsung pay loses all your cards even with backup and restore. Today's steps also gone, all it 'knows' is my target
I'll report back if it works.
I am having the same issue and I have it set to never. I know it turns on for sleep monitoring but it seems to be on all night. I wonder if the last update messed with it.
I have this problem too after updating to the latest tizen 4.0.0.1 , mine is 42mm.
Whenever the HRM breaks, the altimeter and barometer breaks too.
Reset from settings menu or doing hard reset with button will not fix this issue, but sometimes it fixed itself without me doing anything.
Only god knows what happen with this "perfect" tizen.
I tried a factory reset that didn't help at all. I then went into Best Buy and got a replacement watch because I have the protection plan and the watch did the same thing last night. I'm beginning to think it may be a glitch in the S Health app and not the watch
I think I figured out the issue for me. I noticed that in S Health on the watch, if you have REM sleep monitoring turned on the HRM has to be on too . There is actually a message to that effect on that setting. Sure enough, turned off REM sleep setting last night, no green light all night long.
Further update, if I turn off the REM sleep feature, it records me as restless all night - - no recorded sleep time
Faye Reagan said:
I have this problem too after updating to the latest tizen 4.0.0.1 , mine is 42mm.
Whenever the HRM breaks, the altimeter and barometer breaks too.
Reset from settings menu or doing hard reset with button will not fix this issue, but sometimes it fixed itself without me doing anything.
Only god knows what happen with this "perfect" tizen.
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i am not experiencing issue with HRM but with having huge issues with altimeter - when running for an hour i am getting -500m or so indications. seems watch does not like sweat and humidity
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i am not experiencing issue with HRM but with having huge issues with altimeter - when running for an hour i am getting -500m or so indications. seems watch does not like sweat and humidity
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I got mine RMAed, got the whole motherboard replaced and every single sensor works well with tizen 4.0.0.1 (for now) :highfive:
really? wow. are you running by any chance and you can share screen from s-health with altitude data?