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Ambient screen mode does not equal always on?

Ok so whnat seems to happen is you can keep it always on if you keep it in an upright position but if the watch tilts to the side it will sometimes turn off. I cant say this is for sure when it turns off but it is not consistent. Sometimes the screen will stay on sometimes it will turn off.

It dims but it's still on.. Seems like a good implementation to me. Im sure it wont be long and we'll have an app that can keep the backlight on if that's what you want.

When I first powered the device on, I looked in settings and found the option to keep the screen always on. However, after I updated the firmware, that option turned into the ambient light sensor option...
So it looks like they disabled that function in the current rom

The screen does turn off if the device doesn't move at all, but even the slightest movement turns the dimmed watch face back on.

that doesn't sound good
for the other 2 Wear watches, the screen always on setting had to be changed through the companion app on the phone
could someone of you please check if that switch is still there and what it does on the Moto 360
would be great, thanks!

2k4ever said:
that doesn't sound good
for the other 2 Wear watches, the screen always on setting had to be changed through the companion app on the phone
could someone of you please check if that switch is still there and what it does on the Moto 360
would be great, thanks!
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I think this is a bug with the 360. If you set ambient screen on, then the screen will go into a dimmed always on mode. It will stay on forever if the watch is kept in certain positions. For example, if you hold the watch vertically, it will stay on forever. But the screen goes blank if the watch is held in certain other positions. It seems to. Me like if it gets into a sideways like position akin to the way it sits in the charger, the screen will go blank.
I can't imagine this is intended behavior. Anyone seeing anything different?

Here's what I posted over in the discussion thread:
First I need to explain what ambient mode really is. It is definately not always on, but it's pretty clever how it works. From my experience the watch is always on when horizontal. Vertical is a little more tricky - but 90% of the time while vertical, regardless of movement, the watch is off. The other 10% the watch detects movement that resembles walking and only turns off during that time. So far I am very happy with ambient mode. It really does know when you might look at it, and turns on instantly. I can see this being an issue if you like to remove your watch and still use it.. I do this a lot while taking tests : \
Edit - I've been testing the orientations.. Here are the positions that the screen is on and off:
ON - Any orientation where the face is correctly orientated and readable from the users perspective its on.
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OFF techically the watch is sideways so you wouldnt be reading the time.
OFF Same as previous just rotated 180 degrees
OFF Upside down
ON Flat on the table - it's always on
*These results are the same regardless of movement.

Phlip00ws6 said:
Here's what I posted over in the discussion thread:
First I need to explain what ambient mode really is. It is definately not always on, but it's pretty clever how it works. From my experience the watch is always on when horizontal. Vertical is a little more tricky - but 90% of the time while vertical, regardless of movement, the watch is off. The other 10% the watch detects movement that resembles walking and only turns off during that time. So far I am very happy with ambient mode. It really does know when you might look at it, and turns on instantly. I can see this being an issue if you like to remove your watch and still use it.. I do this a lot while taking tests : \
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Thanks.. Do you know for a fact that this is intended behavior? Has Motorola explained anywhere how this is intended to work? It is different from ever other android wear device.

olc said:
Thanks.. Do you know for a fact that this is intended behavior? Has Motorola explained anywhere how this is intended to work? It is different from ever other android wear device.
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I would say this is definately the intended behavior. My guess is that in order to get the 12 hours they had to do this. Its kind of like a V8 sports car that wont pass minimum MPG and the manufacturer was required to install a "shift skip" essentially locking you out of 2nd and 3rd gear while putting around town to get that minimun MPG.

thanks Phlip00ws6!
could you tell us why part of the watch display looks gray in the 3 OFF photos?
Seems too regular for camera flash or other light sources / reflections and if the screen really is off, it shouldnd interfere with the camera
maybe there really is a bug?

2k4ever said:
thanks Phlip00ws6!
could you tell us why part of the watch display looks gray in the 3 OFF photos?
Seems too regular for camera flash or other light sources / reflections and if the screen really is off, it shouldnd interfere with the camera
maybe there really is a bug?
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That's just the reflection of my wall. lol sorry about that. It's completely off.

Phlip00ws6 said:
That's just the reflection of my wall. lol sorry about that. It's completely off.
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thanks for the clarification, seemed too regular to be a reflection, but was hard to tell in the small pictures

I don't have one yet so I may be wrong about this but wouldn't it make much more sense for the the light sensor to adjust the screen brightness whenever you flick your wrist or tap the screen to wake it up? This would surely improve the battery life, especially if you're in a dim environment for an extended period of time.

Tung_meister said:
I don't have one yet so I may be wrong about this but wouldn't it make much more sense for the the light sensor to adjust the screen brightness whenever you flick your wrist or tap the screen to wake it up? This would surely improve the battery life, especially if you're in a dim environment for an extended period of time.
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I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.. Are you referencing while ambient mode is on or off?
In either case, when you move your wrist up as you would with any other watch, the screen turns fully on and its bightness is adjusted via the light sensor. The only difference ambient mode makes is that when the watch is visible to the user, it is on but dimmed. Any other time e.g the watch is facing away from you, then the screen is off.

Phlip00ws6 said:
I'm not exactly sure what you're asking.. Are you referencing while ambient mode is on or off?
In either case, when you move your wrist up as you would with any other watch, the screen turns fully on and its bightness is adjusted via the light sensor. The only difference ambient mode makes is that when the watch is visible to the user, it is on but dimmed. Any other time e.g the watch is facing away from you, then the screen is off.
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Oh, from what I'd read I was under the impression that the backlight level wasn't always adjusted by the light sensor. If it is then great.

Tung_meister said:
Oh, from what I'd read I was under the impression that the backlight level wasn't always adjusted by the light sensor. If it is then great.
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Technically it's not always updated. There seems to be 3 different "modes" to the watch face - on, off, and ambient mode. It's kind of hard to explain, but while the screen is in ambient mode it has one setting.. dim. But it still reacts to that "looking at my watch now" movement, turns the screen to fully on (second hand begins to move, notifications are displayed), and then the light sensor will adjust accordingly. So if the watch is laying flat on a table outside in bright sunlight the screen will be on but you wont be able to see it.
So in summary, no it doesnt respond to light while in ambient mode. Which does seem to contradict the point of it being so accurate at knowing when the watch face is visible. I could see if the face always stayed on regardless, then maybe the sensor shouldn't adjust it because theres no reason for the brightness to be all the way up if you're not looking at it.

Phlip00ws6 said:
Technically it's not always updated. There seems to be 3 different "modes" to the watch face - on, off, and ambient mode. It's kind of hard to explain, but while the screen is in ambient mode it has one setting.. dim. But it still reacts to that "looking at my watch now" movement, turns the screen to fully on (second hand begins to move, notifications are displayed), and then the light sensor will adjust accordingly. So if the watch is laying flat on a table outside in bright sunlight the screen will be on but you wont be able to see it.
So in summary, no it doesnt respond to light while in ambient mode. Which does seem to contradict the point of it being so accurate at knowing when the watch face is visible. I could see if the face always stayed on regardless, then maybe the sensor shouldn't adjust it because theres no reason for the brightness to be all the way up if you're not looking at it.
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Its so weird what they have done with the brightness settings in Android Wear. There is a reason we are using Android devices vs iOS devices. The openness of the software and the customizations that come along with it. We need to have the choice of how we want our device setup.
I personally would like to have my watch screen on all the time on full brightness. Why is there no option for this? On my G Watch, im constantly having to turn my wrist further towards myself than i normally would or tap the screen to get it bright enough where i can see it properly. Due to this i'm probably going to hold off on my 360 purchase until its fixed.

cloakster said:
Its so weird what they have done with the brightness settings in Android Wear. There is a reason we are using Android devices vs iOS devices. The openness of the software and the customizations that come along with it. We need to have the choice of how we want our device setup.
I personally would like to have my watches screen on all the time on full brightness. Why is there no option for this? On my G Watch, im constantly having to turn my wrist further towards myself than i normally would or tap the screen to get it bright enough where i can see it properly.
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Patience.. let the devs do what they do. Wear is open source, just like all Android OS's - This is why we are using Android devices vs iOS devices.

Phlip00ws6 said:
Here's what I posted over in the discussion thread:
First I need to explain what ambient mode really is. It is definately not always on, but it's pretty clever how it works. From my experience the watch is always on when horizontal. Vertical is a little more tricky - but 90% of the time while vertical, regardless of movement, the watch is off. The other 10% the watch detects movement that resembles walking and only turns off during that time. So far I am very happy with ambient mode. It really does know when you might look at it, and turns on instantly. I can see this being an issue if you like to remove your watch and still use it.. I do this a lot while taking tests : \
Edit - I've been testing the orientations.. Here are the positions that the screen is on and off:
ON - Any orientation where the face is correctly orientated and readable from the users perspective its on.
OFF techically the watch is sideways so you wouldnt be reading the time.
OFF Same as previous just rotated 180 degrees
OFF Upside down
ON Flat on the table - it's always on
*These results are the same regardless of movement.
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Thank you. Now I understand how it work's

My 360 is dead when it comes to ambient mode or waking up to wrist movement/orientation changes.
This happened after some weeks of no wear, clearly something going on here as there's several reports of this around forums.
Factory reset a few times, so suspect hardware or software version issue (5.0.1).

Did ambient mode change with the KGW42R update?

Has anyone noticed ambient screen mode working differently since the update, or is it just me? With all the talk about better battery life, I thought I'd try keeping ambient mode on to see what kind of battery life I'd get. I didn't regularly use ambient mode before the update, but I did play around with it. Before the update, it seemed that the watch stayed dimly lit (ambient mode) most of the time while wearing it, but bringing my wrist up would make the screen come fully on. Now, it seems like it goes completely off immediately when I drop my wrist, and when I raise it, it lights up dimly in ambient mode, and I actually have to touch it to get the fully-on mode. It does seem to be more sensitive and reliable coming (dimly) on in ambient mode than it is in non-ambient mode, but still, in bright light conditions, it means I actually have to touch it before I can even see it (or use it).
Am I the only one seeing this?

Nothing changed, that's the way it's always worked
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Are you sure? I don't remember it being that way, and if that were the case, Ambient mode would be BETTER for battery life than regular mode, because the 360 goes off just as fast as regular mode, and won't come fully on unless you actually touch it. When I played around with it before, I'm positive it would come fully-on when I raised my wrist. Now it never will.

jt3 said:
Has anyone noticed ambient screen mode working differently since the update, or is it just me? With all the talk about better battery life, I thought I'd try keeping ambient mode on to see what kind of battery life I'd get. I didn't regularly use ambient mode before the update, but I did play around with it. Before the update, it seemed that the watch stayed dimly lit (ambient mode) most of the time while wearing it, but bringing my wrist up would make the screen come fully on. Now, it seems like it goes completely off immediately when I drop my wrist, and when I raise it, it lights up dimly in ambient mode, and I actually have to touch it to get the fully-on mode. It does seem to be more sensitive and reliable coming (dimly) on in ambient mode than it is in non-ambient mode, but still, in bright light conditions, it means I actually have to touch it before I can even see it (or use it).
Am I the only one seeing this?
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Just tried it out and I remember it being different as well. But I now use facer. And some faces do not show when dimmed. You have to manually update that setting in facer or whatever program you are using. But saying that if you tilt your watch away from you further, the face will shut off and for me, when it becomes more horizontal, the face dims on. So, yes, it worked like it did as it first did, but to me is a bit more sensitive to the angles of the watch.

Nevermind. I saw in another thread that someone recommended restarting the 360 after the update. Did that, and now it's working as I remember, where it still comes on fully when I raise my wrist. It was the fact that I actually had to touch it to make it come on fully that was bothering me. Now, it comes on dimly as I start to raise my wrist, and fully when I fully raise my wrist, without the need to touch it. That's as it should be.
I guess the take-away is that if the 360 is doing something weird after the update, restart it.

How do you use your Moto 360?

Notice there're like two types on how people use their Moto 360.
1) Ambient Mode: on - Tilt to wake screen: off
Can always see the watchface, backlight light up by touching/interaction.
2) Ambient Mode: off - Tilt to wake screen: on
Tilt will turn on the screen with backlight. Nothing if it doesn't.
Which are you? and why?

philippecr said:
Notice there're like two types on how people use their Moto 360.
1) Ambient Mode: on - Tilt to wake screen: off
Can always see the watchface, backlight light up by touching/interaction.
2) Ambient Mode: off - Tilt to wake screen: on
Tilt will turn on the screen with backlight. Nothing if it doesn't.
Which are you? and why?
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Unless my watch is defective and everything I've read is wrong, the face on a Moto360 will never always stay on, even when tilt to wake screen is off (I just tried it to confirm). Turning ambient mode on and tilt to wake screen off only makes it so you have to tilt to get the ambient mode screen.
But to answer the question, I'm neither. I have ambient mode on and tilt to wake screen on. I use this configuration because I want my watch to behave like a normal watch, and I don't want to have to touch it to see the time. I also want the screen to be on as much as possible because sometimes I hold my arm at an angle that isn't detected as a true "tilt" by the watch, and I want to be able to check the time despite this.

I have tilt to wake on and ambient off because I dont want touse more battery by keeping ambient on but I also want to be able to view the time without having to touch the screen or button.

TheSt33v: u had both of them on? How is the battery life?

I have them both OFF. I found out tilt to wake off extends my battery live tremendously. But I miht be a special case since I drive for living and the watch wakes up way too often.
I'd welcome some kind of "custom calibration" for cases like this and also it would be nice, if the screen would turn off IMMEDIATELY after you move the watch away from face.

I miss voted - I have both OFF (not on).
I like to tap or hit the button to see it. Otherwise it is on virtually all the time with my hands moving so much for work.

The the new app wod i kight turn mine into a boost gauge ....lol
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philippecr said:
TheSt33v: u had both of them on? How is the battery life?
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I's fine. I charge it overnight, and it's usually 20-30% by the time I go to bed.

until today I used all OFF, but after seeing this post I decided to try with Ambient Mode ON and Tilt to wake OFF.. I'll post later on the battery life comparaison in my case. I'm surprised to see the screen go black when not moving the watch at all even with ambient mode ON.
It's clear, I don't like to use tilt to wake, because of the 1sec lag when I move my wrist to see the time, hate it to feel like I didn't move it correctly even if I did.

I just found out from this thread that it is possible to disable the tilt to wake up gesture. Thanks OP !
Stupidly, you can't find this in watch settings, only in Android Wear app's settings.
For me, tilt to wake up disabled and ambient mode enabled looks like the best combination and battery life seems to be the same or better than with the defaults (Ambient off and tilt to wake up on), especially when driving.

Jungleman_ said:
until today I used all OFF, but after seeing this post I decided to try with Ambient Mode ON and Tilt to wake OFF.. I'll post later on the battery life comparaison in my case. I'm surprised to see the screen go black when not moving the watch at all even with ambient mode ON.
It's clear, I don't like to use tilt to wake, because of the 1sec lag when I move my wrist to see the time, hate it to feel like I didn't move it correctly even if I did.
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This is how I use mine. Ambient ON, Tilt OFF.
Tilt to wake lag's really bad.
Ambient ON means I can always see the time, like a real watch.
Talking to my watch is the daggiest thing in the world, so I would always touch it anyway to activate a task.
Battery:
40-30% left when I got to bed. Turn watch OFF.
Put on charge while I get ready for work in the morning. 95-85% 20 mins later when I leave.
Happy days....

michael_or said:
This is how I use mine. Ambient ON, Tilt OFF.
Ambient ON means I can always see the time, like a real watch.
Battery:
40-30% left when I got to bed. Turn watch OFF.
Put on charge while I get ready for work in the morning. 95-85% 20 mins later when I leave.
Happy days....
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I take it you still have to lift the watch to see the ambient mode (watchface) since the Moto 360 screen always goes off when you move your arm down?

SirDigitalKnight said:
I take it you still have to lift the watch to see the ambient mode (watchface) since the Moto 360 screen always goes off when you move your arm down?
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Yep, but, when my arm is down, I cant see my watch anyway!
Even with an analogue watch I would need to point it toward my face to read it.
I find the moto360 is pretty good at guessing whether I'm looking or not. With my arm resting on the desk/keyboard as I type this, my ambient watchface is on and I can read it by glancing down, no watch movement required.
I'm pretty happy with the battery life I'm getting in this mode.

michael_or said:
Yep, but, when my arm is down, I cant see my watch anyway!
Even with an analogue watch I would need to point it toward my face to read it.
I find the moto360 is pretty good at guessing whether I'm looking or not. With my arm resting on the desk/keyboard as I type this, my ambient watchface is on and I can read it by glancing down, no watch movement required.
I'm pretty happy with the battery life I'm getting in this mode.
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Agreed, I am liking the same settings on mine. Only 2 weeks with the watch so I still have to play some more but 11 hours into my watch use for the day and I am still at 59%!

I use tilt on and ambient off because i don't want use more battery when it not use.

Thanks for all the tips! I just ordered a Moto 360 myself and I plan on enabling Ambient Mode and disabling the tilt to display mode. If I plan on actually using my watch for a task I'm most likely going to tap on the screen anyway rather than tilting my wrist, and battery life will most likely be the same.

Soooo.
My watch just updated to the newest Android Wear version.
Now it seems my Ambient Mode leaves the screen on, regardless of angle!
It will be interesting to see how this effects my battery life!...!...!

I keep it all on.
I find both too useful to keep off.

michael_or said:
Soooo.
My watch just updated to the newest Android Wear version.
Now it seems my Ambient Mode leaves the screen on, regardless of angle!
It will be interesting to see how this effects my battery life!...!...!
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I thought I was crazy but I just noticed this today. It turns out that ambient on and tilt to wake off leaves ambient always on. If you activate tilt to wake, the ambient screen turns off when facing out away from you or down. So tilt off, ambient on is what I'm going to try tomorrow to see how battery life is. The only thing I miss is the OK Google command just by raising my wrist.
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Ambient Mode/Always On Behavior?

Can anyone help confirm if they see this behavior with their watch? I have always-on screen set to ON in the Android Wear app. (Tilt to wake and gestures are both OFF.) I have noticed that even on the stock Moon Phase face, if I don't touch the face for a while, the watch goes to sleep. By that I mean, the face is completely black, as if I turned off the always-on screen option.
I haven't determined yet if it's always after a specific amount of time. Seems to be at least 30 min, maybe an hour.
Is this normal behavior? I was under the impression that always on means always on, And that time in dim mode would always show.

You are correct.
bailyc said:
Can anyone help confirm if they see this behavior with their watch? I have always-on screen set to ON in the Android Wear app. (Tilt to wake and gestures are both OFF.) I have noticed that even on the stock Moon Phase face, if I don't touch the face for a while, the watch goes to sleep. By that I mean, the face is completely black, as if I turned off the always-on screen option.
I haven't determined yet if it's always after a specific amount of time. Seems to be at least 30 min, maybe an hour.
Is this normal behavior? I was under the impression that always on means always on, And that time in dim mode would always show.
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You are correct, always on means always on, the only time the watch should sleep, is when you have it on the charger. You may have a bad install or worst case scenario a bad watch.

vvveith said:
You are correct, always on means always on, the only time to watch should sleep, is when you have it on the charger. You may have a bad install or worst case scenario a bad watch.
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Ok, thanks for confirming! I definitely have something wrong, then. I've factory reset several times and even taken off most apps, and it still happens. Looks like it might be the watch.

I have similar problem - always ON, gestures off, but after about 10 seconds it changes watchface to some dark/black one.

I believe the Always on Feature is not for having your watch face on all the time, but rather it dims your watch face but you still can tell the time with just the darker screen. It's not going to keep your watch face fully lit if that option is turned on.

Well, then I`m selling mine. Why would I want all them beautiful watchfaces if I can`t have them always on?! That`s just stupid.

rbs_uk said:
Well, then I`m selling mine. Why would I want all them beautiful watchfaces if I can`t have them always on?! That`s just stupid.
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Most of the folks that make the WatchMaker faces either just dim the face, or they make a dimmed mode face that looks like it has phosphorous markings. I personally make custom dimmed modes. My favorite method is to make a blood red version of the face with just the essential features. The moon phase ones can look BAD ASS with the blood red moon phase on a pure black background. This is the only watch I have ever actually gotten comments on in public. When people see it they notice that it ain't no normal watch, and it ain't no Apple watch.

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Well, then I`m selling mine. Why would I want all them beautiful watchfaces if I can`t have them always on?! That`s just stupid.
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I think the battery life would just be too short if you left the face on all the time, all the time meaning the watch never went into dim mode. Just run tilt on, and don't wear the watch to loose. Especially at night if the watch never dimmed that would get annoying as hell it's so bright.

'god guys, really????
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I have similar problem - always ON, gestures off, but after about 10 seconds it changes watchface to some dark/black one.
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Come on guys you do understand ambient mode right? When the main screen of the watch face shuts down it goes into ambient mode, which is simply black and white. Just like any pure android device. (i.e. Nexus 6) If you do not understand of know of this behaviour please stop posting and do some research. 'The watch is acting as it is suppose to in Android Wear. Just like notifications on a Nexus device. Google is your friend.
So is YouTube and understanding the android system as of today. Come on, get a clue.

Yeah I think if it was on all the time you'd be lucky to get even a few hours of battery life out of it....

falcon26 said:
Yeah I think if it was on all the time you'd be lucky to get even a few hours of battery life out of it....
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Well, I know what I personally thought was confusing is that "always on" isn't actually always on when charging. When on the charger, display turns off completely after a time. That's different behavior from what I'm used to based on the Moto X, which has AMOLED and still displayed ambient information on the screen when charging/docked. I find it a little odd that there is no built-in charging/docked display that uses the ambient (dimmed) display mode.
But to be sure, my watch definitely had something wrong with it. I just received a replacement unit yesterday, so I'll be testing it out today to see if it's able to stay dimmed as it should when off the charger.

Be attencion with "always on" mode, this is screen after four days (contrast on level 3).

I've had the "Ranger" watch face on with a full colour ambient mode and not experiencing any burn-in. Every minute it shifts the image somewhat in order to reduce any burn in effect. See https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.smartwatchface.watch.face.ranger.military .

Just to cease any confusion. Always On means the screen is always on. After a few seconds, the screen will dim and go into a black/white ambient mode to reserve power.
The OP says his screen is turning completely off. So it seems there is a problem there. Every Watch face has a different ambient mode. Perhaps the one you are using has a broken ambient mode and not displaying data.
I found the best way to make a watch face is to build one yourself. Purje Black is awesome for this (truely amazing app). I am not going to do a full review but the transition between full on and ambient mode is animated, looks fantastic, has lots of Hotspots to launch various apps like weather, Google Fit data, etc, and displays it in a awesome format.
But the best feature is that you can customize the ambient mode separately from the actual face. They also support community made themes, so just browse their Google Plus theme page, find one you like, customize it to how you want it and save it.
Just be careful with your AMOLED screen that you don't have any information that is static in ambient mode, like numbers, hour marks, etc. I prefer a Digital clock/Calendar date on my Amoled, but have a nice looking analog with various information on my full face.

The device going to sleep is normal. It will go from full on to ambient mode and from there if the watch isn't moved for 30 minutes it will shut the screen off. See below from Google.
"You can set the display to show the time or turn off completely when you're not using the watch. If set to turn off, the screen will turn on when you turn your wrist or touch the screen.*
Tip: Letting your screen turn off when you're not using the watch will help improve battery life. If the watch hasn't moved for 30 minutes, the screen will turn off even if you have it set to remain always on. To wake your watch, tilt it or press the power button."
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Hi
I'm trying to find an App for my watch that will keep the Watchface in Ambient mode for as long as i like (more than 24Hrs) even when it's not on my hand (not being moved).
Any ideas would be appretiated.

ausi said:
Hi
I'm trying to find an App for my watch that will keep the Watchface in Ambient mode for as long as i like (more than 24Hrs) even when it's not on my hand (not being moved).
Any ideas would be appretiated.
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First off between the battery hit and possible screen damage I wouldn't recommend that. But I haven't seen any faces or apps that would accomplish this. And since that feature is inherent to wear it would probably take root to accomplish it anyway.
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crawrj said:
First off between the battery hit and possible screen damage I wouldn't recommend that. But I haven't seen any faces or apps that would accomplish this. And since that feature is inherent to wear it would probably take root to accomplish it anyway.
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Thanks, i have root..........but still cannot find an App to do this, i still would like to try.

Ho about limiting brightness to lower level than level 1. While I,m not using watch, just before it goes to ambient, I can See brightness dimmed to lower than minimum and after, ambient turns on, whitch is brighter. What can i do to use lowest levels all the time?

Stay Lit Wear
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Ambient Display No longer Continuously Flashes

Has anyone noticed that ambient display lights up upon receiving a notification but does not continue to flash like it did on previous nexus? Also it does not flash on upon picking up the device.....

I have ambient display turned on but to be honest I'm not sure my notifications even show once but I'm certain they don't show again.
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Came to post this myself. It looks like Ambient Display pops up when you get the notification then never again.
Coming from Moto Display, super disappointed. I was prepared to give up the "wave" to trigger IR sensors and pulse my notifications... I wasn't prepared to give up the feature all together!

Running into the same thing. The ambient display should flash the time, date etc when picking up the phone . Maybe just a late software bug?

Not sure how many others have seen this yet...Notification LED. Mine is getting delivered today so I haven't been able to play around with it yet. It might help with the ambient display issue.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.andr...otification-light?client=ms-android-sprint-us

lgldrgdlr said:
Not sure how many others have seen this yet...Notification LED. Mine is getting delivered today so I haven't been able to play around with it yet. It might help with the ambient display issue.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.andr...otification-light?client=ms-android-sprint-us
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Unfortunately that doesnt help

The display turns on it uses the battery.
I hope they never "fix" it.
I pickup the device right hand let my finger touch the finger print sensor if I want to see the display.

AstroDigital said:
The display turns on it uses the battery.
I hope they never "fix" it.
I pickup the device right hand let my finger touch the finger print sensor if I want to see the display.
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That is an argument for disabling Ambient Display. Not for hoping that Ambient Display doesn't work like it's supposed to in the first place.

Celeras said:
That is an argument for disabling Ambient Display. Not for hoping that Ambient Display doesn't work like it's supposed to in the first place.
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Right and I say three things.
1) Why when you lift it is it supposed to turn on ? Did Google ever say? When you pickup you phone the Display should turn on, because we know you careless about battery life.
2) When you pick up you phone why is it so hard to brush your finger on the finger print scanner if you want to display on ?
3) You think every time the phone moves and the display turns on it is not going to use more current, drain the battery ?
If Google ever allows you to turn on the display with just movement picking the phone up.
I hope Google allows people that think 2) and 3) are true to keep this "feature off"

AstroDigital said:
Right and I say three things.
1) Why when you lift it is it supposed to turn on ? Did Google ever say? When you pickup you phone the Display should turn on, because we know you careless about battery life.
2) When you pick up you phone why is it so hard to brush your finger on the finger print scanner if you want to display on ?
3) You think every time the phone moves and the display turns on it is not going to use more current, drain the battery ?
If Google ever allows you to turn on the display with just movement picking the phone up.
I hope Google allows people that think 2) and 3) are true to keep this "feature off"
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I'll try to spell it out for you since you apparently lack the capacity to do it yourself.
Ambient Display currently does nothing. It flashes once and is gone forever, which is completely useless. You LIKE it doing nothing. Fine. Then you can turn it off and it will still do nothing. You are happy either way.
There are people who like Ambient Display when it actually works. These people are not happy that it doesn't currently do anything. If it is fixed, then they are happy. If it is fixed, you can disable it, and you are still happy because you weren't getting anything from it in the first place.
Your twisted desire to hope something doesn't work because you don't like it is asinine.
Have a good day.

Celeras said:
I'll try to spell it out for you since you apparently lack the capacity to do it yourself.
Ambient Display currently does nothing. It flashes once and is gone forever, which is completely useless. You LIKE it doing nothing. Fine. Then you can turn it off and it will still do nothing. You are happy either way.
There are people who like Ambient Display when it actually works. These people are not happy that it doesn't currently do anything. If it is fixed, then they are happy. If it is fixed, you can disable it, and you are still happy because you weren't getting anything from it in the first place.
Your twisted desire to hope something doesn't work because you don't like it is asinine.
Have a good day.
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^^ This ^^ Because if you don't like it...then you turn it off.

Youtube link - https://youtu.be/aZREEM08Zfs
Ambient Notification Issue
Also please report this in the official thread (you can just click the star at the bottom without entering text): https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=226350&thanks=226350&ts=1477484991