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Use cases with the Moto 360

Let's discuss how we use this watch so that we can share ideas with each other to further increase our experiences with it.
1) obviously notifications. I really like the fact that I don't have to pull out my phone to check every notification. I look at them on my watch and I can dismiss the ones that aren't important or choose to take out my phone if it is a notification that needs immediate attention.
2) I play Ingress, so getting portal attack notifications or comm message notifications are really handy. I can then decide if I want to pull out my phone to recharge the portals or simply dismiss the notifications.
3) speech to text is awesome. When people text me, I can reply by voice which it sends through my hangouts. One thing I noticed is that when I say 'OK Google', I don't have to wait for the prompt to show up to issue my command. I simply say all at once, "OK Google send text to (name) mobile." The animation catches up, then waits for my message which then I say what my message is.
Especially handy when I'm driving since I can still read the watch while I have my hands on the steering wheel at the 10 & 2 positions to make sure it got what I said.
I get many different hangouts notifications from different recipients so it's nice that I can pick which message I want to on my watch, then respond to them by voice all from my watch.
4) navigation is really helpful. I can now start Google maps navigation and get turn by turn alerts on my watch while running Ingress on my phone so I can still collect XM while driving and not miss out on navigation instructions.
The notification vibrates on my watch and lights up with the instruction, and even though I'm in the Ingress app, I still get the voice prompts from my phone which tells me to "stay on the second lane from the right" which the watch doesn't show. It only shows me that I need to make a right turn at such and such street. Really handy.
5) I'm very forgetful so before i got the watch, I set reminders with time and dates on my phone. But now, I can simply say "OK Google set a reminder for tomorrow at 12:00 pm to wish mom a happy birthday" all from my watch.
6) I installed the Pebble Locker app which allows me to make my watch a trusted Bluetooth device so I can bypass my lock screen code. And when my phone gets too far away from me (if someone were to steal it), the Bluetooth connection gets disconnected and locks my phone automatically.
These are just a few of my use cases where it's been incredibly helpful to not constantly pull out my phone from my pocket.
What are yours?
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I can control my Chromecast from the watch. I'm watching a movie through Google play and I have playback controls.
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Mine controls the lights, garage door, nest, alarm, and fireplaces with voice commands. Besides moto360 and android wear, also needed autovoice, tasker, xposed framework, ifttt, homeseer, and zwave.

dolebomo said:
Mine controls the lights, garage door, nest, alarm, and fireplaces with voice commands. Besides moto360 and android wear, also needed autovoice, tasker, xposed framework, ifttt, homeseer, and zwave.
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Awesome. I wish I could do that.
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For that Pebble Locker app, can you shorten the distance the phone will lock?
I.e. the Moto 360 Bluetooth range is pretty far and I don't want the phone to be still in its unlocked state if I wonder 25 ft away from the phone.

lanwarrior said:
For that Pebble Locker app, can you shorten the distance the phone will lock?
I.e. the Moto 360 Bluetooth range is pretty far and I don't want the phone to be still in its unlocked state if I wonder 25 ft away from the phone.
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No, I don't see an option for that in the app.
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The_other_ray said:
4) navigation is really helpful. I can now start Google maps navigation and get turn by turn alerts on my watch while running Ingress on my phone so I can still collect XM while driving and not miss out on navigation instructions.
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What I hate about navigation on the watch is that starting it will turn on the screen on my phone. If I need walking direction and the phone is on my pocket, this will burn a lot battery and the phone is prone to accidental touches.

lanwarrior said:
What I hate about navigation on the watch is that starting it will turn on the screen on my phone. If I need walking direction and the phone is on my pocket, this will burn a lot battery and the phone is prone to accidental touches.
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Yeah I noticed that also. So knowing that, I just turn my phone screen off before putting it in my pocket.
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The_other_ray said:
Yeah I noticed that also. So knowing that, I just turn my phone screen off before putting it in my pocket.
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This creates extra steps for me:
1. Say "Ok, Google. Navigate to Starbucks"
2. Get phone out of my pocket
3. Wait till routing calculations is done
4. Turn off screen
5. Put phone back in pocket
Kinda defeat the hands free feature of Android Wear, isn't it? [emoji12]

lanwarrior said:
This creates extra steps for me:
1. Say "Ok, Google. Navigate to Starbucks"
2. Get phone out of my pocket
3. Wait till routing calculations is done
4. Turn off screen
5. Put phone back in pocket
Kinda defeat the hands free feature of Android Wear, isn't it? [emoji12]
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Oh, I'm totally with you.
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The_other_ray said:
2) I play Ingress, so getting portal attack notifications or comm message notifications are really handy. I can then decide if I want to pull out my phone to recharge the portals or simply dismiss the notifications.
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I also play Ingress and I have had attack notifications off since i got my Black Gaurdian long ago, but i turned them back on the day i got my 360 and i love seeing them pop up. I can hit "Open on Phone" and when i pull the phone out of my pocket Ingress is already loading/loaded so i can recharge and/or @ the attacker in Comm.

The_other_ray said:
5) I'm very forgetful so before i got the watch, I set reminders with time and dates on my phone. But now, I can simply say "OK Google set a reminder for tomorrow at 12:00 pm to wish mom a happy birthday" all from my watch.
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One thing that annoys me, and this is more of a google now problem, is the card that shows up for an hour before reminders. I wish there was a way where you can either keep it from showing up early at all, or at least make it 10 min or something. For most reminders, I don't need it to cover my watch face for an hour and if I swipe it away I don't even get reminded at the correct time. Has anyone else noticed this?

PsychDrummer said:
One thing that annoys me, and this is more of a google now problem, is the card that shows up for an hour before reminders. I wish there was a way where you can either keep it from showing up early at all, or at least make it 10 min or something. For most reminders, I don't need it to cover my watch face for an hour and if I swipe it away I don't even get reminded at the correct time. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Yup, I noticed that as well. That doesn't make any sense.
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The_other_ray said:
Yup, I noticed that as well. That doesn't make any sense.
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I rather use Any.do for reminders but I won't be able to set it as a default app. At least I don't think.

I got my Moto 360 yesterday and tried my primary use case this morning. Wife and I run marathons and like many (some? ) runners we obsess over our stats. We've been using Garmin 410s to record our runs. My problem with that is that the pace is reports while running is really noisy - not useful for helping me to maintain my goal pace. The other issue is that the HRM gets bad readings later in my rn, probably because I perspire heavily. I got a bluetooth chest strap and it works great on my phone. But the phone is a relative PITA to use on runs. I have to keep it in a zip lock bag in a pocket and pockets are few in running gear. It's great to have an accessory on my wrist that can give me instant stats w/out digging my phone out of wherever I stowed it. Better yet, a tap on the phone starts recording when I'm ready to run, not before I stick my phone in my pocket. And when I'm done, the phone uploads my stats automatically.
good stuff

[Q] Bad Watch?

So I just got the ZW. Powered up and paired, got some notifications and all was fine. Left the house for 15 minutes came back to see a blank screen with the little cloud symbol at the top (always on is on). The original watch face is now not available and if I try to send new faces from the A. wear app they do not show up. Bluetooth connection is off and on with the phone (M8) the beside watch.
Performed a reset through the menu. Updated software through menu. No change to Bluetooth issues and most watch faces are gone from within watch menu...
Do I have a dud?
Frustrated...

myltz400 said:
So I just got the ZW. Powered up and paired, got some notifications and all was fine. Left the house for 15 minutes came back to see a blank screen with the little cloud symbol at the top (always on is on). The original watch face is now not available and if I try to send new faces from the A. wear app they do not show up. Bluetooth connection is off and on with the phone (M8) the beside watch.
Performed a reset through the menu. Updated software through menu. No change to Bluetooth issues and most watch faces are gone from within watch menu...
Do I have a dud?
Frustrated...
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The little cloud means that the watch is not paired connected to your phone. I would delete android wear and Zenwatch manager, if you have it, then reinstall and pair to your watch.
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bfilipowski said:
The little cloud means that the watch is not paired connected to your phone. I would delete android wear and Zenwatch manager, if you have it, then reinstall and pair to your watch.
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Thank you for the advise. I did just that and just left it alone overnight. This morning the watch faces are all back as far as I can tell, I will report later about connection issues.

Moto Body App and Moto Connect Update

In case you did not see last week Motorola not only updated their Moto Connect app (which I had uninstalled) they also added a Moto Body app.
First Moto Body - When I first got the watch and had Moto Connect installed I thought the weekly activity emails were actually good, but it sucked that you really could not view these during the week. I found the UP! work around to be OK, but would not always work and Google Fit, well is Google Fit. However now having an app for this makes it much better. This is not the best fitness app out there, but it is also not the worst, I would say right now it is already better than Google Fit. Also you can have this report to Google Fit for you. I am actually very happy by this.
I also reinstalled the Moto Connect app because of the talk about the new watch faces. I have to say I am actually very impressed with the new watches and the customization you can do to them. The also use the new update to make the faces interactive. I personal really like Dials II, you have 10 watch face color options and three accent color option. I also has three dial options. I had been using a couple other apps for my watch faces, but really like these and the options. My current watch face is doing everything my old ones did and I seem to have picked up some battery life as well (could just be coincidence).
Overall I have to say Motorola has been doing a good job with the Android Wear updates to the app updates recently. Still very happy with my 360 purchase back in February when it got discounted.
Here is a link for the story on the new app / update:
http://www.droid-life.com/2015/09/14/moto-body-becomes-its-own-app-moto-connect-gets-a-big-update/

i like Dials II as well. Just wish it would show Google Fit steps on the dial instead of the Moto steps. For some reason it always shows me yesterday's steps, not the current steps today.

HuStLaZ said:
i like Dials II as well. Just wish it would show Google Fit steps on the dial instead of the Moto steps. For some reason it always shows me yesterday's steps, not the current steps today.
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Interesting, mine shows the correct steps and dates. I have even been up at 1 AM and it shows 0 when I put it on and then starts counting.
I also like being able to change the color of the watchface while it charging. You can change it in moto connect or when it is sitting on the charger if you swipe up (or down can't remember right this second) it scrolls through the different colors as well.

kxhaz said:
Interesting, mine shows the correct steps and dates. I have even been up at 1 AM and it shows 0 when I put it on and then starts counting.
I also like being able to change the color of the watchface while it charging. You can change it in moto connect or when it is sitting on the charger if you swipe up (or down can't remember right this second) it scrolls through the different colors as well.
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Unable to use the new interactive watch faces. The watch does vibrate on clicking apply on watch face from connect app does it does not show up.
Any Help.

Google Fit

Howdy everyone,
I just purchased a Huawei watch that I'd like to use to replace my FitBit plus lots more that you can do with Android Wear.
Odd thing that I'm dealing with is that the watch and phone are reporting wildly different steps - it appears that Google Fit on the watch and Google Fit on the phone are not communicating.
I have looked at the Google Fit Connects Apps -> Google Fit apps & devices, but do not see the Huawei watch listed - if the watch is connected properly, should it show up here? If it is supposed to be listed to connected Google Fit properly, how do I make that happen?
Thanks.

Which app is set to count your steps in the actions menu?
Android Wear App -> scroll to the bottom -> More Actions -> Show me my steps -> Fit

Good question. Ive been thinking about this. Given that Fit is on the device and the Huawei fit app is also there, which app gives the better stats, as they show different step counts. Also, if you are using the Google Fit app, is that only counting steps when you have your phone on you, or does it count steps when you leave your phone on your desk?
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Just tested it and it appears as though Google Fit uses the watch to calculate step data as I left my phone on my desk and went for a walk, and the step count increased.

I have the same problem i was expecting the watch would be connected to the phone app but it doesn't look like it. So what happens when i start one of the predefined activities on the phone such as stationary bike the watch is not doing anything. I can only start tracking from the native wear app which has very few predefined tracking types. Is there any solution to this?

Not sure if this is a common bug or not - if I do NOT have Fit installed on my phone, fit tracks steps on my watch fine, but if I install Fit on my phone, it just reads zeros for current activity on the phone and the watch.. but if I uninstall Fit on the phone, it seems to work fine on the watch. Trying to figure out if it's a phone or watch issue. I did give it permissions to read sensors on both phone and watch on install

Same issues
Google fit did not record steps on my gen 1 Moto 360. I just bought the Huawei Watch as a replacement and fit still does not record steps. The Huawei app works great. I am at a loss on how to get this working. I can't believe it does not work at all. There has to be a setting issue but I have yet to find it.
Update: I have Fit working pretty well now. (have to go back and change my rating of fit from 1 star to maybe 3 ) Here is what I did:
- Deactivated Fit on my phone and deleted all the data. Then I reactivated it.
- I went into the Wuawei fitness app and connected it to Fit. There was not an option to do it the other way. But after I connected it it shows up in connected apps in Fit.
- Everything pretty much started working after this. One thing to note: Everything does not sync automatically. I have to open my Wuawei fitness app on my phone and update it before those steps seem to show up in Fit. So, it is not perfect but it is close.

Old thread but if you guys are still having the same issues with Huawei Watch and Google Fit, please join this thread and submit a bug report. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77606997

google fit and moto 360 problems

hello
Yesterday i installed google fit on my galaxy s6 and moto 360 gen1
But i have problems with it. i have set activity detection to on and body sensor on.
But what the problem is is that you need your phone in your pocket or it doesnt register steps.
So if i only have my watch on me and not my phone there are not counted any steps.
Then the second problem is that if i want to start an exersice like running it says enable gps on phone. But i dont want to bring my phone with me while running.
The third and final problem is that the heart rate doesnt work automatic it only putts it in the graph when i start the heart rate sensor myself. but it doesnt measure it like every hour
Hope someone can help me with these problems.

someone?

You will need to ensure that MotoBody on the 360 has access to sensors. It does not matter if you intend to use MotoBody or not - I went through the same behavior and in discussion with the Google Fit team, this was their resolution to my issue.

sfringer said:
You will need to ensure that MotoBody on the 360 has access to sensors. It does not matter if you intend to use MotoBody or not - I went through the same behavior and in discussion with the Google Fit team, this was their resolution to my issue.
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well the moto body app is counting the steps. but it is not getting updated in google fit

No, you do not need to install Moto Body on your phone.
Moto Body is already present on the Moto 360 and you simply need to navigate to the permissions section of the settings app, choose Moto Body and ensure Sensors are enabled.

sfringer said:
No, you do not need to install Moto Body on your phone.
Moto Body is already present on the Moto 360 and you simply need to navigate to the permissions section of the settings app, choose Moto Body and ensure Sensors are enabled.
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i have done that now the moto body app on my watch says i have done 101 steps but google fit still shows the same apps as before. i did grant permission so moto body could look into my sensors

It may take a few minutes for Google Fit on the 360 to start registering steps. This is the process I took per guidance from the Google Fit devs. Here is the reply from that email exchange:
"Thanks for the bug report. Could you try enabling moto body permissions, by opening the moto body app on the watch?
Enabling permissions should trigger the moto body app to start recording steps, and these should be reflected in Google Fit."
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Once I performed these steps I have not gone back to making use of Moto Body. Are you using one of the Google Fit watch faces to track steps or just launching the Google Fit app on your 360?

sfringer said:
It may take a few minutes for Google Fit on the 360 to start registering steps. This is the process I took per guidance from the Google Fit devs. Here is the reply from that email exchange:
Once I performed these steps I have not gone back to making use of Moto Body. Are you using one of the Google Fit watch faces to track steps or just launching the Google Fit app on your 360?
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i use an google fit watch face but there is not chaning anything when i look in the moto body app just to check it it counting steps but no steps in the google fit app.

sfringer said:
It may take a few minutes for Google Fit on the 360 to start registering steps. This is the process I took per guidance from the Google Fit devs. Here is the reply from that email exchange:
Once I performed these steps I have not gone back to making use of Moto Body. Are you using one of the Google Fit watch faces to track steps or just launching the Google Fit app on your 360?
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EDIT: The watch it counting steps now when i leave my phone on my desk. but when i get back and the watch reconnects to the phone the steps wont update on the phone. so the phone says 8500 steps while the moto 360 says 8600 steps for example. and after 5 minutes or so my watch also says 8500 steps again. so the phone overrides the watch

Glad to hear it's finally counting steps on your 360.
As for step sync between the 360 and your Galaxy S6, I don't have any insight there other than I've noticed that step count syncing is never instantaneous (and even slower to the Fit website).

sfringer said:
Glad to hear it's finally counting steps on your 360.
As for step sync between the 360 and your Galaxy S6, I don't have any insight there other than I've noticed that step count syncing is never instantaneous (and even slower to the Fit website).
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Thanks but it is not synching at all.
When the moto 360 has an higher value then my phone the watch sets the stepcounter back to the count that is on the phone.

I've not encountered the issue you've described so I'm not certain what steps you could take to correct the issue.
You could try submitting an issue in the Google Fit community on Google+.

sfringer said:
I've not encountered the issue you've described so I'm not certain what steps you could take to correct the issue.
You could try submitting an issue in the Google Fit community on Google+.
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i did that but now response yet

thebest07111 said:
i did that but now response yet
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Did you get a response? I am having the exact issue after bring my moto 360 from beyond the grave.

Any update on this? Having same problems with my moto360