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I bought my Smartwatch 2 from amazon and apart from being totally disapointed by the fact that Sony removed the shake2wake, music widget and auto brightness I have found an other problem: it gets stuck (happens like once a day) and it usually happens when I let it turn the screen off by its own, it will just dim the screen and get stuck in a dimmed screen state, showing my apps, but I can't interact with it, is anyone else experiencing this, and did anyone manage to fix this problem, or is my devices defective and I should send it back for repairing, and if that's the case can I send it to Sony Roumania instead, cause I don't like the idea of sending it to Amazon UK?
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I bought my Smartwatch 2 from amazon and apart from being totally disapointed by the fact that Sony removed the shake2wake, music widget and auto brightness I have found an other problem: it gets stuck (happens like once a day) and it usually happens when I let it turn the screen off by its own, it will just dim the screen and get stuck in a dimmed screen state, showing my apps, but I can't interact with it, is anyone else experiencing this, and did anyone manage to fix this problem, or is my devices defective and I should send it back for repairing, and if that's the case can I send it to Sony Roumania instead, cause I don't like the idea of sending it to Amazon UK?
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Do you think you might have downloaded an app that is causing this? I haven't had my watch for long but, I downloaded a calander app which would cause my watch to freeze whenever I'd open it.
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Do you think you might have downloaded an app that is causing this? I haven't had my watch for long but, I downloaded a calander app which would cause my watch to freeze whenever I'd open it.
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Downloaded only Sony's apps (most of them) and WatchIT and the xbmc and tasker extensions, don't think any of one can cause that...
EDIT: Forgot to say it also happened when my phone was dead, so the watch was not connected to anything.
Just if anyone is interested and has the same problem as I did, I managed to solve it by unpairing the watch from the phone, reseting the watch and doing the whole repairing process.
Ranomez said:
Just if anyone is interested and has the same problem as I did, I managed to solve it by unpairing the watch from the phone, reseting the watch and doing the whole repairing process.
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Yep, I'm experiencing the same problem as I'm typing. I was just viewing an email and, exactly like you said, the backlight slowly turned off and it just stopped working. I'm going to soft-reset the smartwatch.
InjecTioN said:
Yep, I'm experiencing the same problem as I'm typing. I was just viewing an email and, exactly like you said, the backlight slowly turned off and it just stopped working. I'm going to soft-reset the smartwatch.
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Hope you fix it man, the smartwatch 2 is a beautiful device, unfortunately mine is no more (screen got burnt so I sent it back to amazon and got my money back) so I really hope you fix it and keep enjoying it cause I really miss it but oh well, waiting for a g watch and hoping to be as satisfied of it as I was of the smartwatch 2.
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.
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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.
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No, I don't see an option for that in the app.
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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.
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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.
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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]
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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]
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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.
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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?
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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?
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Yup, I noticed that as well. That doesn't make any sense.
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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
So I was hesitant to proceed with the update since my 360 has been working so well and the battery life increased tremendously when I got my Note 5.
After a few days of the update pestering me I decided to go for it.
Now there are 2 things that are very annoying.
The first, whenever the screen comes on, there is a slight delay in the watch face.
It lights up with a black face and the hands are white, then it switches to whatever face I have and respected dials.
I'm not using facer or anything, just the stock moto Dials 2. This is very annoying and makes the watch seem slow.
The second thing is that the watchface doesnt turn on when I receive texts anymore.
The vibrate function still works, but the screen won't light up.
Is there a setting that changed making this the default? I would prefer the screen turn on when I receive texts.
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Make sure 'card previews' turned on from the android wear app, other wise your experience with the faces sounds buggy! A factory reset would help on that.
Factory reset doesnt work, this also happens to me since the update, looks like this is a firmware problem.
Damnit, I wish I didn't update.
Battery is also noticeably worse.
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So I was hesitant to proceed with the update since my 360 has been working so well and the battery life increased tremendously when I got my Note 5.
After a few days of the update pestering me I decided to go for it.
Now there are 2 things that are very annoying.
The first, whenever the screen comes on, there is a slight delay in the watch face.
It lights up with a black face and the hands are white, then it switches to whatever face I have and respected dials.
I'm not using facer or anything, just the stock moto Dials 2. This is very annoying and makes the watch seem slow.
The second thing is that the watchface doesnt turn on when I receive texts anymore.
The vibrate function still works, but the screen won't light up.
Is there a setting that changed making this the default? I would prefer the screen turn on when I receive texts.
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Same exact two issues here and I'm shocked I haven't seen more people complain about them. The first one is a nuisance but the second one completely devalues the purpose of the watch making it useless. Not seeing the text/email/etc... and only having a vibration on your wrist is pointless. I could keep my phone on vibrate in my pocket if I wanted to be notified of a new text/email without seeing the actual message. Please post a fix if one is found!
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Same exact two issues here and I'm shocked I haven't seen more people complain about them. The first one is a nuisance but the second one completely devalues the purpose of the watch making it useless. Not seeing the text/email/etc... and only having a vibration on your wrist is pointless. I could keep my phone on vibrate in my pocket if I wanted to be notified of a new text/email without seeing the actual message. Please post a fix if one is found!
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Can you found a way to fix it?
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The first issue is because the watch now comes on in ambient mode first. Even if you don't use ambient mode. It sucks. Luckily i use Watchmaker for my watch face so I went in and made all the parts (hands date etc...) to be visible in ambient mode.
I have noticed that if I wait a couple of seconds the notification does appear on my watch screen but it is after the vibrate, not immediate. I thought it wasn't showing up at first too. Still, I wish it was quicker as I look right away.
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I went back to using Facer for my watchface and the delay is gone.
Also did they completely remove the restart option? Now it's just power off, and then press and hold the side button.
I'm experiencing both issues as you do on 6.0.1.
Also yes, reboot option is gone from update.
The renamed reset with "unpair from watch". Not gone, just to mess with us.
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The renamed reset with "unpair from watch". Not gone, just to mess with us.
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Reboot is not reset...
I've also noticed that theater mode does not work after the mm update (unrooted, ota). I usually set it to theater mode at night to avoid burn in and just because I don't want it on all night. Now, it looks like it's blacked out, but when I wake up, the charging screen is lit up. Anyone else getting this?
I have the exact same issue after the update. Theater mode will not keep the display off if the watch is being charged. Off the charger, it works as expected. Quite an annoying bug.
If I turn ON the theatre mod with double press the power button before I put the clock on the charging dock, after that screen continue charge with screen off.
For me it's work.
Can anyone try it?
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Just tried that - doesn't work for me. Screen turns off but once I put it on the charger, it comes back on after a few seconds. I'm watching it and it's still on a few minutes later.
Same here. Screen always turns back on
I'm getting the first bug the OP mentioned havn't noticed the second one though.
However the first bug is annoying enough, hopefully there'll be a quick patch.
Little patience, update to Marshmallow is great.
Here's what I mean with screen off when charge:
So in the morning until you take it out of the dock and go to work.
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man i just boughjt it 2 days ago and battery sucks,now i am trying to update cause i heard batter improved,but i cant ,watch start download but take too long and then show me a message charger to update blah blah but phone is charger is over 90 percent i have reset phone and uninstalled app many times this is ridiculous now i know why motorola was giving away this pos when yopu buy the 64gb moto x pure edition arrrrgggg
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Sorry I read wrong...but wouldn't you just use the power off option and then turn back on to reboot?
Guys who have sideloaded this, can you please tell what seems changed and what's new so that we can jot down a Changelog here?
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The charging screen is now set to 12 or 24hr depending on the system time.
The watch makes noises now
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My vibrations SEEM stronger, or is that just me wanting them to be?
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My vibrations SEEM stronger, or is that just me wanting them to be?
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thats what she said...
Is there any keyboard for writing message now?
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No keyboard. Device slightly laggy, bluetooth connection drops at times. After several restarts of watch and HP, slightly smooth.
Even with always on display set to on, the watch face will periodically go black. Apparently because of doze... I would prefer to exclude the ambient watch face from this feature as I do not believe it is unreasonable to expect my watch face to be always on when it is set to always on.
If tilt to wake is not active you will need to touch the screen or press the crown button to bring the watch face back. Because of this I have now enabled tilt to wake so I only need to tilt my wrist to bring the watch face back when this occurs.
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Even with always on display set to on, the watch face will periodically go black. Apparently because of doze... I would prefer to exclude the ambient watch face from this feature as I do not believe it is unreasonable to expect my watch face to be always on when it is set to always on.
If tilt to wake is not active you will need to touch the screen or press the crown button to bring the watch face back. Because of this I have now enabled tilt to wake so I only need to tilt my wrist to bring the watch face back when this occurs.
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Doesn't doze only activate if your watch is stationary? How often do you keep your wrist in the same position? or am I wrong? I want to keep showing off my watch faces! Haha
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Doesn't doze only activate if your watch is stationary? How often do you keep your wrist in the same position? or am I wrong? I want to keep showing off my watch faces! Haha
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I believe it may have to do with the orientation of the watch. I read a related discussion on Reddit which suggested the screen off being activated by some period of time where the watch face is not facing the wearer.
This happened to me 4 times yesterday with tilt to wake off after the update. Each time I noticed it I had not been inactive although I was not continuously looking at my watch. The most disturbing incident was when I was doing dishes and cleaning up around the house after which I sat down to watch TV and noticed my watch face was off.
I finally turned the tilt to wake option back on and I have not noticed this since. When I wore my Gear Live as my daily watch I always left tilt to wake on but since getting the Huawei Watch I feel as though it is a bit more sensitive and tilt to wake activates more frequently. This was having a negative impact on battery life for me which is why I turned it off.
I will update if I notice it going off with tilt to wake active.
the time it takes to wake the screen is still too long for my taste. I raise my wrist so the watch faces me but it still takes over 1 second until it wakes up.
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I believe it may have to do with the orientation of the watch. I read a related discussion on Reddit which suggested the screen off being activated by some period of time where the watch face is not facing the wearer.
This happened to me 4 times yesterday with tilt to wake off after the update. Each time I noticed it I had not been inactive although I was not continuously looking at my watch. The most disturbing incident was when I was doing dishes and cleaning up around the house after which I sat down to watch TV and noticed my watch face was off.
I finally turned the tilt to wake option back on and I have not noticed this since. When I wore my Gear Live as my daily watch I always left tilt to wake on but since getting the Huawei Watch I feel as though it is a bit more sensitive and tilt to wake activates more frequently. This was having a negative impact on battery life for me which is why I turned it off.
I will update if I notice it going off with tilt to wake active.
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Yeah.. I usually keep gestures off. Waste of battery to keep it on... But I guess I have to leave it on.. Today is my first day with 1.4 so let's see how it goes..
The speaker and phone works surprisingly well. Have any of you discovered any apps that use the audio? For example, glide is pretty cool because you can watch video messages on your watch and respond with an audio message. I am disappointed that Google now doesn't have the audio voice response.
The speaker is actually better than I expected. There is a youtube app in the play store that lets you play videos on the watch. I messed about with it last night, but the connection is pretty slow over bluetooth. The sound was surprisingly good however.
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The speaker and phone works surprisingly well. Have any of you discovered any apps that use the audio? For example, glide is pretty cool because you can watch video messages on your watch and respond with an audio message. I am disappointed that Google now doesn't have the audio voice response.
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No way....lmao that's the reason speaker should work (along with calls ) you telling me you driving and ask Google a question only for it to reply back with no voice input? Can anyone else confirm this stupid nonsense ?
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Yeah I expected Google now to use the speaker. It's stupid that it doesn't.
Google maps isn't showing a map for me anymore. Anyone else?
The music app on watch doesn't work anyone has the same problem ?
And how can you send songs to the watch?
You are now able to manually adjust date/time and time zone. This was actually the most important new feature for me and something that should have been available from the start. Android Wear is getting better but it still has a long way to go.
It has taken me almost a week to figure out how to get and make calls on it.
I had to be Johnny on the spot, as many times I only get 2 rings, and mine goes to voice mail. I see caller ID names or numbers only about 25% of the time. The watch seems to have about a 1-2 second lag, where it rings, but doesn't tell you WHO is calling, or a number.
I received a call today on it, driving down the road. Swiped right, answered it, and was able to talk to my son on it, for a bit. My impressions, you can hear ok, if the windows are rolled up, and your stereo is off/turned down. I would like it 2x as loud, maybe software will eventually get it there, but if there is much ambient noise, it's tough for me to hear.
That being said I have old, grew up on a farm ears, road a tractor, shot guns, etc, so my hearing is probably a 3/10 compared to you nubes. You may find the volume is fine, maybe even loud.
I had to download and install a LOUD ringtone, just so I could hear it ring. It was a longer than normal process involving Wear Media. I had to download wear media 1.4.6 from the developer to work with a Nexus 6P. It works, but didn't like my ring tone size of 1.2mb, it choked on that, but it would load 100-200KB no problems if they were mp3
I used it walking around the park last night. Same issue, very much traffic, and the wind blowing, and it's too hard for me to hear it. If you got off the main traffic, and out of the wind, it was just "loud enough".
I'm curious what your user experience has been, and whether you have stumbled across anything interesting about how your use has been?
I am curious whether anyone else is having this problem as I cannot find anything about it online. I have an issue that my Pixel XL starts turning DND mode on and off repeatedly with no interaction from me. It cycles back and forth every second or so and the DND icon comes and goes from the notification bar as it does this. This also seems to run down the battery and heat up the phone. No clearing out of applications seems to fix this but if I reboot the phone it goes away. I should also note that I find my Pixel goes into DND mode all the time unintentionally . About half the time I take it out to make a call I see that DND is on. This happens even when it is not cycling like this repeatedly. Anyone else having problems like this?
Are they any DND rules setup that might be triggering? Do you have any other automation app installed, like Tasker, that could be causing thisre
I have seen this happen on my phone a few times - during the day, which is against the schedule that I set. It's not often enough to bother me, but it is somewhat worrisome.
These bugs man!
also experienced it. i wondered if it was impacted by android wear because i dont see it when i dont have my watch on.
i also noticed it goes into that DND mode when you make a call. so maybe it's not coming out of it when you hang up
DND is flaky
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I am curious whether anyone else is having this problem as I cannot find anything about it online. I have an issue that my Pixel XL starts turning DND mode on and off repeatedly with no interaction from me. It cycles back and forth every second or so and the DND icon comes and goes from the notification bar as it does this. This also seems to run down the battery and heat up the phone. No clearing out of applications seems to fix this but if I reboot the phone it goes away. I should also note that I find my Pixel goes into DND mode all the time unintentionally . About half the time I take it out to make a call I see that DND is on. This happens even when it is not cycling like this repeatedly. Anyone else having problems like this?
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I tried using DND when i first got the phone but it was inconsistent and flaky.
Went back to silence premium and havent had any issues since.
i have the same problem, but also using android wear.. very odd.
I also have a smartwatch connected. Perhaps the bug is related to Android Wear.
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I also have a smartwatch connected. Perhaps the bug is related to Android Wear.
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So that's really interesting. I have a first gen Asus Zenwatch and I removed the Zenwatch Manager app late last week and the problem appears to have stopped. I still get the occasional DND turning on when I don't think I have activated it, but the cycling back and forth appears to have stopped. I should also note that I apparently got an upgrade to the watch firmware last week (it said upgrading when I woke up) so this could have resolved the issue as well. Regardless it does not seem to have happened in several days.
Android wear related I'm sure. When I go to hit volume down it says dnd- android wear
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Im using android wear and i am seeing the same problem.
Same here. Huawei watch.
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Only notice it when on phone call. Zenwatch 2. But, currently my watch isn't paired with phone.
Happens with Samsung Gear Fit 2 as well.
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Here to add to the Android wear list, using an LG urbane.
Someone in another thread suggested deleting the three default automatic rules for do not disturb. I did that a couple days ago and haven't had the problem since. I have an Android Wear watch connected too.
Happens to me also, while connected to my Misfit Ray.