With most Android Wear watches lacking an ambient light sensor, this Huawei one included, I'm wondering if you often have to manually adjust brightness, either not to be blinded at night, or to actually see the screen in daylight.
As far as I understand, an awake watch will get brighter, and ambient mode will be darker. There's also the double and triple crown clicks for theater (screen off) and sunlight (brighter) modes. And things like Display Brightness for Wear, or through AutoWear for finer grained and somewhat automated results.
And that's what I'm really wondering: if I can get a satisfying custom behaviour through AutoWear, by slices of day time (eg, brightest at noon, and progressively darker as night approaches), that'd be fine enough to me. But if I constantly have to adjust things manually, I fear that would quickly become annoying (I can spend a lot of energy tweaking automation to ensure I can be as lazy as can be afterwards ).
Do you choose a middle ground brightness setting and are fine with it most of the time, except when you rarely have to double or triple crown click? Do you find yourself manually adjusting brightness a few times a day? Do you constantly fiddle with brightness settings?
I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
I missed it greatly from my urbane, so I went back to it.
suzook said:
I missed it greatly from my urbane, so I went back to it.
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Uh? Missed what? The Urbane has no ambient light sensor either, does it?
noraef said:
Uh? Missed what? The Urbane has no ambient light sensor either, does it?
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UH! Yeah it does! Its by the lugs.
suzook said:
by the lugs
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You're speaking of the two holes for the mic? Anyway, I'm not intested in the Urbane at all, so it's completely off topic.
What I'm interested in is how often do people with the Huawei watch feel the need to manually change brightness settings.
Crown
So, by hitting the crown three times, the brightness goes up one level?
Also, is the crown button function behavior customizable?
Thanks!
atoy74 said:
I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
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gaikokujin said:
So, by hitting the crown three times, the brightness goes up one level?
Also, is the crown button function behavior customizable?
Thanks!
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It actually goes to max brightness only until the screen goes back to sleep.
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atoy74 said:
It actually goes to max brightness only until the screen goes back to sleep.
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I see, thanks.
I don't change it often at all. Most of the time 2 or 3 has been plenty bright for me, and the triple click to up it a bit works pretty well...
noraef said:
You're speaking of the two holes for the mic? Anyway, I'm not intested in the Urbane at all, so it's completely off topic.
What I'm interested in is how often do people with the Huawei watch feel the need to manually change brightness settings.
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Have the watch since tuesday ("Active", ie black, with single layer leather) And I agree: most of the time, 2 or 3 are enough. 1 is actually even too bright to me at night, especially since I'm seemingly unable to have ambient brightness get as low as how bright it is awake at 1 (is ambient brightness level fixed?).
Under direct sunlight, it's not always that easy to see even with the bright 3-click sunlight mode. But generally, twisting my wrist a little to avoid direct reflections, or at worst covering it a bit with my other hand, is enough.
noraef said:
Have the watch since tuesday ("Active", ie black, with single layer leather) And I agree: most of the time, 2 or 3 are enough. 1 is actually even too bright to me at night, especially since I'm seemingly unable to have ambient brightness get as low as how bright it is awake at 1 (is ambient brightness level fixed?).
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Ambient mode brightness is not configurable on the watch, but certain 3rd-party watchfaces offer this setting. I'm using Skymaster and it offers different brightness for ambient mode.
agentdr8 said:
Ambient mode brightness is not configurable on the watch, but certain 3rd-party watchfaces offer this setting. I'm using Skymaster and it offers different brightness for ambient mode.
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Does that setting only apply to the actual watch face, or to the whole display? I've managed to make it dimmer with a partially transparent black layer in WatchMaker, but it doesn't apply to cards previews, or icons such as mute...
SWapp True Dark allows for actually adjusting the brightness of the whole ambient display, which is already great, but I'd rather have that manageable through Tasker (to have it auto adjust by time of the day). Have asked João if this could be implemented in AutoWear, so maybe it'll end up manageable through that.
Seems quite crazy to me this setting is not available by default. Reminds me, even though I think Android is the best OS of its kind, how lame I find it without the truckload of customization I lay over it...
I have 8 days ago my Huawei SW. It's my first SmartWatch and I'm really disappointed not to do anything with Tasker and Android Wear to adjust brightness to my liking clock automatically.
On the day I need more brightness when I'm out and at night the minimum brightness of the screen saver is very strong.
The bothers me most at the moment is so intense brightness of screen saver at night. No achievement make it more tenuous. Anyone know if there is any app that you can do?
Hopefully one of the experts and boys of this site something to be developed further manipulate Androi tasker and wear.
I've been using Display Brightness for Wear. It allows for different brightness settings for day and night in different situations. I wish it was more customizable or there were some ways to control brightness with tasker. Unfortunately, I've been unable to find those.
Autowear just needs to be able to receive a message that ambient is selected. It thinks the watch is off instead of in ambient. Frankly, though, SWapp does what I need. I also use WatchMaker faces and customize the dim mode to my liking.
i use Wear Mini Launcher and have it set to show the widgets before the apps, so one swipe to the right gets me a brightness slider. Its very each to adjust this way. With Wear Mini Launcher I can also quickly set my phone to silent/vibrate mode, turn on flashlight, ping the phone even if the phone is on vibrate, etc
brizey said:
Autowear just needs to be able to receive a message that ambient is selected. It thinks the watch is off instead of in ambient. Frankly, though, SWapp does what I need. I also use WatchMaker faces and customize the dim mode to my liking.
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maximus96 said:
i use Wear Mini Launcher and have it set to show the widgets before the apps, so one swipe to the right gets me a brightness slider. Its very each to adjust this way. With Wear Mini Launcher I can also quickly set my phone to silent/vibrate mode, turn on flashlight, ping the phone even if the phone is on vibrate, etc
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atoy74 said:
I don't touch it at all. I have it set to 4 and could even get away with 3 if I want. When you need a brightness boost just hit the crown three times and you're set.
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wait...WAT?! i've never known this...btw it doesn't work with Android Wear 2.0 preview 2
I've thought of something somewhat cool but I'm no developer.
What if we can use our cellphone's ambient light sensor to sync with the watch so that the watch can get both bright and/or dim when needed?
Theoretically this will function correctly if your phone isn't in your pocket all the time.
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Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?
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Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?
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I don't know if it's allowed in the apps or not, but even if it was you're battery life would go to crap in a hurry.
I have not see one. But agree, that would be a battery hit.
Sure, but I get 2,5 days of battery (always on, using only watch faces that doesn't dim but stops the ticking, turning the watch off at night) so I'd like to test running it with the ticking and see if I got through a day. I'd say it'd be worth a try.
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Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?
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It is not a wear limitation. I haven't see any ready-made watch faces which show the second hand ticking even in the dimmed mode. But you can use a tool like Watchmaker to create such a watchface (or use some existing Watchmaker watch face and customise it) to show the ticking second had. No idea how much of an extra drain it will be on your battery though.
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It is not a wear limitation. I haven't see any ready-made watch faces which show the second hand ticking even in the dimmed mode. But you can use a tool like Watchmaker to create such a watchface (or use some existing Watchmaker watch face and customise it) to show the ticking second had. No idea how much of an extra drain it will be on your battery though.
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Are you sure you can actually customize the watch faces in Watchmaker to show the ticking of the seconds? I've done a few customizations in Watchmaker but I haven't found a way to keep showing the seconds. If you know of a way, let me know
BoatA said:
Are you sure you can actually customize the watch faces in Watchmaker to show the ticking of the seconds? I've done a few customizations in Watchmaker but I haven't found a way to keep showing the seconds. If you know of a way, let me know
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You are right. My mistake. You can make it "show" the second hand in the dim mode by setting "Always Show" but not make it tick once the dim mode kicks in. Readson I was fooled is - on your mobile where you are editing the watchface there is a button which helps you simulate the bright and dim modes to let you see what the face may look like on the watch. When you press this button to simulate teh dim mode, for the face I was working on the second hand continued to tick. but once I transfered the face to the watch it stopped ticking!
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You are right. My mistake. You can make it "show" the second hand in the dim mode by setting "Always Show" but not make it tick once the dim mode kicks in. Readson I was fooled is - on your mobile where you are editing the watchface there is a button which helps you simulate the bright and dim modes to let you see what the face may look like on the watch. When you press this button to simulate teh dim mode, for the face I was working on the second hand continued to tick. but once I transfered the face to the watch it stopped ticking!
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Yes, that was the conclusion I too arrived at. It's a little surprising that Watchmaker doesn't simply have a non-dimmed mode option.
And even more surprising that Watchmaker lacks a backup option
I used Styler. They have a "full ambient" mode that displays animations and additional details. It basically is a black amd white version of the actual watch face.
Purje Black allows multiple settings for ambient mode such as high and low modes.