Hi Guys!
Just purchased the steel band version of the SW3 and it should be here next week! Really excited as this is my first smartwatch and also got it at a decent price too!
Anyway, just wondering about the following:
Is there a special app store for watch only apps?
How do I go about downloading new watch faces?
Is the type of screen used prone to screen burn?
Exactly how waterproof is this watch in Metres?
Thanks
Is there a special app store for watch only apps?
No, you just use the Play store, although there are apps that act as android wear stores.
How do I go about downloading new watch faces?
Use a program like watchmaker or facer and the facerepo website, personally I think watchmaker is better than facer.
Is the type of screen used prone to screen burn?
I haven't noticed any and I think it is unlikely.
Exactly how waterproof is this watch in Metres?
Not sure although I take mine swimming every day and wear it in the jacuzzi, steam room and shower and haven't noticed any problems.
Enjoy your new awesome watch, I am jealous that you have the steel strap, can't wait until Sony sort their act out and release the straps separately!
Joachim Winter said:
Is there a special app store for watch only apps?
No, you just use the Play store, although there are apps that act as android wear stores.
How do I go about downloading new watch faces?
Use a program like watchmaker or facer and the facerepo website, personally I think watchmaker is better than facer.
Is the type of screen used prone to screen burn?
I haven't noticed any and I think it is unlikely.
Exactly how waterproof is this watch in Metres?
Not sure although I take mine swimming every day and wear it in the jacuzzi, steam room and shower and haven't noticed any problems.
Enjoy your new awesome watch, I am jealous that you have the steel strap, can't wait until Sony sort their act out and release the straps separately!
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Cheers! I do have an android wear app ready on my phone...it's the Google one but unsure as to what it will actually do lol.
Hmmmm cheers! And these apps just push the faces to the watch do they?
Brilliant! Does the screen stay on all the time then but just dimly lit...or is it off until you carry out an action to make it show the time?
That's what I like to hear! Just I always wear my watches in the shower etc. and going on holiday soon so wanted to make sure it could be used in the pool...thanks for confirming it can be .
Yeah I wouldn't have gotten the normal rubber strap model, only do metal watches but so odd they have released the metal strap model but not the actual strap on it's own atm :-/ what's all that about!!?
The android wear app syncs your phone with your watch, and yeah watchmaker allows you to make watchfaces or download them and then it syncs them to your watch. The screen dims but still sows some elements of your watchface, with watchmaker you can decide which elements remain visible in the dimmed mode, and then the watchface turns on fully when you raise your wrist to look at the watch.
Sony are run by muppets apparently, I would throw money at them to have different straps if I could!!!!!!!
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The android wear app syncs your phone with your watch, and yeah watchmaker allows you to make watchfaces or download them and then it syncs them to your watch. The screen dims but still sows some elements of your watchface, with watchmaker you can decide which elements remain visible in the dimmed mode, and then the watchface turns on fully when you raise your wrist to look at the watch.
Sony are run by muppets apparently, I would throw money at them to have different straps if I could!!!!!!!
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Ahhhh got you! Sure it will all become perfectly clear once i get the watch and pair it to my phone though .
Ooooo good that there's that level of customisation! That's where the question about screen burn came into this....I didn't want it showing anything when I'm not looking at it, assuming I can have it so the screen is off until I raise the watch?
Haha most of these companies are! They're releasing the straps soon though aren't they?
I used both facer and watchmaker, and I would go with watchmaker. It seems more stable.
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I used both facer and watchmaker, and I would go with watchmaker. It seems more stable.
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Its worth noting that the faces made with FACER and WATCHMAKER make the cards behave differently to the standalone watchfaces.
I no longer use facer and watchmaker for this reason...
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Its worth noting that the faces made with FACER and WATCHMAKER make the cards behave differently to the standalone watchfaces.
I no longer use facer and watchmaker for this reason...
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Can you clarify what facer and watchmaker do to the cards. I am desperately in search of away to stop them from waking the screen up from ambient mode. I like the vibration as a notification but I do not need anyone around me reading the notification. It is an invasion of privacy. I would simply like to retrieve the cards when I want to. I have both facer and watchmaker and have not noticed any difference with reference to cards or notifications
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Can you clarify what facer and watchmaker do to the cards. I am desperately in search of away to stop them from waking the screen up from ambient mode. I like the vibration as a notification but I do not need anyone around me reading the notification. It is an invasion of privacy. I would simply like to retrieve the cards when I want to. I have both facer and watchmaker and have not noticed any difference with reference to cards or notifications
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hmm Its a bit hard to explain, but its very similiar to what you're seeing.
I'll show a video when i get a moment..
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Its worth noting that the faces made with FACER and WATCHMAKER make the cards behave differently to the standalone watchfaces.
I no longer use facer and watchmaker for this reason...
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Ahhhh right! Think I leave that then and just use the standard ones, it's coming tomorrow so can't wait to get playing around with it!
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Ahhhh right! Think I leave that then and just use the standard ones, it's coming tomorrow so can't wait to get playing around with it!
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Yay it came today!
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how do I find out which apps are feeding info into the watch? e.g I download 500px to get the watch faces from it and after i installed it on my phone the watch faces appeared on my watch...good, that's what I wanted but there is no way I'd have known that it had been configured to work with the smart watch unless I intentionally installed it knowing that.
What I mean is if I install a bunch of apps onto my phone that I don't want to push across info to my watch then how do I know if they're going to do this and how do I stop them?
Yay
My current fav watch face:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dd.watchdesigner.roadster
http://i.imgur.com/tiMuMeK.jpg
Has a great dim mode too with clear digital numbers that show up easy when dimmed
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Download Wear App Manager. The upcoming 5.1 release will show recently installed apps too. But til then this app does the trick
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My current fav watch face:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dd.watchdesigner.roadster
http://i.imgur.com/tiMuMeK.jpg
Has a great dim mode too with clear digital numbers that show up easy when dimmed
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Looks very old skool hehe. I'm currently loving the 500px digital screen that changes the wallpaper every time you look at it
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Download Wear App Manager. The upcoming 5.1 release will show recently installed apps too. But til then this app does the trick
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Perfect thank you! I'd settled with an app drawer tab for the SW3 apps because I use nova launcher but this wear app manager looks miles better fingers crossed we get 5.1 update too eh!
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can any of the app developers for Sony Smartwatch (2) tell me if it's possible to add watch faces to the watch?
the digital one on the SW2 is really too simple, with just the time showing, it really needs at least the date to be added
Hmm...I think you missed there a several choices built in to the watch. Go to the settings app on the watch scroll down and you will see the option to change the watch faces. Some include the date
But they aren't digital.
exactly, there are 4 "analog" watch faces and 1 digital and i want a digital one with date
what i really want to know is, can only Sony add watch faces?
Other developers can, although I don't know if they can do the proper "always on" effect. There is an app in the store now which claims to add more faces, although it isn't yet "optimised" for the SW2. For me though it just crashes on startup.
It seems its built into the firmware ... watch faces on the market are just WApps, they burn far too much battery to be useful IMO.
If we can hack the firmware, i'm fairly sure we can make our own watch faces, but i've no idea where you can even download the firmware to start with, let alone modding it.
Im interested how the display works, does anyone have proper info on this ? It looks to me like the display has two parts to it. one being the monochrome traditional style LCD and the other being the colour LCD ... or am i barking up the wrong tree ?
it's a transflective LCD, without backlight in low light its hardly readable, but in direct sunlight it reflects light in a certain way so it gets readable again
inside you can ofcourse use the backlight
Hello
So does this mean there is no way to have custom watchfaces that are always on. Like on the pebble?
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So does this mean there is no way to have custom watchfaces that are always on. Like on the pebble?
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At this time, yes.
As an owner of one myself I'm not too bothered by that fact. I've actually found the black analog face to look quite nice on the device - and I'm picky about my watch faces. My only complaint about the watch faces though is the fact that the digital watch face does not include a date/day indicator - it just displays the time.
Thanks for your answer.
I find this a little disappointing.
Always found that the ability to change watchfaces makes a smartwatch so interesting (next to notificationsbof course)
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i've tweeted something nice to @SonyXperia
any decent digital watch can show a time AND date, and a smartwatch can't?
Hi,
I was looking for the same thing: A digital watchface with at least the date. I was personally a bit disappointed with he analog watchface as is not nearly as sharp as on the picture that are used as publicity.
I found that the first smartwatch had such as watchface), but I'm not sure if this SW can be installed on the Smartwatch 2.
Me too....
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I notice on the box it shows a digital clockface with day and date....this isn't available on the watch itself!! Good grief, In this respect its a step back from the old one!
This is when graphics win over functionality
Still you must admit that this is a beautiful watch compared to the first version plastic thingy...
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please retweet this if you have a twitter account
https://twitter.com/JarlSX/status/388703033510469632
i never saw the date/time thing on the box, made a photo and tweeted it, please retweet
https://twitter.com/JarlSX/status/388987475953459200
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We can have more watchfaces but we have to pay for.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=SMARTWATCH&c=apps&hl=EN
There is a similar discussion going on on the Sony Forum, entiltled "SmartWatch 2 - shake to highlight?, battery life?" (as a fairly new user I can not post an external link here yet).
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I'm almost pretty sure that the watch in that video is a 1st production demo which had that feature on it - After looking round other sites which have tested the watch after official release this feature was removed apparently due to battery life as the watch would always be on thus battery life would not be that long, I'd like to also point out that on the demo versions there were more clock faces and a walkman widget - The walkman widget as far as I'm led to believe had a pixelation problem and was removed although the packaging still has an image of the widget on it
I'm curious to see if these functionalities will be brought back in as they are clearly printed on the box of the watch.
ok so I have posted a few times about both apps, but seeing as some really cool watchfaces have come out that use smooth second hands, I wanted to make a video to show a comparison of graphic-intensive watches with inbetween frame animations running with both apps!
Devices shown are Samsung Galaxy S4 and Moto 360.
The awesome watchface shown is Jarvis 2.0.
In both cases, i have turned on all smooth seconds settings and tags for both apps #DWFSS# / {drss}.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zNhOSo818&feature=youtu.be
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ok so I have posted a few times about both apps, but seeing as some really cool watchfaces have come out that use smooth second hands, I wanted to make a video to show a comparison of graphic-intensive watches with inbetween frame animations running with both apps!
Devices shown are Samsung Galaxy S4 and Moto 360.
The awesome watchface shown is Jarvis 2.0.
In both cases, i have turned on all smooth seconds settings and tags for both apps #DWFSS# / {drss}.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zNhOSo818&feature=youtu.be
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Watchmaker freezes and force closes if a file like jarvice is being used. Just be careful.
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It used to. Works perfect since 2.4.0 release. You can see it working in the video!
Installed it to see what the fuss was about. I don't like any of the included watches, and unliker Facer it does push in-app purchases on you (want custom backgrounds? pay, want some of the "nicer" watches? pay). So that was a little offputting.
However, the smooth animation is indeed smoother than Facer's. I imported a few of my Facer watches, (and after paying $0.99 for the "Premium" unlock) changed the second hand rotation to smooth and it's almost like my real Bulova with its silky smooth animation. So I'm going to continue using it for the meantime
Can anyone comment on the battery life when using 50 fps?
Battery seems ok for me, btw thanks dangreene1 for pulling out this comparision.
I did some modification myself to further imphasize the time on Jarvis.
If someone need it, plz let me know and i will post my Jarvis version
That looks great. Please do share
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Tried it without editing, tried after editing it, tried deleting everything in WatchMaker and reimporting. No matter what I do, this comes up very messed up on the watch. My own and the others i've imported into WatchMaker work fine. Anything messed up with the file itself? or WatchMaker being crappy?
Just tried to import modified version on my watchmaker, everything works perfectly normal to me don't know what causing prob on yours
Max_Pain said:
Installed it to see what the fuss was about. I don't like any of the included watches, and unliker Facer it does push in-app purchases on you (want custom backgrounds? pay, want some of the "nicer" watches? pay). So that was a little offputting.
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Just do what I did and don't buy any watch packs - you can import 100's from FaceRepo anyhow - then you only pay $0.99 as a one-off for the full premium upgrade which also gives you weather, battery widgets and some backgrounds thrown in.
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Can anyone comment on the battery life when using 50 fps?
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I find no difference in battery life between smooth and 1fps mode - very good overall.
Max_Pain said:
Tried it without editing, tried after editing it, tried deleting everything in WatchMaker and reimporting. No matter what I do, this comes up very messed up on the watch. My own and the others i've imported into WatchMaker work fine. Anything messed up with the file itself? or WatchMaker being crappy?
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The facer file works 80% in WatchMaker but breaks on the weather conditionals.
WatchMaker uses LUA for its expressions so the formatting is slightly different - try the link below for fixed weather formulas :
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx1TawGl-CXYZlpZQjd0ZEZVY2c&usp=sharing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04zN...ature=youtu.be
I watched the original video again and you really need to see it running on a real watch to appreciate the full difference in frame rate - it really is smooth as butter even on the Jarvis watch.
After trying both, I do agree Watchmaker is much smoother. Not sure about the battery life though.
Edit: How to import from FaceRepo or Facer files? .face and .zip files can work on the Watchmaker as well??
Update: It worked! Confirming .zip and .face can work on Watchmaker as well.
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The facer file works 80% in WatchMaker but breaks on the weather conditionals.
WatchMaker uses LUA for its expressions so the formatting is slightly different - try the link below for fixed weather formulas :
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bx1TawGl-CXYZlpZQjd0ZEZVY2c&usp=sharing
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Well the problem is the Jarvis 2.0 file is already a .watch file made for WatchMaker. It imports and looks fine om phone. No matter what i have tried x once i set the watch face on the watch, it's like the images are all jumbled so there are phantom red second and hour hands, and the layers arent in the right order and some layers seem to be missing. Something seriously wrong happens when sending to the watch that hasn't happened with other faces.
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Just re-import a second copy and send that instead.
I already explained i did that. As a matter of fact, every watch i try to import is messed up on the watch even though it looks fine on the phone. The only one working now is my Bulova face and the stock ones...
Going to try wiping everything for WatchMaker and reinstalling it.
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Oh ok apologies. Maybe try a file explorer for wear and clear the files on your watch?
WatchMaker is a piece of crap.
That's the short version. Long version? I uninstalled it from my phone. Used SD Maid to remove any leftovers. Manually deleted the entire BeautifulWatches folder. No WatchMaker or its files left on my phone. No WatchMaker available to select om watch.
Reinstall WatchMaker. Only import Jarvis 2.0 watch file. Looks fine on phone. Send to watch. Broken. Why?
Because WatchMaker isn't cleaning up the files in the watch itself. So i could see the face image from my Bulova face, see the face and dials from a Rolex face i had imported and deleted at some point yesterday, and some other images that don't belong to the Jarvis face. So until WatchMaker deletes all the files from old faces, this is an issue. And any other watch i import, it is broken on the watch for the same reason. The images being called by the XML are not corresponding to the images from that face file on the phone. And I'm back to Facer for the meantime.
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I agree that it should deal with the sync case where someone has done a manual wipe on the folder on their phone. But I am sure that workflow will be fixed soon.
other than that I am very happy to run all my watches at 50fps with similar battery life to the stock watch.
As an amateur programmer (Visual Studio, haven't tried Java yet), I saw the problem coming when I realized how WatchMaker imports the images. Rather than keep the unique IDs that Facer uses, it's always trying to go .img1, .img2, etc. If you only ever import watch faces and never delete them, you probably wouldn't encounter this problem.
But if you do import multiple watches, then delete some, then import more, you're going to have this problem. The solution is for WatchMaker to wipe all custom face resources from the watch every time you change faces, and then to send new files. The fact that it's not doing that, and instead only seems to send new files while keeping existing ones baffles my mind from a programming angle.
Anyone know who the dev is?
Watchmaker doesnt look like an amateur app to me.
As most have said above the watches look amazing. If there is an issue im sure the dev will fix it. Facer fixed around 20 bugs in the last update so all apps have bugs.
Haha suck it G watch R!
http://motorola-blog.blogspot.com/2014/11/moto-360-choose-watch-that-fits-your.html
Nice update
The update work for anyone? I got it but have been unable to set any of the new faces to the watch. They don't show up. Maybe something screwy with my oneplus....
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I have it and it is working. You may need to give it a few minutes for the new faces to be transferred to the watch. They appear just like the original stock faces.
It is nice to have the award winning Moto but it is a shame they didn't add any of the additional features such as weather or battery percentage. I think the clone of the face that boostr29 did for facer is still nicer. The Motorola face likely uses much less battery power though. Wear 2.0 should let people create much more involved faces that can display more information such as unread email etc.
If you havn't got the update yet or want to see what they are like, I took a photo of all the new watch faces:
http://imgur.com/a/XJXT5
Pascuals a favourite, I'm sure the My Design will be better in time... It won't be good for anything beyond casual usage though - you need to crop the image for it yourself, and the ticker hands you can't customize outside of the preset options they have.
Yeah, the My Design is quite limited for now, and you can't set large preview cards on it. But at least there's now the option/toggle to add the date to all of the other watchfaces too, which is handy.
Generally this is a bit of an odd update, as it just adds Moto Body features that replicate existing Fit ones, except for Calories. Now we have again the typical Android mess of duplicated features, despite Google's efforts to control Wear.
I dont understand how anyone can use a white face. That flat tire looks terrible. I always run a black face, so its not too noticable.
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The update work for anyone? I got it but have been unable to set any of the new faces to the watch. They don't show up. Maybe something screwy with my oneplus....
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Same here
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Try to restart the watch. It worked after I did a restart.
Same issue here. I've restarted the watch, reset the watch, uninstalled and reinstalled both Android Wear and the Connect app. None of the new apps or watch faces will show up on the watch.
I just wish the date option was a bigger font. My old eyes have a hard time seeing it.
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The app is a ton of fun, hopefully they continue to expand it. I have several pictures that work great with the DIY watch face.
Yeah I'm loving this, the custom pictures are nice and hi resolution!
Thx for sharing. Had moto connect app disabled.
How are u guys getting the update? I don't see it on playstore?
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Nvm. Odd. I had to search for the app and then it said update. Would not show up automatically.
My phone wouldn't find Connect update (kept telling me Connect was up to date)
On my PC, I visited -> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motorola.targetnotif while it said installed, when I clicked the Install button I was able to pick my Moto X, and click OK.. After that, the X notified me of the app downloading and installing. I now have the update.
Seems like the best faces are the one's that create the illusion of a round face by having some sort of inner circle that is not disrupted by the flat tire look. Basically you tune it out since all the major eye candy is above it, only the tiny hash marks are broken which you barely notice anyway. Having a full white face or roman numerals makes it very obvious there is a screen break at the bottom.
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Same issue here. I've restarted the watch, reset the watch, uninstalled and reinstalled both Android Wear and the Connect app. None of the new apps or watch faces will show up on the watch.
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I'm facing the same problem as well. It finally worked for me after I uninstall android wear, moto connect, facer and watch maker. Reset moto 360 and reinstall android wear and moto connect and the new watch face appears.
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I'm facing the same problem as well. It finally worked for me after I uninstall android wear, moto connect, facer and watch maker. Reset moto 360 and reinstall android wear and moto connect and the new watch face appears.
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I wound up having to reset the Moto X altogether. Somehow, I think swapping between a work-week phone (Note 4) and a weekend phone (Moto X) got some apps stuck on the watch that weren't on either phone anymore. When I reset the Moto X and then reset the 360, it stared to work correctly.
Too bad beelink dont work anymore else can easily switch devices with the watch.
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For those lucky enough to have their watch. How many watch faces are there pre loaded?
There are 18 watch faces pre loaded on the watch.
Watch Faces
although, will there be many more like i've seen on XDA for the MOTO360?
Ok got my ZW yesterday. I have to say, I love the build and the design...what's disappointing is that I can't use any of the third party apps to build a watch face. I've tried two diff apps and nothing will push the design to the watch. It appears that the ZW manager is preventing any third party designs to come thru. IF THIS IS TRUE, and Asus doesn't open up the design api this would be a deal breaker for me. I know this is a small thing, but its to restrictive considering that ALL of the other AW watches support third party apps. UGH!
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Ok got my ZW yesterday. I have to say, I love the build and the design...what's disappointing is that I can't use any of the third party apps to build a watch face. I've tried two diff apps and nothing will push the design to the watch. It appears that the ZW manager is preventing any third party designs to come thru. IF THIS IS TRUE, and Asus doesn't open up the design api this would be a deal breaker for me. I know this is a small thing, but its to restrictive considering that ALL of the other AW watches support third party apps. UGH!
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I used Facer just fine... maybe something is wrong with your connection between your watch and phone?
Nickyro23 said:
I used Facer just fine... maybe something is wrong with your connection between your watch and phone?
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Thanks, that was the one I hadn't tried yet and was going to next. Do the faces show up in the ZW manager?
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Thanks, that was the one I hadn't tried yet and was going to next. Do the faces show up in the ZW manager?
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No, only use the facer app... facerepo.com has a bunch of user made faces that are decent. Some aren't designed for the ZW though, so they won't look right. Trial and error. When downloading, download directly to the facer app. Should pop up giving you that option when you press download. What were the apps you were using that didn't work?
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No, only use the facer app... facerepo.com has a bunch of user made faces that are decent. Some aren't designed for the ZW though, so they won't look right. Trial and error. When downloading, download directly to the facer app. Should pop up giving you that option when you press download. What were the apps you were using that didn't work?
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I tried WatchMaker and AndroidWearWatch
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I tried WatchMaker and AndroidWearWatch
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Cool thanks
"Luxury Watch Faces", "Wear Face Collection" and "Intellicom Watchfaces" have all worked for me.
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"Luxury Watch Faces", "Wear Face Collection" and "Intellicom Watchfaces" have all worked for me.
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How are they as far as affecting battery life on the watch?
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How are they as far as affecting battery life on the watch?
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I've only had the watch for two days now so it's hard to tell. Honestly, although I've downloaded and tested other watch face apps, I'm using the "explorer" face that comes with the zenwatch stock app. I have it always on, with steps and battery for both watch and phone showing. Lowest intensity on the screen is more than bright enough.
First day was a 16 hour day and I put it back on the charger with about 30% left. Yesterday was 14 or 15 hours with about the same left. I get tons of notifications and yesterday used the notifications while using navigation (that works well).
All I care about is getting through the day on a charge and it's doing that nicely, so I'm happy.
The nice thing about the included watch faces is that they were all built with the included first-party watchface API, unlike the ones in the Moto 360. So the cards behave nicely mostly hidden and transparent at the bottom, rather than taking up half the screen.
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I've only had the watch for two days now so it's hard to tell. Honestly, although I've downloaded and tested other watch face apps, I'm using the "explorer" face that comes with the zenwatch stock app. I have it always on, with steps and battery for both watch and phone showing. Lowest intensity on the screen is more than bright enough.
First day was a 16 hour day and I put it back on the charger with about 30% left. Yesterday was 14 or 15 hours with about the same left. I get tons of notifications and yesterday used the notifications while using navigation (that works well).
All I care about is getting through the day on a charge and it's doing that nicely, so I'm happy.
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Thanks! Yea I may stick with the stock watch faces too. I actually like them a lot.
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The nice thing about the included watch faces is that they were all built with the included first-party watchface API, unlike the ones in the Moto 360. So the cards behave nicely mostly hidden and transparent at the bottom, rather than taking up half the screen.
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The Facer faces have worked for me with no change to the way notifications are handled. I use the square face watch faces that were designed for the LG G Watch with a few modifications the the ratios for the screen size diff.
Intellicom WatchMaker works sort-of. If you have rooted/modified your phone, apparently you cannot update to v5.01 on the watch, which is required (5.0 anyway) for the latest version to work. Their version 1.11 works with 4.4W2, but of course, some of the new features are not present.
DDowns said:
If you have rooted/modified your phone, apparently you cannot update to v5.01 on the watch
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I don't think that's the case. My watch updated to 5.0.1 automatically, and my phone is rooted and otherwise messed with.
jimi_pooh said:
The Facer faces have worked for me with no change to the way notifications are handled. I use the square face watch faces that were designed for the LG G Watch with a few modifications the the ratios for the screen size diff.
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Hi,
can you tell me what ratios you modified to get the square watch faces to work with the zenwatch?? its not centered on mine..
Thanks
bustanut666 said:
Hi,
can you tell me what ratios you modified to get the square watch faces to work with the zenwatch?? its not centered on mine..
Thanks
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Change the res to 320 x 320. If things are supposed to be center on the horizontal axis then put 160 for x, if center on vertical axis then 160 for y. Sometimes the size of the element needs to be changed as well, I usually set them two to three sizes up. Just play around with it and after making changes look at the face in the app and see if it aligns properly and such.
m3lover1 said:
Change the res to 320 x 320. If things are supposed to be center on the horizontal axis then put 160 for x, if center on vertical axis then 160 for y. Sometimes the size of the element needs to be changed as well, I usually set them two to three sizes up. Just play around with it and after making changes look at the face in the app and see if it aligns properly and such.
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bustanut666 said:
Hi,
can you tell me what ratios you modified to get the square watch faces to work with the zenwatch?? its not centered on mine..
Thanks
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He hit on the head @bustanut666
Hi all, just thought I'd share a link to Sony Developer World's latest blog post about the Top 5 SmartWatch 2 developer tips. Given this very recent post even when their new Sony SmartWatch 3 has been released shows that they're still committed to supporting the Sony SmartWatch 2. Hopefully we see some future updates and feature enhancements brought to the SmartWatch 2.
I would like to see support for Android 5.0, because for my LG G3 is available yet.
pRo_lama said:
I would like to see support for Android 5.0, because for my LG G3 is available yet.
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I'm using the SW2 with my G3 no problem...
pRo_lama said:
I would like to see support for Android 5.0, because for my LG G3 is available yet.
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Sony announced Lollipop for all the Z series, so they'll have no choice.
I have a dumb question : will each 3rd party app have to update to be compatible with android 5,or just the main smartwatch 2 app?
Thanks.
Megatastic said:
I have a dumb question : will each 3rd party app have to update to be compatible with android 5,or just the main smartwatch 2 app?
Thanks.
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In general no but it will depend on what functions the host app uses.
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julz said:
Hi all, just thought I'd share a link to Sony Developer World's latest blog post about the Top 5 SmartWatch 2 developer tips. Given this very recent post even when their new Sony SmartWatch 3 has been released shows that they're still committed to supporting the Sony SmartWatch 2. Hopefully we see some future updates and feature enhancements brought to the SmartWatch 2.
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You know, I swear I read that exact same blog post sometime earlier this year.
I have been surprised over the last couple of weeks that some of the Sony apps have had updates released. Weather wasn't working on my Z2 until the recent update to the weather app. At least the SW2 is not completely forgotten. I have not seen any of the newer watches I would rather try.
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Hello people.
I have the opportunity to buy a SW2 for a good price. I know that Sony have launched a new device, the SW3, but for me that one it's more expensive.
The SW2 is still a good choice nowadays?
Thank you.
SolidSnake1976 said:
Hello people.
I have the opportunity to buy a SW2 for a good price. I know that Sony have launched a new device, the SW3, but for me that one it's more expensive.
The SW2 is still a good choice nowadays?
Thank you.
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Only you can answer that question. What's the good price anyway.
ngoonee said:
Only you can answer that question. What's the good price anyway.
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120€. It's good?
SolidSnake1976 said:
120€. It's good?
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Couple of weeks back it was on sale in the US for 99 USD or something like that. So was the LG Watch. Not sure how that converts.
For now good price for SW2 (deprecated) is between 60€ and 90€.
It is the best of the best smartwatch in the world but with Wear I think there are not many people who want a SW2
dersie said:
For now good price for SW2 (deprecated) is between 60€ and 90€.
It is the best of the best smartwatch in the world but with Wear I think there are not many people who want a SW2
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I don't think I'd buy a SW2 at this point. It is dead tech even if Sony is still offering token support. If you're looking for an inexpensive smartwatch right now I'd be looking at a Pebble. They just added access to the Android Wear API and it's the best smartwatch on the market right now when you consider overall feature set.
I have also a pebble since 2 years.
Display very small and lower resolution. Button are very annoying, I prefer the touchscreen. When you have not your 20year old eyes most of display font really hard to see without backlight, so I prefer the SW2 display. In same use SW2 last 3 days and pebble last 3 days.
In reality the new beta pebble app is compatible with android 4.3+ notifications but not with wear notifications I have also LG G-Watch on same phone than my pebble and wear are not received by pebble, only general android notifications with actionable button from android 4.3 not wear notification
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I have also a pebble since 2 years.
Display very small and lower resolution. Button are very annoying, I prefer the touchscreen. When you have not your 20year old eyes most of display font really hard to see without backlight, so I prefer the SW2 display. In same use SW2 last 3 days and pebble last 3 days.
In reality the new beta pebble app is compatible with android 4.3+ notifications but not with wear notifications I have also LG G-Watch on same phone than my pebble and wear are not received by pebble, only general android notifications with actionable button from android 4.3 not wear notification
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I don't have anything close to 20 year old eyes either but I have no issue with the Pebble (or Pebble Steel) in any light condition while wearing my glasses. That can't be said for the SW2 which I also had. Pebble has access to the Android Wear API because Google made it open. Yes the notifications look different because of the screen and form factor but they are true Wear notifications at the API level. Play around with the SDK a bit and you'll see it. They are quite different than the Android 4.3 level notifications that were usable on the Pebble before the beta update. Android 4.3 notifications are not actionable. Android Wear are.
The only thing missing is voice control due to lack of a mic on the Pebble. For everything else they're functionally exactly the same and they both operate at the API level.
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Yes the notifications look different because of the screen and form factor but they are true Wear notifications at the API level. Play around with the SDK a bit and you'll see it. They are quite different than the Android 4.3 level notifications that were usable on the Pebble before the beta update. Android 4.3 notifications are not actionable. Android Wear are.
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Just 2 sample I use on my phone (same for LG G watch and pebble)
1Weather wear notification : send to android phone notification system and on wear device -> nothing to pebble
TweetWear send new tweet on my wear device and nothing to pebble.
So pebble not wear notification compatible. and it is only 2 of my app for wear notification.
pebble receive only android notification but not wear notification try it
CalenGoo send notification to android system and with actionable button we can snooze alert. On wear you snooze for 10min and after 10min notification alert i sending anew to wear device and you can snooze or dismiss. On pebble you can snooze first time but after notification is not sending to pebble, so you can't snooze or dismiss without take your phone
dersie said:
Just 2 sample I use on my phone (same for LG G watch and pebble)
1Weather wear notification : send to android phone notification system and on wear device -> nothing to pebble
TweetWear send new tweet on my wear device and nothing to pebble.
So pebble not wear notification compatible. and it is only 2 of my app for wear notification.
pebble receive only android notification but not wear notification try it
CalenGoo send notification to android system and with actionable button we can snooze alert. On wear you snooze for 10min and after 10min notification alert i sending anew to wear device and you can snooze or dismiss. On pebble you can snooze first time but after notification is not sending to pebble, so you can't snooze or dismiss without take your phone
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Are you on the beta for Pebble? If not you're still seeing the old 4.3 style notifications which function exactly as you're describing. I'd link you to numerous tech articles, forums, and even official releases from Pebble announcing the Android Wear compatibility in the newest beta firmware but I'm sure that wouldn't convince you so I'm not going to waste my time.
Yes of course I use the last beta pebble android app.
Have you a wear watch on same pebble phone to see if you receive same wear notification on the 2 watch.
You can just post a picture of Tweetwear or even 1Weather Wear notification in your pebble, in this way everybody can see that your pebble receive wear notification and not all other pebble
And if you have not the latest beta pebble app you have not the actionable notification in action menu on your pebble, even with android 4.3 or 4.4 but you have this on Sony SW2 since a long time (and without Sony Wear notification compatibility on SW2)
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Yes of course I use the last beta pebble android app.
Have you a wear watch on same pebble phone to see if you receive same wear notification on the 2 watch.
You can just post a picture of Tweetwear or even 1Weather Wear notification in your pebble, in this way everybody can see that your pebble receive wear notification and not all other pebble
And if you have not the latest beta pebble app you have not the actionable notification in action menu on your pebble, even with android 4.3 or 4.4 but you have this on Sony SW2 since a long time (and without Sony Wear notification compatibility on SW2)
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There have been actionable notifications on Pebble for some time as well thanks to programs like Glance and Awear. I was using Awear in fact until they made actionable Wear notifications part of the new PebbleOS version.
I just installed 1Weather and I don't see any way to send a test notification. If you want to walk me through it I'll be glad to post pics.
I don't use Twitter so that's out.
Official Release Notice from Pebble https://blog.getpebble.com/2014/12/16/ad-23/
Endgadget article about it: http://www.engadget.com/2014/12/16/pebble-android-app-update/
PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2858...-coattails-with-actionable-notifications.html
Techcrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/16/pebble-interactive-notifications/
Android Central link with video of it working: http://www.androidcentral.com/pebble-23-beta-bakes-android-wear-notification-and-interaction-support
Everyone seems to know about this but you.
Just got a Facebook notification so here are pics of it showing the notification, the actionable menu that comes up when you push the middle button, and a blurry pic of it being dismissed because it was so fast I couldn't take a pic. It also dismissed the notification on my phone just like it was supposed to do.
Phone is an HTC One M8 running Android 4.4.2 on AT&T with Pebble App beta 2.3.0 beta 1 installed. Watch is a Pebble Steel running beta 2.9 beta 5.
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Just got a text as well so here are pics of me answering it on the watch and it being sent.