Has anyone else updated their phone past 5.0 and their watch past 5.0 only to find the thing next to useless now? Let me explain.
In 4.x I could have my phone set to silent while my watch would subtly vibrate for notifications, great for at work or anywhere you don't want the loud vibrate of your phone going off but still want to be notified of things.
After updating my Moto X to 5.x and my Moto 360 to 5.x the notification setting on the watch reflects whatever the setting is on the device. Why in the Hell would this be desired functionality? It would be one thing if the Moto X could be told to be in All Notifications mode (not Priority or None) and have vibrate turned off, but sadly theres NO option to disable vibrate.
If I have the Moto X set to All but the volume all the way down, it and my watch will vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to All and Android Wear set to "silence connected Android" it functions just like the above.
If I have the Moto X set to Priority, same thing, both it and my watch vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to None then both my phone and watch never notify me of anything.
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
Peace Love Coding said:
Has anyone else updated their phone past 5.0 and their watch past 5.0 only to find the thing next to useless now? Let me explain.
In 4.x I could have my phone set to silent while my watch would subtly vibrate for notifications, great for at work or anywhere you don't want the loud vibrate of your phone going off but still want to be notified of things.
After updating my Moto X to 5.x and my Moto 360 to 5.x the notification setting on the watch reflects whatever the setting is on the device. Why in the Hell would this be desired functionality? It would be one thing if the Moto X could be told to be in All Notifications mode (not Priority or None) and have vibrate turned off, but sadly theres NO option to disable vibrate.
If I have the Moto X set to All but the volume all the way down, it and my watch will vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to All and Android Wear set to "silence connected Android" it functions just like the above.
If I have the Moto X set to Priority, same thing, both it and my watch vibrate for every notification.
If I have the Moto X set to None then both my phone and watch never notify me of anything.
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
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this makes android wear useless how?
n00bpwner said:
this makes android wear useless how?
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Because they took away one of the main features? Notifications on your wrist while your phone is silent.
Peace Love Coding said:
Is there any way at all to have my phone be SILENT, completely silent, and have the watch vibrate?
Does this drive anyone else crazy?
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For me, in the Android Wear app, click the gear icon, and enable the "Mute phone alerts & calls" checkbox.
"Mute calls and notifications on this phone while it's connected to your watch."
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thebobmannh said:
For me, in the Android Wear app, click the gear icon, and enable the "Mute phone alerts & calls" checkbox.
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There should be a quick toggle in our notification shades for a setting like this......
Mod developers... get to work!
*please*
My phone is on silent all the time with notification muted while connected to the watch. My watch tickles my wrist and my phone does nothing. Maybe you missed something
In the wear app, gear, toggle "Mute phone alerts & calls" (mute calls and notifications on this phone while it's connected to your watch)
Then priority or all only control what buzzes you, not the volume.
@thebobmannh pointed this out above
Can somebody help me on doing that on v5.0?
Like 4.3 or 4.4, I just want to silent my phone completely and vibrate mode on my Moto 360?
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I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
It's not a bug. As far as I know, the moto360 will currently only vibrate when your phone has ringer(ringtone/notification sound) enabled. Mine doesn't vibrate at all if the phone is on vibrate.
RodrigoKim said:
It's not a bug. As far as I know, the moto360 will currently only vibrate when your phone has ringer(ringtone/notification sound) enabled. Mine doesn't vibrate at all if the phone is on vibrate.
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It may well be the current design, but if that is the case it's stupid! Why wouldn't you want the watch to vibrate if the phone vibrates?!
jonstatt said:
It may well be the current design, but if that is the case it's stupid! Why wouldn't you want the watch to vibrate if the phone vibrates?!
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I agree with you. It's completely stupid. I came searching for an answer when my Moto 360 didn't vibrate with my Note 2, and I found this thread. I want the watch to notify me of a message or whatever the notification may be instead of the phone. This seems like an easy thing to make an option and I'm unsure how they missed the boat on this one.
I was also wondering why the watch was not vibrating. I have 99% of my notices sent to silent, no vibrate and just flash the LED indicator (I'm using PA on a Samsung Galaxy S3). I then stumbled across this thread and found my answer. I had to change the notifications in the various apps to vibrate and then the watch vibrates.
This seems quite silly to me. I don't want my phone to vibrate, I just want the watch to vibrate. One would think (hope) that you'll be able to set the watch/wear vibrate notifications independent of the phone notifications in a future upgrade.
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I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
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i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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ffeingol said:
I was also wondering why the watch was not vibrating. I have 99% of my notices sent to silent, no vibrate and just flash the LED indicator (I'm using PA on a Samsung Galaxy S3). I then stumbled across this thread and found my answer. I had to change the notifications in the various apps to vibrate and then the watch vibrates.
This seems quite silly to me. I don't want my phone to vibrate, I just want the watch to vibrate. One would think (hope) that you'll be able to set the watch/wear vibrate notifications independent of the phone notifications in a future upgrade.
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in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
wiredout46 said:
in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
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Thanks, that seems to have done the trick. I'll be interested in seeing what it does tonight in the charging cradle. Really don't want that buzzing/vibrating all night.
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I am using my 360 with a Galaxy Note 3. What I have found is that ONLY if the phone actually is set to make a physical sound, does the watch vibrate. For example, my email is set to vibrate only my phone. I do this because I get quite a lot of emails and don't want the phone beeping all the time...vibrate is sufficient. But then the watch gets the alert but does not vibrate. Only if I set the email app to make a sound does the watch vibrate.
Surely this is a bug? If the phone makes a sound OR vibrates, the watch should vibrate?
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I have a Moto X, and my 360 vibrates regardless of sound or vibrate mode on my phone.
Kind of makes sense that Moto works best with Moto.
I ended up having to go back to the alert on both option. With it set on wear only it mutes the phone, which is not what I want.
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i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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+1
Maybe my notifications would make noise if I didn't have my phone on vibrate all the time I don't know... But since I don't keep my phone in a purse I don't need a loud noise to realize a call is coming in
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i don't have mine to vibrate at different notifications, but rather, my phone is set on vibrate basically 24/7.
my watch vibrates when i get notifications that only vibrate my phone.
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in android wear settings, there's a setting regarding when your phone is on silent, you can select it to either mute both phone and watch or just vibrate the watch
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Where is this setting?? I keep my phone on vibrate all the time, and my Fit vibrates with each notification. This "smart" watch doesn't seem to do that...
Thanks
Hello!
Just got the 360, curious if there is a way to limit vibrations to the watch only and not my phone. I had the pebble and it would only vibrate when I wanted it to, but the 360 seems to vibrate when the app is set to vibrate.
So if I want my texting app to be silent on my phone, but vibrate on the 360, is this not attainable?
Thanks for any ideas!
So you the only vibrations you want to get are the ones on your watch? No vibration on your phone?
There is a option in the Android Wear app for your phone, on the top right you have the settings button and there you can set this option.
Hello.
I upgraded my phone to Lollipop and I want to learn,
How to Make Phone Silent, Moto 360 Vibrate?
On 4.3 or 4.4, we can do that but on 5, I can't find it.
Unfortunately, mute connected phone option does not work in android 5
The only workaround so far is to use a program like tasker or trigger to silence the phone when
connected to moto 360
Yes, mute connected phone option does work in android 5. Go into the Android Wear app, click the settings, then you will see the Mute phone alerts and calls option, that will make it so your phone doesn't vibrate/make noise and your watch will vibrate.
OK so I figured if I set my phone volume to vibrate only, like I typically do when I'm in a meeting or at a Dr appointment, that my watch would also change to vibrate only, but it doesn't appear to do so because my watch still rings if I receive a call. Anyone else have this issue? If I set my phone to Do Not Disturb, then it silences my watch, but that also disables vibration which I do not want. I know I can also go into the watch menu and disable sound that way, but I just thought it was suppose to mirror the phone settings.
What about selecting "Sound on/off" from the drop down menu on the watch?
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What about selecting "Sound on/off" from the drop down menu on the watch?
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Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I have already tried that. It just turns off sounds on the watch and not on the phone.
Sorry to revive a dead thread... going to bump here. But did you ever figure this out? Anyone? Thanks. =)
I was about to start a new thread about this when I found this one. I also want my watch to ring when my phone does and not when my phone is muted. I attend a few events a week where everyone's phone must be muted. I imagine that do not disturb mode would work, but I use vibrate only so I'll at least feel when I get notifications.
If I'm reading this Google article right, this should be possible and automatic: https://support.google.com/androidwear/answer/6056843?hl=en
I've noticed that if you have your phone's sound set to vibrate, then there's no ringtone or vibration when you're in Android Auto connected to your vehicle. This wasn't the case with my Nexus 6 on Nougat. Is anyone else experiencing this behavior? The call will be missed if you don't happen to see the call on your car's display screen. The only way to change the volume at this point is to disconnect from AA and set it, then reconnect. I would expect that the phone should defer to the volume set on the car once connected.
Yes. I had a similar situation last night, a text message came in and the only notification was the the on-screen popup. On my last phone it would send a notification via the car speakers.
Try going into the Do not Disturb settings, and under automatic rules, toggle Driving off. I haven't had a chance to test my notifications in the car since turning this off, but I do remember reading about this being a "feature" of Oreo, I think. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
EMcTx said:
Try going into the Do not Disturb settings, and under automatic rules, toggle Driving off. I haven't had a chance to test my notifications in the car since turning this off, but I do remember reading about this being a "feature" of Oreo, I think. Seems like a pain in the ass to me.
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Android Auto should completely override the automatic driving mode in DND. In reality Android Auto's notification setting should supersede all other notification settings.