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The software seems a bit flaky. New SMS does not display message details......still investigating
I eventually managed to download music tracks to the device and they played okay over bluetooth headphones. Not tried the GPS yet
Any questions I will try and answer
tmn0004676 said:
The software seems a bit flaky. New SMS does not display message details......still investigating
I eventually managed to download music tracks to the device and they played okay over bluetooth headphones. Not tried the GPS yet
Any questions I will try and answer
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Can you run my tracks via the start on the phone (offline mode) that used watch GPS and let me know if the music stutters? It seems to happen when bluetooth and internal GPS are enabled...im on 2nd device and same issue
download my tracks to phone, then go to apps on watch and run that app, then start music via watch memory
gs05 said:
Can you run my tracks via the start on the phone (offline mode) that used watch GPS and let me know if the music stutters? It seems to happen when bluetooth and internal GPS are enabled...im on 2nd device and same issue
download my tracks to phone, then go to apps on watch and run that app, then start music via watch memory
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please could you provide more detailed instructions
thanks
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please could you provide more detailed instructions
thanks
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Sure...
Download My tracks (google) from play store. Get google music (if not already) and download some songs to your watch...do this by downloading to your phone first (offline) and then selecting in music options to download to android wear. Let a few songs load over.
Go outside. Go to the watch (make sure far from phone and disconnected). Start tracks with the start menu. Then do start on that
Now do play music from the same menu as start.
Go for a jog
OP's can help us all (please; this is a suggestion not a criticism) by listing what they are pairing with :good:
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I've had mine since Friday. Have you found any way use the running apps without the phone and use the watch gps? I bought this to replace my motoactiv but stava and runtastic won't allow me to start a run without being connected to the phone.
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I've had mine since Friday. Have you found any way use the running apps without the phone and use the watch gps? I bought this to replace my motoactiv but stava and runtastic won't allow me to start a run without being connected to the phone.
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I have the same problem.. Nothing uses the watch GPS that I have found. Also is your screen yellow when it should be white. Mine is terrible.
runningwarrior08 said:
I have the same problem.. Nothing uses the watch GPS that I have found. Also is your screen yellow when it should be white. Mine is terrible.
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Download google tracks to your phone.
It will work in offline mode and give you distance and time via the watch GPS. Start it via the start menu and select tracks. The running apps are still through the phone currently.
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Download google tracks to your phone.
It will work in offline mode and give you distance and time via the watch GPS. Start it via the start menu and select tracks. The running apps are still through the phone currently.
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It didn't work for me yesterday when I tried during my run. Started it from the watch when I was not with my phone and the distance just stayed at 0
runningwarrior08 said:
It didn't work for me yesterday when I tried during my run. Started it from the watch when I was not with my phone and the distance just stayed at 0
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Give it a minute and you should see a little location google stake on the top left. It worked for me and i could see my entire mapped run via tracks afterwards. Make you start it, give it a minute and then try. It took mine about .15 of a mile to kick in
You can also go into GPS test under Settings- Developer options - manufacturer - GPS and press start to check time to first fix.
runningwarrior08 said:
I have the same problem.. Nothing uses the watch GPS that I have found. Also is your screen yellow when it should be white. Mine is terrible.
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I just got mine today. The screen definitly has a yellow tint to it. Can othere people please test this?
Did you replace it?
bookat said:
I just got mine today. The screen definitly has a yellow tint to it. Can othere people please test this?
Did you replace it?
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I don't think this is a defect. It is the trade-off for the tft tech making it fully daylight readable. Mine also has this. I'm torn on the trade-off, on the one hand, it is leagues better than even the moto 360 for reading in direct sunlight (it's almost like a mirasol display), but on the other, the 360's screen was very pretty. I'm leaning towards being "ok" with it, since I don't think I'm going to watch any movies on my wrist, but I will probably want to deal with notifications in unideal lighting, but it is definitely an adjustment.
I don't mind the yellow. Its actually not that bad and the screen is definitely visible in the daylight. I am really liking this watch alongside with my Microsoft Band.
legend921 said:
I don't mind the yellow. Its actually not that bad and the screen is definitely visible in the daylight. I am really liking this watch alongside with my Microsoft Band.
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How is the health tracking on the band? This watch has some great features, but none of the android wear watches do true health tracking very well yet, and even if it had a heart rate monitor, I've been unimpressed with the ones on the 360 and gear live, so I've been thinking about adding something purely for the health side of things.
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How is the health tracking on the band? This watch has some great features, but none of the android wear watches do true health tracking very well yet, and even if it had a heart rate monitor, I've been unimpressed with the ones on the 360 and gear live, so I've been thinking about adding something purely for the health side of things.
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The band is great. Its not big and it definitely doe fitness better than the Android Wear. The 24/7 heart rate tracker gives you a better count on how many calories burned, and the only feature that you lose when not using the Windows Phone is Cortana. When I was using it on the 5K run that I had participated with the GPS on, the band was able to tell me where I was running fast and where I had slowed down and so fourth and it was very accurate along side the path that I was running on. The 5K reported that the run was 3.2 miles which was pretty dead on to the 5K. The pedometer is more accurate too compared to the android wear since mine will count steps even if I am pushing a shopping cart so all in all I really like the band for fitness with smartwatch duties as secondary. I can read everything just fine from the notifications when not using the Smartwatch 3, but at least now I can let the band do all my fitness stuff when I go on the run and have the Sony Smartwatch stream my music for me to run with. That way I don't have to carry the phone.
Thanks for confirming this. I guess there is no perfect solution out there for smart watches yet. The screen does bother me some times specially because i had the moto 360 and returned it. but that watch had its own set of problems.
guess i will be keeping this.
From the patent at http://www.google.com/patents/US8208104
It states "a change in chromaticity caused by wavelength dispersion due to the λ/4 plate."
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As for on device tracking I hope that Sony and others will include support for just released google fit api on device.
My screen shows whites correctly. I don't see the yellowish problem here.
My screen is unimpressive (pale, low contrast) but OK. A colour tinge is normal for a transflective display, and it depends on the colour of the light you shine on it...the nice thing is that I can read it without the backlight in most situations.
What bothers me is, that some things that work on Google Now on my phone don't work via Wear Voice input. Setting alarms for example. It works fine on my phone, but not on my SW3. Why? On the Watch it always understands, but then just throws up a web search card...
Also, the "wrist flick" to activate the display is a bit weird. It works about 1 time out of ten, but if I just move my arm around randomly, then I often trigger the backlight. That's also a bit weird. I'm trying to get used to it. With my Pebble, I mostly just glanced at the watch without moving it in front of my eyes. That worked fine. I had actually turned off the auto-backlight on Pebble and would probably do the same on the SW3 if I could.
The most annoying thing is the weak vibration of the SW3. With my Pebble, I feel (and hear) the vibrating alert, with the SW3 I miss it frequently even when I'm not moving around. That's unacceptable and might be the main reason for sending it back. I haven't decided yet.
Is there a way to increase the vibration intensity and length? That would be cool.
And one last thing, not directly related to the SW3...On my Pebble I get notifications for every email in my Gmail account, apart from SPAM. With Android Wear, I think not all labels are signalled. How do I change that? I tried to set it up in Gmail, but I think I still don't get all emails announced on the SW...
Thought it would be worthwhile to share my initial impressions of Android 5.0 with the Moto 360. I am running it on a Nexus 5. First, 5.0 rox!!!
Nicest feature thus far is Smart Lock, which auto unlocks the phone while connected to the Moto 360. I was doing this previously through Tasker, but it's nice to remove a step. The new Messenger App also works quite well. It has a very well done full screen view of the full message and quick access to voice reply. I am still using Wear Messenger for canned responses, but I've formally turned off the notification part of that app.
I'm using Google Inbox so no impression of the new Gmail 5.0 app. The new Calendar, which is beautiful, doesn't appear to add any better functionality either. More to come here. I feel like Google Now has improved, but that is very anecdotal.
Notifications are vastly improved in Lollipop but I'm expecting the Wear uptick to come through Android Wear 2.0. Hopefully more to come as that happens.
So, in short, Messenger App and Smart lock are most obvious improvements before 2.0 drops.
Anyone else finding goodies???
I like the new update. Like others here I needed to restart the watch to get the new faces to show up. The new features are welcomed. I like the ability to add the date to any watchface now.
I imagine someone will start a thread to post new backgrounds that can be used in the "my design" watchface.
Music Controls Missing from Moto 360 After Lollipop 5.0 Update
I noticed that music controls are missing from my Moto 360 after updating to 5.0 Lollipop. The music card only pops-up on the Moto 360 when you pause a song from the phone, and from there (& only then) can you skip to the next track from the watch.
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I noticed that music controls are missing from my Moto 360 after updating to 5.0 Lollipop. The music card only pops-up on the Moto 360 when you pause a song from the phone, and from there (& only then) can you skip to the next track from the watch.
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Hrmm, I noticed that it was missing too.
Installing the latest Android Wear app for Lollipop resolved the missing music controls on my Moto 360.
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Installing the latest Android Wear app for Lollipop resolved the missing music controls on my Moto 360.
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Same thing here it'es fixed by the latest Android Wear App update !
Missing watch faces
I installed upgraded my Nexus 5 last night to the latest build, reset my device (moto 360), downloaded the latest moto Connect and Android Wear apps, paired and now I am missing all the new watch faces; they show up in Android Wear and I can customize them there but they are not showing up on my watch for selection.
I have reset the moto 360 twice now and still no-go. Worst thing is that I'm missing the Pascual face which is, by far, my favorite.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Much appreciated!
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Build number: KNX01S
Software version: 4.4W.2
carlosesque said:
I installed upgraded my Nexus 5 last night to the latest build, reset my device (moto 360), downloaded the latest moto Connect and Android Wear apps, paired and now I am missing all the new watch faces; they show up in Android Wear and I can customize them there but they are not showing up on my watch for selection.
I have reset the moto 360 twice now and still no-go. Worst thing is that I'm missing the Pascual face which is, by far, my favorite.
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Much appreciated!
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Build number: KNX01S
Software version: 4.4W.2
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I had the same problem, even after I paired Moto360 to my phone and then clear data for the Connect app.
So what I did
Uninstall Connect app
After I paired up with my watch, I reinstall Connect app and login, and then at Android Wear app, I press "resync apps" and all the watch faces show up again on the watch
Hope this helps
Moto 360 and Nexus 5 with Franco Kernel
bryanlimy said:
I had the same problem, even after I paired Moto360 to my phone and then clear data for the Connect app.
So what I did
Uninstall Connect app
After I paired up with my watch, I reinstall Connect app and login, and then at Android Wear app, I press "resync apps" and all the watch faces show up again on the watch
Hope this helps
Moto 360 and Nexus 5 with Franco Kernel
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Thank you, that worked like a charm!
Interesting, Motorola already had smartlock in their phones even with 4.4. It is a great feature I am sure many people will use.
I do really like the smartlock on 5.0 with my N5, whoever i tried and hoped that smartlock would work flawlessly while attached to both my N5 and N7 (12), but no such luck, worked on phone fine, and does pair with my N7, but seemed to only want to work with one at a time with smartlock, sorta lame, and hope that is resolved. However i don't like having Google Fit and Motorola both running health apps at the same time, i noticed today by battery ran done on the Moto360 quicker, and i know it's due to the Google Fit app, so most likely will have to disable that, would be nice if i could just turn it off instead like one can with their step cards.
After I update to android 5.0, I the answer function on the watch just shows the reject and reject then send a pre-made message.
Anyone know why it says running sync loop in notification panel.. Its been like that for over a day.
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Anyone know why it says running sync loop in notification panel.. Its been like that for over a day.
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Me too, I don't know if this is normal.
Update: I think it has something to do with the Google Play Services Update.
edwaine said:
Me too, I don't know if this is normal.
Update: I think it has something to do with the Google Play Services Update.
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See, here is my deal... I only noticed the "Connected, running sync loop" AFTER i paired a bluetooth headset to test the music playback from the watch.... i saw that and got worries...
a fellow android nerd told me that he saw it after updating google play services to 6.5..... interesting... because i DID update to GPS 6.5 yesterday morning, but only noticed the mesasge after i was playing with the headset... so i really dont know if it was there before the headset pairing or not
yes this is most certainly a 6.5 thing. i upgraded to 6.5 and had the problem...downgraded and it went away. this is on my z3 compact stock running 4.4.4...seems like google updated something in play services before android wear was updated to take it.
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See, here is my deal... I only noticed the "Connected, running sync loop" AFTER i paired a bluetooth headset to test the music playback from the watch.... i saw that and got worries...
a fellow android nerd told me that he saw it after updating google play services to 6.5..... interesting... because i DID update to GPS 6.5 yesterday morning, but only noticed the mesasge after i was playing with the headset... so i really dont know if it was there before the headset pairing or not
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i had mentioned it in the play services thread .. appears as soon as it is connected to the phone after updating to 6.5..need to wait for 1.0.5 ..although except for the annoying running sync i see no extra battery drain than before
Sorry to be slightly off topic, but I noticed some of you running this watch with the nexus 5. How are you finding the n5 battery life while having the moto 360 connected all day? Im currently looking at going with this combo over the next few weeks but I hear things about the n5 battery life.. Glad to hear the 5.0 brings some nice functionality though
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i had mentioned it in the play services thread .. appears as soon as it is connected to the phone after updating to 6.5..need to wait for 1.0.5 ..although except for the annoying running sync i see no extra battery drain than before
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thanks for clarifying
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Sorry to be slightly off topic, but I noticed some of you running this watch with the nexus 5. How are you finding the n5 battery life while having the moto 360 connected all day? Im currently looking at going with this combo over the next few weeks but I hear things about the n5 battery life.. Glad to hear the 5.0 brings some nice functionality though
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i was a bit worried too before i got my watch... but i have to admit that i dont see a big drop on battery.... i would say its the same as before... and now i can "so this is what BT LE was all about"
[Q] "Ok google, whats my heart rate?" Doesn't work anymore! What am i doing wrong?
Hey Guys,
I hope someone can help me. I have a moto g (1st gen) and received my moto 360 yesterday, and everything worked fine.
Today I installed CM12 on my moto g. After that I couldn't get my phone to connect to my watch so I did a reset on the moto 360 and connected it to my phone.
But now phrases like "What's my heart rate, How's the weather, navigate to..." don't work anymore! The watch only gives me google search results!
I have Google now installed on the phone. Strange thing is that when is say "Ok google, take a note" or "call ..." or "settings", it does work!
I must be missing something but I can't seem to find out what. Hope someone can help me!
In the Android Wear app on your phone, do you have an app set for the voice action(s) that aren't working?
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I checked and they are set so that's not the problem
Try using some other words...like "Ok Google, Show me my heart rate." Or try this " Show me my foot steps " if this works then everything is fine.
I too received my Moto 360 day before yesterday.
I have set Google Fit as the default App for monitoring my fitness.
And setting the Google Fit app as default also saves battery of my Moto 360.
As the Moto body app monitors heart beat rate and steps unnecessarily time to time in background throughout the day and that drains battery.
So i have set my default app to Google Fit from the Android Wear App. (See the screenshot attached)
And then in Moto 360 i went to Google Fit app and swiping twice to left gave me option to Turn Off the Google Fit app.
And this turned off the monitoring. I switch it back ON when i need it and then turn it off.
I found the solution! Apparently the problem was that I set the phone OS language to my native language (Dutch) after installing cm12. I did set the google now speech recognition language to English (us), but apparently that didn't change anything on the watch.
After setting my phone OS language back to English (us), everything works just as it did before!
I still think It's strange that the phone OS language can change the functionality of the watch, but I'm happy everything works as it should!
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I too received my Moto 360 day before yesterday.
I have set Google Fit as the default App for monitoring my fitness.
And setting the Google Fit app as default also saves battery of my Moto 360.
As the Moto body app monitors heart beat rate and steps unnecessarily time to time in background throughout the day and that drains battery.
So i have set my default app to Google Fit from the Android Wear App. (See the screenshot attached)
And then in Moto 360 i went to Google Fit app and swiping twice to left gave me option to Turn Off the Google Fit app.
And this turned off the monitoring. I switch it back ON when i need it and then turn it off.
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That's a nice one!! I'll keep it in my mind for whenever I can't get through the day wit one battery load.
My previous phones, Moto x and Moto x 2014 had Moto assist where my phone would automatically go on silent when I entered my work places. I am unable to find the same settings on my Moto z play Droid. I am also not able to wake up my phone from a locked screen using OK Google as I could from the Moto x phones. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Moto assist was dropped when Lenovo took over. Im the moto app, you can do some of the functions but a lot has been left out.
The "Ok, moto" does not work when the screen is locked
If I can help out here I encountered some issues as well. It's because Google and Moto voice conflict with one another. So you basically have to pick one or the other. Depending on which you choose both "OK Moto" or "OK Google" work when the screen is off.
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As for your phone going on silent at work and so on this can easily be configured under settings>sound & notifications>Do not disturb
Hello.
A couple of days ago when I turned on my phone screen, and a message saying "power off" appeared, and the phone turned off. After that I proceeded to turn on the phone again, and it loaded the OS normally, and then again, the same message appeared and the phone turned off again, and phone never turned on again. By the time that happened the phone had a charge of 92% approximately. I don't know what it could have been, but I'm guessing it is battery-related, so that's why I'm asking if any of you know how to disassembly this phone or at least get to the battery, as I'd like to see if maybe the battery attachment thing got loose or something like that. If anyone knows what could have happened, let me know please.
Nope but why salvage it? Prolly better to sell on ebay as "for parts" at this point.
I can tell you that's just one of the issues our phone Blade V8 pro has. but if you start the rooting process it gets better. What I mean is im about as far as I can be with rooting my phone, without actually completing the task. I don't have a laptop or access to one. So that's the hold up for me. Although I do have everything I need to complete the task already. My List: #1. 7.0 Nugat Update Zip inside my SD Card #2. I have a entire Super User Management products assortment.. Also have apps downloaded that Impose the 7.0 and the 8.1 Updates, so my phone already runs as though I have the updates. But it still shows 6.1 in the Info page.
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I can tell you that's just one of the issues our phone Blade V8 pro has. but if you start the rooting process it gets better. What I mean is im about as far as I can be with rooting my phone, without actually completing the task. I don't have a laptop or access to one. So that's the hold up for me. Although I do have everything I need to complete the task already. My List: #1. 7.0 Nugat Update Zip inside my SD Card #2. I have a entire Super User Management products assortment.. Also have apps downloaded that Impose the 7.0 and the 8.1 Updates, so my phone already runs as though I have the updates. But it still shows 6.1 in the Info page.
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MY ZTE BLADE V8 PRO no longer powers off, doesn't force close my apps when it locks, has duel window support, and is Twice or Three times Faster. then when I got it 2 months ago from Best Buy for 199.99 and it was pretty fast then. It's faster then I am already, lol
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Blackbear.immortal said:
I can tell you that's just one of the issues our phone Blade V8 pro has. but if you start the rooting process it gets better. What I mean is im about as far as I can be with rooting my phone, without actually completing the task. I don't have a laptop or access to one. So that's the hold up for me. Although I do have everything I need to complete the task already. My List: #1. 7.0 Nugat Update Zip inside my SD Card #2. I have a entire Super User Management products assortment.. Also have apps downloaded that Impose the 7.0 and the 8.1 Updates, so my phone already runs as though I have the updates. But it still shows 6.1 in the Info page.
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MY ZTE BLADE V8 PRO no longer powers off, doesn't force close my apps when it locks, has duel window support, and is Twice or Three times Faster. then when I got it 2 months ago from Best Buy for 199.99 and it was pretty fast then. It's faster then I am already, lol
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I have this if you can get a file manager to write it on your build properties persist.sys.debug.multi_window=true
just copy and paste it at the very bottom of the document.. I just tried to add screen shots as attachments but wouldn't load them so Ill list the products I use below..
/!\ kShark /!\ has a "Excellent" line of SuperUser products! just search Google Play Store kShark
both FREE and PAID work extreemly well and the Developer answers emails so support is Good.
Also for the most responcive file manager Although Ill Never give up on ES pro.. Maple has File Manager Pro (paid total of 5.99) its Red folder and after u upgrade it has the pirate android on the side also asked if I wanted classic edition gray.. but its the only one I found that will write system files without having root permition, although I never did the root checker and I don't advise you to start that process on any application unless they do it for you. Instantly locks you out of any possible advantage
I noticed a larger than normal defect rate. My phone has a bad fingerprint sensor, and my wife's has a bad mic. My phone broke (i dont like cases) and I tore down the device to swap the mic. Now she can make calls while not on speakerphone. The teardown is not too bad. you start with the back cover. i used a razor blade to get between it and the metal, afterwards i used a guitar pick to pry the rest of it open. it has clips and weak glue. The rest is all screws. so it is pretty straightforward.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPNkcMUlhEQ