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I got one of these yesterday. They are fairly cheap now at around $30. Creating this thread for anyone curious if it is fully compatible with Moto G, and it appears so. Tested with GPE 5.1 firmware.
Benefits over Xiaomi Mi Band ($20):
Looks good
Music Controls (Requires Xperia Music app) (Install manually to /system/app/Sony_Music)
Additional Smart Controls - Answer call, enable speakerphone etc (Untested)Drawbacks against Xiaomi Mi Band:
Most people say not as accurate
Conclusion:
After a few days I returned this SmartBand. The main reason was that I have little interest in activity tracking, and as another way to interact with my phone it is cumbersome. This Sony device is more of Lifestyle Tracker than Activity Tracker. If you already use many Sony products; TV, PlayStation etc - you may see more value in this SmartBand. The band can be re-purposed to trigger apps to launch or certain activities to occur if you use Tasker or similar. I found tapping too much work, but the button could be used to create three different actions. For example; double-click to wake phone, launch camera, take a picture and put phone to sleep again.
Issues: (Experienced on Android 5.1)
The software for this device, Lifelog, while usable; also crashed consistently on Android 5.1. It's the only app I have had crash.
The Band cannot be used as a trusted device in Lollipop to unlock a Moto G because it does not remain listed after BT pairing. I'm unsure if Xiaomi Mi Band has the same problem.
The Sony Music app caused the common 'WiFi always on' issue in Lollipop. No way to stop this in app settings.
Related
Just curious. how are you experiencing the NFC performance?
- distance at witch it works
- types of tags recognized?
I ordered two xperia smarttags from amazon, I'll let you know when I try them out.
Sent from my GT-N7100 using xda app-developers app
Also looking forward to your feedback.
Thanks in advance.
Sooo, I got my XPERIA SmartTags today
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After installing two Sony apps, I just had to swipe the tag on the back of the phone to go to the tag settings:
As you can see different actions can be set to be automatically executed whenever the mode is turned on (smarttag) or off (manually). The actions available are:
Turn bluetooth on/off
Turn cellular data on/off
Turn wi-fi on/off
connect to a specified bluetooth device (headset for example)
launch an app
open a webpage
make a phone call
send an sms/mms
post a FB message
speak current time
speak messages
set sound mode (normal, silent, loud)
set volume settings for media, ringtone/notifications and alarms.
The tags are detected from ~2cm and they still work when my TPU case is on. The back cover should be on in order to get NFC to work so anyone who's planning on using third party covers should make sure that they are NFC-enabled.
One more thing, NFC won't work when the screen is off neither on the lockscreen. I guess this is how NFC work in android in order to increase security (but I remember reading somewhere on xda that there is a workaround for rooted devices).
I hope that this little review helped you.
I usually write detailed reviews about products I have tested and verified, instead of those I read about or seen in crowdfunding campaigns. As a matter of fact, I'm very skeptical about such campaigns because 2014 has been a big disappointment with a number of projects I have been looking forward to (some with smart devices promised back in 2013). It's a first time I'm bring something like this up, and in no way am I associated or involved with this particular project. Just after reading all the discussions on XDA about MI fitness tracker and some other basic bracelet type fitness trackers, when I saw this particular watch - I was so impressed that I wanted to share with you about it.
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The project is NEVO watch with a smart functionality and activity tracker: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/nevo-the-first-minimalist-connected-watch
What's really cool about it - it looks like a regular high quality fashion watch with a minimalistic approach of a led dial which tracks your progress toward the daily goal set within an app. It also provides notifications in a form of a vibration whenever you get a call or email/txt, etc. But the coolest part, the watch mechanism runs off a regular battery which should last at least 5 years, while smart functionality of the watch is powered off another battery which should last you at least 6 months. Both batteries are common type and easy to replace.
I see so many people with these ugly plastic wrist bands that have only one functionality of an activity tracker. Now, you can have a classy looking watch with activity tracker already built in. And from what I understand, this is not a vaporware but a product which has been already designed and tested, at least prototype of it, including software as well. Either way, I'm not preaching or saying it's a must have product, but rather would like to share with you about it since I personally find it to be fascinating!
Hello! I developed the RunApp - gps Tracker with some interesting features:
* Rounds recognition
* Sort your activity history by week, month oder year.
* Notifications about new records like distance record or MaxAltitude record.
(let us know if your MaxAltitude reaches 8.848m
* Import your own GPX-Tracks
*Advanced statistics and more.
Search by play store for neoexpert.runapp
Could you please test it on different devices?
Thanks.
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Ok so first of all maps are a bit off but that's not your fault I guess
Second of all, I tried running it for a couple of second and in case of hiking it just turned off after 5 seconds or so, and in case of both cycling and hiking I showed some crazy speed results. Screens attached.
OnePlus One 6.0 Marshmallow
Thank you for testing!
Your activities are too short. If the GPS-signal is too weak, your location can jump quicker than Light-Speed for some metres.
The speedunit you have in your results is "km/min"
you can change the speedunit by clicking in MainActivity on speed-TextView.
Later it will be posible to do that also in ResultActivity
If the Activity was automatically recognized it stops automatically too. In older version of RunApp it stopped sometimes by Hiking when the speed went under 2 km/h.
In latest version it should be better:
From now on RunApp pauses automatically recognized activities instead of stoping them directly and stops them if the user was still for 5 min. Hikong pauses now if the speed went under 1 km/h.
You can also test the new Background activity recognizer (option in settings):
Hi there!
So, for some reason I'm encountering a problem I haven't had to deal with before when it comes to bluetooth connectivity.
Simply put, I have a wearable (Smartband) & I also use bluetooth headphones from time to time, and usually when I would connect my headphones the battery indicator would display next to the bluetooth icon in the status bar. But now, for some reason, if I do not connect my headphones first it doesn't show up, which is a problem since my band is always connected so I would have to disconnect it every time before connecting my headphones, which I did not have to do before.
So I'm wondering if there's a way to either:
Set some kind of priority for the bluetooth devices so that the battery indicator is only displayed when my headphones are connected
Or if there's just some way to set it up so that my headphones' battery indicator shows up regardless if I have 1 or multiple devices connected beforehand
I've stumbled upon a few posts online that gave me a few ideas but so far no solutions:
Spoiler: Screenshot of a post on the OnePlus forums
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As well as these two apps:
Bluetooth Connection Priority Manager
BatON
I tried using the first one to setup priorities hoping this would solve my problem but it doesn't seem to change anything, and the second one does not do what I'm searching for but I've seen it mentioned quite a few times so that's why I'm sharing it.
I have not been able to find anyone talking about a way to resolve such niche issue online so that's why I'm coming here.
Hi,
I have the following phone:
Samsung Galaxy S20 (SM-G988U1) Ultra 5G (SnapDragon) [Not Rooted]
Android 13 & One UI 5.1
(I run Nova Launcher)
I have both Avast AV and a Notification app that I use and which need to run all the time. For their Battery Usage, I set them both to "Unrestricted" and I did also Disable the "Remove Permissions if App is Unused" setting for both apps.
What's happening is that every time I Reboot my phone, I get a Notification from "Device Care", that says it put the apps to sleep because they were "sending unnecessary notifications and slowing down your phone".
The same thing is happening on my wife's Samsung Galaxy A71 5G phone as well (running same OS & UI as mine), so I know it can't just be my phone. Plus we bought them just a couple of months ago new.
Please help??? I wish to keep my hair in my head!
Thank You!
Dave
Disable global power management.
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Developer options>standby apps, when global power management is disabled all bucket states show as active.
Otherwise optimize the phone by dealing with apps on a case by case basis. Limiting data and battery use in the individual app settings doesn't effect global power management. Use Package Disabler or adb edits to kill unneeded apps that are using excessive battery and do not respond to more civilized methods of control.