I find that 9 time out of 10 when I look at my watch, the screen is black. So the one thing this watch is no good for is telling time.
Is there a way to increase the sensitivity so that the watch lights up easier? I shouldn't have to use 2 hands to operate a watch.
Do you wear your watch on the bottom of your wrist? Or do you wear it on your right hand? I've found that it is almost perfect at detecting when I want it to wake, only when it is on the top of my left wrist.
Have you tried restarting the watch? The watch should wake up whenever you turn your wrist to look at it
I believe that I have read and understood everything correctly. A friend of mine also has the watch, and he believes that my watch may be malfunctioning.
My problem occurs when ambient mode is on. Here is what I have observed:
When ambient mode is OFF, my watch turns off when I'm not holding it up - when I hold it up to chest level/my face, it turns on at my standard brightness (not dim).
When ambient mode is ON, my watch is very dim when it's off to the side, sometimes turning off completely at certain angles - when I hold it up to chest level/my face, it remains dim. The only way it goes to standard brightness is if I touch the screen or power button.
This occurs with Facer AND with stock watch faces.
Is this a problem with my watch or how I'm operating it? I'm on the latest update, I just purchased it two days ago.
Thank you very much for any help.
Reset your watch once and then see
Sent from my SM-N910C using Tapatalk 2
Notice there're like two types on how people use their Moto 360.
1) Ambient Mode: on - Tilt to wake screen: off
Can always see the watchface, backlight light up by touching/interaction.
2) Ambient Mode: off - Tilt to wake screen: on
Tilt will turn on the screen with backlight. Nothing if it doesn't.
Which are you? and why?
philippecr said:
Notice there're like two types on how people use their Moto 360.
1) Ambient Mode: on - Tilt to wake screen: off
Can always see the watchface, backlight light up by touching/interaction.
2) Ambient Mode: off - Tilt to wake screen: on
Tilt will turn on the screen with backlight. Nothing if it doesn't.
Which are you? and why?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Unless my watch is defective and everything I've read is wrong, the face on a Moto360 will never always stay on, even when tilt to wake screen is off (I just tried it to confirm). Turning ambient mode on and tilt to wake screen off only makes it so you have to tilt to get the ambient mode screen.
But to answer the question, I'm neither. I have ambient mode on and tilt to wake screen on. I use this configuration because I want my watch to behave like a normal watch, and I don't want to have to touch it to see the time. I also want the screen to be on as much as possible because sometimes I hold my arm at an angle that isn't detected as a true "tilt" by the watch, and I want to be able to check the time despite this.
I have tilt to wake on and ambient off because I dont want touse more battery by keeping ambient on but I also want to be able to view the time without having to touch the screen or button.
TheSt33v: u had both of them on? How is the battery life?
I have them both OFF. I found out tilt to wake off extends my battery live tremendously. But I miht be a special case since I drive for living and the watch wakes up way too often.
I'd welcome some kind of "custom calibration" for cases like this and also it would be nice, if the screen would turn off IMMEDIATELY after you move the watch away from face.
I miss voted - I have both OFF (not on).
I like to tap or hit the button to see it. Otherwise it is on virtually all the time with my hands moving so much for work.
The the new app wod i kight turn mine into a boost gauge ....lol
Sent from my HTC One_M8 using XDA Free mobile app
philippecr said:
TheSt33v: u had both of them on? How is the battery life?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I's fine. I charge it overnight, and it's usually 20-30% by the time I go to bed.
until today I used all OFF, but after seeing this post I decided to try with Ambient Mode ON and Tilt to wake OFF.. I'll post later on the battery life comparaison in my case. I'm surprised to see the screen go black when not moving the watch at all even with ambient mode ON.
It's clear, I don't like to use tilt to wake, because of the 1sec lag when I move my wrist to see the time, hate it to feel like I didn't move it correctly even if I did.
I just found out from this thread that it is possible to disable the tilt to wake up gesture. Thanks OP !
Stupidly, you can't find this in watch settings, only in Android Wear app's settings.
For me, tilt to wake up disabled and ambient mode enabled looks like the best combination and battery life seems to be the same or better than with the defaults (Ambient off and tilt to wake up on), especially when driving.
Jungleman_ said:
until today I used all OFF, but after seeing this post I decided to try with Ambient Mode ON and Tilt to wake OFF.. I'll post later on the battery life comparaison in my case. I'm surprised to see the screen go black when not moving the watch at all even with ambient mode ON.
It's clear, I don't like to use tilt to wake, because of the 1sec lag when I move my wrist to see the time, hate it to feel like I didn't move it correctly even if I did.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
This is how I use mine. Ambient ON, Tilt OFF.
Tilt to wake lag's really bad.
Ambient ON means I can always see the time, like a real watch.
Talking to my watch is the daggiest thing in the world, so I would always touch it anyway to activate a task.
Battery:
40-30% left when I got to bed. Turn watch OFF.
Put on charge while I get ready for work in the morning. 95-85% 20 mins later when I leave.
Happy days....
michael_or said:
This is how I use mine. Ambient ON, Tilt OFF.
Ambient ON means I can always see the time, like a real watch.
Battery:
40-30% left when I got to bed. Turn watch OFF.
Put on charge while I get ready for work in the morning. 95-85% 20 mins later when I leave.
Happy days....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I take it you still have to lift the watch to see the ambient mode (watchface) since the Moto 360 screen always goes off when you move your arm down?
SirDigitalKnight said:
I take it you still have to lift the watch to see the ambient mode (watchface) since the Moto 360 screen always goes off when you move your arm down?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yep, but, when my arm is down, I cant see my watch anyway!
Even with an analogue watch I would need to point it toward my face to read it.
I find the moto360 is pretty good at guessing whether I'm looking or not. With my arm resting on the desk/keyboard as I type this, my ambient watchface is on and I can read it by glancing down, no watch movement required.
I'm pretty happy with the battery life I'm getting in this mode.
michael_or said:
Yep, but, when my arm is down, I cant see my watch anyway!
Even with an analogue watch I would need to point it toward my face to read it.
I find the moto360 is pretty good at guessing whether I'm looking or not. With my arm resting on the desk/keyboard as I type this, my ambient watchface is on and I can read it by glancing down, no watch movement required.
I'm pretty happy with the battery life I'm getting in this mode.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Agreed, I am liking the same settings on mine. Only 2 weeks with the watch so I still have to play some more but 11 hours into my watch use for the day and I am still at 59%!
I use tilt on and ambient off because i don't want use more battery when it not use.
Thanks for all the tips! I just ordered a Moto 360 myself and I plan on enabling Ambient Mode and disabling the tilt to display mode. If I plan on actually using my watch for a task I'm most likely going to tap on the screen anyway rather than tilting my wrist, and battery life will most likely be the same.
Soooo.
My watch just updated to the newest Android Wear version.
Now it seems my Ambient Mode leaves the screen on, regardless of angle!
It will be interesting to see how this effects my battery life!...!...!
I keep it all on.
I find both too useful to keep off.
michael_or said:
Soooo.
My watch just updated to the newest Android Wear version.
Now it seems my Ambient Mode leaves the screen on, regardless of angle!
It will be interesting to see how this effects my battery life!...!...!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I thought I was crazy but I just noticed this today. It turns out that ambient on and tilt to wake off leaves ambient always on. If you activate tilt to wake, the ambient screen turns off when facing out away from you or down. So tilt off, ambient on is what I'm going to try tomorrow to see how battery life is. The only thing I miss is the OK Google command just by raising my wrist.
Sent from my LG-D631 using XDA Free mobile app
I wear my watch and I'm making a soft drink (example). Screen comes full on but there's no notifications..
I go to do some laundry, screen comes on again but there's no notifications.
I get home and put my bag down, turn on the TV and pick up the PS4 controller, screen comes on again but there's no notifications.
I want to check the time on my watch so I hold my wrist up to my face. Screen stays off. I hold it there for a second, then do something else like put some music on the hifi, whilst still wondering what the time is.
Is there a way to lock the watch so that this feature where it's supposed to tell if you're holding it upright to check the face, can be turned off? It seems I have 2 problems:
1. during my normal every day activities, the watch things I'm trying to check the time and so the screen comes on.
The problem with this is that during my every day activities, I'm not holding the watch upright and then keeping it still. The watch is on my arm and so would be moving around anywhere my arm was going. So, even if for a split second the face did come on, my expectation is that the face should switch off very quickly again once the motion sensors detected my arm being in a different place.
2. when I actually want to check the time sometimes there's a long delay before the screen comes on.
Anyone else have these problems?
I tried double tapping the button on the side as a means to keep the screen off until I want it on, but this also mutes the notifications so that's not good.
I'm assuming that your question is different than 'how do I turn off' the always on screen feature.
Open the android wear app on your phone
Click the gear button in the upper right to bring up the settings window.
Directly under 'Device Settings' where it says 'Huawei Watch' [Connected], click that line.
Under the 'Always-on screen' line is the 'tilt to wake screen' line.
Deselect that option, by default it is on.
I noticed that when I turn on Smart Stay, I get this weird bug whereby when I rest my phone on the table face up after using it on my pc table, it just never turns the screen off.
Until I pick it up again, swipe or let it look at my face for a while and put it back on the table, then it will turn off again, as it should.
Does anybody else experience this?