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Does anyone know how to turn off fitness apps?

Hello Everyone,
I have no need for or desire to use any of the fitness features of the 360, such as the heart monitor or Fit. I always see the little heart rate monitor firing up and I see this as a good way of saving battery since I dont use it. Does anyone know how to turn off, or uninstall these? Thanks!

Great question.

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I haven't done it myself, but if you're rooted you can try disabling them via adb.
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Ironkidz said:
Hello Everyone,
I have no need for or desire to use any of the fitness features of the 360, such as the heart monitor or Fit. I always see the little heart rate monitor firing up and I see this as a good way of saving battery since I dont use it. Does anyone know how to turn off, or uninstall these? Thanks!
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In Android Wear on the phone under "Show me my heart rate" I have mine set on Fit and I never see the heart rate monitor on my watch.

Wiley_11 said:
In Android Wear on the phone under "Show me my heart rate" I have mine set on Fit and I never see the heart rate monitor on my watch.
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If you look at the back of your watch, you will still see the green sensor in use.

Ironkidz said:
If you look at the back of your watch, you will still see the green sensor in use.
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Ahh. I thought you were talking alerts on watch, sorry. I hope turning it off completely comes in the next update. :fingers-crossed:

Ironkidz said:
Hello Everyone,
I have no need for or desire to use any of the fitness features of the 360, such as the heart monitor or Fit. I always see the little heart rate monitor firing up and I see this as a good way of saving battery since I dont use it. Does anyone know how to turn off, or uninstall these? Thanks!
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In the android wear app, select FIT for countsteps and show heart rate, then on watch select FIT and slide through to its options. do show step card OFF, daily goal NONE, and save fitness data off.
currently thats the only way i know how

It still doesn't work - mine keeps showing me the daily goal, almost hourly.

[Q] Android wear app that can show your notes on the watch?

So I want to be able to take notes with my moto 360 and then I want to be able to read my notes through the watch, not the phone.
Does anyone know how to do this?

use google keep . it does what you asked

nechmadi said:
use google keep . it does what you asked
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Thanks bro! Appreciated!

Evernote also has a really cool integration with Android Wear. You can make a note or search existing notes. If your note is a checklist (for example a shopping list) it will appear very neatly on your watch and you can go through and check off each item. The screen also doesn't dim automatically so you dont have to keep activating your watch to open the list.
I only use Evernote instead of Google Keep because I've used evernote for last 3 years and might as well keep going.

MrGuarnere said:
The screen also doesn't dim automatically so you dont have to keep activating your watch to open the list.
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Thus reducing the battery reserve significantly. I used Evernote for a couple of days but erased it because of that.

Oskar-2 said:
Thus reducing the battery reserve significantly. I used Evernote for a couple of days but erased it because of that.
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I hear ya, but you can always just hit the side button and turn off the screen. Its not the end of the world

Oskar-2 said:
Thus reducing the battery reserve significantly. I used Evernote for a couple of days but erased it because of that.
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But just when you use this app on foreground and screen on. I tested and it drain about 12% by hour. Agenda Wear in same condition : screen on and foreground, drain same 12% by hour. So every app in forground with screen on drain about 12%. There are just watchface wich can authorize processor sleep wich drain between 2% and 4% by hour. Shopping list (Tickit and others.....) had also same consumption.

[Q] Unnamed app with default icon draining battery?

So I received my moto 360 at the weekend, and it's pretty great, but the battery life so far has been horrendous. As in, 20%/hr, charge multiple times per day terrible.
I've uninstalled all Wear apps as far as I can tell, wiped my phone, reset my watch.
However, the top app for drain according to Android Wear app on my phone is an app with no name, and the default "little green android holding a package" app icon. I've no idea how to figure out what this culprit is, but I feel that my battery life should increase significantly if I do.
I've been on with Moto UK support, and described this problem to them. They've asked for a screenshot, which I provided, and said they'd get back to me.
Is there any way to identify all apps on my wear? I checked the storage stats but all the apps there have names and icons (except system apps)
Thanks!

For those wondering, it appears to have been WeChat. I had no idea that there was a wear component to that app, but Wear Battery Stats pointed me in the right direction.

Android 5.0.2 update for the Zenwatch

I woke up this morning and received the 5.0.2 update for my Zenwatch. According to this link, there's nothing super visible that it resolves, but just a bunch of behind-the-scenes fixes.
Obviously I can't comment on improvements to battery life or anything just yet.

Anyone notice the card peeks now cause the watch face to shrink rather than just being on top of the watch face. The shrunken face looks terrible with all of the empty space. Is there a fix to this?

Screenshot/video?

The first picture shows no card peek. You can see how the watch face takes up the whole screen. The second image shows a peek with the smaller watch face.

The notifications sometimes drive me nuts too. In the Android Wear app on your phone, there's an option to "block app notifications". I basically turn everything off except texts.
I noticed this in 5.0.0, so it's nothing new to 5.0.2. There are so many annoying notifications (WiFi available, WiFi joined, etc)

I have the impression that battery lasts longer with 5.0.2. Is this just placebo or do you experience something similar?

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I have the impression that battery lasts longer with 5.0.2. Is this just placebo or do you experience something similar?
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I also feel like the battery is lasting longer although I admit it could be entirely in my head. With normal use in getting 24+ hours before and after 5.0.2.

Mostly fixes issues with Google Fit sync. Updates Google Services to a new version that fixes that issue. I am sure there are other small bug fixes but nothing in the way of new features or fixing annoying UI quirks.

masterofmayhem said:
Anyone notice the card peeks now cause the watch face to shrink rather than just being on top of the watch face. The shrunken face looks terrible with all of the empty space. Is there a fix to this?
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got my update Monday, this doesn't happen for me. have you tried to change the face?

I'm getting horrible battery life on 5.0.2.... Help.

l337m45732 said:
I'm getting horrible battery life on 5.0.2.... Help.
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Reset the watch. After a day or two the battery life should be back to normal.

hecksagon said:
Reset the watch. After a day or two the battery life should be back to normal.
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Do you mean Restart or Factory Reset?

Willber G said:
Do you mean Restart or Factory Reset?
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Factory reset. Your battery life is probably caused by a Play Services issue. Factory reset should clear play services data and probably clear up your issue. All of your apps should be sync back to the watch so it's not really a hassle. You may experience significant drain for the first day since it will have to sync.

Thanks.

masterofmayhem said:
The first picture shows no card peek. You can see how the watch face takes up the whole screen. The second image shows a peek with the smaller watch face.
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Caused by Zenwatch Manager. If you uninstall Zenwatch Manager and factory reset the watch and then do not install Zenwatch Manager it wont do it. I think its because newer versions of Zenwatch Manager contain updated watch faces that have this behavior. They get uploaded to the watch upon installation.

I've always had zenwatch manager and am generally at about 25% when I plug it in at night, 16-18 hours after taking it off the charger

HW AW2.0 General thoughts?

With a few useful actions missing, and really funky updating and subsequent battery drain-
How do you like AW 2.0 on your HW?
What do you miss the most?
What's your favorite new thing from 2.0?
Will you stay with 2.0?

I've been running DP for months and I don't really remember what I should be missing. I am happy with current performance and features will stay on 2.0

Edit.... Can't see poll in app....

jowofoto said:
With a few useful actions missing, and really funky updating and subsequent battery drain-
How do you like AW 2.0 on your HW?
What do you miss the most?
What's your favorite new thing from 2.0?
Will you stay with 2.0?
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1. Like it a lot. Just a little bit of a learning curve.
2. I miss the longer battery life. I charge it every night, but I was usually at 50% on 1.5, now I usually at 15%.
3. Answering calls. On 1.5, when I swiped to answer, I routinely swiped my launcher and lost the call. On 2.0 you tap to answer.
4. Definitely.

jowofoto said:
With a few useful actions missing, and really funky updating and subsequent battery drain-
How do you like AW 2.0 on your HW?
What do you miss the most?
What's your favorite new thing from 2.0?
Will you stay with 2.0?
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there are good things and very bad ones. I'm tending to not really like it. Reasons listed below.
I don't even know where to begin with... Here is a (probably incomplete) list of what I miss the most:
double tap on button for theater mode
contacts are not synced with the PHONE, instead it only syncs contacts from your Google account (which I'm not using, I'm using my own CardDAV server but I've seen already the exact same problem with Exchange, so this is not a niche problem - Calendar works well with my CalDAV server and is in sync with what is set up on the phone)
Google Now (all that below worked like a charm before the upgrade) - Google assistant is not really usable (for me at least), and far away from good or perfect:
it becomes quite useless without the contacts (can't make calls, as there are no contacts - can't send messages, etc.) - and making phone calls or sending messages is the primary use case for the voice control on my watch
saying "Call Jon Doe on mobile" (did a test cause I really need to call my wife often) keeps asking me for which number to call (seriously, Google Assistant? Are you that smart?)
saying "Send Telegram/WhatsApp/Text Message to Jon Deo - Hello World" will remain on a screen with buttons to cancel or send instead of sending that "Hello World" message (again: are you serious? Why should I use voice commands if I in return have to interact manually with my device again? What is the deeper meaning behind that?)
Old apps don't work anymore (I installed Heart Trace on the phone but it's not appearing on the watch - also not after doing the "sync apps" in the Wear app) - sure this will change for all apps that are still maintained by their devs - but others won't
notifications peek cards - especially for the music player. this is horrible and a really a big issue for me. And also for non-music player notifications: I just don't see at first sight (and without fiddeling with the watch) that there are notifications - the "complications" watch faces are ugly (IMHO) and I really hope that the dev of my watch face will include a small icon telling me that there are 1, 2, 3, 99 notifications pending.
tripple tap on the button for brightness boost - although I never used it (I just didn't know it existed until after upgrading to 2.0) I really see the benefit of this shortcut and would have started to use it - especially as summer is just around the corner and in bright sunlight the watch is hard to read.
swipe from right to left for the apps list (why would I want to swipe for changing the watch face??) swiping should really be associated to an action I use often - MAKE IT USER CONFIGURABLE!! (this holds true for most of the issues, and also for the good things below)
DND mode synced with the phone. Now, this is really controversial as it depends on the individual use case. I need it synced with the phone (either phone and watch muted or both on vibrate/loud). In any case: JUST LET THE USER DECIDE! (seriously, Google! How hard is this?)
battery live - was way better with AW1.5. Had 30-50% left after 22-24h - now it's completely drained after 20-22h with similar usage. Trying the stop sync over wifi setting next.
To be fair, there are a couple of nice features that I like:
the drop down quick settings - the individual screens for each setting were just horrible in terms of UX!
the apps carousel and the favorite apps shortcuts
the possibility to install apps directly on the watch
full fletched Telegram app (got to give props to the Telegram devs rather than to Google but still: I like)
possibility to stop the notifications from popping up all over the screen (a real problem if you are in a meeting at work with the customer and your friend sends you embarrassing messages so that every one can read them - other scenarios problematic, too) - instead now only a small icon appears and that's it
I'm really only centimeters/inches away from downgrading. Got the AW1.5 image already downloaded, giving AW2.0 some more days of testing, but if that list above keeps growing, I'll downgrade for sure.
There are also other issues with the UI/UX:
i.e., the scroll indicator on the right - historically, that makes sense. But on a watch (which most people are wearing on the left hand) when you reach to the screen for scrolling, you're actually obscuring the screen so you can't see the scroll bar anyway. So what's the point? also, the scroll indicator has the same size no matter how long the list is.
There is probably more, but I've had enough for today.
Cheers

dmckami said:
Old apps don't work anymore (I installed Heart Trace on the phone but it's not appearing on the watch - also not after doing the "sync apps" in the Wear app) - sure this will change for all apps that are still maintained by their devs - but others won't
Cheers
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Heart trace works. For some apps I get notifications on watch to install watch companion app, for others I have to manually install on watch via play store. Sometimes you can't find the app in the watch store unless you have it installed on the phone...

derausgewanderte said:
Heart trace works. For some apps I get notifications on watch to install watch companion app, for others I have to manually install on watch via play store. Sometimes you can't find the app in the watch store unless you have it installed on the phone...
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Thanks, I'll check that once I have charged the watch again. It ran out of battery mid-day today :-/

jowofoto said:
With a few useful actions missing, and really funky updating and subsequent battery drain-
How do you like AW 2.0 on your HW?
What do you miss the most?
What's your favorite new thing from 2.0?
Will you stay with 2.0?
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1. It's okay. There's a lot of potential, but it doesn't feel like it has been fully realized yet.
2. Not requiring me to press "ok" after I dictate a text message. That defeats the whole purpose of hands free messaging. The battery life downgrade is a bummer, but I charge my watch every night anyway so it doesn't really matter to me. I went from having 60-70% battery left in the afternoon to having about 50% left.
3. Facebook messenger finally works. In fact, all of my notifications work, though some work better than others. I'm looking at you, Outlook. Also, having a keyboard is nice. I think it works surprisingly well considering the tiny screen that it's on.
4. Yeah.

TheSt33v said:
. I'm looking at you, Outlook..
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You have Outlook installed on the watch? It's working for me.

With double and triple tap back it would be perfect for me.

derausgewanderte said:
You have Outlook installed on the watch? It's working for me.
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Yes, and it does work, but not as well as the other notifications. The notification is there when I swipe up, but it doesn't appear in a noticeable way when I first get it like my other apps. I have to go looking for it.

twitter on android wear 2.0
Is it just me or is there no twitter support for android wear 2.0?

Well my experience is that wear 2.0 is not an improvement as far as performance and efficiency goes. Been running it for 5 days. now. the watch is laggy, so much so that starting and stopping the stopwatch leads to unreliable times. press the stopwatch start button on my watch face and approx 1/2 second later it starts (tap and the vibration feedback also comes about 1/2 second later). any watch animations seem to be laggy like they are running at 20 frames. battery is lasting half as long (used to be 48 hours, now lucky if I get 24 hours). Love the new app launcher layout but in true google style they half arsed it and didn't carry it into a single other menu on the watch so the usual inconsistency from the guys that implement the standards, well done Google.

RudeboyXL said:
Well my experience is that wear 2.0 is not an improvement as far as performance and efficiency goes. Been running it for 5 days. now. the watch is laggy, so much so that starting and stopping the stopwatch leads to unreliable times. press the stopwatch start button on my watch face and approx 1/2 second later it starts (tap and the vibration feedback also comes about 1/2 second later). any watch animations seem to be laggy like they are running at 20 frames. battery is lasting half as long (used to be 48 hours, now lucky if I get 24 hours). Love the new app launcher layout but in true google style they half arsed it and didn't carry it into a single other menu on the watch so the usual inconsistency from the guys that implement the standards, well done Google.
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So I found that having the triple tap feature enabled for zooming was causing my touch reaction lag. no biggy, not a feature I need enabled. but I have found the battery life to be terrible. seems to have gotten worse. The watch uses about 5-10% per hour, if not more at times with little to no use. Can't even get through a full day. This is ridiculous. I went from having state of the art smartwatch with amazing UX to a power hungry wrist calculator. I literally don't like looking at my watch anymore as I'm without doubt going to see my battery drop about 15-20% since I last looked at it. Pathetic. I'm not performing another factory reset as it clearly is the ROM that's the problem. Huawei need to sort this out. All that time waiting and this is what we are given.

Usability wise, it's still nowhere nearly as comfortable to use an an Samsung Gear S3. That said, the UI is smoother and with better readable notifications. The Spotify-card on the Watch is a pain to use though. Sometimes it appears and sometimes it does not (also happens with Play Music).
Battery life is utterly dissapointing. I've had AW2.0 since OTA-day, now at least a week and I get about 1.5 days out of it. On AW1.5 I used to get 4-5 days out of it. Such an gigantic drop in batterylife is something I do NOT like. Now I can't brag about my watch lasting 5x longer than my collegue's Apple Watches :/
So far, Gear S3 is still by far the best watch money can buy. But if you really want Android Wear, imho the Huawei Watch still is by far the best buy.

1. Keyboard is not that easy to use but its good to have keyboard, apps got much better, battery drain is same as always for me (good).
2. I was on DP since DP4 released, but i remember AW1.5 had more beautiful UI that AW2's UI.
3. I can send voice messages via telegram!
4. Definitely.
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Other then the fact that somehow my max speaker volume changed to super low and the double tap to sleep is gone I am happy. Working with HW support, I did a reset which killed bat for about 4 hrs, but now bat life is same or slightly better than before and play services on watch is much smaller than after OTA update. New navigation took a day or two to get used to, but OK with it now. Like the fact that I have a little more control of what is on watch and how it is used. Probably going back to HW for speaker repair under warranty ( days left). Palm on watch to sleep doesn't work for me, but not a big deal. A few tweaks and it should be a nice OS.

amin318 said:
1. Keyboard is not that easy to use but its good to have keyboard, apps got much better, battery drain is same as always for me (good).
2. I was on DP since DP4 released, but i remember AW1.5 had more beautiful UI that AW2's UI.
3. I can send voice messages via telegram!
4. Definitely.
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The voice message feature for telegram is great! It actually makes the watch smarter...no more quick replies or voice message via Google(especially if you speak in an unsupported language)....
And you can also hear the voice messages you receive on the watch directly via the speaker....
Just like a wrist walkie talkie
I just pray to god Whatsapp will implement this as well...

2.0 is the single worst software update I have ever seen. ...
It's almost as if it bypassed even the simplest quality control check!!
Swipe left is now taking you to a watchface rather than menu?? Like seriously?? OMG
Where can I downgrade?