Is it possible to turn on cinema mode and get notifications?
I can not find battery stats in Android wear app. Can you tell me where it is?
Open the Android Wear App.
Click on the cogwheel, upper righthand corner, not the 3 dots.
Click on "SmartWatch 3" under "Device settings".
Click on "watch battery" and you get the battery stats.
As I understand it you still get messages when Cinema mode is turned on you just don't get any visible/audible(no loudspeaker on the SW3 but vibration is audible too) notifications. That setting is specifically there so your Smartwatch won't turn on the display lighting and make any sound while you are in a cinema or other sensitive area where light and sound would be disturbing.
Side benefit, it won't react to touches on the display and it also won't turn on the display lights accidentaly when you move your wrist in a way that would make your watch think you want to interact with it. You can however turn the screen on by pushing the hardware button to check if any new messages have arrived.
Haven't tried cinema mode for myself yet, though, so no guarantee on the "still receiving messages" part.
Would be nice to just turn on vibration without having the display light up. I would use that but since that option doesn't exist I just turned of the wrist movement thing. My watch lights up and vibrates, when I get a message which is OK to me since that's what I have a smartwatch for but it doesn't drain the battery from always turning on accidentally just because it detects wrist movement which happened a lot before I turned that option off.
You can use app "Feel the wear" you can have vibration and also screen light if you would. So in Cinema mode you have vibration to know notification and if you choose light on the screen, you can also see the notification if you flick your wrist while screen is on
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How is the watch supposed to function ambient versus non ambient mode? In non ambient mode the watch screen shuts off, if I turn the watch it lights up, seems to work ok other than it doesn't turn on 3/4 of the time.
In ambient mode I get the screen in a dim mode all of the time, kind of odd but the second hand in the watch face gets deactivated but oh well. Now when I hold it up it lights up, but has the "ok Google" text on the screen, where with non-ambient mode it would not do this. Is this normal? It's kind of annoying to see the ok Google text.
spinedoc said:
How is the watch supposed to function ambient versus non ambient mode? In non ambient mode the watch screen shuts off, if I turn the watch it lights up, seems to work ok other than it doesn't turn on 3/4 of the time.
In ambient mode I get the screen in a dim mode all of the time, kind of odd but the second hand in the watch face gets deactivated but oh well. Now when I hold it up it lights up, but has the "ok Google" text on the screen, where with non-ambient mode it would not do this. Is this normal? It's kind of annoying to see the ok Google text.
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Here's a really good post describing how ambient mode works: http://www.droid-life.com/2014/09/08/moto-360-ambient-screen-mode/
I think the second hand gets deactivated to save battery(fewer animations). I haven't seen the "ok Google" text on my watch but maybe it depends on your watch face.
I see the OK Google text also. I think that it is trying to let you know that you can say it at any time now and input voice commands for the watch. I understand showing this to people who do not realize such a feature is available but it really should go away after popping up the first 5 times. I really do not need a constant reminder.
Yeah but I wonder why it doesn't show OK Google when ambient mode is off.
The "Ok, Google" text only shows until you've used voice commands ~5-10 times then it goes away.
djuniah said:
The "Ok, Google" text only shows until you've used voice commands ~5-10 times then it goes away.
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Cool thanks, I gave it some voice commands and eventually it went away.
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.
1) Can i disable the functions of "cardiac activity" "pedometer" ?!
2) Battery life is very bad, what can I do to optimize it?
3) On reminders and alarm clocks, it doesn't vibrate, why?
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I just got mine and the performance was horrible. I had to let the software update to 5.x from 4.x and after that was done I deleted it from my phone and then did a factory reset on the watch. After I did all that I used a moto watchface and had 36 hours.
On optimising battery life:
Turn off gestures (tilt to wake, etc), ambient mode (the display doesn't need to be on all the time, press the side button or tap the screen), and wifi. I also turn mine off every night when I go to sleep (I never wear a watch to bed, anyway) and I can usually get 3-4 days out of mine, with decent use of the actual smartwatch features (voice texting, media control, responding to notifications).
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On optimising battery life:
Turn off gestures (tilt to wake, etc), ..........
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Although it rear tilt to wake option is disabled, the watch lights up when it turned up in the display.
Probably something else causing it to light up, but I'm not sure now what.
If there is a clock faces that have settings for this, those in the WatchMaker Premium application do not have this option to turn off tilt to wake up for reduce the battery consumation.
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Although it rear tilt to wake option is disabled, the watch lights up when it turned up in the display.
Probably something else causing it to light up, but I'm not sure now what.
If there is a clock faces that have settings for this, those in the WatchMaker Premium application do not have this option to turn off tilt to wake up for reduce the battery consumation.
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The Android Wear app is the only place that I know of where the tilt to wake option is located.
I don't use either Facer or Watchmaker Premium, so I'm not sure about that option under either app.
Using either app can cause extra battery drain, since the watch communicates with the phone constantly (or at least frequently) to update the watch face.
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The Android Wear app is the only place that I know of where the tilt to wake option is located.
I don't use either Facer or Watchmaker Premium, so I'm not sure about that option under either app.
Using either app can cause extra battery drain, since the watch communicates with the phone constantly (or at least frequently) to update the watch face.
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You're right. I probably had in mind the possibility of stopping this option from the watch itself, which does not happen until you stop the application Android Wear, as you mentioned.
Alternatively, it is talking about is removing dim off the clock.
Thanks for your guidance.
Hi guys, any advice will be helpful.
Last day i was at office and was charging my Huawei watch, later i saw a yellow blink on the screen and when i tried to turn on the screen by taping on the screen or using wrist gesture the screen wont display.
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1. Watch completely works perfect only the display is not showing up when you wake the or want to use the screen.
2. The touch is working. (can select even the screen is fully black and navigate)
3. On the "always on" mode the notifications and the always on display is showing. only the bright display is not working.
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Im new in posting threads in XDA, english is weak
I had a similar thing happen when I had a brightness app installed, I think it was Wear Brightness Control: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.edgecontrols.android&hl=en
It took me forever to figure that out and get the app uninstalled, but my watch has been fine ever since. You might check to see if you have the same or a similar app installed on yours.
Is there any app that can show ambient display always on only when we have a notification waiting our attention?
Samsung have it's display always on, there are several apps that do that, but that I don't want.
OP5T have Ambient Display that only lights up when we tilt the phone, than screen turns off again, I want a app that makes my screen Always of and just when I receive a notification it became always on in ambient display until I dismiss or view the notification(s).
The approach of OP is, we have to tilt phone to screen wake up, it's a kind of battery saving, but if I have my phone in hands and be moving, some times the screen lights up unnecessarily, and if is resting in secretary I have to raise it up to show ambient display.
paulomodesto said:
Is there any app that can show ambient display always on only when we have a notification waiting our attention?
Samsung have it's display always on, there are several apps that do that, but that I don't want.
OP5T have Ambient Display that only lights up when we tilt the phone, than screen turns off again, I want a app that makes my screen Always of and just when I receive a notification it became always on in ambient display until I dismiss or view the notification(s).
The approach of OP is, we have to tilt phone to screen wake up, it's a kind of battery saving, but if I have my phone in hands and be moving, some times the screen lights up unnecessarily, and if is resting in secretary I have to raise it up to show ambient display.
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I feel you on this one. Just moved over to OP5T from a Moto X 2014 Pure (and it still works pretty good!) and had become used to the "breathing" notifications with the AMOLED display and hand wave over proximity sensor to show ambient notifications. There is actually a tweak to this aspect in the Omni ROM that just released with Android 8, although it may not be stable enough for daily driving. Will be nice when the settings drill down into this area.