Moto 360 first generation, while playing music from my phone (Note 4), i can see the song/artist name on my watch, but can't use the forward and backwards, volume, or play/pause.
before it worked and now it wont work.
please help.
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Hi all,
I hope that these are valid questions and someone may be able to answer them for me.
I am in the market for a smart watch but have some trouble finding out what these watches can ACTUALLY do.
Let me give you a scenario. I currently use my phone when i go out on the MTB (for health and fitness) with headphones.
I use MapMyRide cycling app to track and record my cycling sessions etc. I also listen to music and take txt's or calls from time to time whilst out.
Now I was REALLY impressed by the looks of the Moto 360 and I would love to be able to leave the phone at home and just take out the watch with me, but can I???
I had previously an i'm watch from Italy (nice smart watch) and although the watch, apps and everything was sweet i had some serious issues with it.
Anyway thats another story but I would like to be able to store music on the watch and listen to it vie corded or BluTooth headphones. Is there an app for this or does it have to use the phone??? i.e. the watch is merely a phone controller.
I would also like to use something like MapMyRide with GPS tracking etc and sync that to my phone when i get back home, so that the phone and watch are both up to date.
Are the above possible or do i need to look at other devices??
I await in anticipation as i like the Moto360 but just not sure if it right for me??
Thanks
Kev
Not quite yet. You can view your progress on your Moto360 (I use Runkeeper, but Mapmyrun/walk/ride work with it too), but you'll need your phone with you for the GPS.
I think the only Android Wear watch with built in GPS is the Asus (or Sony - I'm not sure). With those you'll be able to track your location and rides.
You can (as of this recent software update) have music saved to your Moto 360 and listen to it via a bluetooth headset.
Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
Flav106 said:
Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
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Hello,
When you have a track playing on the phone tap the watch face then scroll up from the bottom the track will be displayed then scroll from right to left then the volume controls and track skip will be on the watch screen.
Thanks but it's not working. Maybe due to the lollipop preview version on my phone...
Flav106 said:
Thanks but it's not working. Maybe due to the lollipop preview version on my phone...
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I'm having the same problem on lollipop with two different installs of KNX01V. Playback fro the watch works great, but when music is playing on the phone, no card shows up on the watch. As soon as the phone is paused (with the phone notification still present), the card shows up on the watch. If I then hit play on either the watch or the phone, the card on the watch disappears. Going to try a new build of lollipop soon.
Play Music v5.7.1717Q.1530520
^^ same for me on nexus 5 eev purview
Can someone one kitkat check this?
Flav106 said:
Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
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I am running Lollipop too. Music cards don't seem to show when music playback is triggered from the phone. However I do get the name of the current track playing if I tap the screen and navigate back to the watch face, but it disappears (so the phone is sending the information).
As far as I can tell Android Wear currently only supports Google Play Music in the following ways....
Open The Play Music app, this plays back music synced to the watch. This is a bit crap because there is no real control over what is synced, this does result in cards being shown.
Say "OK Google Play Music", this launches Play Music on the phone and plays back tracks at random. This also results in the cards being shown.
It seems Play Music is still a bit raw on Android Wear at the moment, hopefully Google will add the ability to sync specific playlists or albums just to the watch rather than randomly selecting from those that have been synced to the phone.
Bojanglez said:
I am running Lollipop too. Music cards don't seem to show when music playback is triggered from the phone. However I do get the name of the current track playing if I tap the screen and navigate back to the watch face, but it disappears (so the phone is sending the information).
As far as I can tell Android Wear currently only supports Google Play Music in the following ways....
Open The Play Music app, this plays back music synced to the watch. This is a bit crap because there is no real control over what is synced, this does result in cards being shown.
Say "OK Google Play Music", this launches Play Music on the phone and plays back tracks at random. This also results in the cards being shown.
It seems Play Music is still a bit raw on Android Wear at the moment, hopefully Google will add the ability to sync specific playlists or albums just to the watch rather than randomly selecting from those that have been synced to the phone.
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That's indeed the behavior I can observe on my watch.
I hope you're right and Google will allow to select tracks to synchronize in a future update because actually this is unusable for me as I have tons of GB stored on my phone.
The thing is android wear shows cards/notifications that are not ongoing on the phone, when you pause music - notification is not ongoing and wear shows it
I finally works well with official Lollipop and last version of Android Wear : http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-wear/
Flav106 said:
I finally works well with official Lollipop and last version of Android Wear : http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-wear/
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Yeah, this version seems to work perfectly now. This will be great for skipping tracks whilst driving.
I mainly purchased this watch so I don't have to bring my phone with me to the gym and still listen to music via BT headset.
A couple of questions:
1. Is there a shuffle option for your entire playlist? (I can only shuffle w/in an album from one artist. )
2. Can I select individual songs download into my 360? (Seems like the whole album gets downloaded).
3. How much space is in the watch?
4. Can I make playlist?
I may sell this watch if I can use it in the gym like I want to.
Thanks!
Its not a standalone device!
simply dave said:
I mainly purchased this watch so I don't have to bring my phone with me to the gym and still listen to music via BT headset.
A couple of questions:
1. Is there a shuffle option for your entire playlist? (I can only shuffle w/in an album from one artist. )
2. Can I select individual songs download into my 360? (Seems like the whole album gets downloaded).
3. How much space is in the watch?
4. Can I make playlist?
I may sell this watch if I can use it in the gym like I want to.
Thanks!
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The watch cant store music or download music.
You'll need a phone for those and you can control music (remote) by your watch.
Moto 360 is not a standalone device
nijom said:
The watch cant store music or download music.
You'll need a phone for those and you can control music (remote) by your watch.
Moto 360 is not a standalone device
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Pretty sure I know this watch isn't a standalone device. I'm using Google play music to download to my phone, and have it store downloaded music to Wear for offline playback.
I'm at the gym without my phone playing music to my BT headset from my watch.
I just want to have a playlist and the ability to upload individual songs.
simply dave said:
I mainly purchased this watch so I don't have to bring my phone with me to the gym and still listen to music via BT headset.
A couple of questions:
1. Is there a shuffle option for your entire playlist? (I can only shuffle w/in an album from one artist. )
2. Can I select individual songs download into my 360? (Seems like the whole album gets downloaded).
3. How much space is in the watch?
4. Can I make playlist?
I may sell this watch if I can use it in the gym like I want to.
Thanks!
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1. Yes you can shuffle a playlist, once you open Play Music on your watch find the playlist you want and then swipe it left and that screen will allow you to shuffle that playlist. There is not an option to shuffle all the music on your watch.
2. You can select playlist to be downloaded to your watch so what I did was created a few playlist with the songs I wanted and set those in Play Music to download to my watch. However you can not pick individual songs on their own.
3. The watch has just under 4GB of storage. This is for operating system. apps and music (2.9 GB for apps and music is what I have). I have over 100 songs from Play Music on my watch and they use about 765mb
4. YES, best way I think to get the music to your watch.
Just a note this will greatly reduce battery life. While mowing my yard, about 1 hour I can burn through about 40% of my battery using bluetooth. Better than carrying my N6, but can be an issue for some.
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nijom said:
The watch cant store music or download music.
You'll need a phone for those and you can control music (remote) by your watch.
Moto 360 is not a standalone device
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This is not true at all, it can download music from Play Music and store it on the watch to be played back via Bluetooth from the watch.
IMHO, this feature works but it's bare minimum. I too bought the watch primarily for this use case (streaming music to BT headphones while jogging). Your best bet is to rely on playlists and use the BT headphone controls to change tracks.
You'll probably find that loading music onto the thing is a total PITA. It takes forever and it automatically stops transferring when the battery drops below 50%. It can't transfer when it's on the charger. The result is a ridiculous and frustrating experience. Needless to say I'm less than impressed with this feature's implementation, but it does work and it allows me to jog without my phone which is nice.
I've tried syncing 2 different types of BT headphones and am constantly getting skipping on the music playback. Like a cd skipping. I added the music to my Moto 360 but can't use it to play music on my runs which totally defeats the purpose. The first set of headphones were BTS and the second set Kinivo 240s. Anyone have the same issue? I also tried putting the watch in airplane mode and then turning on the Bluetooth.
I am using Jaybird Bluebuds X, never had an issue, music never skips. But playing BT Music from watch causes my watch to shut down randomly, sometimes around 50%, sometimes around 75%
So I'm thinking about picking up a galaxy watch today. I have been a long time wear os user. My current watch is the Ticwatch E.
Im a guy with smaller wrists, the ticwatch e 43mm case fits me pretty well so I was thinking about getting the 42mm galaxy watch, but the larger battery is in the 46mm is really appealing. For anyone who has seen them side by side in person, does the 46mm look that much larger?
How is Bixby on the watch for doing basic things like setting timers and sending texts? I have seen the reviews where it is bad at some more advanced tasks but I just use my Google assistant for basic things.
I also use Google play music, I know there is no stand alone app for the watch but is there at least a basic play/pause, next track option on the watch when playing something through play music?
I can answer the first point.
My wrists are 5.9 inches around, but when I tried the 46mm it looked absolutely fine to me, so that's what I have ordered.
The 42mm didn't seem that much smaller, but the screen was notable smaller.
Try it in a store, to know how you think it looks on your wrist.
There is play, pause and next and previous track options with name of song and album artwork on the music app. I use the widget to easily skip a track. Its not bad. The only downside compared to wear os is that you cant use google play music as a standalone app to play music without your phone.
brownpm85 said:
So I'm thinking about picking up a galaxy watch today. I have been a long time wear os user. My current watch is the Ticwatch E.
Im a guy with smaller wrists, the ticwatch e 43mm case fits me pretty well so I was thinking about getting the 42mm galaxy watch, but the larger battery is in the 46mm is really appealing. For anyone who has seen them side by side in person, does the 46mm look that much larger?
How is Bixby on the watch for doing basic things like setting timers and sending texts? I have seen the reviews where it is bad at some more advanced tasks but I just use my Google assistant for basic things.
I also use Google play music, I know there is no stand alone app for the watch but is there at least a basic play/pause, next track option on the watch when playing something through play music?
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I can say that the watch is not a huge difference from any 42mm watches, but it will look big if the 43mm watch was already a perfect or a large fit on you. I don't think bixby on the watch is anything you could use. I've tried it several times and it appears to do the bare minimum of tasks. Like how you'd ask S Voice back in the day. It can set reminders, send texts and make calls and alarms, but it can struggle sometimes and hang for some time. However, I don't think you'll need any assisstant as the rotating dial and the smooth experience can help you accomplish tasks fast enough.
As for the music, you have spotify to install as a standalone app or as a remote for your phone. The Music app on the watch is set to work as a remote with play / pause, volume up / down and skip tracks forward or backward. You can also send tracks to your watch and use the watch alone with the onboard storage with a bluetooth headset or from the watch speakers. I mainly use it as a remote for the large amount of music on my phone, but you could probably fit some music on the watch.
The verdict is: if you're looking for a smartwatch that looks cool and elegant and has good functionality, the Galaxy watch is for you. If you're the kond of person who wants the watch for apps and all that stuff, you will find some on this watch, but it's not as versatile as Wear OS. I personally like Tizen and the look of the watch plus the battery life.
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Oh, and the watch has Uber (for me with a galaxy phone) if you want to catch a ride. I used to call ubers with google assisstant as my previous watch didn't have uber. It doesn't have Google maps (or pay extra for a third party app), but you can download Here maps (or Here WeGo as it's named) and it's really nice with offline maps on the watch.