Develop Bugs

Base Watch Face

Is it possible to change the base watch face with a watch face program or is it built in. I am referring to the face that shows until you wake the watch up.

The dimmed/ambient watch face changes based on each different watch face. Most are a subset of the full face. I have been thinking about trying to build a face that is completely different when awake vs dimmed. I think that watchmaker will let me do that.

Seconds

Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?

BoatA said:
Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?
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I don't know if it's allowed in the apps or not, but even if it was you're battery life would go to crap in a hurry.

I have not see one. But agree, that would be a battery hit.

Sure, but I get 2,5 days of battery (always on, using only watch faces that doesn't dim but stops the ticking, turning the watch off at night) so I'd like to test running it with the ticking and see if I got through a day. I'd say it'd be worth a try.

BoatA said:
Are there any watch faces that keep showing the seconds ticking even in dimmed mode? Or is it a limitation in android wear?
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It is not a wear limitation. I haven't see any ready-made watch faces which show the second hand ticking even in the dimmed mode. But you can use a tool like Watchmaker to create such a watchface (or use some existing Watchmaker watch face and customise it) to show the ticking second had. No idea how much of an extra drain it will be on your battery though.

smjoshi said:
It is not a wear limitation. I haven't see any ready-made watch faces which show the second hand ticking even in the dimmed mode. But you can use a tool like Watchmaker to create such a watchface (or use some existing Watchmaker watch face and customise it) to show the ticking second had. No idea how much of an extra drain it will be on your battery though.
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Are you sure you can actually customize the watch faces in Watchmaker to show the ticking of the seconds? I've done a few customizations in Watchmaker but I haven't found a way to keep showing the seconds. If you know of a way, let me know

BoatA said:
Are you sure you can actually customize the watch faces in Watchmaker to show the ticking of the seconds? I've done a few customizations in Watchmaker but I haven't found a way to keep showing the seconds. If you know of a way, let me know
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You are right. My mistake. You can make it "show" the second hand in the dim mode by setting "Always Show" but not make it tick once the dim mode kicks in. Readson I was fooled is - on your mobile where you are editing the watchface there is a button which helps you simulate the bright and dim modes to let you see what the face may look like on the watch. When you press this button to simulate teh dim mode, for the face I was working on the second hand continued to tick. but once I transfered the face to the watch it stopped ticking!

smjoshi said:
You are right. My mistake. You can make it "show" the second hand in the dim mode by setting "Always Show" but not make it tick once the dim mode kicks in. Readson I was fooled is - on your mobile where you are editing the watchface there is a button which helps you simulate the bright and dim modes to let you see what the face may look like on the watch. When you press this button to simulate teh dim mode, for the face I was working on the second hand continued to tick. but once I transfered the face to the watch it stopped ticking!
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Yes, that was the conclusion I too arrived at. It's a little surprising that Watchmaker doesn't simply have a non-dimmed mode option.
And even more surprising that Watchmaker lacks a backup option

I used Styler. They have a "full ambient" mode that displays animations and additional details. It basically is a black amd white version of the actual watch face.
Purje Black allows multiple settings for ambient mode such as high and low modes.

Looking for faces that have second hand in dim mode

Hi. I know that the Tomcat face that came with the watch have the second hand move in dim mode. I wonder is there any more faces that can do that. I have Watchmaker but I thing it can't be done with it. Does anybody knows other faces that have the seconds move in dim mode or knows how to make a watch face with it?

arobles said:
Hi. I know that the Tomcat face that came with the watch have the second hand move in dim mode. I wonder is there any more faces that can do that. I have Watchmaker but I thing it can't be done with it. Does anybody knows other faces that have the seconds move in dim mode or knows how to make a watch face with it?
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I know a lot of the developers like using the second hand for battery level in dim mode but I don't see why it can't be made to work normally. I don't use dim mode in WatchMaker, but I'll take a look at a face and see if it's possible, although it may be next year before I do.

In dim mode the watch only update once every minute so a second hand would just stand still anyway

limduldk said:
In dim mode the watch only update once every minute so a second hand would just stand still anyway
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I know but I thought that because the preloaded watch faces don't do that maybe there were more watch faces out there that have the seconds hand move in dim mode or someone knows how to make one.

My Day that comes as a default face has second hand sweeping in AOD mode. If that's what you mean.

tuckersmission said:
My Day that comes as a default face has second hand sweeping in AOD mode. If that's what you mean.
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Well, I know that the preloaded watch faces have the second hand sweeping in AOD. What I have found is that maybe with Tizen Studio it is possible to design a watch face with the second hand sweeping in AOD using programming.

arobles said:
Well, I know that the preloaded watch faces have the second hand sweeping in AOD. What I have found is that maybe with Tizen Studio it is possible to design a watch face with the second hand sweeping in AOD using programming.
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Ahhh. Got ya. Need to try out the studio. Good luck

Watch face with no or smallest possible clock display

As I already wear regular wrist watch and only use the mi band 4 for tracking training, I have no use for time and date display, and would prefer a watch face with only distance, steps, heart rate, weather and so forth displayed.
Have anyone found any watch face like that?

Galaxy Watch 3 AOD Watch question

Hey guys
I got a Galaxy Watch 3 and I'm nearly fine with it.
I just wanted to check the AOD today to look what it does with the battery life.
I just find out that when I'm in the menu or something and wait for the AOD of my watchface, then there are at first just the time and I like that. But it's just for seconds before the real AOD from the watchface goes on.
Is there an option to use ONLY the time as AOD without changing my watchface? I attach a screenshot and hope you know what I mean.
Kind regards