can any of the app developers for Sony Smartwatch (2) tell me if it's possible to add watch faces to the watch?
the digital one on the SW2 is really too simple, with just the time showing, it really needs at least the date to be added
Hmm...I think you missed there a several choices built in to the watch. Go to the settings app on the watch scroll down and you will see the option to change the watch faces. Some include the date
But they aren't digital.
exactly, there are 4 "analog" watch faces and 1 digital and i want a digital one with date
what i really want to know is, can only Sony add watch faces?
Other developers can, although I don't know if they can do the proper "always on" effect. There is an app in the store now which claims to add more faces, although it isn't yet "optimised" for the SW2. For me though it just crashes on startup.
It seems its built into the firmware ... watch faces on the market are just WApps, they burn far too much battery to be useful IMO.
If we can hack the firmware, i'm fairly sure we can make our own watch faces, but i've no idea where you can even download the firmware to start with, let alone modding it.
Im interested how the display works, does anyone have proper info on this ? It looks to me like the display has two parts to it. one being the monochrome traditional style LCD and the other being the colour LCD ... or am i barking up the wrong tree ?
it's a transflective LCD, without backlight in low light its hardly readable, but in direct sunlight it reflects light in a certain way so it gets readable again
inside you can ofcourse use the backlight
Hello
So does this mean there is no way to have custom watchfaces that are always on. Like on the pebble?
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TulpiX said:
Hello
So does this mean there is no way to have custom watchfaces that are always on. Like on the pebble?
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At this time, yes.
As an owner of one myself I'm not too bothered by that fact. I've actually found the black analog face to look quite nice on the device - and I'm picky about my watch faces. My only complaint about the watch faces though is the fact that the digital watch face does not include a date/day indicator - it just displays the time.
Thanks for your answer.
I find this a little disappointing.
Always found that the ability to change watchfaces makes a smartwatch so interesting (next to notificationsbof course)
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i've tweeted something nice to @SonyXperia
any decent digital watch can show a time AND date, and a smartwatch can't?
Hi,
I was looking for the same thing: A digital watchface with at least the date. I was personally a bit disappointed with he analog watchface as is not nearly as sharp as on the picture that are used as publicity.
I found that the first smartwatch had such as watchface), but I'm not sure if this SW can be installed on the Smartwatch 2.
Me too....
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I notice on the box it shows a digital clockface with day and date....this isn't available on the watch itself!! Good grief, In this respect its a step back from the old one!
This is when graphics win over functionality
Still you must admit that this is a beautiful watch compared to the first version plastic thingy...
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please retweet this if you have a twitter account
https://twitter.com/JarlSX/status/388703033510469632
i never saw the date/time thing on the box, made a photo and tweeted it, please retweet
https://twitter.com/JarlSX/status/388987475953459200
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We can have more watchfaces but we have to pay for.
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=SMARTWATCH&c=apps&hl=EN
There is a similar discussion going on on the Sony Forum, entiltled "SmartWatch 2 - shake to highlight?, battery life?" (as a fairly new user I can not post an external link here yet).
Thommo writes:
I'm almost pretty sure that the watch in that video is a 1st production demo which had that feature on it - After looking round other sites which have tested the watch after official release this feature was removed apparently due to battery life as the watch would always be on thus battery life would not be that long, I'd like to also point out that on the demo versions there were more clock faces and a walkman widget - The walkman widget as far as I'm led to believe had a pixelation problem and was removed although the packaging still has an image of the widget on it
I'm curious to see if these functionalities will be brought back in as they are clearly printed on the box of the watch.
I just got my Mi5s today! Yay!
During the setup it asked me to choose a locale, but the only option was China. I live in Canada. Is there a way to change it? If not, will it pose a problem for me in any way?
It only effects the mi store which you probably won't use anyway.
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Hello together,
I've updated the new lest MI fit app (4.0.8) and updated also the firmware of my MI band 4 (1.0.6.12).
Now I can't change my watchfaces which I downloaded in the app "MiBand4 - Watchfaces"
Before the update everything worked fine..
Does anyone has a solution?
Backup your watch faces, uninstall Mi Fit, install 4.0.7 version, do not update it If you want animated watch faces, you probably need to downgrade FW as well (N&F app might help here).
More detailed guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/miband/comments/d0fxw6/mi_band_4_no_more_custom_watchfaces/
Or you can just use N&F for watch face upload and wait for Mi Fit fix (which hopefully won't take too long)..
Thank you
Actually there is no need for FW downgrade, watch faces/FW still support animations, animation speed just has to be at least "4" (at least with the watch face I tried to modify). Authors of broken watch faces will probably fix them sooner or later.
Please see the solution - https://www.reddit.com/r/miband/com...ifit/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
remix92 said:
Hello together,
I've updated the new lest MI fit app (4.0.8) and updated also the firmware of my MI band 4 (1.0.6.12).
Now I can't change my watchfaces which I downloaded in the app "MiBand4 - Watchfaces"
Before the update everything worked fine..
Does anyone has a solution?
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There was an update this morning to the MiBand4 watchface app. See if it works now.
Hello again.I'm updating from my MI Max 2,to the mi 10t lite.And I want to use a feature that used to be there on my old phone but not on my new one.So I had previously created a pin for screen lock.Which was disabled.my phone was unlocking by a simple swipe.And I had the pin to view Google passwords,to use bank apps etc.On the new phone I have to create a screen lock,but it can't be disabled,so my daughter would easily unlock the phone and use it.so I would really appreciate if you had a workaround for this. problem too.Thanks,again,in advance.
Hey! curious if I am not the only one w/ this issue, or better yet what to do to fix this. Just bought this Tablet recently and I cannot find the Themes App, I tried installing it and it was successful but the app is no where to be found. If you navigate to Settings|Apps|Manage Apps you can find it installed. Has anyone encountered this issue?
No themes engine in this rom, this version of Miui its a little bit different, it's the first one optimized for tablet's
I can install and set themes (mtz format) using quickshortcutmaker and MIUI theme editor but resets to default after an hour or so
There is no official support of themes by xiaomi on any model of mi pad starting from 2014 the first mi pad to 2022 mi pad 5
So, no luck on that one