Hi All,
I've been using the "Freestyle" exercise to track my skiing sessions.
The problem is that the winter gloves keep touching (and holding) the band and pausing the activity tracking, defeating the purpose.
I read only and people have the same issue when playing hockey or boxing.
I noticed that to pause the activity when "Swimming", you have to scroll up, scroll down, touch and hold. That setting would probably avoid the gloves from accidentally pausing the activity when skiing/boxing/playing hokey.
Is there any way I can set the "Freestyle" to require the same setting as "Swimming" to pause the activity? (scroll up, scroll down, touch and hold) or maybe create a custom exercise with those settings.
I hope I was clear,
Thanks in advance.
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Does anyone know if it is possible to only have the watch wake up with the pushing of the button? I'll be getting my 360 later today, and my concern is that it will constantly be waking up while I am just going about my daily activities. It would be nice if there were an option to disable to accelerometer for when one only wants the watch to wake with the physical push of the button.
munraf said:
Does anyone know if it is possible to only have the watch wake up with the pushing of the button? I'll be getting my 360 later today, and my concern is that it will constantly be waking up while I am just going about my daily activities. It would be nice if there were an option to disable to accelerometer for when one only wants the watch to wake with the physical push of the button.
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Not sure if there is an actual way to do this, though I will say that it is sometimes difficult for me to get the watch to wake up when not in ambient mode, and I found myself often times having to tap the screen to turn it on. I haven't had any issues with the watch turning on or doing something without me intentionally doing it; sure it will turn on the screen for a bit if I'm running somewhere, but generally will go right back to sleep if the watch is held with my hands at my sides.
munraf said:
Does anyone know if it is possible to only have the watch wake up with the pushing of the button? I'll be getting my 360 later today, and my concern is that it will constantly be waking up while I am just going about my daily activities. It would be nice if there were an option to disable to accelerometer for when one only wants the watch to wake with the physical push of the button.
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i'd like to disable the stock turn n twist and switch it for an aggressive multi twist to wake.
hopefully we will be able to customize some of the accelerometer settings
munraf said:
Does anyone know if it is possible to only have the watch wake up with the pushing of the button? I'll be getting my 360 later today, and my concern is that it will constantly be waking up while I am just going about my daily activities. It would be nice if there were an option to disable to accelerometer for when one only wants the watch to wake with the physical push of the button.
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I wouldn't worry too much about the battery life. I found that the first couple days I had mine that the battery was scary. It seemed like it would only last half the day. Then, all of a sudden it just got better. I don't think I was using it that much more the first couple days and this was also before the update. I easily get through a full 18 hour day with quite a bit of usage.
However, I would like to see more customization options like you suggest. I'd actually like to be able to customize what the button does. I would like to be able to customize what action the short press and long press does and I would like to have that further broken down into picking the actions for those presses when the watch is awake or asleep. For example, a long press currently takes you to settings which I hardly ever go to, but I go to the "Start app" screen all the time. I wish I could make the long press bring up the "start app" screen. But maybe a long press while the watch is asleep would bring up a specific app instead.
Is there any place (or a best place?) to submit feature requests for Wear? I can post here but I do not know if anyone from Google will get the message. OTOH, I've seen some mentions of feature requests here and other members posted apps or tips and tricks to meet the need. The features I'm thinking of are:
- double tap on the screen or the button to bring up the most recent app. (Someone else mentioned this and I really like it.) I use my watch when running so to bring up my running app I need to (1) opening the screen, (2) expanding the notification, (3) swipe to the side to get the "open app" screen and (4) tap on the "open screen button." This is a real PITA while running and is further exacerbated by profuse perspiration confusing the watch WRT my touch. It would be nice if the app could cooperate and return to the last active screen as well. An alternative to this would to tie a particular app to the double tap via configuration entry.
- Ability to turn the screen off during charging. The 'tips and tricks' answer to this is just too involved when I'm ready to slip into bed! Maybe if I could program or script the actions... There are times when the screen turns off when I place the watch in charger and that would be fine as a configuration option. Other times it seemed like I can do that by palming the screen or tapping the button (but this doesn't normally work.) That would be useful too.
- Single button press to activate the button on a screen. Back to my use case for running... It can be difficult to get the pause/stop button to register due to perspiration. This one is a little problematic because it conflicts with the existing function to turn the screen off with a button tap. However palming the screen with sweaty hands seems to be easily recognized vs. scrolling or tapping a button.
I'd like to have an option to have the mic on the watch turn on when accepting a call from the watch. There are times when my phone is upstairs and I get an incoming call on my watch. It would be nice to be able to answer the call and give the person on the other line a heads up that you need a second or two to get your phone. Once the call is accepted on the watch, there could be a button that transfers the live mic to the phone.
I like one feature on my Gear S that I can set it to show the last screen I looked it to appear on arm raise. I am a jogger so when jogging to lift arm and see music control to skip next track is a biggie vs trying move through setting when running is harder for me.
Is this possible?
I believe if you accidentally dismissed a screen, you can undo it by swiping up, but you have to be quick. You should see a screen like this.
What I am looking for is the last screen to show and now the clock screen so if I am on music control and start jogging when I raise my arm or press the button I see the "last" screen that was active not the clock...
I'm on AW 2.0 and was used to waking the watch with a gesture and would just swipe to get to the apps list. Is there a way to still do that? Or is waking the watch and pressing the crown the only way? Thanks
Try using a different launcher, but for what was published that is the default of AW2.0
I have always used the wrist gestures facility and find it very convenient, particularly as I don't want to smudge and spoil my beautiful Huawei Watch screen. I was therefore glad to find that in AW 2.0 the whole wrist gesture process works much smoother and quicker.
Whilst I was aware that, when within an app or reading a message, three shakes of the wrist returns the main watch face, I was very pleased to discover today (by accident) that I can now call up the new apps wheel screen with the same three wrist-shake motion, i.e. without swiping the watch face or pressing the crown. Pretty neat. I have had my Huawei Watch since it first came out. Can't stop loving it.
Is it just me that has found it to be FAR to easy to interact with the Galaxy Watch whilst wearing it - accidental screen touches, bezel rotations etc, leading to missed notifications & even a "sleeve dial" (thankfully only to my wife, not the boss! ) or even interference from little wandering fingers (attached to a small child in my case)!
For the last week-or-so (since launch day) it has been getting to be an increasing annoyance, which other than taking the watch off in order to enable to pin lock, I've had no solution to. This evening I am happy to say that I've found a solution! :victory: ...
Looking at other posts from XDA S3 boards, and trawling the Samsung Apps' gear listings, I installed Vincent Wong's "Screen Block 2" and can confirm it does exactly what was needed, and works fine (thus far) on the Galaxy Watch (26mm)!
Beautiful & elegant in it's simplicity; and peace of mind restored! I don't know if Vincent is on these forums, but :highfive: to you sir and thank you very much indeed!
There are several ways to "block" unintended actions like disabling the wake up by bezel rotation or disabling the wake up gesture. You could even try the water lock function.
Why do you expect the watch to be able to differentiate between you deliberately tapping the phone and your little child doing so ?
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There are several ways to "block" unintended actions like disabling the wake up by bezel rotation or disabling the wake up gesture.
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But I do use the bezel rotation &/or gesture to wake the screen (often to just check the time ) - that's not the issue!
It's the fact that the watch can then be navigated and interacted with, without further ado, that I found irksome.
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You could even try the water lock function.
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Not just tried it, but whilst swimming (& also when showering) I routinely use it, and set it to one of my quick access shortcuts! PS: The little tune the watch plays to clear the speaker is a brilliant touch! :good:
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Why do you expect the watch to be able to differentiate between you deliberately tapping the phone and your little child doing so ?
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I never suggested that I expect any such thing of the watch - it is after all (no offence) a 'dumb' smart-device thus incapable of such finesse and consideration of the source of interaction. Maybe in a few years time,that may be achievable given the rapid progression of the tech landscape. :fingers-crossed:
I guess that I would rather draw a parallel to most people's expectation that their mobile phone would have (at the very least the option to enable) some form of security which lets one 'wake' the device to say, look at the time, or read a notification summary / alert; but they then need an additional input (pattern/pin/biometric) to unlock said device to access the entire content of the notification. The watch (IMHO) was sorely lacking in this respect, in that other than first thing in the morning (I enabled the lock to engage after turning off "Goodnight Mode"); after taking the watch off and putting it back on; or powering on, I would not be prompted to use a PIN or other solution to do anything on the watch. Just wake the watch & away you go!
MattMatt58 said:
Not just tried it, but whilst swimming (& also when showering) I routinely use it, and set it to one of my quick access shortcuts! PS: The little tune the watch plays to clear the speaker is a brilliant touch! :good:
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Hello there, i may be a little dumb (or just not familiar enought with the watch already) but how do you set a quick acces for the water lock mode ? (btw i'm on the galaxy watch 46mm maybe it's not the same as the 26mm), i've a quick acces widget but i could only add the setting button but i don't find how to specify a quick acces on the water lock itself.
Tho screen-block 2 i already a blessing
Thanks in advance for your feedback.