Hi all
Getting a lg g r watch for Xmas and keep hearing alot about facer app etc.... How does this work?
Sorry for such a novice question but any help be appreciated
Thanks and merry Christmas all
Chris
Facer is an app that allows you to change the watch face to literally hundreds or perhaps thousands of different watch faces. Many of those watch faces are viewable and downloadable from Facerepo.com . There's another similar app named Watchmaker, that has watch faces there too.
Moto 360 watch faces work just fine, but some might have a small cut at the bottom.
Another very good watch face is is Android Wear Watch Faces
I'd recommend you try all of those, before any other watch faces. Because with those, you probably won't have need for any others.
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Thanks for the reply mate
the basic idea of Facer and WatchMaker (the one I'm using and would recommend) is simple but ingenious: you don't have to code to create a watchface, you just have to take a background picture and pictures for the single hands to create a watchface.
as Darnell_Chat_TN pointed out, there is a huge community sharing the watchfaces they created, so you don't even have to do that anymore.
PS: the apps are much more powerful and allow for the creation of highly complex watchfaces, I would definitely recommend to get one
thank u for information :good:
Just a heads up, Watchmaker Pro is on sale for just $0.99 for the moment.
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Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V
I leave spaces where I swipe to make sure I don't open apps by accident lol
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my first screen all email and to-do list
My 1st screen contains 3 email widgets, Note and calendar widgets.
I have attached an image or a link to the image
https://plus.google.com/photos/103527527678489279036/albums/5767576432424806353
I always have this problem with my Android devices lol. Even my phones have open spaces because I don't know what to put in them. Sometimes I find myself just putting a large widget there I'm never going to use because of it.
This is no exception! I have like 2 screens with stuff, and one of them is the big Play Library widget that was already there in the first place. I must admit I've become quite fond of it.
I am having the same problem too. I have had nothing but phones from HTC with Sense so I am used to using widgets and UI that are more polished and feel the same. The different app widget designs with the Nexus bother me some.
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Well, I'd like to think that my screen is somewhat organized. It's simple, but it works.
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EmilVee said:
Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V
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Easy fill up the background with fish & you won't notice the space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImZpc2hub29kbGUua29pcG9uZF9mcmVlIl0.
I love live wallpaper.
Have you seen the Galaxy Gear Displays at local phone stores?
Every one I walked by showed the screens of the Galaxy Gear in full colour, the screen looked great on the video loop they play on the display watch.
But ... you buy one the screen white on and black background.
This is very misleading.
The good news is the Galaxy Gear is being sold at many places if Samsung just dropped the price I am sure they sell them very well.
Seen no Pebbles, or Sony Smart Watch 2.
Qualcom Toq is not sold in Canada or much in the US
AstroDigital said:
Have you seen the Galaxy Gear Displays at local phone stores?
Every one I walked by showed the screens of the Galaxy Gear in full colour, the screen looked great on the video loop they play on the display watch.
But ... you buy one the screen white on and black background.
This is very misleading.
The good news is the Galaxy Gear is being sold at many places if Samsung just dropped the price I am sure they sell them very well.
Seen no Pebbles, or Sony Smart Watch 2.
Qualcom Toq is not sold in Canada or much in the US
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The screen is capable of full color, just take some pictures and browse the gallery. The default watch faces are configured for just black and white, but you can customize background colors and the color of the time. I very much prefer the orange time for appearance sake - that needs to be changed in the Gear Manager (not the settings app on the watch for some reason).
Still misleading.
You can not change the colour of a default clocks background.
At least for the clock I use the news clock.
I don't have the news clock, but you can change the background in the default clock (the weather clock) and all of the other standard digital clocks in the settings to 7 different colors. The standard analog clocks seem to ignore the setting.
What clock and color are they showing in the teaser videos?
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Still misleading.
You can not change the colour of a default clocks background.
At least for the clock I use the news clock.
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Go to 'settings -> display -> home bg color' and you can change the background of the default clocks.
It defaults to black, but it is a setting you can change. What's misleading about it?
Maybe your gear has different options though. My default clocks don't include a news clock. Closest thing I have is an events clock, which shows daily calendar events.
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Misleading noob it is...haha.:
Just poking fun ! No offence, dude!
Cheers!
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The screen is actually amazing in color. I have great pictures, videos, and I have sideloaded movies and podcasts onto it, and they look great. I was just watching the original Grinch that Stole Christmas yesterday. Watch Styler gives you options to make your own custom watches up. Mine has a pic of Dad on Christmas from about 23 years ago, with Red and Green hands and dial, for the Holidays. You also get pictures of those calling you in full color, if you have them setup on phone with a picture. Not sure what is misleading.
I said the clock face on the display has white text on a blue background and this you can not do at least as far as I know.
I used the Weather Watch face the background is black "IT CAN NOT BE CHANGED !!!"
Oh you can pick Orange for the Text but that is all.
Right now I use the "News" watch face I love it if I can make the background on the News watch face blue but you can not. I do know that a colour background would effect battery life but so what watch lasts at least two days.
The watch customization program will let me have a watch blue black ground or a picture for that matter but "News Content" is not available.
I have have the Galaxy Gear since the early days yes "I own the watch", I do know that it will do full colour .
The Samsung Watch faces do not allow a blue black ground on their watch face so the display loop is a lie.
You do realize that there are more options for customization on the actual gear right??
In gear manager, if you choose the weather clock face, yes, all you can do is change the text color to either white or orange. However, if you go to the settings option on the gear itself, you can change the background color as well.
Have you tried that?
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I also downloaded the 'news' clock face from the gears app store, and background color changes work just fine for my watch. So unless your not checking all the settings ON the watch (and not in the gear manager), then I'm stumped as to what is going on with your device.
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Astro quit crying about not being able to afford one yet bash on once who have it. Guess what. It's sick yea the watch faces aren't customizable yet I managed to not care because it's a watch. I'll do my customization on my phone, not my watch. App watchstyler is great if you want to make your very own watch but don't say it's misleading. Nothing about it is. Own one and you will see. May not have as many apps as sonys smartwatch or look as butt-ugly as the pebble(horrible looking watch now THAT is ugly) maybe big but I'm a big fella w big hands so really looks good on me. Galaxy gear is the shhhhht
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Just read you own the watch. Give it away papa
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AstroDigital said:
I said the clock face on the display has white text on a blue background and this you can not do at least as far as I know.
I used the Weather Watch face the background is black "IT CAN NOT BE CHANGED !!!"
Oh you can pick Orange for the Text but that is all.
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That's funny, I guess my Gear was never told it couldn't change, because I'm staring at my Weather Watch face with a blue background right now...
Jye75 said:
That's funny, I guess my Gear was never told it couldn't change, because I'm staring at my Weather Watch face with a blue background right now...
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Funny must have different weather clock face.
Mine has exactly two settings can change the Text to Amber, and change the refresh interval.
AstroDigital said:
Funny must have different weather clock face.
Mine has exactly two settings can change the Text to Amber, and change the refresh interval.
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As has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread:
On the Gear itself (not Gear Manager on the phone), go to SETTINGS, DISPLAY, HOME BG COLOR, then swipe left or right to change color.
Jye75 said:
As has been mentioned a couple of times in this thread:
On the Gear itself (not Gear Manager on the phone), go to SETTINGS, DISPLAY, HOME BG COLOR, then swipe left or right to change color.
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Hey thanks had the Gear for months and I did not know this.
What and idiot I am.
AstroDigital said:
Hey thanks had the Gear for months and I did not know this.
What and idiot I am.
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Lol.
Know your stuff before you post. Lol.
Pp.
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Lmfao
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This stock weather app stinks.
The most important thing to me is to see live radar and satellite, but with this stock app you have to navigate way too much, and then it is only the size of half the screen, (like looking at my iphone). which weather apps are you folks using, cause clearly this one stinks.
Yahoo weather or nice weather
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I'm using Weatherbug Elite. It works well and has all the features you mentioned.
I got wearherbug elite when it was amazon app of the day a long time ago and haven't used anything since
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thx, I will go have a look.
any other replies welcome
weather apps
weatherbug elite is good, but IMO, the most versatile weather app is eweather HD..it has widgets for everything (satellite and radar and they are customizable..ie you can layer alerts on them). It isn't the most user-friendly but it's widgets are worth the curve. PYKL3 and Radarscope are the best pure radar apps, but don't have widgets.
1weather has probably the best interface.
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weatherbug elite is good, but IMO, the most versatile weather app is eweather HD..it has widgets for everything (satellite and radar and they are customizable..ie you can layer alerts on them). It isn't the most user-friendly but it's widgets are worth the curve. PYKL3 and Radarscope are the best pure radar apps, but don't have widgets.
1weather has probably the best interface.
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thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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I can understand that, but I just looked at the play store and it shows 9.99 for me (after logging out that is and on my note 3). I don't think I would pay 29.99, but I have it for my wife iphone and my android devices, so to me it's worth 10 on each device. Also take a look at PYKL3, it's 9.99 too, and has a lot of funtcionality but it isn't as polished as radarscope.
an email can't hurt
Hey, send radar scope an email tell them about some of the 'good press' you've given them. You might not even get a reply, but it can't hurt. I've noticed __ with some other companies __ that some of these newer and smaller companies care about their customers, and will do things to help
can't hurt
good luck
dave
XiphoneUzer said:
thanks, I will give eweather a look.
I am a long time user of radar scope, even convinced my entire police department to get it, but that was when I was with apple.
Now I am on android and it's $29.99 in the play store (I don't wanna pay them twice after all the parading I did for them)
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another option
Intellicast is good too and if you are into widgets you can try websnap (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.web2mine.wg01.license&hl=en). There is a free trial version to play with.
I use websnap to pull down pieces of pages from accuweather as widgets. The biggest image on this screen shot is websnap pulling from accuweathers website. The bottom graph ia from an app called weatherbomb. You can also use websnap to pull other parts of pages too, not just weather.
Mycast is exactly what you're looking for.
I use hd widgets
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I use hd widgets
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Just googled it and watched the vid, looks cool, thx.
Im trying to avoid buying anything until im sure of what I wanna do though, (don't want a whole bunch of paid apps not being used)
I'm another Yahoo Weather user. It looks beautiful. I'm usually more likely to just use Google Now, though, whether it be a widget on my homescreen or me just opening the search. It's pretty clean looking and easy!
I use 1weather for forecasts, alerts and widgets (which are awesome). For radar I use MyRadar...
Together both these apps met my needs!
LanceM said:
I use 1weather for forecasts, alerts and widgets (which are awesome). For radar I use MyRadar...
Together both these apps met my needs!
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Thx, Nice!
Lots of great alternatives, keep them coming, (someone should make this a sticky)
hey all,
So I received my S6 yesterday and have been spending the day setting it all to my liking. I have a Nexus 6 so ill be using the 20 day grace period to see if this phone is going to be the one i want to keep going forward.
I had the Note 4 and Galaxy s5 for a little bit and loved the S Health app/widget. the widget had the Coach by Cigna on it and could easily access the heart rate and pedometer info. I am using TW, havent done a thing to the phone but no matter what I do the S Health Widget only has the foot icon and step count....... What the heck happened to the awesome widget?? I failed to see a thread that discussed this so i figured I would give it a shot here...
Does anyone know how to get that widget back? I tried different launchers to see if that would help but it didnt... still only gave me the basic, ugly, useless 4x1 widget. Thanks in advance!! I attached the scrappy widget.
Love the forum... ive been browsing for years but never actually posted anything.
Guess no one likes S Health lol
gator716 said:
hey all,
So I received my S6 yesterday and have been spending the day setting it all to my liking. I have a Nexus 6 so ill be using the 20 day grace period to see if this phone is going to be the one i want to keep going forward.
I had the Note 4 and Galaxy s5 for a little bit and loved the S Health app/widget. the widget had the Coach by Cigna on it and could easily access the heart rate and pedometer info. I am using TW, havent done a thing to the phone but no matter what I do the S Health Widget only has the foot icon and step count....... What the heck happened to the awesome widget?? I failed to see a thread that discussed this so i figured I would give it a shot here...
Does anyone know how to get that widget back? I tried different launchers to see if that would help but it didnt... still only gave me the basic, ugly, useless 4x1 widget. Thanks in advance!! I attached the scrappy widget.
Love the forum... ive been browsing for years but never actually posted anything.
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Temporary "fix" uninstall the update
gator716 said:
hey all,
So I received my S6 yesterday and have been spending the day setting it all to my liking. I have a Nexus 6 so ill be using the 20 day grace period to see if this phone is going to be the one i want to keep going forward.
I had the Note 4 and Galaxy s5 for a little bit and loved the S Health app/widget. the widget had the Coach by Cigna on it and could easily access the heart rate and pedometer info. I am using TW, havent done a thing to the phone but no matter what I do the S Health Widget only has the foot icon and step count....... What the heck happened to the awesome widget?? I failed to see a thread that discussed this so i figured I would give it a shot here...
Does anyone know how to get that widget back? I tried different launchers to see if that would help but it didnt... still only gave me the basic, ugly, useless 4x1 widget. Thanks in advance!! I attached the scrappy widget.
Love the forum... ive been browsing for years but never actually posted anything.
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The "temporary fix" is to uninstall the recent update. When the f**ktards at samsung made the app available via google store, they "updated" the interface, and now it looks like sh*t.
Uninstall the most recent update and don't update again until you can see if they redid the interface to be more attractive again. Its again the testiment to arrogant Ahole developers that think they have to materially change something by making it look less attractive or more like the latest microsoft windows trend.
In this case they took away a nice looking set of graphics, replaced it with a flat color box (or as in your case, the transparent one .. you do have that option transparent or solid green) and it looks like sh*t very disappointed.
Thanks for the reply. Still no fix to the widget so I guess unless I can install the note 4 version were screwed.
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Thanks for the reply. Still no fix to the widget so I guess unless I can install the note 4 version were screwed.
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After you uninstall the newest version, you should have 5 widget options
if not familiar, to add a widget, long press on any page, click the "Widget" and then scroll backwards through the pages ("S" near the end of the widgets) until you get to S Health. It should appear to be at least 4 4x1 blocks, when you tap this, it should expand, and show you 5 widget options. The top two 4x1's show signa on them.
-TG2
No luck. Still only rhe one 4x1 with just the steps. I'm returning the phone anyway. 20 day period almost up and I'll be sticking with the Nexus 6. Camera great, but phone is not.
Thanks for your help though. That's why this is forum is best.
Today it is Father's day, and I wanna share my happiness with you, as you always give a warm welcome to my watch faces.
So my new watch face Futuristic GUI will be FREE!!
https://goo.gl/74pgjw
Fill free to share, and take a look at my other faces!
I hope you will enjoy "wearing" it
Lot of features as always: animations, steps, heartbeat, color customisation, screen on duration, 12/24hr format, and more!!
Preview of the animation : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP5dV5OExOM
Nice watch face, needs time to be bigger
I just installed the watch face and i like it so much and loving the customizations!
Great Job
My only comment for now is that the actual time text is a bit small, it is readable and everything but it is taking a very small portion of the screen which makes it harder to read the time by quickly glancing into the watch, i have to look closely for a second or so to get the time.
What do you think?
mtantawy said:
I just installed the watch face and i like it so much and loving the customizations!
Great Job
My only comment for now is that the actual time text is a bit small, it is readable and everything but it is taking a very small portion of the screen which makes it harder to read the time by quickly glancing into the watch, i have to look closely for a second or so to get the time.
What do you think?
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I will work on it and see if I can get something bigger without compromising the design
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I will work on it and see if I can get something bigger without compromising the design
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AWESOME!
Looking forward to it
Heartbeat does not seem to work on LG G Watch R (Android Wear 5.1.1).
(Yes got the update that was supposed to fix heartbeat permissions).