ive had my GWR for 2 days now and my first thought is that i love it! BUT i use a custom face with watchmaker (if that makes a diff?) and the watch is constantlycrashing where either it'll restart itself or i have to. when it crashes alternates between a screen that looks like an old tv not tuned in or complete freeze. nobody else seems to have these issues from what i can see on the net so its gotta be something i'm doing, but what?
You are not alone. The "white noise" look (old tv like there is no signal) is caused now and then by badly designed faces in watch maker. It happend to me also. You may want to use other watch face.
My daily driver is watch maker and I have great battery life and stability.
it seems to be linked to the always on feature, once i turned that off, everything was fine
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anyone who tried smartwatch sw2? is it compatible with xperia sp and how does it goes?
Yes I got one! It works well, I don't keep it always connected but in certain situations it is very comfortable to see the notifications on the fly, with a vibration on your wrist... I use mainly Watchit and not all of the extensions available, some of them (for example gmail) are unuseful, because with Watchit you can see all the notifications you want on your watch, from every app or from those which you selected.
It doesn't drain much battery on stock rom, also because you have to consider that the screen time of the phone will be reduced. The battery is very good: if you use the SW2 very intensively you're gonna have to charge it in 3 days, but if you use it mainly as a watch and not always connected you can easily arrive to 5-6 days of usage.
The annoying things are the few watchfaces (I think 8, and some of them are very similar) and the fact that when you read a notification from the smartwatch it doesn't automatically mark it as read on the phone. Sony should update it more, because I think that it could have more potential, even if it's not supported by a great hardware, it works quite well. You don't have to expect a computer on your wrist or something that makes miracles, just a nice watch (with the metal strap I think it looks very good, and the reflective display is great to always see the time) to see your notifications when you're busy and you can't keep watching at your phone, and then it has some cool stuff like vibration alarm, timer, weather app, notes, find-your-phone app, torch and others.. Hope that this can help, sorry if I wrote a lot
I have sw 2 and sp . it work normally
No problem anymore.
seem this world will be filled with smart devices :laugh:
I have it, Works fine for sports apps (endomondo, runtastic..) but I not advise purchase it,there are better options on the market
Thoughts on it, display in sunlight, battery life, handling of notifications, look/feel of it on your wrist..... basically anything to do with the watch!
i like it. granted that its a new class of its own, i still get confused especially when i get multiple notifications on an app (ie hangouts). its confusing where the group text starts or if im still being shown a private text..
the screen is kinda hard to read in direct sunlight but tilting it a bit or using a different watch face helps.
i like the feel of it.. i preferred this over the g watch coz of the added feature and the look.
I really like it; however, screen is difficult to see in sunlight at times; screen is also a smudge magnet which adds to difficulties in seeing the display outdoors.
Love it - compared to the sony smartwatch and the Galaxy Gear it really has great improvements. Only Day 2, but my initial thoughts:
Pros
- Look/feel - it is little large (I don't have big wrists) but still stylish.
- Screen: awesome that the clock is always on, this was my biggest gripe about the Gear
- Usefulness: I've spent time training Google Now, and that's really paid off. Notifications mean i take my phone out of my pocket a lot less, and Google Now surfaces reminders and other useful info pretty well (although you don't have a lot of control over the order of notifications etc). The fact that it syncs dismissed notifications on the phone immediately is, in a word, awesome
- Apps: early days yet on this, but most big apps I'm sure will integrate so you can do the key features easily
- Voice recognition works great so far
Cons
- No speaker means if you want to do stuff without looking at the screen with your voice, it's harder. But seems like something I can live with
- Charging dongle is kinda annoying to fit on, and have to remember to travel with
- Starting an app (say Fit) takes a few too many swipes (if you're in a place where you don't want to be speaking to your wrist...)
A lot of the other potential "cons" like not many watch face designs, no feature to locate your phone (I know there's an app for this though) I reckon will play out over time and Google can fix pretty quickly...
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, no feature to locate your phone (I know there's an app for this though) I reckon will play out over time and Google can fix pretty quickly...
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Take a look at this one for that: Wear Aware
i'm pleasantly surprised with how much i'm enjoying it.
my first full day with it will be tomorrow so i haven't taken it outside in the sunlight much yet, but checking email, counting steps, reading and replying to texts (i use evolve and it works great) is great and much more reliable and smoother than it was on my OG gear, and it's proving to be far more useful than my pebble.
the strap is actually quite comfortable and i'm glad i didn't buy a new strap before getting the watch.
the charging cradle, if you put it on tab side first it snaps in much easier. it's annoying but i haven't found it to be the spawn of lucifer as some people were screaming about it. treat it like part of a $200 gadget and it will be fine. mash it on like the hulk and it's going to break, it is plastic tabs after all.
i used it for about 7 hours today and it's now around 65% remaining. moderate use, but i def was clicking and swiping for no reason since it's new as well. i am pretty sure i'll have to charge it every night, but i don't sleep with a watch on and i charge my phone every night too, so i don't see it as being a big issue. my pebble lasted longer, but it would often die since i didn't have a set pattern on when to charge and would head out and a few hours later realize i had 20% left.
so in short, i'm happy, yes there are growing pains but those are the early adopter blues.
So far very please for what it can do. Regarding bot visible in sunlight, tell me what phone is visible in sunlight. None of them are great, only the kinfpdle due to the ink screen it has. I can wait till indoors or in shade. 9 more days testing and then deciding to keep or not. Off charging cradle at 6:30am today and as of this post still has 34% left. About the same as my previous Gear watch.
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The number of apps pouring in each day are a great sign for the platform as a whole. The Tizen gears were nothing like this.
Quick reply.... I like it. Had Nero, no comparison.
I've had a few issues and design factors that I'd like changed:
Hate the alarm mute icon. I would love to figure out a way to hide that on the clock face. Would make the watch look more watchie if you will.
Also would like to only wake the watch from the button vice touchscreen, or atleast an option to set that insettings.
Does anyone else find themselves open palming your watch to put it in hybernate?
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Does anyone else find themselves open palming your watch to put it in hybernate?
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I pressed it against my forehead earlier because I was in bed and my other arm wasn't free.
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I pressed it against my forehead earlier because I was in bed and my other arm wasn't free.
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This really made me LOL
I'll be the lone wolf in the wilderness by bucking the trend and saying that I'm very disappointed with my Gear Live. I'm a gadget lover and really wanted to love this device. But I was far more enthusiastic about this thing before I actually received it. Once I had one, I quickly grew disappointed with it.
Out of the box, pairing with my Nexus 5 took multiple attempts. Once I finally did get it paired, only the stock apps would work. Any apps that I downloaded from the Play store would run on my phone but the watch interface would never show up (no matter how many times I tried to force the apps to sync via the Android Wear app or rebooted the watch).
Factory resetting the watch and starting again cleared up that problem but I still found the functionality of the watch to be quirky at best. Add to that the fact that the screen is virtually impossible to read outdoors, the lack of support for continuous heart rate monitoring, and the sudden dramatic drop in my Nexus 5's battery life (which cleared up after I uninstalled the Android Wear app).
Bottom line for me is that this isn't ready to replace my old fashioned watch. So until I read about some new killer Wear app that I can't live without, the Gear Live had gone back into its box to be stored away. I'm hoping that the software will mature quickly to a point where I can give it another try.
Does gear live suport sleep monitoring? Can it automatically figure out that user is cycling?
How good is the fitness tracking on it?
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Hello all,
Today it's the third day with my LG Watch R. All in all I like it very much, although I think that the usability of the Samsung Gear 2 Neo (which I had before) is slightly better. After three days of using, I experienced some annoying bugs. Maybe it's just my fault, so maybe you are able to help me?
1. Sometimes the Watch doesn't receive any notifications. In this case my phone (Galaxy S 5) is blinking green because I received a Whatsapp message, but I got no notification on my watch...
2. Sometimes my watch doesn't vibrate, when I get a notification. (Although it worked before)
3. I don't understand, when the notification will be displayed in "fullscreen" and when it's just a small card on the display of the watch. I liked it very much on my Gear 2 Neo, that the notification are displayed in fullscreen while vibrating. Sometimes the LG Watch R does it similar, but the most of the time it only displays it as a card.
4. I can't turn the watch off, while charging it??
5. A Facer watchface stucks after several seconds. It only goes on, when I touch the monitor. Then it stucks again.
6. Is there a wear App, with which I'm able to read whatsapp messages at any time (and not only when I get a notification)?
7. Whatsapp again: Sometimes I see the pictures someone sent me in the background, sometimes not. I'm never able to see them as a real picture on the display at all.
I would be very happy, if someone is able to help me in some points. Maybe there are more people having these problems?
Many thanks in advance!!
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Same for me, my SW2 is more usefull than my LG-R and very very ..... better for all notifications. Notification are not the the highlight of wear.
Completely right Dersie, AWear has a very long way to go.
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1. It only happens to me with WhatsApp ... not always though
2. Never happened .. maybe the vibration was weak and you've missed it.
3. The notification that will be pushed by the phone (like a message) will be first displayed full screen for few seconds, then it will become small for you to pick up when you want. The GNow cards that are informational only (stocks, weather) are generated by the GNow daemon in the watch itself (based on your GNow activity on the watch) and those will be displayed directly as small, informal cards.
4. The watch face is turning black by itself if the watch is not moving (I have no idea if it's related also to the horizontal position). This behaviour is independent of the charging status. So, leave it laying down on the table and you will see that it will go into a save power mode by itself (also when you put it to charge). Is taking few minutes to get into that state.
5.That is a purely Facer problem. Not watch's fault. I've bought Facer as well as WatchMaker and both had hiccups. Watchmaker is my option so far and is my daily driver for weeks, w/o any problem.
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7. Works for me but I saw it depends on the size of the picture (the large ones take more to be transferred via BT on the watch, for viewing).
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Hello all,
Today it's the third day with my LG Watch R. All in all I like it very much, although I think that the usability of the Samsung Gear 2 Neo (which I had before) is slightly better. After three days of using, I experienced some annoying bugs. Maybe it's just my fault, so maybe you are able to help me?
1. Sometimes the Watch doesn't receive any notifications. In this case my phone (Galaxy S 5) is blinking green because I received a Whatsapp message, but I got no notification on my watch...
2. Sometimes my watch doesn't vibrate, when I get a notification. (Although it worked before)
3. I don't understand, when the notification will be displayed in "fullscreen" and when it's just a small card on the display of the watch. I liked it very much on my Gear 2 Neo, that the notification are displayed in fullscreen while vibrating. Sometimes the LG Watch R does it similar, but the most of the time it only displays it as a card.
4. I can't turn the watch off, while charging it??
5. A Facer watchface stucks after several seconds. It only goes on, when I touch the monitor. Then it stucks again.
6. Is there a wear App, with which I'm able to read whatsapp messages at any time (and not only when I get a notification)?
7. Whatsapp again: Sometimes I see the pictures someone sent me in the background, sometimes not. I'm never able to see them as a real picture on the display at all.
I would be very happy, if someone is able to help me in some points. Maybe there are more people having these problems?
Many thanks in advance!!
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1. The App needs to support it (or at least use a compatible notification type) - I also use a handful of apps that don't work (most notably those that have persistent notification to keep service alive and just change the content - this will not work with Wear)
2. For me it works flawlessly, but it's possible the watch "misses" a notification for some reason. Some apps also don't vibrate until you dismiss a previous notification from them.
3. Not sure what you mean, but card behaviour depends in part on the watchface you use - try Pujie or Watchmaker, it can be customized on both
4. Yes, this is impossible, the watch will always turn on. Maybe you can try charging it in recovery or bootloader, but that would burn the screen. You can put it in airplane mode while on charge, though. Also, if you have "Mute connected phone" selected, this will be disabled while on the charger, so no need to worry about missing something. Why would you want to do that, anyway?
5. This is normal, there are two modes for watchfaces - the "active" mode where everything is moving and shining, and "ambient" which is a lighter mode to save battery life - you want this mode to light up as few pixels as possible and there are no animations - you want this Avoid watch faces that have thick non-moving elements (like a center of a crown) - best is just a thin font with digital clock.
6&7. I don't use whatsapp, but this mostly depends on whatsapp and less on the watch.
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Hi all,
First of all thank you very much for your answers so far!
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@ro_explorer: Yes, thats right, it's mostly whatsapp, but I think I experienced also this problem on e-mails
@Zviratko: I see. But it's very confusing in the first days of using the watch
I uninstalled Mini Launcher for Wear yesterday und now I don't have any missed notifications. Maybe it has something to do with Mini Launcher and Lollipop?
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See point 1. After uninstalling it, the watch vibrates as it should.
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This is the point I still don't understand. For example on my Samsung Gear 2 a notification stay in fullscreen for 5 seconds and then the watch is shown again and I can see this notification in the notifications tab. It's very random on my LG Watch R, when the notification is being showed in full screen (not a "big" card, it was full screen, like swiping to this card).
But, also here, I never saw a fullscreen notification after uninstalling Mini Launcher?!
4. Now I understand this behavior! In important things like showing notifications the watch seems so stupid but in this case, the watch is very smart. Hurray! :laugh:
5. Okay, I will try watchmaker then, thanks! @ro_explorer
7. I see, that makes sense. Maybe I was just too fast for the watch. By the way: Are the pictures on your watch in good quality @ro_explorer ? Mine are looking like 50x50 pixels or something like this
It's very sad, that the wear system still needs so much to develop. I thought it is stable, like the Gear 2 was (c'mon, it's Samsung, normally they are not the kings in developing..). Hopefully it will change in the next months, when the iwatch arrives the stores. I love the design of the watch and don't want to miss it, but these bugs and problems are driving me crazy :crying:
Hi,
I have just added a "make notifications vibration stronger" feature in last SWApp Launcher Wear version:
https://plus.google.com/+CyrilPreiss0/posts/CUX1DsHCTTw
Hey all,
I got this badass LG R watch for Xmas and it's never had a problem. Then a day or so ago it's started "smearing" on the screen. Anything white/lighter colour sort of ghosts or glows like it's being viewed through frosted glass.
The touch screen still works and any and all functionality is still there with no problems. It's only the view that's sort of washed out. I don't use "always on" and it's not screenburn as I've tried different watch faces and it still does it.
Worst part is: It's not permanent. It's completely intermittent and I have no idea how to duplicate it. I went to take a picture of it to go with this post, and now it's not even bloody doing it.
Not sure if it's related or not, but I've been having difficulties with my phone's OS upgrade at around the same time (4.4.3 is giving me ****s) and it's paired to that, so I don't know if that'd cause issues. Dog knows that the phone is having issues...
Any help/advice is much appreciated! Cheers!
Have run another upgrade across the phone and it appears to be bringing down the frequency of the blurriness. I'm seeing it only once or twice a day since then.
Any ideas?
I am a new owner of an Lg G watch Urbane 1st edition. I have researched about screen burn in before I bought the watch and decided that it wouldn't be that horrible because of the built in burn in protection. However I am still not convinced because of claims that if a certain watch face uses to wide object the screen moving around won't move that object enough for the pixel to turn off and rest. Any of you have a good general rule of thumb what to look out for when downloading watch faces? There are some cool ones out there but could I for example use ones that have colour in them even in dimmed mode? Or should I use ones that don't? What watch faces do you use that isn't too simple but hasn't caused burn in for you?
I own the same watch and I've never had any burn in issues. I use the always on option all day and faces with big numbers and never noticed that effect (okay maybe once, but maybe it was just that one face). So as far as I'm concerned you don't need to worry about that when hunting for new faces. I use all kinds of both simple high contrast faces and very busy image based too. I'm happy that they look great and don't give me any issues. Now, have you experienced burn in or were you just curious about it?
I just got my watch yesterday and already see faint burn it... I know that is common with OLED screens.. but I want to be sure I do not do permanent damage.. I would be interested to hear what you all do to help prevent it ?
I see a setting in Developer Mode that (PREVENT BURN IN) but when I enable it.. it says "will be effective after reboot" but when I reboot it turns off... ?
I have also purchased a pre-owned LG watch urbane from ebay. It just arrived to me yesterday and I have noticed the burn in issue which has some text saying "Android wear has stopped working". This is visible when screen is bright but not visible in ambient mode and darker themes.
well luckily my faint burn in has gone away.. the biggest help was turing off Always On Display... i'm not sure if this would have been a perminent issue since i'm sure LG had this in mind when they setup the OLED display.. but I know it bugs me to see shadow images on the screen... plus I do like the lengthened battery life having it off.. 50% at the end of the day is great