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Proximity Notification Alert for Gear?

After watching the latest ad on the samsung gear, the last ending segment is what sold me to finally pull the trigger.
Here's the problem, how do I set this up? I get forgetful sometimes and leave my phone on the desk. So how do I set it up so that if I leave without my phone, my watch will lock the phone and then notify me with vibrate that I forgot it? Any help is appreciated.
-thx

Same question. One dude in one video pudh button on gear and phone starts alert

Castellano2 said:
Same question. One dude in one video pudh button on gear and phone starts alert
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when the watch disconnects due to the distance between you and your phone it vibrates telling you you walked away from your phone and that the watch has lost connection. Which also means hay you left your phone on the table. lol

No. I do not speak about it (btw this only shows me lost connection-no alert). I was speaking about pushing gear power button and mobile starts ringing. Cool feature

Alucius said:
After watching the latest ad on the samsung gear, the last ending segment is what sold me to finally pull the trigger.
Here's the problem, how do I set this up? I get forgetful sometimes and leave my phone on the desk. So how do I set it up so that if I leave without my phone, my watch will lock the phone and then notify me with vibrate that I forgot it? Any help is appreciated.
-thx
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Mine just tells me the bluetooth disconnected (along with a buzz) which is enough. No real notification.
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Castellano2 said:
Same question. One dude in one video pudh button on gear and phone starts alert
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That is probably "Find my phone" which is a built in app.

1. The Gear vibrates when it gets out of BT range. As far as I know there is no setting for this, it default.
2. Find my device and find gear are 2 default apps in gear manager and in gear.
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Basmelek said:
1. The Gear vibrates when it gets out of BT range. As far as I know there is no setting for this, it default.
2. Find my device and find gear are 2 default apps in gear manager and in gear.
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Find my device works but it is manual.
Be kind of nice to walk away and get more than a vibration when you exceed Bluetooth range.

3. If u lock your phone with a pattern gear will unlock the pattern. But not the whole lockscreen, u still have to swype over the screen. It has to be in a range of about 10cm
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It's in the gear manager on your phone, Settings, 1st option: Autolock.

Hi guys, yes indeed the vibration is a standard setting for proximity alert. However me too u would like to change that to a spoken notification both for out of prxomity alert "connectiopn lost" and for reconnecting.
Any ideas?
ty!
Kjoere

Keeping screen on when charging?

I've tried relentlessly to find a way to keep the screen on while charging, to practically no avail.
I ended up installing an app called "Stay Awake", which worked in theory, however, after 5 seconds the screen adjusts to the dimmest setting which is nearly impossible to read unless you are in a dark room.
Without that app running nothing else works to keep the screen on during charging.
Anyone solved this issue yet?
Thanks

Why do you want to keep it on? There are some clock apps that i think do this. But not 100% on that.

smokestack76 said:
Why do you want to keep it on? There are some clock apps that i think do this. But not 100% on that.
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I use it to stream music to my car stereo using Winamp. Its aggravating to have to turn the screen back on everytime I want to change the song/station.

roppolo said:
I use it to stream music to my car stereo using Winamp. Its aggravating to have to turn the screen back on everytime I want to change the song/station.
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what happen when you run the app and turn auto brightness off

jerrycoffman45 said:
what happen when you run the app and turn auto brightness off
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What I described above is what happens with auto brightness off. After 5 or 6 seconds the screen dims, but stays on, which is fine at night, but during the day its unreadable.

roppolo said:
What I described above is what happens with auto brightness off. After 5 or 6 seconds the screen dims, but stays on, which is fine at night, but during the day its unreadable.
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no idea then

You need a car dock app then. Dashdroid used to do it. Been years since i used one. But check out dock apps.

I recently came across a setting in Settings/Developer options/Stay awake. Perhaps that would do the trick

lmemma16 said:
I recently came across a setting the Developer options/Stay awake. It looks like that would do the trick
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Yeah, it did on my Nexus 7, but no so much on my Note 3 :crying:

roppolo said:
Yeah, it did on my Nexus 7, but no so much on my Note 3 :crying:
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Did you enable the Developer settings by tapping repeatedly on the build number in settings? I have the setting on my Note 3. Or do you mean it doesn't really do the trick? Sorry lol

lmemma16 said:
Did you enable the Developer settings by tapping repeatedly on the build number in settings? I have the setting on my Note 3. Or do you mean it doesn't really do the trick? Sorry lol
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lol yeah I enable it and checked "stay awake". It just doesn't seem to have any effect

Try Screen Timeout Toggle. Great little app that worked for me when I needed this feature while on my Note 2.

Techweed said:
Try Screen Timeout Toggle. Great little app that worked for me when I needed this feature while on my Note 2.
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Thanks buddy. I'll check it out and report back

roppolo said:
I've tried relentlessly to find a way to keep the screen on while charging, to practically no avail.
I ended up installing an app called "Stay Awake", which worked in theory, however, after 5 seconds the screen adjusts to the dimmest setting which is nearly impossible to read unless you are in a dark room.
Without that app running nothing else works to keep the screen on during charging.
Anyone solved this issue yet?
Thanks
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The setting is under the developer options screen. (If you don't have developer options enabled go to settings->about device and tap on build number about 10 times. (half way thru tapping you'll see a pop up telling you how many taps are left))
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Lollipop issues on stock GPE

Hello,
I am unable to set a custom alarm tone. I tried putting the ogg file in alarms and notifications, but just no luck.
Also the button backlights just don't seem to turn on.
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suku_patel_22 said:
Hello,
I am unable to set a custom alarm tone. I tried putting the ogg file in alarms and notifications, but just no luck.
Also the button backlights just don't seem to turn on.
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Known issues.

zelendel said:
Known issues.
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Backlights is known issue, is the alarm tone also a known one?
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suku_patel_22 said:
Backlights is known issue, is the alarm tone also a known one?
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YEah its been an issue ever since the 5.0 update. it has been effecting just about all roms that are based on lollipop, Something to do with the new sound settings.

Anybody experienced drop in vibration intensity?

voolandis said:
Anybody experienced drop in vibration intensity?
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no

alray said:
no
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It is present, especially while using Google keyboard.
Any thoughts?

voolandis said:
It is present, especially while using Google keyboard.
Any thoughts?
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I don't use google keyboard, I hate it. I use swiftkey

How is yours wifi? Mine is very bad. Any solutions?

zumyman46 said:
How is yours wifi? Mine is very bad. Any solutions?
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Very stable, could be new FW forces higher voltage to WiFi unit, even the range is slightly extended. I noticed it because I get better signal in bathroom 
 @alray No keyboards support my language, so having swype or something like that is useless. But I will try with others, just for the sake of vibro

zumyman46 said:
How is yours wifi? Mine is very bad. Any solutions?
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same as when I was on dev edtition, very good.
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voolandis said:
Very stable, could be new FW forces higher voltage to WiFi unit, even the range is slightly extended. I noticed it because I get better signal in bathroom
@alray No keyboards support my language, so having swype or something like that is useless. But I will try with others, just for the sake of vibro
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You are not forced to use the swipe functionally if you don't want, even if using swiftkey. You can change the vibration in swiftkey to what you like.

Any fix for the backlight issue?

possible solution
vbauer86 said:
Any fix for the backlight issue?
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There is one thing you can try if your device is rooted. Not sure if it will work but if you go to play store and download keyboard backlight controller by deskangel, and then open it and tap lock on backlight it might work.

nomee97 said:
There is one thing you can try if your device is rooted. Not sure if it will work but if you go to play store and download keyboard backlight controller by deskangel, and then open it and tap lock on backlight it might work.
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It works, but the buttons remain lit even after you turn the screen off.

Make sure "only when screen on" is enabled. I cant test it because I don't want root anymore

Android OS killing battery when wifi is on

Android OS is killing my battery whenever i use wifi in my office, if i use wifi in home drain is ok. Not sure why device was awake for almost 7 hrs ?.
Any suggestions??

Theres some sort of glitch that cant be explained. Mine does the same thing with wifi at work. Apparently the phone can't handle high trafic networks or when you move around and the phone has to jump from router to router. It ends up creating a huge amount of wakelocks. Then you switch to LTE and you get drain from cellular network because its a battery hog. There doesn't seem to be any way around it as of right now.

seh6183 said:
Theres some sort of glitch that cant be explained. Mine does the same thing with wifi at work. Apparently the phone can't handle high trafic networks or when you move around and the phone has to jump from router to router. It ends up creating a huge amount of wakelocks. Then you switch to LTE and you get drain from cellular network because its a battery hog. There doesn't seem to be any way around it as of right now.
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There is a workaround, given you're rooted. I can confirm this

manishvy said:
Android OS is killing my battery whenever i use wifi in my office, if i use wifi in home drain is ok. Not sure why device was awake for almost 7 hrs ?.
Any suggestions??
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Did you try a factory reset and saw if the problem prevails with the stock set of apps?

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There is a workaround, given you're rooted. I can confirm this
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Oh yeah and what's that? I'm rooted, rommed, and on the best kernel. Problem persists. And a factory reset will do nothing but waste that poor guys time.

Another thing i observed, even when wifi is off and i turned off screen..looks like device is always awake ?. I turend off wifi, location, disabled lots of apps using package disabler.... still no luck.
I am not rooted.
I haven't tried factory reset yet.

it's the wlan_rx_wake, and wlan_wake wakelocks. For me arter97 kernel has decreased the wakelocks but it doesnt eliminate them. Still better than stock. Meanwhile lets just wait for the marshmallow. The only hope.

I have the arter kernel too and honestly have more faith in him fixing it than a new touchwiz build.

Yeah..just waiting for Marshmallow. . Hoping it would fix this issue ?

seh6183 said:
Oh yeah and what's that? I'm rooted, rommed, and on the best kernel. Problem persists. And a factory reset will do nothing but waste that poor guys time.
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I've had the same problem, and I've solved it. It's just a rogue app, and I can bet on it. After a clean install (I know it's a pain) just restore few apps at a time, till you start getting the drain again, that way, narrow down on the app(s) causing the WiFi wakelock. Does your problem persist even on a clean ROM install, with no user downloaded apps?
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seh6183 said:
Oh yeah and what's that? I'm rooted, rommed, and on the best kernel. Problem persists. And a factory reset will do nothing but waste that poor guys time.
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I'm on arter kernel, and Dr. Ketan's ROM. Greenified FB and fb messenger. With WiFi switched on the whole night, I got 2% drain in a period of 6-7 hours. Also, try disabling the Android device manager and see if that helps

Sure... tomorrow ill try factory reset and clean install... i'll report if i see any improvements

Vivek_Vivek said:
I've had the same problem, and I've solved it. It's just a rogue app, and I can bet on it. After a clean install (I know it's a pain) just restore few apps at a time, till you start getting the drain again, that way, narrow down on the app(s) causing the WiFi wakelock. Does your problem persist even on a clean ROM install, with no user downloaded apps?
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I'm on arter kernel, and Dr. Ketan's ROM. Greenified FB and fb messenger. With WiFi switched on the whole night, I got 2% drain in a period of 6-7 hours. Also, try disabling the Android device manager and see if that helps
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Its not a rogue app. My home wifi has no drain but my work wifi does. It's a bug.

seh6183 said:
Its not a rogue app. My home wifi has no drain but my work wifi does. It's a bug.
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I'm sorry to hear that. Guess you're outta luck till there's an official update, then. But OP seems to have a rogue app

I have also noticed this issue. When on campus with WiFi switched on all day, android system kills my battery and keeps my phone awake constantly. But at home, this isn't an issue. It more than likely has something to do with the constant switching of routers that have the best signal. Even though I have my "Keep WiFi on during sleep" setting set to "only when plugged in" Android System still tends to keep my phone awake. Unfortunately I can't root and switch kernels because I have ATT ..hopefully Marshmallow will help.

Vivek_Vivek said:
I'm sorry to hear that. Guess you're outta luck till there's an official update, then. But OP seems to have a rogue app
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It's not a "rogue app" and hes going to factory reset for nothing.

seh6183 said:
It's not a "rogue app" and hes going to factory reset for nothing.
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Please look at this. From a similar WiFi drain rate as posted by OP, I've gone to this.

manishvy said:
Sure... tomorrow ill try factory reset and clean install... i'll report if i see any improvements
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Could you please install betterbatterystats and post the summary?

Vivek_Vivek said:
Please look at this. From a similar WiFi drain rate as posted by OP, I've gone to this.
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Your wifi was only on 7 hours of 22 hours and you consider this a good comparison?

Vivek_Vivek said:
Could you please install betterbatterystats and post the summary?
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Not sure batterbatterystats would help..as i am not rooted.
But i'll surely post the summary whatever available.

manishvy said:
Not sure batterbatterystats would help..as i am not rooted.
But i'll surely post the summary whatever available.
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It will do nothing without root unfortunately.

Wifi off when sleeping?

Did they remove the option to turn off WiFi when the phone sleeps? Can't find it in WiFi advanced settings.

Yup, i feel like it turns it off and causes issues with taskter, etc. could also just be tasker.

Zirc92 said:
Did they remove the option to turn off WiFi when the phone sleeps? Can't find it in WiFi advanced settings.
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Yes.... Samsung has been remove this option in the new Galaxy Note9 ..... they did a bad thing while removed it.
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haifish9999 said:
Yes.... Samsung has been remove this option in the new Galaxy Note9 ..... they did a bad thing while removed it.
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That's terrible. I remember that option was brought in a few years ago.
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Yes my apps all stop updating when the screen turns off. This is causing all types of problems. Why the F would they remove this, especially on a phone with a massive 4,000 mAh battery.
Stupid.

xguntherc said:
Yes my apps all stop updating when the screen turns off. This is causing all types of problems. Why the F would they remove this, especially on a phone with a massive 4,000 mAh battery.
Stupid.
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Huh? I think we were talking about the opposite thing. WiFi stays ON when sleeping now. Before it could be set to turn off when screen was off thus your apps wouldn't get updated until your phone woke up.
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xguntherc said:
Yes my apps all stop updating when the screen turns off. This is causing all types of problems. Why the F would they remove this, especially on a phone with a massive 4,000 mAh battery.
Stupid.
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Yeah I know this wasn't the point of the thread, but this is exactly what happens to me. If my WiFi is on and I leave the phone off for a while I get no push notifications for anything, I only noticed one morning when I'd left WiFi on and woke up, when I turned it off and went back to mobile data, all my notifications came. It's not much of an issue for me as I don't use WiFi really, I get 20gb data a month so my mobile data is on 24/7 and get no problems with that.

beta546 said:
Yeah I know this wasn't the point of the thread, but this is exactly what happens to me. If my WiFi is on and I leave the phone off for a while I get no push notifications for anything, I only noticed one morning when I'd left WiFi on and woke up, when I turned it off and went back to mobile data, all my notifications came. It's not much of an issue for me as I don't use WiFi really, I get 20gb data a month so my mobile data is on 24/7 and get no problems with that.
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a lot of this has to do with the battery conservation features of Oreo. every oreo phone i've had has had this issue unless it was a custom ROM built over a 7.1 kernel

WaxysDargle said:
a lot of this has to do with the battery conservation features of Oreo. every oreo phone i've had has had this issue unless it was a custom ROM built over a 7.1 kernel
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Yes I agree, I've had constant problems with notifications for a year or more now, stock and custom ROMs, this is actually the first time I've not had a problem with them, except on WiFi like I mentioned. Everything comes through straight away on mobile data, even when the phone's been asleep for several hours.

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a lot of this has to do with the battery conservation features of Oreo. every oreo phone i've had has had this issue unless it was a custom ROM built over a 7.1 kernel
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Yep. 100%. Since Oreo notifications have been hit and miss for me., Been like this since the note 8 Oreo update .
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