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Best settings for Gravity Screen on Gear

I've been messing around with this app obsessively for a few days as a possible replacement for the Gear wake-up gesture. The app seems to be great for two things...
1.) Screen turns off immediately as you start to lower your arm instead of the watch having to wait a minimum of 5-7 seconds
2.) Keep Screen ON by Motion option to prevent a screen timeout for as long as you are looking at it.
I've realized however that the "Turn screen on by motion" option uses more energy and is NOT a good replacement for the normal wake-up gesture found in gear settings. The normal wake-up gesture seems to be better optimized for the watch. No matter how many times i've tried to set up Gravity Screen to do the same thing, the angles don't work right and the screen comes on a lot when it shouldn't.
So i've combined the two...using the wake-up gesture of the gear (keeping the "screen on by motion" unchecked in Gravity screen) and utilizing the Screen Off feature and "Keep Screen ON by motion" feature of Gravity Screen. This has worked the best for me.
Here are the settings i use for everthing...
In the Gear settings:
-Set screen timeout to 7 seconds or whatever you prefer (not important if you keep Gravity Screen running all the time)
-Wake-up gesture set to "Last screen viewed".
(I simply turn off Wake-up gesture and pause Gravity Screen before going to bed... Still looking for a way to toggle these actions as a widget without having to go into settings everytime. Possibly tasker could do it? If anybody knows a way please tell me!)
In the Gravity Screen settings from top to bottom:
Pocket Sensor = 90 degrees
Table Sensor = 90 degrees
Keep Screen ON by Motion = checked
Sensitivity set = 100
Booster = checked
Running During Call = checked (your preference)
Notification = checked
Low Priority (hide icon) = checked
Start at boot = checked
(Everything else leave unchecked)
So that's it. Manually turning on/off the screen is always the best battery saver...but if you want to have the automatic wake-up then using either the app or the gear settings by themselves isn't as good on battery as combining the two as I have described. Let me know what you guys think.

Thanks for sharing your findings.

Need a night clock but needs to hide N6 buttons

For many years I have used Night Clock and it has been able to turn off the backlight for the S3 and other phones. But being on the Nexus 6 there are no physical buttons and it does not turn off the buttons lights
What night clock can i use to hide the N6 buttons or some way to turn them off?
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=night clocl

I use ClockPlus. It's the same as daydream in an app form.
Long press on the screen to go into daydream mode.
Sent from my Nexus 6 using XDA Free mobile app

I use alarm clock pro with GMD Immersive
I set the clock and the auto hide bar both to red as this is the least intrusive color for sleep. there is also a paid night clock app that auto hides the buttons but I can't find the link to it right now.

I use the stock clock app. Open the app and click the 3 dot menu and select Night mode, or just long press on the screen and it switches to night mode.
This shows just the clock, which changes position about once a minute so no screen burn in and no buttons.
You can also set the standard clock to daydream when plugged in and it does the same thing.

This ^

Timely.

Chronus has a daydream clock that hides the buttons completely. The stock one leaves those little dots where the buttons are supposed to be which bugs me. Chronus goes full immersive mode.
I set it to show the time and weather all in dark blue and set the brightness so low you can hardly see it. It's the perfect clock for me.

Screen wakes after 5 seconds. Feature/issue Marshmallow

After my phone idles flat on a table for 5 seconds at least -I pick it up and the screen wakes. This is a decent feature that I've really liked. But the screen often comes back on even if the phone was never idling. Like if it was in my pocket while walking or in my hand while running. I end up inadvertently playing music or opening the emergency dialer or camera from my lock screen.
How can I disable or customize this feature? I've Google and didn't really find anything this specific. It's not related to notifications, at least I don't think it is..

To disable: Settings / Display / Ambient display / off.
To modify: I'm sure there are a variety of options when rooted. Gravitybox has a few:
Gravity box has option under the power settings: "proximity wakeup (use proximity sensor to help decide whether to wake device up)"
Gravity box also has an option under lockscreen tweaks / shortcuts / "safe launch" - requires double tap to launch shortcuts (from lockscreen) preventing them from being launched accidentally while device is in the pocket
Personally I have ambient enabled in Android settings, the GB safe launch option checked and the GB proximity wakeup option unchecked. Works fine - never had an inadvertant launch of anything from lockscreen. I vaguely recall that checking the prox wakeup option has caused some other problems for users so I don't use it.

Completely missing auto rotate

I have lost the auto rotate icon completely in my notification icons. It's not been replaced with portrait mode and it's not hiding in the button order extra buttons.
Any ideas other than factory reset?
SM-960F

Go into the Settings > Button Order and you can readd the Auto Rotate Button onto your Notification Tray

Question Top settings bar

Guys - on the top menu which has DND, Flashlight, etc is it possible to add anything from settings? I'd like to place the brightness setting in there (in particular if I can turn on/off ambient lighting with one click) that'll be great. Thanks

It's already there. You have to swipe down again to get the brightness settings, which presents a slider to brighten or dim the didplay, along with options to choose what shortcuts to turn things on/off that you see on the ribbon initially. I think brightness is one of them..
Maybe under device settings?