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I don't want to be too critical but many Smart Actions I found here or other Razr forums tend to be very restrictive on your use.
Com'on, you bought an expensive fancy phone which uses the fastest 4G LTE network, you paid some premium on those joy. It is never a Verizon LTE Razr if you turn 4G off.
So my bottom line is :
1.I want to be able to surf web/watch youtube/check email on 4G or wifi network when I want to (as opposed to wait for 5 seconds because it was off when screen was off)
And
2. I want to have reasonable battery life.
After some testing, Smart Actions that work on my Razr is
1. At Home: when it detect my wifi, it will switch there.
2. In call: When there is incoming call, turn off Data Connection and Screen turn to 0% brightness. (This is CDMA network, so you can't surf and use data at the same time anyway. Or do you really do a lot of such things? If so, please ignore this)
This #2 will help if you have constant phone conversation of about 30 mins daily. You won't want to burn unnecessary juicy while you are only talking.
3. At work where no wifi is available (for security reasons), I turn it off. I sit in office most of the time of the day, so you won't want wifi keep scanning and eating juice. I used TImeFrame to identify this, not geo location because wifi will need to be turned off.
4. In the night, using the night saver sample, I turned off cell data and background sync.
5. Low battery saver: surprisingly, in this action I only turned it to 0% screen brightness. Why? Just imagine you are using it as GPS or some important task on the road, you dont want to lose the GPS/Data if the battery dropped below a threshhold?
6. Most helpful action:
No Action At Work.
If you are working in office most of the time, your cellphone is quietly sitting on your desk mainly. So if you specify
1. at work
2. movement detection found nothing moving
then disable background sync. it will save the juice and when you turn on the screen to check email, the 4G is always there.
The whole idea , is not to disable data connection whenever you turn off screen. Many times you will have background downloads and sometimes when you turn on the screen, the phone takes some time to restore the data connection. which makes you staring at your phone can wait for a while. quite unfortunate if you have an Iphone user sitting beside you immediately pull the data out, right? =)
Personal settings, hopefully it helps you. It will easily give you 12 hours of usage. and for my charge now: 10 hours later it is at 80%, of course it has 6 hours of night standby.
Let's discuss more TESTED smart actions here? =)
note: if your phone is in your pocket a lot during a working day, don't use motion detection and you know why...
You can use voice and data simultaneously when on 4g. Just fyi.
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Yup, it's definitely useful too.
Example: talking to friend on phone about hanging out, go to home screen open Google maps to check when the next bus comes, while still talking to friend
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"Movement Detection"
Is there such an option? Been looking for it, can't find it.
opensourcefan said:
"Movement Detection"
Is there such an option? Been looking for it, can't find it.
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It's motion
+ you need to update to get it
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Copy that, update req Glad moto is updating though, it could be a uber powerful app.
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Copy that, update req Glad moto is updating though, it could be a uber powerful app.
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Think if they make it more granular it will be great
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thank you for the tips.
I love Tasker. I use it a lot on my phone for all kinds of automated tasks. For the Prime, I have set up the following so far:
1. at 11pm it shuts off WiFi and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger)
2. at 10pm it shuts off BT and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn BT off)
3. at 10pm it shuts off GPS and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn GPS off) - UPDATE: I see now this one will not work in the HC OS as the system requires user interaction to set GPS
4. at 11pm it shuts off Sync and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger and I dont want to hear gMail alerts all nigh)
5. When on power cable, it (a) turns off the need to unlock it (b) leaves the screen on
6. give me an alert tone at 20% battery
7. if it is in my car and attached via BT it turns up the brightness (since I am outside) and leaves on display (as I normally also have it plugged in) so I can use things like Torque and the Navi/GPS and see the screen
thats all for now... anyone else?
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I love Tasker. I use it a lot on my phone for all kinds of automated tasks. For the Prime, I have set up the following so far:
1. at 11pm it shuts off WiFi and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger)
2. at 10pm it shuts off BT and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn BT off)
3. at 10pm it shuts off GPS and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn GPS off)
4. at 11pm it shuts off Sync and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger and I dont want to hear gMail alerts all nigh)
5. When on power cable, it (a) turns off the need to unlock it (b) leaves the screen on
6. give me an alert tone at 20% battery
7. if it is in my car and attached via BT it turns up the brightness (since I am outside) and leaves on display (as I normally also have it plugged in) so I can use things like Torque and the Navi/GPS and see the screen
thats all for now... anyone else?
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Never heard of that but it sounds like an awesome app
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Lock-N-Load said:
I love Tasker. I use it a lot on my phone for all kinds of automated tasks. For the Prime, I have set up the following so far:
1. at 11pm it shuts off WiFi and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger)
2. at 10pm it shuts off BT and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn BT off)
3. at 10pm it shuts off GPS and never starts back up in morning (save battery if I forget to put it on charger or forget to turn GPS off)
4. at 11pm it shuts off Sync and starts back up at 6:30am (save battery if I forget to put it on charger and I dont want to hear gMail alerts all nigh)
5. When on power cable, it (a) turns off the need to unlock it (b) leaves the screen on
6. give me an alert tone at 20% battery
7. if it is in my car and attached via BT it turns up the brightness (since I am outside) and leaves on display (as I normally also have it plugged in) so I can use things like Torque and the Navi/GPS and see the screen
thats all for now... anyone else?
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Haven't gotten my Prime yet, but that Tasker app sounds pretty cool. It sound kind of like JuiceDefender, except there's a lot more options.
With those settings, what kind of Battery life do you get?
If you don't know what Tasker is, you have no idea how powerful it is. It is amazing, you can control virtually every function, setting, alert, automation, etc. What I have done here is the tip if the iceberg. I have some for my phone that sense I am in my car, thanks to BT, and does a series of 3 to 4 steps like turn up brightness, play a tone to tell me it is connected to my car, start up a certain app, etc..
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If you don't know what Tasker is, you have no idea how powerful it is. It is amazing, you can control virtually every function, setting, alert, automation, etc. What I have done here is the tip if the iceberg. I have some for my phone that sense I am in my car, thanks to BT, and does a series of 3 to 4 steps like turn up brightness, play a tone to tell me it is connected to my car, start up a certain app, etc..
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That's epic.
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Tasker is pretty awesome!
A bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out, the sky is the limit.
I have a profile that if I receive a text while driving, it autoresponds telling the person texting and driving is dangerous and I am currently driving at xx MPH and will get with them later.
I get a lot of people inquiring about that one.
The most useful one I have is it looks at my calendar and if it is during the time of my meeting, it automatically puts my phone on vibrate. That way I don't have to worry about it. When meeting is over, it reverts back to normal.
Yes, tasker is INCREDIBLE. Once you figure it out, it can almost double your battery life (at least it did on my phone).
You can try reddit.com/r/tasker, where most people post awesome tasker profiles and ask for help accomplishing certain settings. There are also a ton on the internet if you google search for tasker set-ups:
http://tasker.wikidot.com/profile-index (this is a great one)
I have been using Tasker for a while. It is incredible. My current challenge is switching to switftkey when I have my TFP keyboard undocked, and to the asus keyboard when the keyboard is docked. Tasker can detect the keyboard being plugged in, but not being unplugged. If anyone solves this, I would love to hear about it.
Tasker is one of the defining differences between ios and Android. Really shows off how powerful android can really be if you're willing to take the time
OP wanna post your profiles? And maybe a quick writeup (or link) how to apply them for those who dont know...
I used to use tasker for BLN to enable notifications from various apps that normally didnt work with BLN, as well as making my phone vibrate every minute or so if theres a missed notification (text, etc) for aprox 5 minutes just so that way if i was with a customer at work (retail) i could deal with the customer but wouldnt forget about the messages i got
Awesome app indeed.
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I have been using Tasker for a while. It is incredible. My current challenge is switching to switftkey when I have my TFP keyboard undocked, and to the asus keyboard when the keyboard is docked. Tasker can detect the keyboard being plugged in, but not being unplugged. If anyone solves this, I would love to hear about it.
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Put a small SD card in the dock. Have Tasker check when it mounts/unmounts.
Might not work since there's no notification on unmounting /Removable/SD. Maybe have it check for access to /Removable/SD every X minutes?
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I have been using Tasker for a while. It is incredible. My current challenge is switching to switftkey when I have my TFP keyboard undocked, and to the asus keyboard when the keyboard is docked. Tasker can detect the keyboard being plugged in, but not being unplugged. If anyone solves this, I would love to hear about it.
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if you are rooted, keyboard manager is a free app in the market that does this. when im not docked, i gvet thumb keyboard 4. when i am docked, asus stock. hasnt failed me yet
Got mine setup with a profile to set off an alarm when the microsd gets unmounted.
Almost lost my mircrosd once before with it popping out and not realising to later - hopefully this should help
I have 4 profiles that I copied from my phone to do the same tasks:
Home: When near my Home wi-fi AP, turn on wi-fi. When no longer near the AP, turn off wi-fi.
Sleep Mode: Put device on silent, turn on airplane mode (11PM-5AM).
Work Location: When near my office wi-fi, turn on wi-fi, turn on silent mode. When no longer near the AP (i.e. not at work), turn off wi-fi, turn off silent mode off.
Work Timer: During work days/hours (M-F 6-3), turn silent mode on. After work hours, turn silent mode off. Exception: if there's an event with a description of "Vacation" on the calendar. If that exists, device does not go into silent mode.
There are others that I use on my phone.
korax85 said:
Got mine setup with a profile to set off an alarm when the microsd gets unmounted.
Almost lost my mircrosd once before with it popping out and not realising to later - hopefully this should help
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BRILLIANT! I have actually seen no use for tasker for myself til now. I've always REALLY liked he concept, but there isn't ANYTHING that I want happening automatically. Until now. Thanks!!!
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Got mine setup with a profile to set off an alarm when the microsd gets unmounted.
Almost lost my mircrosd once before with it popping out and not realising to later - hopefully this should help
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GREAT idea. Just set one up so "card Unmounted" plays an Alarm that will go on and on and on until I address it.
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but there isn't ANYTHING that I want happening automatically. Until now. Thanks!!!
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Really, you don't want to shut BT or WiFi or GPS or Sync while you sleep to conserver battery overnight?? That alone is a useful set of tasks.
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GREAT idea. Just set one up so "card Unmounted" plays an Alarm that will go on and on and on until I address it.
Really, you don't want to shut BT or WiFi or GPS or Sync while you sleep to conserver battery overnight?? That alone is a useful set of tasks.
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i understand how powerful this tool can and is. but i shut my prime off at night... there is no battery to conserve... lol sorry. im glad it works for you guys though! it REALLY may be worth investing the money into though JUST for microsd unmount alerts.
Something tells me you don't fully grasp the true depth & scope of Taskers abilities. Thus far the tasks listed are child splay that barely scrape the surface.
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Something tells me you don't fully grasp the true depth & scope of Taskers abilities. Thus far the tasks listed are child splay that barely scrape the surface.
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i believe you are correct. but i am not very imaginative. so its very possible that i cant just find a use for it, doesnt meant that it isnt there. i plan on doing some research into some of the already made profiles to see if someone interests me. so far, the unmount microsd seems to be the only plausible for me
Not sure how I missed this thread before; I'm a huge fan of Tasker. All of what follows was written for my Samsung Epic 4G: I don't even have Tasker installed on my TFP because so much of what I do is smartphone-focused. Sooner or later I'll get around to putting together some tablet-specific scripts.
Surreptitiously snaps a photo from the front-facing camera every time the screen is unlocked, with no visual or audio indication. This is set up so as to always keep the last 2 photos stored, and will overwrite older photos. Images can be retrieved remotely via a secret text message.
Set up secret text messages that trigger the phone to gather information such as GPS location (reverse geocoded to an address), speed, heading, altitude, local cell tower ID and signal strength, nearby and connected WiFi SSIDs, WAN IP, currently open app, whether the screen is turned on, battery strength, and covert photographs taken from the front and rear cameras (including the one that was captured from the front camera when the screen was last unlocked) and text/email me back without notifying whomever has the phone. Another message will make my phone freak out, announce it's been stolen, announce that all of the above information has been sent to the owner of the phone, flash the LED in an SOS, and force all outbound calls to go to me.
If I send a secret message to my phone, it calls me back, and enables speakerphone, so I can speak with whomever has my phone. It also reroutes any outbound calls to my number. I can also ask it to send me photos from the front and rear cameras on the phone.
Ensured that when the phone is connected to my home's local cell tower, it always rings when I call it. I never have to worry about it being on vibrate while under a couch cushion or in a snowbank next to the driveway.
When I plug in a headset or it connects to my car's bluetooth, it pops up a list of media applications for me to use, and if I don't select one or back out of the selection, it automatically starts my Pandora, and kills the app when I unplug / disconnect. Basically, I get in my car, my music plays. I get out, it stops. Same with headphones.
When it detects the cell tower near my work, it enables vibrate.
If it detects a cell tower that is not the one near my home or work, it turns on the ringer and disables WiFi (unless I re-enable it).
If someone calls me that I don't even want a voicemail from, I add their number to a list in Tasker, and when they call me, it picks up the line and immediately hangs it up. Working on one that will play back a fake "Your call could not be completed as dialed" message.
Checks accuweather.com in the morning on work days to see if it's raining, snowing, sleeting, or hailing. If any of the above, it rings an alarm 30 minutes early. I also built in snooze functions and a voice notification in the morning about the outside temperature and conditions. This script recently broke (accuweather probably did something to affect the output of my HTTPGet) so I've been using the voice notification in Alarm Clock Plus, though it doesn't wake me up early. With current weather conditions I'm going to have to get my script fixed for the head start. My how-to on this script is on Tasker's wiki, here: http://tasker.wikidot.com/weather-clock
If I start Google Navigation with GPS disabled, it closes the app, enables GPS, and starts the app back up again. No more fiddling with GPS settings while on the go. Sometimes this script is not 100% reliable... I've got to look at it again some time to figure out why.
I made a blog post a while back about how to take the pictures remotely with the camera, and you can read about it here:
http://sean-the-electrofreak.blogspot.com/2011/10/more-fun-with-tasker-covert-mugshots.html
The email-attachment part can also be used to send audio recordings, which I've not actually implemented yet but wouldn't be difficult.
I've been putting off for the last 6 months or so my write-up on all the rest... I just have to find time for it!
I use the phone as my alarm clock but when I plug it in to charge the screen will, for whatever reason, come on and stay on. I turn off all synching at night so its not getting any emails and nobody ever texts me at night so its not that either.
Does anyone know if there is a way to schedule the S2 to shut-off and turn on at scheduled times?
I know my old Crapberry had this option but I cannot seem to locate if this phone can do that.
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I use the phone as my alarm clock but when I plug it in to charge the screen will, for whatever reason, come on and stay on. I turn off all synching at night so its not getting any emails and nobody ever texts me at night so its not that either.
Does anyone know if there is a way to schedule the S2 to shut-off and turn on at scheduled times?
I know my old Crapberry had this option but I cannot seem to locate if this phone can do that.
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As far as I know blackberries are still the only phones that do that
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Chainfire makes an app called NoMoarPowah! which lets you schedule your phone to power itself back on at a specified time. It can also suggest a wakeup time based on your alarms. I think your phone needs to be plugged in for it to work, but that should be fine for your situation.
It's free on the Play Store, just search for it. (can't post links, sorry)
Note that I actually never got this to work on my phone running AOKP, but it's worth a try.
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Chainfire makes an app called NoMoarPowah! which lets you schedule your phone to power itself back on at a specified time. It can also suggest a wakeup time based on your alarms. I think your phone needs to be plugged in for it to work, but that should be fine for your situation.
It's free on the Play Store, just search for it. (can't post links, sorry)
Note that I actually never got this to work on my phone running AOKP, but it's worth a try.
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I did not know that I'm going to check it out
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Goodness. What would the Galaxy community do without Chainfire...
Does anyone have solution and time auto sync problem in omate? When I shutdown the omate and restart it after several hours, its lost the time and need to connect to the Internet to reset time again? Also the problem of auto on/off, it also closed on time but not resart automatically in the setting time?
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Does anyone have solution and time auto sync problem in omate? When I shutdown the omate and restart it after several hours, its lost the time and need to connect to the Internet to reset time again? Also the problem of auto on/off, it also closed on time but not resart automatically in the setting time?
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This topic has been covered already in other threads on XDA, but I will recap for you.
Omate decided not to include a tiny clock backup battery in the TrueSmart maybe due to size issues or cost or both. This means that when the watch is powered off, the clock stops. Yes, this was considered acceptable by Omate for a SmartWatch 2.0, that it cannot keep time while powered down.
When the watch powers up again, the clock will continue from when it was powered off until it is reset by hand or updated via wireless carrier if you have a sim in or until it connects to a Network time server via WiFi or however. It will keep time more or less accurately from then on, until powered off again, at which point it stops like an old electric clock unplugged from the wall socket.
There is no solution to this, as the hardware does not support the equivalent of a regular cheap Casio style real watch.
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On the 25th of May, the new Android Wear started to get installed to Moto 360 2nd Gen devices.
Did you get it yet?
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In italy I still did not get any updates
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In italy I still did not get any updates
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You Can Force the update...i'm italian and i have install It yesterday.
How do I force him?
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How do I force him?
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Put your Watch in charge, and connect It in wifi (disable the bluetooth from your phone)
Go in setting ---information--update
You can force the update, just repeatedly tap on the green "system is up to date" screen.
When the download of the update begins, you need to keep your finger on the screen so that the smartwatch does not return to the charging screen.
Good luck
I received the update. The watch stuck on finishing update. Any one have same problem?
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Put your Watch in charge, and connect It in wifi (disable the bluetooth from your phone)
Go in setting ---information--update
You can force the update, just repeatedly tap on the green "system is up to date" screen.
When the download of the update begins, you need to keep your finger on the screen so that the smartwatch does not return to the charging screen.
Good luck
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It really worked!! Thank you
Since 2.0, my watch isn't showing the Hour when i put it in recharge mode at night. It goes in recharge mode for 5 secondes, showing the hour, and then it goes to a grey screen for all the night. Its annoying to sleep, and useless cause i cant see the hour.
Anyone with the same issue or have an idea?
I found a solution, but i dont know if it's not a bad solution for the battery life of the watch: putting "ALWAYS ON DURING CHARGE" mode in the developper's options. I'am scared to damage the watch and the battery, forcing it to be ON all the night and charging.
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Put your Watch in charge, and connect It in wifi (disable the bluetooth from your phone)
Go in setting ---information--update
You can force the update, just repeatedly tap on the green "system is up to date" screen.
When the download of the update begins, you need to keep your finger on the screen so that the smartwatch does not return to the charging screen.
Good luck
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I can't use my watch when it's charging.
How did u open the settings/info panel?
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I can't use my watch when it's charging.
How did u open the settings/info panel?
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Click on the side button of the watch for 2 seconds when it charges, this will open the options of the watch.
Forced update?
Couldn't get this to work for me.
I'm curious though, just how Moto (or Google as the case may be) implements a "gradual" update (that is, some users get it before others).
retiredguy1945 said:
Couldn't get this to work for me.
I'm curious though, just how Moto (or Google as the case may be) implements a "gradual" update (that is, some users get it before others).
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This is the same as it happens for mobiles.
During big updates you can find devices getting the update with many days difference.
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Since 2.0, my watch isn't showing the Hour when i put it in recharge mode at night. It goes in recharge mode for 5 secondes, showing the hour, and then it goes to a grey screen for all the night. Its annoying to sleep, and useless cause i cant see the hour.
Anyone with the same issue or have an idea?
I found a solution, but i dont know if it's not a bad solution for the battery life of the watch: putting "ALWAYS ON DURING CHARGE" mode in the developper's options. I'am scared to damage the watch and the battery, forcing it to be ON all the night and charging.
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this wil fix it: When turning on in settings 'always on display' it works like before. no need to enable stay awake while charging in developers settings.
Although this fixes the issue, I am somewhat disappointed because this option reduces battery life.
Sn0w0nS said:
this wil fix it: When turning on in settings 'always on display' it works like before. no need to enable stay awake while charging in developers settings.
Although this fixes the issue, I am somewhat disappointed because this option reduces battery life.
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Yeah, and with my watchface, "Always on" display option is unsupported, this looks very ugly because the watch never sleep off, it stays turned on all the time with the brightness at minimum, even if i cover the watch.
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Yeah, and with my watchface, "Always on" display option is unsupported, this looks very ugly because the watch never sleep off, it stays turned on all the time with the brightness at minimum, even if i cover the watch.
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What watch face are you using?
Sn0w0nS said:
What watch face are you using?
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Skymaster by Zuhanden
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...tchface.watch.face.aviator.android.wear&hl=fr
n4m3less said:
Put your Watch in charge, and connect It in wifi (disable the bluetooth from your phone)
Go in setting ---information--update
You can force the update, just repeatedly tap on the green "system is up to date" screen.
When the download of the update begins, you need to keep your finger on the screen so that the smartwatch does not return to the charging screen.
Good luck
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I tried again.
Clicked many times on the green screen, but nothing happened.
Do u need to do it a specific number of times or to click when there is a specific message?
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I tried again.
Clicked many times on the green screen, but nothing happened.
Do u need to do it a specific number of times or to click when there is a specific message?
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Keep tapping until it happens. Might take a while, but it will happen. I tapped mine for over a minute straight multiple times before it showed up.
Now if it would stop constantly running into a problem while installing...
I had to turn off my wifi manually as after downloading, while countdown to restart, it always stopped in between with the same green screen and message that system is up to date. So after downloading is complete, just turn off the wifi. And also make sure to disconnect bluetooth before you try force updating, just connect with wifi on watch, it'll work for sure.
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i had to turn off my wifi manually as after downloading, while countdown to restart, it always stopped in between with the same green screen and message that system is up to date. So after downloading is complete, just turn off the wifi. And also make sure to disconnect bluetooth before you try force updating, just connect with wifi on watch, it'll work for sure.
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omg this worked! Thank you so much!