Hi All,
I have an issue with Google Latitude. I am in UTC+11, my fiancee in UTC+8. Her location is updated in Latitude as it should be... but on my phone, the update that just happened, shows as 3 hours ago (the time difference between us).
This is a pain, because if it's 3h20 ago, or 3h01 ago, both will show up as a 'stale' update, "3 hours ago".
It didn't always do this, her update from a minute ago used to appear on my phone as such... I'm not sure when it started to fail, to be honest. Sorry
Obviously this is a long distance relationship, so we'd both appreciate any help you can give to bring us a little closer
Bump for desperation
This was fixed with a factory reset on her phone.
I'll make no excuse for the title as it seems to fit quite well for how I feel about it.
About two weeks ago I purchased a Sony SW3. Lovely watch and kindof does what I want BUT.... Android wear seems little more than a proof of concept.
At the risk of infuriating AW fans, here are some of my observations:
- I turn gestures off, but the watch still turns itself on when I turn my wrist, this is intermittent behaviour but this can't be rocket science to fix and I'm on V5!
- Was travelling somewhere strange the other day and I routinely add the address of where I'm going to my diary entry (Google calendar). When I was reminded to leave, I was offer the opportunity to navigate there, but I was using a train for most of the journey so only wanted to use navigate when I got the the end station. Call up the 'agenda' entry on my watch, can see the entry, can see the address, but do you think I could get the navigate function to work... NO, touching the address didn;t work, voice commands didn't recognise the foreign restaurant name, and I had no way of entering the address manually! Arrgh
- Cards/notices appearing. What a lovely feature, each time I get a message, email or whatever, my watch lights up and buzzes. Really? Ok I can see that some will find this useful, but really I want to gentle reminder , eg a buzz and if it's convenient I'll see what caused it by switching it on. A bit like theatre/Cinema mode, but I need the vibration to alert me... What I don't need is the thing lighting up every time I get a 'notice', draining the battery and telling everyone who can see! I get quite a few messages and find it strange this feature has not been considered/withdrawn by now. In fact the only useful time the watch should light up is an incoming call so I can see who and accept/reject.
- Whilst on the subject of rejecting a call, why doesn't it offer me the option of rejecting and sending a text message at the same time, a bit like you can when you reject a call on the handset.... Seems an obvious feature really.
- OK Google, doesn't launch applications I've downloaded, eg: I downloaded from the apps store a compass application. OK Google, compass - it gets me info on a company called compass!
- OK Google, Natigate to (insert a name of a contact)... Brings up a linkedin profile....
OK, rant over and I'm happy to concede that it may be my ignorance that I am frustrated so I'm happy to be correctly by fellow early adopters.... Or am I not alone
You've done the same mistake as all wear beginners when it comes to gestures. Forget that setting in watch menu and instead investigate wear companion app settings closer.
Hi thanks for the advice. Just searched the store but couldn't find anything. Suggestions appreciated?
Iain
The wear companion app is the app on your phone which you connect to your phone via. Click cog wheel. Click watch name. Untick tilt to wake option.
When I tell my watch to navigate to somewhere, a beautiful Maps shows up and gets me there... I think you are too fast at judging A.Wear Take time to discover it!
Install Android wear mini launcher also.
Android Wear is built to be minimal - it compliments your phone, it's not supposed to replace it. It just decreases the amount of times you have to pull your phone out of your pocket.
The Apple Watch is the one that's supposed to "replace" your phone in more instances. It's more complicated.
Android Wear is for quick replies, information, and helpful tools.
Welcome to the team by the way!
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So, the recommendation I have heard over and over again is in order to increase battery life, disable the features that make the watch useful. Tilt to wake is important, and disabling it on the sw3 does not significantly improve battery life. There are problems with this software. I am on my third watch, and still after a lot of tweaking only get 24 hours (when I am lucky) per charge. This watch is supposed to last over two days. When I am not lucky, I get two hours on a charge.
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So, the recommendation I have heard over and over again is in order to increase battery life, disable the features that make the watch useful. Tilt to wake is important, and disabling it on the sw3 does not significantly improve battery life. There are problems with this software. I am on my third watch, and still after a lot of tweaking only get 24 hours (when I am lucky) per charge. This watch is supposed to last over two days. When I am not lucky, I get two hours on a charge.
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Yeah. battery life was great on 5.0.2 We just have to wait until the next update, which both sony and google have said that they are working on.
Recharge once a day, and on unplugging, restart the watch. Many people have reported this gives the best results. FWIW I have all options turned on, and as long as I'm not hit with the bug, battery life is about what it was before 5.1.1.
Interesting, but...
Thanks everybody for your thoughts.
Firstly, I have tried switching off motion gestures using the Phones Wear application, but there wasn't an independent setting. I therefore downloaded a third party 'advance setting' application. It offered me more choices but didn't make a blind bit of difference.
Secondly, gestures are a personal thing so I'm not speaking for everybody. As I've already said I don't want the watch switching on every time I turn my wrist (my lifestyle is to active and I find it switching on when I'm doing something rather than when I want to read the time or message) or when I get a message (as I said before I want to choose when I read my messages and I don't want anyone close by to A) see I've got a message and B) be able to read the subject and who it's from). In addition battery life is, for the foreseeable future, a finite resource and all this switching on will reduce the battery life of the watch so it really annoys me that a simple setting 'Gesture OFF' is being completely ignored. I would also vote for 'Cinema mode, including vibrate'..
Thirdly, Yesterday, not for the first time, my battery drained itself in about half a day so I had to recharge the watch by about 3pm. But this time it was a little different. First thing in the morning I noticed the watch struggling to connect to my wifi, it would connect and then connect and then connect. Before anyone jumps on me saying there a problem with my wifi, there are about 10 devices that connect to my wifi and none of them get a problem. In addition I have more than one access point by different manufacturers and the watch has access to two different access points. Security is by password AND MAC address. This got me thinking. Is the wifi chip going into overdrive when it's not connected to an access point and draining the battery? I can't say for sure, but I did notice that the other days the battery suddenly drains is when I'm out and about so it may have been attempting to attached to all the access points when I'm walking about... Only a theory, but what does everybody else think?
Iain
Yea. Drain is somewhere between decent and awful depending on setup. I get two days out of mine.
Gestures is not the same as "tilt to wake". Gestures are let you interact with Google cards by flipping your wrist. Tilt to wake is what you're after. It does just what it says and is turned off in the wear companion app on your phone. The app is called "android wear" and in the app you press a cog wheel symbol, then press the name of your watch. They're you'll find three check box settings.
Always-on screen (eats your battery like omnomnom)
Tilt to wake screen (the one you're after)
Show Google cards (shows notifications on watch)
Two days?
Wow you're getting two days out of your battery, I can only dream...
Actually I'm not being truthful with the above. After my discovery with WiFi yesterday, I turned it off today. But for good measure, I switched screen on, to on.
It's been 18 hours off charge and the battery still has 56% left... OK it's not quite a day yet and as with all testing needs to be conducted over a few days but what a difference, even better considering your comment about the battery drain with the screen on!
Thank you for the tip re tilt to wake, I've now turned it off so in theory that should improve the battery life still further.
If today's results become consistent over the next few days it'll pretty conclusive that there's a problem with the WiFi.
I tried tilt to wake for a day. It went on all the time. Always on is so dim I can't see the watch anyway. I use tap to wake with highest brightness
I've just started to try gestures. I wanna see if it's a gimmick or actually useful.
WiFi to blame
OK, is been two nearly three days since I switched WiFi off.
In that time by the end of the day (with the watch face always on) I've been left with between 50% to 25% depending on actual use. Given that it sometimes would run out of battery by 3pm this is a great improvement and highlights that there are serious problems with the WiFi implementation.
I'm now happy I purchased
I like the tilt to wake but I notice it comes on a lot. Especially when I drive at night and my whole car lights up. I like the tilt features for scrolling through notifications. I wish there was one for dismissing, but that would probably lead to missed cards.
My LG G Watch is pretty much ready for a charge by the end of the day.
Sadly my hopes for a smart watch was to save battery life on my phone, but I am finding that bluetooth on all day tends to yield me the same battery life as if I just pull my phone out each time. Overall i love the watch for when I am in the pool and busy at work.
I agree!
Tilt to wake is problematic and poorly thought through as there are way to many scenarios where it activates when not required.
I can see the logic behind moving through cards via tilt but for me I continue to switch this off as well as I find it's very easy using my other hand and there are not many time I can't do that unless driving, but then, I shouldn't be reading my messages when driving anyway... : -)
Also since turning WiFi off, after 18 hours off charge I normally have between 30-40 battery left so the battery life has stabilised.
Now looking forward to the next Sony smart watch that should be release in November.
Latest update of the port to Samsung gear 2 allows for screen always on for two workdays. I can go with that. On my wishlist now is dismiss card gesture.
I actually like the gestures. With them on, I easily go through a day. On the weekends I can see me turning it off just to conserve battery. But I use it to turn on the screen and flip through notifications all the time, and seems pretty consistant. It always does what I want when I want. The problem is it comes on when I dont want.
If the watch had an AMOLED, you could fix this by using the same black face for both ambient and active modes.
I really like the Gear S, but hopefully the 2nd gen Android watches include some of the same features. Honestly all I need from the LG G Watch is a speaker and I'd be set.
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I'm using Sony Z ultra and really want to buy SW3 for more option. Howere, when i see your review, i'm a little bit dissapointed:crying:
Depends
I can understand your disappointment, but I'm not disappointed as I consider it to be new technology and I was keen to get in early and I expected some issues.
For my part, I'm now very happy with my purchase and Amazon in the UK are now selling it at just under £100 so I also believe good value.
I am however, beginning to wonder if Wifi is the cause of the battery drain. Whilst I haven't had Wifi on since my first observation I'm thinking now it is probably a shirt sleeve activating the watch when I'm not aware and thats draining the battery very quickly. It's early days at the moment, but on two occasions I've been out and wearing a coat, on both occasions the battery was dead by the time I got home. Today I went out and wore a coat but switched cinema mode on... Battery perfect! Needs some more testing, but....
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So, the recommendation I have heard over and over again is in order to increase battery life, disable the features that make the watch useful. Tilt to wake is important, and disabling it on the sw3 does not significantly improve battery life. There are problems with this software. I am on my third watch, and still after a lot of tweaking only get 24 hours (when I am lucky) per charge. This watch is supposed to last over two days. When I am not lucky, I get two hours on a charge.
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When have ever beats any manufacturer of a watch our phone give realistic battery life specs.
Hi All,
I've been having a number of problems over the past few weeks with my OnePlus One, not quite sure what to do so I thought I would ask here for any advice.
Overall my major problems:
High CPU usage (and therefore high phone/CPU temp to the point of needing to turn off because of overheating)
High battery drain (and the battery will not last 5 hours even on sleep)
messages take between 1 ~2 minutes of hanging to send.
Phone randomly waking in sleep (contributing to the battery problem?)
I've looked into it a bit, I've disabled the Google Play Services from waking in sleep, cut down and uninstalled most apps. I've let it drain completely and left it off for 1 hour before charging to full and turning it on. I've tried to do everything people have suggested and nothing so far has worked.
My Phone Build:
Completely Stock CM12.1-YOG4PAS1N0 [Installed through OTA]
Kernel version 3.4.67 - untouched
Never rooted (I've been lazy), no custom rom, nothing touched in bootloader
Always kept safe, no damage, no water damage
I am thinking of doing a factory reset to see if that solves the issue, right now just looking on a way to backup all of my sms/app data (since I can't even titanium because it's not rooted) [All suggestions welcome if you have any good backup software/app that I can use on unrooted phone]. I do suspect a possible virus, hence the want to factory reset, especially about the messages taking so long.
Any help is appreciated, thank you in advance.
Happy to provide battery log or anything if necessary.
Thanks!
Hey there,
I'm so tired of talking about this topic that I can barely work up the determination to write this response. I'll give it a go though and I'll try to keep it short, simple and leave as much emotion of as possible.
So I've had my phone 10 months now. It seemed great at first but it wasn't long before I started seeing cracks (not literally). It began with the battery, or lack thereof. These days it's much worse but even back then it was noticeable worse than any other phone I had owned in the past. I first reported this issue... 6 months ago.
I'll leave that to sink in a little, before telling you that even now my issues are still not solved and I am having to take OnePlus to Trading Standards and receive third party consultation and legal advice.
So six months I have complained and begged them to solve my problem. And in that time my phone has gotten significantly worse.
It exhibits the EXACT same problems as yours. Down to the last note.
The battery... *sigh* Oh the battery. It now lasts around 1 hour of heavy use, 2-3 of moderate use and a bit more otherwise. Even if I leave it completely alone I have to charge two to three times in a 24 hour period.
The CPU seems to be randomly throttling. Performance from app to app will be vastly different.
The heat that comes off this thing is obscene. At times I literally cannot touch the face of the phone or the camera lens they are so hot. (I remember recording some temps once at 47 degrees centigrade).
My messages generally either send or don't. Or maybe I don't wait long enough. I just usually copy the text and resend anyway.
I have issues with my touch screen responding. Funny I never had these or never noticed them when everyone was shouting about it. Now they've released a fix I have them.
Some Wifi networks do not work, they get stuck forever "Connecting".
The phone no longer rings, vibrates or gives any indication of incoming calls. Sometimes it'll pop-up on screen, sometimes there will be literally no indication even on screen except that my phone wakes itself up to the homescreen and then minutes later tells me I have a voicemail (which also has no notification sound/vibration)
As it is I have finally, just this last month been offered an RMA... YES that's right, it's taken them six months to own up to an issue and offer me that which is stated in my warranty and within my rights.
Unfortunately, for them, it is no longer good enough. I have applied to my bank to forcefully remove the money from them and return it to me. That is being decided with the evidence I have, by my bank at the moment.
After that, the ball is in their court and I am free of them as far as I am concerned.
I wasted so much time and breath on emailing and tweeting them and getting no responses, stock responses, blanket responses, repeated verification processes, remote flashing of Oxygen OS to my phone by an engineer (which has brought up more problems, mainly being that Lollipop and Oxygen OS especially are godawful) and general deflection and delay tactics.
They are one the most disgusting companies I have ever had the displeasure of trusting, purchasing from and dealing with.
I hope one day, they go bust and I never have to hear of them again.
Sincere apologies for my vitriol but it is not unwarranted or untrue and I cannot abide. I am extremely sorry you are dealing with the same issues, you are the first I have heard to have the exact same concoction as me. I'm afraid we may have defective (and dangerously so maybe) devices from the factory line, but no one will own up to it.
Though many would likely call me nuts, I REALLY miss the interface/launcher of the old Windows Mobile/Pocket PC devices, largely in that I miss the ability to see reminders/appointments immediately when turning the phone on, especially those that don't need to be done at a particular time or date. Such as say, changing the oil in my truck. Setting an alarm or daily reminder doesn't really do it for me, as it's a situation of the reminder comes up, I think "oh yeah! I need to do that" then I forget about it 5 minutes later until the next day, lol. I forgot to change the oil in my truck last time for almost 6 months after the time I should have because of this.
The typical Android/Iphone launchers with the screen full of app icons doesn't do this for me. With the Pocket PCs, I pull the device out, turn it on to check something else, and I immediately see that I need to change the oil, go into work two hours early tomorrow, and half a dozen other things that need to be done, and I found that I actually got those things done in a timely fashion. I actually carried a HP iPaq for years after the things were beyond obsolete because of this until I broke my last one. I've spent years trying to adjust to Android and iPhone, and it just ain't happening, lol.
So, is there something I can add to my Android phones to get this functionality back? A launcher that mimics the Pocket PC would be awesome, but even an app that puts the reminders and such front and center instead of a screen full of app icons would work OK.
Unhappyly, This launcher may haves COPYRIGHT-ism
All trademarks are piggest-ed , i tried 5minutes of searching something like, but nope...
This is a good idea, may we have slaught this free pig
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I guess it's pretty straight forward: I'm looking for the typical clock app, but mainly i want to set a timer and see the remaining time on my watch. If i remember when i had a samsung phone the was pretty easy but now i don't have it anymore but a different Android phone.
I thought it wouldn't be hard to find, but after searching for quite a while i didn't find anything. Is there really no app that can do that if i don't have a samsung?
I’m going to try to be as thorough as I can. I personally like this watch. I haven’t worn a watch in ages though so it’s been nice to have it instead of packing my phone around. That aside, it’s ok. I wore this a week and a half before this review. The battery was 99% when i took it from the box. I finally charged it 7 days later when it was 15%, though I could have easily gone another day. The notifications work most of the time. I have had stretches where I wasn’t getting them, could have been a Bluetooth issue?? I accidentally wore it in the shower so it is water resistant. I had a few times that it would restart itself randomly, twice in a row. I can’t say the steps are accurate because on a very busy day, my phone said I had 2000 more than the watch said I had and I had left my phone in the car on a couple errands. It seems to Be decently accurate for sleep tracking. I am up a decent amount because I nurse a baby multiple times at night. It doesn’t catch all of my awake time but it’s nice to have a tiny picture of my sleep. I used sport mode for some yoga and I hit save but it wasn’t in my log once I saved it. My week worked out I wasn’t able to try again due to injury from falling on ice. I never had trouble with the screen turning on at all.