I didn't really have any issues with the free app but upgraded to pro after reading about people using TuneIn as their alarm clock wake up.
1. Has anyone set this up as their alarm and how?
2. Anyone notice the app drawing way more battery life. Also, now when I unplug the headphones when listening, it now continues to play through the phone speakers when it used to stop playing before.
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iliketoys said:
I didn't really have any issues with the free app but upgraded to pro after reading about people using TuneIn as their alarm clock wake up.
1. Has anyone set this up as their alarm and how?
2. Anyone notice the app drawing way more battery life. Also, now when I unplug the headphones when listening, it now continues to play through the phone speakers when it used to stop playing before.
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Unfortunately this is one of those strange cases when id rather have the free app vs the paid. I have the paid tune in but dont use it because the car app only uses the lite or free version. What does pro give us, favorites?
Yeah, I think I'm just going to use the lite version.
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I use the pro version for hours and hours everyday with very few issues. I use it with my Bluetooth headphones though, and I don't use the alarm feature.
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Can't speak for battery usage (still running in my HOX) but just figured out the alarm setting - it's far from obvious!
When viewing a station full screen, swiping toggles through a carousel of pages: the options page with alarm & sleep timer is 2 swipes to the left. Just tested it and worked perfectly, though you'd need to leave a data connection on overnight or schedule it with something like Tasker. HTH
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Are there any alarms available around the web or in the market that will speak the time while the alarm is going off?
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This was on the xda homepage a while back.
Might be of use.
Alarm Clock Plus is THE clock app to get. Does everything you could possibly want, including what you wanted. There is an option where you have to solve a math puzzle to turn the alarm off too, for those overly tempted to go back to sleep.
Seriously, check it out.
So I just noticed a troubling side effect of our device's aggressive memory management: 3rd party alarm apps don't work!
I use myClock, and have been using it on 3 different android devices without issue. Yesterday I was almost late for work because when using myClock for an alarm, it didn't go off until the phone was "awake!"
This morning I tested it by setting an alarm on my wife's phone and my phone for the same time. Her alarm went off, and my phone didn't do jack until I pressed the power button to turn on the screen. Then my alarm went off immediately. It acts the same for snooze: won't activate until I turn on the acreen.
I haven't tested the stock clock app yet, but I assume it will work fine. Guess I'm stuck with it for now. Anyone else have this issue?
I haven't had that issue. I used alarm clock xtreme all week without an issue. Snooze and everything works.
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Fyi, myclock has been working fine for me.
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Alarm Klock works great for me!
Billy
Hmmm... Are your phones plugged in or on battery? I've had mine unplugged from the wall. Tonight I'll try to leave it charging...
Mine has worked on and off the charger.
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Ive been using AlarmDroid since I got the phone on the 4th... been working great the whole time.
One thing that really turns me away from Google Music is that there's no option to keep the screen on. I use a car dock and I hate to unlock the screen to change the song. :banghead:
I'm using PowerAmp right now, but I want to use Google Music. I want to like it, I really do, if there's any way to fix this please let me know.
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One thing that really turns me away from Google Music is that there's no option to keep the screen on. I use a car dock and I hate to unlock the screen to change the song. :banghead:
I'm using PowerAmp right now, but I want to use Google Music. I want to like it, I really do, if there's any way to fix this please let me know.
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You can use an app like Tasker to set your timeout to "infinite" when you have Google Music on. That way, your screen will always stay on as long as Google Music is running and when you exit the app your timeout settings should return to the way they were.
If you are also charging the device while in the car dock another option would be go to settings display & gestures and check the 3rd box down stay awake then the screen will not turn off while on charge. Sorry if I'm stating something that you already new just wanted to throw it out there
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You can use an app like Tasker to set your timeout to "infinite" when you have Google Music on. That way, your screen will always stay on as long as Google Music is running and when you exit the app your timeout settings should return to the way they were.
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Thanks! I've been looking into Tasker but I'm afraid of the reviews saying it's extremely hard to learn.
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If you are also charging the device while in the car dock another option would be go to settings display & gestures and check the 3rd box down stay awake then the screen will not turn off while on charge. Sorry if I'm stating something that you already new just wanted to throw it out there
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I tried this before but the thing is, I don't want my screen staying on all night if something happens or it wakes to the lock screen somehow. Isn't that bad for the screen? Burning the image or something?
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Thanks! I've been looking into Tasker but I'm afraid of the reviews saying it's extremely hard to learn.
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It's not hard to learn at all if you're only looking at basic functionality (like...if this is open, do this, this, and this). It's really intuitive. If you just play with it for like 30 minutes you'll know enough to get yourself going.
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I tried this before but the thing is, I don't want my screen staying on all night if something happens or it wakes to the lock screen somehow. Isn't that bad for the screen? Burning the image or something?
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I use my phone as my alarm clock on my night stand with the app called deskclock + which has a night mode so I never had to worry about damaging the screen.
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I say go with Tasker. Especially if you're going with something as rudimentary as "when google music is playing, keep the screen on" you shouldn't have any issue creating this task.
Not too familiar with the ROMs or mods available for this device, but if there's an AOSP lockscreen mod, or a ROM that offers the AOSP lockscreen (maybe through a Tweaks app?), you should get music controls on the lockscreen, so you can skip/pause from the lockscreen, without unlocking
It seems Sony has removed several usefull functions from the current ROM compared to the ROM presented at the Mobile Asia Exo 2013, for example:
- removed some watch faces (digital face with date)
- removed the Music widget
- removed the automatic brightness adjustment (there was an additional click box at the brightnes setting)
- removed the backlight activation by acceleration sensor.
please see this video. The Sony product manager is actually saying "it takes movements" and she shakes the watch to activate the backlight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUi1Ai7rPj0
I would expect to have more functions on the new watches and not less functions. If some functions cause higher battery drain, then there should be an option to deactivate them in settings but not completely remove them. I suggest Sony quickly offers a ROM update to inlude these very important features!
that is just weird, i want all those three functions back
I just got mine and I am seriously disappointed that those features are gone.
I bought the watch based on Expo presentations.
Not well, Sony, not well.
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I just got mine and I am seriously disappointed that those features are gone.
I bought the watch based on Expo presentations.
Not well, Sony, not well.
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Same...
I need all those things.
Why would they drop these things from rom. I just hope that they will be back asap in new firmware....
I wonder if this has something to do with the delay of the Smartwatch 2. I can see the "shake for screen-on" feature might have been removed, for battery related reasons (Also keep in mind, they worked together with Runtastic for app compatibility so chances are constant movement while running was keeping the screen active) but I don't see why they would disable the others.
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I wonder if this has something to do with the delay of the Smartwatch 2. I can see the "shake for screen-on" feature might have been removed, for battery related reasons (Also keep in mind, they worked together with Runtastic for app compatibility so chances are constant movement while running was keeping the screen active) but I don't see why they would disable the others.
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Even considering the Runtastic collaboration I cannot see a reason for Sony not to put a toggle in the watch's settings. Just like for vibration, for example.
I just got it today from the Sony store.
Phew, thanks for clearing my wonders.
I couldnt place what that little sensor above the screen was and assumed it was for light.
Thank goodness they took those function out, I wouldnt need them.
Totally just need to have a sensor so I could brag to my friends.
Got my SW2 and I'm pissed its missing the stuff you see in videos and screenshot all over the web... Like digital clock with date and music widget. They hype it with feature and then remove them for the launch ? I hate the poor choices of watch faces I hope they give us an update soon or release details to create our own FW
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As I noticed last night the Smartwatch 2 app was updated and the firmware of the watch along with it... But I can't see any differences except from the gradual fadeout of the backlight.
Too bad...
I want music widget and shake to light...
I don't know what do with removing such a main features of SW...
I through i buy watch with bug,but now I know that Sony broke our devices removing this options...
Me and My Honami =^_^=
Forget music Widget use the poweramp apps for phone and SW
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No Google music with poweramp. Great for the music I already have, but play music is becoming real handy.
Just wish Sony would give us some indication they'll update our device with something. 1 month and not even a glimmer.
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Wait. So you can't control the walkman Sony app from the watch?
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mickfitz said:
Wait. So you can't control the walkman Sony app from the watch?
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Yes you can.
But it's not that easy as having a classic widget with the three backward/play-pause/forward buttons.
It's an app where you can pause and change song, but only in the album selected on the phone (meaning that you either listen to the album you've already chosen on the phone over and over, or you'll eventually have to pick up your phone and change album), and the watch doesn't actually give you the list of songs, instead it shows you the cover art of that particular song/album and you can swipe left or right to change song (making it a PITA changing from, say, song 1 to song 45 if you have a compilation).
It works, but it definitely could be waaaaay better.
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Cheers. Sounds like Sony shipped this out half baked as usual. Updates will come in time.
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mickfitz said:
Cheers. Sounds like Sony shipped this out half baked as usual. Updates will come in time.
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Not sure, they removed Other OS from ps3, ps2 compatibility also and never returned them. because **** users!
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After reading about the new dsp tunneling feature I decided to try it. I let my phone play music using poweramp all night. The results was 3.5% of battery every hour, and CPU didn't sleep, it worked at 300mhz all this time. Trying with play music and got same AudioMix wakelock and 300mhz CPU, no deep sleep at all.
My setup is cataclysm with Franco r19. I never used stock so maybe it's the custom rom problem.
Do any of you got it working? Which means deep sleep during music playback with screen off.
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I'm running stock ROM/kernel and Mediaserver is one of the highest battery-consuming voices, close-to compete with screen.
It keeps the phone 100% awake during music reproduction.
Which means dsp audio tunneling doesn't work for you also.
I wanted to ask Google what's the problem but can't find a way that doesn't include phone call. Every time I try "contact us" option I can't choose Nexus device.
That dsp thing was one of the reasons I've bought the Nexus...
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No one knows nothing about that DSP thing?
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Did you run the same test with google play music?
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Yes.. Like I said exactly the same.
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hmmm, so it was a lie
wish Google would get called up on stuff, just one would be nice
but all the android sites have to keep their noses brown so they keep getting free stuff
Anybody else ?
Running perfectly with google music as long as one does not activate any EQ settings. Around 2% battery drain per hour
I'm getting the same results as well. I thought it was because of isyncr or something trying to play count but it seems like everyone else is having this issue as well
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I assumed the phone wouldn't deep sleep it would just use less CPU cycles. Now I'm not so sure because I'm finding music streaming to use more or less the same battery as local playback.
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