Going to be pairing it with my HTC Evo 3D:highfive:
Sony site says it doesn't work but everywhere else says it does
I know to go ahead and buy this here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alk.k9
But is there anything else I should go and get for it?
Also anyway to get custom watch faces without them being widgets? I don't want one that battery drains.
There's not other smartwatch faces just the few than Sony provides. I recommend you WatchIt! For all notifications be available on your watch.
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Kolma said:
Going to be pairing it with my HTC Evo 3D:highfive:
Sony site says it doesn't work but everywhere else says it does
I know to go ahead and buy this here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alk.k9
But is there anything else I should go and get for it?
Also anyway to get custom watch faces without them being widgets? I don't want one that battery drains.
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There are a few watch faces that come with the watch. Anything outside of that selection will drain your battery well enough since it will eb running as a widget or an app. Sony wont let the custom watch faces replace the stock one.
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There are a few watch faces that come with the watch. Anything outside of that selection will drain your battery well enough since it will eb running as a widget or an app. Sony wont let the custom watch faces replace the stock one.
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That's what I figured.. Hopefully something changes with the watch being open now.
But I will just stick with what it has when I get it.
happy
my order should be coming home, I'm excited
My Watch came in the mail today! been using it for a couple hours and I love it!
Only have 2 issues with it.
1. is a known problem the double tap to on, not a huge deal since I'm used to pressing a button to turn on watch (previous watch was Virtue's Last Reward Watch)
2. Reading emails/notifications on watch doesn't mark them as read. anyone know a way around this? Specifically for gmail.
sure you will get it~~ I love this watch deeply as well!:fingers-crossed:
mines coming in the mail as well. i cannot wait to get it
Mine is coming right on my birthday... Can't wait to check it out... The Sony website says that my phone is compatible....
But I'm afraid..
I rooted my phone and flashed a custom cm10.1 ROM. Will it still work?... My phone has stock GB... No ICS+ support.. So will my watch work with the custom cm10.1 ROM or should I go back to stock GB for it to work? Pls answer...
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I currently use Sony smartwatch with my tab mounting cm10.1
Before I used with standard stock ROM GB 2.3.6 without much problems. When I move to cm10.1 I was very disappointed to discover that the watch was continousely disconnected after few minute of regular connection It seemed the bluetooth stack was gone in deep sleep after few minutes the tab entered in standby modality. Finally I solved with a nice utility in the playstore named "bluetooth keep alive". Basically it continousely wake up bluetooth maintaining the bluetooth connection active. With this utility installed my smartwatch si abile to maintain a stabile connection with my tag falso when it goes in atandby mode. Unfortunately the program it si notte free but at least in my case solve the problem so it is woth to consider thia option in case you got similar problem.
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Kolma said:
My Watch came in the mail today! been using it for a couple hours and I love it!
Only have 2 issues with it.
1. is a known problem the double tap to on, not a huge deal since I'm used to pressing a button to turn on watch (previous watch was Virtue's Last Reward Watch)
2. Reading emails/notifications on watch doesn't mark them as read. anyone know a way around this? Specifically for gmail.
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I don't know much about the e-mail notification part. For the double tap, here's what I like to do to fix that. Install an app called smart alarm. Basically it makes your watch use the sensors on it to detect your sleeping. Turn the app on, go into the settings and turn the alarm on. Then turn the alarm off, turn the app off. Every time I do this, it seems to make the watch respond properly to taps again. I wear mine on a security badge lanyard around my neck and I used my thumb to "pop" it like a bass player would use his thumb. Every time I do those steps with smart alarm, it's like a little kick to the watch to play nice again.
looks pretty sweet to me
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I couldnt find anywhere to ask this question but can i make it work with my htc sensation which has Jelly Bean but no NFC.
Afaik NFC only makes it easier to pair but i can do that with bluetooth, right? Every place i read it says "works with every Android 4.0+ devices with NFC" so I had to ask. I hope it works.
It has custom rom(ViperS) with JB on it but i can go back to stock which has ICS.
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I couldnt find anywhere to ask this question but can i make it work with my htc sensation which has Jelly Bean but no NFC.
Afaik NFC only makes it easier to pair but i can do that with bluetooth, right? Every place i read it says "works with every Android 4.0+ devices with NFC" so I had to ask. I hope it works.
It has custom rom(ViperS) with JB on it but i can go back to stock which has ICS.
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I have a HTC One and I never used NFC to pair or do anything else with my smartwatch
greetings
MJFox
Nfc is only a quick and easy bluetooth connection anyway so you should be Ok
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JB 4.1.2, no nfc, works like a charm!
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Thanks all:highfive::victory:
Just a few questions. How does it effect phone's battery life? My sensation cant even make one day without charge. Do i have to run bluetooth all the time? How much does it eat battery? %20?
Is there an app we can use watch as a numeric keybad and send sms, whatsapp... message with it?
Can i play some decent game on that?
I can notice no difference in my phone's battery at all.
Bluetooth is on all the time, but it's hardly sending any data.
NFC is only used to indicate to your phone where to download the Sony Smartwatch software, it doesnt do anything else. I would have much more like to have a notification light
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Thanks all:highfive::victory:
Just a few questions. How does it effect phone's battery life? My sensation cant even make one day without charge. Do i have to run bluetooth all the time? How much does it eat battery? %20?
Is there an app we can use watch as a numeric keybad and send sms, whatsapp... message with it?
Can i play some decent game on that?
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1. doesnt really affect the battery
2. yes of course you have to keep bt on all the time. if it is not on, your sw2 is disconnected from the phone. But keeping it on doesnt mean that there is happening anything between the watch and the phone. every data goes via bt from the phone to the watch. if you get a sms, your watch will notify about it and the bt connection is only "on" that time. rest of the time it is in the backround and consuming battery less. how much? no one can tell that.
3. yes, there are some sms composer to write text messages. yes, there is whatsapp app... go to google play store and search for "smartwatch". you will see differend kind of apps for sony sw2.
4. It's a watch.
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Just got my Samsung Gear s2 today and love it so far except for s health. I can't get anything to work. I've been walking all over the place and it's not registering any steps. When I do my heart rate it says try again and nothing registers. I've been researching this for a couple of hours now and I keep coming across something that talks about the s health manager and I have yest to find that. Is it something on my phone or on the watch itself.? What am I doing wrong?
What phone are you using? S Health features only work with Samsung phones.
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What phone are you using? S Health features only work with Samsung phones.
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That's not entirely correct. I'm using all of those features on a Huawei Mate 7 with no issues.
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That's not entirely correct. I'm using all of those features on a Huawei Mate 7 with no issues.
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Really? Well, that is good news for people who do not have a Samsung phone. I read it in a review of the GS2 and originally the S Health app was only available through the Samsung app store. I double checked and it is indeed now available in Google Play.
Thanks for this insight!
S Health
I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
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I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
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It doesn't track sleep like you are looking for. I'm guessing that may be coming in a future update.
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I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
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The first one I had did the same thing yours did. I had to reset it to get steps and heart rate to work. I had lots of trouble with notifications on this watch as well and was having to reset it all the time. I took it back and swapped it and the second one has worked near perfect. I think it has only missed one notification so far and the other one was about 50/50. I would watch it close and return it if need be while you can.
Hey.
Had this phone for a week now and whilst it's a great phone, there appears to be a few bugs which need sorting. The main one is the incompatibility with the car for controlling apps like Spotify or streaming music via Bluetooth.
The later is a real pain and one which is causing me to seriously consider getting rid of this device as it's a killer feature for me due to the amount of driving I do.
Had a quick look at Talk Sony forum and a few other people have the same problem but as of yet there is no update or word from Sony.
Anyone else have the same experience and a potential solution?
Cheers
Scott
No solution, I got word from Sony that they are working on it, but my guess is that this will be fixed with Android O, and this could be months ahead :/
But maybe we will receive an update for Android 7, who knows...
Thanks for the reply. This kind of settles it then as Monday is last day of my cooling off period.. Gonna have to take it back as there is no way I can function in my job if I can t use handsfree properly or music
Such a shame.
had the same thing, after much research i found its probably the fact that the premium has bluetooth 5, with special codecs for music streaming. Non of which was available in 2012 when my car was made.
Ive ordered a £3 hadfree kit of ebay to see if that makes any difference.
leeston2379 said:
had the same thing, after much research i found its probably the fact that the premium has bluetooth 5, with special codecs for music streaming. Non of which was available in 2012 when my car was made.
Ive ordered a £3 hadfree kit of ebay to see if that makes any difference.
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thats pants now
I was going to mess about to try and flash unbranded firmware but I think i will just take it back tomorrow and swap it .
Cheers for the update.
Scott
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thats pants now
I was going to mess about to try and flash unbranded firmware but I think i will just take it back tomorrow and swap it .
Cheers for the update.
Scott
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I was gonna do the same but the only offer they gave me was an s8 with less data for an extra £15 a month. I stuck with the Sony and am hoping when my new car arrives it works.
Good luck.
I have a new 2017 BMW and I am stunned that it doesnt work. The S8 works great and the iPhone is perfect but for some reason Sony have been left out in the dark.
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I have a new 2017 BMW and I am stunned that it doesnt work. The S8 works great and the iPhone is perfect but for some reason Sony have been left out in the dark.
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Spoke to Sony. They do believe their device is at fault and have no plans to do any software tweaks till Android O
I dont have any issues with mine controlling pause, play, last or next song, but I switched to Deezer a while back. Ive had more than one issue with Spotify on other devices, so I moved on from that service.
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I dont have any issues with mine controlling pause, play, last or next song, but I switched to Deezer a while back. Ive had more than one issue with Spotify on other devices, so I moved on from that service.
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It's such a strange problem.
Hi guys goodevening I've solve this issue ! you just to go o dev menu anche change bluetooth version avrcp from 1.6 to 1.4 after that it will worck again with the idrive with any app.
I tried changing avrcp to 1.4 yet it still won't stream music at all to my alpine head unit.
Didn't even come up as an option under Bluetooth. Says it is connected for calls and contacts only.
The alpine works fine with galaxy note 2, 4, galaxy s5 and s8, Huawei y550. So the fault is with the xz premium.
Same Problem with Alpine and Bose. Solution?
Hi guys, i'm coming from the Moto 360 Sport, and interested in getting the Huawei Watch 2 Sport, simple because Moto crippled it after the AW 2.0 upgrade, ridiculously slow to use now.
With the Moto 360 Sport, it did have a display feature called "AnyLight ", that displays in 'any light' and i loved that.
Motorola accomplishes it by combining a traditional backlit LCD in "transmissive" display with reflective backing. Or something like that.
Anyway, I really like this feature, see screens attached.
I was wondering what the Huawei Watch 2 Sport/Classic screens look like in dim/ambient mode. Does it have this idea?
Anyone care to share some photo of this, as I've read/watched so many reviews, but cannot see what this looks like.
Thanks a lot.
Darren.
Hw2 is amoled so in ambient modes is uses much much less battery because of the black pixels being off, but this feature that you're talking about is not available in hw2, however the watch display is very sharp and shiny even in direct sun light.
also be aware that amoled screens get damaged (burn-in issue) if a pixel is on a particular color for a long time, meaning that for example on ambient mode there are numbers around the screen that are always on, this may cause those numbers to burn in the screen so even when you are in a completely different screen, you will still see those numbers! (for more info google Burn-in)
Just adding to what was already said regarding burn in. Most watch face makers that support ambient move include a feature which shifts the pixels around ever so slightly to prevent burn in. A very simple yet elegant solution to the problem.
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Just adding to what was already said regarding burn in. Most watch face makers that support ambient move include a feature which shifts the pixels around ever so slightly to prevent burn in. A very simple yet elegant solution to the problem.
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yeah if that's as you said it would be great, I havent noticed it yet
So I just found something interesting. Under developer options > Wear Developer options there is a "force anti burn" setting. Set this up now to give it a try.
cornelha said:
So I just found something interesting. Under developer options > Wear Developer options there is a "force anti burn" setting. Set this up now to give it a try.
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I acually did and it says it needs reboot n after rebooting it goes back to OFF!
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I acually did and it says it needs reboot n after rebooting it goes back to OFF!
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I actually forgot to check this and you are right. So stupid.
hi seems like relevant topic for my question.
are there many disadvantages to get the wifi only (non 4G) of this huawei watch 2? (i get the obvious i cant put sim card and get direct internet connection of course). for example:
will the NFC still works on the non 4G model?
how about the xda community ie root twrp and custom rom? less or more than global version?
any other important things i need to know when deciding to get wifi only or 4G?
thank you.
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hi seems like relevant topic for my question.
are there many disadvantages to get the wifi only (non 4G) of this huawei watch 2? (i get the obvious i cant put sim card and get direct internet connection of course). for example:
will the NFC still works on the non 4G model?
how about the xda community ie root twrp and custom rom? less or more than global version?
any other important things i need to know when deciding to get wifi only or 4G?
thank you.
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Live tracking during runs is the sole reason I got the 4G version. Have to say love the watch.
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Live tracking during runs is the sole reason I got the 4G version.
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ah, so GPS is independent on the 4G versus assisted ie need to be connected to phone for the wifi only.
i can live with that. i dont run alot yeah lazy me.
anything else? NFC and the custom roms are interchangeable?
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ah, so GPS is independent on the 4G versus assisted ie need to be connected to phone for the wifi only.
i can live with that. i dont run alot yeah lazy me.
anything else? NFC and the custom roms are interchangeable?
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No, GPS independent.
Live tracking = data connection for mapping run location remotely.
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No, GPS independent.
Live tracking = data connection for mapping run location remotely.
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sorry got it mixed up. before, i thought GPS live tracking need constant internet connection and you dont want to carry your phone while jogging.
ok got it now.
also by googling i think NFC works on both model but ofcourse the wifi model will need to be connected to phone to be able to use NFC android pay for example, i assumed
Hi, bought a gear s3 a few days ago and will recieve soon, after looking for a bit on the forums i had to ask if i should update to the latest tizen os version when i recieve it, but sounds like the battery issues are a big problem and i dont want to mess up my new watch, so is it worth it to update or just skip and wait for a new version to roll out in the near future? Thanks
Wait for a real fix
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Hi, bought a gear s3 a few days ago and will recieve soon, after looking for a bit on the forums i had to ask if i should update to the latest tizen os version when i recieve it, but sounds like the battery issues are a big problem and i dont want to mess up my new watch, so is it worth it to update or just skip and wait for a new version to roll out in the near future? Thanks
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Still its not that much worthy as it should be.wait for few days,i hope sammy will give again complete bugs free update.its just like in beta stage.
aslam4580 said:
Still its not that much worthy as it should be.wait for few days,i hope sammy will give again complete bugs free update.its just like in beta stage.
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Thats what ill do then, bought the s3 classic bluetooth/wifi and wanted to update to v 3.0 since ut has continuous hr tracking and i use the hr monitor on my note 8 on a daily basis while on the go
Update, my gear arrived today and its on 3.0.0.1 cqk3 version
mexspeed said:
Update, my gear arrived today and its on 3.0.0.1 cqk3 version
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Can you update us with the battery life? Also can you please check if remotely connected is working?
Thanks!!
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cra666ck said:
Can you update us with the battery life? Also can you please check if remotely connected is working?
Thanks!!
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This was before i updated to latest firmware last night, id say out of box experience on a gear s3 with tizen 3.0 installed battery life is sweet, never had a smartwatch and this is my first, and i dont know what remotely connected is, ive had it connected to bluetooth on my note8 since yesterday
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This was before i updated to latest firmware last night, id say out of box experience on a gear s3 with tizen 3.0 installed battery life is sweet, never had a smartwatch and this is my first, and i dont know what remotely connected is, ive had it connected to bluetooth on my note8 since yesterday
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Hmmm nice battery life... Remotely connected is when your out of bluetooth range and your gear connects to wifi. Youd still be able to recieve messages. Handy if your charging your phone, when your in the gym and have to leave your phone in the locker and connected to the wifi, etc....
Will move again to version 2.3 coz its not working for me using 2cqk3 and 2cql1.
Will just wait for samsung to fix it in their next update
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Hmmm nice battery life... Remotely connected is when your out of bluetooth range and your gear connects to wifi. Youd still be able to recieve messages. Handy if your charging your phone, when your in the gym and have to leave your phone in the locker and connected to the wifi, etc....
Will move again to version 2.3 coz its not working for me using 2cqk3 and 2cql1.
Will just wait for samsung to fix it in their next update
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Ah i see, sadly i still dont have wifi at home 4 months after hurricane maria wrecked puerto rico, heck not many places have wifi yet