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I was reading the article. And he said tamagochi. Now. When I was a kid this was awesome. But as a phone app. It kinda sucks.... But a watch is totally the right form factor. I would totally use it. Maybe something like digimon where they battle... Yeah super wrist watch fun.
What other cool things would you guys want to see? There are so many cool things these watches could do, but I haven't seen many people talking about any cool ideas. Actually, info has been only trickling.

What is a digimon?

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I'd like to see an app that automatically controls the the brightness of my watch, depending on what my phone's auto brightness setting is.
Since both these devices (LG and Samsung) don't have an ambient light sensor, a simple app like that would be genius. The other, simpler option, is to have an Android Wear app, that from 8am-8pm, full brightness, 8pm-8am (or whatever time windows you choose), lowest brightness. Simple workaround hack/app until ambient light sensors are built in.
Thoughts?

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I'd like to see an app that automatically controls the the brightness of my watch, depending on what my phone's auto brightness setting is.
Since both these devices (LG and Samsung) don't have an ambient light sensor, a simple app like that would be genius. The other, simpler option, is to have an Android Wear app, that from 8am-8pm, full brightness, 8pm-8am (or whatever time windows you choose), lowest brightness. Simple workaround hack/app until ambient light sensors are built in.
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Brilliant idea!
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schmanke said:
I'd like to see an app that automatically controls the the brightness of my watch, depending on what my phone's auto brightness setting is.
Since both these devices (LG and Samsung) don't have an ambient light sensor, a simple app like that would be genius.
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I'm not sure what the point would be. If you're using your watch... It's probably because your phone is in your pocket or somewhere lying idle, correct? If your phone is in your pocket, the lighting conditions would be different. Not to mention for this to work, your phone would need to leave the ambient light sensor on all the time, causing an additional unnecessary battery drain. Unless of course you're actively using your phone... But then that leads us back to... Why are you using the watch?

johnus said:
I'm not sure what the point would be. If you're using your watch... It's probably because your phone is in your pocket or somewhere lying idle, correct? If your phone is in your pocket, the lighting conditions would be different. Not to mention for this to work, your phone would need to leave the ambient light sensor on all the time, causing an additional unnecessary battery drain. Unless of course you're actively using your phone... But then that leads us back to... Why are you using the watch?
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You still get your phone out every now and then. It's not like you don't need it anymore when you have the watch. And every time you turn the phone on it could push the brightness over to the watch. Turn down brightness when in the cinema, turn it up when it's sunny outside etc. Would be quite useful

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You still get your phone out every now and then. It's not like you don't need it anymore when you have the watch. And every time you turn the phone on it could push the brightness over to the watch. Turn down brightness when in the cinema, turn it up when it's sunny outside etc. Would be quite useful
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Sure, but the brightness levels will change more often than you get your phone out. Doing this will put more of a reliance on the phone. Say you're in a theater, you pull out your phone and the watch dims. Now the movie is over and you head outside into the super bright sun. The watch will still be at minimum brightness until you either manually adjust it or pull out your phone to correct it again. That goes against everything Android Wear is aiming for.

Somewhat true... but I don't know about you, I'm pulling my phone out after a movie at least once before I head outside.. check all those messages and emails I received during that 1.5 hours because I'm really popular..
Again, the app idea is a BAND-AID.. not a true solution, as an ambient light sensor is, but a temporary solution. As @spiderflash says, I'd like it to remember the last brightness state of my phone, and push that over to watch, until a new status pushes over. It'd work fine about 80% of the time.
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Sure, but the brightness levels will change more often than you get your phone out. Doing this will put more of a reliance on the phone. Say you're in a theater, you pull out your phone and the watch dims. Now the movie is over and you head outside into the super bright sun. The watch will still be at minimum brightness until you either manually adjust it or pull out your phone to correct it again. That goes against everything Android Wear is aiming for.
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schmanke said:
Somewhat true... but I don't know about you, I'm pulling my phone out after a movie at least once before I head outside.. check all those messages and emails I received during that 1.5 hours because I'm really popular..
Again, the app idea is a BAND-AID.. not a true solution, as an ambient light sensor is, but a temporary solution. As @spiderflash says, I'd like it to remember the last brightness state of my phone, and push that over to watch, until a new status pushes over. It'd work fine about 80% of the time.
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Better Band-Aid: Get a Moto360 (It has an ambient light sensor) Hopefully the thing doesn't cost $500 when it's finally released...they keep leaking all these goodies and it's starting to sound too good to be true. :|
I do think the tamagochi idea would be a winner...people seemed to go nuts over it when one was released for the Pebble. And we all know the Wear version could be awesome.
I'm trying to get back into development, and perhaps I'll end up making it myself...but I think Wear is a perfect platform for a nice car finder app. I already have one I love on my phone, but if I could navigate back to the stored parking space without taking my phone out? Perfect. Have it tie in to Google Maps (but start with ped navigation). Maybe incorporate a radar function, since these have pretty decent magnetometers.
I'd suggest a "share your current location with someone" app, but I just noticed Glympse has already taken care of that.
EDIT: for auto brightness, I just found this - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.danvelazco.wear.displaybrightness
It uses a combination of activity detection and local sun rise/set times to adjust brightness.

Good find for the brightness. O crank it during the day. And turn it down when I go to bed

Do you use ambient mode on your GS2 watch?

Do you use ambient mode on your GS2 watch?
AFAIK always on mode can cause unrecoverable damage to AMOLED pixels

kornelius1982 said:
AFAIK always on mode can cause unrecoverable damage to AMOLED pixels
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Do you have a source for this? I don't think that is true.

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Do you have a source for this? I don't think that is true.
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Source is my personal experience. I saw note 4 in Samsung showroom with actual burned-in pixels on screen.
You can google and see many similar issues.

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Source is my personal experience. I saw note 4 in Samsung showroom with actual burned-in pixels on screen.
You can google and see many similar issues.
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That's why you don't use yourself as a source lol. Unlike the Note 4 and other Amoled devices, the Gear S2 is designed to slightly shift/redraw the pixels every minute when using ambient mode. This prevents the burn-in you mention.

kornelius1982 said:
Do you use ambient mode on your GS2 watch?
AFAIK always on mode can cause unrecoverable damage to AMOLED pixels
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This isn't an issue with the S2.
If you notice while your watch is in ambient mode, the watch face isn't always centered. It moves around slightly every minute or so. You'll really notice this on watchfaces that have intricate ambient modes. Samsung does this to make sure it doesn't "burn in". I see it on the CWF Aquarius, and Pavilion by Liongate.
Rob

As others have said, burn in isn't an issue. I only use it when the watch face has a very minimal ambient mode. If it has too much going on, I turn it off since it is too hard on the battery.

Burn in still happen even with pixel shift, which is very common on plasma TV and oled, just it need a very long time before it become quite obvious, quite sure most of us will get a new watch before that.

sefrcoko said:
That's why you don't use yourself as a source lol. Unlike the Note 4 and other Amoled devices, the Gear S2 is designed to slightly shift/redraw the pixels every minute when using ambient mode. This prevents the burn-in you mention.
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I hope you`ve heard there are such things like third party watchfaces with their own, more complex ambient mode theme, not just stock stupid two hands.
I know, Samsung made simple, slightly shifting two hands, but even stock WF-s have ambient mode with constantly active pixels in the center.
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I hope you`ve heard there are such things like third party watchfaces with their own, more complex ambient mode theme, not just stock stupid two hands.
I know, Samsung made simple, slightly shifting two hands, but even stock WF-s have ambient mode with constantly active pixels in the center.
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Pictures are static and wouldn't show pixel shifts so that doesn't mean much... More complex ambient mode face designs doesn't necessarily mean they wouldn't shift either if that function is applied system-wide at the tizen OS level. You also mistakenly assumed that only the hands shift...in reality the entire watch face shifts. One way or another, a documented source is more reliable than speculation or comparing to totally different devices like the Note 4.

kornelius1982 said:
I hope you`ve heard there are such things like third party watchfaces with their own, more complex ambient mode theme, not just stock stupid two hands.
I know, Samsung made simple, slightly shifting two hands, but even stock WF-s have ambient mode with constantly active pixels in the center.
See pics.
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This is why it is recommended to "dither" all block areas of an ambient watch face. It creates a grid of alternating on/off pixels, so if the image moves one pixel in any direction, ALL pixels that were on will turn off.
Otherwise it CAN reduce the lifetime of the individual subpixel color elements of the display (if you use only blue, only those will have shortened lifespan).

Defilmirz Watchface - free

Hi,
I've finally managed to publish my free Defilmirz watchface on Samsung apps.
IMHO it is an interesting idea because it is very customizable with a settings app on the phone (Android) side.
Since it is free, I assume it is legal to mention it here. If I'm wrong, please let me know.
The watchface is accessible on Samsung Apps with name "Defilmirz"
Please let me know if you have any interesting idea to add on this watchface. I will try to add anything requested which is possible within my capabilities.
Here is a video of its usage and some screenshots:
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Very nice especially with phone color config. Very very.... annoying all this faces wich change color as soon as you fingers tap the screen What a shame that don not works also on S2

I just uploaded a version for S2. Once the Samsung testers approve it , you can get it for your S2.
thanks for your feedback.

Nice face. Feedback:
1. The center where the hands meet is an odd grey that looks like a dirty screen. I don't know what to change it to, but other faces address it.
2. the second color only sticks on the always on screen. when the screen is on, the entire second color section is a significantly lighter color and not what I would ever want to look at.

I have published another version of the watchface. It is called "Defilmirz F"
It has the same concept and features. Just a different organization of the screen.

jimbob_sf said:
Nice face. Feedback:
1. The center where the hands meet is an odd grey that looks like a dirty screen. I don't know what to change it to, but other faces address it.
2. the second color only sticks on the always on screen. when the screen is on, the entire second color section is a significantly lighter color and not what I would ever want to look at.
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Thanks for your feedback. I would like to fix what you've seen as a problem.
But I need some clarification and ideas;
1. I could put a static imaghe on the center. Like a dot or circle. Would that be nice ? What color it should be ? Black ?
2. The second color is used for the background of the digital information. But over that part I added a transparent and shiny layer which makes the color lighter. Now if I remove that layer, the shiny light effect will be gone. Maybe I can try to change the effect to be darker.
Meanwhile, as a workaround, you can try to select the color darker.

Having a few more days to play with various watch faces, I can appreciate the artistic challenge of two designs that need to compliment each other and the technical challenge of AOD battery consumption and interacting with the various APIs.
That said, when I look at a bunch of faces, the center painting is made easier by decreasing rings for each hand. The stock Blue Pop does it well. By avoiding solid areas, you can mix in the background color (black). Look at enough and you'll see.
The white overlay now makes sense. I'm too type A to suggest color tuning. There's a happy solution there somewhere.
I do like the companion app that takes us away from Samsung's software. I think there is some real power to be had.

Just installed this and looks great but unfortunately steps count is not showing.

mohitgalaxy3 said:
Just installed this and looks great but unfortunately steps count is not showing.
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it starts from 0 when you load/reload the face. Then you have to walk/run to make a positive number.
if that doesn't work for you , then you might have stopped the generic step count feature of the watch. Please enable it in S Health.
thx.

jimbob_sf said:
Having a few more days to play with various watch faces, I can appreciate the artistic challenge of two designs that need to compliment each other and the technical challenge of AOD battery consumption and interacting with the various APIs.
That said, when I look at a bunch of faces, the center painting is made easier by decreasing rings for each hand. The stock Blue Pop does it well. By avoiding solid areas, you can mix in the background color (black). Look at enough and you'll see.
The white overlay now makes sense. I'm too type A to suggest color tuning. There's a happy solution there somewhere.
I do like the companion app that takes us away from Samsung's software. I think there is some real power to be had.
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thanks four your detailed feedback and compliments. I'll try to do my best to fix what you've pointed out. But I am on vacation starting tomorrow. I hope I'll be able to fix it after 9-10 days.

I'm loving this watch face, but the time shown is an hour behind. Is there a time zone setting I'm not seeing in the companion app?

deanos_98 said:
I'm loving this watch face, but the time shown is an hour behind. Is there a time zone setting I'm not seeing in the companion app?
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I've found the problem and fixed it. But Samsung validation team has to approve it before you can get it.
Thx. for your patience.

mrmrmrmr said:
I just uploaded a version for S2. Once the Samsung testers approve it , you can get it for your S2.
thanks for your feedback.
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Still not avalaible for S2 (july 21)

Pretty cool. Almost all the information I want access to on a watchface without a bunch of extras.
Some ideas to consider or not:
- Tasker compatibility to use a dynamic variable as the scrolling text (could be a reminder, appointment, or anything... limitless possibilities)
- temperature
- tap icon to open battery/health/weather/etc
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RuggedHunter said:
Pretty cool. Almost all the information I want access to on a watchface without a bunch of extras.
Some ideas to consider or not:
- Tasker compatibility to use a dynamic variable as the scrolling text (could be a reminder, appointment, or anything... limitless possibilities)
- temperature
- tap icon to open battery/health/weather/etc
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these are all good ideas. specially I liked the Tasker integration. But I don't know how to write a tasker plugin. Do you have any source on that ?
temperature would be nice, but which source should be used ? getting from weather.com or any other weather information site like wunderground ?
I assume there is no temperature sensor on the Gear S2 or S3 (?)
icon to open battery/health is easy. but it could affect the user experience in a bad way. (unwillingly touching the screen)
maybe I should add it as an option...

mrmrmrmr said:
these are all good ideas. specially I liked the Tasker integration. But I don't know how to write a tasker plugin. Do you have any source on that ?
temperature would be nice, but which source should be used ? getting from weather.com or any other weather information site like wunderground ?
I assume there is no temperature sensor on the Gear S2 or S3 (?)
icon to open battery/health is easy. but it could affect the user experience in a bad way. (unwillingly touching the screen)
maybe I should add it as an option...
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Regarding Tasker, start here. The plug in would be for your phone companion app of course, with the goal of the "scrolling text" field to accept a tasker variable.
I use the wunderground api in my apps and just parse out what I need. You could technically grab a hundred different items and offer your users the choice, but temp would be good enough for me.
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RuggedHunter said:
Regarding Tasker, start here. The plug in would be for your phone companion app of course, with the goal of the "scrolling text" field to accept a tasker variable.
I use the wunderground api in my apps and just parse out what I need. You could technically grab a hundred different items and offer your users the choice, but temp would be good enough for me.
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I've checked the Tasker developer resources, but could not find an easy way to integrate it in my app. They shared the sdk from some other app vendor named twofourtyfouram and it is in Gradle format for Android studio which I don't use. (I am still developing in Eclipse)
Anyway I tried to migrate the SDK to Eclipse but it has references to other libraries from the same vendor (twofourtyfouram) and they are missing.
So I am looking for a ready sdk to use in Eclipse.

timezone issue has been fixed and update is published by Samsung.

Will there be a way to enter hexadecimal color codes to choose colors instead of point and drag?

deanos_98 said:
Will there be a way to enter hexadecimal color codes to choose colors instead of point and drag?
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that's very easy to implement. but do you really prefer it ?
I doubt that a very few will prefer such input.

My first IWC-like military watchface with adaptive luminophore

Hello there,
I'd like to present my first military watchface (native app) with a realistic luminophore light and a ticking sound.
Initially I created it for myself, because I didn't find anything that would satifsy me in the Galaxy Apps store. So now I'd like to share it with people.
I'm a big fan of devices with a luminophore, so I wanted to recreate this thing for my Gear S3 because this device (as so the rest Gear devices) has an integrated ambient light sensor, so adjusting the watchface image based on the light sensor was definitely an option.
I also decided to add a watch ticking sound (you can disable it on the Settings screen) to make it feel like a real watch.
Right now you can launch three apps from the watchface: built-in calendar, timer (Samsung Timer App, make sure it's installed), and a battery percentage screen.
This is a first version of the watchface. Please check it and share your opinion, I would appreciate that, because my goal is to collect some feedback.
The app will work on Gear S2 (lo-color AOD mode supported), Gear S3, Galaxy Watch, and on everything with 360x360px resolution.
The watchface is a paid app, but I'd like to share free coupons for people who will post here until the end of the week.
Samsung has a really weird coupons system, so I have to send coupons individually (if I understand that corrrectly).
So everyone who wants a free install please reach me out here or using a PM and share your country (yes, for some reason coupons work only for specific countries, "thanks" to Samsung) and I will PM you back with a coupon code.
Also, please rate the application if possible.
Thanks!
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jacob1237 said:
I'm a big fan of devices with a luminophore...
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I'm with you!
Jacob,
I very much like this watch face, its clean yet functional, and the transition from bright ambient to dark ambient is very cool. I'm not sure I'm going to be thrilled with the optional tick, but thank you for making it optional!
Ian
USA

Ian Z said:
I'm with you!
Jacob,
I very much like this watch face, its clean yet functional, and the transition from bright ambient to dark ambient is very cool. I'm not sure I'm going to be thrilled with the optional tick, but thank you for making it optional!
Ian
USA
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Have sent a coupon, please check PM

This looks amazing, and its really cool of you to give it out for free to users. What are these type of watch faces called exactly? (I want to find more like these) Is it possible to make such watchface using watchmaker?
Shamsheer,
India
Though CSC of the watch is set to XAR (USA) so not sure what store I use...

5ham5h33r said:
This looks amazing, and its really cool of you to give it out for free to users. What are these type of watch faces called exactly? (I want to find more like these) Is it possible to make such watchface using watchmaker?
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Hey Shamsheer! Thanks for your reply!
XDA has a limitation for new users, so I can't post the external links for the app.
The model name for this watch face is MILSIM A-1.
I created this watch face based on IWC and Fortis designs (and some soviet military watches like ACHS-1).
Try to google IWC Top Gun, Fortis B-42 Marinemaster and ACHS-1 (soviet aircraft watch)
My watchface is not a full copy, but an exclusive design based on top of these three watches.
I'm not sure about Watchmaker, but you probably won't be able to create this transition effect in GWD and Watchmaker because they don't provide such capabilities. That was the reason why I made it as a Tizen Native app.
Please rate the app if you like it! I'd like to collect as much feedback as possible to understand what I can improve
Thanks!

jacob1237 said:
Hey Shamsheer! Thanks for your reply!
XDA has a limitation for new users, so I can't post the external links for the app.
The model name for this watch face is MILSIM A-1.
I created this watch face based on IWC and Fortis designs (and some soviet military watches like ACHS-1).
Try to google IWC Top Gun, Fortis B-42 Marinemaster and ACHS-1 (soviet aircraft watch)
My watchface is not a full copy, but an exclusive desing based on top of these three watches.
I'm not sure about Watchmaker, but you probably won't be able to create this transition effect in GWD and Watchmaker because they don't provide such capabilities. That was the reason why I made it as a Tizen Native app.
Please rate the app if you like it! I'd like to collect as much feedback as possible to understand what I can improve
Thanks!
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Excellent work on this one. It looks great! And I commend you on working in Tizen, it looks a little overwhelming to me

It looks really good. It is nice to see people developing in tizen, GWD is quite limited in complications, access to sensors, etc. Good work.
Marco,
from Portugal

kangi26 said:
Excellent work on this one. It looks great! And I commend you on working in Tizen, it looks a little overwhelming to me
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Thank you very much!

Dude I would like to try your watchfac, it looks sick! Props on the optional tick sound. If you could provide a code I will put up a review!

pencher said:
Dude I would like to try your watchfac, it looks sick! Props on the optional tick sound. If you could provide a code I will put up a review!
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Hey! Please tell me your country, because coupons are country-specific.

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Hey! Please tell me your country, because coupons are country-specific.
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Spain. Thank you!

I like the looks of this watch face, and to echo what others have said easy to read without to much information my country is USA.Thank you!

Great looking watch face! I'm in Canada.

I love the luminescent effect. I'd love a code for this. I'm from Canada. Thanks.

look nice...like the AOD design too.....I'd love a code for this. I'm from Singapore. Thanks.

Wow, looks so cool, would like to wear it also
Germany

I bought this clockface yesterday and today you give away coupons for free

This is really awesome, I just got my Samsung Gear watch for my birthday for myself yesterday. I would love to try this out, I am in the U.S.

Love the watchface! The lumninescence reminds me of Panarai. I'd love a coupon, if you please. I'm in the UK.

Hello.
1 tip for improvement:
When I touch the screen and drag to the right side (to see the pending notifications) the battery status screen is opened. The program should be able to distinguish a touch from a drag event.
Being living with it for a week and it is great. The luminescence effect is super smooth and, believe it or not, doesn't affect battery life too much.
The ticking sound is something interesting ... to try for half an hour.... It is dependent on the media volume, so it is usually too loud. Oh, and it is on while charging.
Other than that, perfect. It will be my default watchface for a while.

Question Watch face Issue (White Text Clock)

Hi guys
Need some help. Since the last update 9 Feb. I have this weird thing with custom watchfaces. It renders correctly... But as soon as the screen goes off (sleep) the watchfaces changes to this in the picture. And stays like this?
I don't have AOD enabled or anything. I'm. It sure if it's a setting somewhere... But the stock faces is okay.
It's driving me crazy hehe. Not sure why this is happening...
I need to basically uninstall and reinstall the face but then it happens again..
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Maybe this ongoing pain for many:
Annoying digital clock getting in the way all the time
Hi all, I tried to look for a thread of this issue but could not find one. Any time I use Google Assistant or get a notification for which I need more than 5 seocnds to read, I get this annoying digital clock screen which covers the...
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galaxys said:
Maybe this ongoing pain for many:
Annoying digital clock getting in the way all the time
Hi all, I tried to look for a thread of this issue but could not find one. Any time I use Google Assistant or get a notification for which I need more than 5 seocnds to read, I get this annoying digital clock screen which covers the...
forum.xda-developers.com
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Thanks alot.. I wonder if it's the same issue? I only start getting it from the latest update...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/soivxf
Found it

^^rac said:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/soivxf
Found it
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yep they quack it up. Now like 99 % of watch faces from play store dont work can confirm that complication issues too from reddit comments ;P
And now even stock samsung watch face has a problem with keeping aod alive i get black screen instead of aod from that watch face few times today and no my watch was unlocked all the time so it was not a sensor/lock screen issue but Samsung mess : /
@^^rac
nope its not the same but yes they mess it in last update i get simmilar result with one watchface yesterday when i was looking for some working aod watchface ;P

berni502 said:
yep they quack it up. Now like 99 % of watch faces from play store dont work can confirm that complication issues too from reddit comments ;P
And now even stock samsung watch face has a problem with keeping aod alive i get black screen instead of aod from that watch face few times today and no my watch was unlocked all the time so it was not a sensor/lock screen issue but Samsung mess : /
@^^rac
nope its not the same but yes they mess it in last update i get simmilar result with one watchface yesterday when i was looking for some working aod watchface ;P
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They will have to fix with a patch or something... Alot of faces affected....

It think the original poster of this thread is posting a different (but possibly related) bug than what others are following up on. I believe most of this is about using AOD and sometimes the screen is not updating in ambient (low-power) mode. While this is happening to me, as well, I have not seen the white digital clock appear on my AOD display, ever.
In any case, and I am not sure it will make any difference, but I did report this to Samsung through my Samsung account by opening a "my questions" with the following (most of which from my posting on the other thread on this forum):
After the recent R890XXU1EVA8/R8900XM1EVA8 firmware update, I am experiencing major problems with the always-on display:
There are times that when in lower-power (ambient) mode, it is NOT updating any information on the screen (analog or digital). If I touch the screen, do the "wake up" wrist move, or touch a button, it immediately updates everything. It is unpredictable and intermittent. Prior to this last update, it ALWAYS updated the AOD screen in any condition. Now when I glance down at the watch, I am not sure if that is the actual time or not. And that defeats one of the main purposes of having AOD.
Worse, at other random times, it resists waking from low-power mode, even when pressing a button. I have to press several times and there is a long delay before it goes full-awake, updates the screen, and gives me control. Sometimes when it is acting like this (as if the face is "frozen"), it also doesn't automatically adjust the AOD screen brightness to environmental conditions, either.
And it is not just me. Many others are reporting this on the xda-developers forum:
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 gets new straps, faces...
FYI, a few items for our Samsung Galaxy watch 4 ⌚: https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-4-straps-2022-3103478/
forum.xda-developers.com
And on Reddit, one user suggested this as a possible root cause:
“For watchfaces that make use of WatchFaceService.Engine, the onTimeTick() method is called once a minute to update the watch screen when in ambient mode. This allows the watch to display the correct time, even when the user hasn't interacted with the watch recently. After the latest GW4 system update, the onTimeTick() method is no longer being called while in ambient mode. This seems like a newly-introduced bug, but could just possibly be a misguided attempt to save battery.”
I would appreciate it if you would look into this, because it is absolutely ruining my experience with your product. Thanks

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In any case, and I am not sure it will make any difference, but I did report this to Samsung through my Samsung account by opening a "my questions" with the following
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Well, that was a waste. I got an Email saying I had to report it through "help" on the website. So I went there and did a chat and had to escalate to a "pro" who could take the information for a ticket. Now I have a ticket number. Who knows if it will get anywhere from there. But at least I tried (twice).

crxssi said:
Well, that was a waste. I got an Email saying I had to report it through "help" on the website. So I went there and did a chat and had to escalate to a "pro" who could take the information for a ticket. Now I have a ticket number. Who knows if it will get anywhere from there. But at least I tried (twice).
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Thank you for going the mile for us.
Im spamming update button, but i have a sneaky suspicion, its going to stay like that. I dont tink its a bug, but rather an enhancement or something. (You know Samsung)
I think the watchmakers will need to update their watches to not use that stay awake function thing....(All my old favourite watch faces broken :'()
Hopefully im wrong......... LOL

I have this same problem still, even after latest update a few days ago, it's so frustrating that I can only really use Samsung's watchfaces at the moment! Does anyone know any sort of workaround?

morley636 said:
I have this same problem still, even after latest update a few days ago, it's so frustrating that I can only really use Samsung's watchfaces at the moment! Does anyone know any sort of workaround?
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Hi there...
Yes I hear your pain. Same here. I was so excited to see that 107mb update... Immediately tested those watchfaces. Still the same
I started using Watchmaker watchfaces working well. Very good repo of free faces aswell....
I still hope for a fix... Maybe the next one. So sad