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Tizen Ambient Mode - NOT GOOD - Android Wear is Exactly the same just dimmer

I just got the Gear S2 - I've been using the LG Urbane and wanted to try Tizen.
One thing I've noticed is that on the Urbane and Android wear - the Ambient mode is the exact same as the active mode - just a bit dimmer but looks the exact same at all times.
I can't seem to find very many faces through Tizen with anything other that two black and white hands in ambient mode or just a basic look.
Is there an issue with Tizen not being able to offer this ?
I want my watch face to be seen by other people looking down at my watch when I don't know they're looking.
I don't want the face to be shown just when I lift my arm - I want the look always.
This "always on" option will also make developers created faces then seen by others with the same watch in passing and they'll ask what that watch face is leading to potentially more purchases and downloads. -- grass roots marketing
I love the watch so far, but the lack of ambient mode looking just like active mode is about a deal breaker for me.
Any thoughts or suggestions here, before I return it and stick with my Urbane and having the watch face I choose always on ?
I've only been able to find about six (6) faces that have a similar look to the active mode when in ambient and it's still no where near as good as Android Wear's look with the Ambient mode option.
The Tizen ambient is only similar -
With all the face options to choose from when we decide on one for the day as watch owners - we want the face to be there always not just when I lift my wrist - I want to show off the look I decided to use.
This bother anyone else ?

jabakerman said:
I just got the Gear S2 - I've been using the LG Urbane and wanted to try Tizen.
One thing I've noticed is that on the Urbane and Android wear - the Ambient mode is the exact same as the active mode - just a bit dimmer but looks the exact same at all times.
I can't seem to find very many faces through Tizen with anything other that two black and white hands in ambient mode or just a basic look.
Is there an issue with Tizen not being able to offer this ?
I want my watch face to be seen by other people looking down at my watch when I don't know they're looking.
I don't want the face to be shown just when I lift my arm - I want the look always.
This "always on" option will also make developers created faces then seen by others with the same watch in passing and they'll ask what that watch face is leading to potentially more purchases and downloads. -- grass roots marketing
I love the watch so far, but the lack of ambient mode looking just like active mode is about a deal breaker for me.
Any thoughts or suggestions here, before I return it and stick with my Urbane and having the watch face I choose always on ?
I've only been able to find about six (6) faces that have a similar look to the active mode when in ambient and it's still no where near as good as Android Wear's look with the Ambient mode option.
The Tizen ambient is only similar -
With all the face options to choose from when we decide on one for the day as watch owners - we want the face to be there always not just when I lift my wrist - I want to show off the look I decided to use.
This bother anyone else ?
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There are several reasons for this. 1) Battery life. By reducing colors and the number of pixels that are activitated, it allows the watch to go several days without charge. 2) OLED burn in. OLED displays will "burn in" if pixels activated too long.
However, there are several options one is the "Alive" app on the Gear store. Install this and your watch never goes into ambient mode. Free app. Problem solved. However, you will have shorter battery life. YMMV.
Rob

jabakerman said:
One thing I've noticed is that on the Urbane and Android wear - the Ambient mode is the exact same as the active mode - just a bit dimmer but looks the exact same at all times.
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Not true, maybe an exception on your face, very very very.... few face has same dim mode than active mode on Wear. Worse, for example on LG-R Dim mode brightness has no setup and most time dim mode is brighter than active mode, so totally grazy

OP, check this thread for Gear S2 watchfaces that have more than the basic ambient mode...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=63804290

jabakerman said:
I just got the Gear S2 - I've been using the LG Urbane and wanted to try Tizen.
One thing I've noticed is that on the Urbane and Android wear - the Ambient mode is the exact same as the active mode - just a bit dimmer but looks the exact same at all times.
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This is incorrect.
Ambient mode on both platforms is a part of the watchface design -- it has as much, or as little detail as the designer put in it.
There are plenty of Wear faces that reduce to simple 2 B/W hands in ambient. Try the Bang & Olufsen watch face, for example.

For the time you would spend sorting through the Samsung store to find a good ambient face, you could create your own with Gear Watch Designer. That way you could include pretty much whatever you want in the ambient face.

Ambient mode seems to use a lot of battery. Mine drops from 100% to about 30% in 16 hours on ambient mode, making nightly recharging a must. And, I'm not a power user.

Zelmo88 said:
Ambient mode seems to use a lot of battery. Mine drops from 100% to about 30% in 16 hours on ambient mode, making nightly recharging a must. And, I'm not a power user.
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I have a very intricate ambient mode and I have it always on, and I get 2 days on a full charge. I only have bluetooth on. I do not have WiFi on. If you have WiFi on, or if you have a 3G, that's what's eating your battery.
Rob

rlichtefeld said:
I have a very intricate ambient mode and I have it always on, and I get 2 days on a full charge. I only have bluetooth on. I do not have WiFi on. If you have WiFi on, or if you have a 3G, that's what's eating your battery.
Rob
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I'm only using bluetooth, no WiFi, and I don't have a 3G version.

Wishlist?

After about a week with my Gear S3 Frontier LTE, there are few things I think I'd like changed.
Is there a way to submit these to Samsung?
Anyway:
1. To conserve power, I turn off NFC usually, Yes, the Samsung Pay app has a means to prompt one to turn ON on NFC should it be off when trying to pay, but it does then stay on....
The watch should really have an option to auto-turn on NFC when using Samsung Pay (triggered by the 'pay' button after selecting the card) and then disable it automatically again when payment has finished (maybe a timeout of 2 minutes or such)
2. I notice that when turning on BT, it makes the watch 'visible' to devices around? Can that be turned off? I usually only want to make it connect to my phone and BT headset
3. I usually wear my watch on the inside of my wrist (old habit). I noticed that sometimes I accidentally clicked something. A screen lock (need to long-click ) would be nice.

Automatic standby mode?

Hi, I apologize if this was posted before but I could not find anything (neither here or on other forums). I have recently bought a Gear S3 (watch) Classic (no LTE) and so far I love it, however I have one question concerning its usage and battery life. I do not wear it when I sleep, and I do not plan to, so I was wondering if there was a way for the watch to detect that I am not wearing it (it's laying on my desk when not charging so it could use the absence of data it recieves from heart rate and movements) and then automatically disables S Health and other functions (except for alarms and maybe phone calls) until I pick it up? I know that there is Power Saving option in the settings, but to manually turn it on and off every day seems like a hassle when I think that it should be able to do it automatically. Is there any way to do that?
Thank you!

It already does detect that you are not wearing it. When that happens it will turn off the screen. Watch also has a "do not disturb" mode which you can turn on on a schedule. This will disable alerts (except alarms) and disable the screen!
Hope this helps!
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Turn Samsung S8 into power efficient GPS tracker with shaking detect.

I want to turn my phone into a GPS tracker because the products on the market are not too good.
- The phone should use as little energy as possible. (Built in power saving mode and flight mode is not enough)
- On shaking/vibration detected it should wake up and turn OFF flight mode and send me a message through an app that will give my primary telephone an alarm.
- Then I shoulf be able to start sort of a Skype conversation so that I can see and hear what is going on. (Like actually using Skype and have some automatic answering enabled?)
Then I can use Find my Device or Samsung service to locate the phone.
Anyone who knows of anything usefull O can use to achieve some of these things ?

I'm looking to do the same thing but with an S7
Have you found a solution?

sirs2k said:
I'm looking to do the same thing but with an S7
Have you found a solution?
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I have not. It would require a faily simple app and I guess a rooted phone because the control of flight mode etc. demands it.
I did not spend time on it but it is on my list.

Question Is it possible to turn off bluetooth?

Hello, I am interested in buying this watch and I wanted to know if it is possible to turn off the bluetooth of the Huawei Watch GT3, I did not find information that there is an option that says disconnect and another bluetooth section but I do not know if it is to connect headphones or if it is general bluetooth and can be turned off.
I know that bluetooth does not consume a lot of battery, but my idea of this is to turn off bluetooth to prevent it from emitting radiation, etc. I do not want it to be synchronized with the phone all the time, but to do it once a week to save the data of training and sleep.

There is no such possibility in GT Runner. There is no Flight mode. I found out when I already ordered the watch. Therefore, at the same time I bought a device for measuring the power flow density. The watch emits up to 4 uW/cm^2 for a few seconds (if nothing is transmitted/updated), but most of the time (I have disabled on my smartphone bluetooth and Health app messages) the device shows background values of 0.5 uW/cm^2 near the GT Runner. But I still really want Huawei to add a Flight mode in the firmware that physically disables Bluetooth.
Microwave oven near the door 12 uW/cm^2. Smartphone up to 30 uW/cm^2. Just walking on the city street 20-60 uW/cm^2! 0_о.
The norm is much lower than 10 uW/cm^2

AIEEEX777 said:
Therefore, at the same time I bought a device for measuring the power flow density.
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Cool! Would you share a link?

Renate said:
Cool! Would you share a link?
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I bought a BR-9a on Aliexpress for $28, there are more advanced devices: TM-195, TM-196 Tenmars, TES-92, TES-593 and others

So there is no possibility to switch bluetooth off in the watch.