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Hi Guys,
I just got my SmartWatch 2, but can't seem to find the stopwatch. Is there one?
This says there is:
http://developer.sonymobile.com/201...ch-2-announced-new-sdk-version-to-come-video/
I guess someone will make an app soon anyway, just seems ridiculous to sell a watch without that function.
Cheers,
Rich

Mine came with a timer app already installed onto it... If it's not showing it might be off in the settings menu an then apps.
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Stopwatch is essential for the watch. I am wondering why it missed out but have a timer in it.

Stopwatch for SmartWatch 2
There is a new Stopwatch for SmartWatch 2 available. It needs your SmarWatch connected & synched with your Smartphone.
Check it out

xetiro said:
There is a new Stopwatch for SmartWatch 2 available. It needs your SmarWatch connected & synched with your Smartphone.
Check it out
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No lap timing? Must have lap timing to be useful for me.

prbdave said:
No lap timing? Must have lap timing to be useful for me.
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It seems that the latest update added flag/time laps

xetiro said:
It seems that the latest update added flag/time laps
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I cant seem to get my stopwatch to work. No amount of pressing the green button starts it, the numbers are just greyed out. Any tips or tricks to make the thing work??

cheetah2k said:
I cant seem to get my stopwatch to work. No amount of pressing the green button starts it, the numbers are just greyed out. Any tips or tricks to make the thing work??
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This stopwatch works as a countdown, so you at first have to set an amount of time to start decreasing from (hourglass button).

cheetah2k said:
I cant seem to get my stopwatch to work. No amount of pressing the green button starts it, the numbers are just greyed out. Any tips or tricks to make the thing work??
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You're talking about the Countdown that cames built-in with the Smartwatch 2 firmware.
I was talking about the Stopwatch for SmartWatch 2 that is for sale on Google Play
They are 2 different apps

Need to control Poweramp...

Hi all
I'm looking for an app for the SW2 that enables me to pause and play (quite often) audio books using Poweramp. Preferably I don't want to have to tap loads of times to do this!
Many thanks in advance

Here it is:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yuberion.powerampcontrol

viking111 said:
Here it is:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yuberion.powerampcontrol
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Thanks for that
Has anyone actually used it? I simply want to know how easy it is to pause then play a track.

Try it. I'm using it, it works nice for me.

viking111 said:
Try it. I'm using it, it works nice for me.
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I haven't bought the watch yet! Lol. It all depends on whether it does what I want it to (I'm in and out of client's premises all day so need to 'fiddle' as least as possible )
So can you tell me how many presses/taps it takes to pause, then play a track, please?

Naith32 said:
Thanks for that
Has anyone actually used it? I simply want to know how easy it is to pause then play a track.
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Just tap on the screen and the music stops. Further you can manage volume and next/former song. You have the art as background if your mp3 disposes of this.
Works great
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Tonio78370 said:
Just tap on the screen and the music stops. Further you can manage volume and next/former song. You have the art as background if your mp3 disposes of this.
Works great
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Wow. So just one tap, nothing else (ie turning watch display on) pauses the track, and another tap will start playing?

Of course you have to press the hardware button first to wake the smartwatch from standby state!

viking111 said:
Of course you have to press the hardware button first to wake the smartwatch from standby state!
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Ah OK. Just thinking about that, when you wake the watch up how long does the screen stay on before it goes back to standby? Can you adjust this setting?
Cheers!

Not adjustable, the time is ~5sec.

viking111 said:
Not adjustable, the time is ~5sec.
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I see. So, it's a press of the button then one tap to pause. Then another press of the button then one tap to play? I think I can live with that
Really appreciate your response - I think my mind's made up. I want one!
Just another quickie. If I receive a Whatsapp msg can I read it on the watch screen?

Yeah. With a help of WatchIt app (notifications) you can read the WhatsApp message too.

viking111 said:
Yeah. With a help of WatchIt app (notifications) you can read the WhatsApp message too.
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Great. The more I learn about the watch the sooner I want to buy it!

Do you know if the rubber strap can be replaced? Or is it integral?

It's a standard 24mm strap that can be changed. Any 24mn bracelet can do.
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viking111 said:
Of course you have to press the hardware button first to wake the smartwatch from standby state!
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Or rather, you should double tap the power button then you go directly to last open app that would normally be poweramp control pro.
Before I knew this procedure I was rather dissaponted with the watch (this is not mentioned in the user guide)
from the start I pressed power button - home - app, then I could control the music.

{REQUEST} [app] Active Display Display Battery

Hey everybody.
I know there are 3rd party Active Displays around, but I was wonder if anyone with the know-how would be interested in trying to change the stock Active Display on the Moto X?
I think its great apart from the useless *lock* icon right below the clock if no notifications are present.
It'd be great if this could show the battery level instead of the lock.
I know GravityBox has a cool way of displaying it on the lock screen, but that doesn't apply to Active Display of course.

I would like for the useless lock icon to just not come on when there are no notifications. I just got the phone yesterday so give me one day to just test it with the native active notification app and then I'll test it out tomorrow. I'll start with the app AcDisplay then the next day goto Dynamic notifications.
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eqbirvin said:
I would like for the useless lock icon to just not come on when there are no notifications. I just got the phone yesterday so give me one day to just test it with the native active notification app and then I'll test it out tomorrow. I'll start with the app AcDisplay then the next day goto Dynamic notifications.
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I don't think the lock is useless. It saves you from having to hit the power button. I've had physical buttons wear out on me, so this is far from useless for me.

Arak-Nafein said:
I don't think the lock is useless. It saves you from having to hit the power button to turn the device on.
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Very true! But I wouldn't mind just pressing the lock button. Any who, I shut off Active Display half way through the day and my battery life as been no different with it off.
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hi, i've had my moto-x about a month and this is one of the first things i tried to do, but i don't have much knowledge with editing apks. i was able to decompile the active display app and i found the layout for the main screen in res/layout/breathing.xml. there is actually already a battery indicator coded into the app but it only shows up when your power is low. i tried moving this to where the lock is to see what it did, but it just crashed the app.
actually what i would like to do is have the date displayed below the time and just have the lock removed unless there is a notification. i've unlocked it a bunch of times on accident while holding it in my hand.
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by the way. the numerals for the time are actually images and not text, such as is used by beautiful widgets. so they're totally editable which is nice. the whole app is essentially a widget.

BaristaBot said:
hi, i've had my moto-x about a month and this is one of the first things i tried to do, but i don't have much knowledge with editing apks. i was able to decompile the active display app and i found the layout for the main screen in res/layout/breathing.xml. there is actually already a battery indicator coded into the app but it only shows up when your power is low. i tried moving this to where the lock is to see what it did, but it just crashed the app.
actually what i would like to do is have the date displayed below the time and just have the lock removed unless there is a notification. i've unlocked it a bunch of times on accident while holding it in my hand.
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by the way. the numerals for the time are actually images and not text, such as is used by beautiful widgets. so they're totally editable which is nice. the whole app is essentially a widget.
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how did you decompile it? when i tried (after grabbing the apk from my titanium backup) the only layout file i got was aod_tutorial.xml - i'm looking into learning how about xposed and this is one of ideas to try.

i used apktool. the app is aon.apk in /system/priv-app

Arak-Nafein said:
I don't think the lock is useless. It saves you from having to hit the power button. I've had physical buttons wear out on me, so this is far from useless for me.
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Yeah, the lock is the whole point for me. Saving hitting the lock button.
Still I would kill to have the date and battery on active notification.
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I would like to see battery percentage in the place of the lock image
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I just built this app in tasked, give it a try. It isn't exactly what you are looking for but it is a good alternative.
BatteryActive v1.0

Cyphir said:
I just built this app in tasked, give it a try. It isn't exactly what you are looking for but it is a good alternative.
BatteryActive v1.0
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What is it?
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T-Keith said:
What is it?
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It is an app that you can configure to shoot notifications of your battery percentage level. Notifications that Active Notifications picks up on. That like is outdated. I have a thread here in the Theme and App forums that is kept up to date. When I am actually at my computer and not on my tablet, I can take some screenshots of the app and upload them to my thread.

Wake up S6 by touch finger scan ?

Dear all,
I know some smartphones can wake up by just touch the finger scan sensor.
So anyone in our family know how to do this on S6 ?
Hope some guys know or can do it

I have the same question

hi locker can do this

KevinGleave said:
hi locker can do this
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What? Can you be more specific?

thanhtin_bk said:
Dear all,
I know some smartphones can wake up by just touch the finger scan sensor.
So anyone in our family know how to do this on S6 ?
Hope some guys know or can do it
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i believe that function would cause your phone battery to drain dramatically? but just pressing the home button with your saved finger print will wakeup/unlock your phone, which i think is good enough already

romdroid. said:
What? Can you be more specific?
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Hi Locker. It's an app on Play store that lets you do exactly what you guys want to do.

KevinGleave said:
Hi Locker. It's an app on Play store that lets you do exactly what you guys want to do.
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I can't find Hi Locker said it supports Fingerprint scanner on Playstore. Are you sure?

zincsnow said:
i believe that function would cause your phone battery to drain dramatically? but just pressing the home button with your saved finger print will wakeup/unlock your phone, which i think is good enough already
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Emm, I have greenify and I am able to greenify system apps after purchasing the donation package and getting xposed, peraphs an app called fingerprint is running in background constantly, so I think it will not matter..

TheEndHK said:
I can't find Hi Locker said it supports Fingerprint scanner on Playstore. Are you sure?
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Yes. I used it myself. Go play store, install the app hi locker. Check security setting in the app, enable fingerprint. Then set the time duration for how long you want the fingerprint to be awake.

KevinGleave said:
Yes. I used it myself. Go play store, install the app hi locker. Check security setting in the app, enable fingerprint. Then set the time duration for how long you want the fingerprint to be awake.
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Yes we can use this app but it will auto stop when leave the phone in duration setup time.
Maybe need one app stronger than. By the way thanks and this app have the lock screen very nice i like this app also :good:
Hope some developers can do it

thanhtin_bk said:
Yes we can use this app but it will auto stop when leave the phone in duration setup time.
Maybe need one app stronger than. By the way thanks and this app have the lock screen very nice i like this app also :good:
Hope some developers can do it
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No problem

Would it be possible to add this feature with xposed or just root? No developers are actually working on this?

Have you tried this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.easyhome
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Its easier to just press the home button as @zincsnow said. This will eat battery life since the S6 only has a 2700mah battery.

_Dennis_ said:
Have you tried this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.easyhome
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Thanks!! It works perfectly

_Dennis_ said:
Have you tried this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamworks.easyhome
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i install it but it don't work! I installed it, give admin rights. launched but when my galaxy s6 is in standby, putting my finger on the Home button nothing happens (though my s6 is set to print for unlocking)
is there something more to do

gege0202 said:
i install it but it don't work! I installed it, give admin rights. launched but when my galaxy s6 is in standby, putting my finger on the Home button nothing happens (though my s6 is set to print for unlocking)
is there something more to do
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Wake up not working when finger print unlock is used..

ah ok. i test it.
but there isn't security, with this app?
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i test with no unlock and nothing happens when i put my finger on home button!

is any way to wake phone by touch home button? mentioned earlier google play application is not available anymore?

Any app to keep Gear S3 screen on?

I know what the Always On Display is. This isn't that.
Is there anything that can keep a Gear S3 (and possibly Gear S2) on and awake for a period longer than 5 minutes? The AOD is nice - but I have a need to demo a few watches together and want to keep them on with the watch face showing. Was hoping maybe an app that would do it, but I haven't found much of anything... at all.
The closest I can think to do so far is find a watchface that has an option for the same face to be used for AOD - like what the Watchmaster app allows - and set that. But I'm still worried about it dimming a bit.
Ideas?

Maybe Samsung Flaunt, from the gear store. I haven't used it thow.
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peewee2 said:
Maybe Samsung Flaunt, from the gear store. I haven't used it thow.
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That... might be enough. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!

didn't work for me

odyseus said:
didn't work for me
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I just installed it and it seemed to work OK. Once it installs, you have to add the widget to be able to use it - then you just select the widget and activate it.

I'll try again, but when I tried tapping "open" (after the app installed) nothing happened, I did check to see if there was an app on the watch, but there wasn't ???

odyseus said:
I'll try again, but when I tried tapping "open" (after the app installed) nothing happened, I did check to see if there was an app on the watch, but there wasn't ???
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You're not going to see an app on the watch. You just need to add the widget. Rotate your bezel (or swipe) all the way to the right to add a widget. Then somewhere in that list of widgets, you'll see it. Once you add it, just go to that widget and click Start.

Also in store "I am Alive"

Got it but you can only have display set to stay on for 30mins, it would be nice if you could set the timeout??

ThinkD said:
Also in store "I am Alive"
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Will check this out, thanks!
odyseus said:
Got it but you can only have display set to stay on for 30mins, it would be nice if you could set the timeout??
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Ya, right there with you. Though for my purpose, the 30 minute thing might work well enough. And then just activate it again before the next demo.

I am alive works well for me, I set the screen brightness to 3 and it doesn't hurt the battery much more than the always on display

ThinkD said:
Also in store "I am Alive"
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Works perfectly - thanks!
Any idea if there are burn in issues? I know it does some pixel moving in AOD, but don't think it does that if the watch is active.

Just go to settings the select Device the turn off (Wake -up Gesture), and the face will turn on forever

ThinkD said:
Also in store "I am Alive"
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Yes, awesome app, thanks! Fixed my problem of screen turning off while swimming. Now I can keep the screen on during my whole swim workout using this app.