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Got my Gear S2 recently and loving it so far. I've used Sony Smartwatch (First Gen) before and what I find lacking in the Gear S2, are apps to control the phone remotely, eg: Controlling the camera shutter for the phone camera, setting phone profiles (turn On or Off MUTE/SOUND, WIFI, Mobile Data). :crying::crying::crying:
I'm just hoping (and praying too...) that the good folks at Tasker are coming up with an app or plugin that can be used with the Gear S2.
It will definitely increase the Gear S2 user experience.
Anybody agree with me?
megahurtz said:
Got my Gear S2 recently and loving it so far. I've used Sony Smartwatch (First Gen) before and what I find lacking in the Gear S2, are apps to control the phone remotely, eg: Controlling the camera shutter for the phone camera, setting phone profiles (turn On or Off MUTE/SOUND, WIFI, Mobile Data). :crying::crying::crying:
I'm just hoping (and praying too...) that the good folks at Tasker are coming up with an app or plugin that can be used with the Gear S2.
It will definitely increase the Gear S2 user experience.
Anybody agree with me?
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This would be great. Suggested possible implementation below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s2/general/request-tasker-interface-t3217756
talalalal said:
This would be great. Suggested possible implementation below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s2/general/request-tasker-interface-t3217756
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Oops, my bad. I didn't notice your thread....
Looks like we still have to wait until that time comes........ then I'll kiss all the people at TASKER :silly:
megahurtz said:
Oops, my bad. I didn't notice your thread....
Looks like we still have to wait until that time comes........ then I'll kiss all the people at TASKER :silly:
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No problem! glad someone else also wants this.
megahurtz said:
Got my Gear S2 recently and loving it so far. I've used Sony Smartwatch (First Gen) before and what I find lacking in the Gear S2, are apps to control the phone remotely, eg: Controlling the camera shutter for the phone camera, setting phone profiles (turn On or Off MUTE/SOUND, WIFI, Mobile Data). :crying::crying::crying:
I'm just hoping (and praying too...) that the good folks at Tasker are coming up with an app or plugin that can be used with the Gear S2.
It will definitely increase the Gear S2 user experience.
Anybody agree with me?
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I need Tasker too. I wrote to Filesmaster author. He told he work on app like tasker for s2 and asked me what need to have in tasker.
Propose to write to author with you ideas on tasker too.
Are there any apps like watchmaker https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.watchFrenzy.premium that are compatable or availble for the Gear S2?
It would be nice to have a simple to use app on my phone that allows me to create watch faces, custom inset dials, animation etc, just like the watch faces that are available to purchase from the samsung gear app.
What application are the developers of those watch faces using to create those faces?
I know that you can use the website Mr timemaker to make custome watch faces but thats a little limited in its customisations.
Thanks.
Yeah, I'd like to know too...
I haven't created any apps for the S2 (yet), but did see a tutorial for creating a simple watch face on the Tizen developers site using just HTML 5 and JavaScript. A watch face is essentially an HTML canvas element, so it is simply a matter of layering images and vector objects to achieve the design.
I'm typing this on my phone, but will post a link to the tutorial tomorrow.
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The only decent one(with digital options!) is the Gear Watch Designer. Pretty easy to use, and there's tutorials if you get stuck. Animations are super choppy since they're capped at 15fps but using the watch hands for circular animations and setting movement to sweep smooths them out.
http://developer.samsung.com/gear/gear-watch-designer
walther1337 said:
The only decent one(with digital options!) is the Gear Watch Designer. Pretty easy to use, and there's tutorials if you get stuck. Animations are super choppy since they're capped at 15fps but using the watch hands for circular animations and setting movement to sweep smooths them out.
http://developer.samsung.com/gear/gear-watch-designer
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I've been looking for a tool like this. Pretty much gave up hope for making my own watch faces. Thanks for pointing this out, can't wait to give it a try.
Many thanks for this link walther1337. :good:
Will have a read of the tutorial and give this a go.
The program is VERY buggy on Windows 10 and crashes a lot, but it works. Just finished my first watch face, finally can have what I want easily. Thanks again for pointing it out walther1337
Where you able to deploy it to your S2?
stranula said:
The program is VERY buggy on Windows 10 and crashes a lot, but it works. Just finished my first watch face, finally can have what I want easily. Thanks again for pointing it out walther1337
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Please share your files. I really like this design. Many thanks!
You're welcome. Seems like Samsung never updates the program since its still version 1.0(their support for Tizen is pitiful at best. so much of Tizen seems like it's still in beta). I've had no luck deploying to the watch so I'm putting my face on the market. I get the certificate needed then it crashes when I click my watch in the drop down. There is probably a way to send the tpk via sdb but I didn't look into it.
I cannot connect my S2
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You're welcome. Seems like Samsung never updates the program since its still version 1.0(their support for Tizen is pitiful at best. so much of Tizen seems like it's still in beta). I've had no luck deploying to the watch so I'm putting my face on the market. I get the certificate needed then it crashes when I click my watch in the drop down. There is probably a way to send the tpk via sdb but I didn't look into it.
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I am unable to connect to my Gear S2 over wifi to PC so I cannot create the distribution certificate. The Gear Watch Desinger also states that there is no connected device.
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Where you able to deploy it to your S2?
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I was able to deploy it. I have both the designer and the sdk installed. I installed it via sdb. Like I said, the software is very buggy, and it took a lot of effort to get it work, but I finally got it on there.
nyknight77 said:
Please share your files. I really like this design. Many thanks!
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I'll put my files on here. I'm not sure the tpk will work for other users or if it is specific to my device, but hopefully the gwd will work in the design software
Thanks stranula!!! Would be great if you can put together a tutorial to get this installed. I downloaded the sdk and the gear watch designer, have the project opened but it says "No connected device Connect device you want to running on."
EDIT: OkI found the tutorial to get it connected in the watch under Gear info, About devices and Open source license. I'm connected and got a developer signature successfully. But when I try to run it on gear, I get error about "SIGNATURE_INVALID_DEVICE_UNIQUE_ID failed"
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Thanks stranula!!! Would be great if you can put together a tutorial to get this installed. I downloaded the sdk and the gear watch designer, have the project opened but it says "No connected device Connect device you want to running on."
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In order to get the designer to recognize the device, I
1. Put the computer and the Gear S2 on the same wi-fi network.
2. Run command prompt
3. Change directory to the tizen-sdk/tools (likely C:\tizen-sdk\tools)
4. Run "sdb.exe connect ###.###.###.###" The ###.###.###.### is the ip address of the Gear S2 which can be determined by looking in the settings on the Gear S2 itself.
With any luck, when you do this it will tell you that the device was successfully connected.
Now when in the designer and you select the run on device, it will show up (it may take a minute to show up).
I hope this helps, if not, let me know and I'll try to give some more input. I know the instructions I have here are quite simplified.
Then for installing, it is the same instructions, but you also do
5. "sbd.exe install %APPPath%\app.tpk" where %APPPath%\app.tpk is the location and name of the app. (likely in C;\users\USERNAME\GEARWATCHDESIGNER\workspace\)
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EDIT: OkI found the tutorial to get it connected in the watch under Gear info, About devices and Open source license. I'm connected and got a developer signature successfully. But when I try to run it on gear, I get error about "SIGNATURE_INVALID_DEVICE_UNIQUE_ID failed"
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Great, you got through the hard part.
What I've found is that every time the designer program opens and closes, I had to reregister the "Author Certificate" and "Distributor Certificate" (under the project tab) then buld the app again and making sure to select "moderate" under the security level. Once doing those three things, it would successfully send to the watch
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In order to get the designer to recognize the device, I
1. Put the computer and the Gear S2 on the same wi-fi network.
2. Run command prompt
3. Change directory to the tizen-sdk/tools (likely C:\tizen-sdk\tools)
4. Run "sdb.exe connect ###.###.###.###" The ###.###.###.### is the ip address of the Gear S2 which can be determined by looking in the settings on the Gear S2 itself.
With any luck, when you do this it will tell you that the device was successfully connected.
Now when in the designer and you select the run on device, it will show up (it may take a minute to show up).
I hope this helps, if not, let me know and I'll try to give some more input. I know the instructions I have here are quite simplified.
Then for installing, it is the same instructions, but you also do
5. "sbd.exe install %APPPath%\app.tpk" where %APPPath%\app.tpk is the location and name of the app. (likely in C;\users\USERNAME\GEARWATCHDESIGNER\workspace\)
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You're awesome stranula!!
Got it connected, got developer certificate, just needed to rebuid to use Security Level "Moderate" instead of High. it works. I got it loaded! YAY!
nyknight77 said:
You're awesome stranula!!
Got it connected, got developer certificate, just needed to rebuid to use Security Level "Moderate" instead of High. it works. I got it loaded! YAY!
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Awesome! Hopefully this means we will get a handful of people putting together some watch faces to share.
Hmm maybe I got overexcited... I was able to load your watch face but it only sticks for a couple seconds and then reverts back to stock watch face.. any ideas?
EDIT: I restarted and it is working great now!
You just started something huge stranula! I think you should definitely start a new thread with this tutorial so people can make a huge collection of watches!
Looks like it takes a while to get your watch face on the market. I submitted mine about 16 hours ago and it's still in "device testing". Seems a bit excessive for a watch face.
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Looks like it takes a while to get your watch face on the market. I submitted mine about 16 hours ago and it's still in "device testing". Seems a bit excessive for a watch face.
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Yeah, I submitted mine too, and it is under review. I'm not sure how the submission process will go, but figured it was worth a shot to see.
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You're welcome. Seems like Samsung never updates the program since its still version 1.0(their support for Tizen is pitiful at best. so much of Tizen seems like it's still in beta). I've had no luck deploying to the watch so I'm putting my face on the market. I get the certificate needed then it crashes when I click my watch in the drop down. There is probably a way to send the tpk via sdb but I didn't look into it.
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I can't even get the watch to show within the program. I disable bluetooth on my watch so I'm connected to my home WiFi network, but I am doing this on my desktop which is ethernet. Do I need to do it from a WiFi device for it to connect to the watch?
Has anyone come across a Tasker to Gear app other than TaskS2, which is kludgy and frequently disconnects? I contacted the prolific tasker plugin creator (AutoWear, AutoPebble, AutoNotification, etc), and he says there's not enough interest in the Gear to create an AutoGear plugin. VERY unfortunate. Tasker is desperately needed on this watch. If Samsung Pay ever stops working with Pixel, I'm done with Gear.
I'd even pay $20 or more for a quality, working plugin.
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I agree, there's so much I could do with a Tasker type app for the Gear S3.
Try contacting the dev of TasGear.
It was better than TaskS2.
The disconnect issue happens when system optimization or any 3rd party optimization apps kill the service which talks to the watch app. Exclude TaskS2 from the optimization list and it should work fine
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TaskS2 only controls profiles on Tasker on your phone. Being able to control the watch is what would be fantastic.
It's a bit complicated, and very much self-service, but you can get Tasker functionality with Wearable Widgets. When you use it in app form (as opposed to the watch face) it'll send touches to the phone.
This means you can use widget crafters to run tasks. I'm using Zooper Widgets, but you need the paid version of that one. Pretty much any roll-you-own widget app that can talk to Tasker should work. You can build a simple or complex GUI to run whatever you want.
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hawkjm73 said:
It's a bit complicated, and very much self-service, but you can get Tasker functionality with Wearable Widgets. When you use it in app form (as opposed to the watch face) it'll send touches to the phone.
This means you can use widget crafters to run tasks. I'm using Zooper Widgets, but you need the paid version of that one. Pretty much any roll-you-own widget app that can talk to Tasker should work. You can build a simple or complex GUI to run whatever you want.
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I imagine that'll suck the battery though, given it's pushing widgets from the phone to the watch.
In my case, I'd like to have things like when my phone is put into silent mode, the watch also goes into silent mode. When I dismiss my phone alarm in the morning, turn the watch brightness to full and enable AOD.
That sort of thing would be amazing, not sure this would be achievable with that method. if it was, it would be rather messy I think.
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I imagine that'll suck the battery though, given it's pushing widgets from the phone to the watch.
In my case, I'd like to have things like when my phone is put into silent mode, the watch also goes into silent mode. When I dismiss my phone alarm in the morning, turn the watch brightness to full and enable AOD.
That sort of thing would be amazing, not sure this would be achievable with that method. if it was, it would be rather messy I think.
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The silent part is possible but the rest is not. Currently, Samsung gives very limited control to the watch settings.
Just FYI. Developer of TaskS2 just said he will be updating his app (in response to suggestion it had been abandoned with no updates in a year). It's too bad the AutoXXX developer isn't interested, but I appreciate anything I can get on this watch. I miss my pebble with tasker
any new news on this?
Does anyone know if Watchland is coming back into the Samsung Store ??? i believe there is a way to side load the app but it doesn't look that easy, with Tizen studio and a few other things. ???
Anyone heard anything ???
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Does anyone know if Watchland is coming back into the Samsung Store ??? i believe there is a way to side load the app but it doesn't look that easy, with Tizen studio and a few other things. ???
Anyone heard anything ???
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piece of piss to sideload it, - there's a step by step thread on how to do it too ??
I somehow had it because it was on my S2 or I downloaded it before it was taken out. I liked Watchland and first because of the variety of faces and they downloaded as GWD files but you can't download anything anymore. It just sits there on preparing and the developer pretty much doesn't update it much. It's a great concept but poorly executed. It's a piece of junk with a lot of potential. I used to swear by it but it's pretty much going downhill for a while. I predict it will be dead soon.
Apparently, the developer moved to China, and has a hard time keeping up with it, but says he's not done with it.
http://watchland.ca/2016/10/29/the-future-of-watchland/
In the meantime, while it is usually slow to load, if you surf around within the app on your phone, eventually, when you go over to "Categories", you can usually get into each brand and download a bunch of cool faces. Then just look in the download folder on your phone, and email yourself to install it via Gear Watch Designer on your PC.
If you do want to try to get the app on the watch, I haven't tried it yet, but here's the thread explaining how to do it...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/themes/sideloading-watchland-app-t3517079
Yes but problem is that at first you could download most of the shared faces but now pretty much everything I try to download won't download and is stuck at preparing. I read that same blog post and if you look further on the blog, I think the guy has had server issues in the past.
Like I said, nice idea but poorly executed. I totally understand that the guy went to China but for now and until he gets a team together or comes back, it's a piece of junk until someone takes it out of the junkyard.
I'm not putting the app down and when I first started using it, I must say it was awesome and it's even more awesome that it downloads the gwd files so you can edit them or sideload them with the watch designer program as opposed to Mr Time, and Facer which really limit you as to design options.
For now I just use Mr. Time because I was able to design a simple watch face that I like and it was easier to design than doing it in GWD.
Sweet watch face you made - I like it!
For what it's worth - for me, it seems like none of the "categories" (brands) will even open, UNTIL I go over to the "Newest" or "Most Downloaded" first sections first. Then, when I go back to the categories, for some reason I'm able to get into any brand and download any of the faces. Give that a try (and/or let me know if you want me to download any brands you.)
But you're right, it would be sweet if it worked the way it was intended!
I can only download previously downloaded watches. I cannot download any other watch faces.
It's probably an issue with the servers and the developer is in China, nowhere to be found. Maybe if he were to get a team going or devote his time to it Watchland would be the best. To bad though. Like I said, junk until it starts getting some support. Also, with Mr Time and Faces it may be to late to come back.
Hope this jpeg works?
Something i came across which may be of interest?
Yeah, it's coming back! Here's the story from the developer himself...
http://www.tizenexperts.com/2017/01/watchland-for-your-gear-s-s2-s3-fit2-watchface-download/
Looks promising but looks like it's going to turn in to another facer or Mr. Time website and app. The beauty of the original was the ability to upload face look alikes and yes, I understand the whole copyright thing but honestly that's what it was good for. If it's just going to be another Facer or Mr. Time Maker, I'm not impressed u less it has a better design interface which I doubt. Plus the designer said it himself said he is the sole person on the project which leads me to believe it will be the same business as usual.
I'm optimistic but doubtful. I have the companion app on my S3 and the nice thing g is the ability to load gwd files without the designer. If he can get the companion app back o with that ability then it will be worth it in that sense but even sideload in with companion app does not work 100% with all GWD files.
Watchland new name
Not sure if this thread is dead or not, but i was a few pages deep in a comment section for the very same topic. I found out that the d3veloper had to chqnge the name of the companion app to 'Connected Watch' in the samsung app store. Hope this helps.
First let me say this is a very fine piece of Hardware and I have been researching it these last few days and got nowhere, yes I see the demo's and reviews and it's all great but...………………………… and it is a big but
and please correct me if I am wrong and take it as a question more than a statement
- I cannot get access to view the available apps unless I have a Samsung phone - which I don't
- I have done numerous searches to find what I want and come up with near enough nothing
Currently I have a Smartwatch with a single watchface that is giving me all this when I look at it
Time Day and date at my location
Time at another location
Watch Batt Status
Phone Batt Status
Weather today temp hi/lo with pic
Currency conversion of my choosing (set on phone) realtime
It shows me all messages from all my messaging apps on my phone with the text, sms, line, FBmessenger WhatsApp etc.
Incoming calls with contact details or number etc
I can set my phone on the other side of the room and fully control my music player (poweramp) with album art etc, my music is stored as mp3 on the phone so is there even a music player app for the Gear S3 that can access the music on my phone and play it controlling the phone and playing from the phone ?
I really would like to buy this watch but can it do all that, can it even do all that with separate apps if want to scroll through to get there for stuff like currency and media control (Sony Phone)
can someone please confirm
Yes I get that I am not going to get a watch face that will show me what my current one does but is it even possible using apps widgets downloaded to the phone and/or watch to at least give me the functionality I have now
And I stress I am not being critical of the Gear S3 because I really like it and I want one provided it can tick all the boxes
Probably with a Wear OS watch
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Probably with a Wear OS watch
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yes I agree, I've been doing a lot of reading up these last few days and the Samsung Gear S3 is the best watch on the market but it fails miserably because they opted to break from Android OS (Wear), I think they were trying to become Brand Specific like Apple but that is never going to work on Android - very foolish
I have narrowed my choices down to 3, Ticwatch Pro, LG and Fossil, Ticwatch is slightly in the lead, but I have decided that it must be Android OS, just a pity Samsung S3 went a different direction, I am not going to buy a watch that only functions for 50% of what I want no matter how good the Hardware is, to me it is a fail and wouldn't take it at half the price
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yes I agree, I've been doing a lot of reading up these last few days and the Samsung Gear S3 is the best watch on the market but it fails miserably because they opted to break from Android OS (Wear), I think they were trying to become Brand Specific like Apple but that is never going to work on Android - very foolish
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I think the Gear S3 is the best watch at this time.
Wear watch are really horrible. Very bad battery life (sometime not last the day), a lot of bug and hang, often the watch take long seconds to respond (when it works, often not works but do not know why ???) ..... apps are very rare do not mistake I have G-Watch, R-Watch, LG-Sport, Sony SW3, Asus ZW2, Ticwatch E) all are almost unusables. You must install app (and often faces) with the phone AND AFTER use the watch (with tiny screen) to go on Playstore WITH the watch (when it works).
With Tizen you have the "Watchmaker" app (same as Wear OS) and you can have advanced watch face. On Tizen I have note app, Google Task app, evernote app..... nothing for Wear and almost none of this kind
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I think the Gear S3 is the best watch at this time.
Wear watch are really horrible. Very bad battery life (sometime not last the day), a lot of bug and hang, often the watch take long seconds to respond (when it works, often not works but do not know why ???) ..... apps are very rare do not mistake I have G-Watch, R-Watch, LG-Sport, Sony SW3, Asus ZW2, Ticwatch E) all are almost unusables. You must install app (and often faces) with the phone AND AFTER use the watch (with tiny screen) to go on Playstore WITH the watch (when it works).
With Tizen you have the "Watchmaker" app (same as Wear OS) and you can have advanced watch face. On Tizen I have note app, Google Task app, evernote app..... nothing for Wear and almost none of this kind
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why not address my first post and tell me exactly (from my requirements) what the S3 can and cannot do
lets start with a live exchange rate widget or even stock quotes, I am still using a Sony Sw2 and it does everything I want it too, I actually just bought an LG Watch Urbane 2 nd Edition LTE Unlocked for 100GBP brand new, very cheap IMO
also if I buy and Samsung Gear S3 I lose 50% of the functionality because I don't have a Samsung phone and never will have
And what we lost with a no Samsung phone ? The only thing is, maybe, the Samsung Email app wich works with Samsung watch. But even with a Samsung phone I use Aquamail and not the Samsung mail. All others things works same with samsung and other phone since the S2 serie.
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And what we lost with a no Samsung phone ? The only thing is, maybe, the Samsung Email app wich works with Samsung watch. But even with a Samsung phone I use Aquamail and not the Samsung mail. All others things works same with samsung and other phone since the S2 serie.
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I believe you are wrong about that
Remember I don't have one and was unable to look at apps because I don't have Samsung phone.....but here is what I have read
- messaging doesn't work properly
- music player (control) extremely limited
- email
- calling functionality
- limited apps but I honestly don't know this for sure because I can't access the app store to look, what I do know is that AW is 100% supported with apps for absolutely everything I would ever need
like I mentioned - stuff like currency/stock tracking doesn't exist, XE is AW enabled but doesn't exist on S3
I use Poweramp as my music player on my phone and can completely control it from my ancient Sony SW2 - go figure, this is extremely useful if I am out and want to hook my phone up to an external sound system - my phone sits meters away and I can control everything from SW from my seat, does Samsung S3 support Poweramp ?? well I don't know because I cannot access the secret Samsung app store without a Samsung Phone or SW - maybe they are hiding it
The list my friend is endless, like I said in my OP - the Gear S3 is IMO the best hardware out there but is unusable on a none Samsung setup and even if you have Samsung phone it is still limited because of lack of app support
IMO Samsung made an error not adopting Android Wear and would have dominated the market it they had
Like said, since Gear S2 Samsung apps works on all Android phone with 1.5Go RAM. Works also on IOS but limited for app wich have an android compagnon app. Messaging is like all others apps and works same way on Wear OS or Tizen OS.
Email ? wear has not really an email app, works just with notification system like Tizen OS. Same for all
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I believe you are wrong about that
Remember I don't have one and was unable to look at apps because I don't have Samsung phone.....but here is what I have read
- messaging doesn't work properly
- music player (control) extremely limited
- email
- calling functionality
- limited apps but I honestly don't know this for sure because I can't access the app store to look, what I do know is that AW is 100% supported with apps for absolutely everything I would ever need
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I have a OnePlus 6 and a S9+, currently my Gear S3 is paired with my OnePlus.
I get my messages through Google voice and Facebook messenger, both work well. The random text messages work too. With all of these I get notifications but don't have the history, which is fine IMO, I can see and reply to messages, but I don't need to start a conversation from my watch in my usage.
I can play/pause/fast forward/rewind/adjust volume. It works for what is playing already, so I can't start my podcast unless it is 'ready' in the Android system (ie, if I press the play button on my headphones and it would play the podcast/music).
Email, I get notifications for Gmail, can't start a conversation on the watch though.
I can call and recieve calls.
The apps appear to be the same.
I tried the TicWatch pro, it was good, but the health features were crap compared to the S3, plus no MST and slightly worse battery life made me go back to the S3.
Edit: I'm not sure about the watch face thing..... Maybe later this week I can set up the watch designer from Samsung and see if some/all can be added to a watch face.
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I have a OnePlus 6 and a S9+, currently my Gear S3 is paired with my OnePlus.
I get my messages through Google voice and Facebook messenger, both work well. The random text messages work too. With all of these I get notifications but don't have the history, which is fine IMO, I can see and reply to messages, but I don't need to start a conversation from my watch in my usage.
I can play/pause/fast forward/rewind/adjust volume. It works for what is playing already, so I can't start my podcast unless it is 'ready' in the Android system (ie, if I press the play button on my headphones and it would play the podcast/music).
Email, I get notifications for Gmail, can't start a conversation on the watch though.
I can call and recieve calls.
The apps appear to be the same.
I tried the TicWatch pro, it was good, but the health features were crap compared to the S3, plus no MST and slightly worse battery life made me go back to the S3.
Edit: I'm not sure about the watch face thing..... Maybe later this week I can set up the watch designer from Samsung and see if some/all can be added to a watch face.
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like I said - 50 functionality, I want something that will work and is fully supported not something that is going to be hit and miss, but it is by far the best in terms of HW.
Over that last few days I have come across many people saying the same thing "I wish it was Android OS" even on this forum where one of the longest threads is about exactly that - porting AW
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like I said - 50 functionality, I want something that will work and is fully supported not something that is going to be hit and miss, but it is by far the best in terms of HW.
Over that last few days I have come across many people saying the same thing "I wish it was Android OS" even on this forum where one of the longest threads is about exactly that - porting AW
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I've had WearOS, the only thing that was better (and not by much) was side loading Facebook messenger lite. Otherwise, IMO, Tizen and WearOS are very close in functionality, with WearOS winning in apps and Tizen in hardware. WearOS had more apps, but most aren't very useful, and I can program watchface in Tizen easier then WearOS. Tizen had more built in (probably do to the lack of third party apps) so things like sleep tracking works better.
Honestly, but a watch from somewhere with a good return policy and try it out, it's the only way you'll know if it works for you. I'd do this with both watches and see which works better in your specific use case.
I'm honestly not trying to persuade you one way or the other, just having used both OS's recently I want to give an accurate description as to their strengths and weaknesses.
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I've had WearOS, the only thing that was better (and not by much) was side loading Facebook messenger lite. Otherwise, IMO, Tizen and WearOS are very close in functionality, with WearOS winning in apps and Tizen in hardware. WearOS had more apps, but most aren't very useful, and I can program watchface in Tizen easier then WearOS. Tizen had more built in (probably do to the lack of third party apps) so things like sleep tracking works better.
Honestly, but a watch from somewhere with a good return policy and try it out, it's the only way you'll know if it works for you. I'd do this with both watches and see which works better in your specific use case.
I'm honestly not trying to persuade you one way or the other, just having used both OS's recently I want to give an accurate description as to their strengths and weaknesses.
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Thanks for the reply and I do understand, I'm in buying mode and have been reading and looking for hours upon hours just absorbing info on all the options, I started this thread for that exact purpose and it is turning out the way I wanted - input from experienced people that is helping me get through the clutter, I have order a watch that I managed to get at a reasonable price 100 sterling for an LG Urbane 2nd addition so no huge investment, the LG sport is a better watch but 2-3 times the price, so I will get it in a couple of days and see how I go with that, unfortunately I won't have my new phone until Sept (Xperia XZ2 Premium) so I will have to manage with my dated Xperia Z1 but it should give me an idea of what I'm dealing with
again thx for taking an interest in my thread you have been very helpful
had my first day with the LG and wow absolutely superb, helped along with the App watchfaces which is also superb
funny I set the watch up and charged it and went out, I actually thought there was something wrong when it showed 100% battery for 2 hours and then started to very slowly drop, I am now 8hrs in and still have 67% battery which I think is impressive, and I had an always on face with lots of widgets, very impressed