Hello everybody.
So, I have just purchased a Gear s2. I know it's late, but it finally got cheap enough for me.
There is something I believe to be very simple to develop and very useful for millions of orthodox Jews: We have issues with electricity on Saturdays. Simply put, an app that turns the smartwatch into a dumb watch for either a given period of time, or until one of the buttons is pushed, would do the trick. This means that the time and date would be constantly displayed in the most energy saving manner possible, touch screen and all other sensors on the watch are off, and all connectivity is off as well.
A simple version of the app will allow the user to turn it on and off manually. A more sophisticated version will know by itself when to switch to "dumb watch mode": the times when a user needs his watch to turn dumb are calculated by ancient Jewish calendar and clock. But they are preset and known in advance. There are many apps, programs, calendars add-ons, etc. that already know to calculate those times. Applying such existing plug into the smartwatch would predetermine when it needs to get dumb and when to get smart again, without the users' need to do anything manually.
Can this be programmed?
I think enabling both Airplane Mode and Power Saving Mode may be what you're looking for.
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Power Switch
Save power by turning off your device's screen whenever you shut the case!
Power Switch is a tool for devices with cases - somewhat like the SmartCover, it will turn off the screen when you shut the case.
If you have a device with poor battery life, Power Switch can save tons of juice by switching it off entirely after a given amount of time asleep.
Features:
- Sleep seconds after shutting case
- Automatic shutdown
- Set up a schedule using Night Mode
- Configure sensor sensitivity
- Facedown to turn screen off
- Persistent notification
- Uses almost no power
The app has gone through an extensive testing process here at XDA under another name. Thanks to everyone who helped make it happen, you're the best!
However, this testing showed that some features of that app were not all that useful, and some were conspicuously absent. To save both you and us a lot of grief, we made the second-generation Killswitch.
If you have any comments or suggestions, please use this thread. I daresay Im known as a kindly developer always open to suggestions.
If you want to upgrade from Killswitch, send an email to the address in my signature containing the words "KILLSWITCH REFUND" and the order numbers of both Killswitch and Power Switch. I will then refund you the cost of Killswitch, and you will have Power Switch.
Lite
This version limits the cool down timer - it works just as well, but doesnt save as much juice!
https://market.android.com/details?id=fahrbot.apps.powerswitch.demo&feature=more_from_developer
Pro
Has all the juice-saving power and customization!
https://market.android.com/details?id=fahrbot.apps.powerswitch.pro&feature=search_result
Works on Gingerbread handsets?
Yes, works on 2.0+. No need for root either.
Any opinions?
Anything else?
Pretty clever implementation of the dialog box, all of the buttons on that is very useful and I will be using this app for my tablet
Enjoy, and please leave suggestions and market reviews, they help a lot!
Any suggestions guys?
I like the app's style and potential.
Maybe you could give consideration to some of the following as potential future features:
- Option to mute/unmute
- Scheduled backup for rooted devices?
- Check for updates (scheduled times?)
- Change data sync frequencies
- Enable/disable location services - root (Latitude etc)
- Kill/enable WiFi/mobile data
- Auto reply to SMSs (option to specify time period)
None of the above are at all thought through by me but you might see some potential that perhaps you hadn't been considering. If you think it's all a load of [email protected] Just ignore this (at least you got a free bump).
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I like the app's style and potential.
Maybe you could give consideration to some of the following as potential future features:
- Option to mute/unmute
- Scheduled backup for rooted devices?
- Check for updates (scheduled times?)
- Change data sync frequencies
- Enable/disable location services - root (Latitude etc)
- Kill/enable WiFi/mobile data
- Auto reply to SMSs (option to specify time period)
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Mate, these are good ideas, but the app really has a different purpose. I am in fact working on something else where these ideas would be more appropriate...
Works great for its intended purpose. Gracias.
Good to see you in this thread tivo, thanks for the thanks!
So based on the description of what this does...
It has no reason to access the internet, but it does.
It has no readon to read my phoen state etc, but it does
It also has no reason to modify my SD card contents, but it does.
I'd like to try this as it may be quite useful. But Im sorry, there's no way Im going to try it given the permissions it seems to require for no stated reason!
Man id really love to reply in a smarmy, pushy-noob destroying, paranoia dispelling way, but you do have a point.
Internet - license, debugging, flurry (very coarse, national level)
Read data - debugging
SD - debugging log creation
Phone state - disables itself during calls (duh)
See i could have said anything there and you would never know (ehm google, htc, amazon).
But im a community dev here. With quite a few apps and a little respect i like to think.
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Man id really love to reply in a smarmy, pushy-noob destroying, paranoia dispelling way, but you do have a point.
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Ive nothing against you or your app, but having looked at many things to buy on the market, Ive yet to buy a single one due to the level of permissions they seem to require with no reason given.
I suspect flurry isnt used for poping up annoying ads for "Also by the same author". Yes I know! But I found one free game I liked that insisted on running a background service whose sole purpose seemed to be to download advert details and show notifications of the other games produced by the publisher. A few in game ads I can live with, but not that level of annoyance.
Sorry rant over. Time to find the credit card I think
flurry is just a statistics service, the thing youre talking about is called airpush, its evil incarnate.
Unfortunately it seems this isnt going to work with my transformer and my case
Ive turned the sensitivity down to 1% and it still thinks its too dark and starts to turn the screen off. If I set it to 0% it doesnt start to turn things off at all. This is under energy saving lights or standard fluorescent lights which may be having some effect I guess. Certainly the front camera is quite dark under these lights.
Additionally, when I close the cover I suspect the screen light is reflecting from the cover and lighting the sensor enough to keep things still running unless the screen is really dark. (Even with the cover closed I can see light from the screen through gaps) Turning the sensitivity to a larger percentage would fix that of course, but then it will start turning off while Im using it
What case is this?
ftgg99 said:
What case is this?
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Sorry, meant to add that in!
Its this Tuff-Luv one
I dont see any holes in it...
Hi.
Since coming from android I've been a frequent user of apps who lets the phone change it's settings due to specific triggers, like turning silent at night and loud in the morning, turning silent when a certain calendar happening occurs, turning of wifi when leaving home etc.
Is there anything like this for using along with windows phone?
Thanks in advance
Pemell
Actually, (some of) this is theoretically possible, but nobody has done it so far. It's also not going to be allowed on the Marketplace; you'd need to use some unofficial APIs.
For example, the DllImport Project already has shown the ability to control the phone's volume. Programmatically muting the phone at a certain time, for example one minute after a meeting is supposed to start, should be pretty easy.
The trick would be to make sure the phone also un-mutes it when the meeting ends. WP7 doesn't (officially) allow third-party software to run continuously in the background, and while you can schedule a time for the software to run, it make no guarantee ot to-the-minute accuracy. There are ways around the official restrictions, but most of them have serious battery-life considerations (although telling the process to sleep for the next 30 minutes * 60 seconds * 1000 miliseconds would probably work without draining battery). Additionally, I'm not sure how much access apps officially have to calendar data, although on interop-unlocked or full-unlocked phones there are varius ways to access that data.
For things other than volume control, like enabling or disabling WiFi (almost completely unneccessary on WP7, the WiFi power management is, if anything, too conservative already) you'd need to find the place in the OS that controls it. Probably just sending SetDevicePower to the Wifi driver would work to disable it, though I don't know if that would show up correctly in the UI.
Hi to all.
I've a little problem: I go to work with a motorcycle and my S2 recognize it as a sporty activity (cycling): is there a way to stop this behaviour?
Thanks
GS
Italy
GS, I'm with you. I have the exact same problem. Every day I have to zero out the record for that day and then I turn off the cycling tracker (hoping that it just might stay disabled, but of course it never does). I wish there was a way to permanently disable this tracker, as I seldom ride a bicycle and could easily do without tracking this activity...
There automatic activity recognition settings in S Health. Just go to settings
Sorry but I don't have this option...
It seems that you can disable all automatic detections, and that you can not select with detection disable...
GS
ITALY
I have this same issue, the only solutions I've found are:
1) Download S-Health and disable it through manage items, but that does nothing.
2) Contact Samsung for support, which I've read is basically the first solution.
I want to set my watch for all my notifications but I think it's weird how you can't disable a function like that. I also tried factory resetting my watch to no avail...
Same problem here.
I don't want to disable cycling because i DO cycle sometimes and want to record it.
What annoys me is everytime I step in my car or ride a motorbike it detects me as cycling for a few hours.
Seems to be no way to disable it.
Anyone found a fix?
I'm still having the same problem. Strangely, it only seems to happen in my truck. When I drive the sedan, nothing happens and my watch works as intended. i'm not sure what I do in the truck that has my watch convinced I'm cycling down the highway at 70 MPH.
I've had to run off auto-detect which makes me sad because I forget to log my walking and my elliptical all the time. The watch we very good at detecting these 2 activities.
For future users who end up here with a google search:
the workout auto-detection settings are not the the S-Heath (or now "Samsung Health") app on your phone, they are in the S-Heath app that's on the watch itself. In last screen, "settings"
Is there a way for my PHONE to notify me when my watch battery is under 20%-25%, set maualy the procent.
Not every time wear my watch, any somtime is discharging to 0, an app to notiffy me on my phone is very good.
Haven't seen anything, but would be good feature to have...
I hope a developer sees the requirement
I am willing to pay for the application
It’s not an App, but the functionality you mentioned is possibly with a combination of Watchmaker Watch-Face + Lua-Script and a Tasker-Task. But this is only a workaround or very special use case
It is a good idea. I am not sure why the WEAR app doesn't support it. I suppose they assume you will notice the watch, itself, notifying you. But it only does that when it is REALLY low and asks to switch to low power mode. Plus, doesn't help if you have your watch off your body at the time.
I have an annoyance, and wondered if anyone has found a way of dealing with this?
I wear my watch overnight, and want to stop the tilt to wake screen function (as it drains battery if it's flicking on all through the night).
I understand I can schedule bedtime mode which stops this feature, but it seems to be linked to my phone, and I do not want bedtime on my phone (unless it can be on, and not greyscale?)
I can also schedule do not disturb, but this doesn't stop the tilt function!
Any suggestions?
Just add Bedtime (not sure what name used in English) button to quickpannel of the GW4 and tap it manual on GW4 or phone when you go to sleep.
Who cares if screen of the phone is in grey shades while sleeping? Just manually end Bedtime setting when you wake up...
Thanks, but that's a specific use-case that I require
I already know about how to start bedtime, and schedule it. But that doesn't help my query.
I'm looking for any of:
1. Separate bedtime from watch and phone (I don't think this is possible)
2. Turn off greyscale on the phones bedtime (I often wake and use my phone after "bedtime")
3. Another way to auto-stop/start tilt to wake that isn't bedtime
And it needs to be scheduled (I fall asleep at various times, and wouldn't remember to manually do it - and why should you have to?)
Ideally they'd add the option to do not disturb..
Tripledrop said:
I have an annoyance, and wondered if anyone has found a way of dealing with this?
I wear my watch overnight, and want to stop the tilt to wake screen function (as it drains battery if it's flicking on all through the night).
I understand I can schedule bedtime mode which stops this feature, but it seems to be linked to my phone, and I do not want bedtime on my phone (unless it can be on, and not greyscale?)
I can also schedule do not disturb, but this doesn't stop the tilt function!
Any suggestions?
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It would be great if Bixby routines worked on the watch to enable this
Tripledrop said:
Thanks, but that's a specific use-case that I require
I already know about how to start bedtime, and schedule it. But that doesn't help my query.
I'm looking for any of:
1. Separate bedtime from watch and phone (I don't think this is possible)
2. Turn off greyscale on the phones bedtime (I often wake and use my phone after "bedtime")
3. Another way to auto-stop/start tilt to wake that isn't bedtime
And it needs to be scheduled (I fall asleep at various times, and wouldn't remember to manually do it - and why should you have to?)
Ideally they'd add the option to do not disturb..
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Actually you can choose whether or not to synchronise Bedtime between watch and phone:
In Wear app on phonen go to Settings Watch - Advanced functions - Bedtime. There you select/deselect synchronisation of Bedtime between watch and phone.
Tripledrop said:
I have an annoyance, and wondered if anyone has found a way of dealing with this?
I wear my watch overnight, and want to stop the tilt to wake screen function (as it drains battery if it's flicking on all through the night).
I understand I can schedule bedtime mode which stops this feature, but it seems to be linked to my phone, and I do not want bedtime on my phone (unless it can be on, and not greyscale?)
I can also schedule do not disturb, but this doesn't stop the tilt function!
Any suggestions?
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Short answer: unless your Samsung youre not going to achieve any of the things youve asked about, because bedtime mode is bedtime mode and syncs to Samsung phones (as of a Wear app update 2 updates ago now), it doesnt on non-Samsung phones so im told (i have a Samsung phone and it does)
Use bedtime mode like everyone elses does, and if you have a Samsung phone where it syncs bedtime mode need your phone full colour toggle it off when youre using it and then put bedtime mode back on when done...simples (i do it many times a week and im still here and not dead for the struggle of tapping an icon or two), and doesnt involve creating another topic....or are we that lazy as humans now? If you dont have a Samsung phone it should be a moot point in that your bedtime mode shouldnt sync and your screen shouldnt go grey...
Why do people seem to want to sweat the small stuff...we have more urgent matters to attend to as humans than bedtime mode that you can toggle with minimal effort...its such a struggle to use less than 2g of force to toggle something
Longer answer, and part generalised social commentary:
Not sure why people seem to infrequently post topics asking people if theres a way to do x, when if you cant find it in the software itself you should realise that posting the question wont result in happy times, and is a moot point....
If you cant do it, we're all using the same watch, and none of us is named Samsung ....
Posting a topic where you announce you have a singular personal edge case, and to then vomit those needs out into a topic expecting to get a positive answer in 24 hours or less is just a little annoying..part of me dies when i see these topics
Im 51, luckily i dont have that annoying "i want it now" instant spoiled millennial mindset
I got my 1st laptop at 25, after saving 2 years for it, yet i know a 9yo who just got her 2nd MacBook Pro after whining until her parents gave in...society is doomed on the expectations new humans have of it. We really should have stopped making new humans about 30 years ago....
OnnoJ said:
Actually you can choose whether or not to synchronise Bedtime between watch and phone:
In Wear app on phonen go to Settings Watch - Advanced functions - Bedtime. There you select/deselect synchronisation of Bedtime between watch and phone.
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Party pooper
Still, Im sure the OP will find a way to make that not good enough....
73sydney said:
Short answer: unless your Samsung youre not going to achieve any of the things youve asked about, because bedtime mode is bedtime mode and syncs to Samsung phones (as of a Wear app update 2 updates ago now), it doesnt on non-Samsung phones so im told (i have a Samsung phone and it does)
Use bedtime mode like everyone elses does, and if you have a Samsung phone where it syncs bedtime mode need your phone full colour toggle it off when youre using it and then put bedtime mode back on when done...simples (i do it many times a week and im still here and not dead for the struggle of tapping an icon or two), and doesnt involve creating another topic....or are we that lazy as humans now? If you dont have a Samsung phone it should be a moot point in that your bedtime mode shouldnt sync and your screen shouldnt go grey...
Why do people seem to want to sweat the small stuff...we have more urgent matters to attend to as humans than bedtime mode that you can toggle with minimal effort...its such a struggle to use less than 2g of force to toggle something
Longer answer, and part generalised social commentary:
Not sure why people seem to infrequently post topics asking people if theres a way to do x, when if you cant find it in the software itself you should realise that posting the question wont result in happy times, and is a moot point....
If you cant do it, we're all using the same watch, and none of us is named Samsung ....
Posting a topic where you announce you have a singular personal edge case, and to then vomit those needs out into a topic expecting to get a positive answer in 24 hours or less is just a little annoying..part of me dies when i see these topics
Im 51, luckily i dont have that annoying "i want it now" instant spoiled millennial mindset
I got my 1st laptop at 25, after saving 2 years for it, yet i know a 9yo who just got her 2nd MacBook Pro after whining until her parents gave in...society is doomed on the expectations new humans have of it. We really should have stopped making new humans about 30 years ago....
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Is one of the main points of a forum not to ask questions? I had a problem with the watch not sounding alarms unless system sounds were turned on, which I didn't want, I want all my sounds muted except alarms.
I had been through various mixes of the settings to no avail but asked the question Reddit and got a solution from someone who had a similar query.
We worked through it together to get this solution, thank goodness I didn't ask it on here as for you to see and be annoyed about!
PS - I too am 51 and thought the OP asked a valid question, I can relate to their point because I use a wake up app that doesn't work well with Bedtime mode so it would be useful to have a workaround as OP suggests.
MilgeS said:
Is one of the main points of a forum not to ask questions? I had a problem with the watch not sounding alarms unless system sounds were turned on, which I didn't want, I want all my sounds muted except alarms.
I had been through various mixes of the settings to no avail but asked the question Reddit and got a solution from someone who had a similar query.
We worked through it together to get this solution, thank goodness I didn't ask it on here as for you to see and be annoyed about!
PS - I too am 51 and thought the OP asked a valid question, I can relate to their point because I use a wake up app that doesn't work well with Bedtime mode so it would be useful to have a workaround as OP suggests.
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Assume a certain amount of humour in my response....
My main point is that the watch isnt like a phone where we have an easier time trying to mod things...
Wow, what an ignorant reply! This is a forum for asking questions about certain devices.. I understand there are more important things in the world, but that doesn't mean everything else stops!! If I want info on one of the 40+ wars currently ongoing, I'll ask in a more appropriate forum.
And it appears that despite not being Samsung, this is indeed possible!
Not sure what I wrote that offended you, but please feel free to skip over any other posts of mine in future
OnnoJ said:
Actually you can choose whether or not to synchronise Bedtime between watch and phone:
In Wear app on phonen go to Settings Watch - Advanced functions - Bedtime. There you select/deselect synchronisation of Bedtime between watch and phone.
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Brilliant, thanks for the help, exactly what I needed!