Hey guys
I wanted to see if anyone knows why this option (which is under developer options) somehow becomes disabled, even when i enable it, after reboot it becomes disabled.
And as I checked with stock watchfaces, they dont move in ambient mode so it will be dangerous for the Amoled.
Except for some third-party watchfaces which have burn-in protection themselves...
Any ideas?
This has been driving me crazy as well. I use watch maker faces exclusively and prefer reduced brightness instead of dim mode. I don't want to risk burn in though. The toggle in dev options only works with OLED displays.
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is there any way at all to disable the screen from dimming on backgrounds with too much white? i think its ridiculous that they built this functionality into the phone without an option to turn it off, is there anyway to tweak the registry? i got the phone because of the screen but if i cant enjoy bright backgrounds n what not theres not much point
There is a option for that. "Screen brightness", switch from Auto to Low/Med/High
no thats not the issue, i have it on high with auto off, yet it still dims when theres too many white pixels on the screen, apparently its built into the samsung driver for the screen, really considering returning it due to this
kdub1987 said:
no thats not the issue, i have it on high with auto off, yet it still dims when theres too many white pixels on the screen, apparently its built into the samsung driver for the screen, really considering returning it due to this
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I immediately noticed this effect when testing an Omnia 7 in a mobile phone shop here in Switzerland and I found that quite annoying.
Try moving from page to page in the Office app. You'll notice a decrease in screen brightness when more white pixels are shown. At least that seems to be how the built-in algorithm works.
I prefer the 4.3" screen of the HTC HD7.
Hi!
It may look strange, but I really would like to keep the screen of the gear watch always on, at the lowest possible light setting and that when the watch detects the wrist movement, the light settings come back to the normal one.
I'm sure this will add up to very low battrey life. But if I can get a day like this, it would be great!
Thanks!
I wanted this at first, because coming from the Pebble -it's just so convenient having the screen accessible all the time and the gesture doesn't always register.My idea was that it should just be a very minimal screen in terms of pixel use to leverage the power saving qualities of the AMOLED tech. Problem is, the AMOLED screen is also known for burn-in on the phones, so I'm afraid even if we set this it would damage the watch screen in the long run (and I would be ok if I only got a day of use also, as I'm fine charging every night anyways).
There is a watchface called "AlwaysWatch" in the Samsung Gear store that's supposed to give you an always on face until the battery runs out. Problem is, it runs as an app instead of the default face and of course I'm afraid to try it due to the burn-in issue. I sent the developer a note saying make the watchface a small, but still legible digital font instead of analog and float the time around the screen periodically would get around this burn-in risk, we'll see if he adds the option.
Thanks for the info on this app (I also have a pebble ).
In order not to burn the screen, it would be preferable to change the watchface form time to time and put it in the lowet light possible...
FixB said:
Thanks for the info on this app (I also have a pebble ).
In order not to burn the screen, it would be preferable to change the watchface form time to time and put it in the lowet light possible...
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One of my disappointments besides the flaky gesture wake up is that there doesn't seem to be an ambient light sensor to trigger screen brightness changes. I would have thought that would be a no brainer for a device such as this by now.
rEVOLVE said:
One of my disappointments besides the flaky gesture wake up is that there doesn't seem to be an ambient light sensor to trigger screen brightness changes. I would have thought that would be a no brainer for a device such as this by now.
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Maybe the camera light sensor in the Gear 2 could be used for that purpose?
All,
Trying to make the S2 work, I really like it, and I had some questions (although there doesn't seem to be a lot of traffic here). First, is there a program to create custom vibration patterns for alerts? For some of mine, (At Bat is a great example) there are no vibration alerts at all. It's there, but it doesn't alert me to it. Baseball season and all, it would be nice to get something, anything, when there is a score change. There are some other apps as well, and I can't find any setting in the Gear app. Is it possible?
Battery life is a struggle for me. I've disabled WiFi, and dialed the screen brightness to 4, but I want a watch to be a watch, so I use ambient mode. I think one of the challenges is ambient mode is brighter than the active watch face. I think I read here there are no user settings for us, but I wanted to check. You could reduce the screen brightness by half and it would still be fine for me. Coming from AW, it seems a basic setting.
Any help would be appreciated!
ret4425 said:
Coming from AW, it seems a basic setting.
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No brightness setting for dim mode in Android Wear. On my LG-R dim mode is brighter than active mode
dersie said:
No brightness setting for dim mode in Android Wear. On my LG-R dim mode is brighter than active mode
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Sorry, I should have been clearer. I have a Moto360 2nd gen, and that flat tire everyone moans about works pretty well as a sensor, so it scales the brightness so I don't have to. Without a sensor, I guess you'd be in the same boat.
Could anyone help me solving this annoying useless bothering "issue" that activates the touchscreen whenever i use ambient sisplay ? What i mean is that, unlike before ( marshmallow i guess ), when you're using ambient display and a notification pops up or if you take out your phone out of your pocket, if you unavoidable touch the screen, it directs you into the lock screen. I want to disable this thing just like it used to be before. Unfortunately i have almost no start point. Afaik i have to edit some apks, i took a look into firmware-res.apk into values folder for some strings but i couldn't find anything related to ambient display which seems to be attached to doze. If anyone can help by any mean i would be very pleased. Thanks.
Hello, new user here, I got a Watch 2 Sport after a few years with a LG G Watch R.
I was surprised to see that the screen seems to have 4 modes, instead of the canonical 2 modes (ambient mode and interactive mode): after a few seconds of inactivity in interactive mode, for a second the screen dims while still in interactive mode, then transitions to ambient mode, while still being dimmed. When woken up again, it "undims" itself while still in ambient mode for a second, then transitions into interactive mode. Picture explanation: https://i.imgur.com/0mUcIyb.jpg
The main problem I have with this is that the "dimmed ambient mode" is really dim, and basically makes the ambient mode useless except in very dark environments... Does anyone know of a way to disable the dimming or, at least, set the brightness level of this dimmed mode? It seems to be unaffected by the screen brightness settings...
I use a custom watch face, so even if the solution involves changing some code in the watch face it would still be very welcome; however, I have not found any mention of this "feature" in the android wear documentation...
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Hello, new user here, I got a Watch 2 Sport after a few years with a LG G Watch R.
I was surprised to see that the screen seems to have 4 modes, instead of the canonical 2 modes (ambient mode and interactive mode): after a few seconds of inactivity in interactive mode, for a second the screen dims while still in interactive mode, then transitions to ambient mode, while still being dimmed. When woken up again, it "undims" itself while still in ambient mode for a second, then transitions into interactive mode. Picture explanation: https://i.imgur.com/0mUcIyb.jpg
The main problem I have with this is that the "dimmed ambient mode" is really dim, and basically makes the ambient mode useless except in very dark environments... Does anyone know of a way to disable the dimming or, at least, set the brightness level of this dimmed mode? It seems to be unaffected by the screen brightness settings...
I use a custom watch face, so even if the solution involves changing some code in the watch face it would still be very welcome; however, I have not found any mention of this "feature" in the android wear documentation...
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which custom face app do you use? i've used watchmaker, but that doesn't seem to dim - just pauses the second hand. thus, I'm stuck using the stock watch faces, as the dimmed look is classier/more practical, but the regular faces are not very good.
I don't use anything like watchmaker, I use a watch face that I developed from scratch in Android Studio... By the way, I tried installing Watchmaker and I tried one of the free watch faces, and it does, indeed, dim (https://i.imgur.com/q3pGRWi.jpg), so I'm not sure what you mean.
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I don't use anything like watchmaker, I use a watch face that I developed from scratch in Android Studio... By the way, I tried installing Watchmaker and I tried one of the free watch faces, and it does, indeed, dim (https://i.imgur.com/q3pGRWi.jpg), so I'm not sure what you mean.
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i'll send some screenshots later this week. but I'd like the watchmaker face to dim like stock.
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I don't use anything like watchmaker, I use a watch face that I developed from scratch in Android Studio... By the way, I tried installing Watchmaker and I tried one of the free watch faces, and it does, indeed, dim (https://i.imgur.com/q3pGRWi.jpg), so I'm not sure what you mean.
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so yes, technically, you are correct - it does dim. I guess I meant for it to transition to ambient mode like stock. does the one that you developed to that? i've been looking for a watch face like stock, but with a more legible calendar widget.