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I only have experience with WearOS 2.0, but it seems to me that it does a bad job of letting you know what it's doing. I have the impression that when running updates it sometimes give you no indication that's what it's doing outside seeing the battery drain a lot faster than usual.
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Mental Hospitality posted:I got mine today and it is definitely a small device. On my unusually tiny wrists, it fits just just well enough. Could stand to be 1-2mm larger in diameter and still look good on me. If they made an XL version, I could see a lot of people gravitating towards it. I've yet to wear it all day at work to judge battery life. I will leave AOD and TTW on (like I have on my Galaxy Watch4 which easily handles the 12 hours I keep it on during the day) to see just how it compares to my old watch. I also have weird bird wrists, and that smaller size sounds appealing to me. My concern would be with the bands, but the lugs on the leather bands would make me feel a little safer. I've worn a watch for most of my life, and having to cinch bands down as tight as they go has led to me wearing out many more watchbands than watches.
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Nov 3, 2022 08:12
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In case anyone hasn't seen the news, it looks like Samsung rolled out an update that was bricking Watch 4s. From what I read they stopped the rollout so not too many should be affected, but I figured I'd mention it. https://www.androidauthority.com/galaxy-watch-4-bricking-3232056/
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Nov 7, 2022 23:31
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UncleGuito posted:They've been pretty consistent with supporting hardware initiatives. Stadia wasn't a hardware product (except for the new controller). Yeah, and Stadia was a first attempt at an emerging segment that wasn't well-defined yet. Nvidia seems to have had the best approach to games as a streaming service, but it took some time for it to become apparent they had a better overall take on it. I don't think Google had a clear idea what Stadia was supposed to be, whether it was cross-platform or proprietary, mobile or home, and also had the classic Google problem of being in a silo competing for time and money with other divisions within the company itself. They might have also seen the writing on the wall that Microsoft or Sony getting into the segment would probably make Stadia irrelevant overnight.
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Nov 8, 2022 22:03
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Frush posted:Since it's Black Friday/Cyber Monday I'm debating grabbing a smartwatch since I just upgraded my phone (to a Pixel). Finding myself a bit overwhelmed by the options, but fortunately I don't have any particular brand loyalty. I have a couple Mobvoi Ticwatches, and I just checked and my E3 would run UDisc, apparently. It shows up as installable in Google Play, at least. The E3 is running Wear OS 2.0 but is supposed to get updated to Wear OS 3.0 at some point. Here is the Canadian page for it: https://www.mobvoi.com/ca/pages/ticwatche3
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Nov 26, 2022 09:13
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My first foray into smartwatches was a refurb Ticwatch E2, and it sold me on the concept well enough to upgrade to the E3. I have my share of gripes about the thing, especially the software (can't they hire a native English speaker to do internationalization?), but the price is hard to beat considering the features you get.
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Nov 26, 2022 22:54
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How is the experience of a Galaxy Watch 5 on a Pixel? I got gifted one for Christmas and I haven't opened it yet or really read up on it, but I'd appreciate to hear what other people think.
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Dec 26, 2022 11:23
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From a little research it looks like I would lose some things I do like if I go to the Galaxy, like being able to control the camera on my phone from my watch. The gift was given with the explicit understanding I might need to exchange it, so I'm free to return it. I'm kind of thinking Fossil Gen 6 or Pixel Watch would suit my needs better.
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Dec 26, 2022 21:52
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:The Google Camera app works just fine on a Galaxy watch. I read a review that said it only worked if you had a Samsung phone.
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Dec 26, 2022 21:56
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Sir Bobert Fishbone posted:That might be the Samsung camera connector but I just tried it with my gw4 and pixel 7 and could definitely snap a remote photo from the watch Do you get the video like you're looking through a viewfinder or whatever?
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Dec 27, 2022 03:35
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Can I get alerts and reply to texts to third-party apps like on WearOS 2? One of the main uses I have for my smartwatch is being able to see and if necessary respond to texts, both from Messages and a couples app called Between. And does Google Pay work if you have a Pixel instead of a Samsung? And I use the media controls for VLC on my current watch - I'm assuming that should still work? Google Apps like Keep work normal? Sorry to keep flooding, but I know it's supposed to be best in class but I got worried about my experience being limited because I don't have a Samsung phone.
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Dec 27, 2022 04:20
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bull3964 posted:Right now, the best you can really do is use health connect and plunk them both into Fit. Neither Samsung Health nor Fitbit supporting writing of any significant fitness data in their stores, but they output it. Thank you for the feedback - maybe I will give the Galaxy Watch 5 a try. I don't want to lose functionality, but it would be so nice to have proper internationalization and feel less sketchy about using some of the health apps.
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Okay, I've been using the Galaxy Watch 5 for a few days now and I'm really liking it. I haven't had time to really dig into it yet, but compared to my Ticwatch the experience is way smoother and less intrusive. I'm actually making some light use of the health sensors because it makes it so easy to do so. Battery life is seeming impressive so far, too. I did change the band to a plain black leather band, although even the stock band wasn't bad - I just am not a fan of silicone watchbands. I should have more time to play with it over the next week or so, but so far it's great.
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Jan 1, 2023 07:41
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teethgrinder posted:Crossposting from the Android OS thread because I was obliviously posting there... Are you talking about the Play Store on your watch or your phone? Because you can filter to just watch apps in the phone Play Store, or at least I can on my Pixel 6. Open the Play Store, select Apps at the bottom, Other devices at the top, and click the button for Watch if it isn't already highlighted. I'm not wearing a watch at this very moment, but I don't remember the Play Store being a problem on my watches aside from the awkwardness of browsing on a tiny screen.
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Jan 24, 2023 20:29
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teethgrinder posted:It's weird, on my laptop browser I seem to have to filter after each search. On my phone, just my Nvidia Shield shows up under "other devices", but yeah the filter works there. I have a feeling the watch will show up eventually. Maybe check to see if a Google Play Store update is waiting on your phone? Or an update for your watch? I'm not sure - I feel like I'm still figuring out all the functionality of my watches and phones, despite having used Wear OS 2 watches for a year or two and having my Galaxy Watch 5 since Christmas.
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Jan 24, 2023 20:38
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teethgrinder posted:The one thing that seems to be completely missing on Wear OS is some kind of news app. Tizen had Flipboard! Not even Google News. I just checked, and apparently you can install a Radio Free Europe app, or one of multiple Voice of America apps. Apparently the US is keeping at the forefront of wearable propaganda.
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CLAM DOWN posted:So that means no Samsung apps needed at all? I just checked my Pixel 6 and I have just the Galaxy Wearable app to go with my Watch 5. I was hesitant going with a Samsung device but I've been really impressed with the Watch 5.
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Feb 6, 2023 19:45
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I have a black leather band on my Watch 5 and it looks really good. The only reason I'm thinking of looking for another band is my current one doesn't keep it snug enough on my wrist for the blood oxygenation reading to be reliable. If Mobvoi ever updates my Ticwatch E3 to WearOS 3 I might give it another go, but the Watch 5 is just a nicer watch in general. It's paired to my secondary phone to avoid the whole having to reset everything when changing phones.
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Jun 9, 2023 19:19
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Soul Glo posted:my wife wants a galaxy watch to replace her dead active 2. is there anything wrong with the galaxy watch 5 line i should know about before buying? i've read the 4 line has a bricking problem. Not that I'm aware of. I wear it daily, and it's paired to my Pixel 6. I guess one caveat is that if it is paired to something other than a Samsung phone you might miss some tracking or have to jump through hoops to get some interoperability working. I'd defer to bull3964 on that, though - they are more knowledgeable than I am.
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My Galaxy Watch 5 does the green flash thing, which I also assume is wrist detection. Mine locks whenever it is off my wrist, which I'm perfectly fine with. The green flashes don't bother me, personally.
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Jun 24, 2023 04:26
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Huh, it looks like Mobvoi might be close to actually updating the Ticwatch 3 series to Wear OS 3.0. I'm really happy with my Galaxy Watch, but still have my Ticwatch E3 paired to my secondary phone (so it never gets used) and am interested to see how it does with an updated OS. https://www.androidpolice.com/ticwatch-pro-3-series-e3-wear-os-3-beta/?newsletter_popup=1 If Mobvoi actually put any effort into internationalization I'd be more likely to recommend them, but the terrible English translations and convoluted permissions they had for Wear OS 2.0 kind of put me off them. The watch served me well, though, and if it improves with Wear OS 3 then it might be a nice budget option. Edit: I also still have the Ticwatch E2 that served as my proof of concept for whether I'd find a smartwatch helpful, because I never throw things away.
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Just installed the update on my Watch 5 - we'll see how it goes. Now if Mobvoi would ever get around to releasing on WearOS 3 for my Ticwatch E3 then I could see how viable that watch is with a more modern OS. Pretty much zero chance it would make it supplant the Watch 5 as my daily driver, but having my backup watch be more competent would be nice. Especially if Mobvoi improves their internationalization so everything wasn't low-effort Engrish, although I hold out little hope for that. The Korean app I use to communicate with my partner does a better job with internationalization, even though you can definitely tell that anything outside the Korean market for them is a bit of an afterthought.
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I have a Pixel 6 and a Galaxy Watch 5. Are there plusses and minuses to installing the Samsung Health app? It would be nice to see my heartrate over time instead of being limited to one day at a time on the watch itself.
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bull3964 posted:Fossil added Assistant quite awhile ago on WearOS3 so I don't think there's anything stopping others like Mobvoi at this point. If Mobvoi ever updates the Ticwatch E3 then I might be able to find out. Their product support is not what I would call agile.
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Has anyone had trouble with notifications after the update? I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like my Galaxy Watch 5 is less consistent with notifications, and sometimes struggles to answer phone calls. I might just be paranoid and jumping at ghosts because I knew the update took place, but figured I'd ask.
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minusX posted:So I was looking for the timeline of how fast they made changes etc, and looking at appbrain and This is an ongoing problem with phone apps in general, and I want to say it happened to some extent with shareware software on PC, too. It's also a massive security concern, because bad actors will buy an app, load it up with malware, and unless you're paying attention pretty closely it can go unnoticed for a while. Just adding extortionate subscription fees is pretty mild compared to some of what has been going on out there.
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MJP posted:What's the goon zeitgeist recommendation for a smartwatch or hybrid smartwatch whose primary goal is to tell the time, show calendar reminders, and only listen to basic OK Google commands if a button is pressed? I started off with Mobvoi TicWatches - I have both an E2 and an E3. You might check out TicWatches as they're more likely to be in your price range and sounds like a decent one would serve your purposes. I currently use a Galaxy Watch 5 as my primary watch, and have my grumbles about Mobvoi, but the E3 was pretty good when it was my daily driver. One of my gripes is that Mobvoi tends to be slow with updates (my E3 is still on Wear OS 2.0, despite a long series of promises it would be updated to Wear OS 3.0), and their English internationalization is pretty weak, but it performed well otherwise.
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Quixzlizx posted:Thanks for the replies. I think the Galaxy Watch 6 deal is over, now it's $145 of trade-in value toward a Watch 5, which seems less worth it. Mobvoi makes some TicWatches that might serve your needs, but at the prices you're talking about for Galaxy Watches I think it is hard to recommend anything else. I went from a TicWatch E3 to a Galaxy Watch 5 and the Galaxy is superior in every way.
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bull3964 posted:Hell hath officially frozen over. I'm honestly surprised - I thought they were going to go full Motorola and just drop the whole idea of updating. I still have my Ticwatch E3 as a secondary watch paired to my secondary phone, so will roadtest this at some point. I wish Mobvoi would actually pay attention to proper Internationalization, though. They don't seem to care much about the English language market, and even that announcement screams that it was written by someone with an iffy command of the language.
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bull3964 posted:My old Ticwatch 3s are downloading WearOS 3.5 right now. Did you do anything to trigger it? I tried checking the System Update button on my E3 but it just claims to be up to date.
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Anyone else have their Galaxy watch stop getting notifications, and the Galaxy app on their phone stop working? I have a Watch 5 and as of today it stopped getting notifications from my phone, and the Galaxy app won't open on my phone. Looking at the reviews in the Play Store shows me a couple people experiencing the same thing I am. Earlier today the watch showed itself as not connected to my phone, but my phone showed it connected via Bluetooth. An hour or so ago I installed the January Android system update on my phone, and now my watch shows itself as connected to my phone, but I'm still not getting notifications. Before the update the Galaxy Wear app on my phone would just show spinning dots like it was trying to load, but now it acts like it is going to open and then immediately closes. I'm guessing this is something Samsung needs to fix with an update, but I'm curious if anyone else is seeing this behavior and maybe has a fix for it? I've already cleared the cache for the Galaxy Wear app on my phone, and force stopped it and restarted it. Both phone and watch have been restarted a couple times, too. Edit: Nevermind, I fixed it. Apparently it is an issue with the date, for some reason: https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Galaxy-Watch/Wearable-app-is-stuck-on-loading-screen-or-crashes-with-Galaxy/td-p/2769289 Manually setting my phone to December 31st let me open the Galaxy Wear app, and then I put the time back to automatic and the fix appears to have held. I just tested it and got a notification on my watch, so hopefully it's all good now. CaptainSarcastic fucked around with this message at 08:11 on Jan 5, 2024 |
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hooah posted:I did this fix a couple days ago and everything was fine over the weekend, but now it's broken again. I redid the date hack, and now it looks like there's an update for Galaxy Wearable that might fix the problem. I got the update and my watch has continued to behave properly, so hopefully that does the trick.
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Organic Lube User posted:I'm mostly interested in ECG mode and also I'm hoping that I can use this feature I just read about where you can make your watch act as a virtual bluetooth mouse that will even recognize your finger taps as mouseclicks. That would be super handy for me, but seems to also be only for Samsung phones. I haven't got it working yet, but if you're talking about WowMouse it is phone agnostic, as far as I can tell. So far I've only tried it on my TicWatch E3 but that watch hasn't updated to WearOS 3 yet and while it gets detected by other devices I have yet to make it work. Might try again after updating it to 3, or try it on my Galaxy Watch instead. https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/13/24037132/wowmouse-wear-os-samsung-galaxy-watch-bluetooth-mouse-gesture-control-doublepoint
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Organic Lube User posted:Yeah that's it. It just says it's not compatible with my phone in the app store, so I assumed it was because I'm on a Pixel8 and not a Samsung. Does the Play Store give you the option to look at other devices where it says incompatible with your device? I installed it on my TicWatch by going into the Play Store from my watch and searching on it there. I'm pretty sure the phone the watch is paired to doesn't matter - my TicWatch is paired to an out-of-date Motorola phone. e:fb
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Finally got WearOS 3 installed on my TicWatch E3, but it's my backup watch paired with my backup phone, so I haven't really tested it out yet.
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Okay, this is only semi-related, but my TicWatch E2 wouldn't charge, and the charger itself would burn out, if I plugged it into a charger that put out more than 1amp. I have no idea if the Pixel Watch 2 might be running into something along those lines (the charger wanting more or fewer amps than the source is providing).
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CLAM DOWN posted:This is exclusively a Pixel Watch problem too, my Garmin works fine. I don't get it. Here are my Google Messages settings: Maybe try turning on "Pop on screen?" My other thought is that another device is"stealing" notifications - if you're logged into the same account on another device and it is alerting but your watch isn't. I've noticed a serious lag between when which devices get notifications when they're all getting the same notification, like a Google Keep alarm. Maybe something like that? 
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Bright Bart posted:Hi everyone. I'd post this in a general smartwatch thread since I would be just as easily interested in a Suunto or Garmin if they met my needs, but there doesn't seem to be such an active thread. I just checked, and my Galaxy Watch 5 can have the screen timeout set to a minute, so the second hand would be visible throughout that time. I'm not sure if there's an app or hidden setting to change this, though - I know you said you needed at least 2 minutes.
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sourdough posted:Yeah it did work for me, that was able to be toggled off I tried it after you posted about the Developer Options, and it worked for me, too. Galaxy Watch 5 here.
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