Session on WearOS at Google I/O
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A small glimpse of what YT Music will look like.
https://9to5google.com/2021/07/22/youtube-music-wear-os-play/
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@aleksander-h considering that spotify offline will probably be available around the same time as YTM, Google has missed out on a huge, huge selling point and option to obtain new subscribers for YTM.
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Not sure I want an update to “2 days max” battery life, when I already get 3 days+.
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@jantikainen GPay got an update in Norway today, and it finally works 🤩
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@nigel-taylor-0 Super interested in your settings to get 3 days battery.
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@patrick-löffler said in Session on WearOS at Google I/O:
@nigel-taylor-0 Super interested in your settings to get 3 days battery.
I think the significant settings are >
Display>
Adjust Brightness = Auto (to lowest setting)
Sunlight Boost = Off
Always-on screen = Off
Screen timeout = 5secsGestures>
Tilt-to-wake = Off
Power-save tilt = On
Touch-to-wake = Off
For navigation > Wrist Gestures = OffConnectivity>
WiFi = Off
(when at home, I tend to leave my phone in my office, and Bluetooth doesn’t reach from that location to kitchen, bed, and a few other places I spend a lot of time - and I’m not that bothered about receiving the notifications as I’ll get them when I go back close to the phone or sitting in the living room below it, so don’t care about connecting to my WiFi).I have Heart Rate, Daily Resources and Sleep tracking all ON.
Any of the Suunto Watch faces.
Tiles are Today, Heart Rate, Resources, Sleep, Overview, Weather.No Google Fit. No auto-updates.
This gets me a solid 2+ days before I consider recharging - and would easily cover the full 3rd day…except…whenever I go running (3 or 4 days out of 7) - I tend to top up before I go (I like to do an activity starting from 100% for no particular reason!), and then a quick re-charge after I finish.
I also usually toggle AirPlane if going for a run, even if I have my phone with me or not.
My phone (Samsung) is also on some kind of schedule via the Battery Guardian app in Good Guardians, so it goes low-power overnight…I don’t know if this impacts things and the Bluetooth connection stops and the Watch doesn’t bother wasting power after a while, as I seem to drain very little battery overnight from say 11pm until 8am…maybe 7% or so…(so around 1%ish per hour or less, compared to roughly 1.5 to 2% per hour normally)…if I’m doing a morning run, I know if I’m fully charged the night before, I can wake to the vibrating alarm, and can recharge back to 100% in less than 10 mins or so.
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Got the new play store and pay during the night in Denmark. Excited to see if it works later today.
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@harboe Just tested in my local store and it worked. An odd thing I don’t know if it’s just because it’s the first time is that I had to do it twice and on the second try it prompted for my pin.
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@harboe said in Session on WearOS at Google I/O:
@harboe Just tested in my local store and it worked. An odd thing I don’t know if it’s just because it’s the first time is that I had to do it twice and on the second try it prompted for my pin.
I think that’s perfectly normal for Google Pay, it’s a security thing. Next time should be a simple tap and go
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@aleksander-h Hello everyone, from today it is possible to pay by watch via Wear OS in the Czech Republic as well! One question, please: at the time of payment, the watch must be connected to the phone via Wear OS (Bluetooth? Thanks.
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@martin-vrska said in Session on WearOS at Google I/O:
@aleksander-h Hello everyone, from today it is possible to pay by watch via Wear OS in the Czech Republic as well! One question, please: at the time of payment, the watch must be connected to the phone via Wear OS (Bluetooth? Thanks.
No, you do not need to have the watch connected to the phone at the time of payment
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@sindre-svellingen Yes finally!
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@olymay I believe there is a limit to how many payments you can make before you must re-establish a connection to the phone.
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@aleksander-h said in Session on WearOS at Google I/O:
@olymay I believe there is a limit to how many payments you can make before you must re-establish a connection to the phone.
Yes, I think you are right (also the first payment must be connected to phone too) but I don’t know what the limit is as I have never done more than one transaction without my phone.
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Spotify with offline music could come to our watches any day now:
“Look out for Spotify on smartwatches running offline Wear OS from the likes of Fossil, Mobvoi, and Suunto rolling out over the coming weeks. Head to Google Play to download the app or update your watch to the latest version. Once the new features are available, you’ll be on your way.”
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@sindre-svellingen just tried GPay for the first time and it worked perfectly! Very happy about this update.
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Hmm, not a massive fan of the new Play Store to be honest!
Its basically the same as it was, except with some extra mess in the form of distracting tablet buttons that could be a lot more transparent than they are.
Oh, and a wonky curved clock, in case I forgot what time it is from looking at the watch face 5 seconds before opening the Play Store.
I wonder if there should be a WearOS setting to configure ‘hint’ colour (like on the old Windows Phones) across the whole OS. It all feels a bit jarring going from the subtle yellow tinted Suunto Marine watch face, to suddenly getting these bright white buttons.
Across other Google Apps, they seem to have their own tint too…most apps are Blue (Timer, Alarm, Messages etc), Keep Note is Orange…wouldnt it be nice to set a Theme for the Watch?
