Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS)
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@flypg it works and it works well.
But when I tried it not only did I have the usual high battery drain whilst listening to music (to be expected) I was getting very high battery usage all the time.
I removed YTM and reset the watch, battery was all good.
Putting YTM back onto the watch again drains the battery.
I guess this might be why Google were initially reluctant to release YTM for older devices?
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@olymay You installed the official Google Play version or the previous one via ADB?
I used on the latest days and I not detected any abnormal battery usage. But thank you, I will put a eye on this. -
@flypg said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):
@olymay You installed the official Google Play version or the previous one via ADB?
I used on the latest days and I not detected any abnormal battery usage. But thank you, I will put a eye on this.I only use the official play store apps.
It was ok for a few days (maybe a week) but then it just went haywire. It might be just me, who knows. and i am not a software expert and i don’t have access to the logs, so i may be wrong and it might have nothing to do with YTM.
However i have no other apps installed on my S7 (other than what it comes with) so i odn’t know what else it could have been.
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@olymay Nice, I installed since it launched on Google Play but I used the last 7 days only. I’m on the time limit
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@flypg i hope it works for you.
but i won’t be installing it again.
Maybe if there is a S7 successor i’ll give it another go (please let there be a S7 successor, please Suunto!)
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@olymay I hope that some improvements reach to the S7, not to the successor
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@flypg said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):
@olymay I hope that some improvements reach to the S7, not to the successor
There have been no updates to the S7 since April (7 months ago!!), so I have accepted that it is essentially dead to Suunto now, it won’t receive any further updates or improvements
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@olymay I not lose hope
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@flypg said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):
@olymay I not lose hope
I’m a very optimistic person by nature, but 7 months without an update says to me it’s dead
I hope I am wrong, but I don’t see why Suunto would continue support for the S7, as Google have also dropped all support to WearOS 2 devices.
Either Suunto are working on a version 2 (please, please, please) or they are giving up on WearOS completely (this would be a sad thing).
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I love my fancy suunto 7… but I have assumed we won’t have any other impressive surprise… probably just a minor security update, hence I have bought a garmin forerunner 945 and I must love it… just missing the smart features… but It is the kind of watch that everybody need: Music, garmin pay, intervals , Maps , waypoints, and more & more… probably I should buy a samsung watch 4 as non sport watch due Wear OS 3 wont be supported for a real sportwatch in a long time.
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@cristian-0 sorry but why that should be the watch that everybody needs?
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@isazi I’m guessing he meant has everything one needs. Unless he’s a secret marketing spy from Garmin trying to convert us.
Either way, my S7 still does everything it did before, and does it well. So I’ll keep using it til the battery or something else goes bad. Hopefully a similar WearOS watch will be around by then.
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@aleksander-h most of people love offline music in their watches… But Polar and Suunto for any reason that I don’t know, they don’t have any sportwatch with music and both have used wear os to get it… Polar m600 and suunto 7… The polar m600 was/is a good watch but polar canceled the wear os project … Will Suunto do the same? After doing a nice job? I am not sure, but anybody tell us the opposite thing.
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@cristian-0 said in Youtube Music on S7 (WearOS):
@aleksander-h most of people love offline music in their watches… But Polar and Suunto for any reason that I don’t know, they don’t have any sportwatch with music and both have used wear os to get it… Polar m600 and suunto 7… The polar m600 was/is a good watch but polar canceled the wear os project … Will Suunto do the same? After doing a nice job? I am not sure, but anybody tell us the opposite thing.
I think getting offline music is harder than one thinks. Fitbit never managed to get anyone other than pandora on board if I remember correctly. If Fitbit can’t do it, I fail to see how Polar and Suunto would manage (without the use of a platform like Wear).
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@aleksander-h for sure! but if Garmin is integrating offline music and NFC payments for years, at least we know It is possible and should be easier now than before. And they have been implementing those features on the vivoactive 3 music and garmin fenix 5 plus since early 2018.
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@aleksander-h
Getting music on the watch may not as be hard as your think.- Coros has offline music, Fitbit sense has offline music - it shouldn’t be hard to add harddrive and and an app to play your own music content. So that should be pretty easily available to all watches.
- Streaming subscription services - big issue here is what deals have been made. In the past Spotify was in a locked contract with Garmin and Samsung (which is why not even Apple Watch had spotify) - however since the Google Samsung deal with wear os the contract lock with Spotify has changed, as all wear os watches and even Apple Watch now has it. This suggests that all manufacturers should be able to get a Spotify app now - that lock that Samsung had on it has gone. So manufacturers need to step up their game.
- What about other streaming services - Apple locks theirs, but what about Pandora & Deezer (both are on fitbit, and deezer is also on Garmin); and then there is also Amazon music (which is loads better than it used to be - would say as good as Spotify now in regards to their content - and this is on Garmin); and then you have YTM now, which I suspect Google would be happy for everyone to use…
To me if you don’t have at least own music, you aren’t trying, as the at is the min, if you can’t get a subscription service.
