I use gesture to wake the watch and I also wear it at night so that it can wake me with vibration. However, the gesture will wake the watch frequently while I am sleeping and the screen is very bright even with the minimum brightness level. I had to choose a watch face that is extreme plain to minimise the lighting. Any chance that we can further reduce the brightness level without having to re-design all watch face?
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I use gesture to wake the watch and I also wear it at night so that it can wake me with vibration. However, the gesture will wake the watch frequently while I am sleeping and the screen is very bright even with the minimum brightness level. I had to choose a watch face that is extreme plain to minimise the lighting. Any chance that we can further reduce the brightness level without having to re-design all watch face?
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I don't know, but you can always from the top menu choose to make the screen go black by pressing the icon that shows a watch symbol. You are sleeping so you don't need to see the time, but if you want to see it you have to press a button. To make it go black again you have to do the same procedure again
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Hi
I've got a couple of basic questions about this watch that I can't find the answer to online.
1. With the always-on screen, I've seen that the display is dimmer than the full on screen (as well as simpified design/colours etc). Can it be seen outdoors in direct sunlight? Does the brightness automatically increase, or does the screen need to be woken up to see in sunlight? If so, how do you do this? Flick your wrist?
2. When a notification comes in, what happens? Does it slide over the watchface and fill the screen? If so, and you don't swipe it away, how long does it stay there for?
Many thanks
Anyone....?
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Always-on screen is fine in the sun, although it depends on the watch face you're using. Some custom watch faces are barely readable in pitch dark, let alone in the sun ☺
I don't think that the auto brightness works in "always - on" mode, it only works when the watch screen is fully on.
Waking up the device is dead easy, every time you look at it, on turning your wrist it switches on immediately. It's sensors are very precise so the whole operation is really smooth.
When a notification comes in you just feel a small vibration, the screen stays off until you look at it. As soon as you turn it on, you will see a small yellow indicator, that means you can slide left and see the notifications received.
If you happen to be using the watch while the notification comes in, you get a small heads up notification on top of the screen, that disappears after a few seconds. Clicking on it will open the notification.
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Appreciate that, thanks a lot
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I received my Geaar S3 Frontier yesterday, switching from an Android wear watch.
After playing around with the watch for several hours and testing many different watch faces I can't figur out how to display the yellow indicator for new notifications in ambient mode (AOD activated).
Do I really have to enter "active mode" to see if I have unread notifications?
Yes, you have.
In aod only static information, apart from the hour/date, can be shown. Battery cannot be showed also!
Xavi (S7 SM-G930F)
Same experience but reviving this topic just in case there is any new setting/workaround? Love to keep my phone with AOD on, Wake Up Gesture off (so that when i'm out dancing or just moving my hands around it doesn't turn on for no reason), but would love to just turn my wrist and see if there is a notification (ie. screen remains dim).
There's a difference between knowing that there is a notification and being able to read it's contents.
My watch settings:
AOD
Wake up gesture- off
Notification indicator- show on watch face
Sound and vibrate- on (wine cork sound is relatively unobtrusive)
My Gear Manager app settings:
Turn screen on- off (if this is on, notifications will automatically be readable on the screen)
Notification indicator- on
Auto show- off, I know there's a notification because it beeps but it doesn't activate screen so I can't read it.
Auto show- on, tapping on the screen will show message.
There's a lot of flexibility. A notification can be silent, trigger a sound, trigger a vibration, or trigger an indicator. The contents of the notification can be automatically displayed, displayed by a wrist gesture, displayed by a simple tap, or not displayed at all.
Is there a way to have the Ambient Display show notifications, but not the lock screen? I like seeing that there is a notification while the phone is laying there, but I hate having a long scroll of email and other things showing once I wake the phone.
Second, is there a way to adjust the lock screen time out? Seems to default to like 5 or six seconds. I would like to lengthen that by a bit, but don't see a setting.
Thanks!
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Is there a way to have the Ambient Display show notifications, but not the lock screen? I like seeing that there is a notification while the phone is laying there, but I hate having a long scroll of email and other things showing once I wake the phone.
Second, is there a way to adjust the lock screen time out? Seems to default to like 5 or six seconds. I would like to lengthen that by a bit, but don't see a setting.
Thanks!
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You can turn off lock screen notifications in:
Settings - Security & location - Lock screen preferences-on the lock screen
I don't know how adjusting that setting affects Ambient display though. You should experiment with it.
There is no way to adjust screen timeout on the lockscreen or Ambient display.
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Yeah, I shut off notification on the lock screen but it also turns off the notification icons on the ambient display. I like those on, just not the ones on the lock screen.
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Yeah, I shut off notification on the lock screen but it also turns off the notification icons on the ambient display. I like those on, just not the ones on the lock screen.
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I guess the definitive answer is: No, you cannot have Ambient display notifications on and lock screen notifications off.
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Is there a third party app that allows you to use the wakeup gesture...*however*...adjust the screen time-out to more than 6 seconds when viewing the watch this way?
I believe this is well known - however, the screen time-out feature ONLY works when you turn on the watch in some other way than using the wake-up feature. If, say, you turn the bezel or hit the button to turn it on, then the screen time-out setting will be used (as whatever you set it to). However, I have no found a way to adjust the time-out when the watch is turned on via raising your wrist (aka Wake-up Gesture enabled).
Thanks, in advance,
Rob
There are many internet posts of whatever display timeout being set, that a very short display timeout occurs from a wrist twist gesture.
This is purely down to bad description of application of this gesture from Samsung.
The wrist twist gesture, is only to be used as a quick glance for the time, it it not to be used for full watch functionality. You need to push any other wake setup you have set for the set display timeout to work. Simple as that! Just a failure on their part to explain!
So, Your saying to toggle off the "Raise wrist to wake"?
But the watch does a full wake up?