I see cards are positioned lower than before, when they are on the watchface,(notification) especially whether and traffic cards.
It looks quite weird because the texts on the cards are almost on the edge of screen or even cut in the middle by the edge.
It happened after I sideloaded the new Google Play Services 6.1 on my phone, but I don't know it's because of the Google Play Services or not.
Anyone have the same issue or the solution?
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I am constantly getting navigation cards (Estimated Time to Commute cards) that display addresses that appear in my web history. Just because I've looked up a specific address in my web history doesn't mean that I want a card to appear telling me the commute time to that address. I am currently house-hunting so I look upo dozens of addresses on a daily basis and have been getting tons of unwanted navigation cards. How do I stop this?!
I do want the cards to display for my commute to work in the morning and my commute home (based on my travel patterns) but I only want these cards to display for these 2 locations (home and work), not any other address I type in. I've only noticed this with the most recent update to Google Now. Seems to be an 'enhancement' that is anything but.
If you have a card on the screen, swiping down removes it temporarily, so you can swipe up to get it back. However, I've found that at odd times cards are disappearing on their own- I can get them back by swiping up, but it's irritating all the same. Is there any way to avoid this, or is it just a bug?
markyboy81 said:
If you have a card on the screen, swiping down removes it temporarily, so you can swipe up to get it back. However, I've found that at odd times cards are disappearing on their own- I can get them back by swiping up, but it's irritating all the same. Is there any way to avoid this, or is it just a bug?
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Seems to be a 5.1.1 thing, happens to me too, but it's rare. Also seem to have a problem whereby i put my hand over my watch (to put it to sleep) and sometimes it will wake back up thinking i have held the screen down to change the watch face even though i havn't
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Seems to be a 5.1.1 thing, happens to me too, but it's rare. Also seem to have a problem whereby i put my hand over my watch (to put it to sleep) and sometimes it will wake back up thinking i have held the screen down to change the watch face even though i havn't
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This depends on the type of card. If it's a notification card (from Apps other than Google), make sure you're not dismissing it on your handset. If the notification disappears on the handset for any reason (application crashes, closes, or user dismisses the notification), it disappears on the watch. For Google cards such as Now's Weather card, I've never run into this problem.
I'm a technician, i'm not that silly :silly:
Thanks for the suggestion - it only happens from time to time, and often the notification/card is still left on the phone even if it disappears from the watch, though a restart usually fixes that. Even on google's cards i get a problem. Never happened before 5.1.1
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This depends on the type of card. If it's a notification card (from Apps other than Google), make sure you're not dismissing it on your handset. If the notification disappears on the handset for any reason (application crashes, closes, or user dismisses the notification), it disappears on the watch. For Google cards such as Now's Weather card, I've never run into this problem.
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Could this be the new feature that was introduced - wrist gestures? I can't say for sure as I had to send my LG Watch back for a non charging fault and have the SW3 instead, but I'm keeping that option unchecked just in case.
Hi all, is there a way with 5.1.1 to disable the persistent Gnow cards on the bottom of the screen?
As far as I remember, before this update I was able to choose whether the cards "preview" (the small rectangle) would stick or not...
@ Radagast82
This can be done in the Wear App. Click the gear, then click your connected watch shown in the App. There you can change the settings to appear or disapear the Google Now cards in the watchface.
Sorry that I can't give the exact english names, but my system language isn't english.
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Seems to be a 5.1.1 thing, happens to me too, but it's rare. Also seem to have a problem whereby i put my hand over my watch (to put it to sleep) and sometimes it will wake back up thinking i have held the screen down to change the watch face even though i havn't
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I have this too. I HAD "show touches" turned on and I noticed it was going to ambient mode and showing the 2 touch points (from my palm) and would freeze that way.
It was also launching the watch face changer.
It seems the "Touch Hold" timer is too short. If I quickly palm slap my watch, it'll go into ambient mode without any issues. If I normally cover it, it'll launch the watch face changer.
Seems the timer should be longer... like double. It is short enough to keep trying to change face.
Just received my phone today, and I was very susprised first that it didn't embed any gyro sensor (as it is very common in todays' phones) but only accelerometer and magnetic sensors. You can see that notably trying to play with google cardboard VR program which doesn't let you navigate in it..
But even more worrying, I noticed that the geomagnetic field sensor which can determine phone orientation (even without gyro) wasn't working properly..
Indeed, whyle trying to use google sky map app I noticed after 1 or 2 min that orientation started to completely mess up...
It seems sensor is loosing calibration anytime (usually in a few minutes).... I tryed many sensors app to be sure it wasn't software issue but they all fail the same way..
For instance if you try "Phone Tester" and go to sensors status, you can see in compass that there are 3 orientations:
- rotation which points directions (North -Est-West-South)
- pitch which is a rotation on 2nd axe (range going from -90° to +90°; 0° when phone laying on flat surface)
- roll rotation on 3rd axe (range going from -180° to + 180°; 0° when phone laying on flat surface)
As soon as you play with these rotations, you can see they are all okay for some minutes, but after a whyle, one of them remains stucked (for instance compass pointing South all the time) no matter how you rotate the phone...
This is really annoying as all apps relying on 3d orientation (Virtual Reality for instance) aren't able to work for decent time without going crazy. What is strange is that sometimes you just need to restart the app without calibrating sensor again to have it work again but only for 1 minute or so..
It is like if sensor needed to be reset all the time.
I don't know if this is firmware or faulty hardware?
Does anyone has encountered the same issue? I don't know if I need to send it back to store...
If anyone is willing to test using google sky map to see if he has the same issue as me, I'd be glad
I have the same issue using Google Sky Map. In my case, the effect is like the sky in the app vibrate. It happens to me from the beggining, when I start the app.
ok thanks for trying,
well maybe if it does this right at the begining is because you need calibration first? it would be interesting to see if you loose calibration then as I do..
But vibration is normal, it does this also with my galaxy note 8. What is abnormal is that at some point you don't see the sky moving as it should, e.g. there is one direction which is stuck. For instance, you look at south, and then you move your phone to the north, but it stays on the south.. we
but this might be a hint that this phone has an issue with magnetic sensors... maybe firmware issue...
Finally, I have observed that Sky Maps doesnt work as smooth as expected. I tried it in several phones (Xperia S, S4 mini) and i can check that it doesn't work as well as in the other devices. Also, it appears that sometimes one direction is stuck (as you say) but it isn't very noticeable and after move some times the device finally works. I think that is a firmware issue (I have the vodafone spain firmware 26.1.A.1.112).
I hope that my experience can help you
Indeed, your feedback seems quite similar.
I'm still thinking about returning it to shop and take z3 compact instead even if i would loose dual sim... Because im also bothered by the usb OTG issue reported.
Will see...
False alert?
To correct what i reported before. After further successful attempts seems like device isn't faulty and is behaving as expected when used properly . I think mistake was trying to use Google's Cardboard VR kit which simply doesn't work with this device because it doesn't have gyro. I think cardboard's magnet prevent compass from working as expected and might uncalibrate device as well. I don't know why cardboard exclusively use gyro and doesn't support compass as a way of moving head because it should works too...
Just in case someone would have the same issue.
Anyone else had this problem? Periodically, I'll see Google Now cards (especially weather, and traffic info) from like the very early morning reappearing throughout the day. Sometimes this will happen on the very next time I wake the watch after having just swiped them away. Anyone else experience this?
Yes indeed, it is a bit annoying.
Yes! Can't find a solution. Also does it for weather and the weather info doesn't update. It shows the morning low all day long.
The work around is to dismiss the cards in Google Now on the phone. So the watch makes me use the phone. Nice.
I received an LG Urbane to replace my G Watch for my birthday. Same behavior.
Does anyone else have issues with their unit (I have the T-Mobile version) mistakenly showing their location as someplace they were HOURS earlier? My maps shows the location where I currently am, but then will occasionally report my location incorrectly as where I was earlier that day, which affects my weather and traffic reporting. Any thoughts?
Do you have high accuracy enabled?
I do have high accuracy enabled. Which the phone doesn't seem to understand the definition of.
If it is showing properly when you open maps but not in other apps, then it isn't the GPS that's the issue. Those apps aren't updating properly.
Mine is off by about 20 ft or so ... no biggie.
One thought though ... do you have background data blocked for the map app?
Background data enabled. I'll use the phone to navigate from work to school. The map shows me at school. Weather and traffic based around campus. Then, maybe an hour later, I look at my phone and it gives me the weather for my office, not school. I open google maps, it looks like I'm back at work, but I'm not.
I have had this happen several times. I open a gps Waze and Google maps, for a little while at work then minmize. A few hours later I will use the gps again at a different location and the gps will flip back an forth from the previous location, this will occur 30 min away or in another state.
I have tried to just shutdown the app and restart but still occurs. My only way to clear this has been to reboot the phone. This happen on both Waze and Google maps.
I found turning location off and back on works for me, but this shouldn't happen
Joe Smithereens said:
Does anyone else have issues with their unit (I have the T-Mobile version) mistakenly showing their location as someplace they were HOURS earlier? My maps shows the location where I currently am, but then will occasionally report my location incorrectly as where I was earlier that day, which affects my weather and traffic reporting. Any thoughts?
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I've had this issue several times. With my G6 and V30. It happens when I'm using a GPS heavy app and then go inside where a good GPS signal cannot be found or where I'm on WiFi. Oddly. I feel like it happens more if that iZat crap is active. Happens a lot with PoGo.
Also get heavy GPS drifting when in High Accuracy Mode. GPS on LG devices seems to work best in Device Only Mode.
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This is driving me mad. I had to switch phone due to this issue on Galaxy S7 and now it happens on V30.
Took a factory reset for mine to work again. Was fine for the entire time I've had the phone, then out of the blue, just stopped working.
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This is driving me mad. I had to switch phone due to this issue on Galaxy S7 and now it happens on V30.
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Chiming in with "other phones have wonky GPS too": My Moto X Pure has had a couple instances where position appeared to be randomly jumping around, up to several hundred feet away with varying azimuth. Made for " fun" navigation in heavy traffic in unfamiliar cities.
But don't worry, autonomous vehicles will work without a problem. (Yeahhhhh....right....)
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Autonomous vehicles are using a wide array of sensors to work, combine with deep learning, big data, etc. The GPS used in phones is not the same chip as the one used in a dedicated GPS device, even something as a sports watch as a much more precise GPS, optimised antenna, dedicated processor and optimised OS. I’ve been trying to use phones to track my runs for years and it always jumped around a bit. In a car, depending on the placement (direct view of the sky, for instance vs. blocked by the ceiling), on the weather, on the insulation of the car even, you can have issue with jumping signal. You can try to place the phone in a spot where the antenna has a view of the sky and it might be less of a problem.
I have noticed that the issue is with both Pokemon Go and Google maps. It is really frustrating, and sometimes nothing seems to help. On another site, they recommended installing GPs Status and Toolbox from Google play store. I will try that. If that does not help, the site said that the issue is with the GPS antenna.