Wearable widgets - Samsung Gear S

I can't recommend Wearable Widgets enough especially on the Gear S
It works by creating a bridge from your phone to the watch for just about any widget that will fit on a 2" screen without it being too small to read.
I have experimented with a few widgets and 2 favourites are the BBC weather widget and Timely, but most impressive is an app called "HD Widgets". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cloudtv.hdwidgets&hl=en_GB
With this one I was able to quickly design a clock and weather widget and then use wearable widgets to display it on my Gear S. See screenshot.
There is so much potential, they have 2 apps in the Gear Store, one is Wearable Widgets Clock and the other is Wearable Widgets for Gear The first one allows you to create any widget and use it as a clock. That's good for keeping a selected widget always available. The second app (which it states does not have Samsung approval - but it works regardless) Allows you to open the app on the watch and view as many widgets as you want, on a 'one per page' view. Note that in order to have more than 1 widget, you need to upgrade to the pro version which was about £1 roughly. Definitely worth it. And if I have made this sound complicated, trust me it's not. It's very quick and easy.
You will need the free app for your phone in order to set everything up:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearablewidgets&hl=en_GB
Hope this has been useful.

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apprentice said:
I can't recommend Wearable Widgets enough especially on the Gear S
It works by creating a bridge from your phone to the watch for just about any widget that will fit on a 2" screen without it being too small to read.
I have experimented with a few widgets and 2 favourites are the BBC weather widget and Timely, but most impressive is an app called "HD Widgets". https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=cloudtv.hdwidgets&hl=en_GB
With this one I was able to quickly design a clock and weather widget and then use wearable widgets to display it on my Gear S. See screenshot.
There is so much potential, they have 2 apps in the Gear Store, one is Wearable Widgets Clock and the other is Wearable Widgets for Gear The first one allows you to create any widget and use it as a clock. That's good for keeping a selected widget always available. The second app (which it states does not have Samsung approval - but it works regardless) Allows you to open the app on the watch and view as many widgets as you want, on a 'one per page' view. Note that in order to have more than 1 widget, you need to upgrade to the pro version which was about £1 roughly. Definitely worth it. And if I have made this sound complicated, trust me it's not. It's very quick and easy.
You will need the free app for your phone in order to set everything up:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearablewidgets&hl=en_GB
Hope this has been useful.
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Do we need to add this app from the playstore and the galaxy app store? Because I added it through the galaxy app store days ago it will not install it will download but not install for gear S ( on mine anyway)

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Uniquebarbee said:
Do we need to add this app from the playstore and the galaxy app store? Because I added it through the galaxy app store days ago it will not install it will download but not install for gear S ( on mine anyway)
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I downloaded it form the play store first, then through Gear Manager/Gear App Store find the 2 Wearable Widget apps there.
Ignore anything on the main Samsung App Store.

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apprentice said:
I downloaded it form the play store first, then through Gear Manager/Gear App Store find the 2 Wearable Widget apps there.
Ignore anything on the main Samsung App Store.
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ok I will give that a try that maybe my missing link
UPDATE this way works thanks I added a beautiful weather widget nice find

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Wearable widget clock
apprentice said:
I downloaded it form the play store first, then through Gear Manager/Gear App Store find the 2 Wearable Widget apps there.
Ignore anything on the main Samsung App Store.
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Cannot find the wearable widget clock. Can you give me a link or something?

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Go into the Gear store via Gear Manager and you will find it in the CLOCK category about one page down.
Note that some people say that some (random) apps don't appear. I cannot find the app called "Bike!" which someone else has for example!
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Sorry but on my gear manager there is no gear store section.. Gear manager was installed directly by gear s when connected the first time to the device via Bluetooth. How to have gear store?
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maurizio53 said:
Sorry but on my gear manager there is no gear store section.. Gear manager was installed directly by gear s when connected the first time to the device via Bluetooth. How to have gear store?
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samsung gear manager open app -->Samsung Gear Apps or go on you gear S open apps scroll all the way done until you see
"Get more applications it will open your gear store

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OK finally I got both the apps but how to use the wearable clock widget? I open it from the gear as get nothing but "undefined"... What I miss?
I own the wearable widgets app from the play store....
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maurizio53 said:
OK finally I got both the apps but how to use the wearable clock widget? I open it from the gear as get nothing but "undefined"... What I miss?
I own the wearable widgets app from the play store....
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open the app on you smartphone and set up the widget ho you want it to appear on the gear S
when your satisfied open samsung gear manager on your phone click home styler screens click clock scroll until you see Wearabl widgets clock click done look @ watch enjoy

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How to set as a screen to the right
So regarding the wearable widgets for gear s (Not the clock version), I see that I can scroll down to the app then get my widget but what I really want is to replace one of the screens to the right of the clock with one of the widgets. I really like my watch face and don't want to replace it. It is too much swiping around to get to the widget in the app dwar that is below the clock. Am I missing something?
Thanks
J

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dosomethinggreat said:
So regarding the wearable widgets for gear s (Not the clock version), I see that I can scroll down to the app then get my widget but what I really want is to replace one of the screens to the right of the clock with one of the widgets. I really like my watch face and don't want to replace it. It is too much swiping around to get to the widget in the app dwar that is below the clock. Am I missing something?
Thanks
J
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It's not currently possible to add anything to those pages other than the pre-installed Samsung widgets. You can of course move the app icon to the top of the app drawer (tap and hold then drag) that will save you a bit of thumb work!
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Need to update Gear S for more compatability
Samsung really needs to update their gear S Tizen software to be more compatible. We should be able to add whatever app we want to one of the widget slots to the right of the clock. Also no gmail or facebook app. WTF! The wearable widgets is an okay work around but I find there is an obnoxious delay when trying to scroll through the gmail widget and If I have to pull my phone out to look at the email after selecting it from the gear s widget then I might as well go straight to the phone in the first place.
The gear S has a lot of potential but the software just is not there yet..... I have never used an android wear watch yet but I wonder if it does some of this better. But I do really like being able to reply to txts from my watch or answer calls which android wear can not do.

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dosomethinggreat said:
Samsung really needs to update their gear S Tizen software to be more compatible. We should be able to add whatever app we want to one of the widget slots to the right of the clock. Also no gmail or facebook app. WTF! The wearable widgets is an okay work around but I find there is an obnoxious delay when trying to scroll through the gmail widget and If I have to pull my phone out to look at the email after selecting it from the gear s widget then I might as well go straight to the phone in the first place.
The gear S has a lot of potential but the software just is not there yet..... I have never used an android wear watch yet but I wonder if it does some of this better. But I do really like being able to reply to txts from my watch or answer calls which android wear can not do.
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Regarding your email issue, I am now using the stock Samsung email app. It's not as good as the Gmail one but it gets the job done and more importantly it is fully compatible with the Gear's email app and notifications. I also think Facebook will follow.
Now with the Gear S.. there are some shortcomings I agree but it's still in its infancy. I bought the original Gear when it first launched and there weren't any apps for it, just some additional (and ugly) watch faces. It was expensive and I could easily have written it off as a waste of money. However things quickly picked up, the Gear store grew, developers did some amazing mods and roms for it, Samsung added Tizen and that meant more apps. I started appreciating it more. And I kept it right up to the Gear S purchase.
I am certain the Gear S will go the same way. There is a lot more potential with this than any other smartwatch as it has a large screen, a keyboard, wifi, gps and a cellular connection. These are all useful for a huge amount of development potential. I am also confident that Samsung will add more functionality and iron out the usability issues.
I bought an 'LG G watch R' initially, believing that Android Wear was the going to offer so much more. I had the watch for 24hrs before sending it packing. It was lame compared to Tizen and quite frankly unattractive and limited. It's designed to be a notification slave and not really cater for apps and standalone features. It hasn't exactly moved on much since it was announced either.
So hang on in there mate, and concentrate on how amazing this watch is in every other way. It's a cracking gadget and it's a keeper for me.
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Wearable widgets on gear s
Ok I am using an orange icon that says gear in it... I downloaded and installed both wearable widgets and I even upgraded but it does not show me how to get it to the watch.. I did click one thing on my wearable widgets app on my phone and it says I need gear manager.. I downloaded gear manager, but will not install, I'm assuming because of the gear app I currently use... If I remove the one that's orange and has gear written in it.. Will I lose what I have created clock wise and app wise alike?

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You can use 4x4 widget also. The watch will scale it down.

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Oh heck yea! This works great. Expands the Gear S tremendously in my opinion.

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Sounds interesting. But will this work without a bluetooth connection to the pone too? A connection (over WLAN or remote) should be necessary, right? But will it work just with remote over 3G? And what says the battery?

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questions
Has anyone found that wearable widgets drains battery. Is it possible to disable the watch home screen and leave wearable widgets running so when i wake the watch wearable widgets is running and i can just swipe over to next widget. Is there a watchface that can be used where i can launch the app just by touching the screen.
And unrelated but is there an app where i can see a full calendar in month view that can sync with splanner/google calendar.
Im trying to decide between switching from my omate to the gear s so im just trying to weigh my options.

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Komic11 said:
Has anyone found that wearable widgets drains battery. Is it possible to disable the watch home screen and leave wearable widgets running so when i wake the watch wearable widgets is running and i can just swipe over to next widget. Is there a watchface that can be used where i can launch the app just by touching the screen.
And unrelated but is there an app where i can see a full calendar in month view that can sync with splanner/google calendar.
Im trying to decide between switching from my omate to the gear s so im just trying to weigh my options.
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Yes WW drain the batt, you must be carefull with the WW oprion. WW as a watchface app so it is the standard Gear Clock and you can swipe from the face to other widget.
You have also another watchface for Gear with launcher and you can add shortcut for 4 to 20 apps on one face.