I currently have an iPhone 5 and a rooted Motoactv fitness watch. I saw an ad for a device that mirrors your iOS screen onto a watch thats powered by android. However, the watch does not have a release date. The watch is called "Starfish." I was wondering if they're are any android applications that will mirror my iPhone's display on them and perhaps use touch input to control them? My iPhone is jailbroken so installing an app on my iPhone side is ok. I've considered something like VNC but when I'm out and about it needs to maintain a connection between the phone and the watch. Bluetooth perhaps? Just wondering if this could be done or if anyone is willing to work on it? I do not know anything about developing but I have a lot of good ideas.
After gear,gear2, moto 360 and gear S I can tell you this: tiezen is way ahead of android wear and you could do so much more with gear S than with all other watches. It looks so nice. It's a very nice product. Works well.
One thing I miss from moto 360 - qi charging. So convenient, so simple ( I charged my watch even in my car). If samsung could implement in a future product qi charging, they will get -again- my money.
P.S. Put a screen protector as soon as you can, the curved glass is prone to hits and scratches even more than an normal watch
Can you list a few things that Tizen on Gear S is better than Android Wear?
I had no experience with Android Wear but heard the quite opposite opinion from owners moving from those watches. I know aside from SMS and Email, you pretty much can't respond to any other notifications on Gear S.
Notifications Gear S will allow you to be able to reply to some apps. One of them is hangouts. It's 1.50 in the play store. It's a little buggy but better then nothing. Qi charging would be nice. The battery dock is kind of a pain. Nice that it has a built in battery to it though.
Didn't have the first gear, but yeah!
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foxbat121 said:
Can you list a few things that Tizen on Gear S is better than Android Wear?
I had no experience with Android Wear but heard the quite opposite opinion from owners moving from those watches. I know aside from SMS and Email, you pretty much can't respond to any other notifications on Gear S.
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Android wear...no phone aps except answer/reject. Notification only from Google cards and a few apps. Very limited functionality. The plus..is simple and is working. P.S. My moto 360 did not always reconnect with my phone. Gear 2/gear s always within the range of bluetooth. But if you are really interested you can find a review with wear/tizen compared, or YouTube video.
P.S.2 media controller from gear S works with the default player...I can control poweramp or neutron from my watch. As far as I know on wear you must use Google music for that.
sweets55 said:
Notifications Gear S will allow you to be able to reply to some apps. One of them is hangouts. It's 1.50 in the play store. It's a little buggy but better then nothing. Qi charging would be nice. The battery dock is kind of a pain. Nice that it has a built in battery to it though.
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I had no idea the charging dock had a small battery in it. What is the purpose for that? Other than to transfer trickle charge from the small battery to the main battery in the watch. Hey, I guess I just answered my question...lol
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I had no idea the charging dock had a small battery in it. What is the purpose for that? Other than to transfer trickle charge from the small battery to the main battery in the watch. Hey, I guess I just answered my question...lol
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So you can take the dock with you. Power on go.
Yep. Basically a travel charger without cords.
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Android wear...no phone aps except answer/reject. Notification only from Google cards and a few apps. Very limited functionality. The plus..is simple and is working. P.S. My moto 360 did not always reconnect with my phone. Gear 2/gear s always within the range of bluetooth. But if you are really interested you can find a review with wear/tizen compared, or YouTube video.
P.S.2 media controller from gear S works with the default player...I can control poweramp or neutron from my watch. As far as I know on wear you must use Google music for that.
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this is my exact experience with Android Wear as well..
At this point, Android wear is pretty useless, compared to what the Gear S can do/ or does...no comparison
calinormy said:
Android wear...no phone aps except answer/reject. Notification only from Google cards and a few apps. Very limited functionality. The plus..is simple and is working. P.S. My moto 360 did not always reconnect with my phone. Gear 2/gear s always within the range of bluetooth. But if you are really interested you can find a review with wear/tizen compared, or YouTube video.
P.S.2 media controller from gear S works with the default player...I can control poweramp or neutron from my watch. As far as I know on wear you must use Google music for that.
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This is simply incorrect. I have a Moto 360 and a Gear S and the 360 interacts with most third party apps. As a matter of fact, it does so in a much more refined manner than the S. I can "like" posts, respond to them and choose to just dismiss or delete them......something the Gear S is not capable of, and on a lot more apps than the Gear since the Gear only truly supports Samsung apps well (even then not fully ie you cannot truly delete an email from your S even if you use the Samsung email app on your phone).
And yes, you can control Spotify and other music apps on the 360 as well.....something I can't do on my S.
As far as phone functionality, of course, it's better on my S......since it's actually a phone.
I found out that you can control Google Play Music using the music player thingy on the Gear S, but it just doesn't show the album art. The next, pause, previous, etc all work though.
Yes, you can select whether you control the music in the Gear itself or on the phone. It also controls volume. So far I've used it to control Milk, Beyond Pod and Google Pay Music on my phone.
I'm thinking about getting the Gear S to replace my second line. I'm currently using a Moto 360, can anyone give me their thoughts. I've looked at on the store, but I do like that it can stand alone. Thanks for your suggestions.
well, there is a complete forum for all the Samsung Gear Watches here on xda,, and one on Android central too, so you should probably read as much as you can, then go to the store and see how you like it.
personally, I prefer the samsung watches alot more than the Android Wear stuff, as they DO alot more with your phone than the Android wear stuff does at this point; no sound from any android wear watch, cant make or receive calls on them, and so on.
the simple answer is if you want a watch that is more of a watch than a smart watch, then Android wear is a better choice. if you like to tinker, and interact more with your phone/watch, then the samsung gear stuff is more for you.
Not exactly sure what to ask here, but I've noticed Google Now getting a little too smart for its own good and I'm trying to figure out how and why.
Recently Google Now started offering a lot more suggestions about how I spend my time. Estimated driving times to weekly destinations didn't surprise me too much. Nor did TV suggestions for shows that I google occasionally or that would fit my admittedly nerdy profile. But yesterday I got a reminder to watch Dancing with the Stars finale. While I don't have anything against the show, I don't watch Dancing with the Stars. Or google it. Or do anything on my profile that would suggest that I should. Except... My wife watched it in the background live for the first time Monday night. and my phone was sat on the table with my Moto 360 on the charger. Both doing nothing... except listening?
Is Google Now taking notes on my TV viewing preferences by listening to audio passively? Or am I just getting paranoid? I know you can force it to listen to the TV... But passive listening would be a whole new direction for Google. I couldn't find anything online that said they were doing this, just curious if somebody knows how it works or has better suggestions. I know I can turn off TV recommendations, but I'd rather first understand how the recommendations are appearing.
Can anyone with a Gear Fit 2 list the top 10 most popular faces right now? I think the Gear App Store shows this correct? I don't own a Gear Fit 2 yet, so I can't access the Gear App to take a look. Anyone kind enough to list what they are? Thank you!
I use free watchfaces to need simple time and date and special faces to have extra functions.
For example:
1. I go mountains and use Altimeter and Barometer. It shows altitude very accurate.
2. I like control my phone and have access to phone's camera remotely so I use Phone Remote Watch.
3. Need calendar sometimes I installed Calendar Fit.
4. Need access to files, transfer pictures, music, ringtones, video and even texts from phone to Fit2 I have installed Filesmaster Watch.
It plays all media files and can open bigger text files . Extreamly usefull watchface.
Actually, you need a few watchfaces to do more then only track the time. I got about 20 watchfaces now
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I use free watchfaces to need simple time and date and special faces to have extra functions.
For example:
1. I go mountains and use Altimeter and Barometer. It shows altitude very accurate.
2. I like control my phone and have access to phone's camera remotely so I use Phone Remote Watch.
3. Need calendar sometimes I installed Calendar Fit.
4. Need access to files, transfer pictures, music, ringtones, video and even texts from phone to Fit2 I have installed Filesmaster Watch.
It plays all media files and can open bigger text files . Extreamly usefull watchface.
Actually, you need a few watchfaces to do more then only track the time. I got about 20 watchfaces now
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Are those the top 4 most popular on the Gear App right now? Doesn't the Gear App show a list of most popular? Sorry I should have said Paid watch faces.
I got this android smartwatch some Chinese brand I believe, the zeblaze thor 4 plus, it's a bit weird because I have to connect the watch through this WiiWatch app and the watch itself has play store as if it's a mobile phone, like the corners are chopped off and it's so weird, and I have the facer app on my phone and I'm trying to get a watch face I've made onto the watch and I don't know how. The watch is running android 7.1.1
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I got this android smartwatch some Chinese brand I believe, the zeblaze thor 4 plus, it's a bit weird because I have to connect the watch through this WiiWatch app and the watch itself has play store as if it's a mobile phone, like the corners are chopped off and it's so weird, and I have the facer app on my phone and I'm trying to get a watch face I've made onto the watch and I don't know how. The watch is running android 7.1.1
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Hi,
In order to your question - You can install aftermarket watch faces to your watch.
There is google community (Find below)
Once you downloaded extract it and transfer it to watch and paste the same folder inside clockskin folder(please dont make additional folders under clockskin except your watch face folder)
Go back to home - long press watch face and in the end you can see refresh button, then you can see newly downloaded watch faces over there
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