I was really liking the "dark analog" watch face on the Gear Live and wanted to see if i could get it running on my G. I was able to get all of the watch-faces from the Gear Live system dump running on the G watch (moved the corresponding APK over to priv-app and set permissions). However, it looks like they were mostly coded with an exact screen rez in mind and not with percentages, so most of the ones that have hands are offset to the point that they're relatively useless. I took a few pics and I can upload them if people want to see.
EDIT: I found the location in the layout xml file that allows me to change the position of these elements. I figure that multiplying them all by 0.875 SHOULD put them in the right spots (280/320). However, i'm having some issues recompiling the APK (apktool doesn't want to seem to cooperate on this one). However, even if i can get it to recompile, i probably won't be able to re-sign the apk so it might not work either way. I'm going to keep trying a few things.
There's a couple on the Samsung one that are pretty cool. I hope you can get them working.
how to install "http://gearfaces.com/" themes at my gear s
i had tried with no luck
any help
What don't you understand?
Watch Styler
You can download Watch Styler from the Gear store for free and use that to push the watchfaces.
When you download the file, you move it to device storage (android/data/...watchstylemanager.gear3.s)location, then in your Watch styler you load the theme you downloaded.
I purchased this from the playstore and was refunded immediately why will it not work for Gear S even though it says it does?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binhbv.watchface&hl=en
Uniquebarbee said:
I purchased this from the playstore and was refunded immediately why will it not work for Gear S even though it says it does?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.binhbv.watchface&hl=en
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The app description specifically mentioned in bold that it does not support Note 4. I remember you have a Note 4.
foxbat121 said:
The app description specifically mentioned in bold that it does not support Note 4. I remember you have a Note 4.
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I also have a Note 3 which I downloaded it on and it did not work I also have a tab S and a Gear 2 and a Gear S. So again why does it not work. I did not install it on my Note 4 but I'm glad you think I did. Maybe the developer should answer thus one as gearfaces. com works for my devices just not the paid app on playstore
I think most of these apps need to be re-worked to work correctly on Gear S. The common mentioned Watch Styler app needs you to manually delete a folder after you created a watch face in order to be able to deploy to Gear S. That really defeats the purpose of a paid app.
foxbat121 said:
I think most of these apps need to be re-worked to work correctly on Gear S. The common mentioned Watch Styler app needs you to manually delete a folder after you created a watch face in order to be able to deploy to Gear S. That really defeats the purpose of a paid app.
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Watch Styler is a free app. But it is very buggy and the lengths you have to go through to load a custom face is ridiculous. It works pretty well for creating custom faces within the app itself, but you're very limited with the amount of customization you can do without resorting to using a custom face like Gear Faces.
You don't need to do anything with the folders if you're just customizing within the app. If you want to make a fully custom face or use something like Gear Faces, you need to create a watch face within the Watch Styler app (on the phone), with all the components in it that you want in your custom watch face. Then you have to go into the folder for that watch face you created (using a computer). You replace all the files in that folder with the custom files you want and rename the new files to match the old file names. Once you have done that, you should be able to load that watch face and instead of being the original watch you made on the Watch Styler app it looks like the custom watch face.
It's not as hard as it seems by reading this, but it's really hard to explain in text. THere are some Youtube videos. I had to read a lot of posts and use a lot of trial and error. After several hours of research and copying and pasting files, I finally got this to work.
Im the owner of Gearfaces.com and I did not give any permission to make this app please report this app....
Jeshter2000 said:
Im the owner of Gearfaces.com and I did not give any permission to make this app please report this app....
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@Jeshter2000 when will there be more gear s faces?
gear s watch styler
ville2000 said:
When you download the file, you move it to device storage (android/data/...watchstylemanager.gear3.s)location, then in your Watch styler you load the theme you downloaded.
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I'm having the same problem where I download the zip file from gear face, then put it in the folder you suggested and still not able to load it on my watch styler. Do you have a indepth video online explaining it?
bttn101 said:
I'm having the same problem where I download the zip file from gear face, then put it in the folder you suggested and still not able to load it on my watch styler. Do you have a indepth video online explaining it?
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I do not, I apologize. But this only works with the gear s faces and not the normal gear faces(which are really cool), when you're on the site(gearfaces.com) search (gears) all together and you will see the faces made specifically for the gear s you can download and use this procedure, make sure when you move it, before you can see it you need to load the theme in the watch styler app itself. I hope this helps.
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MrAwesome75 said:
Watch Styler is a free app. But it is very buggy and the lengths you have to go through to load a custom face is ridiculous. It works pretty well for creating custom faces within the app itself, but you're very limited with the amount of customization you can do without resorting to using a custom face like Gear Faces.
You don't need to do anything with the folders if you're just customizing within the app. If you want to make a fully custom face or use something like Gear Faces, you need to create a watch face within the Watch Styler app (on the phone), with all the components in it that you want in your custom watch face. Then you have to go into the folder for that watch face you created (using a computer). You replace all the files in that folder with the custom files you want and rename the new files to match the old file names. Once you have done that, you should be able to load that watch face and instead of being the original watch you made on the Watch Styler app it looks like the custom watch face.
It's not as hard as it seems by reading this, but it's really hard to explain in text. THere are some Youtube videos. I had to read a lot of posts and use a lot of trial and error. After several hours of research and copying and pasting files, I finally got this to work.
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Can you do a video on youtube?
bttn101 said:
Can you do a video on youtube?
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I'm sorry, I don't make videos.
Video is being made..
Hey everyone, just got my watch and so far its great but im pretty confused as to a few things.
My goal is to have a watch face that changes backgrounds with a selected folder of pictures, thats pretty much it.
There is a stock watch face called photos that does this but they are all landscape default photos, I want to change that but I can not find anything out on this watch face. Cant even find it searching the stock faces that come with android wear and there are no settings for the face on the phone/watch. Im sure its pulling the photos from the storage on the watch, so does anyone know how I can place my photos onto the watch in that folder (there are a LOT of photos).
I know there are a few apps out there that let you create your own watch face but I havent been able to find any with the function of automatically changing the background. Does anyone know of any apps that change the background at set preset amounts of times?
You would think this wouldnt be a hard thing to do but I cant find it or access the phones 4gb storage. Would this be a better question in the general android wear forum?
So I have asked this in the Asus Zenwatch 2 forum to with no answers.
My goal is to have a watch face that changes backgrounds with a selected folder of pictures, thats pretty much it. Anything extra like showing battery and weather would be great.
There is a stock watch face called photos that does this but they are all landscape default photos, I want to change that but I can not find anything out on this watch face. Cant even find it searching the stock faces that come with android wear and there are no settings for the face on the phone/watch. Im sure its pulling the photos from the storage on the watch, so does anyone know how I can place my photos onto the watch in that folder (there are a LOT of photos).
I know there are a few apps out there that let you create your own watch face but I havent been able to find any with the function of automatically changing the background. Does anyone know of any apps that change the background at set preset amounts of times?
You would think this wouldnt be a hard thing to do but I cant find it or access the phones 4gb storage. Would this be a better question in the general android wear forum?
I ran into a few syncing problems after downloading some watch face from the internet and it makes me wonder...is it safe to use the custom watch faces on some random website or links? Is there any possibility something bad might come from the script files in the watch faces?
IDK, most of them are fairly simple xml files. If you suspect it you can open .wfz same as zip file, look into files and folders structure.
xml files just point to various display features, x,y, where to place them, folder for digital, analog dials and bg images.
There's no 'suspicious' code in them as far as I seen.
Again, this goes for .wfz clockfaces ... I think there are some .apk watchfaces too, for custom rooted Paces , I think those can be safe or not.