Anyone else using FaceDesigner to craft your custom watchfaces?
It updated the other day and now my widgets no longer show in ambient mode
I'm guessing this was done as a battery optimization, but i kind of miss it. The stock watchfaces you can add through Zenwatch Manager actually still allow the complications to show in ambient mode, though.
Me too and need all widgets come back to ambient mod.
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Is there any way of displaying a coloured watchface all the time?
bastband said:
Is there any way of displaying a coloured watchface all the time?
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What do you mean by displaying colored watch face all the time? If you want your watch face on all the time, you need to go to the Android Wear app on your phone and click Settings -> Always-on screen.
I'm guessing he means NOT in AMBIENT mode.
You can use FacerPro and custom design a face to NEVER DIM. It's pretty easy.
Not sure of any other way...
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Is there any way of displaying a coloured watchface all the time?
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There are a few, minimal and elegant and bubble cloud widget are two I use.
Make sure you have always on selected in settings.
Edit:I'm guessing he means when the watch goes into ambient mode, there are a few that still display color in ambient.
It's up to the watch face to draw the ambient and normal mode, but this ambient mode has been made to save battery life.
I made one using sensors and managing ambient mode, but I will check the differences between the 2 states in battery life.
Depends on the watch face.
I add it as an option to my watchfaces so people are able to turn the ambient mode off.
Which watchface did you want to be always on? If it's a simple watchface I can recreate it without the ambient mode.
There many watchfaces you can choose aspect in dim mode and keep same than active mode.
use staylit wear app
U can use staylit wear
it keeps screen on all the time
but battery gets depleted in 4 hours
also chance of screen burn
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I love the look of Ambient Display mode so I have one question. Is there any way to make a locksreen look like when it's in Ambient mode? No wallpaper, only watch and black/white notifications. I want to have this look always when I wake up my OPX, not only when I get any notification.
Thank you for any suggestions :highfive:
rawinek said:
I love the look of Ambient Display mode so I have one question. Is there any way to make a locksreen look like when it's in Ambient mode? No wallpaper, only watch and black/white notifications. I want to have this look always when I wake up my OPX, not only when I get any notification.
Thank you for any suggestions :highfive:
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Change wallpaper on lockscreen settings with a black one and you've done
Edit. Seems that we can't
Well if you have OOS you can change the lockscreen wallpaper in settings->display-> lockscreen wallpaper.
I also found a way to make everything black and white (notification I mean).
I like to play with TASKER and the quickest thing to do was:
Create a profile with kernel adiutor with the scale of greys that will be triggered by tasker when the screen goes off
then create a profile of kernel adiutor with normal colors and it's triggered when you unlock your phone.
The only problem is that take a second to get back all the colors on you screen when you unlock it but you can give it a try
Try using the AC Display lock screen, works really well. It's got an ambient display interface. You'll like it.
Here https://goo.gl/vMHQdz
Hi guys
I tried searching everywhere for two apps and can't find anything. I think it would be really simple but since there is no app to do this I find it strange, or maybe people don't need this...
The first one is a way to turn the screen on when I receive a notification on my watch (when ambient mode is off). I have a ticwatch E and find it really annoying to not have an option for this. Does anyone have any solution?
The other is brightness control when in ambient mode. I would like to lower the brightness of the watch when it is in ambient mode. I know that there was an app to do this (swapp true brightness or something like this) but it no longer works. Does anyone know one that works?
I found it is annoying too, I own a Ticwatch S and I want to turn off the Ambient light too but it can't pop up notification on screen after turning it off , also I wanted to turn down the brightness of the Ambient light because it make burn in on my screen after 4 month didn't change watch face
Arc Lighting adds a highly customizable ring of light around the camera cutout of your phone. You can use this light with various indicators such as audio visualization, notification lighting, critical or low battery warnings, as well as a charge indicator. The ring can also appear on your Always-On display. (to make aod work you need to make sure you have downloaded always on amoled and activated it, you also need to make sure samsung stock aod and samsung edge lighting is disabled under samsung display settings you also need to make sure that aod is enabled under arclighting with override set to off)
Features:
- Highly customizable lighting for Galaxy devices and most other devices. Select a variety of colors, animations, and styles.
- Always show ring with various gradient effects (add multiple colors and make them spin for a visual experience)
- An adjustable glow effect that can be turned on or off (sometimes this can cause the light to freeze to a white glow this will be fixed)
- Notification lighting both when the display is on or off (update planned for only the lockscreen or only inapp)
- Music lighting that syncs the light to your music (does not work together with other indicators so other indicators will stop working if you enable music lighting this will be fixed)
- Battery indicator lighting for charging, low and critical battery states. (note it will not work until you configure the zones you want the colors to appearm, not configuring zones can freeze the light entirely this will be fixed)
- Device overheating indicator for gamers and power users (note it will not work until you configure the zones you want the colors to appear, not configuring zones can freeze the light entirely this will be fixed)
- Arc Lighting can be configured to match the color of your wallpaper, the app you're currently in, or both! (this only works for the only show ring and only when you set it to a solid color the option is not available for gradient colors which will be added later)
This app requires certain permissions to function correctly.
Accessibility: This permission is used for the ring to appear over your lock screen, always-on display, and for accessing the color of the current app you're in. This permission is required for the app to function properly.
Draw Over Other Apps: This permission allows the ring to show on top of other apps. This permission is required for the app to function properly.
Microphone Access: This permission is used to analyze the internal device audio for the music lighting. You will not be asked for this permission unless you choose to enable the Audio Visualizer indicator for the ring.
Storage Access: This permission is used to get the color of your wallpaper. You will not be asked for this permission unless you choose to use the color of your wallpaper for the ring.
Notification access: This permission is used to change the color of the ring after notifications
Burn-in concerns: Some Android displays may suffer from mild burn-in if a single item is displayed on the screen for an extremely significant amount of time. If you are concerned about this, feel free to enable the rotation animation in ring settings. That will ensure the display is constantly changing. Alternately, you can disable the default effect to only show the ring while an indicator is being triggered. Note: Samsung Galaxy devices come with burn-in protection that moves the pixels a little each time.
Compatible Devices
- Galaxy S10+
- Galaxy S10
- Galaxy S10e
- Galaxy note 10
- Galaxy note 10+
- Galaxy note 5g
arc lighting is compatible with more devices such as s21 through the use of an alighment slider, it has not been officially tested yet on a s21
Download (xda members get free access, will provide unlock codes to any xda member who asks when you ask please specify if you want the code for my navigationbar app or this app as they both have similar names)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symetium.holepunchcameraeffects
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
how do i disable individual notifications: currently this is a planned update, you can go into custom colors and set each app you don't want notifying to 100% transparent
light is constantly flashing even if i cleared all notifications: sometimes theres forced notifications such as when you're charging it will force a notification that says you're fast charging, the light will pick up on these you need to hold on these notifications and turn them off to stop the light there should be nothing at all in the notificationpanel, if you still have a flashing light with nothing in the panel contact me.
frozen light: music lighting will disable all other indicators same with battery indicator or battery temp indicator, you need to set custom zones otherwise the light will be frozen, glow also tends to freeze the light so turn that off if it's frozen (this will be fixed in a coming update)
i have given out codes now to over 5000 people and i still have more people to send out to, it would mean a lot if you rated my app as it has received quite a lot of hate lately, this is ofcourse not required to receive a free code but it is appreciated and would personally mean a lot to me considering the damage the bad ratings has caused, the s21 has not been officially tested yet so there may be bugs, arc lighting comes with an alignment slider to support most devices
also note that currently the code is being rewritten i have not heard from the developer for some time so i don't know any eta but hopefully soon, if i had more money i would do more with this app unfortunately theres not much i can do apart from bug fixes, but the new code should fix most bugs and make it overall better.
Does anyone have the s21 yet to properly test I should get mine on Monday
So before upgrading to the Nord N105G I had a OnePlus 6T, which was a very reliable phone. I had it since launch, and I got very used to the behavior of the ambient display.
I didn't have any of those new-fangled features enabled like Smart Lock or Face Unlock, but I did use the fingerprint scanner but that's neither here nor there.
The display behavior I expect is that a single-tap will turn on the display (from completely off) to the black ambient display with the clock on it. Double tap to wake works just fine, but single tap does not.
Also possibly related: On the 6T I could use quick gestures to launch the flashlight etc from either a display-off state or the ambient display. However, on the Nord, quick gestures do not work on the ambient display - they can only be triggered when the display is fully off. Is anyone else experiencing these issues?
Also, I'm curious. If I use Titanium Backup (rooted) to back up the old Ambient Display app from the OP6T and then restore it to the new phone I wonder if they'd play nice. Might fiddle a bit...
No.
This isn't the same phone by a long shot and the display is one of those big changes.
Ambient display and it's features are limited to oled (and derivatives) screens.
At most, you'd be lucky if the app even registers.
ninjasinabag said:
No.
This isn't the same phone by a long shot and the display is one of those big changes.
Ambient display and it's features are limited to oled (and derivatives) screens.
At most, you'd be lucky if the app even registers.
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I totally get what you're saying, and you seem knowledgeable, so you're likely right. However, other than the quirks I've described the Ambient display works exactly the same as it did on the OP6T.
For example, Plus Beat still works even though it hasn't been supported since shortly after the release of the 6t. It was designed for an OLED display as a replacement for a standard notification LED (Lighting up a few pixels on an OLED screen IS essentially a notification LED). Plus Beat will wake the N105G's ambient display and display the exact same notification info; obviously its lighting up the entire display to do this, but whatever foundation was originally laid to wake the ambient display doesn't seem to have changed.
So, when I find the time to flash the newest TWRP and make a backup, I will fiddle with it anyway, because contrary to your statement, I think the OP6T ambient display app will replace the N105G's app just fine. Whether the native Android settings will hook into it functionally or not is a whole different beast.
Ambient Display is useless for IPS screens. I use Glimpse Notifications, it normally turns on the screen and a bunch of settings
Alexey71 said:
Ambient Display is useless for IPS screens. I use Glimpse Notifications, it normally turns on the screen and a bunch of settings
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I don't understand why you'd prefer lighting the lock screen with Glimpse Notifications when Plus Beat still functions as a notification LED (with info) on the black background ambient display. It's not true black obviously because it's not an OLED display, but it's pretty close.