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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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.
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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
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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 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.
I use a Moto 360 at home and now I have the g watch for work. Everytime I switch its like im installing a new watch to android wear. Any way to have it remember them?
Hello, my Philips 65PUS7601 Android TV has recently been updated from Marshmallow to Nougat. Unfortunately Philips broke the Amazon video app integration with this update - the current version (4.something) plays videos asynchronously, basically making the app useless. Going back to the previous version (3.something) by installing the APK manually solves both problems. The problem is that the TV automatically updates the app back to the current version every day although automatic updates are disabled both in the TV settings as well as in Google Play.
Is there any way to block the update until Philips has fixed the issues? Thanks in advance.
Never mind, I found a way to prevent the update by renaming the APK package with ApkRename and signing it with ZipSigner. Afterwards both versions can be installed in parallel and the old one will not be updated automatically any more.
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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No need for introduction, as you may know, I ported YT Music Vanced on Wear OS 2 some time ago.
Today Google released YT Music for older Wear OS 2 watches(Google said TicWatch Pro 3 & E3 for the moment) but you can just take the APK and sideload it.
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How to sideload?
Thanks!!!!! Almost one year waiting this! Working perfectly on a Suunto 7 smartwatch, without YT Music Premium (so only owned music) in offline mode