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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
My Sony is paired with an HTC Rezound running Infection 2.5 It's working beautifully. It works well if I out range the phone and come back. Every now and then I have to toggle BT off and back on to get them to sync but that's easy for me using antek quick settings. I have several apps running and a normal clock face that times out. If ever you find the watch stop responding to taps, this might be the culprit-Smart Alarm. If enabled on your tethered device, it can mess up the watches response to wake up taps and such. The reason is Smart Alarm is a bit like any motion based alarm apps for iOS or Android. The motion detection of this app messes up the watch's default response behavior. Currently, I have my watch clipped to the lanyard I have while at work that hangs from my neck. I can just double tap on a corner using my thumb (similar to a bass slap/hit) and it wakes up perfectly.

Some apps I'd recommend-Mode changer. Very handy for toggling your phone's volume modes without touching the phone. Good for meetings and areas where it's polite for it to be silent

Find phone-pops your phone's ringtone kind of like one of those find my keychain devices. I've maybe misplaced my android phone 2 or 3 times in about 5 years but this app has another handy, hidden feature. By popping your phone's ringtone, it's a way of faking a phone call if you need to.

WatchIt-couple this with an app like Notifier Pro and you've got everything your phone could pop right at your watch. Good for me as I have Friendcaster, Ebay and other pops now on the watch

Augmented Smartwatch-the greatest swiss army knife you could want. Exposes so many features for the watch it's amazing. This one also handles weather notifications.

Vfinder-not super needed but kind of nice. It turns the phone's camera on so it's good for timed pics, spy cam or even finding your phone if it's in range but you're not sure where it is.
[Sony Smartwatch] mikereidis:
Bluetooth has been kind of a mess on Android 4.2, even on Nexus devices. Google & Broadcom teamed up to replace BlueZ with BlueDroid. I'm struggling with this right now for my app and AOSP ROM devs are still swearing about this I'm sure.

I watched a dev session from Google I/O and they apologized for this and more or less are claiming Android 4.3 will be better. LOL. :)
[Sony Smartwatch] udit.kumar:
I am on CM10.1 , If my watch disconnects there are times when it will not connect back to my phone automatically , so i just restart the watch which just takes about 5-7 seconds. and boomm is connected back :D
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
This is what I do also. The more and more I encounter apps for this watch, the more and more I think it was a worthwhile pick off Ebay. Pretty soon, this thing is going to become a Bat watch.
[Sony Smartwatch] ycats:
same here, got mine last week for 69.99
[Sony Smartwatch] ElAguila:
Does anybody know if the back hinged plate is replaceable? I broke one of the snaps that connects the hinge door to the watch.
[Sony Smartwatch] aeron16:
Thanks for the recommendation! Managed to get a strap like this and it looks way more manly now :)
[Sony Smartwatch] youngnex:
Call sony up and they'll send you a new one.
[Sony Smartwatch] Felnarion:
Is there any app that will allow you to control google music through the watch? I know the stock one does a little, but it does it poorly. I've searched and found nothing, maybe you guys know something.
[Sony Smartwatch] aleekwen:
No there isn't from my recent research.

If the new SDK will still support augmented smart watch pro, I will look at moving the pebble code to do this to support the new Sony watch as this is a key use case for me and I would love to not use my Pebble any more and just use the new Sony. However the lack of buttons on the Sony may make this a bit cumbersome.

BTW both Clove and mobile fun are saying the new watch is shipping later in July. I am a bit skeptical, however last time I did preorder the current generation watch from mobile fun and they did ship earlier than the announced date.

Thanks
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
poorly? My smartwatch music widget can perfect control the google play music App, all the functions are actually working fine, the only thing missing is the cover art but press play/pause, next, previous, volume +/- and the info of song-artist, they are working pretty well.
[Sony Smartwatch] aleekwen:
Can you point us to your app? the one I found on the Play store didn't work on my HTC one.

thanks
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
Is the default one that comes with the smartwatch app so I didn't download it from playstore but here is the link. This could be an incompatibiliti with your device (I have a Galaxy Note II and google play music v. 5.0.1052).

Is Google play music your default player?? I mean did you choose this option on the system info of google play app?, also have you tried to choose the defaultplayer that music widget manage? You can check it on smartconnect -> Smartwatch-> applications-> music player-> Music player settings (mine is set on "automatic" and works well).

Also you must to remember =/ sony don't promisse it will work perfect with all the devices, it could be your ROM (I'm in an mod pretty close to stock one). You must check the official list.

But there still are one or two options on playstore for remote control your music players: DMedia Control and Music player for smartwatch. First one is too minamalist and second one must do pretty the same than stock app for smartwatch.

Also you can try to set google play music widget on AppWidgetDisplay. It's a little dificult to point to the buttons of the widget but acctually works pretty cool :laugh: you can see the cover, press next, previous or play/pause button.

If this info can't help you =/ unfortunately you must try another player or make your own widget for your specific device commands using smartwatch SDK. A last try to use google music if you don't like the Appwidgetdisplay one, is to make your own widget (not the google play one) on UCCW or ZOOM for a bigger buttons on AppwidgetDisplay and use Tasker profiles to manage your play music app (this is just if you don't know how to make your own widget ussing SDK, still is dificult if you don't know how to use tasker, uccw or zoom but there are many tutorials on internet like this one) .

Here are another options:

In playstore there are other options for smartwatch like Poweramp free and poweramp pro, Spotify, music player on.

Hope this can help you! :D
[Sony Smartwatch] Aizen79:
Random switching off

hi guys,day 2 on the mn2...immediately update to the 0.1.B.1.3.The watch is paired LG nexus 4(flawlessly) but has had weird behaviour....every time i get a call or sms,the watch switches off and takes long to switch on.At times it just switches off. Really annoying to find a missed call on ur device,only to find the watch is off:rolleyes: I have flashed the device using the original firmware in vain....help

Actually before I finished typing this the watch has gone off.Please anyone cook us a stable working firmware....thanx
[Sony Smartwatch] mikereidis:
LOL, Only Sony can do that.

I assume you mean firmware that connects with apps on the phone and has just about every normal feature.

I just Googled it to see if the "Open Arduino" for Sony Smartwatch is released and found this: https://github.com/underverk/SmartWatch

This Arduino environment might be fun for a bit of hacking, but it would take a HUGE amount of reverse engineering and development work to replicate the stock Sony smartwatch "OS".
[Sony Smartwatch] pl8715:
Is there an app that shows me the battery level on my Smartwatch? I can get one that shows me my phone's battery state on my smartwatch but nothing on the smartwatch for it's battery.
[Sony Smartwatch] yong_ys:
I have the same problem too after getting my mn2 last week, got battery draining problem in the first 2 days, then followed by this random shut down problem. I uninstalled all the smart watch apps (including Smart Connect) in my S3 (Leaked Stock 4.2.2), and reinstalled the firmware 0.1.B.1.3 on mn2 using Sony Software Update followed by reinstalling Smart Connect, Smart Watch apps on my S3, the problem magically disappeared for nearly 6 days, but the problem happened again last night, I have to redo all above steps over again to save my mn2. Heard that the problem was due to the poor Bluetooth stacks in JB 4.2.2 (has been confirmed by Google), by the way, are you using 4.2.2? I am going to roll back my S3 to JB 4.1.2, see if the problem can be permanently solved.
[Sony Smartwatch] Aizen79:
guess its tough luck for us.I mean the only way of making the watch work 'normal' is by flashing the OS....but when I get a call and then followed by a text,then the switching off begins:confused:....any help

---------- Post added at 12:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:10 PM ----------

yep....have LG nexus 4 on 4.2.2....is there a way to roll back nexus 4(but i like the 4.2.2 very smooth..:(
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
Are you serious??

The smartwatch has the battery level indicator on the left corner.

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[Sony Smartwatch] aka_sirok:
I think he is looking for a % indicator.. I'm also looking for this kind lf indicator..

Does anyone knows about any app that can do that?

thanks in advance
[Sony Smartwatch] pl8715:
I was talking about a percentage indicator, I know there's a battery indicator but no % meter.
[Sony Smartwatch] mikereidis:
Sony SmartWatch 2 Launching In The UK on July 15th For £120, According To Online Retailer Clove

Maybe later elsewhere.
[Sony Smartwatch] yong_ys:
cannot mytana

I see, then it's definitely the JB 4.2.2 causing the watch self shutdown, I just read the quick start manual inside the box, it said the watch will self turn off in 2 conditions, either low battery or Bluetooth communication failure. I think it's confirmed the BT problem in JB 4.2.2. If you google around, there're lot of complains about BT problem in JB 4.2.2, lot of people have disconnection and lagging issues with their headset. There are some workarounds for the problem, but, you need to first root your phone, which is not a good option to me, I will most likely change back to 4.1.2. You may google around to see if there's Stock 4.1.2 for your Nexus 4.
[Sony Smartwatch] Aizen79:
hi guys, on the bluetooth issues on jb 4.2.2....anyone know any workarounds??point me in the right direction.Hav rooted my LG nexus 4 device.Thanx:)
[Sony Smartwatch] yong_ys:
I flashed my S3 back to 4.1.2 in the last 2 days, so far so good... anyway, need to wait for a couple of days to know whether it's better or not...;)
[Sony Smartwatch] Aizen79:
hope the JB 4.3 (hope by 11-July) will sort out the issue:confused:
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
My Rezound with a 4.2.2 rom seems to be working fine with my SmartWatch. If I outrange the phone, somtimes I need to cycle the watch off and then back on but that's about it. My Rezzy is using INfection 2.5 from IAmTheOneTheyCallNeo. I have not tried it with any stock 4.2.2 devices though.
[Sony Smartwatch] darren1:
Works fine on my Nexus 4 stock 4.2.2 as I have said in previous posts I always use a wakelock whilst using the Smartwatch to make sure phone doesn't go to sleep.
[Sony Smartwatch] zeus.lny:
I have mn800 need to know if there's any plunging where I can see whatsapp notification on my watch.... Searched and found that the one available is not for our version..

Sent from my Desire S
[Sony Smartwatch] T-Loop:
I have Galaxy Note 2 with Carbon nightlies 4.2.2 and it's working perfectly with Sony. No disconnects, no hiccups, nothing that makes me irritated. Using NEAK kernel.

I found WatchIt app the most perfect for me. By default it gives you ALL notifications, but you can define per-app notifications also. It shows the message contents of whatsapp and even multiple messages. It's awesome.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=se.petersson.watch
[Sony Smartwatch] yong_ys:
Sony has just released an update for Smart Connect in Play Store on 8 Jul 2013, may be it could solve the BT connection...
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Agreed. WatchIt is awesome.
[Sony Smartwatch] 6jaipur6:
One more for WatchIt is the best notification app for our watch. For the best results clear from time to time all events.
[Sony Smartwatch] zeus.lny:
Have watch it installed but how to push the notification to my watch... Any apps for it... Or any plunging required for it?

Sent from my Desire S
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
You just need to enable it on accessibility permissions and configure it on watchit app for which notifications to deliver.

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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Yep. When you go into watchit on the phone, you can configure what apps watchit will tackle for you. Some apps already have their own notifier so you don't want watchit doing it. If you couple watchit with something like notifier pro, you've got a powerful combo. (IE-Ihave notifier pro give you google play store pops and then watchit will buzz your watch that your phone is updating an app).
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
Watch it already do it by itself just need to enable google play notifications and toast enable, if you want percentage (I don't recommend it) just enable notifications without ticket.

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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
hehe very true. I was just using that as an example. Aside from a few burps when out ranging the phone and coming back within distance, I really love this smartwatch. I'd like to see an app that could make the watch buzz in the vein of a keyfinder. the watch can make the phone ring to find the phone but I'd like to see one work in reverse just in case.
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
But The smartwatch doesn't have a speaker (i think that's the big why is not there an app), vibrating will work only if it is on a table o something hard enough to produce sounds when vibrates, if you just let it between the bedclothes you can't notice when it vibrates.

By the way, the smartwatch vibrates every time you receive a notification o turn on the Bluetooth. You can make a tasker routine to send a lot of toasts and this way the watch will vibrate for a while.

I can try to make it if you want.

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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
bad-you have a very valid point. I was just thinking it would be cool to have an app I could launch from the smartview that I could tap that would make the watch do that really STRONG buzz you get when you cycle the power on or off to the watch. Know how we get the kinda small buzz when we get a notification but then there's that more powerful one for the power changes?

Reason why I thought of it was the other day I placed the watch down in an odd spot. I forgot where it was and was like-oh crap did the thing fall off somewhere? So I retraced some steps looking for it. I came back to the start and found it on the floor where I accidentally knocked it off a counter. If I had the ability to get it to do that strong buzz, I would have found it.
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
I don't think that could work unless you'll are on a silent place. Strong buzz or normal one, it is to quiet to get you notice about it.

I make the tasker app for custom notifications ( :p I named it "Smartwatch finder") so you can give it a try if you want and If you like it and think you can improve it and make it much more noisy with an smartwatch native app, then you can read the sdk and make your own app but as I said, I don't think that could make some diference noticeable on a noisy place.

here is the apk and the xml project for tasker if you want to change Icon, text o the number of notifications (Just erase txt extension, It should be xml).

I set 15 'cause when I put 20 the smartwatch restarts (I think the smartwatch app took it as a loop and then restart the connection).
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Thanks Bad. I'll give it a try sometime tonight :D
[Sony Smartwatch] kitsune_12:
i dont know if it's my tablet or my smartwatch or both or if it's the update, but...

my smartwatch only gets to SMARTWATCH STARTED

then it will stay on the connecting icon on my SW...

what i do is unpair, restart pairing, unpair, pai, unpair, pair for many many many times!

until i get the time to show on my screen... then after few seconds it will disconnect again and wont pair again...

very frustrating indeed...
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
What phone and rom? Would it happen to be a JB based rom?

Sometimes this combo works for me if I out range the phone and it's not grabbing the connection again. Turn the watch off via a 5-10 second press. Turn BT off on the phone. Wait 30 seconds. Turn BT on. Wait 5. Turn the watch on with a 10 second press. Usually that kicks it back in for me provided the problem is just a poor conversation between the phone and the watch. If you have BT stack problem, that's different.
[Sony Smartwatch] jamdiggity:
Just got the smartwatch yesterday. I have zero app icons (just the arrows forming a circle), my widgets do the same after I use any of them once, and when I do get a text or email and I click on it three buttons appear with what looks like TV snow (when the signal goes out) filling them... I've got a Verizon gs3 running illusion romantic 1.0 beta and the included kernel.

I've searched everywhere for the last two days and tried nearly every solution that seemed remotely pertinent with no luck. Anyone else had this issue?
[Sony Smartwatch] Stu|:
Only got that issue when I was on either CM10.1 rc 3 or 4 I forgot which. Updating to rc5 fixed it for me.
[Sony Smartwatch] jamdiggity:
I'll try it out, thanks!

I'll post back up the results
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Hi Bad. Did you mean to post this as a zip of the files or an actual installable APK? That zip file contains the file structure of the app but not the app itself.
[Sony Smartwatch] Neikon66:
Any custom firmware released?
[Sony Smartwatch] damngood98:
take a read over the last several pages.....i would not be expecting anything anytime soon, if ever
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
It's an apk, you can install it (you don't need tasker to get it working). If you have tasker, I attached the xml that way you can edit anything you want (time,message,icon,text even make your own version of this app from it).

When you click on it, there's only notifications not an app UI. This way to make it work and get the 15 vibrations on the smartwatch you need to enable notifications on your watchIt! Or augmented app.

I can make it visible and configurable but only if a mount of guys request it since is a little tricky make apps with tasker.

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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Okay I see what you did bad. You uploaded it as a zip file but it's actually an apk. I'll have to rename it to a .apk after downloading it.
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
Nope I upload it as apk, if you go to that post you can see extension attached, maybe xda or you're browser change the extension.

By the way, this noon when I was coming home I started to make a GUI version. Hope you like it!

Again here is the apk or xml for tasker (rename txt to xml).
[Sony Smartwatch] jamdiggity:
Solved the problem completely, thanks a ton!
[Sony Smartwatch] zeus.lny:
Enabled it in accessibility.... But still cant push it to my watch... I have the earliest watch version the first watch from Sony... Sorry being a noob here

Sent from my Desire S
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
WatchIt! Is for smartwatch not for LiveView. You must go to this thread, you are on the wrong forum.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2182566
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Sigh. Bot posts :(
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
There is definitely something up with the way it's attaching to the post then

Edit-so I downloaded it directly to my phone where it understood it was an apk. I installed it and ran it. The first time I picked 5, next time I picked 10. It said it was sending the vibrations, waited a few moments and then said it was done. Unfortunately, nothing ever popped on the watch.

Aside from it not working, there's 1 thing you could fix. When you first pick the amount of jolts to send, it says it is sending them to the phone. It should actually read that it is sending it to the watch.
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
It works perfect as it should work. As I said it is not a smartwatch app is a phone one, what it does is to send a mount of notifications to notifications bar, you must enable notifications to this app on Watchit! Or Augmented smartwatch to properly send the notifications to your watch.

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[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Okay Bad I see where you're coming from on this. When I get home, I'll configure my watchit to get the toasts from it. I still think if you wanted to be technically correct, the message should say "Sending to the watch" instead of to the phone. I had one attempt where my clear all button didn't clear the message that it had sent the nudges but I've only had it once. I haven't been able to duplicate it since. All it took was a manual swipe on the toast to clear it that time.
[Sony Smartwatch] badtzo:
Here is the message correction.

The notifications are not persistent, so clear button should work to clear all of it, just hit the button after the done message is shown.
[Sony Smartwatch] :
could your signature possibly be any larger? HAHA ITS ENORMOUS!!!!
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
Hehe yeah it was created by team GFX in their signatures thread. Gonna condense at least the text under it some
[Sony Smartwatch] ZappBrannigan:
Sony music player app not working!?!?

No news about it? No fix? No one else got this? Still need help!!!!...
[Sony Smartwatch] NapalmDawn:
I'll try mine and see what it does when I can.
[Sony Smartwatch] TheEndGame7:
Question: Is there anyway to remove the "SmartWatch Connected" notification without disconnecting the device from the phone? Thanks in advance!

Edit: Nevermind, I figured it out! Thanks
[Sony Smartwatch] polstein:
I didn't know we could, looking for the option now, but if you're around - please post where the option is.
[Sony Smartwatch] jschall:
How to clear Gmail, Facebook, RSS?

I have had my MN2 for a couple of weeks, and it's working fine with my Samsung Tab 2 7.0.

I use the Gmail, Facebook and RSS apps. I can read them no problem on my watch.

But they accumulate so many notifications on the watch!

Even if I have read and deleted the Gmails on my tablet, the 40 Gmails stay on my watch.

To clear the notifications, I have to open SmartWatch on my tablet, open the application,and select Clear History. What a hassle.

Is there a better way to clear the notifications for this type of SmartWatch app?

Ideally, there would be a "Mark as read" button in the notification, along with the "View in Phone" button.

What do you think?
[Sony Smartwatch] Stu|:
If you scroll to the bottom of one of the notifications, press the grey button with an arrow and then you can clear all.
[Sony Smartwatch] jschall:
No, that's not the case. The button says "View in phone", which lets you read the message on your tablet. It does not let you "Clear all".
[Sony Smartwatch] Stu|:
Well, it actually says remove this, remove all and another option I can't remember right now, but when it happens I'll show you.

Anyway, it holds only the last 100 so I just tend to ignore it.
[Sony Smartwatch] jschall:
?

Man, we must not be talking about the same apps!

I am referring to the Gmail, Facebook and RSS apps in the Play store. They only have a "View in phone" button.

What app(s) are you talking about, Stu|?
[Sony Smartwatch] Stu|:
I was just talking about the events widget on the watch which shows all notifications. I tend to just associate watchit to everything I want to see.
[Sony Smartwatch] bharatshaan:
Am not getting a stable connection between my smartwatch and Xperia S any solutions??

It disconnects after every 1 minute :confused:
[Sony Smartwatch] Stu|:
Only turn off bluetooth on the phone, then turn off the watch. Then turn them both back on.

That works for me when it goes scatty