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[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Does both full brightness mode (if picked in settings) - always on, or low power, which is like a watch face, but it doesnt revert back to the watch on ambient.

Always on looks like the left, while low power looks like the left when active then goes to the right for power save...clock does not get in the way and updates as well

[IMG="Ambient and Full mode"]https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-zzOUOtOAjO0/VHo9mogovyI/AAAAAAAAAGI/f8ky5jwbWOs/w1028-h685-no/ghostracerSmartwatch.png[/IMG]
[Sony Smartwatch 3] activdoc:
Me too! I keep the Time, Distance, and Pace fields on the screen the entire time. I'm only doing 5k, but it's heavily wooded and with my Garmin 405 I used to constantly lose the signal. Haven't had a problem the last 3 times I ran with my SW3 and Ghostracer - I get a satellite fast and never lose it. I have not tried a BT HRM yet; BT headset works great. This is exactly why I bought this watch. This app is a perfect complement to its functionality. The only glitch I've had is that after the AW 5.0 update I can't upload to Strava, although I'm sure that'll be fixed soon. Thanks again.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
sweeet, new app download today works on lollipop and allows you to customize the screens!

---------- Post added 17th December 2014 at 12:04 AM ---------- Previous post was 16th December 2014 at 11:55 PM ----------

A few comments on the wear settings page

1. The time on the first page does not show a title even if selected

2. You should put "save" instead of edit in the popup menu when you select an element

3. Perhaps put text to say "click on text/field" to edit

4. clicking save at bottom to save all settings should bring you back to settings menu

5. Would be cool to center the numbers or show them in different fonts.

Nice work as usuall. I have been promoting your app all over the place (reddit, zdnet, etc...). Hopefully it brings you some customers and well deserved revenue.

All the best
[Sony Smartwatch 3] king conan:
Is this the setting to keep screen on in the watch?

Or there is another way to select full brightness/low brightness with screen always on?...
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
Thats the settings for the phone. The watch has its on settings page on the watch itself, the bottom page and the last option. Just click to cycle though the options.

[MENTION=6229814]srj228[/MENTION] and [MENTION=5683033]activdoc[/MENTION] hopefully the runs that did not syc should be transferred to the phone on your next activity. They will come up as 0 miles and time but should upload ok.

[MENTION=4304097]gs05[/MENTION] thanks for the promo. The custom screen page was rushed out. Thought it best to fix the sync error, so still a bit of work to be done. Apart from clicking the watch screen to edit, is the rest self explanatory? As in clicking the row you want to edit or clicking the plus button for a new row? Took me a while to make something without a load of buttons next to the watch.

Next few days should have auto upload to Strava sorted.

Thanks for the feedback everyone

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] king conan:
I see it now. Thank you. "Always on - dim" looks great.

Do you think with lollipop in the watch will be easier to add HRM support?

Great job!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mertzi:
Great to see continuity on the development! I have some questions.

1. The new GPS indicator never shows me 4 full bars, more like 3 bars 70% of the time and 2 bars 30%. Is this enough for a decent accuracy? I suspect 100% perfection is not achievable with our watch, maybe not any GPS watch.

When I go to the GPS page in developer mode I get between 17-21 satellites in view. Should be enough shouldn't it? What numbers do you guys get?

2. Can you make a page that shows time, distance and a play/pause button? I'm doing interval training now and it would be neat if I could stop the time at an exact distance without swiping to a different screen first. I know it takes 2-3 seconds but every second counts! At least as motivation.

Keep it up!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Craig,

To your points on it making sense...I think it does overall, with just a little help

1. I think you should move all of the settings to the phone. Most Wear apps do this approach to keep it consistent. That my opinion but others may feel differently. Perhaps only keep the bike/run as an option on both? As you can see from posts above, finding the settings was not that intuitive as folks expected it to be on the phone

2. Adding text saying click field to edit and adjusting the button names (from edit to save) would help

3. Since its "row" driven, you may want to have 1,2,3 on the left as clicking a field would imply changing that field, when in reality you are editing the full row

4. On the menu you may want to add subsections like "Activity" (has type, then cycling/running items underneath based on selection), "Sensors" (bluetooth & ant), "wearables", "Other" (units, display, audio, etc...), "Connected Services" (strava, etc...)

5. When attached to strava, would be nice to have a checkbox or something showing its attached as the "logout" could be a little confusing - I clicked it thinking it was logged out

6. I think the history screen should have the latest at the top. When you start to have lots of runs, you dont want to scroll down all the time when you will be looking at the latest runs most of the time

7. change riding to cycling...more international

Also, there are few bugs I just found

1. If you delete page 2 of 2, there doesn't seem to be a way to add it back again. The green arrow does nothing. I think the + works on page 2 and further, but on one it may get confused

2. Not sure the delete icon should be on page 1?

3. Under SW2 menu option, it should say settings to be consistent

4. Seems like the wheel size option should only showup if cycling is selected in menu

5. I have one run which shows as not synced, but when I try to sync it, I get a duplicate error. I think i hit back while the upload was in progress or something. Either way, there is no way to see it via the app and I have to go to strava to check

Lastly, some other features to request:)

1. For those of us that are lap driven, perhaps add a lap button on the data screen or make it another screen

2. Autopause

Nice work as always! Great to see dev's fixing/updating, though you should charge for this stuff! Plus when the new smartwatches come out you can be the first app with GPS offline support for them as well.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Himmig:
I really like your app! keep up the good work! I might come up with some suggestions later - but for now I agree that stabability and sync capabilities should be the top priority.

Sent from my SM-N7505
[Sony Smartwatch 3] activdoc:
Unfortunately I couldn't retrieve the data. No worries. App is still awesome. Keep up the great work.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Hey...just got back from a long run and found a few small bugs

1. In dim mode, the background does not go black, so it looks like its not working (maybe it was always this way?). Perhaps you could black out the background to save even more power

2. When hitting pause, then swiping down to the stats, they all show zeros instead of the paused stats. Makes it tough to pause and see where you are

3. Pace is set to 3 digits only, so if you hit 10:00, it shows 10:0 instead of the full pace. Could be just pace and could be because i have it in a 2 column setup.

4. Would be nice when you hit resume to bring you back to the stats

5. When finding GPS, perhaps have it blink red, then green when ready? very minor

Otherwise, GPS accuracy is great and it seems to now feed better into google fit in terms of running vs walking steps? Perhaps that is just by chance?

Lastly, strava upload is working great as well. Colors on the numbers would be great perhaps with bold/regular choices :)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dougi83:
After trying the app at home, App is awesome and 10x times better that the Runkeeper tried this morning.

1 - I discovered the Up/Down scroll screen possibility after reading this thread.

The 1st time, after pushing " Start", i was searching how to "Pause" or "Stop" the clock with a left/right scroll : there are only 2 points at the bottom of the screen, and no points/arrow for the Up/Down possibility. It is not evident/intuitive at first use (for editing the fields, going to parameters also)

Possibility to add the 2 buttons (Pause/resume and Stop) on a screen, with the choice of 2 other informations (time, pace, distance) ?

If the screen is set to always "ON", a sleeve could "stop" accidentally, would need a long press on the button (2 or 3 sec) to activate it.

2 - Export to GPX file work great but i was looking at my file in the download folder and not in a the Ghostracer folder (discovered with ES Explorator)

Would be nice if we can choose the folder ? or to export to Google Drive as a 3rd possibility.

3- Possibility to choose no wallpaper at all ?

4- Possibility to add a battery level or % indicator next to the GPS icon ?

+1. I agree with you. It seems that the backlight is still ON, with a minimum setting.

+1
[Sony Smartwatch 3] simika:
I just tried this app... first of all thanks to the developer !!!

i had some " problems " to stop my race at the end.. i thought about swiping and find " stop / pause " but i've lost 10 seconds to find it.. basically i swiped off the app.. open it again(while running was going on ) the i'd find pause / stop !!

GPS is accurate ( it doesn't have the initial glitch that runkeeper has ) but still is not " perfect " .. what i mean is at the end with ghostracer i've done 130MT more than runkeepers.. and looking at the map of both 2 app (ghostracer was running standalone on sw3 and runkeeper on my mobile)

it shows that in 2 points ghostracer gps made the curve " larger " .. obvisouly as i usually do i started both app and gps LONG time before going jogging.. more than 5 minutes so lots of time to get satellites!

i post here a picture:

[IMG="ghostracer vs runkeeper"]http://www.simiweb.net/ghost.jpg[/IMG]

P.S. tomorrow i try to see how many ACTUAL km is the area.. i'll do it by car/scooter but i believe runkeeper is the one "right"
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mickael91210:
Thanks a lot again for this great APP !!!

I didn't compare during race because i don't want my phone with me that's why I bought SW3 ... And the informations seem to be in a good range compared to my old garmin watch. Thanks a lot.

This time all my race was recorded.

Next time I will try to combine with theater mode to have directly ghostracer full page after push button action but I don't know yet if it's possible or if i will have only the small notification... I will see.

If it's allways not possible to export directly to runtastic maybe as it was said before it could be good to make automatically an export to google drive or another server. because for the moment i send me my gpx file by mail to import it in runtastic with my computer...

Thanks a lot again
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
I've posted a new update to google play this morning. So expect an update some time today. Mainly it just adds support for bluetooth LE heart rate monitors. I've only tested it with my Mio link so I assume there could be many problems with other devices. To use it you must enable it in the android wear options on the phone. Once enabled it will simply scan for a monitor for the first 30 seconds of your activity, then hopefully connect. It could take 20 seconds or more to connected so its a bit annoying checking its connected at the start of a run. Will have to add something to connect to the monitor before start is clicked in the future.

Previous Questions:
[MENTION=4165538]mertzi[/MENTION] - GPS indicator: Full bars is accuracy to within 8 meters, Ive changed this to 10 in the update. Then 3 bars 20 meters and so on. So any amount of bars is a good enough signal.

[MENTION=4304097]gs05[/MENTION] + [MENTION=6235320]dougi83[/MENTION] - Dim Mode: this is just the same as always on but with the back light on its lowest setting.

Low power mode turns the backlight off. It would be nice to change the background to black in low power mode automatically but I've got no way of telling when the screen changes on the watch unfortunately. The watch face code that does that in those apps does not seem not to work in my app. So I've added an option for black background on the wear settings screen on the phone.

[MENTION=4304097]gs05[/MENTION] - Custom screen: Still a lot of work to be done on this page. Made heart rate a priority. But I cannot recreate the bug of the add button not appearing when you delete page 2. Does it happen all the time with you?

[MENTION=1468154]mickael91210[/MENTION] + [MENTION=6235320]dougi83[/MENTION] - Google Drive: Will hopefully get that feature in the next update.

Happy Christmas everyone and hopefully I will keep on top of the questions in the future.

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] jeffmplsmn:
I just loaded the update and all I can say is Thank You for the great Christmas gift. The app saw my Mio Alpha HRM just fine. GPS locked very quickly. With the upload to Strava and then using SyncMyTracks, I can now get my data to my app of choice without any issues.

Like the developer said, it would be nice if the heart rate locked first before starting the activity, but I can easily live with this limitation. The first time it took about 20 seconds to register the heart rate. Then after stopping the app and starting again, it took only about 3 seconds. I also experimented by starting the app for a second and then pausing it, and then waiting about 10 seconds, and then unpausing the app, and that seemed to also work to get an earlier heart rate read than 20 seconds.

With the ability to customize the screens by workout type, the quick GPS lock, the upload to Strava, and now BLE HRM support, this app is my killer app for the Sony Smartwatch 3.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
Just added another update. I've added a heart rate icon to the play/pause screen. It appears grey when hr is enabled in the settings and goes white when hr its connected when recording. Its a quick fix in that you can start and pause the app straight away and wait for the hr icon to turn white before you unpause to start running.

Also hopefully fixed a bug where it stop connecting after it was connected shortly before(possibly due to android Bluetooth not disconnecting the device for some reason). But I don't think its totally fixed. If you start and stop the app a few times you might need to turn your hr monitor off before it reconnects again.

Hopefully it will be worth the occasional frustration for when it works correctly.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Basch88:
Do I have to pair the HRM in the Bluetooth settings first or does the app search it? I ask because my polar h6 does not connect in the settings...

Will try as soon I get home (and maybe also wait for the update with the indicator).

Thanks for the effort anyway! This awesome app is getting better each update!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
No need to pair in the settings. Will hopefully just connect in the app. Good luck
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Awesome... Nice job. You fixed most of the little issues and added others.

Any chance you could add average hrm? And put an option for 12 or 24 hr clock?

Lastly, time vibration alerts or audio (though prob harder) would be great.

As always, nice job. Happy holidays.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Basch88:
I can confirm that the polar h6 does work great! The heart icon does not turn white, but if I start a run/ride the HR filed displays correctly and if I return to the start/pause screen during a run the icon is indeed white. Would maybe be better if it showed me HR data is working before I start a workout though... (minor complaint though)

Those would be great features! Also HR-Zones would be amazing!

But I almost feel guilty asking for even more after all the great work the developer has put into this amazing app... :D
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
One more request... On save to show a one page summary with distance, time, calories, avg pace and hr (if enabled)
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
Will add Summary page, average heart rate and 12/24 hour clock to the to-do list.

Audio updates is a bit of a problem as the watch does not support the Text to Speech feature like the phone. At least last time I tried.

When I start work on a lapping feature I will look into adding vibrations.

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] jwelch010:
You are a rockstar Craig!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] tu3218:
None of my ghosts are being saved. I hit stop and save at the end of each run but when I go back in there, there are no ghosts saved. Any ideas?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] alikro:
Hi,

Which HR monitors will it support ?

And will there be an option to show the HR status on the Sony 3 ?

Thanks in advance,

Alik.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
For some reason, ghostracer distance is always 1-3% less than what strava reports after upload. Anyone else see this?

Today ghostracer was 7.6 miles and strava was 7.8.

Also the pace seems to be finicky... It had me at 3min miles when I was going around 7min. It's odd, seemed to spike towards the end of the run.

Otherwise continues to be great
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
The ghosts are tracks you race against while on your run/ride. These ghosts are added on the phone with the + button and then can be sent to the watch. This is done with the sync button on the ghosts page on the watch.

If you are talking about the past runs you have done, these are sent to the phone and come under the notepad icon on the action bar. Or could be in the 3 dot overflow if it does not fit.

Its not the most intuitive app around I know.

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
[MENTION=5451626]alikro[/MENTION]

Should support all bluetooth low energy heartrate monitors or bluetooth smart as they are sometimes known.

The display is customisable to display what data you want, heartrate been one of the options.

[MENTION=4304097]gs05[/MENTION] its odd that the distance should be different. There must just be some sort of rounding up or down of the data when its working out distances between points. Will look into it to make sure mine is not the one doing the rounding.

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] activdoc:
I've had the same issue as [MENTION=4304097]gs05[/MENTION] regarding distance. I am also unable to pair my Zephyr HXM bluetooth HRM as well, but I know a fix is on the way. Looking forward to the summary page immediately after a run too. Thanks again!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] greenbat:
Is ghostracer able to sync with google fit?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] AstroDigital:
I am confused, the Google Play link says this is a Smartwatch 2 app, not an Android Wear Smartwatch 3 app.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] king conan:
Read first post. You must join the Google + community, then accept to be a beta tester and then you'll get from Google play the latest beta version with SW3 support.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
There is currently no Google fit support. But if you are syncing the run from Ghostracer with services which support Google fit like Strava, then it will sync though that(if enabled).

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] rizzo94:
Hello, I ve read all the posts tonight and just joined the communiy so thanks for all the work you ve already done.

After joining the community and test I am warned of the updated version 0. 7. 3 on google play , but I am unable to DL it on my xperia Z3. I ve got error code RPC S-2 AEC -2. I don't know if it is only a google play issue . Just to inform you in case it helps.

I ll try again tomorow morning and hope to test it.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] dougi83:
Update 0.73 downloaded today. Thanks for the black background and the summary page ;)

Tested for the 2nd time yesterday, with the previous version.

When running : worked great !

Export and import to Runtastic with the GPX file : only 0,1km less when compared to previous runs (recorded with Runtastic smartphone app) but the altitude is missing

Export and import to Runkeeper with the GPX file : Perfect

Strava autoupload : Perfect and the easiest / fastest way to save activities (no need to export file, manually import it...) .

Strava seems to be a better app than Runtastic i was using before.

SW3 + Ghostracer + Strava is the perfect combination.

I'm now using Strava and leaving Runtastic. (I've exported GPX files of my previous runs from Runtastic to Strava)

Thanks again for this great app for our SW3.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] rizzo94:
It is working now so forget it. Nedd to test and give you feeback now but it s raining a lot this morning !
[Sony Smartwatch 3] andyrtr:
I used 0.73 (no changelog?) version today:

- It's still required to pause/resume the race to get initial HR values from the beginning. I'm sure this will soon be fixed. the app on the watch should simply scan for some time (30s.?) for a device when the app is started like it does with gps scanning. Scanning when the race has been started is to late in my view.

- Average HR is a nice improvement!

- Average Speed is not very accurate at the beginning (first 1-2km). Then it improves and become a ~ proper value apart from the distance bug - see below.

- There's still something broken with distance/length calculation: The watch showed me while running and at summary page 10,0 km distance with an avg. pace ~6,08min/km/9,7kph. The true values are properly shown (10.,4km/5,52min/km/10,2kph) in Strava and even after import into Endomondo and runalyze.de. The same wrong values are shown in the phone app activity listing. No idea why the watch app is using bad values.

- The summary page on the watch had avg. pace with 0.00 which is simply wrong.

Keep up the good work!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
Agree with previous post

- Avg pace on summary is zero

- Distance on summary should be X.YY format, with .01, it is just saying 4.3, instead of 4.35

- Pauses are still causing strava issues. I was on a hill sprint and it took 35 seconds, but strava had me at 56. I think it is recording pauses or something

- Can you change hear rate to HRM to save space on the label?

- Can avg HRM and a calorie calc be added to the summary? Not sure how calories calc easily...

Thanks,

Greg
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
So the pace on the summary page is fixed in the latest update! NICE!
[Sony Smartwatch 3] mturlip:
Agree with the previous posts. Great app, as a pretty serious runner this is definitely what I need to get rid of my Garmin.

-The Strava upload is seamless. But distance seems to almost always be slightly longer when on Strava compared to what was displayed at the end of the run, or on the summary.

- Current pace can be somewhat erratic, even when I should have and it indicates at least two/three bars of GPS signal. Very quickly jumping from 6:02 pace to 7:00 pace, etc.

Has anyone else noticed these things? Or is it just my watch/GPS signal?

The next priority item, in my opinion as a competitive runner to really enable me to throw my Garmin away would be the ability to have interval/lap splits.

Amazing work on this app. Worlds above Runkeeper and anything else.
[Sony Smartwatch 3] gs05:
I have same issues (distance difference and pace) and the good thing is the dev knows and is fixing them now. Plus he is working on laps, audible alerts and some other items.

Thanks
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
Still not figured out the distance issue. The app uses an inbuilt android method for finding out the distance between two points so I may have to try some other formulas to see what effect it has. (uses 'Vincenty's Inverse Formula')

Not many big updates at the moment, been fixing an Ant+ issue with the main app which will hopefully be done tonight.

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] jwelch010:
If we want to donate, how can we contribute?
[Sony Smartwatch 3] cjkiller:
I do have a paypal account at cjkiller@hotmail.com but when its out of beta I may add an in app purchase for Android wear to try claw back my hundreds of hours.

Cheers

Craig
[Sony Smartwatch 3] Xyleme:
Sorry if this is off-topic but didn't find an answer on the battery-life topic.

I'm planning to replace my runtastic watch by a sony SW 3. I'll be using it essentialy when practicing sports (running & hiking).

What battery life do you get in real condition (outdoor sport) ? Will I get enough battery life to track hikes of 5 to 8 hours ?

Thanks