[LG G Watch R] Steham:
Hi All

I have only been using these forums for a week but it is clear that a lot of people (like me) have concerns about how best to set up their G Watch R to avoid burn in, prolong battery life, etc. I have put together some of the advice that users have kindly given me. I’d welcome people’s input on this, to clarify anything I’ve missed and in particular answer the questions I have added below. It would great to set this up as a Sticky so new users could set their watches up correctly.

Colour Schemes

•	ALWAYS use more green/red themes (and combinations - yellow, orange) because red and green are the most resilient OLED compounds.

•	AVOID using BLUE in "always on" mode.

•	WHITE has a lot of blue in it ... so, a long time of white theme usage will create burn-in in all colours, especially in the blue colour.

•	Remember on OLED, black means "off". A mostly black watchface burns almost no juice.

•	When you define a bright text or colour, look at the hex code of the colour : XXYYZZTT where XX is hexa code for transparency, YY is red level, ZZ is green level and TT is blue level. ... so try keeping the last two hex numbers in the low area, meaning below 100 (00 means 0, FF means 256, as colour intensity). – HOW TO DO THIS?

•	HANDS AND HAND MAKERS ARE OFTEN WHITE, HOW CAN WE BEST USE THEM?

Style

•	Avoid thick bright lines

•	Keeping one pixel bright (because it's in the middle of a thick line) is something you absolutely need to avoid, for example, on analogue hands the middle won’t move.

•	Display digital clock in small thin font

•	Android wear shifts the whole face a few pixels in different directions every now and then to try to eliminate some of the burn in.

•	If the respective elements are no more than 2 pixels wide, they will not cause that much burn-in because the dim mode pixel shifting will move that object around enough to let the main pixels "rest".

•	The time, if is displayed in the analog style (with dials) will not cause burn-in because the bright part of the image is moving around so one can use brighter clock hands for this.

•	WHAT ARE THE BEST STYLES TO USE FOR DIGITAL AND ANALOGUE?

Brightness

•	NEVER use it at max (or high) brightness more than few seconds with a static image.

•	Use very very VERY LOW brightness always on/dim mode.

•	It's not constant illumination that is causing burn-in in the first place, but constant illumination with "high brightness".

•	Default DIM mode of the Watch G is waaaaay to bright for the purpose of the "dim" mode - HOW TO CHANGE THIS?

•	A black, transparent layer is needed on top of the dim mode in order to prevent this – HOW TO DO THIS?

•	To adjust just the dim mode face only you'll need to use one of the face making apps and duplicate the parts and make a separate dim mode.

•	HOW CAN WE BEST SET UP BRIGHTNESS FOR “ON” and “DIM” (USING APPS LIKE SWAPP TRUE DARK WEAR)?

Good Watchfaces

•	Almost all the watchfaces from Smartwatch Bureau F01,F03, V01, V02... A45, A42.... have a setting for brightness in dim mode. So we can have a dim mode very dark and we can choose the face color for dim between 7 colors : green, blue, cyan, red..... so with this faces we can avoid easily all burn issue.

•	Also the digital from Smartwatch Bureau which can be displayed in green in dim mode to avoid burning

•	CAN PEOPLE OFFER SOME EXAMPLES OF GOOD WATCHFACES (INCLUDING CUSTOM FACES) AND DISPLAY SETTINGS THAT WOULD HELP TO AVOID BURN-IN?

Useful Apps

•	SWApp True Dark Wear – to set the brightness below the lowest default on the watch

•	Stuck Pixel Fixer for Wear app - Try running "stuck pixel fixer" for few hours, with the display set to max brightness. That should help getting rid of the ghosting and also will "age" your pixels in order to be able to display static images w/o burning.

•	Mini Wear launcher – also allows you to set lower brightness setting

•	CAN PEOPLE OFFER TUTORIALS ON HOW BEST TO USE THESE TO SET BRIGHTNESS AND “ALWAYS ON” AND FIX ANY GHOSTING ISSUES?

Your input would be most welcome :)