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CorvetteCole / PixelWatchFace

A minimalistic and open-source watchface for WearOS
GNU General Public License v3.0
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option to disable ambient mode switching #30

Open sma11stars opened 4 years ago

sma11stars commented 4 years ago

Any chance you can add a setting for the watchface to never sleep; to always stay on full power mode?

I have the ticwatch pro and after a few seconds the watchface goes into a lower power outline mode that uses less pixels on my oled screen. I would prefer the watchface to stay pretty with that beautiful solid font you programmed in at all times even if it negatively affects my battery.

davwheat commented 4 years ago

You do realise that this will just end up causing burn-in?

There's already an thin font if you'd rather have that instead of outlined text. You can configure all the options from the phone app.

Daninator1 commented 4 years ago

As disabling ambient mode would be undesirable for most people, I would rather suggest you use an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=strange.watch.utility.cola to disable the ambient mode globally if this is really something you would want.

sma11stars commented 4 years ago

Thanks! this looks like it will do the trick!

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As disabling ambient mode would be undesirable for most people, I would rather suggest you use an app like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=strange.watch.utility.cola to disable the ambient mode globally if this is really something you would want.

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Daninator1 commented 4 years ago

I think this issue can be closed then @CorvetteCole?

CorvetteCole commented 4 years ago

@Daninator1 being out of ambient causes the OS to use more power as well. I think there is still merit to an always on mode that preserves the OS ambient mode optimizations

Daninator1 commented 4 years ago

So basically you're talking about leaving the whole watchface unchanged visually but still switch to ambient mode when necessary?

CorvetteCole commented 4 years ago

@Daninator1 Essentially, yes. The OS limits background activity etc to save battery so this would be a good move.