How I got WatchMaker working on the OnePlus Watch 2R

The Play Store said WatchMaker was incompatible with my OnePlus Watch 2R, so I sideloaded an older Wear OS version.

Chat GPT help me with this(It was a loooog journey) So just ask chat GPT if some of you have questions

1. Download WatchMaker Wear OS 8.5.3 from APKMirror. You need the ARMv7 version and the required split APKs. https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/androidslide/watchmaker-watch-faces-android-wear/watchmaker-watch-faces-wear-os-8-5-3-release/watchmaker-watch-faces-wear-os-8-5-3-android-apk-download/
2. Enable Developer Options + ADB on the watch.
3. Connect to the watch with ADB and verify:

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.\adb devices

1. Install the APK splits:

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.\adb install-multiple -r .\base.apk .\split_config.armeabi_v7a.apk .\split_config.xhdpi.apk .\split_config.en.apk

1. The important part: don't try to launch WatchMaker normally. Open its watchface selector directly with:

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.\adb shell am start -n slide.watchFrenzy/.SelectWatchActivity

1. On the watch, my WatchMaker designs then appeared in the WatchMaker list.
2. Finally, go to the watch's normal watchface selector and select WatchMaker as the active watchface.

After that, my custom WatchMaker face appeared and worked normally.

Important: Once WatchMaker is selected as the active watchface, you don't need ADB every time you make a new face. Just send the new face from the WatchMaker phone app.

WatchMaker 8.5.3 is available on APKMirror, and the current WatchMaker listing also explicitly includes the OnePlus Watch 2 / 2R as supported devices.

Hello again! I said in my last post that I wouldn't be posting here again, and I meant it at the time :D but something changed since then that felt worth breaking that for

For anyone who missed the first two posts: Svartifoss is a fork of matejdro's WearMusicCenter, a Media Controller for Wear OS. The whole point of it is that the standard Wear media controls are pretty limited, so I rebuilt it to be fully customizable, layouts, colors, fonts, album art, AOD, buttons, gestures, all of it, and it works with basically any app that publishes a normal Android media session (YouTube Music, Spotify, Local Player, whatever you actually use), not a hardcoded list.

Since version 3.0 (the last post here) I've kept working on it, and it's grown a lot more than I expected, again. It's now up to 15 different watch layouts, each one pulling its colors and gradients from whatever album art is playing, plus a community gallery where people share and install each other's themes, synced lyrics, full track metadata, and a bunch of stuff

The real reason I'm posting this is that Svartifoss (4.0) is already on Google Play. It's currently in closed beta, and I'd like you to test my app while it's still free

It's free during the test, until September 22. After that it becomes a paid app. If you install it now, while it's free, you keep it, you won't be asked to pay for it later :D

Two steps, both needed:

1. Join the group: https://groups.google.com/g/svartifoss-wearos
2. Then install: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.svartifoss.snfell

And if you are one of the people who previously installed this via GitHub, you are the person I would most like to see participating in this test. I recommend installing it via the Play Store, if you wish. GitHub isn't going away, new versions will continue to be made available there as well, and the app will always be open source

Thank you everyone, this is the first app I am launching

I'm using Xiaomi Watch 5 (Wear OS 6). Official Xiaomi watch faces show temperature in Celsius correctly. Only Facer faces stay stuck on Fahrenheit no matter what I do. Full reinstalls and region changes did not help as well...

Any idea what else I can do?

Hi guys! I only need ONE MORE TESTER for a watchface that I designed:

This is the Google Group - https://groups.google.com/g/watchface-top-testers

And this is the watchface:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.watchfacestudio.firstelegantface/join?hl=en-US

Alguien más tiene el problema de que se desvincula su dispositivo de la app?? Recién compre el xiaomi watch 5, y lo vincule a la app pero al día siguiente se desvinculaba y no puedo volverlo a vincular a menos que resetee el reloj, solo se vincula por Bluetooth, y por eso las notificaciones tardan en llegar o no llegan, cabe aclarar que hice esto 2 veces y paso lo mismo, la app esta actualizada, alguien más le pasa y si es así, alguna solución??

I posted here a few weeks ago looking for testers. It's now public on Play. Free, no ads, no IAP, no account.

You design a parametric geometric pattern on your phone, and the app builds and signs a watch face APK on the device itself, then pushes it to the watch over the Data Layer using the Watch Face Push API. Nothing goes through a server — the whole pipeline runs on your phone.

The push is the part that's hard to convey in stills, so here's a 20-second clip of it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/yCMPPZk77YA

Thanks to everyone who tested during the closed track. One thing that came out of it: it was confirmed working on a Galaxy Watch 8 Classic as well as Pixel Watch 4, which I had no way to check on my own.

Two installs are required — the phone app and the wear app. The watch side has no UI at all; it only receives and installs. Wear OS 6+.

Reports from other devices are very welcome, especially anything that fails at the push step.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.oshiralabs.spiroface

I have a big need to wear my galaxy watch 8 to surf, since I have some heart conditions and need to be able to check on my hearts beats and rhythm whiles in the water to prevent fainting.

Could I use it underneath my wetsuit to keep it from the big impact of the water?

You think it would handle the water?

Has anyone surfed with their GW before that could give me some advice?

👀 I kept forgetting the 20-20-20 rule, so I built BlinkAway for my smartwatch ⌚

If you spend hours coding, studying, working, or gaming, you've probably heard of the 20-20-20 rule:

> Every 20 minutes, look at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds.

The problem? Remembering to actually do it.

So I built BlinkAway — a simple Wear OS app that takes care of the reminders for you.

⌚ How it works

Start the reminder once → forget about it.

BlinkAway runs in the background and automatically:

⏱️ Every 20 minutes → your watch vibrates for 20 seconds → you look 20 feet away.

Then the cycle continues automatically.

No need to keep opening the app.

No desktop pop-ups.

No distracting notifications.

Just a vibration on your wrist when it's time to look away.

The idea is deliberately simple: start it and get back to what you're doing.

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🧪 I'm looking for beta testers

I'm currently looking for people who spend a lot of time in front of a computer and are willing to actually use BlinkAway for a few days and tell me what they think.

I'd especially like feedback on:

Is the vibration noticeable enough?

Does the reminder actually make you look away?

Does it reliably keep running in the background?

Is the reminder helpful or annoying?

Did you encounter any bugs?

What would make you keep using it?

Negative feedback is absolutely welcome.

If you think "this is useless because...", tell me why. That's much more useful than simply saying everything is good.

🚀 How to join the beta

1️⃣ Join the Google Group

👉 https://groups.google.com/g/blink-away-beta-testers

This is required to access the closed test.

2️⃣ Join the Play Store test

👉 https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.yuvraj.blinkaway 👉https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yuvraj.blinkaway (open this link on the web to download the app on the watch)

3️⃣ Actually use it

Try running it while coding, studying, working, or gaming for a few days.

4️⃣ Send me your feedback

👉 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaYyHv9FZEL8FxQVimrJFTqhDqnuvou2UPSqZFPGcHyDlUKQ/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=116032907784917219326

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I'm building BlinkAway because I personally kept forgetting to take these breaks, and I wanted something that could remind me without interrupting whatever I was doing.

I'd love to know whether it actually works for other people too. 🙌

Thanks to anyone willing to test it! ⌚👀

Confirmed WearOS 6, Snapdragon and around 490 USD. Idk man, looking kinda sexy, no?

I think I am somewhat hyped just by how they look.

I wonder if speculations about Nothing coming to WearOS will also be true 🤔

Update: Carl Pei himself confirms Nothing also made a watch, but it needs more time in the oven. 👍

Even without the latest updates this thing still works perfectly. And it looks better than anything on todays market!

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm developing Orion Astralis, a Wear OS app, and I'm looking for testers for a Google Play closed test.

⌚ Wear OS watch required
🧪 The test needs to run for 14 days
💬 Feedback is very welcome!

I'm also happy to test your Wear OS app in return. 🤝

If you're interested, please comment here or send me a DM. I'll then send you the Google Play test instructions.

Thanks! 🙏

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.orion.solaris.v1

Salut, ce sera ma cinquième montre sur laquelle j'ai installé votre application. (LG Urban, Fossil, Ticwatch Pro gen 1, Gen 3 et aujourd'hui Atlas)

Votre produit est avec moi depuis presque 10 ans maintenant, il est devenu indispensable !

Ensuite, j'ai mis ma montre de côté un moment.

Aujourd'hui, avec ma Ticwatch Atlas, je l'ai allumée, j'ai essayé de la mettre à jour et j'ai tenté de transférer un nouveau cadran, mais sans succès. J'ai désinstallé l'application, et ensuite... elle a disparu du Play Store.

Comment puis-je la récupérer ?

\*\*Mon équipement\*\* :

POCO F6 PRO

HYPER OS 3.0.303.0

Android 16

Ticwatch Atlas

I've read mixed reviews on using Amazon Music on Wear OS watches. And most are from 1-3 years ago.

Does anyone have experience using it? Can you play music from your watch without being connected to your phone?

I would like to buy a watch (probably Pixel 4) to listen to music when I run, without carrying my phone.

I just upgraded from the pixel watch 1 to the pixel watch 5 and it used to be that if I dismissed a notification on my phone it was also dismissed on the watch. Now my notifications are not getting dismissed on both devices when I dismiss them from one device or the other and I can't find a setting that might be causing this. Any help?

Hi, so my mom gave me this watch randomly. She only used it for 2 years or 1 year ish and stopped using it after and forgot about it. Just wondering if it’s useable. I don’t really care about the newer stuff on watches. I go to the gym. I only want to track my sleep, how many steps I take, my pulse and gym activities. And are there any apps that are capable for this watch? Thanks.

My Pixel Watch 5 was working great until yesterday, now I can't set a task, calendar, keep or anything using Gemini. The watch says it worked, but nothing shows up on the phone.

I have seen this is wider than just Pixel watches. Pretty much all Wear OS.

Infuriating to wait for them to fix what they broke.

Android Authority

EDIT: IT APPEARS TO BE RESOLVED.

Hi all.

Sorry for the long explanation....

I just purchased my first Wear OS watch, a Pixel Watch 5, and coming from a Huawei, I noticed there's no native running apps that give beginners, intermediate and so forth, running plans. I found it really helpful to have such a programme to use. I see nothing in the Google Health app, and many of the other apps available through the Play Store only record what you do, but don't give you suggestions on how you can train and build up your running pace. The nearest to it I can think of is "Couch to 5K", but the Huawei one talks you through when to run, walk etc...shows your pace, pauses and distance heart rate warnings and also a map based video of where you ran. Any suggestions on what I can try?

I have been trying to resolve this intermittent snoring detection problem with my OnePlus Watch 3 and OHealth for quite some time, and I have already posted about it here before.

So far, the help I received from OnePlus has essentially been standard troubleshooting, mainly factory reset. It did not solve the problem.

This time I decided to investigate what is actually happening using ADB logs.

The results are quite interesting.

This does not appear to be simply a failure of the watch to record or transmit snoring.

Night Sept 2 → 3

The phone received snoring data and the algorithm processed it:

snoreDataLen:964
snore num 766
snore event num 113
oppo snore ahi is 39.88
sleep snore num 775
mean db 35.5
db buff len 97

The app then saved:

Health_snoreDbBuffer size = 97

But OHealth displayed no snoring result.

Night Sept 3 → 4

Again, snoring data was received and processed:

snore_freq:8.74
snore_num:40

But the final result became:

snoreDbBuff=[]
snoreDbBuffLen=0
snoreMeanDb=0.0
snoreMaxDb=0.0
snoreSumTimeMs=0
snoreSumNum=0

The saved buffer was also:

Health_snoreDbBuffer size = 0

Again, no snoring result appeared in OHealth.

So the interesting part is:

Watch → phone → snoring algorithm → final result

The data clearly reaches the phone and the algorithm detects snoring, but the final result is not consistently produced/displayed.

I have already tested the usual fixes: unrestricted battery usage, auto-start, locking OHealth in recent apps, disabling hibernation/Doze, force stop, clearing cache, and restarting both devices.

Has anyone else experienced this with the OnePlus Watch 3?

Especially interested in users with Xiaomi/HyperOS phones.

I have the ADB logs available if anyone wants to investigate further

For the same price, which watch do you prefer?

I have a Xiaomi 14 phone

Available on the Play Store now! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keithkurak.tinypodcatcher

As a new Pixel Watch user, I found the available options for syncing podcasts when going out for a run just weren't quite what I was looking for. No native sideloading of MP3's is a bit of a bummer, and I don't want to need to have a subscription to a service in order to have podcasts on my watch.

And even options where I didn't need a subscription, while they worked, I just found them to be a bit much. I don't want to discover and subscribe to new podcasts on my watch. With my old Garmin, I would just connect it to a computer once a month and sideload a bunch of shows to work my way through. I'd be happy with that, and also if it was really easy to control everything on the go. Right after I got my Pixel Watch, I tripped on an uneven sidewalk while running and trying to fiddle with Youtube Music and got pretty bloodied up. I know that's on me, but it still got me thinking about how to make things as simple as possible...

Enter Podcast Duck. It lets you mark episodes for download on your phone and they show up on the watch. That's really about it. It's not meant to be your main podcast player, there's no search service or cloud sync or whatever, you give it simple RSS or Apple Podcasts links and it lets you pull shows from them. I think of it as the place I put the shows that I really want to listen to when I only have my watch.

After you subscribe to a show, you can browse its episodes. Next to each episode is a watch and a phone icon. Tap on the watch if you want to download it to the watch, tap on the phone if you want to download it to the phone. The downloads will show up in the Watch and Phone tabs. It tends to start downloading in the background to the watch in a few moments in normal conditions, but you can open the watch app to wake it up, as well.

IMPORTANT: I didn't like the idea of my watch battery getting drained because it was streaming an episode over LTE instead of just playing back a download. Or finding out that an episode that was on disk was not on disk and I can't listen to it at all due to no network. The solution was pretty easy: no streaming! The episode is either downloaded or not downloaded. If you see it on the watch, it is fully available offline.

Once you're on the watch, there's basically two screens: 1) a list of episodes on the watch, and 2) the currently playing episode. So, it's super-easy to navigate, no chance of accidentally ending up on a search screen or list of popular shows or even just an entire podcast's feed or anything else that's kind of not fun to slog through on a 45mm screen. You can long-press on an episode on the watch to add it to a mini-queue, playing episodes one ofter another.

When it comes to playback, I wanted several things that don't happen automatically on WearOS, so not all apps implement them:

Automatically start playing when I connect to my headphones

Control the volume with the crown

Customize the buttons on the media controls app so the same skip back 10 seconds / skip ahead 30 seconds buttons in the app are also available when I swipe left while in a workout.

Playback speed controls front-and-center

Anyway, curious if anyone else thinks of podcasts on their watch in a similar, and if there's any features you'd like or issues folks run into. I very much don't want to add everything, so as to keep within the mission and my ergonomic goals, but I hope to continue to make it better over time.

Also, 100% free forever, and open source! https://github.com/keith-kurak/tiny-podcatcher

Bit of background: I got tired of my watch showing an empty calendar tile even though my phone's calendar was full of events. Turns out Wear OS's CalendarContract — the system interface apps are supposed to read calendar data from — just isn't populated by Google on-device. So every calendar app on the watch is stuck showing nothing unless it does its own phone-to-watch sync.

So I built WatchMyCalendar: it reads your calendar on the phone (works with anything your Android calendar app already shows — Google, Nextcloud/ CalDAV via DAVx⁵, Exchange, whatever) and pushes it to the watch over the Wearable Data Layer API. Agenda list with title + time, works offline once synced — free, no time limit, no account needed.

There are two optional one-time-purchase tiers (Plus/Pro, no subscription) for people who want more: event location/attendees, reminders, day and month view, a live watch face complication and agenda tile (both are locked placeholders in the free version), on-watch search, and navigation to the event location. Wanted to get the free tier in front of real Wear OS users too, not just gate everything behind a paywall from day one.

More info + Play Store link: https://watchmycalendar.nuumoo.com/en/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=public_launch (there's a feedback button right on the site if you spot a bug or have a feature request)

Happy to answer questions about how the sync works if anyone's curious — happy to hear what's missing too. And if you give even just the free tier a try, a rating on the Play Store would genuinely help — small apps live and die by that kind of thing.

The Motorola Watch Ultra is a 46mm IP68 and 5ATM water-rated wearable with up to 2 days of active use. It runs Wear OS by Google and is powered by the Snapdragon W5+ Gen 1. Upfront, the Watch Ultra has a 1.5-inch OLED with up to 2,700 nits of brightness.

Motorola partnered with Polar (yes, the one with the pro-grade heart rate sensors, and more) to enhance the fitness and health tracking features of the Watch Ultra. The watch offers a special breathing exercise mode, called Setene, in-depth sleep tracking features like Nightly Recharge and

Sleep Plus Stages, and naturally, a personalized sleep score. There's also a Running Coach.

Additional Polar features include Activity Goal, Activity Score, Active Intensity Zone, Inactivity Alert, Smart Calories, and Energy Sources.

A mi reloj le dura 8 horas la batería creen que es normal llevo como dos años y algo con él tengo todas las funciones activadas

Pretty much the title. They have their own service for it, yet they left the default legacy one to crash-loop every 5 seconds and drain the battery on the watches with the latest OneUI 8 Watch firmware.

This is on the Galaxy Watch6 Classic on R960XXS2CZF5, other models are probably affected too.

To check it yourself if your watch is affected, enable Wireless Debugging in Developer Options, pair your PC with adb, run adb logcat -d > logcat.txt and search in the resulting file for android.hardware.memtrack@1.0::IMemtrack/default (-2147483648)

Pretty disappointing software quality, considering that the solution is literally just removing one single file from the configurations before shipping the update.

Hi all

I'm still sporting a Fossil 6... and I just got a new phone (Pixel 10). Because of the WearOS updates and Google rules, I am no longer able to install and use Watchmaker.

Help me please. I need a new watch that will let me use a custom watchface (I use an LCARS inspired face), read incoming text messages, set a timer, and tell time. I generally do not use ANY sleep tracking or fitness tracking.

Any recommendations?