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option to disable ambient mode switching #30

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sma11stars opened this issue Mar 31, 2020 · 7 comments
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option to disable ambient mode switching #30

sma11stars opened this issue Mar 31, 2020 · 7 comments
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@sma11stars
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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
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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.

@CorvetteCole CorvetteCole added the enhancement New feature or request label Mar 31, 2020
@CorvetteCole CorvetteCole added this to the 1.7.0 milestone Mar 31, 2020
@CorvetteCole CorvetteCole modified the milestones: 1.7.0, 1.6.0 Jun 7, 2020
@CorvetteCole CorvetteCole changed the title never sleep/never low power mode option to disable ambient mode switching Jun 7, 2020
@Daninator1
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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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sma11stars commented Jun 12, 2020 via email

@Daninator1
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I think this issue can be closed then @CorvetteCole?

@CorvetteCole
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@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

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

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

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