How to get watch faces

[mlblack16]

Ok, it does load on the phone and watch but IMO it sucks. Uninstalled it quick. Flossy must be out of his mind.

LOL! Yeah, it's just not my style of watch face, so I didn't even try it out.

 

[buzzy3970]

Oh it doesn't work? I saw it in the play store cause I showed it to my husband and thought me might like it. He talked about it in his video. That's where I saw the AR Emoji and Bitmoji watch faces which is my favorite. I used to have Facer didn't really use it much or know alot about it. I may try it again. I do like the my photo one that cane on the watch so I can add my own photos from my gallery.

The bitmoji is my favorite watch face too. I like how it randomly changes what the moji is doing and when you listen to music your bitmoji listens to music too. Thought that was a nice touch.

 

[ABOSWORTH007]

The lack of watch face functionality is very disappointing and has almost made me want to send thisu 4 Classic back and stick with my Watch 3. I emailed Matteo Dini who has all of the wesome MD watch faces in the Galaxy Store and he said that the current development tool for WearOS 3 is lacking functionality. He can't add distance, calories burned or floors to the watch faces so he can't port over all of the faces.

The preloaded faces are all garbage, I don't even like one single one but Matteo Dini has started releasing some of his faces for the watch 4 models and they work well. I just hope that things continue to improve because as a runner, I do like to have distance on my faces and I reay like Samsung Health and don't want to switch to Google Fit.

I'm still able to return my 4 Classic if I want so I'm going to use it for at least another week before I make my final decision. I think I will keep it but the issues with lack of functionality with watch faces is very disappointing.

I did download Facer and they have tons of great faces but I found the steps are inaccurate. I'm not sure where it gets the step count from but it is not direcy from Samsung Health data. Hoping all of these kinks are worked out in time.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

The lack of watch face functionality is very disappointing and has almost made me want to send thisu 4 Classic back and stick with my Watch 3. I emailed Matteo Dini who has all of the wesome MD watch faces in the Galaxy Store and he said that the current development tool for WearOS 3 is lacking functionality. He can't add distance, calories burned or floors to the watch faces so he can't port over all of the faces.

The preloaded faces are all garbage, I don't even like one single one but Matteo Dini has started releasing some of his faces for the watch 4 models and they work well. I just hope that things continue to improve because as a runner, I do like to have distance on my faces and I reay like Samsung Health and don't want to switch to Google Fit.

I'm still able to return my 4 Classic if I want so I'm going to use it for at least another week before I make my final decision. I think I will keep it but the issues with lack of functionality with watch faces is very disappointing.

I did download Facer and they have tons of great faces but I found the steps are inaccurate. I'm not sure where it gets the step count from but it is not direcy from Samsung Health data. Hoping all of these kinks are worked out in time.

I agree with you here. Very disappointing to say the least. So far I'm not impressed with the battery life either.

 

[Rhyalus]

You guys need to check out Facer. It is an app in the App Store for the phone. Tons of great faces and free faces.

I spent the five bucks for the add free app and ability to store 20 faces.

I am coming from the original galaxy watch (not GW3) so I can’t comment about functionality, but with the compass, ecg, etc, I would say the is the best I have ever seen.

Cheers,
R

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

You guys need to check out Facer. It is an app in the App Store for the phone. Tons of great faces and free faces.

I spent the five bucks for the add free app and ability to store 20 faces.

I am coming from the original galaxy watch (not GW3) so I can’t comment about functionality, but with the compass, ecg, etc, I would say the is the best I have ever seen.

Cheers,
R

I am checking it out. Wish there was a 10 minute trial on watch faces.

 

[ABOSWORTH007]

You guys need to check out Facer. It is an app in the App Store for the phone. Tons of great faces and free faces.

I spent the five bucks for the add free app and ability to store 20 faces.

I am coming from the original galaxy watch (not GW3) so I can’t comment about functionality, but with the compass, ecg, etc, I would say the is the best I have ever seen.

Cheers,
R

As I mentioned, I have Facer and the faces are nice, I agree but the steps count is way off. I'm not sure exactly where it is pulling from but yesterday, Samsung Health I had over 11k steps but my Facer faces were only showing 8k.

 

[ABOSWORTH007]

I agree with you here. Very disappointing to say the least. So far I'm not impressed with the battery life either.

Yeah I'm not impressed with battery at all either. Seems about the same as my GW3. I think part of the problem is that in AOD mode, which I use, it doesn't dim as much as on Tizen. It barely dims the screen at all.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

As I mentioned, I have Facer and the faces are nice, I agree but the steps count is way off. I'm not sure exactly where it is pulling from but yesterday, Samsung Health I had over 11k steps but my Facer faces were only showing 8k.

I don't take the step counter to heart, there's always differences between step counters and who's to say Samsung's is accurate.

 

[ABOSWORTH007]

I don't take the step counter to heart, there's always differences between step counters and who's to say Samsung's is accurate.

Yeah of course it's not an exact science but I want it to be consistent. I don't want some random count on one watch face and one that matches Samsung Health on my other faces. There was an update to Facer last night so I'm going to see if it addressed it in a bit.

 

[mlblack16]

The lack of watch face functionality is very disappointing and has almost made me want to send thisu 4 Classic back and stick with my Watch 3. I emailed Matteo Dini who has all of the wesome MD watch faces in the Galaxy Store and he said that the current development tool for WearOS 3 is lacking functionality. He can't add distance, calories burned or floors to the watch faces so he can't port over all of the faces.

The preloaded faces are all garbage, I don't even like one single one but Matteo Dini has started releasing some of his faces for the watch 4 models and they work well. I just hope that things continue to improve because as a runner, I do like to have distance on my faces and I reay like Samsung Health and don't want to switch to Google Fit.

I'm still able to return my 4 Classic if I want so I'm going to use it for at least another week before I make my final decision. I think I will keep it but the issues with lack of functionality with watch faces is very disappointing.

I did download Facer and they have tons of great faces but I found the steps are inaccurate. I'm not sure where it gets the step count from but it is not direcy from Samsung Health data. Hoping all of these kinks are worked out in time.

Keep in mind that historically Wear OS devs weren't making watch faces for Samsung products since only a couple devices used it, and those were outdated even for the time.

Watch faces in the Play Store will try to pull all activity info from Google Fit, but with the advent of Wear OS-Tizen the market will drive developers to make changes and include Samsung Health. It sounds like Google and/or Samsung need to add that functionality, and I would think they will soon as things continue to get sorted out.

My current favorite watch face from the Wear OS side doesn't let me use the activity complications unless I install Google Fit. I started to do that, but I'm afraid of battery life suffering on the watch with both fitness platforms running.

 

[mlblack16]

I am checking it out. Wish there was a 10 minute trial on watch faces.

Many of the watch faces do have a trial period. The instructions will be stated when you have the specific one pulled up. I believe it's a tap and hold and then it will load the face for a period of time. Perhaps it's less than 10 minutes, but seems like it's long enough to visually figure out if you like it.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Many of the watch faces do have a trial period. The instructions will be stated when you have the specific one pulled up. I believe it's a tap and hold and then it will load the face for a period of time. Perhaps it's less than 10 minutes, but seems like it's long enough to visually figure out if you like it.

I was just noticing that, thank you

 

[jlangner]

The bitmoji is my favorite watch face too. I like how it randomly changes what the moji is doing and when you listen to music your bitmoji listens to music too. Thought that was a nice touch. View attachment 336447

Haha, nice. Love it!

 

[jlangner]

I don't take the step counter to heart, there's always differences between step counters and who's to say Samsung's is accurate.

At least compared to GWA2 seems accurate, It was about 5000 steps around my bloack on Active 2 and this was about identical. Now they both could be off.

 

[jlangner]

Yeah of course it's not an exact science but I want it to be consistent. I don't want some random count on one watch face and one that matches Samsung Health on my other faces. There was an update to Facer last night so I'm going to see if it addressed it in a bit.

If you go under Steps on Samsung Health app, you can toggle between phone and watch vs just watch. I keep mine on phone and watch, really makes most difference for things like cutting grass where arm watch isn't moving and misses steps...or if watch charging and just carrying phone

 

[ABOSWORTH007]

If you go under Steps on Samsung Health app, you can toggle between phone and watch vs just watch. I keep mine on phone and watch, really makes most difference for things like cutting grass where arm watch isn't moving and misses steps...or if watch charging and just carrying phone

Yes, I already have it configured that way. I like it for the same reason. If I'm pushing the stroller or mowing the lawn, the wrist doesn't capture all my steps but my phone, which resides in my cargo pocket does. I actually don't even think you can choose watch only on the GW3 and GW4.

 

[Seeker336]

You guys need to check out Facer. It is an app in the App Store for the phone. Tons of great faces and free faces.

I spent the five bucks for the add free app and ability to store 20 faces.

I am coming from the original galaxy watch (not GW3) so I can’t comment about functionality, but with the compass, ecg, etc, I would say the is the best I have ever seen.

Cheers,
R

Personally, not a big fan of Facer. Tried it a couple times before and found it to be a battery hog -- I could never get a full day use on my Watch3 when Facer was installed. Had to uninstall and the problem went away.

There is a similar app in the Play Store -- WatchMaker. It claims to have over 10,000 faces available from top level designers. To get access to most of them, though, a subscription is required. I like the faces I have found there, including some from MD, but your mileage may vary.

 

[trucksmoveamerica#AC]

Personally, not a big fan of Facer. Tried it a couple times before and found it to be a battery hog -- I could never get a full day use on my Watch3 when Facer was installed. Had to uninstall and the problem went away.

There is a similar app in the Play Store -- WatchMaker. It claims to have over 10,000 faces available from top level designers. To get access to most of them, though, a subscription is required. I like the faces I have found there, including some from MD, but your mileage may vary.

Doesn't look like the watch 4 is supported

 

[Seeker336]

Doesn't look like the watch 4 is supported

It does not list Watch4 specifically, but I selected option something like "Other WearOS version" and it worked just fine.