option to disable ambient mode switching
sma11stars opened this issue · comments
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.
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.
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.
I think this issue can be closed then @CorvetteCole?
@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
So basically you're talking about leaving the whole watchface unchanged visually but still switch to ambient mode when necessary?
@Daninator1 Essentially, yes. The OS limits background activity etc to save battery so this would be a good move.