Auto On Ability

[admiral70]

Hello all,
I see a thread the MN2 allows for touching screen to turn on. Am I missing anything with the SW2 and the ability to touchscreen to turn on?

Seems all other smartwatches have this ability in some way either by touching or lifting arm up. Thoughts?

Thanks

p.s.
Look forward to someone rooting this thing.

 

[MJFox78]

Look forward to someone rooting this thing.

there won't be any rooting, this thing isn't running android

greetings

MJFox

 

[toyface]

To answer your question admiral no, the SW2 can't be turned on from a tap or a flick of the wrist. The Pebble has an accelerometer in it that determines the wrist movement to activate the backlight and I think it has a touch sensor in the frame (don't quote me on that) to make the tapping work. Sony hasn't implemented that here which is annoying I suppose but I don't see it as a problem.

If you install a custom watch face such as this then yes, you can tap to see the backlight come on and wait for it to dim out again but, this also makes the three buttons below active as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaybit.smartwatch.customwatch

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To answer your question admiral no, the SW2 can't be turned on from a tap or a flick of the wrist. The Pebble has an accelerometer in it that determines the wrist movement to activate the backlight and I think it has a touch sensor in the frame (don't quote me on that) to make the tapping work. Sony hasn't implemented that here which is annoying I suppose but I don't see it as a problem.

If you install a custom watch face such as this then yes, you can tap to see the backlight come on and wait for it to dim out again but, this also makes the three buttons below active as well. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kaybit.smartwatch.customwatch