Getting WatchMaker and other watch faces onto your Android Wear watch with iOS

[waldeis]

Can you explain that a bit more detailed which apk exactly you transfered from Bluestack to the watch? I have the same setup but struggle with the process.

 

[Martin0Maggiore]

I have followed all of the instructions.

I have Watchmaker on my phone and can flip between the two free screens they have.

I have then downloaded the BeautifulWatches folder Mega Pack from the link on the previous page and followed the instructions to delete some sub folders and rename preview small.

I have then ADB'd that full folder to the watch sdcard and can see it in there using ES Explorer.

Then I have rebooted the watch... however all I get is still the two free watch faces.

Has the directory changed or anything? Not sure what is going wrong here?

Thanks

---------- Post added at 11:03 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:25 AM ----------

I was up with this all night but just managed to find the issue.

When I ADB'd the folder it put it into a BeautifulWatches folder within a folder. I changed it on ES Explorer and voila... I'm now rocking a Rolex

Thanks all

 

[william_jc]

---------- Post added at 01:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 01:44 AM ----------

[/COLOR]On a side note, anyone has any difficulty installing staylit wear apk into the watch? My copy of the staylit wear apk does not contain any wear or wearable apk within the res/raw folder after unzipping it.

Therefore, i tried installing the full apk instead of the wear or wearable version of it. It appeared on my watch, but it crashed upon loading up with the "no internet connection" splash showing up across the watch screen.

Any help?

Same problem here, any solutions yet?

 

[princeali64]

Thanks @wkevinw ! I have owned an LG Watch Urbane since the Android Wear app was released for iOS and have been quite disappointed with the selection of watch faces from Google. I finally decided to go a third party route, and this guide was great!

I do have a question though. One of the things I have gotten used to is seeing my notification cards in ambient mode when the screen is dimmed. I see that there are settings in WatchMaker to enable this, however, it doesn't look like these settings get pushed to the watch when installing the wear apk via adb nor when adding the watch faces by pushing the BeautifulWatches directory. Do you have any ideas how I can apply this setting on the watch?

 

[Killie_Malc]

I am one of many new Android Wear (Huawei) owners who has been helped massively this thread. A big thank you to all the contributors who have patiently assisted us newbies. I have my phone paired with an iPhone so the lack of pre-installed faces and access to additional apps from the Play Store was disappointing. However, following the instructions in this thread I now have some of the most stunning watch faces on my Huawei. I am seriously tempted to move back to an Android phone to make full use of the watch's capabilities.

Here are a couple of useful tips I can pass on to others just starting down the path of side-loading apps.....

I originally created a folder called "sdcard/Beautiful Watches/" on my PC and placed all the watch folders (featured, fonts, fonts_bm, etc) inside. I think I misunderstood the instructions at first. When I pushed them to the watch, nothing showed up other than the basic 2 faces. Of course what I eventually worked out was that I only had to push the watch folders from an EMPTY location on my PC as I had effectively extended the file tree on the watch to "sdcard/Beautiful Watches/sdcard/Beautiful Watches/<watch files here>" so the watch couldn't find the files.

Also , I found that if I tried to push the files from a folder containing other files, these files were copied as well until the watch ran out of space. I have started using a spare flash drive with no other data on it exclusively for storing the pulled files and for then pushing them to the watch. This has worked a treat.

I am using the DuOS Android Emulator on my PC which, with Airdroid works a treat.

I also found the same issue with Staylit requiring an internet connection.

Facerepo and Watchwear have some incredible faces to download for free.

 

[shirodx]

Ok so after setting a moto 360 2nd gen up with an iPhone, I was able to connect to an android phone afterwards via Bluetooth. I disabled the Bluetooth on the iPhone, and then put the watch in developer mode and enabled debugging over Bluetooth. I went to Bluetooth devices on the android phone (Moto E) and saw the moto 360 pop up. I quickly pressed it and it did the normal pairing procedure of verifying the passcode. Afterwards the watch still thought it wasn't connected at all showing the cloud on the main screen but I was able to open a debugging session from my computer that was connected to the android phone via USB. I pushed the files for the watchmaker and staylit to the watch, disconnected the android phone, and was successfully able to pair back up with the iPhone. The problem I am having is I cannot for the life of me reproduce the connection to the android phone after setting the watch up with an iPhone. I think I have tried every possible step I took the first time... Has anyone ever tried or done this before?

were you ever able to get the extra watch faces on the moto 360 2nd gen?

 

[pmurphy7372]

For Huawei watch on iphone

My needs are quite the same a yours. I need WatchMarker and StayLit. Can you help a low-tech guy do this? [email protected].

 

[MrWonkerz]

Can't select Watchface

Thanks for your tutorial, i have installed watchmake and pushed my watchfaces to it. Everthing ok and the watchfaces appeare on the watch.
But when I select one id changes back to the default watchface after 3second.
Can anyone help me ?
kind regards

 

[reubennl]

doing this on the mac

first of all, many thanks for the great tutorial !!
i installed it on a mac. For this i just installed the Android Studio for the Mac, it installs all that you need for the SDK out of the box. For anyone installing on a Mac just use :

/Users/<your_user>/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb

wherever the tutorial uses :

ADB

so make it :

/Users/john/Library/Android/sdk/platform-tools/adb -d devices

instead of

ADB -d devices

Cheers,
Reuben

 

[F-4_Freddy]

Thanks and a few Questions

I have just registered to say thank you to all the posters here offering up their experiences and tips to make this procedure run more smoothly. Thank you all and especially Kevin for all the hard work. I appreciate it and I am sure others here would feel the same.
Like another poster here I am an iPhone person but now with the Huawei watch I have bought a Samsung and will sell the iPhone after Easter. Sorry to see it go but time to go Android I think.
What a great watch this Huawei! It's exactly half the weight of my Tissot. My brother will be envious when I send him photos of my Omega Seamaster or my Tag Heuer Carrera or maybe the Breitling Navitimer. Who knows?
I looked around and found that Total Commander now has a plugin for accessing Android devices (including the watch) from a PC (in my case).
With Total Commander along with the Universal Naked Driver AMIDuos & ADB, I now have control between my PC and the watch.
I do have few questions which if answered will help me a lot and maybe others too.
Like Kevin I DL'd the Mega Watch Pack. Unzipped it looks to be already set up folder-wise for copying straight over to the watch.
I'm pretty sure I don't want 722 watches extra to wade through! I did copy them over though (to sdcard/BeautifulWatches) as a test using TC but I could not see them in Watchmaker on the watch. I reboot after each sideload as Kevin suggested if you're wondering. Any ideas why it wouldn't work. I have a sneaky suspicion that I should allow maybe even an hour for the watch and Watchmaker to slog through all those watches. Perhaps it did work (or was going to in time).
So if I use AMIDuos to load in that Mega Pack, how would I do that?
If I get them in and pare them down to a reasonable number, how I get those files out of AMI's virtual drive beats me.
Last one. I DL'd about 100 watches earlier on. They are all in .watch format. Each .watch file look like an unzipped .apk file. Would I load a whole bunch of them into Watchmaker in AMIDuos then save them back out as an apk or something else? What then?
I'm an old fart and really liking getting my feet wet in a DOS-like environment once again, even at my age. I think I will like mucking around with Android.
phil
Total Commander - http://www.ghisler.com/android.htm
Universal Naked Driver - http://www.xda-developers.com/universal-naked-driver-solves-your-adb-driver-problems-on-windows/

 

[jimt007]

I too went from iPhone to Android just to experience the Huawei Watch as it was intended. Liked the additional watch faces but alas, I don't like the Android experience.
I got 3 Android phones and returned each one. The first was probably the best of the 3 as I think it was rooted because I could remove the AT&T bloatware. But it wouldn't connect to a Windows 10 PC and the Finger Scanner didn't work. All 3 were the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. For me it was the perfect size. It was fast, smooth and had a screen that was fine for me. It went back. The second one was supposed to be new but it clearly was used and loaded with AT&T bloatware. Back it went. The 3rd one was brand new and the worst of the bunch. I couldn't move, put in a folder or delete any of the AT&T bloatware. Also AT&T would not perform the OS update from 4.4 to 5.02 and frankly I don't blame them.
Bottom line is I have removed myself from anything to do with Android and will get used to the Huawei Watch/iPhone experience or at least accept it for what it is.
I tried all of the suggestions to get additional watch faces using the instructions provided here but failed miserably. I guess I'm not as "smaht" as you guys.
Maybe someday they will add better faces in the MORE section of Android Wear. The watch faces there are pretty bad or mediocre at best.
I will keep an eye and check here every once in a while to see if a way becomes available to add additional watch faces that I can grasp the procedure.
You guys are great what with supplying all the time and energy to share your knowledge and offer suggestions toward that end.

Thanks,

Jim T

 

[johnnyle7]

thank you so much. I have been struggled for a while with watchfaces for IOS. But thanks to your instruction, it is just a piece of cake now.

 

[Citibroker]

Thank you so much for the instructions; I was able to successfully install the two mentioned apps as well as the watchfaces (by modifying the folder which I have downloaded from my Android Phone). After pushing the folder to /sdcard everything worked.

Here comes the problem: the push notifications initially worked; I went to bed and this morning the Huawei Watch has lost the BT connection with my iPhone. I have tried everything to re-connect but I am afraid that I have to do the pairing again which would mean to go thru the whole process of installing the Apps and the Faces again. Has anyone experienced a similar issue and is there a solution?

Kind regards

Marcus

 

[quantan]

I just have some clues about the reason why notification cards don't show in ambient mode. After the watch connects to an Android phone, there is a XML file in the watch containing Watchmaker settings from the phone.
File WatchFrenzy.xml:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
    <string name="device">huawei</string>
    <string name="pref_override_24">none</string>
    <string name="weather_fd"></string>
    <string name="pref_w_scale">c</string>
    <string name="gyro_strength_watch">100</string>
    <string name="pref_extra_timezone_1">-8</string>
    <boolean name="is_loading_watch" value="false" />
    <string name="cal_data"></string>
    <boolean name="calendar_all_day" value="false" />
    <string name="tag_blp"></string>
    <boolean name="disable_text_effects" value="false" />
    <string name="tag_btfd"></string>
    <string name="calendars_exclude"></string>
    <string name="tag_pws">1.0</string>
    <string name="tag_pbtcd">32°C</string>
    <boolean name="calendar_after_today" value="false" />
    <string name="tag_pbtf">90</string>
    <string name="pref_extra_timezone_2">0</string>
    <boolean name="animation_boost" value="false" />
    <string name="pref_w_provider">yahoo_rss</string>
    <string name="tag_pbtfd">90°F</string>
    <string name="tag_pblp">58%</string>
    <string name="tag_btf"></string>
    <string name="pref_check_phone_battery">10</string>
    <string name="prop_cards_adapt_watch_size">unchanged</string>
    <boolean name="prop_cards_large" value="true" />
    <string name="tag_pbr">208.8</string>
    <boolean name="IsMobileApp" value="false" />
    <string name="pref_fps">50</string>
    <boolean name="prop_cards_bg_opaque" value="true" />
    <string name="tag_pwc">Y</string>
    <boolean name="prop_cards_show_ambient" value="true" />
    <boolean name="prop_cards_show_unread_count" value="false" />
    <string name="pref_vibrate"></string>
    <string name="tag_bc"></string>
    <string name="tag_btc"></string>
    <string name="watch_current">w3</string>
    <string name="weather_c"></string>
    <string name="tag_pbl">58</string>
    <boolean name="prop_cards_bg_persist" value="false" />
    <string name="tag_pbtc">32</string>
    <string name="tag_br"></string>
    <string name="tag_bl"></string>
    <string name="pref_extra_timezone_3">9</string>
    <string name="tag_pbc">Discharging</string>
    <string name="pref_w_interval">180</string>
    <string name="pref_watch_selector">0</string>
    <string name="tag_btcd"></string>
    <boolean name="show_hotspots" value="false" />
    <string name="pref_keep_awake">default</string>
</map>

So I unpaired the Android phone, connected the watch to an iPhone and installed base.apk of Watchmaker. WatchFrenzy.xml would be generated in the watch. I tried to replace it with the content above to make notification work properly. But the issue was that WatchFrenzy.xml was automatically generated again:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' standalone='yes' ?>
<map>
    <string name="tag_bc">Full</string>
    <string name="tag_bl">100</string>
    <string name="tag_btc">35</string>
    <string name="tag_btf">94</string>
    <string name="watch_current">w3</string>
    <string name="tag_blp">100%</string>
    <string name="tag_btfd">94°F</string>
    <string name="tag_btcd">35°C</string>
    <boolean name="IsMobileApp" value="false" />
    <boolean name="is_loading_watch" value="false" />
    <string name="tag_br">360.0</string>
</map>

Any thoughts?

 

[tomandpen]

I've been trying to figure this out for nearly a month now. I have an iPhone 6s and a Huawei watch. I've gotten WatchMaker installed and have the 2 free faces show up, but no additional watches. I used Bluestacks and AirDroid to get the files I need. When I use ./adb -d push ./sdcard/BeautifulWatches nothing happens. Well... not nothing, but nothing. Terminal gives me the output for help - everything adb is supposed to do, but it doesn't push the BeautifulWatches folder to the watch. I still only get the 2 free faces.

I tried ./adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard and got
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2016-05-18 13:11 sdcard -> /storage/self/primary

I ran ./adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard/BeautifulWatches and got
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 .temp
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 fonts
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 fonts_bm
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 images
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 maps
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 preview_mini
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 scripts
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 watches

So it looks like the directories are on the watch, I just can't get push to work for some reason. Any ideas?

 

[Vikunya]

Same problem

Hi there, I got exactly the same problem, which is very annoying. Could you please help us to be able to join to the happy group of you, who can enjoy this watch and iPhone together!

Many thanks,

I've been trying to figure this out for nearly a month now. I have an iPhone 6s and a Huawei watch. I've gotten WatchMaker installed and have the 2 free faces show up, but no additional watches. I used Bluestacks and AirDroid to get the files I need. When I use ./adb -d push ./sdcard/BeautifulWatches nothing happens. Well... not nothing, but nothing. Terminal gives me the output for help - everything adb is supposed to do, but it doesn't push the BeautifulWatches folder to the watch. I still only get the 2 free faces.

I tried ./adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard and got
lrwxrwxrwx root root 2016-05-18 13:11 sdcard -> /storage/self/primary

I ran ./adb -d shell ls -al /sdcard/BeautifulWatches and got
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 .temp
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 fonts
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 fonts_bm
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 images
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 maps
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 preview_mini
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 scripts
drwxrwx--x root sdcard_rw 2016-05-18 13:47 watches

So it looks like the directories are on the watch, I just can't get push to work for some reason. Any ideas?

 

[ranrinc]

Finally got this task complete. I'm planning to make a step-by-step guide to help nubie. Several thing that have failed during my journey.

1. Mac OS X seems to failed pull command upon connecting your Android Wear to iOS, it work on when it connect to the Android
2. Mac OS X - Very simple install and easily connect to the watch, however I have not found away to do adb push without getting permission error. So any help or assistant would help me complete the guide.

On Windows (windows 10) very simple solution, however I have to find many more information before it actually work.

Anyway thank you Kevin for the help and I will also be open for anyone who need my assistant.

 

[ranrinc]

Dim Function to work?

Anyone able to make WatchMaker dim function work on iOS connected Android Wear? This is the only feature that broken which is making the watch look silly on that mode. Any help??

 

[jgree32]

Hi there, I got exactly the same problem, which is very annoying. Could you please help us to be able to join to the happy group of you, who can enjoy this watch and iPhone together!

Many thanks,

Same issue here with push/pull commands
Followed this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWear/comments/3qcgzl/tutorial_installing_a_watchface_when_using/
And was able to get 2 faces installed

I can't get the push/pull commands to work with the Beautiful watches folder.
I can see the folder using adb but can't pull it. From reading it seems I may need root access to pull the folder?? Ideas?
Message I get is:
0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.

It's nice to at least have 2 faces but it's annoying to have to unintsall/reinstall watchmaker app each time to change 1 of the 2 faces.

 

[bcactus]

Having trouble deleting watch faces from watch to reload new ones.

Kevin: Thanks for your post! I am new to all of this but successfully sideloaded WatchMaker, Staylit, and several WatchMaker watch faces onto my Huawei watch, using BlueStacks, Airdroid, and your push commands. I'm very pleased! I've also begun to create watch faces on WatchMaker on the emulator.

However, I'm at the point where I have a new group of watch faces to load onto the watch (along with some of the previous ones). I tried using the following commands:
ADB -d shell
cd /sdcardBeautifulWatches/
rm -rf *
rm -rf .*
exit
I get the following responses in the Command Prompt:
usage rm [-fiRr] FILE...
Remove each argument from the file system
-f force: remove without confirmation, no error if it doesn't exist
-i interactive: prompt for confirmation
-rR recursive: remove directory contents

when that didn't work after several tries, I went ahead and pushed the new faces onto the Huawei (apparently successfully), thinking they might show up with some duplicates. After rebooting the watch, however, all the original WatchMaker faces are there, but none of the newer ones. Do I now have 2 separate BeautifulWatches folders? If so, how do I remove both before pushing watch faces back onto the watch?
Any advise would be helpful. Thanks again.