option to disable ambient mode switching

[sma11stars]

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]

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.

[Daninator1]

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.

[sma11stars]

Thanks! this looks like it will do the trick!

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 2:51 PM Daniel Zauner [email protected] wrote:

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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[Daninator1]

I think this issue can be closed then @CorvetteCole?

[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

[Daninator1]

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

[CorvetteCole]

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