Does anyone know if KW88 watchfaces are usable for the Omate Rise (Also Running Android 5.1)?
Mine should work fine.
Surely The Apk by @Kenneth_Tan yes
Not on my Rise…
@Jim_Chisholm does any custom watchface work on the Omate?
@FutuReality The Chronosurf (Play Store but you’ll have to get it from ApkPure because the Rise doesn’t support Google Play and probably never will)
kind of works for a few seconds but then reverts back to the standard Rise face.
FWIW the Rise appears to be an end-of-life item that will never make it out of Beta. The developers now seem focussed on some IMO silly Alexa-based “robot” (Yumi) and are basically ignoring all the frustrated Rise early backers.
Doesn’t my apk’s work on the Omate?
Unfortunately no. The Rise is at this point an exercise in frustration and although it does have fairly good battery life and an always-on display it appears to have been deserted by it’s developers.Myself and many other early backers would love to be proved wrong on this but I’ve given up holding my breath.
But can you explain Why it doesn’t work? Can you install my apk? Error messages? Please elaborate.
I’ll dig out my Rise, charge it up and let you know. It has completely fallen out of my rotation of useable watches.
OK, transferred NGHT_WTCH77 - 1.0 - Kenneth Tan Fotografie.apk to my Rise and installed it. Rise reports “Install Success” Watch face does not appear with the watch face chooser, but does as an installed application. When I run the app, the watch face appears (but offers no interaction to the swipe functions of the Rise) for 30 seconds, dims slightly, then the Rise reverts back to it’s standard assigned stock watch face. This occurs regardless of whether or not the Rise is set for “Always On” display.
Actually, this is how it should work. My app is a standalone app. (like it says in the discription) What you need to do is install an alternative launcher and get rid of the standard launcher (it doesn’t get uninstalled, just disabled as the standard.)
I use novalauncher. Then set an app to start the watchface e.g. NGHT_WTCH77 to start when display goes on (TASKER is a good app for that)
NGHT_WTCH77 has no interaction execpt center tap to exit app.
Your problem is that you don’t like your launcher, not that other apps can be installed.
Yes I realize all that, but among other things, the Rise does not allow you to change the default launcher, even from within Nova’s preferences, nor is Tasker available for the Rise as it has very limited/nonexistent PlayStore functionality. There is no free Tasker available from ApkPure.
Try to find “Twisted Launcher” and sideload it. it shuold enable you to set any default launcher. it’s free on the play store.
@Jim_Chisholm did u try ?
Yes I had already tried to implement a second launcher, no go on the Rise.
I figured it out. Use adb and disable com.mediatek.watchapp That’ll kill the default launcher