Universal Launcher [Ver. 3.x and above]

Yes, the beta. That is the newest one. And it works fine.

Hokey Dokey, @G1NT0N1C Thanks very much :+1:

The 3.4 is not in beta stage, it’s the link in the first post.

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Ok, then I’m not using the latest version…:joy:

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Hello Eric,

I love this Launcher! thanks for this big upgrade to my watch.
one question I have:
I have a Rollme S08 and having problems with the round and square option in your launcher.
As the watch is a round version, it is mostly used in the square option using most of the apps. But when i return back to the clock-screen, it seems it has difficulties building the watchfaces as a round version: the clocks are also in square mode. I’ve tried all the options in the ‘clock screen references’, but it failed to get a nice round clock.
I’ve to reset watch in round screen again, but this is not a usefull option.
can you help me out if I do something wrong?

other question: do you know a nice watchmaker clock which is using less power. I would like to keep the screen hole day on (dimmed), because the Roll me doesn’t have an “always on” low power clock. I’ve tried a few, but battery drained quickly, even in low brightness :frowning:
thank you in advance

Have you tried " restart launcher " in UL settings page ? . I have SO8 on firmware V1.2 and dont have this issue at all with UL .

The watch faces with dark backgrounds dont consume as much power as bright animated ones . Check these out

You can try what @Dr_Andy_Vishnu said, but UL and square/round mode change do not play well. In fact, i nearly never use the square mode, otherwise i would have bought a square watch…
Concerning AOD mode, just note that your watch screen is not made for this, using it can cause screen burn issues…

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thanks a lot for the watchface-link. :grinning:
regarding the square/round: so you can use square mode and return back to clock-screen and having full round clocks?
I’m using V1.4_20200813 but this is not working on my watch/version…

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Yes but as eric says his launcher doesnt like the switching from one to the other

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Hi, Eric.

This is my suggestion about wake-up gesture.

The spec in current version, wake-up will happen when a watch’s degrees be flat.

I am thinking this spec is not good because the watch keeps on and off continuasly while using PC keyboard.
Can you imagine? The watch is almost flat degrees while using PC keyboard.

Perhaps many of us wants watchs to wake when between about 20 degrees and 80 degrees with heads up, and wants watches to sleep when flat degrees or heads down (or arms down).
I’m glad if you can imagine this is natural because we wear the watch in wrist and it will be certain range of degrees when we use the watch in face to face.

Thank you.

p.s.

Degrees range may be good between about 20 degrees and 180 degrees…
This will be suit for bed time use :slight_smile:

Please note that you can disable my wrist gesture and keep using the stock launcher one which is maybe less sensitive.

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I think Eric’s Universal Launcher is perfect then stock launcher because stock launcher does not wake the screen, though I raise my hand multiple time , ultimately I have to press button . It’s quite annoying. While UL. uses batt. 10 to 15 points if I use for whole day on 10 sec. delay. So for me I am happy with UL.
Thanks Eric.

Hi, Eric.
Thank you for your prompt reply.
I am a user of Rollme S08.
It’s stock launcher is almost the same behavior as UL (wake when flat).
I think sleeping is rather correct when the watch is flat.
So I’m looking forward to you.
Because you and UL can change the convenience more fit with real life!! :slight_smile:

p.s.

I tried apps like " Gravity Screen - On/Off" or " Raise to Wake Ultimate" or " Pick to Wake Screen On" or " Raise To Wake", but all of these are not perfect to use with smart watch…

I think you can discuss that here : Custom Kernel for MT6739 Smartwatches
Doing that at kernel level is much more efficient.

Oh, I understood that stock launcher and UL are using tilt detection feature in kernel.
But I think it is great if UL implements another option to access accelerometer sensor directly to watch 3-axis position and then enable custom behavior!

Dear Eric: Thank you so much for your effort, let me tell you that I have had problems with version 3.2.3 due to my watch (Dm99) it reboots and show one that notification “Bad response”, can you help me with that?
Thanks in advance
Regards
RamĂłn Lozano

First try 3.4 version of the first post. The bad response is a message from the weather part, on newer version it should not happen anymore.

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Thanks Eric, I am new in this fĂłrum, please can you show me home can I download this software?.
Thanks in advance
RamĂłn Lozano

You’ll find it at the beginning of this post.

Why this, 3 times in a row…

Each time click the universal launcher and Always, so it shouldn’t ask next time.

Prime 2, Android 10. Using v.3.2.2 from Google Play. I see there is a v3.4 here, would that help ?