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I hereby use this medium to inform all the tech lovers on this forum, that my Moto 360 smartwatch, came from the united states this week,
Here,I am trying to set it up and put it through its paces

Below, I have some pictures as proof

[size=13pt]A few setup tips for people getting their watches[/size]

I've seen a bunch of questions regarding setup, updates, battery life. I've gathered my thoughts / findings below:

Setup

Turn it on, go through the initial setup if you have enough battery, otherwise charge it up to ~30% and try again.
You might get a spinning "Just a minute" screen, which indicates an update is required. You need atleast 80% battery for this, or it will stay stuck there.
Once you have finished the setup above, long press the side button (shortcut to get to settings menu). Scroll down to About, and tap it to view the version info.
Your software version (Android Wear version) will likely be 4.4W. The latest version is 4.4W1 build KGW42R, and fixes some bluetooth connectivity that SIGNIFICANTLY improves battery life.
This update doesn't seem to start automatically. All the way at the bottom of the About menu you will see "System Updates", tap that, if it tells you that its already up to date, back out and try again, took me a couple of tries before it found and downloaded the 4.4W1 update (may be a network related thing, so make sure your phone has a network connection). Again make sure you are at 80%+ battery when you try this.
You may have to go back into About > System Updates to install the update. Some people had a permanent notification asking them to do so as well.

Battery Calibration: This is probably the first thing most people are going to want to do considering all the battery concerns we've heard. I recommend you finish going up to 4.4W1 before trying any method of calibration. Note that there are no official 'guidelines' regarding this, I am recommending based on my knowledge of Li batteries + past experience with phones, and reading other's experiences with the watch:

Charge the watch up to 100%. Long press the button > About > Reset (make sure your data is saved as this will erase everything on the watch!).
Charge it all the way up again after the setup process, and then do a full discharge. To speed this up you can leave it on always on + full brightness (see how in the battery savings info below).
Don't try to discharge it too fast by overloading the watch, this can generate a lot of heat, which is bad for the battery's longevity.
Make sure its completely discharged, won't turn on at all, and then charge it back up to full. It may stay on at 1% left for a good hour or so!
I would recommend following this up with a full day of only light - moderate usage, with only stock apps, to make sure the calibration worked. Would appreciate if you post your results here to help us better understand the battery issues.

Battery Savings

Long press the button, the Settings menu lets you adjust some power saving options. You probably want to have Always On disabled, although I am hearing that after 4.4W1 its not making that big a differenceneeds testing. Auto brightness has been fine in my experience too, but even level 1 is kinda visible outdoors, so you can try that for super conservative mode. Your screen will still dim / sleep with the manual brightness!
Avoid custom faces initially, atleast while you test your baseline battery life as mentioned above. Without the custom face API coming later this year with AW2.0, custom faces are just not going to be as efficient as stock.
You can still customize the Motorola faces, grab the Motorola Connect app (the Android Wear app will prompt you). This will let you customize the background and accent colors.
Mute / disable notifications that are too aggressive. Go to the android wear app to mute app notifications that are too frequent, or just configure them appropriately in the notifying applications.

Hope this stuff helps people just getting started, let me know if you guys have any thoughts / suggestions to add.

Edit #1: I'll add things I've forgotten / been suggested below.


Edit #2:

Regarding what burns the most battery. From my experience so far its:
any interaction while screen is on, especially if involving animations. Custom animated watch faces, and Google now searches are big ones.
screen wakeup from notifications / unintentional wrist 'wakeup
ambient screen on. For me Motorola faces with ambient on do not add significant drain, but the custom faces are much worse.

Random note, uninstalling the Moto Connect app does not undo your customizations for the stock watch faces.

Edit #3:

Fitness Notifications By default you will get notifications about steps and heartrate, which area monitored in the background. I don't monitoring these drains the battery much (heartrate is only monitored infrequently, and the accelerometer is always on to monitor your wrist movement anyway). However, all notifications are significant battery drain as your display will turn on when you receive them. Heres how you configure these apps:

Go to the Android Wear app, click "Show me my heartrate", and choose the "Fit" app (if not already so). This should disable heartrate activity monitoring, which I believe is a Motorola fitness app feature, not Andorid Fit (looks like there is no way to disable monitoring, but disabling motorola's heartrate app disables the notifications / wakeups). I have noticed Motorola's fitness app is more active (heh), and tends to drain more battery.
You can do the above for the "Count Steps" as well.
To disable the step notification cards tap on your watch face, scroll down to show steps, swipe left till you hit the settings, set show step card to off. Unless you disable history your steps will still be recorded, which like I said shouldnt hurt the battery life at all.

Edit #4: Bluetooth interference Bluetooth interference is the biggest battery drain I have come across so far. Did a simple test with my bluetooth speakers. While connected and playing music on the speakers, over an hour the watch drained 12%. With the bluetooth speakers turned off, it drained only 3% over the next hour (note I charged it up to full before the second test). The watch was on my desk the entire time, and the same amount (~5) of notifications received. The only option here unfortunately, is to turn on airplane mode on the watch if you need to connect other bluetooth devices to your watch.

Edit #5: BT interference is no longer an issue for me after the latest update (ver KGW42R)

Screen Persistence: There have been reports of minor to severe screen burn in caused by the screen remaining on while charging. I had a faint but noticeable burn in myself, but it went away completely within a day after I followed this tutorial for disabling screen while charging

Courtesy: Reddit

Custom watch faces:



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MKBHD Review


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8DOUSGGw10

good gadget you have got. how much did you spend on buying and shipping down to Nigeria?

Slowpois0n:
good gadget you have got. how much did you spend on buying and shipping down to Nigeria?

Na 249$ at bestbuy, Atlanta , wife brought it back from her holiday!

That flat tyre look, slightly deflates the beauty !!!

Lexusgs430:
That flat tyre look, slightly deflates the beauty !!!

I can assure you, it's a wonder even with that deflated tyre look!

Omo, see how people dey look my hands today as if I dey do witchcraft, especially when messages and calls come in.

Rolex Watch face:

Ahhh envy you, hoping to get mine soon

Zammydagreat:
Ahhh envy you, hoping to get mine soon

Please, join me, abeg!
I'm getting lonely here on this thread!


Another watch face ,

I decided against the moto 360, too expensive. I rather settled for a cheaper Chinese model.It might not be has high tech as the Moto 360, but it does the basics !!!!
NB: All for $18.00

Lexusgs430:
I decided against the moto 360, too expensive. I rather settled for a cheaper Chinese model.It might not be has high tech as the Moto 360, but it does the basics !!!!
NB: All for $18.00

Does it push all your notifications to the watch?
I mean, is it loaded with android wear abi Chinese OS?

I am still of the opinion that smart watches are an unnecessary duplication of function. I wonder what you'd want to do with your smart watch that you can't do easily with your phone and add to that is the need to recharge the bloody thing. Buy a "real" watch and have a less stress looking for how to recharge a watch.

Nice watch. Still prefer Pebble Steel tho.

LordReed:
I am still of the opinion that smart watches are an unnecessary duplication of function. I wonder what you'd want to do with your smart watch that you can't do easily with your phone and add to that is the need to recharge the bloody thing. Buy a "real" watch and have a less stress looking for how to recharge a watch.

Lol,
The essence of a smart watch is to compliment your phone, though some of the functions might look like duplication!
With a smartwatch, you don't need to whip out your phone everytime.
Your notifications, emails, smses, update whether bbm, whatapps etc are pushed directly to be read on your phone while the phone itself is in ur pocket or bag!
This is cool, especially if u are in a meeting, or in a situation where you can't bring out your phone.
When calls come in, the name of the caller and the pix is displayed on the watch while vibrating, you can accept or reject the call fro the watch without being inapropriate in a meeting.
It has health tracker, with a heart monitor, fitness tracker, a GPS turn by turn navigation which is a great asset while driving, it vibrates about 100 meters before where you will turn.
As per charging, it comes with a stand like qi wireless charger, you just dump the watch on it when u want to go to bed and it also serve as table clock with night light.

To you it might look unecessary now, but I can assure you in a year or two now, almost everybody will be wearing one!

If its unecessary as you claim, would apple jump on the band wagon?

As for me, my own watch last almost a day, I put it on around 5am when I'm going out and put it on the charger around 11pm when I go to bed with at least 40% charge still on it (I receive lots of emails, smses, and updates through out the day)
I have no regret buying it.

Note: tomorrow Wednesday, Android Wear 2.0 will be released bringing more capabilities to the watch.

Its going to be a real interesting days ahead!

Pangea:


Lol,
The essence of a smart watch is to compliment your phone, though some of the functions might look like duplication!
With a smartwatch, you don't need to whip out your phone everytime.
Your notifications, emails, smses, update whether bbm, whatapps etc are pushed directly to be read on your phone while the phone itself is in ur pocket or bag!
This is cool, especially if u are in a meeting, or in a situation where you can't bring out your phone.
When calls come in, the name of the caller and the pix is displayed on the watch while vibrating, you can accept or reject the call fro the watch without being inapropriate in a meeting.
It has health tracker, with a heart monitor, fitness tracker, a GPS turn by turn navigation which is a great asset while driving, it vibrates about 100 meters before where you will turn.
As per charging, it comes with a stand like qi wireless charger, you just dump the watch on it when u want to go to bed and it also serve as table clock with night light.

To you it might look unecessary now, but I can assure you in a year or two now, almost everybody will be wearing one!

If its unecessary as you claim, would apple jump on the band wagon?

As for me, my own watch last almost a day, I put it on around 5am when I'm going out and put it on the charger around 11pm when I go to bed with at least 40% charge still on it (I receive lots of emails, smses, and updates through out the day)
I have no regret buying it.

Note: tomorrow Wednesday, Android Wear 2.0 will be released bringing more capabilities to the watch.

Its going to be a real interesting days ahead!

Hmmm sounds nice but if you need to be looking at messages, status updates and what not during a meeting then maybe you should not be there LoL.

I get the point of smart watches but I just think they haven't reached their sweet spot yet. Something like the Pebble with its long battery life and simple functionality without all that camera and other gimmicks. Why the heck will you want to type an SMS on a watch after buying a 5in/6in smartphone?

They should make make smart watches with that Citizens Ecodrive that way you never have to worry about charging the thing.

LordReed:


Hmmm sounds nice but if you need to be looking at messages, status updates and what not during a meeting then maybe you should not be there LoL.

I get the point of smart watches but I just think they haven't reached their sweet spot yet. Something like the Pebble with its long battery life and simple functionality without all that camera and other gimmicks. Why the heck will you want to type an SMS on a watch after buying a 5in/6in smartphone?

They should make make smart watches with that Citizens Ecodrive that way you never have to worry about charging the thing.

Who doesn't peek at phones during long and boring meetings?
Everyone is guilty!
Haba!
There is no camera on it and you don't type on it also.
Text is by voice input through google now and highly accurate, it even understand Nigerian accent, really wowed!

I understand the fear of many who are late adopters, they want everythinhg to be perfect before they make the jump.

I'm an earlier adopter, and no shame in that!
Your citizen ecodrive is a watch face on the 360 and that is the beauty of it.
With the right watchface downloaded, your watch transform into it with all the dials hands working perfectly.

Of course the battery life will surely get better.

There is an active and extensive online m360 community, designing and mimicking luxurious brand of watches,
They are making their watch faces, an example is this ROLEX watch face below:

Pangea:


Who doesn't peek at phones during long and boring meetings?
Everyone is guilty!
Haba!
There is no camera on it and you don't type on it also.
Text is by voice input through google now and highly accurate, it even understand Nigerian accent, really wowed!

I understand the fear of many who are late adopters, they want everythinhg to be perfect before they make the jump.

I'm an earlier adopter, and no shame in that!
Your citizen ecodrive is a watch face on the 360 and that is the beauty of it.
With the right watchface downloaded, your watch transform into it with all the dials hands working perfectly.

Of course the battery life will surely get better.

Don't you feel awkward talking at your watch?

Pangea:
There is an active and extensive online m360 community, designing and mimicking luxurious brand of watches,
They are making their watch faces, an example is this ROLEX watch face below:

Men that flat tire thing really spoils the design.

LordReed:


Don't you feel awkward talking at your watch?

None at all
Lol

LordReed:


Men that flat tire thing really spoils the design.

Lol
Na the only minus be dat o!

LG R watch is out in Korea with the full round face
I'm sure moto 360 next edition will get rid of the spot!
according to Motorola, that portion houses many of the sensors.
But I've learnt to overlook the spot.

This is a lovely quote that summarize the watch:

What I've been saying ever since I got the device is that this isn't an invention like the computer or the internet or the smartphone. This is more like... uh... proper climate control systems in cars, where you can set the desired temperature and everything. You can't stare at our forever, fiddling with it and figuring out what it does; you just sort of put it on, test it out, and go on with your life. And while your life becomes easier, it's not always an obvious improvement or one you would think about frequently.
I think this is one reason you're seeing a lot more hate than love for the device. Nobody is going to post online with a great story like ”Just got a text message while my hands were full! Yay!" or "Almost missed my exit on the parkway, but Moto 360 saved the day!"
It's a simple device that does what it does excellently, and no more. So when something goes wrong, it's much more obvious than when something goes very subtly (but awesomely) right.

Getting ready for church this morning, time to change my watch face!

I want to buy Your Moto 360 with the Pack that comes with it.

daniftyone:
I want to buy Your Moto 360 with the Pack that comes with it.

Lol
Mine is not for sale
Try ebay USA

Another day,
Another watch face


My Ferrari Red

Time to change again

Tissot Automatic Seastar

Android Wear gets Lollipop update, adds watch face API, new features
Card dismissal undo, battery tracking, and better app sorting are all included.

As was leaked about a month ago, Android Wear has gotten its second feature update since the launch in June.

The biggest addition is an official watch face API, which, as you can see above, Google has already shared with select developers. Since the launch of Android Wear, people have been hacking together custom watch faces, but those have all used undocumented APIs. This official supported way to make a watch face gives developers much more control over the layout.

Users will need a way to find all these new watch faces, so Google is launching a new section in the Play Store specifically for this new class of app. The Android Wear companion app is being updated, too, which will give users an easy way to browse, download, and swap watch faces.

Besides the watch faces, there's a host of new OS features:

Easier Navigation:
● Quickly bring a card back if you’ve accidentally dismissed it
● When you tap on the watch face, recently used actions now appear at the top of the list
New Modes:
● Quickly access various settings by swiping down from the top of the screen
● Theater Mode lets you keep the screen off and mute vibrations when you're in a dark room
● Sunlight Mode temporarily boosts the screen to maximum brightness
App Improvements:
● Easily block notifications from any app, directly from your watch
● View your apps’ usage of battery and storage (in the Android Wear app)
This is mostly what was described in Phandroid's leak a month ago. The biggest addition is a way to undo a card dismissal, which is a frequent source of frustration when using Android Wear. Another big improvement is that the app list can now be sorted by recent apps, which is a nice addition for app-heavy users.

And while Google doesn't mention it in its blog post, this update should also move Android Wear from being based on Android 4.4 KitKat to 5.0 Lollipop.

Both the Wear OS update and the companion app are rolling out now, but it might take a week or two to hit every device.

Android wear 2.0 is here!
Patiently waiting for my watch to update