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Prominent Haptic On or off ?

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Che Castro

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and how is your brightness set ?
I heard in a podcast someone said turning the brightness down helped with battery life a lot
 
Che Castro said:
and how is your brightness set ?
I heard in a podcast someone said turning the brightness down helped with battery life a lot
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Default brightness here. No battery life issues. I do not use the prominent haptic, but, I do have the haptic intensity set to the highest setting. I think I will be lowering it soon, though, as I'm getting more used to the feel and don't think I need the extra intensity for it to be noticed any longer.
 
Prominent haptic off. I can discern between different notifications that way. I almost always know when a messages (vibrate-tap) is coming in vs standing up(two gentle taps). Prominent haptic would make that difficult.

I do have the haptic turned on to the highest. Brightness set to 2.
 
I'm using prominent but wished i used normal, it's just the normal haptic isn't strong enough and I miss my notifications.
 
jojods said:
I'm using prominent but wished i used normal, it's just the normal haptic isn't strong enough and I miss my notifications.
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This. Maybe my Watch's tactic is just weaker than normal, but I don't notice it at all if I'm active (walking, cycling, etc).
 
I have the normal haptic set to max and that's perfect for me. Subtle but I notice it. Hated prominent haptic. And I have brightness set to mid.
 
I'm not quite sure I understand the brightness setting completely...as far as I can tell it uses an ambient light sensor to adjust the brightness anyway. So right now, I have it at full brightness, but I am sitting indoors in a darker room and I can tell the brightness is being automatically lowered.
 
Che Castro said:
and how is your brightness set ?
I heard in a podcast someone said turning the brightness down helped with battery life a lot
Click to expand...

If you want it to feel like every other smart watch out there, then turn on prominent haptic.
 
I have prominent haptic turned on for right now, just until I get used to the taps. I lowered my brightness just because I think it looked better, didn't need it higher and figured it'd save battery.
 
Prom Hepatic on and brightness set to middle. Been working well for me. Took off charger around 930 am yesterday and at 8 pm still at 65 percent and using quit a bit
 
My brightness is two out of three bars. I wish it would react to changing ambient light a bit better, it's usually ok but sometimes feels too bright.

The taptics are maxed out for me. I can clearly feel the taps when I'm expecting them, or sitting still, but when distracted or walking briskly I often miss them. They seem to be just the below the pickpocket threshold ;)
 
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zacheryjensen said:
Default brightness here. No battery life issues. I do not use the prominent haptic, but, I do have the haptic intensity set to the highest setting. I think I will be lowering it soon, though, as I'm getting more used to the feel and don't think I need the extra intensity for it to be noticed any longer.
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jojods said:
I'm using prominent but wished i used normal, it's just the normal haptic isn't strong enough and I miss my notifications.
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mavis said:
This. Maybe my Watch's tactic is just weaker than normal, but I don't notice it at all if I'm active (walking, cycling, etc).
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Sphyrna said:
I have prominent haptic turned on for right now, just until I get used to the taps. I lowered my brightness just because I think it looked better, didn't need it higher and figured it'd save battery.
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Up until now I've had the prominent haptic turned on because I didn't notice the haptic by itself. I'm going to give it a try now with it off to see if I have become more accustomed to the notifications on my wrist like Zach is.
 
I haven't changed the defaults at all, the haptic level looks like it's on the highest, and bright is about in the middle, and both settings work well for me.
 
What was the default brightness out the box ?
Was it max or in the middle
I don't remember now
 
It's turned off for me and my brightness is set to high. Not really effecting my battery life in any way so far. I wore it since 8am (it's 7:30 now) and I still have 55% left.
 
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