Octane Watch Face - Customizable watch face

Introducing the Octane Watch Face for Wear OS!

Octane Watch Face is a highly customizable digital watch face designed for Wear OS devices. It offers users the ability to personalize their smartwatch with various customization options such as color schemes, 12/24-hour formats, and ambient mode settings. The watch face also provides data indicators, displaying useful information like step count, heart rate, unread messages, and weather details. Users can interact with widgets, set shortcuts, and save custom presets for different occasions. With a free version offering extensive features and a premium version for advanced options, Octane Watch Face is perfect for anyone seeking style and functionality in one app.

★ Features of the Octane Watch Face ★

- Select your preferred design colors

- Display for Day & Month

- Watch battery status

- Mobile battery status (requires a companion app)

- Weather updates (requires a companion app)

To access the watch face settings, open the "Wear OS" application on your mobile device.

Simply click the gear icon over the watch face preview to display the settings screen!

★ FREE Customization Options ★

- Choose design colors on both the watch and mobile

- Set heartbeat rate refresh frequency

- Set weather update frequency

- Select weather measurement units

- Toggle between 12 and 24-hour formats

- Set interactive mode duration

- Choose black & white ambient mode and eco brightness

- Option to display leading zeros for the hour digits

- Decide whether to show the brand name

- Option to show or hide second markers

★ PREMIUM Customization Options ★

- Personalize your title instead of "OCTANE"

- Switch among eco / simple black & white / full ambient modes

- Choose from various background styles

- Blend backgrounds with specific colors

- Set a secondary time zone for digital display

- Data Configuration:

+ Adjust which indicators appear in three designated positions

+ Select from up to 8 indicators (e.g., Daily step count, Heart rate, Unread Gmail)

+ Complications (Wear 2.0 & 3.0)

- Interactive Features

+ View detailed data by tapping on a widget

+ Change displayed information by touching a widget

+ Alter shortcuts assigned to four positions

+ Select shortcuts from all applications installed on your watch!

+ Choose to highlight interactive areas

★ Extra options accessible via phone ★

The optional companion app simplifies customization of the watch face, offering additional settings and data insights.

- Decide between small/big/translucent/opaque cards (Wear 1.5x only)

- Select between two weather service providers

- Set location manually or automatically

- Receive notifications about new designs

- Manage presets:

+ Save your custom preset with all options included (colors, backgrounds, data, features – EVERYTHING is saved!)

+ Load or delete previously saved presets

+ Share or import presets

★ Installation Instructions ★

For Wear OS 1.X:

The watch face installs automatically from your paired phone.

If it doesn't appear, go to the Wear OS App > Settings and resync all applications.

For Wear OS 2.X:

A notification will appear on your watch once the app is installed on your phone. Tap it to begin the installation of the watch face.

If you do not see this notification, you can install the watch face directly from the Google Play Store on your watch by searching for its name.

★ Explore More Watch Faces ★

Check out my collection of watch faces for Wear OS on the Play Store.

★ FAQ ★

1.I can not find my watch face (Wear OS 3.x/4.x)

Did you install it on your watch ?

If No:

Can you try to search for the watch face directly by using the Google Play Store on your watch? Just search the app by its name 

Or, you can go to the Google Play Store on your watch, in the « installed on my phone » category, and install the associated watch app.

If Yes:

Hold your finger on the screen until the watch face selector is displayed. Then scroll among the installed watch faces to find it. If you do not find it, go to the last right item « + add watch face » of the list to display all watch faces installed.

And then, install the companion app on mobile for a full experience.

2.Samsung Watch shows TAP ME on complication

Hi,

This is a Samsung known issue with OneUI 5.0 / WearOS 4.0, which they should fix. 

After selecting your complication or after a reboot, it is necessary to switch to another watch face, and then select back my watch face. It should initialize properly.

It was reported to Google and Samsung, and I hope that they will fix it soon…

They announced a fix for their next firmware update.

3.Samsung Health complication only shows an icon

Unfortunately, a lot of complications from Samsung Health behave more like a shortcut to their app.

That’s something I reported to Samsung support, because it is an issue in my opinion.

Samsung health app is not providing the data it should (icon, text with value), and it only provides a static icon… And honestly, it’s quite new, because a week before, it was just providing an ugly static text, with a link.

I hope they will fix it soon.

You can help on this by reporting it with a comment in the « Samsung Health » Google play Store page : we will have more chances to get a fix if a lot of users give the same feedback 

4.Can I display other steps counter / weather provider / external data?

You can display any step counter you want: strava, Samsung health, etc…

To do that:

In the settings, choose « complication » for one of the widget.

Then, on your watch, « TAP ME » will be displayed on the widget : tap the screen on it.It will open the complication chooser helper.

Scroll in it until you find the samsung health data that you want to display, and select it.

5.If I pay for premium, do I have access to all watch faces?

Unfortunately no.

Each app is independant.

You can give what you want from 1€ to 10€ depending on how much you value the app, each gift unlocks all the same premium content in the app.

But only in its app, not in the other.

You can try them in free mode to see if you like them, before buying the premium features 

6.Mobile home screen widget is not refreshing

Some phones under android 9 are quite agressive on background running services. Meaning that they kill services unless you add them on white list.

You can check your mobile settings, maybe do you have some « economy » mode for battery saving, or something like that, which prevent service to run.

I do not have your specific phone to give you the right location of the settings (This website might help you if you do not find it by yourself: https://dontkillmyapp.com/)

After removing it, remove the widget, reboot the mobile, and then place again the widget on screen, to be sure all the services are restored.

7.Fit does not connect (stuck on spinning wheel)

Apparently, this can be related to the type of account you use: if your account is set to Googlemail not Gmail.

Here’s the link to the instructions you can follow to fix it

https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/4692671?hl=en

All users experiencing this issue solved it by following these steps, it should work 

8.How do I change the complication displayed?

To modify the complication, you can do as following:

Hit the gear icon of the widget settings in the phone app, it should open the selector directly on your watch.

Just hit it while the watch face is displayed on your watch (not in settings or ambient mode).

Or

Go to the settings of the watch face on your watch. Hold your finger on the screen until the settings screen shows up.

And then go in the widget category to modify the widget you want: select « complication external data » and it will open the complication chooser helper.

Scroll until you find the data you want to display on the watch face.

9.PREMIUM: not synced on watch/mobile

It seems that the stores of your two devices are not sync.

It is not something related to the watch face itself, it will do this for every app if not sync 

The sync of the purchase between watch & mobile takes sometimes time, as it is not sync all the time by the Google Play Services. This is not something handled by the app itself, but by the Google Play store.

There are different ways to enforce the refresh of the payment of apps, please try the following to see which one will work:

- Reboot the watch/mobile

- Go in the the Google Play Store on your watch, in the « my apps » category, and search for new updates.

- The sync should be done.

You must also verify that you are using the same Google account to install the watch & mobile: the one used for the payment.

After checking all this, you can try to force the manual sync if premium is still locked on watch:

While the watch face is displayed on watch (not in settings), use the « sync now » button available in the « general » settings category of the phone app.

It should manually sync the premium access.

10.I can not find my watch face on my Gear S2/S3

Unfortunately, as it is written in BOLD in the play store page and in the pictures, the watch face from the Google Play Store is designed for Wear OS only, and does not support Tizen OS 

Basically, no Wear OS watch faces in the Google Play Store are made for your watch.

The Google Play Store shows the application as compatible because it only takes the mobile into consideration.

If you bought it, please send me your order number, and I will refund you.

In the meantime, if you are interested by my design, my Gear S2/S3 compatible app are available in the Samsung Galaxy Apps Store (or Gear Store).

Just search Thema for all my designs.

WatchFaces for Wear OS

Here are all my watchfaces designed available for Wear OS. Every watch running Wear OS can benefit from each watchface.

You can find them in the Google Play Store.

My watchFaces are compatible with all the Wear OS devices, running Wear OS 1.x or Wear OS 2.x:

- Asus ZenWatch

- Asus ZenWatch 2

- Casio Smart Outdoor Watch

- Casio PRO TREK Smart

- Fossil Q Founder

- Fossil Q Marshal

- Fossil Q Wander

- Huawei Watch

- Huawei Watch 2

- LG G Watch

- LG G Watch R

- LG Watch Urbane

- LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE

- Moto 360

- Moto 360 2nd Gen

- Moto 360 Sport

- Moto 360 for Women

- New Balance RunIQ

- Nixon Mission

- Michael Kors Access Smartwatches (Dylan and Bradshaw)

- Polar M600

- Samsung Gear Live

- Sony SmartWatch 3

- Tag Heuer Connected

... and all the other watches that will be available on the market after I wrote these words 🙂

Each watchface includes a compagnion application on mobile side, allowing you to configure the different elements of the watchface (colors, shortcuts, interactivity, displayed data, animations, hour settings, date settings, and a lot more!)