Hello everyone,
I created a chronograph in Facer Pro, and according to every preview, it works perfectly. Except on my Samsung Galaxy Watch 8.
On my watch, I can tap the start/stop and reset tap zone, but unfortunately, this does not result in the stopwatch/chronograph starting, pausing, or resetting.
I did publish the watch face because it works in every respect and everywhere, except on my own watch. So I assume the problem lies on my end. However, I would like to hear from you whether it works as intended on your watch or if you are also encountering issues.
You can view the watch face here and possibly sync it to test: https://beta.facer.io/watchface/CFg7Ooe0Pz
I hope you can advise me on how to get this watch face working on my watch as well.
Hope to hear from you,
With regards,
Coco
Touch functions do not work on any watch running WearOS 6, which is on all 7 and 8 series of Galaxy watches. That is one of the reasons I dropped my pro subscription, it just wasn’t worth having any more.
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That would be very bad. Samsung owns a huge part of the market. I also worry it’s that WFF thing. It’s doing no one any service so far.
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Yes, it’s all because of WFF. I had private copies of watchfaces that had touch points on them. I deleted them all because all my watches are WFF now after the updates. Like they say in NASCAR racing, “It is what it is”.
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Like a Ferarri with a Dacia engine… 
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It’s a simple global marketing thing - we have a saying- “If you don’t know what the problem is - follow the money”. Samsung want you to throw away your old smartwatch and buy a new one compatible with Samsung WFF and use Samsung WFS to make Samsung watchfaces in a smilar way to Microsoft forcing the windows 11 upgrade. What facer has done is amazing and all respect to them for doing it .
I think that my Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 is a pretty new one. So I guess it’s not about forcing people into buying a newer Samsung watch. And WFS is a whole other ballgame. And for all I know WFS is free. So I’m not so sure about that. But the point is, how do I get the face to function as I intended it to be?
I’m pretty sure this has ZERO to do with Samsung, and everything to do with Google.
Ok but like i said follow the money
I seriously also don’t think Google is making enough money off of watch faces to put the screws to Facer or Watchmaker. It’s just about creating standards, and not taking the big picture into consideration. Laziness, inexperience, and/or stupidity…not money.
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My apologies everyone- I seem to taken this topic off track
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Can we get back to the issue at hand? How to circumvent this obstacle? Because it sucks monkey balls that I can’t make the watchfaces I like to offer because of some obstructions, and I have to stick to the same simple limited faces again and again. I do not understand that Samsung makes decisions on our behalf about our battery consumption. Who cares if I want to charge my watch 3 times a day?
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Samsung didn’t make that decision, Google made it. Google is who supplies the operating system for the watch. Google made it so only WFF formatted watchfaces will run on WearOS 6 and above. Google’s operating system and Google’s rules is the reason we can’t have nice things on our watchfaces.