They are working on it to get that fixed, but it's not easy to do that on all platforms (Windows Phone, iOS, Android)So, if clear items here, does it clear them on the individual Band tile? Silly if not
Pitiful if true...syncing should not be difficult, and clearing the same message in 3 places is amateur hour. No wonder MS stuck at 2.7%In some other topic here, some of the microsoft developers said it's just not that easy as one might expect because the phone API's do not support these kind of actions. It is coming very soon but you must realize that one year ago, without the Band 1 and all the other smartwatches, there was totally no need for phone developers to let an external bluetooth device control the notification center. So... they didn't built that into the phone firmware and operating system ;-). And as a result this feature first has to be built in the Phone OS's before it "should be easy" (no offence).
Pitiful if true...syncing should not be difficult, and clearing the same message in 3 places is amateur hour. No wonder MS stuck at 2.7%
Hi Mikepalma,
Up until recently it wasn't doable on any of the phone platforms. The idea of having a third party wearable change the bubble count on notifications is one of those things that everyone knows is obvious, but support had to be built into platforms for it.
Each phone platform has different limits on what it allows a wearable device to do over Bluetooth! Sometimes our Health app can help us out, other times it cannot.
Permission issues for developing phone apps is a huge deal, and on top of that, until very recently none of the phone platforms were even designing for these scenarios. Allowing remote clearing of notifications is something that has to be wired in throughout the entire Phone OS. The traditional model is to just send a string up with what the notification text is, and maybe some other metadata, such as the phone number or contact name. There never was a planned way to get information back down to the app that sent it.
When those pipes did appear, well, apps still have to opt into using them. On Android for example, some messaging applications expose additional actions that can be taken, while others have not yet been updated to do this.
During our planning phase we discovered all of this. We ended up not trying to support the one or two very limited scenarios that would not even have given a consistent experience on one platform.
As I mentioned in another thread, technology has moved forward so we're going to re-evaluate what is possible now.
This has been in our earliest concept sketches since day 1, a long with a bunch of other really cool stuff! But unfortunately reality tends to barge into the room and stomp all over dreams.
Pls explain the purpose of this tile and how to use it. Thanks
On the band 2, it shows a few words and cuts off. This is especially annoying when I get an email with just a couple of sentences and the band cuts off right before the last sentence ends. I then have to get my phone out and read the last few words... Might as well have just picked up the phone in the first place... The same thing happens with text messages.
I realize the band 2 is a fitness band first and a smartwatch second, but the way it is now (smartwatch features), it is frustratingly inferior to what my Huawei watch offers me. When I say smartwatch features, I just mean better handling of notifications basically, not apps or anything.
Just wondering if these kinds of things are in the pipeline for the current generation bands or if it is something that is probably not going to happen? Maybe Band 3?
We are aware that messages are too small right now. On one hand we don't want people reading entire novels on the device, but we were too conservative with what we set initially,
We are aware that messages are too small right now. On one hand we don't want people reading entire novels on the device, but we were too conservative with what we set initially,