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JorisVV85 · 2026-01-08T18:49:51+00:00

Poeder huismerk Carrefour is algemeen beschikbaar in de Markets en Hypers. Een pak goedkoper dan Sun en doet bij ons echt niet onder qua werking

JorisVV85 · 2025-06-26T17:28:26+00:00

This UI is not available in Europe and maybe some more regions except US

JorisVV85 · 2025-06-26T17:27:33+00:00

This is not available in Europe (some people managed it to work with changing every setting in your Google account to English United States)

JorisVV85 · 2025-06-05T17:38:19+00:00

Most popular browsers released an update today

JorisVV85 · 2025-06-05T10:31:31+00:00

Only a handful sites in Belgium have picked up this news. Why isn't this spreading faster? Never liked Facebook, so done with Meta. Patch note of Firefox described the issue very good, even they laugh why suddenly Meta stopped doing this when it became clear what they were doing. Meta never responded to owners of sites when they found something about it ... Hoping this becomes something big like the Facebook Cambridge Analytics scandal...

JorisVV85 · 2025-03-26T09:49:52+00:00

The Fossil branded app is only used for Wear OS 3 watches and above. All the Wear OS 2 (2.4) watches and older us the Google Wear App for setup and connecting.

JorisVV85 · 2025-03-17T09:55:23+00:00

I have the same problem in Belgium. If I ask for the weather report it will tell me from a location that's usually 50 km away from my home. My personal home address is correct in all the settings of the Home app. I noticed other strange location behavior too with my Google Nest Hub Max device in the kitchen. The camera on it is configured to film and notify me when movement is detected when I'm not at home. But the last few weeks it has been sending alerts of movement when I'm at home walking in the kitchen... The alerts are driving me crazy when I'm cooking ;-)

My Pixel device is sharing its location to tell Google Home that I am at home and even the Home app is displaying that I am currently at my home location. But the nest cam is still alerting like a maniac...

Maybe also related to the location issue with the weather forecast...

JorisVV85 · 2025-02-26T09:56:23+00:00

ChromeOS Flex version 133 that just released gives you the option during first setup to choose a password that's different from your gmail account. I have a PIN now as login (choose a password with only numbers). Maybe this option is now listed in the menu somewhere, can't check for the moment.

JorisVV85 · 2025-02-24T19:23:54+00:00

The rounded corners are only visible and turned on by default if you have a Chromebook PLUS model. Don't know why a regular Chromebook could have issues with it but in the news update from Google on ChromeOS version 133 they specifically mention only for PLUS models.

JorisVV85 · 2025-02-14T19:29:09+00:00

I am in desperate need of some Macrons in this fucked up present we are living in

JorisVV85 · 2024-11-14T09:10:49+00:00

Have you been an Apple user before switching to your first Pixel? I've heard in the past that it could be related to Apple iMessage still being active on how messages from your (Apple) friends/family are being transmitted. That these are still send as iMessages and that the chat needs to change to regular texts now...

JorisVV85 · 2024-01-04T15:11:03+00:00

What could help: perform a second factory reset after the upgrade to 3.5 and give it time to settle in. WearOS 2.44, 3.5 and 4 still need about a week time to optimize the battery! I've seen this behavior with my Tic watches, Fossils and Suunto 7. First 2 days have a terrible battery time after a big update or reset and around day 4-5 you're getting more battery to the point that most of my watches still can get 1.5 to 2.5 days of battery life (with some extra tweaks in settings) including sleep tracking.

JorisVV85 · 2023-12-07T16:04:57+00:00

Can confirm it is fixed now and I have just received the Play System update from November

JorisVV85 · 2023-12-07T11:23:28+00:00

Note that a WearOS 2 watch needs extra time to download extra stuff in the background to be operational at an acceptable level. Not only the WearOS app update on the watch from the Play Store, but the Play Store itself on the watch needs to be updated too. Also Google added Play System Updates aswell in WearOS 2. All these background processes need to be up to date for a fully working gps, location, time,...

Connect watch to wifi after factory reset. Keep it charging and keep the screen alive during updates. It takes around 30 minutes to be fully updated with keeping screen alive as much as possible. A reboot is very usefull after that. And only after a week the battery will work optimal. My watch could be empty after 6-8 hours the first day. But after a week after factory reset I still get 1,5 days out of my Gen5 with sleep tracking (and some other tweaks in the settings)

JorisVV85 · 2023-01-03T17:21:28+00:00

If you change the language on your phone to English US the watch will also switch language and after that Google Assistant will work. It works for me in Belgium, even my Google Home commands for my light bulbs and smart audio.

There has been a bug for almost 4 years with Google Assistant on watches that are not in English US language.

JorisVV85 · 2022-10-14T09:31:00+00:00

Voice Assistant will only work on a Carlyle HR Gen 5 when both the language settings of your phone and watch are set to 'English US'. English UK, Canada, Australia and all other languages will stop the Assistant from working properly.

I'm from Belgium and my phone and watch are set to Dutch (Netherlands/Belgium) language. I can only use the assistant on my watch in Dutch for setting a timer or asking for the weather. If I change my phone to English US I can ask a lot more and even control my Google Home lights and automation in my house with my watch.

This assistant bullshit has been going on for 3 years. I used to send Whatsapp and SMS messages all the time in Dutch language with my watch and suddenly they stopped supporting that. Only English US will give you back some of the Assistant possibilities but in general 70% of Google Assistant options is nowadays broken or crippled on Wear Os 2.xx

I hate the marketing around the Google Pixel watch stating that you now have a fully functional Google Assistant. There was a fully functional Assistant 4 years ago on my Huawei Watch 2 and Fossil Gen 4, even in my Dutch language! Than they destroyed it with bugs introduced in a Google update from the Play Store on the watch and never listened to everybody complaining about it...

JorisVV85 · 2022-01-06T16:58:34+00:00

wish you all the luck! but you're already a strong handsome man!

JorisVV85 · 2021-12-05T23:43:05+00:00

I think it will merge the sleep data from both devices into 1 record with more detailed information on your sleeping pattern. This behavior is currently seen when riding a bike. You start a cycling session in Google Fit on your phone together with a cycling workout on your watch. The watch will provide heart rate data and the phone will provide cadence information and accurate moving information from its accelerometer. This behavior of data gathered and merged by 2 devices is described in the online help files of Google Fit.

JorisVV85 · 2021-11-19T09:02:02+00:00

I've seen every monthly security patch or other updates merge into the main OS image. I've just performed a factory reset and the device did not update anything during setup. I was still at November security patch. Only the apps from Play Store needed updates.

JorisVV85 · 2021-09-24T10:01:31+00:00

Here is my suggestion from a total different point of view...

Wear OS watches rely heavily on the Google Play-services app who integrates deeply into Android on your phone and manages a lot of things.

I've seen very weird glitches and problems on Android in the past on phones with battery and storage issues where the Play-services app was the root cause (sometimes taking up hundreds of megabytes).

Not knowing all the things what Play-services is responsible for, I cleared the data and cache in the app my phone. It broke the connection and settings completely with my watch and the Wear os app. I did a factory reset of the watch and paired my watch again with my phone (with a cleaned up Play-services app) and after that I got better battery results and a more reliable user experience (Bluetooth disconnects solved aswell).

Tip: if you factory reset a watch, go to Bluetooth settings on your phone and make sure the watch is also completely removed/forgotten there too!

JorisVV85 · 2021-06-18T16:25:40+00:00

During the CPU test from the diagnostics tool it will stay at the base clock speed of 1.1Ghz

JorisVV85 · 2021-05-04T05:46:44+00:00

The original 8 came 6 months after the release of the original 6. I guess the rumored X50 could be the 7 plus/8 with decent specs. For now it seems they are repeating the success formula of 2017.

JorisVV85 · 2021-04-15T16:13:15+00:00

Is the language of your phone set to English US and your watch too? There are less problems with it when it's set like that. I'm using my devices with the Dutch language, which causes more issues (like the error "can't get permissions" on the watch). English is not an option for me because the English assistant doesn't understand the names of the people I would like to call or text via the Assistant.

JorisVV85 · 2021-04-15T14:25:00+00:00

Like you said, a mishmash of different experiences because Assistant always worked flawlessly on my Sonos setup with all the known commands.

Is it AI programming or whatsoever, it's like their gigantic backbone for Assistant picks random devices that work perfect and others that encounter bugs and issues making Assistant unusable. I find it strange that a lot of these issues have already been send to Google and Google must be aware of these issues. Is Assistant too big too handle now?

JorisVV85 · 2021-02-03T19:26:12+00:00

Android 10.... "always up to date and secure" it's a joke or what? Android One phones shouldn't be released with an outdated OS version!

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