Essentials tools for Android nerds to work with the Android app.

Features

• Upcoming calendar schedule of all calendar accounts together
• Schedule tile
• Android device info tile
• Combined Android and watch battery complication
• Your Android customizable controls
  • Remote lock
  • Sound mode toggle
  • Flashlight with brightness
  • Notification pulse controls
  • AOD controls
  • Tap to wake controls
• Are we there yet? info at a glance
• Sync sound mode with Android
• And more coming

Screenshots

Requirements

• Essentials Android app installed on Phone

Installation and Wireless ADB guide

You need to sideload the APK to the watch via ADB.

It's a good idea to place the watch on the charger during this process to ensure it stays connected to WiFi which keeps wireless ADB active.
And also make sure your phone is not connected to the PC with ADB as both apps share the same package name, it could interfere.

Prepare the watch

1. On your watch, visit Settings -> System -> About -> Versions

2. Tap on Build number 7 times, Developer options will be prompted
   

3. Once enabled, navigate back to settings and Developer options will be the last entry, tap it
   

4. Enable ADB debugging & Enable Disable adb authorization timeout for easier access later
   

5. Scroll down, go into Wireless debugging
   

6. Enable Wireless debugging

Pairing

7. On the PC, setup platform tools and open a terminal in that directory

8. On the watch, select Pair new device
   

9. Enter the shown IP address and the port on the terminal
   

   adb pair 192.168.1.163:33525
   

10. Enter the WiFi pairing code, complete

11. Done

Connection

12. Go back

13. Use the IP Address & port from the shown entry and run the below command to connect. This is different from the pairing IP and ports.
    

    adb connect 192.168.1.59:37359
    

Installation

14. Once connected, run the below command to install the app.

    adb install app-release.apk
    

Permissions

Grant the optional permissions via the adb shell for enabling all the features using the same adb connected terminal session.

• WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

  adb shell pm grant com.sameerasw.essentials android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
  

• DND_ACCESS

  adb shell appops set com.sameerasw.essentials ACCESS_NOTIFICATION_POLICY allow
  

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