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Amen brutha. Amen.
I've been using Showear to lock the watch, but it's sort of a pain. However, it does solve that problem. Here it is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jdd.showear&hl=en
> The confusion for me is why notifications don't vibrate under theatre mode.
IMO, when I fork over $10 for a movie, I don't want any interruptions. So this works for me. It's mute + turn off tilt-to-wake, without pulling out the phone and navigating all the way to the settings, and repeating that after the movie. Bonus: no accidental bright light when I cross my arms.
>If I sleep with my watch on, I can't get woken by an alarm, unless I leave theatre mode off and be prepared for my watch to turn on and possibly sit in listening mode all night.
Yes, a toggle for touch-to-wake would be very good. I'm tempted to try the mod to turn this off: http://forum.xda-developers.com/android-wear/development/disable-touch-wake-to-save-battery-t3116936 but it's a bunch of hoops to jump through.
Tilt-to-wake and button-press-to-wake would still work.
> Turning off the touch screen is very useful in the shower, or while swimming, or working in different conditions, but under this implementation the watch ceases to be a notification device.
There's also showear (I don't know how to reliably activate the built-in lock screen)
> Right next to theatre mode is the watch profile setting, where i can intentionally avoid notifications, so i don't need theatre mode to do that. Essentially, I may as well be in airplane mode whenever I'm in theatre.
Airplane mode for all other a.w. watches means a still-glowing screen in a dark room.
We need a custom mode we can access from the drop-down settings. It will activate a setting with the things toggled the way we want: dim screen on/off, mute on/off, touch-to-wake active/disabled, tilt-to-wake on/off.
Showear - AndroidWear Lockscreen for showers: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jdd.showear