So I've got a new Samsung Gear Live from the Play Store. I'm attempting to pair the device to a Nexus 5 running stock 4.4.4.
When I turn on the Gear Live I'm prompted with selecting a language. I choose English US. Then i'm taken to the "Install Android Wear on your phone" Screen
At first this screen would show me the text "Gear Live 4AFV" (or something along those lines). However 9/10 (after rebooting or resetting the watch) it will simply show me "Gear Live" no 4 digit name.
Without the 4 digits showing the phone will not detect the bluetooth device to connect. On the off chance that it does show up and the phone is able to detect the watch, the pairing process can either work, or stall leaving both devices sitting at a "wait a moment while pairing" screen that never ends.
Lastly, if everything works and i'm able to pair the watch and phone. it will randomly disconnect and nothing I do will make it reconnect to one another.
Other things to note. Bluetooth has no issues on my phone with any other device.
I've reset the watch numerous times,
I've uninstalled the Android Wear app as well as any other watchfaces or launchers.
I've factory reset the phone.
Suffice it to say i'm almost certain there is a problem with the watch, the question is has anyone else experience this or anything similar with a Reset hasn't fixed the problem and is there possibly a solution to this problem that isn't a replacement.
Google has offered to replace the watch but I want to ensure I"m not missing something here.
thanks for any assistance in advance.
gear live 5.0 lollipop connection issues
jay slasher said:
So I've got a new Samsung Gear Live from the Play Store. I'm attempting to pair the device to a Nexus 5 running stock 4.4.4.
When I turn on the Gear Live I'm prompted with selecting a language. I choose English US. Then i'm taken to the "Install Android Wear on your phone" Screen
At first this screen would show me the text "Gear Live 4AFV" (or something along those lines). However 9/10 (after rebooting or resetting the watch) it will simply show me "Gear Live" no 4 digit name.
Without the 4 digits showing the phone will not detect the bluetooth device to connect. On the off chance that it does show up and the phone is able to detect the watch, the pairing process can either work, or stall leaving both devices sitting at a "wait a moment while pairing" screen that never ends.
Lastly, if everything works and i'm able to pair the watch and phone. it will randomly disconnect and nothing I do will make it reconnect to one another.
Other things to note. Bluetooth has no issues on my phone with any other device.
I've reset the watch numerous times,
I've uninstalled the Android Wear app as well as any other watchfaces or launchers.
I've factory reset the phone.
Suffice it to say i'm almost certain there is a problem with the watch, the question is has anyone else experience this or anything similar with a Reset hasn't fixed the problem and is there possibly a solution to this problem that isn't a replacement.
Google has offered to replace the watch but I want to ensure I"m not missing something here.
thanks for any assistance in advance.
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I have the same connection issue but not until I updated it to Android version 5.0 that I started to get connection issues and the gear live was constantly doing a sync loop and it would not stay connected or send SMS messages.
when i first started using this device if someone notified me (example snapchat) it would notify me WHICH IT STILL DOES butttt for some reason the OPTION to (show/open on device) stopped working? just trying to see if theirs a way to cut that back on....it still works for messages though if I click the open on device it pops right up to the exact thread..... just not on other apps
I've problems after the update of gear and gear manager.
Version of gear manager 2.2.15022599
Version of gear pda V700XXUCOA2 csc V700OXACOA2
Before the last updates, my gear perfectly works with my note2. After these last updates, I've got some problems, I've tried to restore the factory settings, but now I'm stopped at the pairing step.
From the gear side, the password between it and the phone appears, I click ok, but the pairing step doesn't continue; from the gear manager side, after the ok of the same password, the app close itself, and I can't enter in my gear options no more. So I'm blocked, I' can't use the gear, I've tried to restore, soft and hard reset, but I can't go over the pairing step. What I can do?
Please help me
I don't know how, but i go over the pairing step, when there is the connection between phone and gear. But in a moment the connection stopped, and a message says "no connection. Please use samsung gear and refer to the manual".
How is it possible?
Hi all,
Purchased the watch couple days ago, yesterday was my first day to really put it through it's paces. Everything seems copacetic except for the WiFi syncing. I've got cloud sync turned on in the Wear app, and WiFi on the watch is set to "Automatic". I verified the watch is indeed connected to a valid WiFi network, with no exclamation points, etc., and I turn off BT on my phone (but keep it's data connection on.) I then try sending a text from the watch, no luck - "Try again from your phone." fail message. I send myself a text from my wife's phone to my phone, the phone registers it, but the watch doesn't. I go into Keep and delete a note on the phone, the watch still shows it. It's not until they reconnect via BT that everything syncs again. Oh, and I tried it on three different WiFi networks (2 at work, 1 at home), no success.
Here's the only thing that I can think of being different. The very first time I turned WiFi off on the watch, there's was a small Yes/No splash screen that came up saying something to the effect of "turning this off will prevent you from syncing"... I THINK. Honestly I can't recall what it said precisely (I was too excited playing with the watch), but the multiple times I've toggled WiFi since then, I have not seen that message again. Anyone know what message I'm talking about? Of course since it hasn't come up again I'm convinced it's the reason WiFi syncing isn't working now. I even factory reset the watch and cleared the data on my Wear app, hoping to get that message back. (It could be completely unrelated, it's just bugging me that ever since I chose "Yes I'm sure", syncing has not worked.)
Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions.
James
SyrinxPriest said:
Hi all,
Purchased the watch couple days ago, yesterday was my first day to really put it through it's paces. Everything seems copacetic except for the WiFi syncing. I've got cloud sync turned on in the Wear app, and WiFi on the watch is set to "Automatic". I verified the watch is indeed connected to a valid WiFi network, with no exclamation points, etc., and I turn off BT on my phone (but keep it's data connection on.) I then try sending a text from the watch, no luck - "Try again from your phone." fail message. I send myself a text from my wife's phone to my phone, the phone registers it, but the watch doesn't. I go into Keep and delete a note on the phone, the watch still shows it. It's not until they reconnect via BT that everything syncs again. Oh, and I tried it on three different WiFi networks (2 at work, 1 at home), no success.
Here's the only thing that I can think of being different. The very first time I turned WiFi off on the watch, there's was a small Yes/No splash screen that came up saying something to the effect of "turning this off will prevent you from syncing"... I THINK. Honestly I can't recall what it said precisely (I was too excited playing with the watch), but the multiple times I've toggled WiFi since then, I have not seen that message again. Anyone know what message I'm talking about? Of course since it hasn't come up again I'm convinced it's the reason WiFi syncing isn't working now. I even factory reset the watch and cleared the data on my Wear app, hoping to get that message back. (It could be completely unrelated, it's just bugging me that ever since I chose "Yes I'm sure", syncing has not worked.)
Thanks in advance for any ideas/suggestions.
James
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Did you ever figure this out?
I have the LG WATCH R with the Urbane rom and have the same issue. It shows connect to Wifi just fine but if I am away from the phone, I cannot send anything...just like when I have no connection.
I think the pop up you mentioned just had a option to prevent the warning from coming up again but should not affect the option to disable and enable the cloud sync.
Nope, afraid not. I posted it to the Google Android wear forums and a couple of "experts" replied to me with suggestions that did not help (factory reset, mainly.)
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Nope, afraid not. I posted it to the Google Android wear forums and a couple of "experts" replied to me with suggestions that did not help (factory reset, mainly.)
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Yep that has been my "solutions" too so far. I am not sure how the Cloud Sync works do you? It is linked to your Google account? If so, I have 3 email accounts..could that create an issue? I am basically looking for anything right now
Here's what I did find out: my daily driver phone is a Moto X 2nd gen running Lollipop. I factory reset an old Samsung S4 and set it up with a Google account I'd just created. I then factory reset the watch and paired it to that phone. Wouldn't you know, the WiFi notifications worked!
I then factory reset the S4 again, this time using my main Google account to set it up. Factory reset the watch again also. After pairing them, the WiFi notifications did NOT work!
So, I can only conclude the issue is caused by how I have my main Google account configured, although right now I've gone through all the settings twice and verified that I have all of my sharing settings (like location) enabled. Argh.
SyrinxPriest said:
Here's what I did find out: my daily driver phone is a Moto X 2nd gen running Lollipop. I factory reset an old Samsung S4 and set it up with a Google account I'd just created. I then factory reset the watch and paired it to that phone. Wouldn't you know, the WiFi notifications worked!
I then factory reset the S4 again, this time using my main Google account to set it up. Factory reset the watch again also. After pairing them, the WiFi notifications did NOT work!
So, I can only conclude the issue is caused by how I have my main Google account configured, although right now I've gone through all the settings twice and verified that I have all of my sharing settings (like location) enabled. Argh.
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Interesting. I will play with that next. Annoying as hell too though
shaolin95 said:
Interesting. I will play with that next. Annoying as hell too though
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Well my LG Watch R is now able to work with Wifi for real but only at home. Not sure what I did...I just deleted my accounts from Settings and added them back.
At work, though even when it shows connected, I do not receive any info from the Phone which is very lame since it was at work where I could really use it.
shaolin95 said:
Well my LG Watch R is now able to work with Wifi for real but only at home. Not sure what I did...I just deleted my accounts from Settings and added them back.
At work, though even when it shows connected, I do not receive any info from the Phone which is very lame since it was at work where I could really use it.
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Cool! Can you tell me what you mean by "deleted my accounts from Settings"? I want to test it too.
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Cool! Can you tell me what you mean by "deleted my accounts from Settings"? I want to test it too.
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I have 3 google accounts so I actually deleted only two that are not my primary. Then I went to the Sync options and made sure all was checked.
Then also for the Location I removed any other devices that are showing under my account that are not my Phone (tablet and older phones) but not sure which one of those did the trick.
shaolin95 said:
I have 3 google accounts so I actually deleted only two that are not my primary. Then I went to the Sync options and made sure all was checked.
Then also for the Location I removed any other devices that are showing under my account that are not my Phone (tablet and older phones) but not sure which one of those did the trick.
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Huh, okay, I'll give those a try. Thanks.
I did open a ticket with Android Wear Support and was told they were going to escalate the issue and I'd be contacted in 48 hours. That was Sunday. I just asked for an update and they replied that they have no solution ATM and no time frame to provide one. Heh! Oh well.
The devices pair ok but then the phone acts like nothing is happening when I try to sync contacts from the car or home phone or BlueAnt headset. They all see the Nexus 6 and start to sync but they end with 0 contacts and the Nexus never shows a popup about it being ok to sync or anything I’ve seen with my other Android phones.
Is there a new setting to allow other Bluetooth devices to start a contact sync?
Tanquen said:
The devices pair ok but then the phone acts like nothing is happening when I try to sync contacts from the car or home phone or BlueAnt headset. They all see the Nexus 6 and start to sync but they end with 0 contacts and the Nexus never shows a popup about it being ok to sync or anything I’ve seen with my other Android phones.
Is there a new setting to allow other Bluetooth devices to start a contact sync?
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I've been trying to transfer files from my Nexus to my laptop unsuccessfully............. Everything says paired and ready, but always fails. Let us know what you figure out!
I think the biggest issue is that the Nexus 6 gives you no feedback that anything is happening. I guess they figure it’s cool and you should know you’re trying to sync stuff but that's silly and it should have something on the phone to let you know something is syncing and any info the phone can supply about what it’s doing or why it failed. Anyway…
Nothing worked until I set the house phone into manual sync mode and then went into contacts and used the send function with Bluetooth while a single contact was open. I messed with that for a bit but that is no way to sync all the contacts that I needed to. At least knew the two were talking, no thanks to Google.
Randomly out of nowhere and after turning Bluetooth on and off and deleting the phonebook on the house phone and so on it synced the first 7 contacts and then it would stop. It stopped on the 7th one every time. This was also after I had read that having the Bluetooth settings open on the Nexus 6 puts into a mode that lets other Bluetooth devices see it. I know it’s just for pairing but I was doing that at the time it first sort of worked. I had changed nothing but now I was getting the first 7 every time when I had been getting zero each time. ???
I don’t know why it stopped on the 7th contact every time but had read that others had seen this and reset their phone and reloaded their contacts and everything thinking the contacts list on the phone was corrupted and maybe it is in some way but I went a different way.
Some others had talked about having an Exchange account and Gmail account on the phone and how to sync the contacts that you want. Again, this would be so much better if it asked you what you wanted to sync. So, you go into contacts and top right there is the 3 dots to settings thing and then you can select the “Contacts to display”. Now this like many other things is counter intuitive and it gives you no heads up about it. I had seen this setting before and had it set to display only my Gmail accounts contacts. For whatever reason, none of my Bluetooth devices liked this. I had set the custom option and even if you select one of other accounts it still has the custom groups selected inside the custom option. I found this after changing from custom back to the Gmail account having it still sync the custom groups.
So went online into my Gmail contacts and created a sync group for the car and one for the house with just the contacts that I felt I’d ever call from the car or house. Then selected only that custom group in the Nexus 6 contacts “Contacts to display” custom setting and it synced all of them. Not tried the car yet though.
Good luck.