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[Q] Anybody see Android Wear apps seems to cause disconnection issues

I love the LG G watch R, and just got it two days ago. I have found the watch to be unpredictable for some of the Android Wear applications where the watch will constantly say that it is disconnected when a new card is pushed from the phone, or programs are running in the background (I have found iHeartRadio to cause this issue quite a bit).
Have others seen these issues? I really would like to see these issues worked out soon, as the watch is beautiful and for $300, I was expecting more seamless integration of android wear programs and the watch.
All in all, though I really like the watch.
Cheers,
B.D.

yeah mine keeps saying disconnected and its really getting annoying

its too early to tell for sure, but Wear Tasker seems to cause me some problems when executing a task

[Q] LG G Watch R Freezing and Getting Static Screen Since Update

Hello, I have received an update to Android Wear 5.0.1 yesterday on my LG G Watch R. Ever since I've updated it, the watch as been freezing and giving me a static screen. The screen will remain there for 5-10 minutes and then it will act fine again, but then it will randomly freeze and give this issue again. I deeply regret updating as the watch has been perfectly fine and running smooth before the update. I will try to attach a picture of the screen, but has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a possible fix?

rsharzaman said:
Hello, I have received an update to Android Wear 5.0.1 yesterday on my LG G Watch R. Ever since I've updated it, the watch as been freezing and giving me a static screen. The screen will remain there for 5-10 minutes and then it will act fine again, but then it will randomly freeze and give this issue again. I deeply regret updating as the watch has been perfectly fine and running smooth before the update. I will try to attach a picture of the screen, but has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a possible fix?
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I have a some what simillar problem.
After the update my custom faces no longer go on standby mode.

I'd remove all wear related apps on your phone. Uninstall android wear too. Then I'd factory reset my watch. Reinstall wear from the market and see if the problem persists

fr0st420 said:
I'd remove all wear related apps on your phone. Uninstall android wear too. Then I'd factory reset my watch. Reinstall wear from the market and see if the problem persists
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This sounded like a hopeful idea but upon resetting to factory settings, the device shut off and reboot(as expected) and then it just gave a static screen. The static screen stayed there for five minutes and it allowed to select a language, ect. I have just re-installed Android Wear onto my phone(I had it uninstalled before resetting the watch) and it is now paired and it is behaving as it did after updating it yesterday, just giving me random static screens I'm leaving the country tomorrow, but I will be checking back for any solutions between now and then. Anything would be helpful. But it does look like I will be contacting LG about the matter, it doesn't seem to be a common issue to have a static screen...

Some face are not compatible with new face api in V5. Try with a LG Standard face (Camping) to see if you freeze or not ?
I have issue with intellicom, weather Watchface..... now I'm trying original face and no issue in 24H

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but has anyone else run into this problem? Is there a possible fix?
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My first one did this, but would not get normal until the battery was empty, charging it did cause a reboot. Contacted LG, they said a Hardware failure, and send me a email with their conclusion (i send them a picture, with a description) so if the webshop i bought it from was reluctant to swap it for a new one, i was supported by this, not necessary, they swapped it, that one got the blinking issue, and now i have a third new one Get it replaced!

dersie said:
Some face are not compatible with new face api in V5. Try with a LG Standard face (Camping) to see if you freeze or not ?
I have issue with intellicom, weather Watchface..... now I'm trying original face and no issue in 24H
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I've tried this as well with the suit face and there was no difference unfortunately
RoosW said:
My first one did this, but would not get normal until the battery was empty, charging it did cause a reboot. Contacted LG, they said a Hardware failure, and send me a email with their conclusion (i send them a picture, with a description) so if the webshop i bought it from was reluctant to swap it for a new one, i was supported by this, not necessary, they swapped it, that one got the blinking issue, and now i have a third new one Get it replaced!
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I might just go ahead an do this once I get back home. This morning the screen was acting very odd as I was swiping through notifications and it just began blinking and showing black lines near the edge. It stopped once I hit the power button twice. I'll just get it exchanged before it gets worse Thanks guys, I really appreciate it. Hopefully I get lucky the second time!

A complete mess...

Hi guys,
I've received my Gear Live yesterday.
Immediatly begin to play with it, installing Android Wear on my Lollipop Note 3.
Btw, she was on Knx01q.
Paired the watch, surfing a little bit on the computer and some time after, the watch was no more connected to the phone.
On the screen there's a nice "Google Play services has stopped"... Then the same with "com.google.process.gapps"...
After some investigations and trials, I can tell this happen when the watch try to download the next update. No more bluetooth, force close again and again when I try to go on the "About" menu...
I've tried to downgrade to the kmv78y firm and it seems to resolve the problem, but if I upgrade, the mess continue, force close after a moment and I can't pair the watch anymore.
Trying to update to the lollipop update manually, no chance at all... Sideload failed, TWRP install failed, ...
Have you any idea of what's going on ? I think I'll send back the watch to the seller soon.
Thanks guys.

There was an update to Android Wear on the Play Store yesterday. All the comments say they lost connectivity after updating. I think I'm going to wait before getting the update for the app. You may see if you can find an older version of Android Wear from another app store.
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Thanks for your answer.
In a last light of hope, i've installed the LDZ22J update provided here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-live/development/unofficial-samsung-gear-live-restore-t3132500.
I simply replace the files in the Samsung Gear Live Restore Tool and choose to restore back the watch to stock.
It's working and the watch is now with Lollipop without loosing connection or force closes... Just a little problem persist, with some watch faces, when the screen become dimmer
the watch face just turn into some "inverted colors" mode... Don't know if it's normal ?
Thanks again.

The inverted color mode is kind of like a battery saving mode. Most watch faces have this mode.
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A lot times after an update is performed, Google services crash. A simple watch reset should get it back working again

Thanks guys.
The weird thing is when I downgrade the watch to the first update, it was almost OK. But when she try to update from KNX01Q, after a little moment the force closes begin and the watch was completly useless.
Since I update to LDZ22J it's ok and I can finally play with it. Now the watch try to update to LCA43 (I suppose) I get an error about "libgnustl_shared.so" in the recovery. Again, I've tried to update manually with sideload, same error...
So for now I'm stuck with LDZ22J with an update card but no way to update... If you guys have a dump of LCA43 with .img somewhere...
Thanks.

LG G Watch R refuses to update

Hello everyone. So i got my GWR from repair (replacement of display) and they reset the device into AW 4.4 version. The problem is that its stuck and keeps on saying System is up to date,however even before i had AW 6.0.1. I even tried to reset both watch and android wear app several times,but still nothing. Wifi is on,of course. Any tips what i can do? Because AW 4.4 is really awful to use and apparently it isnt supporting all the apps i use as they are not installed even after hour. Thanks for any advice.

Nevermind,it started itself updating after while

Android Wear 2.0 update

Just manually flashed the Android Wear 2.0 on my LG watch urbane at first it was slow and laggy and but then a day or two later it straightened​ itself out and it was like butter.

And the purpose of this topic is?

Mine is still really laggy after about 4 days.

Mind is unusabley lethargic.

Same here. A great smartwatch has become effectively useless since 2.0. Can't even answer calls on it anymore for cryin' out loud!

My watch was incredibly laggy and had terrible battery drain too. Today I did nothing different besides turning WiFi off and the lag is gone and the battery is similar to 1.5. (Which sucks since I used WiFi quite a bit, but at least the watch is usable.) I'm going to reenable WiFi tomorrow to see if the lag returns.

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My watch was incredibly laggy and had terrible battery drain too. Today I did nothing different besides turning WiFi off and the lag is gone and the battery is similar to 1.5. (Which sucks since I used WiFi quite a bit, but at least the watch is usable.) I'm going to reenable WiFi tomorrow to see if the lag returns.
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I just turned wifi off and the difference is night and day. Thanks, because I thought I was going to have to find a way to get 1.x back.

The UI is fluid most of the time, notifications come without delay but functionality seems to be down. I think Google has messed up Android Wear. Needs another major update imo.

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The UI is fluid most of the time, notifications come without delay but functionality seems to be down. I think Google has messed up Android Wear. Needs another major update imo.
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Weird that it's seemingly such a randomly different experience for each user. My UI is laggy as hell, and the notifications only seem to show when they want to! It does vibrate when receiving them but either shows nothing (leaving me to swipe up to see what it is) or auto-pops up and takes up my whole​ watch face! Yet if I receive a phonecall, I'm lucky if my watch acknowledges it at all! Maybe, in 2 out of 10 tries?!
... Which leads me into completely agreeing with the downturn in functionality. On the couple of occasions my watch had picked up that I'm receiving a call, it only gives me the option to hang up! (Making my paid for Wear Speaker app effectively useless.) No way to answer from the watch at all. Same goes for notifications. Email for example, I can delete, archive or reply (all on the watch only) but I can't just tap to open it on my phone like I used to be able to! YouTube video subscription notifications are just that... Notifications! As the only option is to add to the watch later list. No option to open on the phone. Nothing!
Basically, it's great that they've added functionality that enables you to use the watch without the phone... But not at the expense of cutting out the phone completely! It still needs the phone to function fully, and is STILL only a companion product to go with a phone! I seriously don't understand how they've managed to screw this up so badly even after all the delays??! ?

It is weird because enough people report your experience for it to be just in your head. My was slow for a few hours but then sped up and is nice and at least as fluid as 1.5.
I did reboot and that didn't help. Factory reset made a huge difference.

Any ideas how to downgrade? My watch is practically usless... I hate the new update they've removed every single thing that made this watch remotely usefull

Yeah this update sucks on the urbane, everything takes much longer and isn't smooth... Good timing for me since I'm getting back into shape I bought a Fitbit charge 2 and will sell the urbane if it's worth anything.. I would like the Movado Wear watch but I'll make sure it's also not underpowered before purchase..
Thanks Google!
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How can I install an apk in the watch? Untill now installing it on the phone was enough, but with 2.0 release it seems that you can only install programs with the play store installed on the watch. I suppose with adb I will able to install apks but does anyone know an easier method?
Thanks
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chomi7 said:
How can I install an apk in the watch? Untill now installing it on the phone was enough, but with 2.0 release it seems that you can only install programs with the play store installed on the watch. I suppose with adb I will able to install apks but does anyone know an easier method?
Thanks
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In the settings on the watch there is an option for something like 'apps on phone' where you can select which apps you want to be installed from the phone instead of automatically like in 1.5. It may be an option in the Play store on the watch. I don't have 2.0 yet, waiting for my Urbane 2nd Edition update, but I've read about it.

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In the settings on the watch there is an option for something like 'apps on phone' where you can select which apps you want to be installed from the phone instead of automatically like in 1.5. It may be an option in the Play store on the watch. I don't have 2.0 yet, waiting for my Urbane 2nd Edition update, but I've read about it.
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Exactly!!! You can find an option in the watch Play Store called apps on phone where you can download into the watch the apps you need.
Thank you very much!!
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Used to be able to press the button twice and turn the screen off too

radiotecha1234 said:
Used to be able to press the button twice and turn the screen off too
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Yeah, that option is missing now. Currently swiping down, tapping the sun symbol and then the watch-sysbol in the middle below seems to be the only way.
But at least after I did a factory reset of the watch yesterday and paired it again with my LG V10 the watch runs much smoother than before. Truth be told I have not installed all applications yet I was running on the Urbane before (like Watchmaker for example) but I will install one after another and check if the lags I had before reappear.

Mine had AW 1.1 out of the box. Upgraded to 2.0 and it was unusably laggy. Even tilt-to-wake was very delayed. "OK Google" would take over 10 seconds for assistant to come up.

My watch too has become barely useable. Google assistant can sometimes take upwards of 20 seconds to load. And there is a huge delay on my notifications, I don't even receive notifications for calls. Android wear 2.0 has definitely ruined my watch, which is sad because I love using assistant on my phone to control my Philips hue lights.

Did anyone contact LG or Google about this problem? Android Wear 2 made my device useless after just 1,5 years. That's unacceptable!