I'm not sure what's going on with my watch -- it'll be perfectly fine for a handful of hours and then it will start rebooting over and over again. Sometimes the screen won't even turn on while it reboots - I have to hold the power button down to get the screen to come on and show that it's rebooting.
When it goes into the bootloop, the watch gets noticeably hot to the touch. Not scolding, but it worried me enough that I took the watch off to let it cool down. I thought it could just be a software issue so I performed a factory reset on the watch -- alas, still having issues with it. I usually recharge overnight and while I used to have no issues making it through the day, my watch was dead before 4pm today (less than 12 hours).
Before I reach out to Samsung, does anyone have any other ideas on things I could do to troubleshoot?
I have the same Problem. Did you find out why?
My issue resolved on its own after awhile. My watch has been fine ever since. Maybe water got in it and once the water dried it was OK?
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Just received my OTA upgrade.
Everything went well up to the point were it says - Android is starting. It counts up to 51 and then says Starting Applications and then immediately (shown for half a second) - Shutting Down.
This goes on and on every time I restart the watch.
In addition, it gets so hot that I think it will melt.
Any ideas how to fix that?
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Just received my OTA upgrade.
Everything went well up to the point were it says - Android is starting. It counts up to 51 and then says Starting Applications and then immediately (shown for half a second) - Shutting Down.
This goes on and on every time I restart the watch.
In addition, it gets so hot that I think it will melt.
Any ideas how to fix that?
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I'm experiencing the same issue. I hope that someone has some ideas on how to fix it.
Let it rest for an hour. Then try again. Works for me.
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As above. I think it's heat related. I had similar when I was flashing the stock images from scratch. I let it cool down then boot it up again and it was fine after that.
I am sorry, but nothing helped.
Sit and Wait didn't help. Waited over night, same result the other day.
I also wiped the watch from Recovery. For just one time the watch started and demanded more at least 20% power, so I charged it and moved on with the configuration, but all of a sudden the watch turned off.
Since then, after several wiping tries, I had a new behaviour. Watch started with the 4 colored dots, after about 2 min just turned off without showing any other display.
Any other ideas?
super_joe said:
I am sorry, but nothing helped.
Sit and Wait didn't help. Waited over night, same result the other day.
I also wiped the watch from Recovery. For just one time the watch started and demanded more at least 20% power, so I charged it and moved on with the configuration, but all of a sudden the watch turned off.
Since then, after several wiping tries, I had a new behaviour. Watch started with the 4 colored dots, after about 2 min just turned off without showing any other display.
Any other ideas?
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@super_joe any luck?
The sit and wait method ended up working for me as well.
I too had the same issue. After restarting the watch it kept shutting down. Then as last attempt I kept the watch on charging cradle and charged the watch. While charging the watched booted normally. Then found out battery was at 3%. But oddly before update it was 98%.
Anyways now it's working normally.
there is no consistent way to charge the watch anymore without overheating?
I have the same problem
Same problem here. after running fine with LeeDroidV2. But after the battery died it wouldn't fully start anymore.
Thought it was heat related too so I put it on the A/C fan. Still switches off. Gonna flash stock and will report back
I can't get it to work. It says "Starting Apps" after loading them (38 of 38) and the "shutting down" Just flashed stock 5.1.1. Any ideas?
finally back alive! I don't know what the problem was. When it finally booted without shutting down, the battery was at 2%. Even though it was on the cradle for 2hrs.
This is going to be a somewhat long thread (fair warning) because i'm going to try and give as much detail as possible. So here we go...
Disclaimer, I am not responsible for any damage to your watch if you decide to follow my method.....it worked for me
Also be advised I used this method to allow my watch to finish the boot cycle because the watch was freezing because of being on the cradle for too long and the battery getting super hot, if your watch is doing something else, this probably won't work for you.
It all started when I factory reset my watch at 15% thinking it had plenty of battery to finish the process (I know its been said many times on this thread about having 65+% battery when doing anything to your watch...I suggest you follow that rule or even just charge to 100% to make sure). So during the initial boot cycle the watch shut off. When I get home I put it on the cradle and I saw a black screen with a battery and a charging symbol on it. After that it showed the LG logo...then began the boot animation with the colored balls. After about 5-10 seconds the watch froze and turned off again. I tried everything I possibly could, keeping it on the cradle...taking it off...booting into fastboot...letting it charge.....boot into recovery....letting it charge....flashing TWRP...letting it charge....nothing would work. It ALWAYS froze and shut off. Sometimes it was during the boot cycle, sometimes inside the fastboot screen, and sometimes in recovery. I reflashed the boot/system/and even recovery images....tried different roms....nothing seemed to work.
Now here's the good news...I was able to get it to finish the boot cycle, get to the screen that said "Android starting apps" and to another screen that allowed me to actually charge the watch to 20%....and here is what I think is happening.....The cradle and/or USB connection is giving the watch enough power to turn on and keep it on...but there isn't any voltage control so its making the battery more hot than it should....thus over heating the CPU/chipboard and freezing the watch (I say this because after the watch would freeze I would have to wait a long period of time..sometimes 30 minutes...sometimes hours...before it would show me the black screen with the charging symbol again). So I asked myself...how can I keep the watch cold enough so that it doesn't overheat yet still give it enough power to finish the boot cycle? Well I ended up grabbing my icepack (it's a clay icepack with a blue cloth around it so it wasn't making direct contact to the ice pack and there was no moisture) and I ended up placing the watch on the cradle connected to the wall charger so it had enough power to turn on, see the LG Logo and I swipped from 11->5 and went into the fastboot screen. I then let it charge up for about 30 seconds, took it off the cradle and hit "start" for it to boot normally. Then I put it on the icepack for about 15 seconds (I put the bottom of the watch where the chip board is against the ice pack).....then took it off, and placed it on the cradle for 15 seconds, I repeated this over and over it allowed the battery to maintain a decent temperature and allowed the battery to charge enough to keep it on and get to the next screen that told me to charge the battery to atleast 20%. Once it got to 20% it told me to swipe to the right and it started the pairing process, once it paired and it started syncing the apps from the phone to the watch...it actually froze again because I left it on the cradle. Once I let the watch cool off I did the process over again and this time kept switching between the ice pack and the cradle until AFTER it finished syncing and I actually saw the analog watch on the screen. After that I was able to put it back on the cradle and it charged to 100% with no issues and my watch has been working perfect ever since, and I've already charged it multiple times.
I hope this helps someone else....I had my watch not working for just over and week and everyday I would try something else and this is what FINALLY fixed it. I even went as far as buying another BL-S3 battery and was going to replace it. Good luck, if anyone has any questions i'd be happy to try and answer them.
Good Luck!
thanks
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This is going to be a somewhat long thread (fair warning) because i'm going to try and give as much detail as possible. So here we go...
Disclaimer, I am not responsible for any damage to your watch if you decide to follow my method.....it worked for me
Also be advised I used this method to allow my watch to finish the boot cycle because the watch was freezing because of being on the cradle for too long and the battery getting super hot, if your watch is doing something else, this probably won't work for you.
It all started when I factory reset my watch at 15% thinking it had plenty of battery to finish the process (I know its been said many times on this thread about having 65+% battery when doing anything to your watch...I suggest you follow that rule or even just charge to 100% to make sure). So during the initial boot cycle the watch shut off. When I get home I put it on the cradle and I saw a black screen with a battery and a charging symbol on it. After that it showed the LG logo...then began the boot animation with the colored balls. After about 5-10 seconds the watch froze and turned off again. I tried everything I possibly could, keeping it on the cradle...taking it off...booting into fastboot...letting it charge.....boot into recovery....letting it charge....flashing TWRP...letting it charge....nothing would work. It ALWAYS froze and shut off. Sometimes it was during the boot cycle, sometimes inside the fastboot screen, and sometimes in recovery. I reflashed the boot/system/and even recovery images....tried different roms....nothing seemed to work.
Now here's the good news...I was able to get it to finish the boot cycle, get to the screen that said "Android starting apps" and to another screen that allowed me to actually charge the watch to 20%....and here is what I think is happening.....The cradle and/or USB connection is giving the watch enough power to turn on and keep it on...but there isn't any voltage control so its making the battery more hot than it should....thus over heating the CPU/chipboard and freezing the watch (I say this because after the watch would freeze I would have to wait a long period of time..sometimes 30 minutes...sometimes hours...before it would show me the black screen with the charging symbol again). So I asked myself...how can I keep the watch cold enough so that it doesn't overheat yet still give it enough power to finish the boot cycle? Well I ended up grabbing my icepack (it's a clay icepack with a blue cloth around it so it wasn't making direct contact to the ice pack and there was no moisture) and I ended up placing the watch on the cradle connected to the wall charger so it had enough power to turn on, see the LG Logo and I swipped from 11->5 and went into the fastboot screen. I then let it charge up for about 30 seconds, took it off the cradle and hit "start" for it to boot normally. Then I put it on the icepack for about 15 seconds (I put the bottom of the watch where the chip board is against the ice pack).....then took it off, and placed it on the cradle for 15 seconds, I repeated this over and over it allowed the battery to maintain a decent temperature and allowed the battery to charge enough to keep it on and get to the next screen that told me to charge the battery to atleast 20%. Once it got to 20% it told me to swipe to the right and it started the pairing process, once it paired and it started syncing the apps from the phone to the watch...it actually froze again because I left it on the cradle. Once I let the watch cool off I did the process over again and this time kept switching between the ice pack and the cradle until AFTER it finished syncing and I actually saw the analog watch on the screen. After that I was able to put it back on the cradle and it charged to 100% with no issues and my watch has been working perfect ever since, and I've already charged it multiple times.
I hope this helps someone else....I had my watch not working for just over and week and everyday I would try something else and this is what FINALLY fixed it. I even went as far as buying another BL-S3 battery and was going to replace it. Good luck, if anyone has any questions i'd be happy to try and answer them.
Good Luck!
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i wanna thank you so much for the information your provided i looked everywhere and lg customer service was no help this was the only thing that helped i thought i was done for your the best
hacker4life said:
i wanna thank you so much for the information your provided i looked everywhere and lg customer service was no help this was the only thing that helped i thought i was done for your the best
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No problem! Glad it helped someone....I was pretty upset when I thought my watch was bricked....don't ask me how I figured it out...but I did
Hello,
2 weeks ago, I jumped into a swimming pool with my LG Urbane watch. After swimming about 20 meters, I realized I was still wearing it and I took it off, however damage was already done and the watch didn't work anymore. After drying (about 2 days later), the watch worked again like before.
After 3 days without any issues (charging overnight and using it during the day) the Android wear 2.0 update arrived and was automatically installed. After reboot, I selected to copy the Google account from my phone but then the watch hung at "Continue setup on phone", while my phone didn't mention anything. I searched online and tried to follow the advice to restart both my phone and the watch. Not sure how to restart the watch (the screen didn't respond at all), I pushed the power button for about 10 seconds. The watch vibrated and the screen turned black. As of that moment, the watch can no longer be switched on. I tried pushing the power button from a couple of seconds to longer than a minute, but nothing happens. Putting it in the charger also triggers no reaction whatsoever.
Since the watch had been working for a couple of days after the water damage, I'm not really sure if it is related to it.
Any ideas how to fix this issue? (I already tried opening it and detach/reattach all connectors to the watches motherboard, but no reaction at all).
Thanks in advance
I'm getting some strange activity on the watch:
When it runs out of battery and shuts down, I place the watch on the charging cradle while it is off, and it starts to charge as normal. It slowly charges up to 25% as usual, and then suddenly it's at 100%!!
When I boot up the watch it is at 100%, but then starts to lose charge very quickly. It's almost like the battery has become uncalibrated. I have tried running it down and then fully charging it while off and leaving it on the charging cradle for hours etc, but no help.
Anyone else with this problem, and any suggestions? (Can't send it in for warranty repair etc... cos I live in UK where they don't sell it, so had to buy it off eBay, it's a W280A which had an AT&T sim in it)
I think I may have fixed this, I'll have to wait and see how long a full charge lasts, but for the first time while powered off, it charged from 1% to 100% by 1% each time, I know because I watched it - it's been driving me crazy! So something had screwed the calibration of the battery it seems!
The fix was to keep the watch on until it powered itself off with no battery. Then try holding down the centre crown and turning it back on again - mine would get to the Google Circles on the boot animation, and then black out again - and I did this repeatedly, with the LG logo flashing up, then Google, then the circles, then it turned itself off again - so I knew there was more battery there (yes, I know these batteries keep a reserve so they are never fully discharged, and it's not good to take them all the way down, but I was only getting the thing to charge 20% or so before it showed 100). So I thought, how to keep the screen on, I can't keep turning it on again and again.
So I put it in fastboot mode, hold down the centre button and the lower button and it will bring up the fastboot screen - and I left it with the screen on, which seemed for like hours. When the screen finally went off, I tried turning it on, no LG logo screen, tried booting into fastboot, nothing - the watch was truly dead! So I held my breath and placed it on the charger. After a few moments, the white flashing ring appeared and 1% appeared in the centre, yaay!! I then watched it, repeatedly every few minutes pressing the centre crown to check the battery while it cycled through every percent until it reached 100! Now the watch is on and I am monitoring the discharge. I will let you know how it goes (before I couldn't get more than 4 or 5 hours out of it with all sensors off!)
So for all those that are getting exceptionally poor battery life out there, your watch may be lying to you - when it runs out of juice and powers off, before charging it again, turn it on again and again until nothing appears on the screen, or enter fastboot/recovery and the let the screen drain the rest of the battery. Obviously I take no responsibility if it messes up your watch.
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
admisi said:
I can confirm that this has fixed the problem. I'm getting easily one day out of the watch now, even after going out for a 2 hour half marathon mid day. This watch rocks now!
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I tired your procedure but no luck
Also can confirm the fastboot drain worked - took 3+ hours (I went to bed) on high brightness but then recharged in about 2 hours and has 60% left after 8 hours use (battery saver and I turn screen off manually).
Thank you Admisi I might try this for other devices forgetting where the bottom of the battery is. Good stuff.
Hi guys,
My Watch Sport seems to have developed some issues in the last two days.
The screen wouldn't come on (I don't have always on turned on). I restarted it, and it was ok for a couple of minutes, then the same.
I turned on "always on" in display settings to trouble shoot, and the same thing happened - only now, the screen was frozen when it stopped working.
The watch itself seems to be running as I noticed some battery drain even with the screen off.
I did a factory reset from the UI, not luck. Did a wipe from recovery. Same issue.
Has anyone had a similar issue before?
Thanks for your help!
Update - The problem still exists, but I narrowed it down.
I turned off the watch, fully charged it and powered it on. Turned on everything that could be turned on and let it sit on the table. Checked it every now and then, it seems to be working. Ran the battery out, recharged it and did the same for about 2 more cycles. It seemed to work. The only times this 'freeze' happens is when I wear it, which got me to thinking it's probably the hear rate sensor. Opened Fit and started reading the heart rate - if it's not on my wrist, the sensor just keeps going on for a minute or so and then turns off. But if I so much a put a finger on the sensors, all it takes is 30 secs, and it freezes.
Let me try to get some logs over the weekend.
For anyone that's wondering. The watch is alive again. After about 4 months of collecting dust, I figured I'll boot it up and see how it holds up.
Turned it on and charged it for a couple of hour, then the latest Wear OS updated was pushed - a couple of them actually.
Let it sit in the cradle for a day, and wore it, without expecting much. Been about 5 weeks now. No crashes or freezes. Battery lasts much longer - about 2 days with LTE & NFC off.
One thing to note though. Up until a few weeks ago, I used to charge it via usb from my desktop. Since the last reboot, I started charging it using the wall plug.
Not sure if it was this, or the new Wear OS that fixed the issue, I'm glad it's working again and I don't need to go back to my Gear S3 and Tizen *cringe*