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Android wear update
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Sajo
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I never used Amazon's Wear app. But I have always had issues with the watch version of E Bay. It used to freeze up on my watch with every E Bay Notification, even though I had it disabled in the AW app on my phone. Speaking of...that may have just changed my mind about the Play Store app on my watch. E Bay Notifications on my phone don't freeze up my watch anymore since the E Bay app didn't auto synced to my watch. Maybe I now see the benefit of a dedicated Play Store app on watches.
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me just sayin
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sometimes i wished my watch had android wear. It has the tisen os. though no problems with it, the android wear has more free apps. the apps I want cost $$$.
Well, installing watch faces is a mess, but otherwise app management is superior in every way.
And I hate there are still apps and bloatware I can't uninstall, but that's been status quo for non-rooted people since the beginning.
Music is the big area it's still lagging. Somehow when all is said and done, you're left with only about 1.2GB for music. On top of that, you are FORCED to use Google Music and it seems it will automatically downgrade your music quality to 128kbps (presumably to get more songs on your device, hoping you won't notice the lower bit rate). There are other problems with Google Music I've noticed, as well.
And I hate there are still apps and bloatware I can't uninstall, but that's been status quo for non-rooted people since the beginning.
Music is the big area it's still lagging. Somehow when all is said and done, you're left with only about 1.2GB for music. On top of that, you are FORCED to use Google Music and it seems it will automatically downgrade your music quality to 128kbps (presumably to get more songs on your device, hoping you won't notice the lower bit rate). There are other problems with Google Music I've noticed, as well.
You can still transfer music files to the watch with Google Music?! For me since the 2.0 update Google Music dosent allow to transfer my own music, it lost that feature. This is why I use the WearMedia Gallery app, it allows you to transfer what you want (music, photos) and it dosent downsample the files, I believe. It´s also a Media Player for the watch: Wear Media - Music Gallery – Aplicações Android no Google Play
I tried that ages ago - how do you get it to play more than one song at a time, or a playlist?
Google Music is a pain. But after uninstalling from phone, and then reinstalling on both phone and watch, it worked. However, it seems it will only download the @ last 1.2GB you uploaded. Don't know if it will replace songs if you then upload new ones. Google Music is simply the most un-user friendly app/feature I've seen on any device or OS in many, many years.
When you play a song which is inside a folder the WearMedia app will play every song inside that folder. Try it, it works great. Google Play Music sucks, indeed.
Wasn't sure that this was worth a new topic, so I figured I'd put it in here.
I just had a notification on my watch asking me to take a survey to help improve AW. I tapped on it to take the survey. It asked how satisfied I am with this watch. I said, "Somewhat satisfied". It does what I want, but I wouldn't mind it having more new features/etc. and there are things that changed with the last update that I'm still not convinced were good ideas.
Anyway, that was the only question. I'm not sure if I'd have answered that I was dissatisfied if there would've been more to the survey.
I also kinda think it's funny that dissatisfied options were available. If I was even SOMEWHAT dissatisfied with the watch, I wouldn't be wearing it to have gotten the notification about the survey.
Anyone else get this survey?
I just had a notification on my watch asking me to take a survey to help improve AW. I tapped on it to take the survey. It asked how satisfied I am with this watch. I said, "Somewhat satisfied". It does what I want, but I wouldn't mind it having more new features/etc. and there are things that changed with the last update that I'm still not convinced were good ideas.
Anyway, that was the only question. I'm not sure if I'd have answered that I was dissatisfied if there would've been more to the survey.
I also kinda think it's funny that dissatisfied options were available. If I was even SOMEWHAT dissatisfied with the watch, I wouldn't be wearing it to have gotten the notification about the survey.
Anyone else get this survey?
Sajo
Diamond Member
No survey for me. If I do get it, I will definitely mark Dissatisfied. There are some things I like, but this disconnect > unpair Bluetooth > remove Trusted Device > re-pair and re-connect bug is crazy. Never had this happen on any watch running AW 1. If Google / Moto can fix this bug I would be "Satisfied" with AW 2.0
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I don't blame you there. I wonder what they did different, because I've not had those issues with my LG watch. Occasional random disconnects, sure, but not any worse than it ever was on earlier versions.
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Weird. Maybe an issue with Moto phones then, though...
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I reset my watch and it happens a lot less. I mean substantially less. I mean I wore it 3 days in a row and didn't get asked to pair ONCE. I think it's a new option during setup that I may have missed the last time (or said no to). Something about "Keep connected somethingsomething (this will impact battery life)". That's all I remember it saying. Slacker, I know.
Sajo
Diamond Member
I factory reset both my watch, and my wife's watch, twice after the AW 2.0 update. I clicked every option that was available, but not 100% sure if I saw that one or not (the one PereDroid mentioned). Initially, our watches were disconnecting from the phone and prompting for a re-pair and re-add as a Trusted Device every time an app update was available. So I disabled the Auto App Update option on the watches new Play Store app. That stopped most of the issues. Now it only seems to happen when my watch & phone are out of Bluetooth range for more than a few seconds. If they reconnect within a few seconds, things are good most of the time; but let them stay out of range for a few minutes and bam....Notifications on both devices requesting to re-pair the BT connection and then forced to re-add the watch as a Trusted Device.
me just sayin
Diamond Member
I think I would toss the watch if I had to keep re-adding it as a trusted device.
