Android wear update

[Jonny Kansas]

Thanks Jonny. Nice to know this is a real update and not just "tech reporters" getting something from Google to write about. Was it an Android Wear / Wear OS app update or an old fashioned System Version update?

I can definitely see Google rolling back to Wear OS version numbers. How else to we know what we have now, and what is newer? I think the whole "remove version numbers" idea was a good idea, but confusing for most users.

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The best info I can find is this article that claims that google confirmed that anyone who got Android Wear 2.0 will get this update & goes on to list the devices that won't get it.

I guess the numbering kinda makes sense now. I don't remember them referring to Wear OS version 1 being what it was called when Wear OS replaced Android Wear. I guess I just assumed it was a name change & the version numbers would carry on.

What's weird to me is that I feel like my watch wasn't supposed to get the change to Wear OS when that happened, along with several others. But now, all of a sudden, some of these older watches are getting Wear 2.0? Maybe I'm remembering wrong...

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Update: she says she got a notification that said, "Please tap to update & restart (or something like that)" so it sounds to me more like a system update on the watch.

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[Badelhas]

It's been a while and I still haven't received any update to the new Wear version (the app updated yesterday but I see no difference whatsoever). Original Huawei Watch.
Anyone got it?

 

[Sajo]

Nothing on any of our watches yet either.

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[Jonny Kansas]

I forgot to report back here. I got the new update on my Urbane. I fired it up this weekend to reset it so I could pair it with my new phone & it wanted me to restart to update. Instead, I reset it.

It wasn't until after I set it back up & got the latest available Wear OS app installed on the watch that it prompted me again to restart to install.

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[Sajo]

Now that you mention it Jonny, I remember that the only way I finally received the AW 2.0 update on my watch was to factory reset it and start over fresh. That's when I finally received the prompt to download and install 2.0. This new update might be the same way....it's kind of "stuck" and Wear OS doesn't seem to like to prompt to update. I'm not sure if I'm ready to factory reset again just for a new Settings menu and a few other changes?

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[Jonny Kansas]

Yeah. I mean, it's nice, but not like it ads any major new feature. Basically just a UI polish.

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[Badelhas]

If anyone else receives the update please share that info with us. I'm really not willing to do another reset...

 

[doniago]

It's been a while and I still haven't received any update to the new Wear version (the app updated yesterday but I see no difference whatsoever). Original Huawei Watch.
Anyone got it?

Is the new one 2.16? If so, I'm on it.

 

[Sajo]

Is the new one 2.16? If so, I'm on it.

That's the newest watch Wear App version that most of us have. There is a Wear OS phone app update that is 2.17...... But we are talking about a new Wear OS system update that will take us from Wear OS 1 to Wear OS 2. That's the new update that has the new Settings menu and other new features.

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[doniago]

...let me rephrase...what would I check to see whether I am using this?

 

[Sajo]

...let me rephrase...what would I check to see whether I am using this?

On your watch swipe down from the top. Do you have the new Settings menu? Or the old one with just a few options? There is a picture of the new Settings menu in one of the recent posts on this thread

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[Sajo]

The new Settings panel, shared by PereDroid a few weeks ago. This is what Wear OS 2.0 will supposedly look like. And Google is going back to version numbers, as posted by Jonny Kansas in the screenshots from his wife's watch. Right now with Wear 1.0 we don't see that version number anywhere, but will see it with 2.0.

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[Badelhas]

But he made a good question: what's the OS version number on the smartwatch after the supposed firmware update?

The new Settings panel, shared by PereDroid a few weeks ago. This is what Wear OS 2.0 will supposedly look like. And Google is going back to version numbers, as posted by Jonny Kansas in the screenshots from his wife's watch. Right now with Wear 1.0 we don't see that version number anywhere, but will see it with 2.0.

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[Sajo]

It's 2.0, right? I guess I'm confused on what's what after this new update is applied. I assume the Wear App version stays the same and they re-introduced the OS version number, like in Jonny's screenshot. Google really made things confusing when they decided to remove all version numbers and just use the Wear OS app versions. But now I have one version of the Wear OS app on my phone and a different version on my watch, and no more Sync All Apps option within the phone app. Way to make this confusing Google

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[Sajo]

Just a FYI kind of post. Last night I decided to try the "uninstall the Wear OS app from your watch.." trick. It didn't work for me. For a few days I had been running the Wear OS 2.17... app on my phone and Wear OS app 2.16... on my watch. And no new Wear OS update, like most of the rest of us. So I went into the watch Play Store and uninstalled the Wear OS app & rebooted. The watch made me go through the Android Wear / Wear OS tutorial again (I wish there was a way to dismiss that) and then the watch Play Store prompted me to download & install Wear OS, so I did. It downloaded and installed 2.16... What? So I rebooted the watch again and the watch Play Store prompted me to download & install Wear OS, so I did. That at least got my watch to Wear OS app version 2.17.... and matches my phone's app version. But no prompts to download the new Wear 2.0 OS (or whatever it's being called). And when I click Check For Updates in Settings it says I am up to date. Oh well, it was worth a try. I guess we just keep waiting. Whatever Google is doing, this has to be the slowest smart watch software rollout ever.