[LG G Watch R] aisPanais:
Great customer service from Amazon.es

Mine started doing this about three days ago. It did this for most of the first day and by the end of the day it was completely unusable. Restarting was not helping. The second it started working again, but gradually it deteriorated to an unusable state. The third day showed no hints of recovery.

Many people in this thread say that they suspect overcharging because it happens right after they remove the watch from the cradle in the morning. I say this is definitely not the case, at least with mine, because I wear mine to track sleep at night, so I have to charge it during the day, and because of this it rarely stays on the cradle for more than 20-30 minutes after it has been fully charged. In fact, it just happened that during these last few days before this problem appeared on mine, I rarely had the opportunity to fully charge it, because I had to put it on and head out. I was charging it sporadically, sometimes even reaching 98%, but not full.

What I have noticed is that the problem was becoming more severe when the screen brightness was low. It shows hints of recovery when the screen was at brighter settings. Note that when I wear it during sleep, it is in theater mode, so the screen is off. So when the problem started happening, it was after the screen was off for the entire night.

Noting that I have also reset the watch, but it made absolutely no difference. I don't think it's a matter of apps on the watch, as someone else already mentioned, this happens even before any apps or even the OS is loaded. The problem persisted even at the very beginning of the boot process, when it was trying to display the LG logo.

The good news is that after owning the watch for about four months, Amazon.es - from where I bought it - replied to my email the next day with a return label, and informed me that I will be refunded for the watch and the cost of shipping to send it back. This is really good news. I saw some other forums where people mentioned being sent in loops between retailers and manufacturer, but fortunately they were very helpful in my case.

Regarding LG though, it was impossible to open a case with them! Their support was non-existent for me. I tried US, UK, and GR LG sites. Anyway, I won't go into detail about that. I don't feel it's worth it. But it will surely affect my future purchasing decisions. This is not the first time I have trouble with LG. Not only with post-sales support, but with drivers support. Even though this is not the appropriate place to write about this, I want to mention that I bought an IPS monitor from them, and the CD that came with it had corrupted drivers - not because the CD was damaged, but because the drivers were bad all along. Photoshop would not work with them. And I read about many others complaining about the same exact thing, and nobody could find ANY (good or bad) drivers to download from their site for this monitor, which is far from end-of-life.

It was good while it lasted. I enjoyed it. It was really cool. But I will definitely not be buying another smartwatch any time soon. I'll just go back to traditional, trusty digital.

I hope my comments help someone.