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[LG G Watch R] adlx.xda:
Same here about Nine.

Plus:

In AW15 I use to go to contacts, and slide down to the Whatsapp option, to send a contact a new whatsapp message. I was unable to find that in Aw20. I founds the same contacts in the Contacts app, but it only offer me Call or Message (sms), no WhatsApp anymore. So that's a clear regression

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[LG G Watch R] flash3d:
Ahh, found the menu in play store to update all the apps. I had to swipe down when in Play Store.
[LG G Watch R] paggps:
adlx.xda, dirtyhank and nicogri:

Finally I gave up: these two days I realized how useful my watch was (before the update). Now I was having a very bad time trying to answer my messages, trying to find a contact on watch, and ... trying to belive it was a good idea to upgrade to Wear 2.0. So I decide to reflash my watch to the good old Wear 1.5.

I have followed the instructions given by "pidobeuliou" on this thread:

https://xdaforums.com/g-watch-r/general/andorid-wear-2-0-t3382032/page23

And reflashed back to Wear 1.5. It was my first time flashing, but went throug without bricking it. Now my LGWR is working perfectly as before. Total time for the process: about 2 hours.

Thanks pidobeuliou for the tutorial.

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Thank you very much for your tutorial on how to reflash AW 1.5. I did the process and it worked perfectly.

Now I am curious: Is it really necessary to install Wear 1.5 on phone to NOT receive the upgrade to AW2.0 on watch again?

I have noted that my watch when boots on the LG logo screen there is a "closed lock" on the bottom of the screen; this cleary indicates that the watch was flashed and is no longer original. I suppose that when a device has been flashed it does not receive OTAs anymore (like in phones). Am I correct?
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Hi Paggps,

Thank you paggps. Yes, it's a always sad to be obliged to downgrade a system because the new release presents too many regressions...

Coming from Google, I knew that their applications were quite unequal but, usually, their OS were quite good and the new versions progressed normally in the right direction (what you had before is present in the new release with some enhancements).

This Android Wear 2.0 took so many time to be released that it's difficult to admit all these regressions... it's why I wanted to test by myself and not just get an opinion just based on the forums.

Anyway. The AW1.5 is so good and efficient with the LG G Watch R that it's not a problem to stick to this version for few others months!

Regarding the Wear 1.5 app vs Wear 2.0 app, I don't know. I have noted that as soon as I had updated the wear app to 2.0 on my smartphone, I've got immediatly the "always on" notification on the watch imposing to upgrade to 2.0.

If you want to test again with the watch in "unlocked mode" let me know.

Regarding the "closed lock", I read in the forum that it was possible to lock back again with an adb command. But I didn't test it as my watch is no more under waranty.
[LG G Watch R] HansiHusten:
Well I am quite satisfied with 2.0 after I did a factory reset and all updates in the play store.

watch runs quite smooth, cant complain about that only battery drain is at the moment higher than usual (will see how that plays out) and the god damn google assistant only works when I have activity history for apps & web crap activated, and I dont like that at all. I like a clean history about my activity and I want to stick with that.

Now I cant say anymore "send whatsapp message to whoever" but other than that nothing negative (yet) to say. Will have to look how it works in the next couple of days.
[LG G Watch R] Trisnpod:
I seem to one of the lucky ones then, or at least so far...

Haven't tried receiving calls yet but notifications e.g messenger come in much faster than they ever did on wear 1.5. Google assistant reacts to ok google just as fast as on 1.5. Everything runs more smoothly for me than it did on 1.5 too - although if I'm on the watch for and extensive period, changing apps frequently it does slow down a lot. But overall strangely my watch seems to be running much faster on wear 2, no more lagging when I scroll through menus or swipe up for notifications as it did on 1.5. Hopefully it will stay like this.

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Yeah, I just tried asking google assistant to open an app on my phone and was a bit disappointed to find it unable to do that. I swear you could do that on 1.5 but Im not 100% sure.

Also I wish they'd made it so that you can read full emails instead of shortened versions in your notifications, I thought the point in wear 2 was to make the watch more independent but at the moment it seems the same as 1.5 in this.
[LG G Watch R] Scoredx:
How to enable handwriting instead of keyboard? And is there somewhere keyboard that have emoji like that in 1.5?
[LG G Watch R] paggps:
Hello.

I have a question after downgrading to AW 1.5: how can I avoid automatic upgrades again to AW 2.0 ??

My LGWR today started again with the messsge "charge watch to upgrade" so there is "something" downloaded there, ready to install.

This is very confusing for me because:

a) when watch is booting below the logo now has a closed lock icon which means (I suppose) that it was flashed so not original so not elegible for OTAs;

b) in my phone I sideloaded Android Wear 1.5 app because teoretically this version would not admit AW2.0 OTA upgrades

c) I cleared the watch cache partition but didn't work ...

I don't understand what's happening. Any help to consistently avoid any further updates? Thank you !
[LG G Watch R] nagi603:
While 2.0 did not destroy my battery life in itself, I'm quite unsatisfied with it:

- previously, double clicking the crown would get into cinema mode (display turned off until you press the crown again), now this is gone

- due to this, the battery life did decrease a bit, because I could not deactivate the display for the nights,

- and it seems to have lost the ability to go to display turned off mode after 10-15 minutes of absolute stillness

- the new cards do not have a peek mode where I can still see most of my watchface infos

...so now I can only hope I can downgrade and keep the watch on 1.5, because the state of the matter is, that was much, much better :(

Oh, and yes, there was lag, lots of it, and notifications not arriving from the phone. which is an undefendable position, as that's one of the main reasons that I bought the LGGWR for.
[LG G Watch R] paggps:
If you see in my previous post (the one above yours), I have already downgraded to AW 1.5 because of the same reasons you are complaining. However, the problem I am having now is that my watch continues to "propose" the upgrade to AW 2.0 everyday.

I am trying to find the way to kill forever the upgrade from 1.5.

By the way, the process of downgrading, if you decide to do it, is very simple and straightforward. It is very well described in this thread.
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Hi,

For those who have downgraded to AW1.5 and have to fight with this "always on" notification to upgrade to a new version, please read my comment here:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=71828103&postcount=6
[LG G Watch R] jsaxon2:
The Google Handwriting Keyboard is available to download in the playstore on the watch. I had it installed on my phone as well, so not sure if you need it on phone first or not.
[LG G Watch R] dieselbuddeh:
I did that but the notification constantly came back. I finally had it and rooted it. Once rooted run this through adb:
[LG G Watch R] Totriet:
Hi, about the 6th cons point, you can find old intalled app in the watch, in the market app, in the bottom. Just tap to install.

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[LG G Watch R] Marx2:
I have a problem with missed notifications - almost none are passed to my watch. Watch doesn't vibrate, doesn't show notification for 5s, nothing. It's totally silent.

There's is FAQ about it:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/android-wear/LeQYY8DFiyY

But it doesn't look good. I mean there's hit&miss approach instead of clean solution.

Did it help to anybody?
[LG G Watch R] nicogri:
OK guys, this morning I choose the Huawei Watch to go to work ;)

What a pleasure to be back on 1.5 ^^ I will not downgrade LG as I don't use it much and it will allow me to see how they improve AW over time but I am reaaaaalllyyyyyyyy wondering if I am gonna update Huawei when it is finally released (sure thing is I am not gonna ruch).

On LG topic : battery life improved greatly yersterday I think apps where stabilized and also I was more "daily using" that playing with it.

But it is still less practical and slower so Google has work to do !
[LG G Watch R] Trisnpod:
To get cinema mode you swipe down, click the sun (used to be the brightness boost icon) and click the watch with the cross through it.

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As for battery life with 2.0 I've found it uses slightly more than 1.5 on a normal day (on 1.5 it would almost always have 58% after a day but on 2.0 it seems to finish on around 40-50) but uses loads more if you have an app running in the background all day. For example today I was out skiing and I have and the ski tracks app running on my phone which also runs in the background on the watch so that I can see my stats and start/stop tracking from the app on the watch. With wear 1.5 the watch would be on 75-80% after 7 hours tracking (from 100% in the morning) but now with 2.0 I am on 40-50% after 7 hours.

Hopefully this will improve as I like my watch to be able to last 2 days if I need it too sometimes.

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Also the open on phone option for notifications seems to have disappeared. If if hasn't, does anyone know how to get it back?
[LG G Watch R] lil-devil:
After using 2.0 for a few days I avg about 30 hours of battery life and it runs quite smooth with the 2core boot. I also turned off animation in the dev setting. Quite happy with 2.0 on my watch :)

Only problem I have is with sleep droid... Doesn't work very well anymore as the battery dies overnight with a full charge.
[LG G Watch R] nagi603:
Geez, what next, change all swipe actions to tap and hold? Another totally inconvenient and unnecessary change. Google does not change it seems.

I've already downgraded but I have some problems with my watchface (krona sunlight) and music remote (poweramp remote) not getting onto the watch, even after syncing, waiting for hours, etc.

As for battery life, due to the screen not turning off after being stationary for X minutes, like it did in the previous build, it has actually decreased somewhat, from 2 days to about 1,5-1,75.
[LG G Watch R] th3g1z:
Spoke too soon, once I synced my Google account things have been really laggy and pretty bad. I'm going to try removing google account (all I use my watch for is to see notifications from phone, never use Google services). Just thought this might help anyone else in a similar use case.
[LG G Watch R] sotsoguk:
The same thing is happening to me. I have an iPhone as well. Have you been able to find a fix / workaround?

Thx
[LG G Watch R] dewhashish:
Yea, I got my nexus 6p replaced and gave the iphone 6 back to the person i was borrowing it from.
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
It happens on the first few hours if you sync up as it's doing the necessary updates. You have to treat your Wear as you do for an Android phone whereby it'll be initially laggy for the first few hours so I usually do any resets or sign ins at home at night and charging so as to let it sort itself out

The lagginess is due to the current kernel enabling only a single core to run which is drag but am now testing the quad core boot.img to see how it goes

PS: Yes, I also did try the dual core boot.img which required me to unlock the bootloader and hence a clean setup was required and turns out to be quite snappy with all the setup and signing up as well as downloading of apps (The usual stuff like Fit, Play Music, spotify, Watch faces and a few others)
[LG G Watch R] sotsoguk:
Thx. I was hoping for an easier "fix" ?
[LG G Watch R] nicogri:
Totally different topic but is it possible if a moderator stop here to edit the title of this thread...

Every time I log here it hurts my eyes to see "andorid" at the top of each pages...

Thanks a lot ?

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[LG G Watch R] ed_bracam:
Hey everybody,

My G Watch R with Android Wear 2.0 makes me crazy!

After 2 full erase attempt my watch was still slow and unusable.

But the third was the good one, the watch is correctly responsive and works quite well without any tweak! I did the complete update of all application that was very long. This is a regression to the 1.5 where a simple start process was needed to re-install about everything.

I run the build NXG47C.

I was very happy to retrieve lot of LG facewatches. I needed to have WIFI enabled an actively connected.

By surprize I got (only yesterday) some watchfaces from the LG Urbane 1 like this https://www.androidcentral.com/site...images/2015/05/urbane-faces.jpg?itok=rdJuojST

It fits very well to the watch and are very beautiful.

But this morning, the LG urbane facewatches disappear from my watch. Why???

I notified also that the play store doesn't work over the bluetooth of my watch and only from the Wifi. How to change that?
[LG G Watch R] silentwitness1:
I was finding it slow and lots of battery drain when i first updated, however after a week or so its quite smooth most of the lag is gone battery also lasts me as good as it did on 1.5. Only issue i have is i am unable to get back dismissed notifications which you could do on 1.5. I am using watchmaker pro so i dont really care if the default LG faces are missing on the phone, i never used them. I have managed to update all my apps via bluetooth though my phone never connected wifi on the watch.
[LG G Watch R] Trisnpod:
Why have they made it so that it only uses a single core? Surely they'll have to change that soon?
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Me too. The Play store was not able to connect to the service if the WiFi was not activated. The "trick" was to enable the WiFi then disable it to restore the service via Bluetooth.

It's clearly a bug. Idem to update the weather. It was not able to connect to the service most of the time. Idem for the "Ok Google" service... :eek:

The Google testers have probably not tested the watch with the WiFi no enabled. The problem is that the WiFi drains the battery for a very small added value.

Hopefully, al these services are perfectly working with AW1.5! ;)
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
Supposedly to conserve battery usage as I've been led to believe that besides a few customizations, the ROM is generally the same for all AW2.0 watches

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Can confirm that's not the case, am able to access to all outdoors no wifi connected to said services
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
Got the GWR few days ago and instantly updated to AW2.0 so I cant really compare the watch performance to AW1.5. I did a factory reset right after update. Paired and let the watch do the stuff for few hours. Here are my findings:

-The watch works good.

-I have no lag except when there is app installing in the background etc. Otherwise really smooth.

-Notifications come OK, vibrations OK.

-Stock watchfaces slowly reappeared after update, but "chairman" watchfaces vanished after turning watch off and on and still did not reappear.

-Battery life is comparable to other watches I have (~4% / hour, full color ambient)

-Play store works with BT-only (possibly after connecting at least once to WiFi as mentioned in this thread).

-WiFi range and quality is awful. I dont know if it was before 2.0. But my Huawei Watch is the same and I have also 2.0 there.

-Ok Google detection and speech recognition is OK.

-Only now I noticed you CANT ANSWER CALL on watch?? Only dismiss?? THE HELL GOOGLE! Is this because GWR does not have speaker? But on 1.5 on GWatch I can accept call either way-it accepts it on phone. I dont see a reason for this omission here in 2.0.

EDIT-The watch does not remember the current time after power off/on :eek: Other watches have no problem with this. Interestingly though, the same is happening on G Watch, but am not sure if it did happen also on Urbane. Some weird LG stuff here...

Otherwise same sh*t as on other watches.
[LG G Watch R] ed_bracam:
Hi,

The calls appears on 1.5 and you can accept or reject (accept starts the call on the phone). It should work on 2.0 (I expect that).

The GWR seems to not have RTC. When the watch is off --> No time. I think that it's hardware design.

By opposition, the Zenwatch 3 keeps time when off.

The watch is still slower in 2.0 than 1.5 with the original kernel. I will try the dual core enable kernel.
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
It's not enabled apparently for gwr on aw2.0. I can confirm that myself although I don't see it as a real deal breaker as the watch primarily serves as an alert device for me and not some multifunctional do it all
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
May the "not remembering time after shut down" be the hardware thing, but its a fail. It can be done but isnt.

The phone call handling is a bad design on 2.0. Accepting it on watch and starting it on phone was a perfectly fine thing in 1.5.

However, on Huawei Watch with 2.0, the phone call can be accepted ONLY if you allow phone audio over bluetooth = talking to your watch. Once you do that, you have 2 circles on incoming call screen. I see someone at Google thought that if the watch is going to be more independent, then lets do it thouroughly.

But the purest fail is that reply with sms is missing. Unacceptable and totally contradictory with "independence" of watch, in my opinion.
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
So now, thx to AW2.0, we can change the name of this watch, it's no more a "smart watch" but a simple "alert watch".

CooL
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
Reply to sms missing? Are you sure?
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
Don't know about that but that's how I've treated all my AW devices all this while as no matter what, I'd still refer to my phone for most of my work although I do appreciate the Fit functions and the fact i can quick reply (busy and stuff) especially when am driving or in a meeting, and also a decent remote for spotify and play music while I'm driving
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Me too. The "quick reply or quick reject with SMS" is one of the key wear feature I'm using many times per day.

This is why we are so disapointed with the Google decision to remove it with AW2.0.

The other key feature is also the very efficient "double click" on the button to switch off the screen in less than one second. So cool during the night.

Anyway... Rendez-vous with the AW2.1
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
Unfortunately that's abit of a downside but it's not a deal breaker for me anyway as otherwise it's​ been serving me well AW 2.0 wise to be livable
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
No, not TO. WITH. Reply with sms when you decline a call. Thats what I meant.
[LG G Watch R] flash3d:
Not getting notifications anymore on the watch, did a factory reset of the watch and it was working again. Just updated some apps on the watch and now it's not working again. Last update was the Google app and I installed puji black. Anybody else problems with the notifications?

Sent from my bla bla bla bla bla
[LG G Watch R] Marx2:
me. I've repaired device and now it's working. Generally there's a problem with notifications, as there's a dedicated page about it:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/android-wear/LeQYY8DFiyY
[LG G Watch R] flash3d:
Saw it from your previous post, going to upgrade from mm to nougat with clean install. So it will probably be fixed then. Still strange it is working for a few days and then stops working.

Sent from my bla bla bla bla bla
[LG G Watch R] 3vilhomer:
how can i turn on the sunlight mode? it use to be triple tap on the power button in AW1.5 but now in AW2.0 it does nothing... without the auto brightness this watch is useless under the sun.
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
No such thing unfortunately. Not even in the settings. The button just got dumb. Fk Google
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
Google be damned! My two AW2.0 watches are acting crazy since morning. I was wearing Moto360 yesterday with no problems. Today, I tried to connect Huawei, no luck, Wear app just started to act weirdly..(Saying connected, but was not, then stuck on splash screen etc..) I quickly took GWR because I was in a hurry, and it does the same.. Unbelievable.. last 2 weeks were perfect, today, like someone pushed a switch, bam, nothing working.

Moreover! I cant get into Wear Developer Options menu on these AW2.0 watches, which is.. frustrating.. It just falls back to setting menu..

I am speechless. I am literally without a speech.... FK GOOGLE!!!
[LG G Watch R] silentwitness1:
well the watch was working great on 2.0 just upgraded my phone to the s8 now I am unable to sync my google account to the watch, it just gets stuck on the accounts screen where it tries to find the account on the phone to sync to the watch. anyone else faced this issue and have a solution? I have factory reset the watch like 4 or 5 times and also removed android wear and installed it again no luck.
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Did you read that:

Google Android Wear Help forum
[LG G Watch R] silentwitness1:
yes but there was no concrete resolution in that thread for the issue. I only have 1 google account setup on the phone. Considering going back to 1.5 and using the watch which seems to be the only solution.
[LG G Watch R] pidobeuliou:
Correct. As we have the choice (chance) with our watch to go back to 1.5, I think it's better to wait for the new android wear release (2.1 or 3.0) which could (perhaps) solve a part of all the bugs and regressions, by using the AW 1.5 than AW 2.0.
[LG G Watch R] silentwitness1:
yes i really liked wear 2.0 and didnt have many issues, guess i have no choice but to flash back to 1.5
[LG G Watch R] zviki:
I have had this problem too. I think that removing watch from bluetooth settings on the phone was the solution. And turn the visibility on in the bluetooth...

P. S.

You need to be careful with pairing pin confirmation, because I got two requests - one as standard bluetooth device and one from Wear app. If you add your watch as a standard Bluetooth device, copying Google account will not work
[LG G Watch R] silentwitness1:
could you elaborate this a bit for me please, i removed the watch from bluetooth settings on the phone but now the wear app does not connect to it at all. It just says connecting and does not move forward.

Edit

Unpaired the watch and trying to reconnect it, i only get a single popup for bluetooth and if i cancel it the watch wont pair.

Edit 2

Deleted my account from the phone logged in with a dummy account and it worked let me add the dummy account to the watch, but the min i add the mail account it goes back to the stupid spinning circle.
[LG G Watch R] bmangia1:
I am having the same issue. After a reset of my phone (V20) AW2 will not find my account. Just spins and spins. This was working prior to resetting my phone. Seems I've swapped one issue for another. Back to 1.5 I think for now. 2 felt like a bit of a step backward in functionality anyway for me.
[LG G Watch R] VS88:
Yeah, the aw2.0 obviously has some flaw in regards of bluetooth connection. At least here on gwr. Just like you said, there are 2 connections now that wear "works" with and I think it is the base of all problems
[LG G Watch R] almostthere:
Altho I'd like to feedback that if you so happen to have lost BT connection to your GWR and can't seem to reconnect, you have a better chance of reconnecting the BT when it's connected to a wifi hotspot too.

Don't ask me why, but I've noticed it twice and purposely did it a third time to see if it's a fluke or not