[Moto 360 2015] TheTurbanater1298:
2.0 update process:

I got the OTA update yesterday in the early hours of the morning.

I tired forcing the update like everyone else, but no luck. After a week of endless trying I was about to give up.

I thought I'd check for the last time before I just sell the watch on and it came up instantly with a green screen. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and actually let it search for the update. So I tired it again and it finally said downloading!

Only took 10 or so minutes to download and about 30 mins to install.

What I did do is make sure that the watch was disconnected from the phone and connected to WiFi. I did try and let it update with it connected to the HTC to download faster, but it just said "something went wrong, try again?".

The 2.0 first impressions:

After everything was optimised and finished the set up and tutorials the watch was quite warm and lost charge very quickly 46% in an hour. From 100% to 62%. I expected it because Android is still doing a lot of background housekeeping. And at first use it was very choppy as well, dropping a lot of frames and stuttering everywhere. But after 10 mins or so it cleaned itself up.

Onto the interface changes, the press of the crown to get to all apps is a bit tedious and gets some get used to. After many accidental swipes I soon learnt to press the button on the first go. I had no problems with 1.5 interface, it was just a bit ugly and badly outdated. 2.0 looks prettier with its new smooth animations but I feel like it lacks consistency. Some apps have the curved still bar and others don't, for example.

The Play store is a very nice addition and the main reason I wanted to upgrade. My daily driver is an iPhone 6s so I don't couldn't get any watch apps. There are still some problems though. Some apps are designed to work an android device. And the privacy settings of the iPhone doesn't allow some apps to work, even system apps, like contacts.

New screen lock options are nice addition.

WiFi dependent apps have issues sometimes, usually saying it isn't connected and cannot find WiFi to run apps, such as play store and Google assistant.

Voice recognition is a lot better, but a little slow in comparison to 1.5.

The new charging dock face is horrible, with the grey background instead of the old black. And having to press the crown to get it to manually enter the dock mode is again very tedious.

Gestures have taken a backseat in this update. Only gesture that is on by default is tilt to wake. Flick to scroll and shake to go home is still her but downwards motion to select is magically disappeared. I use gestures when my hands are dirty and or when my hand is full, so upset to see it go.

The crown shortcuts are gone, but tbh not really an issue as it's all in one toggle shade. Toggle shade is 1000% better. One thing I absolutely hated on 1.5.

App notifications seems to be less of a priority for some reason. It's taking more of a learning curb to understand. The layout is a lot better but not really a fan of how it expands notifications to respond on them. The old swipe left to dismiss and right for options worked fine. Also not a fan of no undo of dismissed notifications. Sometimes I accidentally swipe them away.

Battery life seems to be an issue my Moto died with 34% still remaining when I put back on charge with only 12 hours of from boot time. Took it off charge at 100% at 8:30am and died at 9:34pm. So that was bit frustrating.

In conclusion, I'm happ enough with the update, but has a few quirks that I have to get used to. Going to have monitor battery life to see if it's an issue.