[Wear OS Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] prmbasheer:
I came upon this Wear24 accidentally in eBay. I purchased it for CAD 80 here in Canada. I received it a day before yesterday but set it up yesterday. I got to say, I am super impressed. TThis is the best full-fledged recognised smartwatch one can buy for this money. This is my first experience with smartwatches and I am liking it. That I got it for cheap makes it a stellar deal. I don't think I would have the same views if I had invested CAD400 on any smartwatch for that matter.

After few initial struggles to figure out what is what and some frustrating initial quirks mostly due to my ignorance, I was able to update the watch to Android Wear 2.0 and from there to AW2.12 running Android 7.1.1 through the Playstore. Once updated, I reset the device and started fresh. Everything that you guys discussed here seems to work fine. Watch is connected to my phone through WearOS app and Bluetooth and the connection is mostly stable.

My findings/Experience/Thoughts & Working Status:

1) Watch connects flawlessly to phone and stay connected through Bluetooth and also Wi-Fi whenever possible.

2) The battery is decent in my opinion. It was 38% today morning, 30 hours after first complete charge. The device also charges quickly.

3) I am able to initiate calls from the watch and also able to view and control incoming calls. I can hear the person from the other end, but they cannot hear me if I try to speak through the watch. And the speaker volume is too low to take calls. Even if it works, I won't be very comfortable calling through a watch. So, this feature is not essential to me.

3) I disabled "My Verizon" and "Message+" and installed Android Messages both in the phone and watch. It works.

3) I get notifications for emails and other apps including WhatsApp.

4) Google Fit works fine.

5) I feel like I like certain interaction better in AW1.5 than it is in AW2.0 and later. Most importantly, I find accessing apps by pressing the physical button little inconvenient. In AW1.5, I was able to access them by interacting with the screen itself. Am I right or am I missing something? Any help with this is welcome.

6) In AW1.5, I was able to access Google Assistant from the screen by touching the icon. But in AW2.0 and later, it is initiated by long pressing physical button. Am I right again or is there a way to communicate with Google Assitant without physical button press? Please let me know.

7) I am finding the watch to be slower as compared to how it performed in AW1.5. Especially I experience lag when the watch wakes up after tilt-to-wake action. In AW1.5, the watch woke up almost instantly after tilt-to-wake action. Now I experience annoying lag. Is this true? Anyone notice it? Is there a way out of it?

8) I have switched off cellular in the settings because it is useless without an active SIM. Right?

9) I noticed that the watch returned to default watch face even though I set a different face. This I remember happening more than twice yesterday. Is this a bug or what? Does anyone face it?

10) I am hoping that the watch is water resistant? Is it true? If yes, to what extent?

Request to Forum Folks:

1)Are there any other apps that function well and useful for smartwatches to enhance the devices features and convenience? I am new to smartwatches and no nothing about app availability.