So I just pickup a Moto 360 2nd Gen smartwatch 2 days ago. I am currently using an Iphone 5. I was able to get the watch and phone connected through bluetooth perfectly fine as Motorola promise it does work with Apple Phones. However I spent the next day or so trying to look for wifi connectivity on the watch as well as the phone. it is no where to be found. The wifi setting on the Moto 360 is just not there. I try searching online for answers and all comes back to say the watch have a wifi feature which can be set at the setting area within the Moto 360. But regardless of what I did. turning off and on the watch number of times. Factory reset the watch number of times. updated to the latest Android wear OS 5.1.1. it still does not show up. I called Motorola tech support. the rep had a watch on his hand and said there should be a wifi setting in the Moto 360. However I'm certain he is not pair to an iphone. so he ask me to go and return the phone and said there could be a software issue with the watch I have.
I realize with Android wear connecting to an iphone, I will never get the full functionality as connecting to an Android phone. And I'm sure the wifi is one of the feature that will not work, simply because within Android wear app itself, in order for the wifi feature to work with the phone, inside Android wear, you have to turn on CLOUD sync. and Android ware for Iphone does not have the CLOUD sync feature in it. so I figure even if the wifi feature on the Moto 360 2nd gen is there, it won't do any good because of lack of CLOUD sync.
Just to answer some of you ask why I would buy a Android Wear watch instead of an Apple watch since I'm using a Iphone. well, the iphone is just my temporary phone. I have a Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, it was sent in for repair. until it come back. i'm using an old Iphone for my Spare.
Hope this help some people when they run into this issue. If you found something I don't know. please let me know. I like to know. thanks
WiFi and Bluetooth settings are disabled/hidden on all Android Wear devices when they connect to and iOS device.
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I find it hard to believe I'm the only one who likes my M360 syncing with my tablet when I'm home, and with my smartphone when I'm out. There is actually no official way to pair the M360 with multiple Android devices at the same time, but I have, however, figured out an alternative. I am going to assume that you already have it paired to one device. If not I believe there are other threads out there to help you with that!
Steps:
In the Android Wear official app, tap the watch icon on the translucent black bar atop the screen to disconnect the M360 first
Check to make sure that underneath the name of your device, the status reads "Not connected"
Go to the watch settings, and reset the device, yes unfortunately there is no way around except factory resetting first
Now go through the original instructions upon boot making sure that this time you pair it with your OTHER Android device
Follow the first two steps again after the device has been paired successfully and booted up
Congratulations! The M360 should now pair with the two devices one at a time after being disconnected from one another!
Hope this helped you guys, as this method definitely works for me with my Nexus 7 (flo) and Galaxy SIII (SGH-I747)!
Doesn't work as of now, using a Google Nexus 10 tablet and Sony Xperia Z2 smartphone. Whichever device is paired last works fine. The other device will manage a pairing request just fine after disconnecting the first one, but once that pairing request is approved, it will sit forever on the "Connecting..." status, and never actually connect.
Is this every watch? I use 2 phones every day because my work does not allow camera phones. I think not being to connect to 2 devices at this junction of tech should not be a handicap.
is it possible to install RunKeeper on moto 360 and upload all activity to my profile?
shoman94 said:
Is this every watch? I use 2 phones every day because my work does not allow camera phones. I think not being to connect to 2 devices at this junction of tech should not be a handicap.
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Yes this is an Android Wear limitation, not a Moto 360 one.
thebobmannh said:
Yes this is an Android Wear limitation, not a Moto 360 one.
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What a stupid limitation. Thanks for the reply. :good:
shoman94 said:
What a stupid limitation. Thanks for the reply. :good:
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I second that opinion. I just learned of this yesterday when I got my Moto 360. I have been using SmartWatch 2 before and figured that Android Wear being so much newer and with more features it would allow me to connect it to multiple devices... well, crap.
Is the situation same even with the new 5.1.1 version of Android Wear? Google *still* doesn't let us connect to multiple devices?
(And iOS doesn't even have the Android Wear app.. you'd think we live 15 years in the past with these stupid limitations...)
No this limitation has not changed.
so do i have to connnect everytime that i leave one device behind within the app? Bc they both wont stay connected its one or the other??
Good evening, I purchased my first smartwatch yesterday, sony smartwatch 3 yellow, but I have still iphone 6 (that soon will change with Android, maybe sony z3+, because i not stand ios, i had android from 2010, but I had the iphone because I liked aesthetically, for me ios is ridiculous ) , I have not turned on, I have to pick it up tonight, until I have iphone i can "connect" with bluetooth ios and android wear? I'd like to have at least notifications on the clock display
Also with a bluetooth headset i can be connected to the same headset to the iPhone and smartwatch? so I can listen music from smartwatch and answer calls from phone
I have a tablet Android, ifive4 mini 3gs, I installed wear and short will connect the smartwatch with Bluetooth to the tablet to change watchfaces and more
thanks
dariob74 said:
Good evening, I purchased my first smartwatch yesterday, sony smartwatch 3 yellow, but I have still iphone 6 (that soon will change with Android, maybe sony z3+, because i not stand ios, i had android from 2010, but I had the iphone because I liked aesthetically, for me ios is ridiculous ) , I have not turned on, I have to pick it up tonight, until I have iphone i can "connect" with bluetooth ios and android wear? I'd like to have at least notifications on the clock display
Also with a bluetooth headset i can be connected to the same headset to the iPhone and smartwatch? so I can listen music from smartwatch and answer calls from phone
I have a tablet Android, ifive4 mini 3gs, I installed wear and short will connect the smartwatch with Bluetooth to the tablet to change watchfaces and more
thanks
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You can connect Android wear smart watch to iPhone using this app, but you will have to download it to your Android tablet, Aerlink: Wear Connect for iOS You can get some notifications from the iPhone. I have both iphone 6 and Galaxy S5. You will also need to have installed on your iphone, BLE Utility. Easy to set up and use.
kbboykin said:
You can connect Android wear smart watch to iPhone using this app, but you will have to download it to your Android tablet, Aerlink: Wear Connect for iOS You can get some notifications from the iPhone. I have both iphone 6 and Galaxy S5. You will also need to have installed on your iphone, BLE Utility. Easy to set up and use.
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thanks for your help, Yesterday I tried to configure the smartwatch and I had no problems using a samsung s5 (with 5 mini tablet ifive 3gs, the connection does not work, use a modified rom I do not know if it affects the Roma on the Bluetooth connection); I tried to use Aerlink: Wear Connect and BLE Utility but I could not connect to the iPhone 6 smartwatch, I have not yet made the jailbreak, I am not ios 8.3 jailbreak. What can I try to connect my iphone to smartwatch?
thanks
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thanks for your help, Yesterday I tried to configure the smartwatch and I had no problems using a samsung s5 (with 5 mini tablet ifive 3gs, the connection does not work, use a modified rom I do not know if it affects the Roma on the Bluetooth connection); I tried to use Aerlink: Wear Connect and BLE Utility but I could not connect to the iPhone 6 smartwatch, I have not yet made the jailbreak, I am not ios 8.3 jailbreak. What can I try to connect my iphone to smartwatch?
thanks
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This is the only one I know of, but you can google for other set ups.
I install both Android wear and moto connect in my phone, but I found Moto connect is almost useless, I register moto account, but cannot see any step info comes from my watch.
Only benefit I have seen, which is very minor, is ability to add date to included watch faces. Otherwise I see nothing but perhaps others know more about it. I have only had my 360 5 days.
i couldnt find a reason to keep it installed.
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I install both Android wear and moto connect in my phone, but I found Moto connect is almost useless, I register moto account, but cannot see any step info comes from my watch.
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I use it exclusively for integration with Moto Body. The watch uses Connect to synchronize with Motorola's servers and keep record of your weekly stats. Right now I'm trying out UP by Jawbone (the app, not the fitness band), and it's working great so far, so I guess eventually I'll stop using Connect altogether. Other that what I just mentioned, the app is useless.
Oh, it actually does something besides open Android Wear?
I haven't seen it store or restore any of my data after resetting and repairing the watch. Is it just me? Seems its all stored watch-side as of now.
So it just sync my step from watch and upload it to moto server?
Moto Connect helps you to customize (few of) the stock dials .
Also it will help you locate your watch.
Get your texts in Desktop Chrome. Is that only with Moto phone? I have the Moto X 2013
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drewski_1 said:
Get your texts in Desktop Chrome. Is that only with Moto phone? I have the Moto X 2013
Sent from my Nexus 10 using Tapatalk
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the same app does another function on the Moto 360 mate...
I just realized that the pairing the moto360 with iOS does not support 3rd party custom faces!
It is very frustrating to use moto 360 without custom watch faces.
In this case, if I root the moto360, is there any possibility to put the custom faces with PC directly?
Good question, i want to know this too.
Found this, trying this today. If it works I'll write up a detailed list of steps unless someone beats me to it
First I found one to try LCARS Android Wear Watch Face
Then I used the Evozi APK downloader to get the phone APK
Extracted the APK (like a zip file)
Found the APK meant for the watch (android_wear_micro_apk.apk) in the extractedapk > res > raw folder
Enabled ADB on the watch (Settings > About > tap Build Number I think 7 times which enabled Developer Options)
Swipe back to previous page, Open Developer Options
Tap ADB debugging to enable
Tap Check icon to enable it
You can now type adb shell on your computer which will give you a card on your watch to allow it
Once you have a prompt you can type exit and hit enter to get back to your computers prompt
From there you just type:
adb install /location/of/android_wear_micro_apk.apk
Once it is installed it will say so on the watch and will be available in the watch face selection carousel
haledroid said:
Found this, trying this today. If it works I'll write up a detailed list of steps unless someone beats me to it
First I found one to try LCARS Android Wear Watch Face
Then I used the Evozi APK downloader to get the phone APK
Extracted the APK (like a zip file)
Found the APK meant for the watch (android_wear_micro_apk.apk) in the extractedapk > res > raw folder
Enabled ADB on the watch (Settings > About > tap Build Number I think 7 times which enabled Developer Options)
Swipe back to previous page, Open Developer Options
Tap ADB debugging to enable
Tap Check icon to enable it
You can now type adb shell on your computer which will give you a card on your watch to allow it
Once you have a prompt you can type exit and hit enter to get back to your computers prompt
From there you just type:
adb install /location/of/android_wear_micro_apk.apk
Once it is installed it will say so on the watch and will be available in the watch face selection carousel
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This will work for other Smart Watches that support a USB connection. This will not work for the Moto 360 over Blue Tooth. It may work for the Moto 360 if you made a custom USB Cable but I have not seen any posts that has been the case.
Just leave the moto360 paired with your android phone - thus having all custom watchfaces, and install aerlink and lightblue BLE, and you can have the connection to iphone, and what is more cool, you can keep the connection to your android phone (Yes, both can be connected at the same time!). watch the video on howto:
https://youtu.be/pL7AykmbVGg
So I've been running my Moto 360 with an Iphone 6 plus for about a week now with no issues of disconnect. Iphone 6 plus is at IOS 9.1 and my moto 360 is at the newest firmware. My moto 360 is a first gen I just bought it about a month ago. To use with an iphone the first thing you need to do is install android wear on an android device and sync the moto 360 with that device. Update the firmware on the moto 360 to the newest version. After everything is good to go on the watch, go into the play store on the android device and download aerlink. Make sure aerlink installs on the watch. Grab a few sweet watch faces from the playstore. Turn bluetooth off on the android device/ tablet or phone you synced your watch with NOT Bluetooth on the watch.
Now on the iphone download aerlink from the app store. Yes its a few bucks but its worth it. It works really good. Launch aerlink on the iphone. On the watch launch aerlink and enable the ios service. The watch connects to the iphone, type in the code from the flag on the watch. After you type in the code the watch will disconnect. Click the flag on the watch it will reconnect and tell you everything is good.
To add watch faces just enable bluetooth on the android tablet and launch android wear after it connects you can download watch faces from the apps store. To reconnect the watch follow the steps above.
Also aerlink has a background service on the iphone. I leave the app aerlink on the iphone running int he background. Meaning if you double tap the home screen dont swipe the app up to close it out.
If the watch restarts or iphone restarts you'll have to go threw the process of turning the IOS service back on and connecting with the iphone. Its easier to just delete the bluetooth connection on the watch and reconnect. Other than that the connection is real stable between the two.
I was having some battery issues using the Auto brightness. I set the brightness level on the watch to 2 all the time and am getting better battery life.
What? "Aerlink works really good"? Have you ever used a nice app? You are probably the developer of that app.. It is the most ****ty app i have ever seen.. Here you can see the current problems:
I think i will just uninstall this app and live with the default watch faces.
Sorry to harp on about this subject, but what is currently the best app to use to pair my 360 with my iPhone running iOS9, when it has already been paired with an android phone. The reason for this is so I can use Custom Watch faces. I will pair it with my other android phone to get the watch faces, but will leave that at home in a box under my bed. I then would like to pair the watch with my iPhone to get notifications, as that's all I really want. There have been a few apps branded around to do this, but wonder if anyone knows what works best?
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Sorry to harp on about this subject, but what is currently the best app to use to pair my 360 with my iPhone running iOS9, when it has already been paired with an android phone. The reason for this is so I can use Custom Watch faces. I will pair it with my other android phone to get the watch faces, but will leave that at home in a box under my bed. I then would like to pair the watch with my iPhone to get notifications, as that's all I really want. There have been a few apps branded around to do this, but wonder if anyone knows what works best?
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I am also looking for an answer for this. Ill have my moto 360 on thursday and i know that the app store has Android Wear and pairs up with no issues but was wondering the easiest way to add watch faces without an android phone.
Is there an updated thread pertaining to using custom watch faces with a Moto 360 and iphone user?
Moto 360 and Android
I have the 6s and a first get 360, what a nightmare....these were never meant to work side by side. I am springing for a Apple watch and just use the 360 as a regular watch as it is useless. Always disconnects and then you have to go through a long process of re-establising a connection. Maybe someday
So i was tinkering an Apple Watch Series 4 44mm and tried to factory reset. then as always it would search for an Iphone for sync. but i used Android with this part. and it did connect. my phone detects it in bluetooth as a device but unfortunately it says "An app is needed to use this device".
Is there a way to write a app to utilize this possibility?
that it would identify apple watch. its identifiers and teether for a connection to apple update servers. or even connect to itunes thru pc or laptop.
also when at initial setup of apple watch. laptop bluetooth pairing was a success. it does pair even at initial setup. i dont know any program that connects the watch to anything.
Hi, the Apple watch only works with an iPhone and not Android. I used untill recently always Fitbit devices, but after the release of the iWatch 6, I switched and also had to switch to an iPhone, whilst I was not an Apple fan at all. But after the release of iOS 14, everything changed Apple wise and now you're able to make your own home screen, just as within Android. Kindest regards kuzibri
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Were you able to make any progress?
I too have an apple watch (2022 ultra) but don't own an iPhone.
I would be willing to code an android app if it is possible