Eveytime I try to put music from Google play on the watch it spins,then on the watch screen I get this :
"Phone is disconnected. Reconnect phone to download tracks."
Phone is always connected, the box for download to Android wear is checked, ive tried on wifi,and no wifi,the watch battery is above 75%. I do not have a paid subscription,but I have my own downloaded music on play. Wtf........I can open play on the phone,and the watch will control it,hell it even controls rhapsody too,but no browse functionality though.(on rhapsody)
Forgot this too.... I've seen on YouTube videos about downloading google play music onto the watch by downloading albums from Google Play and on the people's phone there's the little download symbol my phone when I open albums does not have the little download symbol. It just has the play symbol. That is with downloaded only checked, and in my library not listen now. Thanks for any help.
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Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
Flav106 said:
Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
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Hello,
When you have a track playing on the phone tap the watch face then scroll up from the bottom the track will be displayed then scroll from right to left then the volume controls and track skip will be on the watch screen.
Thanks but it's not working. Maybe due to the lollipop preview version on my phone...
Flav106 said:
Thanks but it's not working. Maybe due to the lollipop preview version on my phone...
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I'm having the same problem on lollipop with two different installs of KNX01V. Playback fro the watch works great, but when music is playing on the phone, no card shows up on the watch. As soon as the phone is paused (with the phone notification still present), the card shows up on the watch. If I then hit play on either the watch or the phone, the card on the watch disappears. Going to try a new build of lollipop soon.
Play Music v5.7.1717Q.1530520
^^ same for me on nexus 5 eev purview
Can someone one kitkat check this?
Flav106 said:
Hello,
I am a newcomer in the world of smartwatches. So I've buyed a smartwatch 3 and I struggle to find how to control Play Music on my watch.
When I launch music on my phone, controls are not showing up on my watch. And on my watch when I go to Google Music I can just download musics but not play remotely. And I don't want to download musics because I have a lot of tracks on my phone and I cannot choose which one synchronise on my watch.
I forgot to mention that I'm running lollipop preview, I maybe it is because of that...
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I am running Lollipop too. Music cards don't seem to show when music playback is triggered from the phone. However I do get the name of the current track playing if I tap the screen and navigate back to the watch face, but it disappears (so the phone is sending the information).
As far as I can tell Android Wear currently only supports Google Play Music in the following ways....
Open The Play Music app, this plays back music synced to the watch. This is a bit crap because there is no real control over what is synced, this does result in cards being shown.
Say "OK Google Play Music", this launches Play Music on the phone and plays back tracks at random. This also results in the cards being shown.
It seems Play Music is still a bit raw on Android Wear at the moment, hopefully Google will add the ability to sync specific playlists or albums just to the watch rather than randomly selecting from those that have been synced to the phone.
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I am running Lollipop too. Music cards don't seem to show when music playback is triggered from the phone. However I do get the name of the current track playing if I tap the screen and navigate back to the watch face, but it disappears (so the phone is sending the information).
As far as I can tell Android Wear currently only supports Google Play Music in the following ways....
Open The Play Music app, this plays back music synced to the watch. This is a bit crap because there is no real control over what is synced, this does result in cards being shown.
Say "OK Google Play Music", this launches Play Music on the phone and plays back tracks at random. This also results in the cards being shown.
It seems Play Music is still a bit raw on Android Wear at the moment, hopefully Google will add the ability to sync specific playlists or albums just to the watch rather than randomly selecting from those that have been synced to the phone.
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That's indeed the behavior I can observe on my watch.
I hope you're right and Google will allow to select tracks to synchronize in a future update because actually this is unusable for me as I have tons of GB stored on my phone.
The thing is android wear shows cards/notifications that are not ongoing on the phone, when you pause music - notification is not ongoing and wear shows it
I finally works well with official Lollipop and last version of Android Wear : http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-wear/
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I finally works well with official Lollipop and last version of Android Wear : http://www.apkmirror.com/apk/google-inc/android-wear/
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Yeah, this version seems to work perfectly now. This will be great for skipping tracks whilst driving.
I recently buy a moto 360 and update it to 4.4w.2, so theres a option that says you can save your music in the watch from the google play music app, my cuestion is if you can select the music that you want to transfer?
I have marked the option in the phone, but doesnt transfer the music to my watch, anyone can help me?
I don't think there's an option for that. There's no speaker, so what's the point?
Cheater912 said:
I don't think there's an option for that. There's no speaker, so what's the point?
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There certainly is an option for it. The watch allows pairing with bluetooth devices. I've successfully paired my watch with a bluetooth speaker and played music to it with my phone being completely off.
OP, I just selected the option to download to wear in the google play music app settings and then you should see the watch say that it's transferring. It works better if you put the watch on the charger right after you enable the option in google play music. The transfer speed is ridiculously slow.
As of now, you cannot select which music you want to transfer. The music that will be transferred is whichever music you have downloaded to your phone in Google play music.
Hi All,
Anyone knows how to change default music player on KK Android? Alternatively how to make Android Wear open PowerAmp instead of Google Play Music when I say Open Music?
When I click open music player on phone using android wear it opens default music player Google Play. When I freeze that it opens YouTube, when I freeze that Tunein Radio and when I freeze that finally PowerAmp.
However I want to have Youtube and Tunein installed and working. Any suggestions?
Tried the clear defaults but all above mentioned apps have that option greyed out, tired assigning PowerAmp to MP3 files and I can and it now opens when I double click but Wear still opens google one.
Anything else?
Well, I can tell you how to change Google Now to open PowerAmp. Use your phone's voice search to play a title of a song in your library (so, "Play [title]"). When it speaks "Playing [title]," and shows the "Playing" card, quickly press the three dots menu icon in the upper right corner of that card. You'll see a new card with "Play music with..." and a list of apps. Pick PowerAmp. From then on, it should use PowerAmp whenever you ask it to play a title. Now, why did I tell you to play a title, and not simply "Play Music?" It seems that "Play Music" is hardwired to use Google Play Music to launch "I'm feeling lucky radio." You cannot change it. If you hit the three dots after that command, Google Play Music is all you'll see.
Now, for the watch. It's going to be a LOT more finicky. Asking for a song or album title, or even an artist SHOULD use the same app set in Google Now, but sometimes it will use Google Play Music anyway. If you don't have "All Access," it will sometimes fail, with some error about not being able to create a playlist (or something like that... I can't remember exactly). Sometimes, it will simply open a Google Search for no apparent reason.
The bottom line is: Opening music from the watch will only work a small percentage of the time, and that success rate will be cut even further if you're not using Google Play Music. Unfortunately, I doubt that Google is inclined to fix, or even improve, this anytime soon.
Having said that... there might be a workaround:
You need: Tasker (paid) and Tasker App Factory (free)
Create a task in tasker that does what you want it to do. Then give it an icon and use "Export to Application" to create an APK of it, name it what you want the voice command to be. Install the APK to your phone.
When you want to run the task, say "ok google, launch [app name]" into your watch.
It's possible to search, by voice control, an album...not a song? For example "Play [Album]" and then playing start from first track of the album
Is it possible with google now and poweramp?
is there any other app to play songs stored in watch directly like google play music?
Using the Android Wear app on my phone, I have blocked all of my audio-playing apps (Google Music, PowerAmp, BeyondPod, etc.) and rebooted my watch. However, when playing music, I still get popups about what is playing on my phone. How can I get rid of all popups on my watch which are related to playing audio?
UPDATE: Google says:
When you listen to music on your phone, you’ll always see the music card with options to pause and play. You can’t turn this card off.
Dear Google, that sux.
I have a Moto360 that until last week, played music on the watch via Google Play. However, about a week ago, playing music on the watch failed (error below) and the storage appeared to be clear
THE ERROR: When I choose Google Play music and 'Play on watch', a green circle spins a while, then watch displays a message "Phone is disconnected. Reconnect to download tracks."
This while the watch shows 'Connected' in the Android Wear watch app on the phone, there is no little 'cloud' symbol on the watch face and *all other watch functions operate perfectly.* For instance I can control music and my podcast app on my phone form the watch, it can send SMS messages etc.
I have done a factory re-set on the watch and no change.
Storage shows 2.5 GB clear. Yes, I have downloaded songs on my phone (it worked for quite a while after all).
Anyone come across this message before?
Watch Software: Android wear v. 1.3.0.2166028 and Android version 5.1.1
HTC One M9 Android 5.1 - up to date on AT&T
I am also having this exact issue.
I've tried rolling back the music app, toggling the wear settings inside of the music app, hard resetting the watch.
LG G4
Moto 360
Same issue. Seems to occurred when Google Play and Play Services updated last month. Note: Both have had several updates do not know which one screwed it up on my watch.
same here - very frustrating!