Hi,
I really dont get this watch.. Today, during the morning I recorded 2 walks. They both synched to strava immediately.
In the afternoon, another walk and Exercise bike at home. Nothing. Nada, niente. Wont show up om Strava. Restarted everything, refreshed app, nothing.
If I use the Strava app on the watch it always works, however, I would prefer to use the native one.
Honestly, this watch really gets me on my nerves.
Any ideias?
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I just purchased the Smartwatch 3. I like the watch but have a problem. Not all of the wear apps are loading on the watch. For instance, I've downloaded Ghostracer, Runtastic and Endomondo and while they appear on my phone; they do not appear on the watch. However, other apps I have downloaded are on there and I can install new watch faces. Oddly enough Spotify and Skype are on the watch and I didn't attempt to put them on my watch. It seems to be hit or miss.
I sent an email to the manufacturer of one of the apps and they said it may be due to Google Play Services not being the most recent. I am currently on version 9.4.52.
Any help would be appreciated.
hardwirk1 said:
I just purchased the Smartwatch 3. I like the watch but have a problem. Not all of the wear apps are loading on the watch. For instance, I've downloaded Ghostracer, Runtastic and Endomondo and while they appear on my phone; they do not appear on the watch. However, other apps I have downloaded are on there and I can install new watch faces. Oddly enough Spotify and Skype are on the watch and I didn't attempt to put them on my watch. It seems to be hit or miss.
I sent an email to the manufacturer of one of the apps and they said it may be due to Google Play Services not being the most recent. I am currently on version 9.4.52.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I had the same problem at the beginning of my adventure with SW3.
Google Play Services is too old.
Try force-updating it on your phone (use this link) or else just wait a couple hours, it should update itself both on phone and on the watch. Anyway AFAIK Android Wear app shows an information when Google Play Services are out of date but I'm not sure.
Or try force-syncing the apps in the watch settings in Android Wear app.
Or, as I've already told, just wait a couple of hours and make sure you have your watch paired and connected to the phone during that time
Or if nothing happens, try unpairing the watch. It will reset to the factory settings (you won't lose any data connected with the watch from your phone except the watch that was paired), pair the watch again and wait for the setup to complete, it will sync all the necessary apps with the phone.
romcio47 said:
I had the same problem at the beginning of my adventure with SW3.
Google Play Services is too old.
Try force-updating it on your phone (use this link) or else just wait a couple hours, it should update itself both on phone and on the watch. Anyway AFAIK Android Wear app shows an information when Google Play Services are out of date but I'm not sure.
Or try force-syncing the apps in the watch settings in Android Wear app.
Or, as I've already told, just wait a couple of hours and make sure you have your watch paired and connected to the phone during that time
Or if nothing happens, try unpairing the watch. It will reset to the factory settings (you won't lose any data connected with the watch from your phone except the watch that was paired), pair the watch again and wait for the setup to complete, it will sync all the necessary apps with the phone.
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Thanks for replying. You were right. I tapped on the version and it updated like 4 times during the night. When I woke all of the apps were on the watch.
Cant for the life of me get google music to work on the SW3 (paired with a S7 Edge running stock marshmallow). Anyone had similar?
Downloaded 2 playlists to my phones internal memory as instructed online, one of my own uploaded music to the service, and one of music i hadnt uploaded (signed up for a google music trial to see if that was the reason).
Phone and watch are connected in the actual wear app fine etc. Set up properly in the google music app settings and can see the playlists both there ready to go to the watch from the 'manage wear downloads' section and my watch shows, opened up the app on the watch and then 'play on wear', eventually after maybe 15 seconds it shows all my available playlists and the 2 playlists id downloaded onto the phone are in orange, but nothing happens after that. No sync. Even though i set it to sync when it asked me when first opened the app on the watch. I can select and deselect playlists and an orange tick card pops up at the bottom of the screen, when i click that it just goes back to the watch main face. Left it to see if it starts but nothing.
Tried factory resetting the watch, uninstalling updates for play music on phone, updating again, clearing cache of the app, even clearing the cache on the phone, watch fully charged or on charge, same with phone, also tried 2 bluetooth headsets to see if it wasnt picking that up right.
Anyone think of anything ive missed (apart from factory resetting the phone)? cheers.
markgranto said:
Cant for the life of me get google music to work on the SW3 (paired with a S7 Edge running stock marshmallow). Anyone had similar?
Downloaded 2 playlists to my phones internal memory as instructed online, one of my own uploaded music to the service, and one of music i hadnt uploaded (signed up for a google music trial to see if that was the reason).
Phone and watch are connected in the actual wear app fine etc. Set up properly in the google music app settings and can see the playlists both there ready to go to the watch from the 'manage wear downloads' section and my watch shows, opened up the app on the watch and then 'play on wear', eventually after maybe 15 seconds it shows all my available playlists and the 2 playlists id downloaded onto the phone are in orange, but nothing happens after that. No sync. Even though i set it to sync when it asked me when first opened the app on the watch. I can select and deselect playlists and an orange tick card pops up at the bottom of the screen, when i click that it just goes back to the watch main face. Left it to see if it starts but nothing.
Tried factory resetting the watch, uninstalling updates for play music on phone, updating again, clearing cache of the app, even clearing the cache on the phone, watch fully charged or on charge, same with phone, also tried 2 bluetooth headsets to see if it wasnt picking that up right.
Anyone think of anything ive missed (apart from factory resetting the phone)? cheers.
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I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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Will give that a bash now, cheers
mattnmag said:
I'm not sure if this will help, but you might try unpairing the watch from the phone and then go into the Google Play Services settings and wipe the Wearable Storage data. Then factory reset the watch and wipe the data on the Android Wear companion app... reboot the phone and watch... and then pair the watch with the phone again.
That should give you a fresh start and hopefully help to get things synced up.
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unpaired the watch, went into play services and wiped the wear storage. Factory reset the watch and cleared the data in the wear app and uninstalled it. Rebooted both and set it all up again from scratch. Opened the app on the watch and turned on music sync. Initially said i needed to plug in power which i did, and then it showed the playlists, clicked on the ones i had been testing with and then the orange tick and it goes back to the watch face as before. Checked the settings in the play music app and all looks as it should. Still wont sync. :silly:
Unpaired with S7 Edge, factory reset and setup with my LG G Pad, worked a treat, music sync'd without any issue.
Unpaired, reset etc and set back up fresh with the S7 Edge. Same issues. Arghhhhh!!!
Wonder if its something permissions related on the S7 thats doing it not allowing the transfer of files to the watch. Saying that tested with wear media app and that sync'd across music files fine. Anyone any ideas?
Managed to get this sorted.
Was reading through this
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/android-wear/DGr1WPiy9Po/Sv6ThhXmDAAJ
And saw a comment about taking out the sd card, so did so and it worked immediately even though play music was saving to the internal storage. Very weird. But glad it's sorted.
markgranto said:
Managed to get this sorted.
Was reading through this
https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/android-wear/DGr1WPiy9Po/Sv6ThhXmDAAJ
And saw a comment about taking out the sd card, so did so and it worked immediately even though play music was saving to the internal storage. Very weird. But glad it's sorted.
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Glad to hear that you got it fixed. I'm sure this will help someone else.
There was music files on the sd card but not relating to Google play music, must have been trying to scan this possibly. Who knows. Anyway, yeah hopefully someone finds it useful.
I adore the new keyboard functionality of 2.0, but in general my watch has been behaving poorly since the update. I have it paired to a Huawei mediapad m3 8.4 (cellular version)
At all times, notifications seem to come through in a timely fashion. But anything that requires an Internet connection (specifically Google Assistant, voice replies to notifications, and weather) are hit or miss. Half the time they work just fine. Other times they don't.
I've factory reset the watch since the update, with no improvement. Again, at all times notifications come through. But sometimes, anything that requires voice dictation or data fails. At these times, I go into the Android wear app, and it says connected. I can see and even reply to notifications with the keyboard, but if I try to use voice, or the assistant, or query for a weather update, it will tell me disconnected, or couldn't reach Google. Play store updates on watch apps are the same problem.
When I go into the watch settings while observing this bad behavior, under Bluetooth settings, it shows my phones Bluetooth ID, and says disconnected. When it's working properly, it says connected. But in BOTH cases it properly receives notifications, so just the Internet sharing to the watch from the phone seems at issue.
I've done everything short of factory resetting my phone, which I'd rather not do, including clearing data from Google app and clearing data /Uninstalling /reinstalling Android wear on the phone. Does anyone have further suggestions?
Screenshots for reference
https://flic.kr/p/UCzYGL
Weather app
https://flic.kr/p/TpK7s1
https://flic.kr/p/TsD85r
https://flic.kr/p/TpKcvY
Edit: just on a whim, I decided to try Shazam on the watch while assistant, weather, and voice were not working. Even in the "disconnected" state, it could properly identify music. Baffling. Though if Shazam on wear just records the audio, sends it to the phone, and that does the identification, I suppose this follows logic. Still sort of feel like it's specific to Google though.
Really pleased with the upgrade to AW 2.0 and I LOVE my Huawei Watch. Only thing that doesn't seem to be working is resyncing apps!
On AW 1.5, I used to update my apps on the phone when prompted, then I would resync apps to the Watch through the phone's AW, to ensure the watch had the latest update. Once the resyncing was (or seemed) completed, the watch screen used to go blank before returning to norm. I thought this signified that the apps had all been updated on the watch.
With AW 2.0, I go through the same process but now the watch screen no longer goes blank, so I can't tell if the apps on the watch have been successfully updated. I realise you can update apps directly from the watch and I have 'automatic update' switched on for the watch. Four apps have been updated (according to the watch) but they must have been by the watch rather than me resyncing because the rest of the updated apps on the phone are not mentioned as having been upgraded on the watch.
Today I have downloaded ParKing (parked car finder) onto my phone and tried to sync it to my watch but the app hasn' t transferred across to the watch. All other notifications from phone to watch work. Anyone else had this and sorted the problem?
Sorted the ParKing app to my Watch. I went online to Google, my apps, clicked on 'compatible with all your devices', and bounced it to the Watch. Still a little confused over the resyncing via AW on the phone though.
pavoni said:
Sorted the ParKing app to my Watch. I went online to Google, my apps, clicked on 'compatible with all your devices', and bounced it to the Watch. Still a little confused over the resyncing via AW on the phone though.
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Most apps do not sync anymore with AW 2.0. You need to use the Play Store on the watch to download them to the watch. Many watch apps do not need to be on the phone any more.
Much appreciated. I didn't realise. This change to updating directly on the watch makes more sense.
I have not been using my watch for the last year, now I wanted to use it for the offline music in the gym but I can't find the play music app on my watch.
Anyone knows how I can solve the problem?
Is there any other way to get music on my watch?
I installed g.music 3 days ago, no problem it will take a few mins before it gets transfered.
MrPilot said:
I installed g.music 3 days ago, no problem it will take a few mins before it gets transfered.
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I don't know how but it was automatically installed after a few hours but it doesn't sync the downloaded music with the phone.
When I try sincyng I get the error message: "the phone isn't connected. Reconnect to download music"
vins91 said:
I don't know how but it was automatically installed after a few hours but it doesn't sync the downloaded music with the phone.
When I try sincyng I get the error message: "the phone isn't connected. Reconnect to download music"
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No idea. Works for me, but google music needs time to get all the playlist and music initialized. Then you can select songs or entire playlists to be synced. Sorry for this late and uninformative reply
Is the watch working again now I had issues pairing with my phone
I got a similar problem: I got an old used Sony Smartwatch 3 820A from a friend and i only care for the offline music function since want to listen to music without having to bring my phone...
So I set it up according to the instructions (Wear OS) and it pairs just fine etc... It says it´s got free internal storage too (2gb+). From what i read storing songs on the watch is supposed to work with Google Music.
But i can not figure out a way to get GMusic on my watch. There is no Play Store on the watch and I´m not sure if it´s supposed to have it. I tried syncing the apps several times as well, nothing.
At some point another app (DB Navigator) got installed out of the blue without me doing anything (wasn´t after manually syncning either lol).
I tried to look it up and maybe the answer is out there but i did not find it yet.
Maybe there´s a good soul here that can tell me how to fix this or at least tell me if there´s supposed to be a Play Store on the watch. Maybe I just have to wait and g.music will sync eventually though....