watchOS 3 Beta 1 Update Holding Steady at "About 1 hour remaining"

[Haxley]

Anyone else experience this? If I force the screen to stay awake long enough it eventually says 2 hours remaining. Then if the screen sleeps and I unlock it's back to "about 1 hour remaining". Suggestions?

Update: Finally has dropped to 58 minutes!

Update 2: Ring around Apple logo on watch finally showing, meaning it's installing. I think we're good!

Update 3: All good now; installed and I'm playing around with it. Basically hung on "about 1 hour remaining" for ~2 hours then started moving. If you guys are having similar problems, my advice is just to wait it out.

 

[oftheheavens]

how did you get the download? it tells me the developer site will be back up shortly and has for hours

nvm found away around it

 

[deadworlds]

Please keep us posted on this.

 

[oftheheavens]

I am ready to renew my license but would like to hear a few more people say it is stable enough for daily drive with only minor hiccups. I have only seen 2-3 people say that they have downloaded and that there is only minor glitches but this is based on a couple hours at most.

 

[batting1000]

Would like updates as well.

 

[Haxley]

Would like updates as well.

All good now; installed and I'm playing around with it. Basically hung on "about 1 hour remaining" for ~2 hours then started moving. If you guys are having similar problems, my advice is just to wait it out.

 

[oftheheavens]

i just need to ensure waze is working then I'm installing iOS 10 and watch os3

 

[batting1000]

All good now; installed and I'm playing around with it. Basically hung on "about 1 hour remaining" for ~2 hours then started moving. If you guys are having similar problems, my advice is just to wait it out.

Let me know how stability is...would love to try it out but am worried about the whole not being able to downgrade thing.

 

[oftheheavens]

Let me know how stability is...would love to try it out but am worried about the whole not being able to downgrade thing.

think I am going to bit the bullet. Ill report back, wish me luck

 

[batting1000]

think I am going to bit the bullet. Ill report back, wish me luck

Good luck. Report back.

 

[oftheheavens]

Good luck. Report back.

got iPhone up and running, watch is next

 

[batting1000]

got iPhone up and running, watch is next

Sweet, let me know.

 

[oftheheavens]

Sweet, let me know.

lost all my activity credit for the day when I had to reset it :-( so far I am really liking ios10 though

well now I'm having an issue with iTunes saying it isn't authorized for the content on my phone.... I have reauthorized and reauthorized with no prevail...

 

[batting1000]

lost all my activity credit for the day when I had to reset it :-( so far I am really liking ios10 though

well now I'm having an issue with iTunes saying it isn't authorized for the content on my phone.... I have reauthorized and reauthorized with no prevail...

You did the watch already?

 

[oftheheavens]

You did the watch already?

was just starting it, but you have to reset the watch to repair it with the phone after updating to iOS 10

 

[batting1000]

was just starting it, but you have to reset the watch to repair it with the phone after updating to iOS 10

Gotcha.

 

[Haxley]

was just starting it, but you have to reset the watch to repair it with the phone after updating to iOS 10

I don't think this is typical. I just installed the iOS 10 profile on my phone, which let's Apple know to give me OTA (over-the-air) iOS 10 beta updates. Similarly, I installed the watchOS 3 profile on my watch, which let's Apple know to give me OTA watchOS 3 beta updates. You do this by going to the downloads page on the developer website directly from your phone. You do not need a computer to install the iOS 10 or watchOS 3 betas.

 

[oftheheavens]

I don't think this is typical. I just installed the iOS 10 profile on my phone, which let's Apple know to give me OTA (over-the-air) iOS 10 beta updates. Similarly, I installed the watchOS 3 profile on my watch, which let's Apple know to give me OTA watchOS 3 beta updates. You do this by going to the downloads page on the developer website directly from your phone. You do not need a computer to install the iOS 10 or watchOS 3 betas.

yeah i saw that, and have used it in the past but I hear a few people saying with 10 it is best to do a clean install. Well to late now cause I have got my phone up and running again with all setting back to how I like them. Now just need to get all my games synced up so I don't lose progress. already almost midnight so the watch is getting the works tomorrow morning.

EDIT and now games synced up smoothly. bed time.

 

[Haxley]

For those who were wondering, watchOS 3 seems to be a fairly stable beta release. Thinking back on it, I remember watchOS 2 Beta 1 was much, much more buggy. The main issue I noticed is increased battery life drain. Went for less than 12 hours today before 10% remaining and I wasn't using it intensively. Though, yesterday the battery seemed to last from 6am-bedtime, so it may be an intermittent bug causing today's extremely short battery life. Minor Breathe app notification bug, difficult to dismiss. Complications seem to have more trouble displaying information some times. But is by no means bugging, crashing, and burping all over the place, which I've noticed before with previous betas and even full releases.