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I'am haven problems with beta 2 where when I switch my watch off when it comes back on again
I have to connect it to the main charger or it wont come back on at all fingers crossed this is
Sorted out in beta 3
I have to connect it to the main charger or it wont come back on at all fingers crossed this is
Sorted out in beta 3
Update: thanks for all the help, peeps. I didn't think it would work because the Bluetooth settings said the watch was not connected, but I opened the watch app on my iPhone and unpaired it. After that the watch reset. This might help others with the same problem. Happy beta testing.
Tell me if I'm wrong but are you not able to send taps and heart beats and drawings to a WatchOS 2 user from a WatchOS 3 user.. I noticed it doesn't work anymore.
Deffo a lot better then beta one hope beta 3 is even better it would be nice to have predicted text in scribble which would be great
This weekend I took some time to try and figure the battery life out.
Since some people are having good battery life and some are having bad, I decided it was possible to fix.
What I determined is, there is some kind of problem with the communication between the phone and the watch. At first (when my battery life was really terrible), the watch app on the phone was acting very odd. Stuff wouldn't work, the volume wouldn't turn up and down on the watch from the phone, faces wouldn't sync, etc. So, I decided to download the ipsw from the dev site, do a DFU restore on my phone, and loaded my backup. This completely fixed my battery life.
I think the problem is with the OTA update on the phone.
Yesterday, I was able to make it completely through the day with about 50% battery life remaining.
Yeah, except I did all this as well...repaired the watch again. And once again, it is back to being out of sync with the Watch App, and battery life is again atrocious. I had about 1 day where battery life was normal. I don't get it.
Yeah, we may never understand.
As a developer myself, I know it could just be a very simple thing that is messed up and gives very odd behavior between two seemingly similar situations.
Battery life is about 10-15 percent worse for me than beta 1...Beta 1 was on par with 2.2.1. I can deal with it, but it's still annoying. Oh well, such is the life of using a beta. Other than that, OS 3 has been solid.
I think I may have found the cause...do not let the watch battery die/go in to low power mode. The workflow of battery dying > low power mode > place on charger > remove at 100% seems to have issues right now. When it comes off the charger it is in a bizarre state, where custom watch faces are reset, does not properly sync with Watch App, and drains the battery excessively. A reboot of the watch can recover from this state.
Running for a day now, watch os3 is what the the watch should have always been loading time are great now, and everything feels polished and working great. For a beta it's very stable !