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WatchOS 2 Beta 2

Donstil-nl said:
Ok I need your guys help.

I was resetting my watch with b2 because I got a new iPhone.
Only It hang on 35% so I did a hard reset.

Now it's stuck on 3 of 5 bars in that progress wheel (with Apple logo in the middle).
What should I do? Wait or keep resetting and hope it boots trough

Edit: Already tried contacting Apple BTW, There is a downgrade option at my local (2 hour drive local :p ) Apple Store only the first appointment option is the 9th of july. So thats not really a option for now.
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I thought beta 2 was very stable for the first week then in the last two days I have had this same problem as a lot of you. It just crashed and then I could not get it to boot. Finally I thought I killed it when a picture of a charging cord popped up. I plugged it in and continued to try with no luck. I kept rebooting it and finally I got the red exclamation point of death and I really thought I killed it. I put it on the charger , did a hard reset and boom! It booted back up. Since then it has crashed a few times and as long as I put it on the charger first then reboot, it finishes. I also got superstitious and always put it sideways in nightstand mode because that's how it first came back to me and every time it works. I also have experienced a random reboot loop where just the apple logo appears then it flashes and more apple logo. To get out of that I do a hard reset and continue holding it until it resets a gain and turns off then I do it again to turn it on and it comes back every time. I'm hoping it hangs on till beta 3. Also learned my lesson about watch beta. NEVER AGAIN.
 
Cjhooper said:
I thought beta 2 was very stable for the first week then in the last two days I have had this same problem as a lot of you. It just crashed and then I could not get it to boot. Finally I thought I killed it when a picture of a charging cord popped up. I plugged it in and continued to try with no luck. I kept rebooting it and finally I got the red exclamation point of death and I really thought I killed it. I put it on the charger , did a hard reset and boom! It booted back up. Since then it has crashed a few times and as long as I put it on the charger first then reboot, it finishes. I also got superstitious and always put it sideways in nightstand mode because that's how it first came back to me and every time it works. I also have experienced a random reboot loop where just the apple logo appears then it flashes and more apple logo. To get out of that I do a hard reset and continue holding it until it resets a gain and turns off then I do it again to turn it on and it comes back every time. I'm hoping it hangs on till beta 3. Also learned my lesson about watch beta. NEVER AGAIN.
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YES. I WILL NEVER beta test watchOS, EVEN IF IT BECOMES A PUBLIC BETA...
 
I assume Apple will have better systems in place to help Watch owners when/if a beta becomes available. It's one thing for devs to have serious problems with a beta, but Apple wouldn't expose the general public to a beta with major problems without a resource to downgrade.
 
dannyyankou said:
I need to do a restore or something. It's 1:20 and my battery hit 3%
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Your only choice may be to wait for the new beta on Monday or Tuesday. There is no path back to 1.0.1 unless you send the watch back to Apple or lucky enough to find an Apple Store that can flash it. Either way you may have to pay for an out of warranty repair.
 
PTVMan said:
Your only choice may be to wait for the new beta on Monday or Tuesday. There is no path back to 1.0.1 unless you send the watch back to Apple or lucky enough to find an Apple Store that can flash it. Either way you may have to pay for an out of warranty repair.
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I was on beta 2 and the battery was fine, but then I downgraded my phone to 8.4 to try Apple music. I got bored and went back to iOS 9 and reset my watch, and ever since then the battery has been crappy.
 
dannyyankou said:
I was on beta 2 and the battery was fine, but then I downgraded my phone to 8.4 to try Apple music. I got bored and went back to iOS 9 and reset my watch, and ever since then the battery has been crappy.
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Yep. Same thing here. Beta 2 had great batterylife until i unpaired, downgraded my phone, upgraded it again and repaired the watch. Even without restoring a backup, the battery just sucks. I can barely get half a day out of it.
Also sometimes (approximately once a day) the watch asks me to reenter my iCloud password on the phone. If I check there, there is no promt and I am logged in without any problem.
 
Strange battery day today.
10:30 am from charger. Now 13 hours later still 43%.

Only thing I changed was the watch face. I switched to Photo album clock this morning.

Hope it stays this way till beta 3.
 
Hey is anyone else not able to download Apple Music with iCloud onto their watch for phone-less use? I assume the current beta doesn't support it but I just wanted to double check.
 
I just read this posting in the official Apple Developer Forums and it seems to work. I am just trying it out and I "think" the battery draining is quite better than before.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/8294

Thread from Jul 4, 2015 12:26 PM:

Hey, guys!



I've found a few workarounds for the WatchOS2 to work almost as 1.0.1 (keep in mind that this steps might not work for everybody, who knows):



- To fix taptics which don't work, re-pair your watch and DON'T change the Haptic Feedback configuration. Don't touch that slider;

- On the iPhone, tap on "Reset Sync Data". This will fix corrupted contacts;

- On the iPhone, select a default city instead of current location for the Weather complication to work;

- My battery was very, very bad, and nothing could fix it. The last thing I did (after 4 restores) was to sign out from FaceTime and iMessage on my iPhone (not just turning them off, but signing out of the Apple ID on FaceTime and then turning it off and also iMessage. Once you turn them on again, link them once again with your Apple ID. That could possibly the reason why my battery life improved around 275%.​
 
I'm waiting the new beta too, because i upgrade to beta 2 the battery life will drop every 10% an hour, dam.....
 
hey guys, Does Watch OS2 let you sync Apple Music, Apple Curated playlists ? or do you still only have access to user created playlists to sync to the watch ?
 
aduteau said:
hey guys, Does Watch OS2 let you sync Apple Music, Apple Curated playlists ? or do you still only have access to user created playlists to sync to the watch ?
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Nobody knows because iOS 9 Beta 2 can't enable Apple Music yet.
 
aduteau said:
hey guys, Does Watch OS2 let you sync Apple Music, Apple Curated playlists ? or do you still only have access to user created playlists to sync to the watch ?
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Stuff from Apple Music added to my music from my MacBook do appear both on iPhone & watch.
 
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