AW 2.0

[bckrupps]

Google fit apk is located in the assets folder not the raw folder like most. works great

 

[jwnpgh]

RunningWarrior

I am not a developer but managed to get preview 3 loaded. i realized many apps didn't work or won't loaded.
is there an easy way or a site that explains to novices how to sideload apps? and how to get app APKs to sideload?

thanks

john

 

[miroul]

I would be interested in this as well

Thx

 

[johcos]

Hello!

First of all you have to enable the developer options on your watch with these steps
1. Open the Settings menu on the watch.
2. Scroll to the bottom of the menu. If no Developer Options item is provided, tap About.
3. Tap the build number 7 times.
4. From the Settings menu, tap the Developer Options item.
5. Enable ADB debugging.

After that you'll have to prepare the apk's you want to sideload by extracting them from your phone by using an app like apk extractor or any other means that you prefer. Open one by one the apk's from your computer with winrar and extract the wear apk located usualy in the "raw" or "assets" folders in the same folder that you have the platform tools. You may have to rename them because they all have the same or similar names. (make sure you don't use spaces or other special characters)

Then you connect your watch with the usb cable to your computer and accept the adb message that you'll see, if you don't see any message you'll propably see it in the next step.

Open a command prompt window on the folder that contains the platform tools and type "adb devices" just to make sure that your watch is connected.

After that you start sideloading the apk's by typing "adb install myapk.apk". (replace "myapk.apk" with the names of your apk's)

Because this may be a bit boring to type one by one every apk you need to sideload, an easier way to do it is by creating a txt document in the same folder as your platform tools and start writing down the commands in seperate lines, like this:

adb install myapk1.apk
adb install myapk2.apk
adb install myapk3.apk
......
......

close it and save it. rename it to something like "sideload.bat" and when you're ready just double click it and just wait to finish. Make sure you change the extension of the filename from ".txt" to ".bat"

 

[Runningwarrior08]

RunningWarrior

I am not a developer but managed to get preview 3 loaded. i realized many apps didn't work or won't loaded.
is there an easy way or a site that explains to novices how to sideload apps? and how to get app APKs to sideload?

thanks

john

I would be interested in this as well

Thx

It's not that bad to do. If you are on the DEV preview already I am going to assume that you already have ADB and fastboot installed on your system. If not install this and do it system wide, to make things easier [TOOL] [WINDOWS] ADB, Fastboot and Drivers -… | Android Development and Hacking

You now need to download an APK. This can be done from various different sites including apk downloaders that you type in or paste the market link. With those I have noticed I do not always receive the wear companion app, at least on hangouts. So I went into the market and saw hangouts newest version number and googled that with hangouts apk after the version. Downloaded from a more well known site.

Once you have the APK you need something to open it... 7ZIP works well, is light, and fast. I highly recommend it : 7-Zip

From there you now can open 7zip and browse to the apk, the wearable apk could be in different places I am using hangouts as an example. The wearable APK is in the assets folder(see attached pics) Extract it to a folder or desktop.

From here wherever you extracted it to hold RIGHT SHIFT key and right click on the empty space of the folder or desktop depending on where you put it. Click on "open command window here"(This only works if you have ADB system wide, if you do not you must put the apk in the same folder as ADB is and right click with shift there.)

Now you are ready for some adb.

Make sure your device is attached and debugging mode is enabled.

In the command window type

ADB DEVICES

Make sure your device is there, if it says "unauthorized", authorize it on the watch.

Now type

ADB INSTALL HANGOUTSWEARABLE.APK

It should now install and be done. repeat as desired. and where we have HANGOUTSWEARABLE.APK.. It will always be "nameOfApk.APK"

I hope this helps, if you need more info let me know. I dont have my cable with me to put adb screens up but it is pretty straight forward.

 

[jwnpgh]

Johco and Roadwarrior

Thanks! those were both very good directions. I do have ADB and all, i managed to load Preview 3 so the hardware/cabling end of things were already known to me.

thanks again! i will load Preview 3 again, i went back to old wear because without side loaded apps, the watch is pretty useless as a companion.

John

 

[johcos]

Have you noticed any delay in notifications with the developer preview?

 

[Runningwarrior08]

Have you noticed any delay in notifications with the developer preview?

Yes since dp1 there is a little delay, a few seconds. The main thing is it doesn't always vibrate though.... That one is upsetting. Or it is very weak idk.

 

[johcos]

I also had the delay in incoming calls as well and it was frustrating. This was the main reason I returned to the normal build

 

[jwnpgh]

So far i was able to extract apps from my phone. i was able to install Google Fit, but it crashes, says video can't be displayed. I need to look around for some APKs that work. i want google messenger and fit at least.

thanks for all the help!

John

 

[jwnpgh]

I managed to get google fit to work, i needed to use 7zip and browse to the asset folder, but cannot get messenger to work. there is not asset folder. i tried a version or two from APKmirror, but no luck. the install responds with requires a newer version.

John

 

[jwnpgh]

is there a source for a recent google messenger apk that is wear compatible?

 

[Runningwarrior08]

is there a source for a recent google messenger apk that is wear compatible?

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B36SyDAKQ_6qSzJVOFlpNHJWNzA

 

[tech_head]

You can assign the two buttons on the watch.
Settings -> Personal -> Customize Hardware Buttons.
You can assign from the list of installed applications (Agenda, Alarm, Calling Setup, Contacts, Find My Phone........)

I have the top button assigned to agenda and the bottom assigned to weather.

 

[ed2o9#AC]

Can anyone here verify that the restore image on the developer's preview site will return the Verizon version of the watch back to factory settings?

Answered: WARNING!!! The recovery image on the preview site isn't stock. On my Verizon watch (LG-W200V), you can't set up calling after you flash back, and according to some people on Reddit the battery life is terrible on the AW 1.5 image. DO NOT try AW 2.0 unless you're confident that you don't want to restore to 1.5.

 

[mdw1995]

Well, how about voice commands? Can it be used seamlessly as in 1.5? If that works well, i think i ! might do the switch. Just need to be sure that Ghostracer will keep on working after since i use it a lot.. Regarding watchfaces, i guess you can sideload Watchmaker and download the watchfaces you need.

Anybody test ghostracer in the latest preview? Does GPS and pairing to the phone through cell data work the same as 1.5?

 

[ed2o9#AC]

Has anyone had success getting Play Music to work? Pushing the app fails because it's already installed, but for some reason isn't functioning. I really like preview 3, but standalone music is a necessity for me. Back to stock settings for now.

 

[ed2o9#AC]

"Anybody test ghostracer in the latest preview? Does GPS and pairing to the phone through cell data work the same as 1.5?"

Tested, and it works.

 

[miroul]

Hi Techhead,

Are you still running AW DP3 on your watch? I am seriously considering it but afraid of losing important app features i like..

 

[miroul]

Ok, i finally installed DP3 and so far, i like it. The only issue i have is to find those wearable apps to extract and download. So far, i was only able to extract the wearable app found Hangout and Messenger. I am in need of finding the Ghostracer one but i was not able to extract it from the phone APK.. Would anyone here have a clue where to download it?