Disconnection from iPhone

[blaster88]

AT&T Urbane LTE, paired with iPhone 5s. Works for most of the day, then disconnects. Tap the card to reconnect, nothing. I can't get it to reconnect. Restart phone, restart app, restart watch - no resolution. So far, this has happened twice (yesterday and today) and the only way to reconnect is a factory reset which is suboptimal.

Note - it worked fine for a couple of days, then I unpaired with iPhone to pair with Android, and then repaired with iPhone.

 

[blaster88]

Got this resolved. I had paired the watch with my iPhone and then with my wife's Galaxy. After removing the Android Wear from her Galaxy and re-pairing back to my iPhone, the Galaxy retained a bluetooth pairing to the watch. Even without Android Wear it was connecting.

The weird thing is that the watch did not lose connection to the iPhone when we were home together - at least not every time - but randomly. But after we removed the bluetooth pairing from her phone, I got a disconnect from the iPhone that day, but hasn't happened again.

 

[J1010Miami]

I wanted to get the LG Urbane 2nd Edition LTE from ATT and pair it with my iphone 6, but I want to make sure what won't work.

Do you have it connected to any network?

Can you answer calls or emails or just receive notifications?

Can you make calls from it?

What running apps can you use on stand alone mode, not connected to the phone via BT?

Thanks

 

[blaster88]

I have another post about it and iPhone v Android, but so you can get an answer here:

Do you have it connected to any network?

Not sure what you mean. I have an AT&T Urbane, it is on ATT LTE. When connected to iPhone there is no other connection such as WiFi.

Can you answer calls or emails or just receive notifications?

Just notifications with iPhone.

Can you make calls from it?

Yes, the watch all by itself is a phone. You can dial from the watch and make (and receive) calls. It has its own number. However, what you have is the watch speaker and microphone for audio. In a totally quiet situation, this is sufficient. Any background noise whatsoever - like when driving - and you will have a hard time hearing it. The other end can hear you fine, regardless. When connected to an iPhone, you can't use a bluetooth earpiece with it. So, yes, it works as a phone, but while connected to an iPhone, that has limited utility.

Also, with an iPhone 6 you can do number pairing so that if your phone rings your watch rings. So you could, theoretically, answer a call that comes into your iPhone, but the limitations on audio above apply.


What running apps can you use on stand alone mode, not connected to the phone via BT?

The time. And to an extent Google Health.

 

[blaster88]

PS - see other posts in this forum regarding numbersync v forwarding. From what I have seen, numbersync dramatically decreases battery life.