Doze with Android Wear

[Alex_NJ]

Does anyone happen to know what happens with Doze when using Android Wear?

If Doze has detected the phone isn't being touched and puts everything to sleep, does that mean my Android Wear will stop getting synced notifications?

 

[anthony2558]

Good question. I'll let you know on the 29th, when my phone gets here ;-) . Is it possible to remove Android Wear from the Doze permissions list? Maybe that would allow it to continue to sync.

 

[Forest Dane]

Can't say I've noticed any difference to be honest. Notifications still happen even when the phone is dozing.

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[wunderbar]

Good question. I'll let you know on the 29th, when my phone gets here ;-) . Is it possible to remove Android Wear from the Doze permissions list? Maybe that would allow it to continue to sync.

I think it's more along the lines of, and I'm just picking an app at random, if Facebook goes into doze mode and doesn't sync, than will the watch get the notifications?

The answer to that should be no. Android Wear gets notifications from the apps on the phone. If there are no notifications on the phone, be it through doze or any other reason, than no, you probably won't get notifications from apps that are dozed on Wear.

 

[So Cold]

Doze still lets all notifications through. They covered this when they unveiled it and it's been covered in threads before, you should check the android marshmallow section as threads like this that are not phone specific get moved there.

Between doze (software) and the sensor hub (hardware) you aren't supposed to notice anything as the end user, just that you have more battery. Your phone still syncs everything and you get all of your notifications.

 

[jasonaward]

Doze still lets all notifications through. They covered this when they unveiled it and it's been covered in threads before, you should check the android marshmallow section as threads like this that are not phone specific get moved there.

Between doze (software) and the sensor hub (hardware) you aren't supposed to notice anything as the end user, just that you have more battery. Your phone still syncs everything and you get all of your notifications.

Except that your notifications can be delayed. That's the major caveat, and one I've definitely noticed under Marshmallow on my N6.

 

[co.ag.2005]

Does anyone happen to know what happens with Doze when using Android Wear?

If Doze has detected the phone isn't being touched and puts everything to sleep, does that mean my Android Wear will stop getting synced notifications?

my 5x dozes while constantly connected to my Asus ZenWatch (at least when looking at the battery chart when the phone sits at my desk for a while without being touched).

 

[anthony2558]

I thought only high priority specific notifications only get pushed right away.

 

[jasonaward]

I thought only high priority specific notifications only get pushed right away.

That is accurate. Others will be delayed until it enters idle maintenance mode, or the device exits Doze.

 

[anthony2558]

OK. So we should be correct in saying that if the Facebook app is not high priority, then notifications would be delayed to your Android wearable device untill the phone would knocked out if doze, correct.

 

[anthony2558]

my 5x dozes while constantly connected to my Asus ZenWatch (at least when looking at the battery chart when the phone sits at my desk for a while without being touched).

And while in doze do you get notifications from all of your Android wear apps? Are some delayed, and some instant

 

[So Cold]

OK. So we should be correct in saying that if the Facebook app is not high priority, then notifications would be delayed to your Android wearable device untill the phone would knocked out if doze, correct.

Priority is not set on an app by app basis but rather by the notification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N72ksDKrX6c

 

[co.ag.2005]

And while in doze do you get notifications from all of your Android wear apps? Are some delayed, and some instant

to be honest, I'm not entirely sure. I probably don't allow it to get into a Doze state very often, but when I've noticed it in Doze, I'm not sure I event received any notifications. I need to do more testing All I know is, by the looks of the battery stats, my 5x has gone into Doze (you can tell when it "flat lines") and I have it synced to my Asus ZenWatch 24/7.

 

[anthony2558]

Priority is not set on an app by app basis but rather by the notification.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N72ksDKrX6c

OK. Then just like I assumed. Thanks, for the video. Only certain notifications will be pushed while in doze. Instagram follower wount, but an email will.

 

[LNWJ]

I do not have my 6P yet, but I can speak from experience on what my Moto 360 2nd gen does when my Nexus 6 (Moto) goes into Doze. I do not use the wireless function of Android Wear because every time I do my watch makes me factory restore, so it is running straight bluetooth.

The watch stays connected to the phone while in Doze and near by. Phone calls and texts come through. The phone does not send emails through (even though I have turned off optimization for the gmail app). If I wake the phone 3-4 emails will come through all at once.

As for the watch, when I stray too far from the phone, the familiar cloud/slash icon appears on the watch indicating it has lost connection with the phone. When I come back near my Nexus 6 (which is in Doze) the watch will not reconnect. I've sat for 15-20 mins and the cloud remains. It only goes away when I wake the Nexus 6 and see the lock screen.

Hopefully this is fixed in a future build... and hopefully wifi support becomes less buggy for me.

PS: I actually wish it was possible to completely disable doze in Marshmallow. I didn't have battery issues prior and would prefer more control over what my phone does.

 

[Alex_NJ]

I do not have my 6P yet, but I can speak from experience on what my Moto 360 2nd gen does when my Nexus 6 (Moto) goes into Doze. I do not use the wireless function of Android Wear because every time I do my watch makes me factory restore, so it is running straight bluetooth.

The watch stays connected to the phone while in Doze and near by. Phone calls and texts come through. The phone does not send emails through (even though I have turned off optimization for the gmail app). If I wake the phone 3-4 emails will come through all at once.

As for the watch, when I stray too far from the phone, the familiar cloud/slash icon appears on the watch indicating it has lost connection with the phone. When I come back near my Nexus 6 (which is in Doze) the watch will not reconnect. I've sat for 15-20 mins and the cloud remains. It only goes away when I wake the Nexus 6 and see the lock screen.

Hopefully this is fixed in a future build... and hopefully wifi support becomes less buggy for me.

PS: I actually wish it was possible to completely disable doze in Marshmallow. I didn't have battery issues prior and would prefer more control over what my phone does.

This is exactly what I was dreading. It's going to render my watch completely useless.

I'm also going to try switching off wifi because mine often crashes too

 

[LNWJ]

This is exactly what I was dreading. It's going to render my watch completely useless.

I'm also going to try switching off wifi because mine often crashes too

I'm optimistic Google will fix. Doze is a very new technology just being released in 6.0, and Android Wear is still back on 5.1.x so most likely when the code on the watch gets updated a lot of these annoyances might improve. For now I just prod my phone a bit more than usual.

 

[BrianRMurphy]

It seems to fix things if you apply "Don't optimize" to the "Android Wear" app (under Settings->Battery->Battery Optimization->All Apps->Android Wear->Don't optimize).

I was noticing a lot of wakeup lag and intermittent disconnects between my Nexus 6 (w/Android 6.0.1) + LG Watch urbane until I just tried that.

 

[SShadow1974]

I've been having issues with multiple BT items staying connected to my Nexus 6P. And I'm also thinking Doze has something to do with it. However, I have already stopped optimizing Android Wear, but it is still disconnecting from my phone.
I have also stopped optimizing the two other BT entries - Midi and Share. I was hoping that would solve the issues with my BT headset and connecting to my truck's uConnect. But I do not think it's going to work, since my Asus ZenWatch 2 is still disconnecting after the change.

 

[david cummings1]

I've been having issues with multiple BT items staying connected to my Nexus 6P. And I'm also thinking Doze has something to do with it. However, I have already stopped optimizing Android Wear, but it is still disconnecting from my phone.
I have also stopped optimizing the two other BT entries - Midi and Share. I was hoping that would solve the issues with my BT headset and connecting to my truck's uConnect. But I do not think it's going to work, since my Asus ZenWatch 2 is still disconnecting after the change.