Lockscreen & "Unfortunately, Android Wear has stopped"

[AC Question]

Hi, I've searched lots but can't find an answer. My phone (Oppo Find 7 running 4.4.2) constantly gets the dreaded "Unfortunately, Android Wear has stopped" error when I boot the phone. My watch is an LG Watch R, and I'm running Wear 2.0.
I have done the whole clearing cache, uninstalling & reinstalling wear, re-pairing watch, removing mail exchange accounts etc etc, but to no avail.
The only solution that works 95% of the time for me is to set NO lockscreen and reboot the phone. If I then re-enable the lockscreen, Wear keeps running on the phone and I keep receiving notifications.
The next time I boot the phone however with the lockscreen enabled, as soon as I unlock, the error message comes up again, and I receive no notifications on the watch. All the apps on the watch work however. I can see that AW2 does restart by itself on the phone (looking at running processes), but notifications still do not come through to the watch.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Did you also clear the data for Android Wear? Are you running a 3rd party lockscreen app, or is this the stock?

 

[petdaw]

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried uninstalling & reinstalling AW and also Google Play Services updates.

The lockscreen is stock.

 

[B. Diddy]

Ok, but did you clear the app data for Android Wear, and not just its cache? The reason I ask is that I think apps may sometimes retain data once if you uninstall and then reinstall. This probably won't solve the problem, but at least we can cross it off the list.

 

[petdaw]

Thanks for the suggestion, but yes I have tried clearing AW data (& I just tried it again to be sure).

 

[B. Diddy]

The only other thing I can suggest would be a conflict with some other app. But to figure that out, you'd have to uninstall apps one by one to see if the problem went away. Keep that idea as a last resort.