Although Huawei’s top honchos were reportedly mystified by the purpose and utility of smartwatches, it still put out a new Huawei Watch 2. Motorola, however, isn’t as impressed and isn’t willing to take another commercial, not to mention financial, risk. The Android Wear pioneer’s withdrawal from the smartwatch market has some worried about getting the latest Android Wear 2.0 on their wrists. Fortunately, Google’s official Android Wear Twitter account does confirm that it’s coming. But it won’t be coming as fast as you might have wished.
- Android Wear 2.0 Update Download For Moto 360 Sport Review
- Android Wear 2.0 Update Download For Moto 360 Sport Smartwatch Connect To Phone
It is definitely sad that Motorola is bowing out of the smartwatch market, at least “indefinitely”. It is one of three Android smartwatch pioneers and, despite the flat tire criticism, heralded circular smartwatches. On the one hand, you can’t blame the company for leaving a not so profitable market. On the other hand, one can only wonder if Lenovo’s higher echelons forced the matter onto Motorola.
Apr 17, 2017 It's been two months since Android Wear 2.0 update has released, but there are still many smartwatches that have not got the OTA update yet. Moto 360 2nd gen., Moto 360 Sport, Fossil Q.
Motorola already confirmed almost a year ago that the first Moto 360 won’t be getting the new Android Wear version. That was when Android Wear 2.0 was still slated for a December 2016, not February 2017 release. It’s disappointing but not entirely unsurprising, given how “planned obsolescence” is a thing in the mobile industry, smartwatches included.
The Moto 360 Gen 2, however, is too new to be ignored, so, naturally, there were questions raised. Motorola has so far been silent, but Google, fortunately, spoke up for it. According to @Android Wear, the Moto 360 2 and the Moto 360 Sport will indeed get Android Wear 2.0. But it also notes that it will be “in the next few weeks.”
By now, it has been more than 2 months since Android Wear 2.0 was released to the public. It is now mirroring the slow and uncertain rollout of Android releases to smartphones. To be fair, not all still supported smartwatches have received the update yet as well. Considering Motorola might not support these two smartwatches for long, owners should still consider themselves lucky they’ll get the update, even if late.
SOURCE: @Android Wear
Aug 21, 2017 Motorola has been offering the Moto 360 Sport line since 2015. It has received a next-gen model already but we’re only waiting for it to be updated to the last Android Wear version. Sep 15, 2017 Update (8/20): It looks like Motorola has finally remembered that the Moto 360 Sport exists. While we have yet to hear of any reports of Android Wear 2.0 rolling out to the Sport, we believe it. It took about three months for the Android Wear 2.0 to arrive on the Moto 360 2nd gen models, but the update for the Sport model was nowhere in sight. It would apparently take another three months.
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Android Wear 2.0 was officially announced by Google lately and the new firmware for wearable technology has gained quite some popularity lately. Even though the Android Wear 2.0 developer preview is already available since long, these public betas are live for only a select few smartwatches like the Huawei Watch and the LG G Watch Urbane. Almost all of the smartwatches will be receiving the new firmware update with a few exceptions, of course. To be future proof, here we have created a tutorial post on how to capture the upcoming Android Wear 2.0 OTA links as soon as they are available.
Android Wear 2.0 Update Download For Moto 360 Sport Review
Similar to our popular OTA capture guide for various Android phones including like the Nexus, Motorola, OnePlus, Sony, etc., here we have an OTA capture guide for the Android Wear as well. The key is to not download the OTA update and apply it as soon a possible. First, capture the OTA link and share it with the community. If you have access to an Android Wear that has already received the OTA notification, then go through this tutorial to get the OTA URL.
List of devices receiving Android Wear 2.0 update
- Asus ZenWatch 2
- Asus ZenWatch 3
- Casio Smart Outdoor Watch
- Casio Pro Trek Smart
- Fossil Q Founder
- Fossil Q Marshal
- Fossil Q Wander
- Huawei Watch
- LG G Watch R
- LG Watch Urbane
- LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition LTE
- Michael Kors Access
- Moto 360 2nd-gen
- Moto 360 Sport
- New Balance RunIQ
- Nixon The Mission
- Polar M600
- TAG Heuer Connected
Android Wear 2.0 OTA update URL capture guide
This guide is only for the devices which have already received the OTA update notification. This tutorial will help capture the OTA URL. Moreover, once the OTA links are live and available, we will be posting it immediately. So stay tuned.
- Once you receive the OTA notification, do not update and do not reboot.
- Download the OTA and let it remain on the device.
- Connect your smartwatch with your Android phone.
- Launch the latest Android Wear 2.0 app on the phone.
- Tap on the 3 vertical dots, which is the options tab, and select Report Wearable Bug.
- It may take a long time to retrieve the log for the last hour.
- You will get a notification on the phone saying the report was received.
- Now you can directly email yourself to get the log on your PC.
- Download and open the report.txt file via file editor like Notepad++.
- Now search for a “.zip” URL in the log file.
- There may be multiple .zip file, make sure you paste the URL in address bar and confirm it can download the OTA via a browser.
Android Wear 2.0 Update Download For Moto 360 Sport Smartwatch Connect To Phone
See how to install the Android Wear 2.0 OTA update on your smartwatch via ADB sideload method. Kindly share the URL here so we can share it with the Android community.