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Originally Posted by ApK
Odd, that seems like one wheel that wouldn't need reinventing.
I have several devices, even very cheap ones, where the only user interface is "it's on or it it isn't" and even they manage BT pairing and connections reasonably well. Having a touch display available should make it no-brainer.
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Well yes, that seems to be a casualty of friendly fire. I had forgotten the face of my Father, and the Prime Directive of all repairers of computers. Which is to say when in doubt, reboot.
When I was initially setting up the CoWatch, I was interrupted during the pairing process and had to start over. 'Twould seem that I had inadvertently introduced some bogus settings in my phone causing some instability in the BlueTooth stack.
When I got home from work yesterday and began fiddling, one of my fiddles was to reboot my phone; and wallah! The watch connected up and began running normally. The notifications started working properly too, in fact a bit too properly. Da buggah was viberating about every ninety seconds. I had to block a few of the who gives a s**t notification to just get the thing to quit buzzing.
A bit about the battery; CoWatch advertises a 32 hour battery life, but after fifteen hours yesterday it was down to 20%. Granted, yesterday was not typical use but it wouldn’t seem that the thing will make a day and a half. As long as it lasts a day that’s OK, I’m used to charging up every night anyway, but that brings up another issue. When I put it on the charger last night, I got it backwards, so it wasn’t charging, and I woke up this morning to a dead watch. My Android Wear watches change the face to show the state of charge when they’re on the cradle, the CoWatch does not. That’s not a deal breaker, but it is a feature request for some future software upgrade.
All in all, I’d still give it four stars, but that went from rounding up from three and a half to rounding down from four and a half.