Android 9.0 Pie update brings troubles for Gear smartwatch users

Final updated: August 14th, 2018 at 19:01 UTC+01:00

With every major Android update, it's mutual for some apps to misbehave, and the same matter happened with the Samsung Gear app when Google released the Android P Developer Preview back in March. Gear device users who installed the beta software faced compatibility and operation bug with the Samsung Gear app.

The app apparently suffered from crashes and connectivity bug, rendering some Gear wearables unreliable and in some cases completely unusable. Samsung was made aware of these problems with countless reviews on Google Play Store, and the visitor assured these would be fixed past the time the final build of Android ix.0 is out.

Samsung is looking into the complaints

Later months of beta testing, Google finally released the stable version of Android 9.0 final calendar week, merely it appears Samsung hasn't addressed the Gear app compatibility issues nonetheless. While information technology is not articulate how widespread and serious these issues are, many users are still complaining about them on the company forums, Reddit, Twitter, and the Google Play Store. On its office, Samsung says it is looking into it these complaints but is not offering whatever details virtually when and if a set will arrive.

It is understandable the Gear app didn't play nice with the Android P beta. Simply for Samsung to not fe out the bug before the stable version rolls out to the general public is unacceptable since the company sells its wearables as uniform with not-Samsung devices as well. Users accept been lament almost these bugs since the arrival of the commencement Programmer Preview, so Samsung had aplenty time to take care of them.

Now that Android 9.0 is out for the general public, many Gear smartwatch users may be updating their smartphones to the latest Android version without anticipating any Gear app compatibility issues. If the reported issues are indeed widespread, we tin look more than dissonance in the coming days from disgruntled users.

If you regularly employ a Gear smartwatch, it is amend to hold off updating your Google pixel or other Pie-supported phones until Samsung fixes or offers a solution for these compatibility problems.

Update: Samsung pushed out an update to the Gear app which seems to have fixed the issues. The latest update v2.2.21.18080361 also adds support for the recently-announced Galaxy Watch and renames the app to Galaxy Vesture. If you haven't received the update yet, you can grab the APK from hither. Do allow us if the update resolved all the bug for you.