No notifications and "Unfortunately Zenwatch manager has stopped"

[itm]

After a phone reboot this morning I was unable to reconnect my Galaxy S4 (running Lollipop) to my Zenwatch. I tried rebooting both the watch and the phone but no luck, so eventually had to factory reset the watch. Now the Android Wear app says it's connected to the watch (I can check the battery level of the watch), but notifications aren't working. When I use the "Try out watch notifications" option in the Android Wear app I get nothing on the watch.

I also find that when I try to select certain watch faces (e.g. Explorer) it fails with a message which says "Unfortunately Zenwatch manager has stopped". I've uninstalled and re-installed the Zenwatch Manager app, but during the installation process it created a notification saying "Android Wear seems to have a problem in pushi..." (that's all I can see of the message). After rebooting the phone and launching the Zenwatch Manager app again it now tells me that Android Wear is still pushing the Zenwatch Manager config to the watch (some 30 minutes after I re-installed Zenwatch Manager on the phone).

All in all it's a bit of a bloody mess. Can anyone suggest a clean start procedure that will get me back up and running?

 

[Willber G]

I would start with a factory reset of the watch and uninstalling/reinstalling Zenwatch Manager.

 

[itm]

As per my OP - that's actually what I did (factory reset watch, then reinstalled Zenwatch Manager)
???

 

[Willber G]

Doh, I meant Android Wear.

 

[djbummer]

Re:

Any updates?

 

[DutchFIX]

Hi,
I had almost the same thing. For some reason the notifications on my zenwatch 1 weren't showing on the watch. It always worked but for some reason the last week orso i had that trouble.

Seems there is a setting in your phone that, i presume, got disabled after the update to the new zenwatch manager.
My phone is dutch so maybe the translation is not completly correct, it's also depending on your Rom ( Note4 here)

Look for sounds and notifications and the option notification access. If you click it i had two programs in the list, Wear and Zenwatch manager. Only the Wear was enabled.
Enabled Zenwatch manager and the notification where back .. yeah