[Workaround] Apps getting in "square" mode when using german as language

[brotbuexe]

Workaround:

- Set your phone language to english (it will set the watch language to english too, maybe you have to disconnect/reconnect the watch through the android wear app)
- Reboot your watch, the issue should be gone
- Set your phone language to german, it will set the watch language to german too.

Repeat the steps every time you want to reboot the watch, or you want the issue to be gone.
Maybe the issue is with other languages too. If you can confirm the issue and the fix with other languages, please post a reply with the language you normally use.

To get it fixed, please report it on the google android bug tracker too: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=77642
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Hi,

does anyone see this issue? If you haven't what are the software versions you have on phone and watch?

I reset the watch, the apps are synced again, they work for some time and then all of them are getting a zoomed in look where they thinking I have a square watch:

Before:

After:

I have this with at least the apps "Calendar for Wear", "Calculator", "Music Boss for wear", "Wear Battery Stats".
Software versions on watch: Android wear 1.0.1.1448224, Google Play services 5.0.91 (1378941-534)
Software versions on phone: Android wear1.0.2.1476973, Google Play services 6.1.74 (1511752-038)

One thing I see in the logcat:
10-19 09:45:07.792 W/GooglePlayServicesUtil( 2452): Google Play services out of date. Requires 6111500 but found 5091534

 

[super-6-uno]

Same problem here

The apps are not centered.

 

[Mocusolvan]

Same problem here, after reset all apps are correctly displayed but after a reboot or even just some time gone by they change to square layout.
Anyone found a solution to fix this?

 

[super-6-uno]

Same problem here, after reset all apps are correctly displayed but after a reboot or even just some time gone by they change to square layout.
Anyone found a solution to fix this?

Solution: Android 2.0? Or new ota minor update?

 

[brotbuexe]

Thanks for the feedback. Workaround for now seems to never reboot the watch or let it go till it shut down.
Let's hope the next update for the watch firmware fixes it.

 

[brotbuexe]

Still the same with 4.4w2

I made a imgur album http://imgur.com/a/YkSld and try to create a support request.

The apps I can confirm have the issue are for now:

- Calculator for Android Wear
- Android Wear Battery Status
- Mini Dialer
- Calendar for Android Wear
- Music Boss for Wear

Is anyone of you haven't this issue?

 

[brotbuexe]

@super-6-uno and @Mocusolvan, what system language are you using on the phone? And it is the same on your watch?

 

[Mocusolvan]

Both Phone System Language and Watch Language are set to German.

 

[brotbuexe]

Same for me.
@Mocusolvan. please try setting the phone language to us english. You don't have to restart the phone. You should see the watch switching to english too (maybe you have to disconnect / reconnect in android wear). When the watch is on english, reboot the watch. Now is the issue gone?
Go back to german, reboot the watch. Is the issue back?

 

[Mocusolvan]

After changing the system language to english everthing is displayed correctly even after several restarts. Once I switch back to german though a restart still causes the square layout to be displayed.
So it seems that the set language really does make a difference. For now I will stay with english until another solution becomes available. Thanks for the tip

 

[brotbuexe]

Thanks for the confirmation.

By the way, you could safely switch back to german. You just have to switch to english every time you reboot (start) the watch.

As a side note, I use english as the phone language and only have set the android wear app to german through the xposed module "app settings". That makes the watch german without messing with my phone language.

Found a issue that looks the same on the android bug tracker, https://code.google.com/p/android/i...s Owner Summary Stars&groupby=&sort=&id=77642

 

[meaghanmontgomery]

This solution doesn't fix this problem on my watch ?

 

[starnode]

Worked for me.

Put in a simpler way: the watch has to boot in english. You can then change default language to anything else, as long as it started in english.