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I don't know if anyone from LG will see this, but one of the major reasons I bought my GWR was for hiking. The Hiking watch face had an altimeter and compass and fit my needs perfectly. I updated to AW2.0 and lost that and bunch of my other watch faces. I messaged LG on Twitter and got this response:

Hello tinlo, LG Gwatch R may have some pre-installed watch faces that may not be compatible for the latest android wear. How about this steps, try uninstall the latest updates on the android wear app. To do this Go to Settings of your phone > Application > Select the android wear app > three dots on the upper right > uninstall updates. Then, reboot both your phone and the wa

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r/lggwatchr•

...and found nothing. No corrosion, nothing out of the ordinary. The inside looked like it just came off the factory floor. I was hoping I would find a smoking gun that would confirm why my watch was dead, but there was nothing. I disconnected everything, removed the board, the battery, the battery housing... anything I could unscrew and remove, I did.

So I put it all back together and put it back on the charger, and it immediately displayed the battery icon and started charging!! It was at 0%, the battery was completely drained. I don't know how or why, but there was something going on with the firmware that was preventing it from accepting a charge, so I think by disconnecting the batte

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