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Things Android Wear doesn't do so well yet: reliably deliver and sync Hangouts messages

1,411 views · Published 26 August 2014 · 1:09 · Indexed 17 October 2026

Channel: Android Police · 2014 · Science & Technology

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Android Wear is great... when it works. But sometimes, unpredictably, it stops delivering Hangouts messages created using the voice reply feature. It could be just one or two disappearing messages while delivering the rest, or it could decide to stop delivering them altogether (like you're seeing here).

You can never be sure if everything you're saying is getting through without verifying every message on the phone (which obviously defeats the purpose).

Android Wear is still a beta product, as we've been saying. A beta badly in need of a massive bug-fixing and feature-enhancing update.

Plus, shouldn't the notification go away on the watch when Hangouts on the phone is opened, and the corresponding notification on the phone disappears? We've been observing that quite often, actually - notifications get out of sync all the time.

But regardless of the above, even when voice replies do work, and we're talking to someone, we would still end up with random missed messages resulting in quite a bit of confusion.

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