While Google had to withdraw the update of its connected watches to Wear OS 5 due to major bugs last month, the firm seems to have corrected the problem.
Even among the biggest tech manufacturers, we are not immune to particularly risky updates that can completely brick devices. This is the moral we will remember from updating the Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2 to Wear OS 5.
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At the end of September, Google launched the deployment of Wear OS 5 to its two previous connected watches, after having natively released its Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 3 XL with the latest version of its OS for wearables.
Unfortunately, just a few days after the deployment, the firm had to backtrack. The cause was an update which tended to brick certain connected watches, stuck on a black screen. Enough to push Google to suspend the deployment and spend more than an additional month on fixes, aiming for an update ” later in the year ».
An update finally deployed on Pixel Watches
Finally, as reported by the site 9to5Googlewe are now “ later in the year » and the firm has resumed the deployment of Wear OS 5 to its Pixel Watch and Pixel Watch 2.
The update notes for the two watches notably reveal two fixes for bugs preventing the watch from charging when restarting or displaying a white screen when navigating with the crown of the watch.
Incidentally, Google took the opportunity to also update its Pixel Watch 3 and Pixel Watch 3 XL to the November 2024 security patch.
If Google seems to have managed to update its previous watches to Wear OS 5, Samsung seems to have more difficulty. The Korean manufacturer is still lagging behind on its updates, including simple security patches.
