Hmm, I seem to recall two lines of something in the app while I was waiting.
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Hmm, I seem to recall two lines of something in the app while I was waiting.
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Mine now looks like yours. Still can't make or receive a call on the watch. Will give it a few hours.
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New toy arrived, fecker must be on Watch OS 5, won’t accept my backup 
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No go. Can't make or receive calls. Watch says it's on Vodacom but when you try to call it says call failed in a few seconds. Calling the watch goes to voice mail.
Logged a new ticket as they closed the previous one. Back in the queue...
Logged a new ticket as they closed the previous one. Back in the queue...
FFS
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New toy arrived, fecker must be on Watch OS 5, won’t accept my backup
Ended up it was on OS6 something, so I had to set up as a new watch, then update to 7.2 and then reset and it would accept my backup from this morning.
Now all set up (it even offered to automatically install a calling plan
).Everything is go, I didn’t think the always on display was a big deal, but I like it. Only one snag is one of my bank cards doesn’t want to reinstall (Starling Bank, Twitter seem to say it’s a bank bug), but my main cards are on so no big deal).
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My problem is Vodacom.
Really struggling to get any kind of signal where I live and it’s getting progressively worse.
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Yep, it was really simple once the firmware was updated. Just one bank screwing about sending the SMS to activate that card.
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Guy from Vodacom called. He is stumped.
Says that a new memo was received that the watch wifi must be off during activation due to the new firmware. So busy with my second reset of the day and will try that...
First reset didn't offer the activation. So removed the plan from the watch app. Then reset again.
Says that a new memo was received that the watch wifi must be off during activation due to the new firmware. So busy with my second reset of the day and will try that...
First reset didn't offer the activation. So removed the plan from the watch app. Then reset again.
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FFS, doesn't offer the activation with second reset.
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Sounds like an absolute pain the way Vodacom are implementing this, it shouldn’t even need personally talking to the network to activate.
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Still not working even with their activate with no wifi trick.
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Got it to work!
Had to forget my wifi networks on the watch!
Realised in control center that I don't see the signal strenth and then learned the meaning of black/white/blue/green button colours, that allowed me to experiment.
So there is a routing bug.
I guess the phone pairing copied my wifi logins over.
Had to forget my wifi networks on the watch!
Realised in control center that I don't see the signal strenth and then learned the meaning of black/white/blue/green button colours, that allowed me to experiment.
So there is a routing bug.
I guess the phone pairing copied my wifi logins over.
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Oh, also, the iPhone airplane mode works differently. In airplane mode the wifi and bluetooth options are togglable. Airplane mode remembers it. So turning on airplane mode on a newly reset iPhone keeps both enabled by default. As an Android user you'd think they were off. That was another confounding factor.
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I'll be schooling the Vodacom tech when he calls Monday.well, there’s a mission impossible mission complete
It's an Apple bug imo. If your watch is connected to wifi (your home network) then cellular doesn't activate. Want to test it out?
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Yep, checks out. I haven’t played with it at all until now but just saw that when phone and watch are disconnected from WiFi and Bluetooth then the cellular icon on the watch turns green and you get signal strength on the dots above it. First time I’ve seen this. So all the time when the cellular icon is white, it’s connected to either the phone or the home WiFi.
It makes me wonder how I managed to enable Vodacom on the watch then because I’m never away from my phone or WiFi. And so it’s not connected to Vodacom on cellular to allow the activation.
Edit: Yaaaaaaayyyyy
