Android location detection WITHOUT bluetooth coection

My location detection works BUT it doesn't work when I discoect the smartphone from the watch. Is there a way to still be able to check location but without the smartphone.

I used this tutorial for location detection: https://developer.android.com/training/articles/wear-location-detection.html

this is the code now:

mGoogleApiClient = new GoogleApiClient.Builder(this)
            .addApi(LocationServices.API)
            .addApi(Wearable.API)  // used for data layer API
            .addCoectionCallbacks(this)
            .addOnCoectionFailedListener(this)
            .build();

 System.out.println("created request");
     locationRequest = LocationRequest.create()
            .setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY)
            .setInterval(1000)
            .setFastestInterval(500)
            .setSmallestDisplacement(0);

    System.out.println("created listener");
    locationListener = new LocationListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
            System.out.println("updating gps");
            updateGps(location.getLatitude() + ","+location.getLongitude());
            stopLocationUpdates();
        }


    };

LocationServices.FusedLocationApi
            .requestLocationUpdates(mGoogleApiClient, locationRequest,locationListener )
            .setResultCallback(new ResultCallback(){

                @Override
                public void onResult(@NonNull Result result) {
                    if (result.getStatus().isSuccess()) {
                            Log.d(TAG, "Successfully requested location updates");
                    } else {
                        Log.e(TAG,
                                "Failed in requesting location updates, "
                                        + "status code: "
                                        + result.getStatus().getStatusCode()
                                        + ", message: "
                                        + result.getStatus().getStatusMessage());
                    }
                }
            });

Is it possible that this will only be possible from the next major android wear update because I heard that smartwatches will be more independent.