Unable to unlock Gear? - Samsung Gear S2

I have now had this smartwatch all day and have yet to even FRICKING use it. First I had to go through a bunch of crap about find my mobile, took 2 hours to find out why the hell my samsung account did not match up with the find my mobile account. Now as soon as i fix that problem it says it was unable to unlock the gear. Tap UNLOCK to try asgain. now i just hagve a FRICKING watch that is stuck on the setting up loading screen. only action i have had with this POS so far is powering it off. WTF can anyone help?

Lol, mine was connected in about 5 min.

Mine was stuck on the setup screen until I loaded the Gear app on my phone. Then I retried and things went fine.

So that means I cannot use basic functions like the simple watch function without having first connected the Gear S2 to a smartphone with Gear app installed?

K-P-K said:
So that means I cannot use basic functions like the simple watch function without having first connected the Gear S2 to a smartphone with Gear app installed?
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That's the day I understand it, but only for the setup. After it's setup you can use it without the smartphone.

CTBob said:
That's the day I understand it, but only for the setup. After it's setup you can use it without the smartphone.
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Hmmm, what a pity. So, an at the moment simply too old or incompatible smartphone hinders me to try out the basic function as a simple watch :crying:

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[Q] Tap here to use location info on mobile phone.

I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
dave1977nj said:
I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
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Did you solve this, I too am having the same problem
alienmaan said:
Did you solve this, I too am having the same problem
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I had this issue on my GS6 and it drove me crazy. I ended up using D.M.A. Navi Watch instead. It shows the weather by default and when you're navigating somewhere it shows you directions. I was finally able to get the weather service to work with the stock weather watch face by uninstalling everything to do with Gear from my phone and reinstalling. I think the problem was initially with the WeatherProvider app, but it's one of the pieces of software that's installed automatically when you pair your Gear 2, so you have to uninstall all of the Gear software and let it reinstall itself when you pair your Gear again. It's a pain I know, but I don't know a way around it.
Noyes86 said:
I had this issue on my GS6 and it drove me crazy. I ended up using D.M.A. Navi Watch instead. It shows the weather by default and when you're navigating somewhere it shows you directions. I was finally able to get the weather service to work with the stock weather watch face by uninstalling everything to do with Gear from my phone and reinstalling. I think the problem was initially with the WeatherProvider app, but it's one of the pieces of software that's installed automatically when you pair your Gear 2, so you have to uninstall all of the Gear software and let it reinstall itself when you pair your Gear again. It's a pain I know, but I don't know a way around it.
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Samsung is such a jerk that it ruins something on purpose so that people will go and buy new one instead.
Beginning to think that the Samsung remark is on target. I spent over an hour on phone with tech - my belief that users give up and purchase new phone. However, it does not make me want to invest in Samsung tech when this happens.
dave1977nj said:
I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
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Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy Gear 2 Neo. I unpaired my watch, uninstalled the Gear app on my phone and the other 3 apps it said would be uninstalled. I touched Pair in bluetooth to reconnect to my watch and go through that. It should start installing the gear app on the phone. Allow phone/gear pair. It took 3 tries for successful pair. This fixed my weather on the watch. Hope this helps.

Gear Apps Store Wont Load

Hi
As of yesterday at about 9PM, the gear Apps store is refusing to load - the app on my phone just shows a 100% white screen when I select 'Samsung Galaxy Apps'. This is 100% repeatable and occurs after restarting phone and watch and after re-installing the gear app on the phone.
Start App -->Goto Settings Tab --> Select 'Samsung Galaxy Apps'
Start App --> Goto Info Tab --> Select 'View More Watchfaces'
Start App --> Goto Info Tab --> Select 'View More Apps' under 'Suggested Apps'
Each of the above results in a 'Loading' dialogue followed by a 100% white screen from which I can only press the Androud 'Back' button to get back into the gear App. Extremely poor...
Interestingly this occurred about an hour after I left a poor review for the Gear App (Which I think is extremely poorly written) on the Play Store. I wonder if they have the ability to disable the watches features for anyone who expresses discontent with them!?
Nigel
I have a Samsung phone so I'm not sure if the steps would be the same for you. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Application manager and then find galaxy apps and clear cache and data if you can find it. For me on my Samsung phone it's a separate app from the Gear app. Hopefully that works for you.
Someone watching you Neo... What a ridiculous suggestion and theory about significant importance of your comment
Gio999 said:
Someone watching you Neo... What a ridiculous suggestion and theory about significant importance of your comment
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Lol, ever heard of 'tongue in cheek'?
Thought not!!
I fixed this by re-installing everything. It worked for a day (failing to load intermittantly), and then did exactly the same thing again - white screen, 100% failure to load gear app store. I now have no way to install apps until Samsung fixes whatever they broke.
Appears from another thread on here that I am not alone. Minded to just return the damn thing. Have avoided Samsung stuff for years due to poor quality software - looks like they have not improved.
Nigel
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Outbreak444 said:
I have a Samsung phone so I'm not sure if the steps would be the same for you. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Application manager and then find galaxy apps and clear cache and data if you can find it. For me on my Samsung phone it's a separate app from the Gear app. Hopefully that works for you.
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Thanks, tried that my phone does not have a 'galaxy apps' item installes never has had. I reset the cache for the three samsung components that the watch requirea, but still a blank screen rather than the apps store.
I think I will just give up and send it back! Shame cause the hardware side of it is great.
Nigel
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veletron said:
Thanks, tried that my phone does not have a 'galaxy apps' item installes never has had. I reset the cache for the three samsung components that the watch requirea, but still a blank screen rather than the apps store.
I think I will just give up and send it back! Shame cause the hardware side of it is great.
Nigel
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Don't give up, mine did the same, so nothing, but I got it to work. I talked about it on the S3 forum here.
It 'fixed' itself this morning, but still fails intermittantly. Consoled myself by playing with the clever (but pretty pointless) youtube app for the watch. XENOZU
is it soleved yet ? i have the watch since december and this is the 8th time that i get the white screen on apps store. first it whas 2 or 3 days after reset my watch. but the last 3 mounths it whas good every day until today. i opened the gear apps store with bluetooth turned off.
Any solution guys, mine seems to have the same problems, and tried everything, is there a way to boot the phone in safe mode? and check
thanoss44 said:
Any solution guys, mine seems to have the same problems, and tried everything, is there a way to boot the phone in safe mode? and check
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Have you tried factory resetting the phone? I've used a couple of different phones with the watch and experienced an error similar to what's been described. The problem was solved by doing a clean install of the Samsung apps (via factory reset).
so annoying I got it working for a while by installing older version of gear manager and gear s plug-in but stopped again. The only other way it works is on the watch itself.
If you scroll through your watch face collection on watch, and go to get more watch faces you can access app store. But very limited function.
I had a very similar issue to this. I will copy/paste my post from another thread. Maybe it will work for you all:
"OK so you know how when you are first attempting to setup the watch it asks you to visit a website? You HAVE to visit that website if you want it to work on a non-Samsung phone! You cannot go to the Play Store and search for the Samsung Gear App. Why Samsung did this I have no idea. Basically what they have are TWO DIFFERENT Samsung Gear apps that appear to be identical; except one is for Samsung phones and one is for all others. WHY THEY DECIDED NOT TO STATE THIS ON THE APP PAGE IS BEYOND ME.
Anyway if you are having this problem, uninstall your Samsung Gear app. Then go to your watch, go to settings and choose the option to connect it to a new phone. On your cell phone, go to the website it tells you to. The website will ask you if you are using a Samsung phone or another phone, so obviously don't click the Samsung option. This will give you a direct link to the Samsung Gear app that is meant for all other phones.
Again it's a really bizarre thing on Samsung's part but I am so glad to have figure it out and I hope my post helps you guys or anyone else Googling this issue in the future."
EDIT: The website is http://apps.samsung.com/gear
OK did that chose the non Samsung phone and it redirected me on the app store for gear app. Downloaded it and had the same result... Go figure
Go figure
After going to the site it was stating and choosing the non galaxy version it went to the app store. Apparently I installed it and voila... The same happened..... What the...
Have you tried setting it up using a different phone?
You are right, installing it on my galaxy s6 is working right, but that's not the point since it does not work on my u11. Apparently that's the new way of forcing people to buy Samsung phones. Making products working correctly only with their brand. I feel pity for them.....
I have the same issue with zenfone 3. Its nearly one month of buying gear s3 and i factory reset my gear 4 times cuz of reinstalling the gear app. Its a shame for a top brand like samsung to have a software problem like this with a brilliant smart watch

SM-R765A - Problem after Tizen 3 update

Hi,
After the upgrade, I'm simply unable to Install any app/watchface directly from the watch.
When I press the install button, a message comes up saying "Verify your identity to activate your Samsung account. This is required to continue using this service and other features."
Point is that I see no way on how to activate it. To me is all activated... so no Idea on what they want me to do.
Please help.
Tks
This is good news that the lte versions are starting to get the update. You should be able to log into your samsung account from the phone and log out and then in again...you can also use the samsung members app or the "Contact Us" in the Gear App and send the question into Samsung and you may get a reply...
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Another bug. I have credit card (black)when i win Samsung Rewards . When add this card , app Samsung Pay is closed.
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This is good news that the lte versions are starting to get the update. You should be able to log into your samsung account from the phone and log out and then in again...you can also use the samsung members app or the "Contact Us" in the Gear App and send the question into Samsung and you may get a reply...
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Tried the log in/out. Nothing.
Changed the phone and reset gear. Nothing.
No one else with this problem?
Really no one with ATT version had the same problem?
wisefreakz said:
Hi,
After the upgrade, I'm simply unable to Install any app/watchface directly from the watch.
When I press the install button, a message comes up saying "Verify your identity to activate your Samsung account. This is required to continue using this service and other features."
Point is that I see no way on how to activate it. To me is all activated... so no Idea on what they want me to do.
Please help.
Tks
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Same problem here. No solution yet. I've already done factory resets, but no changes.
andre.berenguel said:
Same problem here. No solution yet. I've already done factory resets, but no changes.
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Hi Andre... I sorted it out today.. it was a lucky move.
As you have notice, from time to time you receive a message at your watch saying that policy blablabla was updated andyou must go into a certain link and when you access it, there's no accept option.
Here's what you have to do:
1) Access the following link: findmymobile.samsung.com using same account you have logged at your gear app.
2) There will pop the option for you to accept the new terms blablabla. When you press AGREE you will be logged off.
3) Logging to the same link.
4) Reboot your watch and VOILA.
No more annoying messages and you can install stuffs directly from your watch.
Let me know if this works for you too.
All this talk about installing stuff on the watch. I use mine in a minimalist way - phone, text, email, tracking a walk or run, and weather. That's it. If I need more I go to my phone. But to each their own.
rogerperk said:
All this talk about installing stuff on the watch. I use mine in a minimalist way - phone, text, email, tracking a walk or run, and weather. That's it. If I need more I go to my phone. But to each their own.
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Sure... but having annoying messages in the watch from time to time is a pain in the a$$.
Also, its like the watch wasn't acting normal... for me all good now.
wisefreakz said:
Sure... but having annoying messages in the watch from time to time is a pain in the a$$.
Also, its like the watch wasn't acting normal... for me all good now.
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Oh I completely agree with you on that! The comment was extraneous. I had some UI notifications when I first got the update but after afew resets they went away. These watches seem to operate more on emotion than logic sometimes.
rogerperk said:
Oh I completely agree with you on that! The comment was extraneous. I had some UI notifications when I first got the update but after afew resets they went away. These watcher seem to operate more on emotion than logic sometimes.
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Hahaha... Too much emotional!!!
wisefreakz said:
Hi Andre... I sorted it out today.. it was a lucky move.
As you have notice, from time to time you receive a message at your watch saying that policy blablabla was updated andyou must go into a certain link and when you access it, there's no accept option.
Here's what you have to do:
1) Access the following link: findmymobile.samsung.com using same account you have logged at your gear app.
2) There will pop the option for you to accept the new terms blablabla. When you press AGREE you will be logged off.
3) Logging to the same link.
4) Reboot your watch and VOILA.
No more annoying messages and you can install stuffs directly from your watch.
Let me know if this works for you too.
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after 1 year this worked. Thank you so much. (I used Microsoft Edge without adblock to get to the terms page)
mythoc said:
after 1 year this worked. Thank you so much. (I used Microsoft Edge without adblock to get to the terms page)
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Just found this thread after ages of this message on my S3 conneced to my Note 8 and this did not work. I used Edge, accepted the agreements, rebooted watch then phone and watch but still get the message!

Question Anyone using Samsung Pay? Doesn't work on my Galaxy Watch4 Classic

I am trying to set up Samsung Pay on my new Galaxy Watch4 Classic. No matter what I do, I can't get past this screen! Paired with Z Fold3. Touching the button with the arrow does nothing. Any help would be appreciated!
Update: Maybe this has something to do with it? Every time I open the Samsung Pay watch plug in on my phone it tells me it needs to update the Samsung Pay app on my watch. But every time it fails. Yes I've rebooted. No reason given. Any ideas? Phone is Z Fold 3.
maybe ur watch region CSC dont allow samsung pay .
samsung pay work in ur fold3 ?
check ur watch region
carlitobahsoun said:
maybe ur watch region CSC dont allow samsung pay .
samsung pay work in ur fold3 ?
check ur watch region
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Yes works fine on ZF3 and on my GW3 up until I cleared it. I'm in the USA and it's a US watch purchased directly from AT&T.
I had the same issue with mine when I first got it. I THINK what I did was disconnect from my phone and make sure the watch was connected to my home WiFi. Then it updated and I could set it up. It's been awhile so I can't remember for sure. Hope that helps!
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I had the same issue with mine when I first got it. I THINK what I did was disconnect from my phone and make sure the watch was connected to my home WiFi. Then it updated and I could set it up. It's been awhile so I can't remember for sure. Hope that helps!
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I will try that thank you.
roaddog665 said:
I had the same issue with mine when I first got it. I THINK what I did was disconnect from my phone and make sure the watch was connected to my home WiFi. Then it updated and I could set it up. It's been awhile so I can't remember for sure. Hope that helps!
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Nope didn't work, or I didn't do it right. I've had my watch disconnected from the phone (even turned off remote connection), WiFi only, for 2 hours now. Opened the Samsung Pay app many times, never prompted for an update and nothing ever happened on its own. Still can't get past that Get Started screen with the arrow button. Is there a way to manually trigger an update or clear data for an app directly from the watch? I couldn't find Samsung Pay in the Play store either to update or reinstall.
Ok, I may not be remembering correctly either. I would try resetting the samsung pay watch app in the Galaxy Wearable app. Watch settings>apps>app settings>samsung pay. Get into the settings there and check the version, it may let you update the watch plug in from there. If not I'd use the reset option.
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Ok, I may not be remembering correctly either. I would try resetting the samsung pay watch app in the Galaxy Wearable app. Watch settings>apps>app settings>samsung pay. Get into the settings there and check the version, it may let you update the watch plug in from there. If not I'd use the reset option.
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Thank you, good advice. Unfortunately that's the first thing I tried and there actually is no option to reset. Usually you can click on Storage and then have Clear Cache and Clear Data. Clicking on Storage for Samsung Pay does nothing. No option to clear anything. Can't uninstall either. The closest I could come to this was uninstalling and reinstalling the Samsung Pay Watch Plugin from my phone, and that didn't help. I did talk to Samsung and they want me to bring it to a service center or ship to them for physical repair, which is about what I was expecting for an answer. I did try resetting the watch back to factory defaults and reinstalling the wearables app on my phone, no luck. Brought me right back to the same place. I guess I will try exchanging it since I just bought it, and if the new one doesn't work I'll just go back to my GW3. Thank you for your help.
Did you tried to reset App data from ADB? ADB is a debug protocol for Android devices. With ADB you can do things which no allowed to do in User Interface. In Android OEMs like Samsung are disabling to much features in UI because they think people are dumb and they don't wanna mess your phone if you are not experienced user. With ADB you can do too much things in Android devices. I don't know how to reset app data with ADB but I did it before, just search the web.
Its easy. i had the same issue, only solved by doing this. Install APKPure and search for updates for your apps. it should appear there.update it, and afterwards you can uninstall the APKPure.
Best of luck mate.
Hi, was this ever solved in the end? I am just experiencing this issue... It's because of the new update for the Watch Plug-In, for some reason it cannot update the app on the watch itself or communicate to that app at all... I still experience that same stuck screen!! Any help would be appreciated.

Question cant connect google account to watch ( couldn't copy your google account error) FIXED !!!!!

so after 6mounth using this watch suddenly watch disappeared from wearable app and it wouldn't connect again always stuck on 80% or 90% of the process i searched many people faced this issue and had to reset the watch to connect it again and i'm using it on huawei phone (as before i was using) so wearable wont let you connect and you need to force it by samsung and now that i'm connected i cant signing my google account to my watch to restore my apps and watch faces now this google signing problem is there for all wearos users and many people face this problem i tried resetting the phone and watch several times using different google accounts and even tried to do this in a samsung device still the same result any one have any experience or idea about this? me and many others cant use their watches
FIXED!!!
UPDATE : After search for a long time and couple of factory resets and every single way that ppl said it fixed it for them it didnt worked for me until i saw someone had the same problem like me and only connecting to a Canada vpn fixed it for it sounded too random but i tried and it worked so if you have the same problem and other ways dont fix it try this first connect to a canada vpn then start copy account from wearable app on phone
I have a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra but ran into this issue when I first bought my Galaxy Watch4 Classic. What I ended up having to do is delete the Google account from my phone all together. Then setup the watch. Once I got the watch setup on the Galaxy Wear app, I reloaded my Google account on the phone, and all worked fine.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra but ran into this issue when I first bought my Galaxy Watch4 Classic. What I ended up having to do is delete the Google account from my phone all together. Then setup the watch. Once I got the watch setup on the Galaxy Wear app, I reloaded my Google account on the phone, and all worked fine.
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i tried almost all the ways that fixed some people problems like redoing multiple times disabling screen locks turning wifi off clearing data and caches removing g accounts almost everything out there but still there is too many people with the issue remaining idk why they make it so hard to do this when i could just put in my gmail and password in my watch simply
bhello same problem for 3 days, it annoys me crazy!!! I so regret having bought it, autonomy level is zero and now this bug with Google Frankly is too much
Hello. I had the same problem. After googling for longe time i found out it was a dns related issue.
Link (unfortunately only in german)
Long story short, as i could not figure out how to set up my router, i got it running by simply using mobile data instead of WIFI.
EDIT: I am not sure if i disabled "Private DNS" setting in Android as well
tu Still no response from Samsung? Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Me, I've tried all of them and I'm at the end of it
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tu Still no response from Samsung? Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Me, I've tried all of them and I'm at the end of it
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frankly me too i stopped using the watch couple of days now im gonna redo all the processes that i found in the internet if no luck im just gonna get rid of it cuz it was all working and suddenly stopped connecting to phone and wearable app so it will happen again someday
Did you try using Google DNS 8.8.8.8 while copying?
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Did you try using Google DNS 8.8.8.8 while copying?
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yes still no luck. i noticed after many reset factories my watch still connects to my wifi ap without required password and most of the people who cant solve this problem are using android 9 even on samsung s8 and s9 series
oh yes exactly, very strange the fact that the watch automatically reconnects itself to the wifi and that without any passwords and all that without any restoration!!
JI really hate against Samsung, because no solution is offered anyway went crazy. As usual, the customers remain in a dead end without any help from the manufacturer.
ste27.jah said:
oh yes exactly, very strange the fact that the watch automatically reconnects itself to the wifi and that without any passwords and all that without any restoration!!
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ste27.jah said:
JI really hate against Samsung, because no solution is offered anyway went crazy. As usual, the customers remain in a dead end without any help from the manufacturer.
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its either the watch is not wiping the data completely and the issue still remains or they are aware of this problem and cant solve it and even worse they wanna force ppl to upgrade their phones cuz all the new devices can fix the issue but the older devices running android 9 cant fix this and i searched lots of posts on samsung and google forums no official staff answering to the ppl only other ppl trying to help out. i mean why you should need to copy google account from the phone? why not just log into it with your freakin watch
It's not just Android 9. My OnePlus 10 Pro can't sign in. The Samsung sign in send you to a web browser to press continue to sign and just puts you in a death loop of continue button until failure. If you skip this part it fails to log in to Google account and then the wearable app has a bleeping seizure. I've tried resetting the device, restarting both phone and watch, wiping data from app uninstalling and reinstalling all needed apps and plugins.... I think this is a server side issue from Samsung bc when I go to Samsung website after creating my account I'm unable to to link my Google acct just a non functional set up button on the screen... At least my OnePlus watch can tell time this is just a useless wearable until patch is released
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It's not just Android 9. My OnePlus 10 Pro can't sign in. The Samsung sign in send you to a web browser to press continue to sign and just puts you in a death loop of continue button until failure. If you skip this part it fails to log in to Google account and then the wearable app has a bleeping seizure. I've tried resetting the device, restarting both phone and watch, wiping data from app uninstalling and reinstalling all needed apps and plugins.... I think this is a server side issue from Samsung bc when I go to Samsung website after creating my account I'm unable to to link my Google acct just a non functional set up button on the screen... At least my OnePlus watch can tell time this is just a useless wearable until patch is released
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i updated the first post check it out it fixed it for me i hope it helps you aswell
I have the same proble, VPN no works, I cant copy account google to watch... It is ....
found solution. downgrading gms to 23.05.14 worked for me

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