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How to preserve gear 2 backup when flashing different roms

So before I flash a rom I backup my gear watch via gear manager, however everytime I go back into gear manager, after flashing a new rom, and I repair the device and it pairs, then forces me to reset my watch. After I do and go to restore/backup, my backup doesn't appear. Anyway to keep my gear properly backed up? Thanks

eeeeeeeeek said:
So before I flash a rom I backup my gear watch via gear manager, however everytime I go back into gear manager, after flashing a new rom, and I repair the device and it pairs, then forces me to reset my watch. After I do and go to restore/backup, my backup doesn't appear. Anyway to keep my gear properly backed up? Thanks
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Does no one flash different roms that has a gear 2?

I flash Roms fairly often on my Note 3 (mostly for upgrades, or to try to remove weird problems), but I haven't come across a decent way to back up my Gear 2. I just roll with it, and when I get my watch re-paired, I go into Sammy Apps under the Purchased section, and reload my apps through that. It functions like an 'all apps ever installed' list, which saves a little time. I haven't had luck with TiBu or similar services - the phone says the apps will be installed, but they won't be on the watch. Wish I had a better answer for you.

Thanks
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Damn if only there was a titanium backup for the gear

How to restore Gear manager with connection to Gear S2 intact after a factory reset?

Hi folks,
This has been bothering me for months now. I frequently change ROMs on my Note 4 and also factory reset my phone, wiping the data partition.
While I do Titanium backup of all the apps with data, including the gear manager app with its services gear plugin, samsung accessory service, SAsystemproviders, and restore them after factory reset with the data, I still need to reset my Gear S2 to be able to connect to gear manager and hence lose most data and settings on my gear s2 - which for me is importantly s-health data.
So I have the following questions:
Am I missing something here during my backup?
How to ensure that gear manager sees gear s2 the same way it did before factory reset and connect with it without a reset
And is there any way atleast I can sync my gear s2 data to s-health online without having to rely on gear manager??
Thanks

On first point that's a security feature. You wouldn't want your watch to sync up with a third party's phone which is what it thinks your newly flashed phone is until you pair it. On the second point not sure
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Restoring old backup to new watch

Ok, so first post here, and I see from some others that I’m not alone with a few of the glitchy aspects of the software: like the moody wake-up wrist flick thing. After trying all resets etc., I backed up my Gear Sport, went and exchanged it for a new one, and now would like to restore that old backup to the new watch.
Yet, I get stuck on a frozen restore screen that simply tells me that it’s lookijg for backup data and that it may take awhile.... after quite the awhile, nada. Am I missing something? Can that old backup not port to a new watch? I mean it’s not the end of the world, as I cane reinstall the apps and such, but one would think that data would be portable and not tethered to a serial number or something .... right?
Right?
Thanks everyone.

Did you use the setting on the watch that asks if you are connecting to a new phone or did you just disconnect and try to pair? If the former it should find your back up in the cloud. I have found that if I force stop the gear app and clear cache the back up/restore feature would work for me

Upgrade Gear S2->S3 - can you transfer data?

Hi all,
I've tried searching and come up with nothing for this situation. I've been using a Gear S2 for a long time and now I'm switching to a Gear S3. Is it possible to transfer over all the data from the S2? I need things like the step count, heart rate data, app settings etc. (no music or anything, though) I thought resynchronising in Samsung Health would do it but it only took the new data from the S3 and didn't send back the S2 data from before.
I also tried doing a backup and restore and backed up the S2 content but it won't let me restore to the S3.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

If you were synchronising the data in Samsung Health then it should have been keeping it in there when you were using the S2. It stores all that in your Samsung Health history.
But there's no way to "copy" the old S2 data onto your S3.

the_scotsman said:
If you were synchronising the data in Samsung Health then it should have been keeping it in there when you were using the S2. It stores all that in your Samsung Health history.
But there's no way to "copy" the old S2 data onto your S3.
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Thanks for the reply, I have it all synchronised with the phone but I wanted to get it on the watch, too. Is there a way to restore to another S2 (or S3)? I mean, if you replace the watch, what happens then? Why would you backup at all unless you were going to wipe it and restore again?

Enough of this white screen problem

Its totally annoying when i try to enter app store from gear manager and see a blank screen. What a bull**** software. I dont want to soft reset and install everything again everyday.

Used to happen to me a lot a while back. Best to update the watch, the gear manager, the gear s plugin & the samsung accessory service. After updating the watch, it might help to do a full reset & to not restore a backup but rather set everything again manually.

I factory reset my Phone and gear and then installed all software from aptoide not play store and everything is working Fine for a few days. I hope it wont happen again. Thx for advice