I have a S8+ on Verizon, and after rooting I am having some weird problems in Gear VR. When you first put boot up Gear VR it works excellent, maybe even better than before root. But if you take the headset off so that the screen shuts off and leave if off for about 10-15 seconds (but not removing the phone from the headset) two things happen. When you put it back on, it is clear when you are still, but there is severe motion blur when you turn your head. Secondly, the screen brightness stays at max no matter where you put the slider in setting. If you take the phone out of the headset, and then put in back in again, everything is normal until you take it off and try to put it back on.
I was trying to troubleshoot it but I can't quite figure out what is happening. It has the motion blur even with one eye shut. It doesn't show up on the recording as far as I can tell. I didn't use gear vr for a few weeks prior to rooting so I am not sure if this is a global Gear VR problem from one of their updates, or if this is coming from the SamPWND root. Has anyone experienced this?
I did also try uninstalling and reinstalling Gear VR and Oculus if anyone was wondering.
Is there anyone that has a SamPWND rooted phone who uses Gear VR that can comment on this? I am wondering if I should start from scratch and re-root, but am not sure if it will help.
Dirtdawg57 said:
Is there anyone that has a SamPWND rooted phone who uses Gear VR that can comment on this? I am wondering if I should start from scratch and re-root, but am not sure if it will help.
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Did you ever get this sorted out?
I'm in a similar boat, but I can't seem to get it to work at all.
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Did you ever get this sorted out?
I'm in a similar boat, but I can't seem to get it to work at all.
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No, I never got an answer. If you are using Samfail, the newest root method, it might not be working because it is debloated. You would have to download the needed gear vr apk files from another site, because it won't happen automatically when you plug it in to the VR goggles. I am not sure if that root method cleared up the motion blur I had or not. I gave up on Samfail too because I couldn't get the DEX Dock to work, and couldn't get an answer for it on here.
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No, I never got an answer. If you are using Samfail, the newest root method, it might not be working because it is debloated. You would have to download the needed gear vr apk files from another site, because it won't happen automatically when you plug it in to the VR goggles. I am not sure if that root method cleared up the motion blur I had or not. I gave up on Samfail too because I couldn't get the DEX Dock to work, and couldn't get an answer for it on here.
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I am using the latest SamFail. I finally got my VR headset to work like half an hour ago.
I think the biggest issue ended up being that I needed facebook installed (which was debloated from SamFail).
I found the setup wizard here https://gear-vr-setupwizard.en.aptoide.com/ It took a little doing (I think b/c of FB not installed) but it finally works now.
So you went back to stock?
biTToe said:
Did you ever get this sorted out?
I'm in a similar boat, but I can't seem to get it to work at all.
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I am using the latest SamFail. I finally got my VR headset to work like half an hour ago.
I think the biggest issue ended up being that I needed facebook installed (which was debloated from SamFail).
I found the setup wizard here https://gear-vr-setupwizard.en.aptoide.com/ It took a little doing (I think b/c of FB not installed) but it finally works now.
So you went back to stock?
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Yeah I am stock for the time being because I use my DEX quite a bit and couldn't figure out how to get it working again. I was also getting the Kernel Panic a lot for some reason. I miss root because of things I do with Tasker. Maybe in the future I will return.
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My phone has a problem in QIK for TMOB. It does not work with the back camera only works with front facing camera. But I downloaded regular Qik app from market and it does work perfectly. Does anyone else has this problem?
Also you might be wondering if regular qik works, what is the problem? The problem is when somebody calls me I am not able to flip my camera (I guess the tmob app opens up.) Then I have to call them back using regular qik and everything works fine.
By the way my phone is not rooted and nothing has been moded.
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My phone has a problem in QIK for TMOB. It does not work with the back camera only works with front facing camera. But I downloaded regular Qik app from market and it does work perfectly. Does anyone else has this problem?
Also you might be wondering if regular qik works, what is the problem? The problem is when somebody calls me I am not able to flip my camera (I guess the tmob app opens up.) Then I have to call them back using regular qik and everything works fine.
By the way my phone is not rooted and nothing has been moded.
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Well when most of these problems occur their is three routes you can usually take:
1) Uninstall the update that happened when you first opened the T-mobile Qik and than re-update it.
2)Just freeze/uninstall the T-mobile app from your phone and just use market one.
3)Yell at the heavens and curse T-mobile for condemning the G2x to a life burdened with bloatware.
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Well when most of these problems occur their is three routes you can usually take:
1) Uninstall the update that happened when you first opened the T-mobile Qik and than re-update it.
2)Just freeze/uninstall the T-mobile app from your phone and just use market one.
3)Yell at the heavens and curse T-mobile for condemning the G2x to a life burdened with bloatware.
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I like your 3rd option....
On a serious note, I tried the first solution you gave, but it did not work for me somehow. And I guess the second option needs rooting, which I am still not comfortable with. I came from HD2. I did lots of testing there but I didn't care about that phone anymore. But I love this phone which I don wanna mess up.
Anyways, thanks for the suggestions.
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I like your 3rd option....
On a serious note, I tried the first solution you gave, but it did not work for me somehow. And I guess the second option needs rooting, which I am still not comfortable with. I came from HD2. I did lots of testing there but I didn't care about that phone anymore. But I love this phone which I don wanna mess up.
Anyways, thanks for the suggestions.
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Well on a serious note rooting for this phone is cake and with oneclickroot you can unroot the phone too if your heart desires. Plus when you root you can change alot of simple settings to extend battery life and make the phone run better!
spencersir2 said:
Well on a serious note rooting for this phone is cake and with oneclickroot you can unroot the phone too if your heart desires. Plus when you root you can change alot of simple settings to extend battery life and make the phone run better!
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I guess I will be rooting it tonight then. Coz this small problems irritate me when I have really high end device like G2X. Thanks for giving me some extra push which I needed.
Thanks a lot for your help.
jalshah05 said:
I guess I will be rooting it tonight then. Coz this small problems irritate me when I have really high end device like G2X. Thanks for giving me some extra push which I needed.
Thanks a lot for your help.
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No problem someone had to push me my first time rooting too. And after you root look at the link in my sig for some tips on how to get more battery life.
When I opened Qik it said there was an update and directed me to the Market. With Record and Share open, when you hit menu, there's a button to switch the camera between front and back.
All,
The 5 September update of Gear Manager caused my watch to continuously disconnect from my Note 3.
The only thing I could do was factory reset the Gear 2 and reconnect. However, restoring the backup failed as the progress indicator remained at 100% and never continued. The last resort was a full wipe and start from scratch reinstalling all the apps.
Gear Manager settings show that an old backup is still present but it is greyed out.
Anyone else had this problem?
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All,
The 5 September update of Gear Manager caused my watch to continuously disconnect from my Note 3.
The only thing I could do was factory reset the Gear 2 and reconnect. However, restoring the backup failed as the progress indicator remained at 100% and never continued. The last resort was a full wipe and start from scratch reinstalling all the apps.
Gear Manager settings show that an old backup is still present but it is greyed out.
Anyone else had this problem?
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I'm runing tizen mod 3.0 and my galaxy s4 running hyperdrive RLS 18.1. I am having the same issues but cannot figure out of its eithe rof my roms on the phone or watch. i did notice that this disconnect issue did not occur when I had the stock factory image on my gear 2. I thought it might be the roms. But now that you mention it, it may be the latest update with gear manager.
I'm hoping some savy developer or someone with more expertise on the issue can shed some light on this issue.
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I'm runing tizen mod 3.0 and my galaxy s4 running hyperdrive RLS 18.1. I am having the same issues but cannot figure out of its eithe rof my roms on the phone or watch. i did notice that this disconnect issue did not occur when I had the stock factory image on my gear 2. I thought it might be the roms. But now that you mention it, it may be the latest update with gear manager.
I'm hoping some savy developer or someone with more expertise on the issue can shed some light on this issue.
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There is an update that was released today as well, and of 9 reviews 7 of them state that it breaks the gear 2. But hey, they added support for the Gear S....
anmghstnet said:
There is an update that was released today as well, and of 9 reviews 7 of them state that it breaks the gear 2. But hey, they added support for the Gear S....
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Thanks for the heads up. I was able to pull the old gear Manager apk file and did 4 factory resets on my watch and my phone to get the thing up and running again. Can't believe samsung would update the gear Manager and not do extensive testing if people are already complaining of it breaking gear 2 connection. [emoji19]
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Thanks for the heads up. I was able to pull the old gear Manager apk file and did 4 factory resets on my watch and my phone to get the thing up and running again. Can't believe samsung would update the gear Manager and not do extensive testing if people are already complaining of it breaking gear 2 connection. [emoji19]
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Any chance you could post the old gear manager apk?
I have TizenMod 3.0 and Saproviders stops, I can't get notifications on the gear anymore... Samsung is really making me lose patience :/
Edit : all due to today's upgrade.
Same here. Anyone else know if we can deactivate the automatic updating? I did my bi-weekly CWM backup just last night (lucky!) so I have no problem restoring but as soon as I reboot the damn thing automatically updates! I want to pull the sim out, do a restore, deactivate the auto-update function and just leave it as it is until there is a fix. I would try restoring from Titanium but there are like 9 additional apps that it either installs or updates after the new Gear Manager installs!
This may be late for some of you but this is how I get around the problems...
1) Before you update the gear manager app, make a backup of the gear manager apps with titanium backup. (all the apps associated with gear manager will have the same gear logo)
2) Then open the app and update the software
3) Once complete, confirm that your Gear watch is connecting and receiving notifications. (The easiest way to do that is send yourself a text message)
4) If your watch is not working correctly or not connecting to the phone, then go back into titanium backup and restore the Gear Manager app back to the backup you made in step 1.
5) Repeat steps 2 and 3 until it works.
I personally had to do this twice before it connected and I received notifications. For future updates this is the only way I would do it because it is such a glitchy application and I'm tired of factory resetting my Gear and re-installing everything multiple times.
I hope this helps someone!
Strangely enough this update worked fine for me. It was the previous update that messed all up here..
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Strangely enough this update worked fine for me. It was the previous update that messed all up here..
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Was your watch rooted or modded?
Not this time. Reverted back to stock just to be sure after the problems of the previous update. Just had it rooted then though.
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Not this time. Reverted back to stock just to be sure after the problems of the previous update. Just had it rooted then though.
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So you used ODIN to revert to stock, rooted by normal means and then updated the Gear Manager and it worked fine afterwards?
I flashed stock with Odin and left it that way after the problems with the previous gear manager update. Before that I just ran stock rooted, no custom rom. The only reason I rooted was to remove the camera sound, but I don't use the camera that much on the gear.
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I flashed stock with Odin and left it that way after the problems with the previous gear manager update. Before that I just ran stock rooted, no custom rom. The only reason I rooted was to remove the camera sound, but I don't use the camera that much on the gear.
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I'm thinking that this new Gear Manager update checks the watch for root access and won't let it connect. That's just my first impression anyway.
I removed root from my watch but kept TizenMod, re-paired the watch and it connected without a hitch.
I don't think root is the problem because most of the comments are negative and I doubt most people have their Gear rooted. I think it's a software issue because even before root was available there were plenty of people having issues with connecting and the software has not improved much since then.
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I don't think root is the problem because most of the comments are negative and I doubt most people have their Gear rooted. I think it's a software issue because even before root was available there were plenty of people having issues with connecting and the software has not improved much since then.
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When was the last time you made a positive comment for something like that on Play Store?
Still... you might be right. All I know is that as soon as I un-rooted it cleared right up. Could be coincidence though.
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When was the last time you made a positive comment for something like that on Play Store?
Still... you might be right. All I know is that as soon as I un-rooted it cleared right up. Could be coincidence though.
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I installed the new Gear Manager update yesterday and I thought all was ok. Its only when I came to load "Fitness with Gear" I noticed it won't sync anymore. Tried everything to get it to come back but its a no go. anyone any idea's on this or having the same problem?
Rich
xtermin8 said:
I installed the new Gear Manager update yesterday and I thought all was ok. Its only when I came to load "Fitness with Gear" I noticed it won't sync anymore. Tried everything to get it to come back but its a no go. anyone any idea's on this or having the same problem?
Rich
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Hmm.
Perhaps it could be related to Fitness with Gear because I have it installed as well.
Binary100100 said:
When was the last time you made a positive comment for something like that on Play Store?
Still... you might be right. All I know is that as soon as I un-rooted it cleared right up. Could be coincidence though.
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If it's an app I really like and support then I'll make a positive comment but I do also make negative comments as well. Root may cause some issues but before I had root I still had trouble with the app and had to factory reset multiple times just to get it to connect. I'm rooted and it still took me 2 times of trying to update to get it to work correctly. I think overall, Samsung did not spend enough time developing before releasing the Gear and Gear Manager. They're too busy pushing out a new phone every year and a new watch every 6 months.
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If it's an app I really like and support then I'll make a positive comment but I do also make negative comments as well. Root may cause some issues but before I had root I still had trouble with the app and had to factory reset multiple times just to get it to connect. I'm rooted and it still took me 2 times of trying to update to get it to work correctly. I think overall, Samsung did not spend enough time developing before releasing the Gear and Gear Manager. They're too busy pushing out a new phone every year and a new watch every 6 months.
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Agreed. This is definitely a poor job on Samsung. They did this **** just before the release of the Gear S? What a way to win hearts and minds. Think Apple will have these issues? I mean damn... the developers on this forum don't even have fails this big! When they notice that something that they developed doesn't work as expected they pull the link, fix the problem, TEST IT and then release it almost immediately. This is neglect.
My girlfriend has the S7 Edge (German model) now since it came out. She had Galaxy devices before, but since then she never really cared for S-Health. Now with the S7 she kinda does, and in the beginning the steps counter in S-Health worked fine. Now out of a sudden, it stopped counting. The device is still vanilla, no root, no mod or anything. It recently got the latest Update from Samsung that is available here. But even after that, the Steps counter still worked fine. Now it stopped most of the time, and if it works, it only says like it has done 30 steps (after it should be at least 2000 or so). On google i found a hint to uninstall all Updates for S-Health and reinstall them and start over with S-Health. Did that, no effect really.
Does anyone know what the issue is ? Is it a software issue, is a sensor in the device broken or faulty or what could it be ? Because for her, that Steps counter is important, and she really would like to continue with that. Maybe one of you also had this issue and even fixed it and maybe knows what to do. I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance.
Wolfseye
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My girlfriend has the S7 Edge (German model) now since it came out. She had Galaxy devices before, but since then she never really cared for S-Health. Now with the S7 she kinda does, and in the beginning the steps counter in S-Health worked fine. Now out of a sudden, it stopped counting. The device is still vanilla, no root, no mod or anything. It recently got the latest Update from Samsung that is available here. But even after that, the Steps counter still worked fine. Now it stopped most of the time, and if it works, it only says like it has done 30 steps (after it should be at least 2000 or so). On google i found a hint to uninstall all Updates for S-Health and reinstall them and start over with S-Health. Did that, no effect really.
Does anyone know what the issue is ? Is it a software issue, is a sensor in the device broken or faulty or what could it be ? Because for her, that Steps counter is important, and she really would like to continue with that. Maybe one of you also had this issue and even fixed it and maybe knows what to do. I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance.
Wolfseye
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It happens to me once, I removed the widget and put a new widget again and it started counting
She doesn't even use the Widget on one of the Screens. She just goes into the app itself to check. So she doesn't even have the widget in use.
Sent from a smartphone...
The same thing has just happened to me and my phone is only 4 months old. I tried uninstalling updates, and I do not have a widget. I am about to return it to Best Buy if I do not find a solution soon.
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting Samsung's Gear app to connect with my new Gear Sport. I've tried about a dozen different versions of the Gear app, Samsung Services, and Gear S Plugin. All with varying degrees of success.
The phone always finds the watch over bluetooth and appears to pair. However, from there I usually get stuck at the "connecting to gear" screen on the phone. One set of APK's got me a step further on the phone side but then the watch says "Connection failed. Try again."
This thread seems to imply that the latest versions of everything from the play store should work, but they don't for me:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...ng-gear-app-android-n-samsung-t3547035/page19
I am running a rooted Nexus 6P with the Nitrogen Oreo ROM.
Any help would be appreciated. I like the watch, but if I can't get this basic functionality to work I'll probably take it back.
Thanks in advance!
therabbi99 said:
Hi all,
I'm having trouble getting Samsung's Gear app to connect with my new Gear Sport. I've tried about a dozen different versions of the Gear app, Samsung Services, and Gear S Plugin. All with varying degrees of success.
The phone always finds the watch over bluetooth and appears to pair. However, from there I usually get stuck at the "connecting to gear" screen on the phone. One set of APK's got me a step further on the phone side but then the watch says "Connection failed. Try again."
This thread seems to imply that the latest versions of everything from the play store should work, but they don't for me:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...ng-gear-app-android-n-samsung-t3547035/page19
I am running a rooted Nexus 6P with the Nitrogen Oreo ROM.
Any help would be appreciated. I like the watch, but if I can't get this basic functionality to work I'll probably take it back.
Thanks in advance!
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I could never get mine to work on a custom rom. When I went back to factory firmware, it worked instantly.
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hgrunwell said:
I could never get mine to work on a custom rom. When I went back to factory firmware, it worked instantly.
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Thanks for the reply. Were you able to retain root at least?
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Thanks for the reply. Were you able to retain root at least?
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First thing I did was go back to Factory Firmware, then installed gear and accessories right after android setup competed, making sure it was working then re-rooted. Worked fine afterwards.
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First thing I did was go back to Factory Firmware, then installed gear and accessories right after android setup competed, making sure it was working then re-rooted. Worked fine afterwards.
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Well, it was painful, but I went back to stock and was then able to install all of the Gear apps. Not sure what about a custom ROM hoses everything up, but it sure did. Like you I re-rooted and everything still works. Haven't tried flashing back to the custom ROM though. I may stick with the stock ROM since everything is playing nice.
Thanks for the help hgrunwell!
Recently my gear fit2 pro quit counting steps, floors, and heat rate. Also the wake up gesture quit working. Judging by the amount of people having similar issues, it must be a real thing. I received a OTA update about a week ago and it seemed to be working fine. The only thing that I can think of that I did was connect the band to my home wifi. I searched high and low to find the software to roll it back. After accidentally loading the software for the SM-R360 which is no the pro, I had to pay to get the software for the SM-R365.
I thought I might load it up here in the hopes it might help someone else out and save you some $$.
My issues were solved and it is back to 100% after flashing the software. It is now running R365XXU2aQI1.
Flash it with Wifi_Odin.
Not sure what partition.pit is but it came with it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c6z4jwzhioaqLRkKFA1KMDlbP6bYxwSN
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Recently my gear fit2 pro quit counting steps, floors, and heat rate. Also the wake up gesture quit working. Judging by the amount of people having similar issues, it must be a real thing. I received a OTA update about a week ago and it seemed to be working fine. The only thing that I can think of that I did was connect the band to my home wifi. I searched high and low to find the software to roll it back. After accidentally loading the software for the SM-R360 which is no the pro, I had to pay to get the software for the SM-R365.
I thought I might load it up here in the hopes it might help someone else out and save you some $$.
My issues were solved and it is back to 100% after flashing the software. It is now running R365XXU2aQI1.
Flash it with Wifi_Odin.
Not sure what partition.pit is but it came with it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c6z4jwzhioaqLRkKFA1KMDlbP6bYxwSN
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When i flash this firmware i don't get any update OTA
Installing the firmware worked for me, the sensors are working now..
tmokeith said:
Recently my gear fit2 pro quit counting steps, floors, and heat rate. Also the wake up gesture quit working. Judging by the amount of people having similar issues, it must be a real thing. I received a OTA update about a week ago and it seemed to be working fine. The only thing that I can think of that I did was connect the band to my home wifi. I searched high and low to find the software to roll it back. After accidentally loading the software for the SM-R360 which is no the pro, I had to pay to get the software for the SM-R365.
I thought I might load it up here in the hopes it might help someone else out and save you some $$.
My issues were solved and it is back to 100% after flashing the software. It is now running R365XXU2aQI1.
Flash it with Wifi_Odin.
Not sure what partition.pit is but it came with it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c6z4jwzhioaqLRkKFA1KMDlbP6bYxwSN
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i am facing the same problem please provide me new link.
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Hrbie17 said:
Installing the firmware worked for me, the sensors are working now..
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please provide me download link
Anyone has a link to the file?
I can't find it and the ones I found once you open the file inside there's another version not the version R365XXU2aQI1
Link not working.
tmokeith said:
Recently my gear fit2 pro quit counting steps, floors, and heat rate. Also the wake up gesture quit working. Judging by the amount of people having similar issues, it must be a real thing. I received a OTA update about a week ago and it seemed to be working fine. The only thing that I can think of that I did was connect the band to my home wifi. I searched high and low to find the software to roll it back. After accidentally loading the software for the SM-R360 which is no the pro, I had to pay to get the software for the SM-R365.
I thought I might load it up here in the hopes it might help someone else out and save you some $$.
My issues were solved and it is back to 100% after flashing the software. It is now running R365XXU2aQI1.
Flash it with Wifi_Odin.
Not sure what partition.pit is but it came with it.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c6z4jwzhioaqLRkKFA1KMDlbP6bYxwSN
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Link not working.