Hi everyone,
I guess that many of you would agree with me that performing a clean install of a (custom) ROM on your Android phone quite a pain, as one must restore all its apps from his/her backup, set up accounts, etc. Ever since I bought HW2 though I realized that the pairing of the smartwatch with the phone cannot survive a TitaniumBackup of all the related apps and their data (namely Android Wear, Huawei Fit and the rest of the Huawei apps), and a reset on the watch is necessary to pair it up again (with the same phone); as setting up the phone from scratch wasn't enough
Am I doing something wrong, or such a situation is unavoidable? Also, is there a way to perform a quick backup of the watch' apps (if not along with their data), so that I don't have to download them again one by one from Play Store on the watch (assuming that I haven't unlocked the bootloader and haven't installed TWRP)?
Thank you in advance!
There is actually a way to pair the watch to another phone, or in your case, to you phone after flashing a new rom without needing to factory resetting the watch, read here
https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/
Btw i tried this method and confirm that it works!
Good luck!
Kianush said:
There is actually a way to pair the watch to another phone, or in your case, to you phone after flashing a new rom without needing to factory resetting the watch, read here
https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/
Btw i tried this method and confirm that it works!
Good luck!
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Thank you so much for sharing this. You can't imagine how many times I was forced to reset my watch because of a custom ROM installation.
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Hey guys ,
Recently one of my friend lost his Samsung Note 3.. After that I felt like there should be some kind of app that can help us to retrive device.
I used to used DanDum/Theftie kind of apps.
Some kind of features I think an antitheft/mobile tracker should have are.
1. cannot delete this software even if u update ur rom/factory reset our device or any kind of reset shouldnt reset our device.
2. track exact location of device.
3. remote control of my device.
4. track device even after chaning the sim card.
5. remote data on , GPS , call option.
Please guys give your suggestions
boyz211 said:
Hey guys ,
Recently one of my friend lost his Samsung Note 3.. After that I felt like there should be some kind of app that can help us to retrive device.
I used to used DanDum/Theftie kind of apps.
Some kind of features I think an antitheft/mobile tracker should have are.
1. cannot delete this software even if u update ur rom/factory reset our device or any kind of reset shouldnt reset our device.
2. track exact location of device.
3. remote control of my device.
4. track device even after chaning the sim card.
5. remote data on , GPS , call option.
Please guys give your suggestions
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I think only the iPhone can survive number 1 (surviving across factory reset). A simple fastboot flash of factory images will remove almost all anti theft apps on Android.
Knowing that you can't achieve number 1, that said you can have a look at Cerberus. It satisfies most of your criteria. I haven't used it in a while so there might be some bugs on LP.
Android Device Manager works too but it does not come with the features you want.
boyz211 said:
Hey guys ,
Recently one of my friend lost his Samsung Note 3.. After that I felt like there should be some kind of app that can help us to retrive device.
I used to used DanDum/Theftie kind of apps.
Some kind of features I think an antitheft/mobile tracker should have are.
1. cannot delete this software even if u update ur rom/factory reset our device or any kind of reset shouldnt reset our device.
2. track exact location of device.
3. remote control of my device.
4. track device even after chaning the sim card.
5. remote data on , GPS , call option.
Please guys give your suggestions
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Try cerberus, it can be installed in system app if you have root, and I am pretty sure it will survive factory reset.
It can track your phone location even its history.
It can notify you if the sim card is changing and not what you've listed, it can use your front facing camera to capture the thief image, etc.
Got it for free when cerberus celebrate its birthday, so far it does pretty decent job.
Even one day I forgot to list my new sim card and the phone ringing at full volume, snap my face, and sending it to my mom's number and my email lol
And one more thing, it will tell you the new simcard number, so you can call it right away
for those of you with watches already, are there any issues with custom roms/rooted phones?
I assume there are not, but just wanted to check
thanks!
I have a Nexus 6 with AICP (rooted, LP ROM based on CM source) mated to a regular S2 (not sport). I presume the watch software is the same as on a Sport. I had little or no trouble getting everything that should work to work. I say everything that should work because if you have a Samsung device with TW interface apparently there are more features. After installing everything (which was not hard at all, just installed Gear manager from the Play Store and followed the directions), I did have to do a light reset on the watch to get the notifications to show up.
Anyway, I am quite happy with the combination and the watch is doing everything I have asked it to do.
Hope that helps,
Fred
thanks Fred, I am on a nexus 6 currently running MM Chroma, but also run MM AOSIP, and MM Pure, so I too think that a sport will work just fine..Thing is, I am gonna grab a 3G version from TMO in a few days when they hit, so hopefully, the phone stuff works as seamlessly as the conventional " stuff" does.
So, the order of things should be setup the watch first, then install Gear manager, then do do a "light reset" on the watch? Whats a "light reset", like a reboot, or more like a wipe? And, do you have to install that Samsung Services app too, or just Gear manager?
I assume the 3G model might have a big of a different setup, so once TMobile gets an actual owners manual for the 3G Gear S2 up on their site, I will check it out.
Thanks again for the 411 :good::good:
I would install gear manager first, then crank the watch up. Don't select reactivation lock because if you want to trade the watch in for some reason you will have to remove it (I tried on a watch that the idiot did not remove and I am still angry).
Follow the instructions and yes you will have download the services app but so be it if it works.
The light reset is kind of like a factory data reset but I had to do it to get notifications to work. It was painless (say compared to unlocking the boot loader on your phone
I am linking mine more and more.
Cheers,
Fred
Hi all, snagged an Xperia 1 out of electronics recycling at my job, charged it up and saw that it hadn't been reset and still had a pin lock on it. My dumb self decided to reset it via sony's software companion which updated the software (which nullified certain other bypass methods) and activated the frp. I want to be able to use this thing casually since its still a pretty good device, is there any way to get past it?
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Hi all, snagged an Xperia 1 out of electronics recycling at my job, charged it up and saw that it hadn't been reset and still had a pin lock on it. My dumb self decided to reset it via sony's software companion which updated the software (which nullified certain other bypass methods) and activated the frp. I want to be able to use this thing casually since its still a pretty good device, is there any way to get past it?
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Usually bypassing FRP is best shown in a video, because of the steps necessary to complete the process.
Search youtube for the model you have, most likely there are several videos that will work.
sd_shadow said:
Usually bypassing FRP is best shown in a video, because of the steps necessary to complete the process.
Search youtube for the model you have, most likely there are several videos that will work.
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I've seen the hardreset video on it but whenever I get to the step of installing the apk files it just doesn't work at all. package installer just repeatedly stops
Good morning XDA really after some advice. I managed to wipe my phone last night by ending up in the boot options when putting it into my phone holder in the car. Unfortunately it set itself to Chinese and then i must have said yes to reset.
For some inexplicable reason it has not been backing up lots of my data (I'm sure i set that to backup to google drive) such as whatsup chats google photos etc since upgrade it in Jan by the looks of it. I've looked at a number of recovery software but they don't seem to bring much back or to do a deep scan they need to be rooted.
Is rooting the only way to look at the physical storage. As I'im pretty sure I'm correct in thinking that the data is not physically wiped as such. just removed the data table?
On my old oneplus 3 i rooted it and that stopped me getting updates. I'm hopping that some of you guys can help me with these question?
1) is there any software to get this back and if so what do people recommend
2) if I was to root my phone as (dr.phone wants to do for a deep scan) would this stop me getting updates.
3) and or would it be easy enough to re root back to how it would have been prior to rooting so that oneplus would update normally
So I know there's a method for pairing Wear OS watches running 2.0 through ADB with the Google Wear OS app.
Does the same apply for Galaxy Watch 4 and the Galaxy Wearable App? I really don't want to go through the configuration and sideloading of all these apps again ... That's what I get for trying to do too much with ADB and experimenting .
Not that ive found.....its annoying as hell, i have a ticket in with Samsung over it, Lots of shouting at them for selling me a $500 watch that they then seem to think they can tell me how to use. I havent finished shouting at them by a long shot. Because i test ROM's you can imagine how many hours their bs costs me....
My previous watch the Active 2 was simplish, you just set the Android ID to the same as previous install...
Niether that or the ADB method posted for earlier Wear OS works...
Do you mean this method?
Because if this doesn't work, I have a major problem, since I'm replacing roms quite often.
How to Pair Android Wear Watches to New Phones without Factory Resetting
A tutorial on how to pair Android Wear smartwatches to a new phone without factory resetting. Also useful if you flash a custom ROM and don't want to reset!
www.xda-developers.com
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Do you mean this method?
Because if this doesn't work, I have a major problem, since I'm replacing roms quite often.
How to Pair Android Wear Watches to New Phones without Factory Resetting
A tutorial on how to pair Android Wear smartwatches to a new phone without factory resetting. Also useful if you flash a custom ROM and don't want to reset!
www.xda-developers.com
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it dosent work ;P
So this is the thing you were referring to. Good to know. I was planning on switching roms over the weekend, but I think I'll wait for a bit now.
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So this is the thing you were referring to. Good to know. I was planning on switching roms over the weekend, but I think I'll wait for a bit now.
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I doubt Samsung will do something about it ; ) they are out of their mind! For example they block blood pressure on non samsung phone so good that on some samsung phones it doesn't work too and they region lock the watch so when you have a phone from different region you can't connect the watch at least easily
Maybe they think if they block everything on everything they will sell some more blocked **** you know because security!
Yesterday I tried pulling an adb backup (adb backup -all or something) and ended up with a ~60MB file.
Has any of you tried this method for backing up and restoring a backup? Might not save the need to reset and pair again, but can save some time when reinstalling.
Haven't tried it myself, just throwing it out there.
munky-head said:
Yesterday I tried pulling an adb backup (adb backup -all or something) and ended up with a ~60MB file.
Has any of you tried this method for backing up and restoring a backup? Might not save the need to reset and pair again, but can save some time when reinstalling.
Haven't tried it myself, just throwing it out there.
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How it went in the end? If successfully, can you briefly describe the steps? I'll do my own research based on those, thanks
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How it went in the end? If successfully, can you briefly describe the steps? I'll do my own research based on those, thanks
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In a nutshell, it didn't work.
I pulled a backup, but no command would restore the apps.
This is so frustrating! I experiment with ROMs and the fact that that I have to start out fresh each time really makes me think of switching back to TicWatch.
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In a nutshell, it didn't work.
I pulled a backup, but no command would restore the apps.
This is so frustrating! I experiment with ROMs and the fact that that I have to start out fresh each time really makes me think of switching back to TicWatch.
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Speaking of switching back to TicWatch, you're not wrong. The only feature that I will miss would be the ECG capability (which also is broken, no QTc value calculation, etc)
berni502 said:
I doubt Samsung will do something about it ; ) they are out of their mind! For example they block blood pressure on non samsung phone so good that on some samsung phones it doesn't work too and they region lock the watch so when you have a phone from different region you can't connect the watch at least easily
Maybe they think if they block everything on everything they will sell some more blocked **** you know because security!
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Part of this is that blood pressure has to be approved by different authorities in different places. In the US, the FDA has not approved it.
Also, the stupid resetting thing appears to be a Wear OS 3 issue. Samsung never did that with Tizen. Google seems to have screwed the pooch on this one.
The thing about being unable to pair them once they lose connection is quite a big issue.
My watch and phone has just unpaired a few days ago, and I didn't do any system mods or anything for that to happens. If I try manual pairing with bluetooth it does not work.
I'm not friend of backups, since sometimes that process import some errors among system updates. So I normally do clean installings.
I tried that procedure removing google services via adb and wifi connection but de watch didn't connect in the end. And even if it connected it seems that some apps such as google Pay etc would give problems and would require to be reinstalled again.
On top of that I'm not quite sure but as I have the LTE version I think I will have to ask to my carrier to send me a new e-sim in order to connect the watch again, since I guess they are just one use.
So quite a big problem.
The really crummy part of it all, 1) the annoying tutorial EVERY DAMN TIME. although, as of the latest update (besides a reset a few days ago, oddly enough) it hasn't made me go through it. 2) the wearable app REQUIRING samsung internet (not beta) to be installed and default as browser while signing in and through the entire setup process. these are just to name a few things.