Hopefully someone here can answer this question. I am pretty sure I have a "Smart Watch Addiction". I love my Samsung Gear watch (original) as well as my new Gear 2 and I have a NEO as-well. WHY??? Well I keep the original because I like the build quality and the Android options on the original, I like the Orange Neo I just picked up for the color and the Gear 2 is just cool with the metal and new placement of the camera and speaker. And I don't know about the rest of you but after using a smart watch for awhile it is really hard to go back to a regular watch once you get used to the notifications. So now to my question: When I want to switch from one watch to the other I power off the first watch which is currently connected. Once it shuts down I power on the watch I want to currently connect with. Once it is powered up I open up gear manager and it shows no watch is currently connected. If I tap the top of the screen it has a "+" and it says the current gear will be disconnected. I am ok with that since I am wanting to connect to the other gear...I hit ok and then it shows currently paired devices in gear manger. I see all 3 watches listed. If I tap say the orange Neo it will show a message: Your Gear will be reset to the factory default settings. All the settings and downloaded applications data related to your gear will be deleted and the Gear will be reconnected to the mobile device. If I touch "OK" it proceeds to totally erase the watch I am trying to connect to and it does eventually connect but takes over 5 minutes. I tried unparing the device first and made it visible then searched for new devices and it finds the watch but once again want to reset it. Does anyone know a way to basically swap between multiple gear watches without resetting the watch each time? I have tried uninstalling gear manager and reinstalling I have rebooted both devices. I have a Note 3. Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Wow. I just asked the same thing before seeing this post. I bought two Neos in different colors and have the same problem. If you let it reset the watch it will then offer to restore it from backup, which it does, but not everything gets restored and you have to find and redownload everything that is missing. Then more often than not, it hangs up at the end of the restore and you have to reboot the watch. Takes an hour to go from my black one to my orange one. Aarrgggh.
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did you guys figure it out?
Ok, I have had the Sony SmartWatch 2 for about 6 months now and it has worked great for me until I got a new phone. I upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy S4 to a Galaxy S5. When I did this, I wiped the watch completely and reinstalled all the apps to the phone in which the apps pushed a new firmware to the phone, this was to allow for the 3 watch faces. Once I did that, the watch/phone connection works great, untill...I disconnect the bluetooth connection between the phone/watch for an extended period of time. I am not sure how long extended is but from the time I get home at night until I get ready to go to work the next morning is what I have been doing lately. Once I get up and get ready, I turn bluetooth back on and the phone will not connect to the watch and the Sony SmartConnect app starts to crash. The only way to get this to work again is to wipe the watch and reconnect all over again.
I went through yesterday and uninstalled all the apps, including the SmartConnect and the Smatwatch2 app needed to connect the watch, re-paired the two together and it worked until this morning when it failed again.
Any ideas? I really don't want to have to scrap the watch for something newer.
Thanks.
I went from S3 to S5. I notice that sometimes the watch is unable to reconnect to the phone until I restart Bluetooth on the phone. Also, I am using the previous watch firmware (hacked version allowing overdraw of watch widgets). Maybe you could try this version and see if that works?
Where can I download the firmware you are talking about? I have tried to restart bluetooth on the phone and that doesn't help. Seems like whatever has happened, the fact that Sony SmartConnect is crashing is causing the majority of the problem. Once that crashes, I can't get anything to work.
The most easy is to clear cache on the 2 android app -> SmartConnect and Smartwatch2.
After unpair and clear device on phone, on watch setup reinit watch. All this at one time.
Ok, cleared the cache on both the SmartWatch SW and the Sony SmartConnect apps then I unpaired the watch from the phone. I was able to repair it and get it to connect. I had to re setup my watch faces and my background but it looks like everything else is working.
Now, the big question is later today when I disconnect the watch from the phone and then come back a few hours later to reconnect it, will it reconnect or will it fail and if it fails, I can't see clearing the cache every time as the final solution to fix this.
Any ideas to consider if it fails again?
Thanks.
Use only one watchface perso with widget and 2 other as original in first time.
I noticied that have much problem with my SW2 when I load a lot of personalized face. All face fill the SW2 memory and there are some issue with memory. Before my SW2 rebooted often. Now I try to see with simple face and no more problem since this.
Recent update or something seems to have bricked my ability to connect to my gear. I've reset the gear, uninstalled and reinstalled, all to no avail. Even cleared data on accessory service.
Hangs on connecting to gear? Anyone else having that happen?
hkbladelawhk said:
Recent update or something seems to have bricked my ability to connect to my gear. I've reset the gear, uninstalled and reinstalled, all to no avail. Even cleared data on accessory service.
Hangs on connecting to gear? Anyone else having that happen?
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I am able to connect to my Note 4, but after the update I stopped receiving notifications. I restored the watch, tried everything in the notification manager and nothing happened. Then I turned offline mode on and off and it started working. But I turned off the watch over night and got the same issue again. Until now nothing made it work. Plus my watchface doesn't recognize the battery on the phone properly, so I guess it must be a connectivity issue. Tried everything on bluetooth and nothing. The watch became useless. I search for a new update every hour on the app but nothing shows up. Hope they solve it quickly.
2 days ago i had an update for my Note 4. Since than my Bluetooth is acting up like every 10 minutes. Either is closes and restarts on his own or simply disconnects. As my only device connected through BT is my S2 watch... i can't be sure its Note's4 fault... but its most likely
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Hi does anyone have a workaround on how to sign-in google account in galaxy watch 4? i always get an error saying could not copy google account to watch. by the way my phone is huawei p40.
Not sure if this related but thought I would throw it out there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/p82h39
weng_cas said:
Hi does anyone have a workaround on how to sign-in google account in galaxy watch 4? i always get an error saying could not copy google account to watch. by the way my phone is huawei p40.
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Hello,
I had the same problem before.
Try login into Google account on your watch when your phone and the watch are both connected to the same WiFi network.
Also, the first OTA update fixed a lot of things for me, including the ability for the watch to get internet by Bluetooth from my phone connected to mobile network.
If you can, try updating the watch first (using Samsung Wearable app on the phone) and then try to login with your Google account again on your phone.
Hope it helps !
kaalalto said:
Hello,
I had the same problem before.
Try login into Google account on your watch when your phone and the watch are both connected to the same WiFi network.
Also, the first OTA update fixed a lot of things for me, including the ability for the watch to get internet by Bluetooth from my phone connected to mobile network.
If you can, try updating the watch first (using Samsung Wearable app on the phone) and then try to login with your Google account again on your phone.
Hope it helps !
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thanks. i will try that. well let you know if it work.
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Not sure if this related but thought I would throw it out there:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/p82h39
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thanks for the. info.. actually everthing is working except for that playstore.
kaalalto said:
Hello,
I had the same problem before.
Try login into Google account on your watch when your phone and the watch are both connected to the same WiFi network.
Also, the first OTA update fixed a lot of things for me, including the ability for the watch to get internet by Bluetooth from my phone connected to mobile network.
If you can, try updating the watch first (using Samsung Wearable app on the phone) and then try to login with your Google account again on your phone.
Hope it helps !
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tried everything.. still no luck
Anyone found a solution to connect Huawei phone (p40 pro with google services) with galaxy watch 4?
I am getting error that Google account cannot be copied to watch.
I tried to connect my phone using 'connect to new device' after google account was copied to watch using another phone but with no luck....watch is reset and connection to google account is deleted.
Is there any solution for this or hope that we can get some working workaround in decent time?
I am thinking to change my phone for some galaxy phone or samsung watch fkr huawei watch 2 or 3.
I am really disappointed that in 2021 there is soo hard to connect 2 android devices. Not to mention all time spent to got working GSM on my huawei phone. n Maybe I should switch to apple ecosystem - there at least i can be sure that everything will work out of the box
tm001 said:
Anyone found a solution to connect Huawei phone (p40 pro with google services) with galaxy watch 4?
I am getting error that Google account cannot be copied to watch.
I tried to connect my phone using 'connect to new device' after google account was copied to watch using another phone but with no luck....watch is reset and connection to google account is deleted.
Is there any solution for this or hope that we can get some working workaround in decent time?
I am thinking to change my phone for some galaxy phone or samsung watch fkr huawei watch 2 or 3.
I am really disappointed that in 2021 there is soo hard to connect 2 android devices. Not to mention all time spent to got working GSM on my huawei phone. n Maybe I should switch to apple ecosystem - there at least i can be sure that everything will work out of the box
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still hoping someone would find a way. i too feel disapointed after not able to login my google account on my watch 4.
Same problem with Huawei P40 Pro
uRain said:
Same problem with Huawei P40 Pr
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uRain said:
Same problem with Huawei P40 Pro
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uRain said:
Same problem with Huawei P40 Pro
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sad for us p40 pro users. . still hoping someone would find a way to make it work.
hi does anyone have figured out a solution?
Any solutions?
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Any solutions?
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as of now. i think there is no solution but to buy samsung phones. . anyway i hope @Dante63 can help us on this.
Same problem here. The watch works fine and i have GSM on my P40 Pro loaded with Lzplay, but cannot copy the G account to the watch.
gogoultra said:
Same problem here. The watch works fine and i have GSM on my P40 Pro loaded with Lzplay, but cannot copy the G account to the watch.
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i guess the only way for this to work is to buy a samsung phone.
After one night of try and error, I think I may found a solution. I haven't tested the watch thoroughly to check if the functionalities work but it appears to be connected to my huawei mate xs, with google account logged in and google pay set up.
This method needs another phone that has access to GMS. I used an old oneplus phone.
Firstly, read this regarding how to use samsung health to conenct to the watch:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/p82h39/_/h9rpsob
Secondly, read this regarding how to pair the watch to another phone without factory reset using adb: https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/. In this post there are two major steps: 1. clear gms data and reboot 2. force it to start paring in bluetooth.
Now please follow the below steps:
1. connect galaxy watch 4 to huawei phone using samsung heatlh. set it up properly.
2. turn off wifi and bluetooth on huawei phone and reboot
3. use adb to connect to the watch, clear gms and reboot
4. use another android phone, with galaxy wearable, samsung health and all necessary plugins installed (watch pugin, watch4 manager etc.)
5. use adb to open bluetooth pairing on the watch.
6. use another android phone to connect to the watch from samsung health, similar to how you would set it up. but the progress will never reach 100%. do not use galaxy wearable app to pair as it will tell you to do factory reset on the wtch.
7. wait until the setup progress shows some percentages, like 20% or 50%, on the watch open google playstore, click login and your phone should show some login page for google account. click login. Then on the watch download google pay from playstore, open it and add your card with your phone after clicking add card on your watch.
8. close samsung wearable, turn off bluetooth and wifi on your android phone (not huawei)
9. use adb to clear gms and reboot, then turn on bluetooth pairing.
10. reboot huawei phone and turn on wifi and bluetooth. open samsung wearable. your watch should still be paired but not connected. try to connect it from samsung wearble.
11. if it fails to connect, repeat 9 & 10 and try again. for me it worked after rebooting for 3 times ish.
UPDATE 1: google pay will not work because once swtiching phone, the cards added would disappear
UPDATE 2: cards can be later added on huawei phone
eryingzhang said:
After one night of try and error, I think I may found a solution. I haven't tested the watch thoroughly to check if the functionalities work but it appears to be connected to my huawei mate xs, with google account logged in and google pay set up.
This method needs another phone that has access to GMS. I used an old oneplus phone.
Firstly, read this regarding how to use samsung health to conenct to the watch:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/p82h39/_/h9rpsob
Secondly, read this regarding how to pair the watch to another phone without factory reset using adb: https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/. In this post there are two major steps: 1. clear gms data and reboot 2. force it to start paring in bluetooth.
Now please follow the below steps:
1. connect galaxy watch 4 to huawei phone using samsung heatlh. set it up properly.
2. turn off wifi and bluetooth on huawei phone and reboot
3. use adb to connect to the watch, clear gms and reboot
4. use another android phone, with galaxy wearable, samsung health and all necessary plugins installed (watch pugin, watch4 manager etc.)
5. use adb to open bluetooth pairing on the watch.
6. use another android phone to connect to the watch from samsung health, similar to how you would set it up. but the progress will never reach 100%. do not use galaxy wearable app to pair as it will tell you to do factory reset on the wtch.
7. wait until the setup progress shows some percentages, like 20% or 50%, on the watch open google playstore, click login and your phone should show some login page for google account. click login. Then on the watch download google pay from playstore, open it and add your card with your phone after clicking add card on your watch.
8. close samsung wearable, turn off bluetooth and wifi on your android phone (not huawei)
9. use adb to clear gms and reboot, then turn on bluetooth pairing.
10. reboot huawei phone and turn on wifi and bluetooth. open samsung wearable. your watch should still be paired but not connected. try to connect it from samsung wearble.
11. if it fails to connect, repeat 9 & 10 and try again. for me it worked after rebooting for 3 times ish.
UPDATE 1: google pay will not work because once swtiching phone, the cards added would disappear
UPDATE 2: cards can be later added on huawei phone
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It works!!! Thank you very much!
eryingzhang said:
After one night of try and error, I think I may found a solution. I haven't tested the watch thoroughly to check if the functionalities work but it appears to be connected to my huawei mate xs, with google account logged in and google pay set up.
This method needs another phone that has access to GMS. I used an old oneplus phone.
Firstly, read this regarding how to use samsung health to conenct to the watch:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/p82h39/_/h9rpsob
Secondly, read this regarding how to pair the watch to another phone without factory reset using adb: https://www.xda-developers.com/pair-android-wear-without-factory-reset/. In this post there are two major steps: 1. clear gms data and reboot 2. force it to start paring in bluetooth.
Now please follow the below steps:
1. connect galaxy watch 4 to huawei phone using samsung heatlh. set it up properly.
2. turn off wifi and bluetooth on huawei phone and reboot
3. use adb to connect to the watch, clear gms and reboot
4. use another android phone, with galaxy wearable, samsung health and all necessary plugins installed (watch pugin, watch4 manager etc.)
5. use adb to open bluetooth pairing on the watch.
6. use another android phone to connect to the watch from samsung health, similar to how you would set it up. but the progress will never reach 100%. do not use galaxy wearable app to pair as it will tell you to do factory reset on the wtch.
7. wait until the setup progress shows some percentages, like 20% or 50%, on the watch open google playstore, click login and your phone should show some login page for google account. click login. Then on the watch download google pay from playstore, open it and add your card with your phone after clicking add card on your watch.
8. close samsung wearable, turn off bluetooth and wifi on your android phone (not huawei)
9. use adb to clear gms and reboot, then turn on bluetooth pairing.
10. reboot huawei phone and turn on wifi and bluetooth. open samsung wearable. your watch should still be paired but not connected. try to connect it from samsung wearble.
11. if it fails to connect, repeat 9 & 10 and try again. for me it worked after rebooting for 3 times ish.
UPDATE 1: google pay will not work because once swtiching phone, the cards added would disappear
UPDATE 2: cards can be later added on huawei phone
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Step 7. I don't have google play store on my watch, where did you get it?
jazzpasta said:
Step 7. I don't have google play store on my watch, where did you get it?
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It's preinstalled on your watch. Swipe from bottom to up on the screen of your watch and find the app
eryingzhang said:
It's preinstalled on your watch. Swipe from bottom to up on the screen of your watch and find the app
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Thank you. Unfortunately my gaw4 is purchased in China so no google play services preinstalled.
Could you please connect to you GAW4 using adb and show me the list of packages & version installed on you watch?
Related command is in adb command.zip (This forum don't allow for complicated characters in the post. So upload in zip).
My list of installed package is attached below as list.txt.
Hello, i've got a non Samsung phone. Recently there has been a bug with recently released gw4 plugin app. Bug is that wear app force prompt user to update the app although its already up to date so wear app doesnt open and watch cant connect to phone.
Reinstalled the wear app and plugin apps on watch. During pairing setup stage "Getting your watch ready" it always stuck at 80-90% and doesnt complete setup so watch cant connect to phone. Cleared cache on watch via recovery menu but didnt help. Tried connecting another phone but watch doesnt allow it without factory resetting. I dont want to reset watch as i have some health and watch settings data on it that hasnt been backed up yet. There is an adb trick to connect wearos watches to another phone without resetting but seems like it doesnt work with wearos 3. Cant manually pull the data from watch via wifi debugging either because it's not rooted. Any solution would be much appreciated. Cheers
How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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Nope that trick dont work.
My Galaxy plugin today just forget how to be a plugin and stop connecting to watch restarting it does nothing so i clear data of it and oh boy i am formatting my watch right now.
That's great
PS. If anyone find some solution for this let me know xD i have a feeling that i might need it in the future