Question Touch screen stops working. (GW 4 46mm) - Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

Has anyone else experienced the touch screen becoming unresponsive? It happened first after updating to the EVA8 software version. Everytime I do a factory reset the watch will work fine for a day or two, then it gets worse to the extent I have to reboot the watch several times a day.

towser1972 said:
Has anyone else experienced the touch screen becoming unresponsive? It happened first after updating to the EVA8 software version. Everytime I do a factory reset the watch will work fine for a day or two, then it gets worse to the extent I have to reboot the watch several times a day.
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i have standard one 44mm and there is no problems like that in my watch. After format are you resotring backup or do you set it up from scratch and did you try to use it without any custom app instaled for some time to check if problem will show on clean watch?

berni502 said:
i have standard one 44mm and there is no problems like that in my watch. After format....
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No, I've not restored any backups, and the only things I've installed are a few official Samsung watchfaces. I've done a factory reset this morning, so I won't add the watch faces for a day or too, but so far the touch screen has been fine.

towser1972 said:
No, I've not restored any backups, and the only things I've installed are a few official Samsung watchfaces. I've done a factory reset this morning, so I won't add the watch faces for a day or too, but so far the touch screen has been fine.
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lets hope that this was coused by watchfaces samsung mess somethings in last update but if not looks like you need to send it to repair :/

towser1972 said:
Has anyone else experienced the touch screen becoming unresponsive? It happened first after updating to the EVA8 software version. Everytime I do a factory reset the watch will work fine for a day or two, then it gets worse to the extent I have to reboot the watch several times a day.
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It happened to my watch 4 classic after the EVA8 update also. I thought it was because I used a custom watch face (pixel one), but it also happend on a stock watch face. Now I'm using another stock watchface and it seems not to happen anymore. It's definitely a bug. I wondering if it has something to do with the reported AOD bug (because I don't use AOD, maybe this is how it's manifesting). Do you use AOD?

mircea89fzr said:
It happened to my watch 4 classic after the EVA8 update also. I thought it was because I used a custom watch face (pixel one), but it also happend on a stock watch.....
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No mate, I don't use AOD either. I only installed the Frontier watch face, straight from the Gear Wear app. My watch got the latest EVB4 update today, so I've reinstalled the Frontier watch face to see what happens. Cheers.

towser1972 said:
No mate, I don't use AOD either. I only installed the Frontier watch face, straight from the Gear Wear app. My watch got the latest EVB4 update today, so I've reinstalled the Frontier watch face to see what happens. Cheers.
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I don't have the update yet, how is it? Does it still happen?

mircea89fzr said:
I don't have the update yet, how is it? Does it still happen?
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The watch hasn't skipped a beat since the update. All is good...

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Smartwatch 2 not working right :(

Hi, i have a problem with my smartwatch 2. I just got it today and went threw the pairing process and what not but, when i want to go to the homescreen on the watch this happens i press the power button,press the home button, screen go's blank then goes back to the clock screen. Anyone experience this problem? ifso, i would i fix it? I tried re installing the software and unpairng etc and nothing works.
Thanks!
Teknohtc said:
Hi, i have a problem with my smartwatch 2. I just got it today and went threw the pairing process and what not but, when i want to go to the homescreen on the watch this happens i press the power button,press the home button, screen go's blank then goes back to the clock screen. Anyone experience this problem? ifso, i would i fix it? I tried re installing the software and unpairng etc and nothing works.
Thanks!
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Hey, I'm having exactly the same problem.
Did you manage to solve it?
Thanks!
Where did you buy the watch?
airfalcon said:
Hey, I'm having exactly the same problem.
Did you manage to solve it?
Thanks!
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Nope still trying to solve it....
Canadian DJ said:
Where did you buy the watch?
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Got it free from handec with my z1 pre order
Teknohtc said:
Got it free from handec with my z1 pre order
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Seems like you may have a defective watch, did you try to call Sony?
Canadian DJ said:
Seems like you may have a defective watch, did you try to call Sony?
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gotta call them see what they say
Crap, I have exactly the same issue, did you get it resolved?
Try to reset the watch. Cut the BT on the phone so it doesn't start pairing, go into the tools on the watch and chose reset.
Put the watch off and now delete pairing on the phone and reboot it to be sure the watch is no longer paired.
Now start the pairing process all over.
Hope this helps
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Tonio78370 said:
Try to reset the watch. Cut the BT on the phone so it doesn't start pairing, go into the tools on the watch and chose reset.
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I can't get into anything on the watch but the time... No Tools. :crying:
rickgillyon said:
I can't get into anything on the watch but the time... No Tools. :crying:
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Try to reinstall firmware.
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/
neur28 said:
Try to reinstall firmware.
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/tools/update-service/
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Thanks, already tried that too. Update was successful, reconnected etc. then still the same problem. Got Sony on chat, after trying a load of things they told me to return it...
rickgillyon said:
Thanks, already tried that too. Update was successful, reconnected etc. then still the same problem. Got Sony on chat, after trying a load of things they told me to return it...
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bad watch.bummer.
neur28 said:
bad watch.bummer.
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What a letdown. It felt like Christmas when I unboxed it, feels like a funeral now...
Yea this is BS I have to pay for shipping ship it all the way back to the uk and get a new one......
neur28 said:
bad watch.bummer.
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Mine too. Suddenly decided after a week to continually disconnect from phone. Get a message saying 'unfortunately smartwatch 2 had stopped working'. Tried every reset. Annoyingly it works fine on my wife's galaxy s4. Really hope it's not the z1 that's knackered! Returning on Monday.
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bmad7136 said:
Mine too. Suddenly decided after a week to continually disconnect from phone. Get a message saying 'unfortunately smartwatch 2 had stopped working'. Tried every reset. Annoyingly it works fine on my wife's galaxy s4. Really hope it's not the z1 that's knackered! Returning on Monday.
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If it works fine with your wife's s4 than its not the problem with the watch.
Its the problem on your phone with smartwatch 2 app.
Try to delete data and reinstall app on phone, delete pairing and reset watch and start again.
Bad watch is the one that doesnt work on any phone...
Teknohtc said:
Yea this is BS I have to pay for shipping ship it all the way back to the uk and get a new one......
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Yeah, hopefully mine will be picked up today, but I'm told it may be up to 14 days for replacement. And they kept talking about repair when talking on the phone when it was DOA, hopefully they took on board that it just needs replaced...
I have exactly the same issue. I have tried multiple phones, but no dice..... cant reset it from tools as cant get past the clock screen. Going to try to update the fw and see what happens
cheetah2k said:
I have exactly the same issue. I have tried multiple phones, but no dice..... cant reset it from tools as cant get past the clock screen. Going to try to update the fw and see what happens
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Good luck. I'm still waiting for the replacement...

New Tizen ?

Hey everyone,
I am very excited about possibilities the Gear S will have. But I already have a gear 2 neo so my question is, do we get a nice Tizen update soon ?? Anyone found any information ?
My Gear Manager is updating now, and its either a pretty huge update or it's bugged because it's froze on "Installing 2/2" and has been on that screen for over an hour
LiamS said:
My Gear Manager is updating now, and its either a pretty huge update or it's bugged because it's froze on "Installing 2/2" and has been on that screen for over an hour
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Yeah Gear Manager is one thing, I am speaking about Tizen, on the watch here.
BTW, everyone should see this if not done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPLFd-ICwoU
LiamS said:
My Gear Manager is updating now, and its either a pretty huge update or it's bugged because it's froze on "Installing 2/2" and has been on that screen for over an hour
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And also, an hour seems weird to me... maybe restart your phone and see what happens.
McGuigew said:
Hey everyone,
I am very excited about possibilities the Gear S will have. But I already have a gear 2 neo so my question is, do we get a nice Tizen update soon ?? Anyone found any information ?
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Nope nothing heart yet. But check the tizenexperts.com site. It will post any rumors or news about tizen pretty quick.

s health issues

Just got my Samsung Gear s2 today and love it so far except for s health. I can't get anything to work. I've been walking all over the place and it's not registering any steps. When I do my heart rate it says try again and nothing registers. I've been researching this for a couple of hours now and I keep coming across something that talks about the s health manager and I have yest to find that. Is it something on my phone or on the watch itself.? What am I doing wrong?
What phone are you using? S Health features only work with Samsung phones.
gschot said:
What phone are you using? S Health features only work with Samsung phones.
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That's not entirely correct. I'm using all of those features on a Huawei Mate 7 with no issues.
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kta said:
That's not entirely correct. I'm using all of those features on a Huawei Mate 7 with no issues.
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Really? Well, that is good news for people who do not have a Samsung phone. I read it in a review of the GS2 and originally the S Health app was only available through the Samsung app store. I double checked and it is indeed now available in Google Play.
Thanks for this insight!
S Health
I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
CarolDNC said:
I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
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It doesn't track sleep like you are looking for. I'm guessing that may be coming in a future update.
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CarolDNC said:
I am using a Samsung mega. I finally got it to work. Well what I should say is I went back and did a factory reset and then it worked fine. Now if I can just figure out how to make the sleep quality part work. All it registers is how many hours I sleep (or don't sleep) and I have to put that in manually.
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The first one I had did the same thing yours did. I had to reset it to get steps and heart rate to work. I had lots of trouble with notifications on this watch as well and was having to reset it all the time. I took it back and swapped it and the second one has worked near perfect. I think it has only missed one notification so far and the other one was about 50/50. I would watch it close and return it if need be while you can.

Horizontal Bands on Gear S2 Screen

Has anyone ever seen an issue like seen in the picture (horizontal dark bands across the Gear S2 screen). I've only had the watch two weeks and this happened. I've tried soft and hard resets to no avail.
I have the same issue and can't find an answer to it anywhere. My S2 is only a week old
Hey guys,
I had the same after a watchface always ON fail... I've planned to send it back to after-sale... But 2 days after, all the line just disapaers...
screenpaver said:
Has anyone ever seen an issue like seen in the picture (horizontal dark bands across the Gear S2 screen). I've only had the watch two weeks and this happened. I've tried soft and hard resets to no avail.
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Since it is still under warranty I filled out an online request for service. They emailed me a shipping label and I sent it off to Plano, TX on Saturday. The status today says "Replaced LCD" and now it's back in the mail to me. We'll see...
Mikoube said:
Hey guys,
I had the same after a watchface always ON fail... I've planned to send it back to after-sale... But 2 days after, all the line just disapaers...
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Hey Mikoube, how long were you seeing the problem? I just started seeing this today. Has the problem recurred?
Thanks!!
Facing same problem in Gear S2 classic
screenpaver said:
Has anyone ever seen an issue like seen in the picture (horizontal dark bands across the Gear S2 screen). I've only had the watch two weeks and this happened. I've tried soft and hard resets to no avail.
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I am facing same problem in my new Gear S2 Classic. I have purchased this one week back.
cyphi said:
Hey Mikoube, how long were you seeing the problem? I just started seeing this today. Has the problem recurred?
Thanks!!
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Hi cyphi,
as I remember it took around 3 days to disappear, mays 4 but not much than that.
Mikoube said:
Hi cyphi,
as I remember it took around 3 days to disappear, mays 4 but not much than that.
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OK thanks!! My display still doesn't seem to be getting any better. I think I may be returning the watch
cyphi said:
OK thanks!! My display still doesn't seem to be getting any better. I think I may be returning the watch
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not cool... maybe try with a white watchface or something very close to. Do you remember what watchface you had when it append?
Mikoube said:
not cool... maybe try with a white watchface or something very close to. Do you remember what watchface you had when it append?
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No. I actually fixed it today. There was a recent firmware update on the watch and one of the custom watchfaces that I had previously installed must've been causing the problem. I did multiple factory resets, but I keep trying to keep the watchfaces that I had already downloaded...that wasn't resolving the issue. I did a complete factory reset today and wiped out all the custom watchfaces and the problem disappeared. I'm happy now!! Thanks Mikoube for your help!!
You're welcome
Hello! I'm having the exact same issue. Can you explain what you did to fix it? Did you erase all the downloaded faces and then do a hard factory reset? Or vise versa? I'm at work right now and would love to achieve your same results since it happened 2 hours after my Warranty expired ??.
Here's how I fixed mine: Sent it back for repair. Waited a week. Received a fixed watch.
shinta4e said:
Hello! I'm having the exact same issue. Can you explain what you did to fix it? Did you erase all the downloaded faces and then do a hard factory reset? Or vise versa? I'm at work right now and would love to achieve your same results since it happened 2 hours after my Warranty expired .
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Hey shinta,
The fact is that one off your watchface is causing trouble to tizen. So Try to make a full factory reset. It should solve your issue.
So i got these same lines on my device lastnight. It is mainly noticable when I turn on Aod. I dont want to bother with rma on a 2 month old device if this is going to fix itself. I tryed a few resets and its still there now. I dont mind waiting a few days though.
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My gear s2 screen is working fine now. It only had the lines for 3 days. I will keep a close eye on it though and update if it returns.
Same issue, I did factory reset and deleted all downloaded Wacho faces . Still the problem!
Blackmoco said:
Same issue, I did factory reset and deleted all downloaded Wacho faces . Still the problem!
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The bands were back a few weeks ago... I figured that when I set the brightness to "1", the band are little and when I put on "10", they are bigger.
So I tried to let the watch during 1 day with a brightness of "1". The day after all band were gone...
Hope this can help some of you guys.
Enjoy.
Same problem with the screen of mi gear fit 2 band, resolved only changing the screen
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Same problem here, I turned it on, and it was fine, then I UPDATED a few apps and faces and lost network, after that the problem started, so I belive its a software issue and not hardware, could be coincidence, its a month old watch...
My watch is 5 months old and I just have this problem last night

Question any help would be great

Hi I am new and looking for help with my galaxy watch 4 classic it keeps restarting when on the charger and does not work at all off the charger I attached a short video of what it is doing, remember I am older and not too bright about these kind of things so please be kind thank you
Did you recently get a firmware update? It looks like it's trying to install something
how to enter recovery in watch 4 classic - Google Search
butchieboy said:
Did you recently get a firmware update? It looks like it's trying to install something
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I do not remember authorizing any updates, but this started last year in December. And I did have it set to auto update. I had called Samsung support they told me my battery was shot and they could replace it and since my warrenty was expired it would be almost 200.00. So the watch has been sitting since then.
butchieboy said:
how to enter recovery in watch 4 classic - Google Search
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I wish I could do this but my watch does not stay on long enough to go through the options.
formrsamfan said:
... battery was shot and they could replace it....
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This doesn't read too hard to do.
In the state it is in now it's no use so imho nothing to loose.

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