Hi, folks. I have a couple questions regarding extra watch faces:
1) How many faces can be installed on the watch at once? If I remove some built-in faces, does that make more room for extra installed faces?
2) If I disconnect the watch and pair it with a different phone, do installed watch faces and apps persist, or are they deleted? The "disconnect" message says that all personal data will be lost, but I'm not sure if that includes installed watch faces and apps.
My reason for asking is that I'm considering factory-resetting an old phone, not installing a SIM card but using my current phone's wifi hotspot to install the AppGallery and Health apps on the old phone, in hopes that that will insulate the old phone sufficiently for me to fool it into thinking that I'm in a supported country and allow seeing the watch faces and apps that I cannot access from the U.S. However, that's pretty inconvenient, so I'll want to install as many watch faces as possible during that process to try out; also, if pairing the watch with a different phone deletes installed watch faces and apps, the whole exercise is pointless.
Thanks for any replies and especially any suggestions for being able to install watch faces and apps without having to physically visit a supported country.
A follow-up on this plan. It did work, sort of. I was able to use the old phone to create a UK-based account by keeping all location services turned off and using a UK temporary SMS number for verification. That enabled me to get watch faces and apps and install them on the watch.
However, when I went back to my main phone, deleted and reinstalled all the Huawei apps, logged into the account I created on the old phone, and attempted to connect the watch, the app and phone would not allow it, saying that they were different accounts and I needed to factory reset the watch in order to connect it. I tried turning off location services on my main phone and creating a UK-based account, but it still knew I was in the U.S. and wouldn't show the watch faces and apps in the Health app.
I'm definitely getting closer, and seeing the new watch face I installed on the watch when connected to the old phone really motivates me to make this work. Any suggestions will be very welcome.
And a final update on this: I eventually was able to get the watch faces and apps to be available on my main phone without needing to factory reset it. The method involved turning off all location services, rebooting after removing the SIM card, and using the wifi hotspot of a second phone that was VPNed to a UK-based server when creating the Huawei account. I'm not going to spend the time to write up the details, at least partly because I'm not sure that everything I did was actually necessary; hopefully this thumbnail description will be enough for anyone else in the same situation who's sufficiently motivated to replicate the results. (I will say that I'm much happier with the free watch face I installed from the gallery than I was with any of the faces that came preinstalled.)
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Not sure how it is on the GT3, but for my GT2 I just used my regular account on both my iPhone (main phone) and on an android phone, just downloaded the "custom" Huawei Health app to get custom watch faces. No factory reset or nothing, just connect to the other phone, install watch faces, reconnect to main phone.
Your steps sounded very complicated for something so easy. Unless it’s wildly different for the GT3. I came here mainly to see if my method would still work for the GT3 as it does for the GT2 (I ordered a GT3 Pro today, as it was on sale and I’m looking to upgrade).
i found thousands of free HQ watch faces here - https://faces4watch.com/downloads/huawei-watch-gt-3/
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i have recently received my gear s3 frontier (none LTE ver.). I cant seem to find the option for setting up time manually. i have tried other online tutorials like shutting down the phone and setting up time. but it seems there is no option for setting time under setting-device.. phone app and gear os fully updated. Has anyone run into the same problem?
Gear S3 syncs time with the paired phone.. If you want to change time, change it in your phone.
On Frontier LTE, in settings: DEVICE -> DATE & TIME can be set to manual or automatic. If that's not listed in your device, than it can't be done.
Hi Mentalerror, I have the same watch (SM-R760) and having the same problem despite Gear app states the watch is up to date on everything.
I travel frequently due to my job and I am actually overseas. Here they switched yesterday to "summer time", and the watch did not adjusted automatically. I checked my Galaxy phone and corrected manually its time. Then connected watch to Gear app expecting some sync with the phone but the watch had still the wrong time.
Gear app DOES NOT have a way to adjust the time and date on the watch. On the watch side, the menu "Settings/Device/Date and Time", that I saw in some forums, simply does not exist on my watch. The provided manual of the watch as well as the downloaded PDF (most recent version) does not include a single section on how to set the time and date, despite the device is primarily a watch! it is like a joke. Samsung's site has several guides but none of them include how to adjust the time manually - not even on the "basic" issues. It is a watch! what could be more basic than adjusting the time? It is so frustrating. At least it does not seems to be happening to many users.
I guess one option is the painful path of a full reset, but it would be ridiculous for something so basic like adjusting the time on a watch...
Did you solved the problem on yours?
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i have recently received my gear s3 frontier (none LTE ver.). I cant seem to find the option for setting up time manually. i have tried other online tutorials like shutting down the phone and setting up time. but it seems there is no option for setting time under setting-device.. phone app and gear os fully updated. Has anyone run into the same problem?
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Please read this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/help/change-time-t3655054/post73375986#post73375986
The "Date and Time" options in the Settings are available when your Gear is not connected to any mobile device, i.e it runs in the Standalone mode from the first time.
A "temporary" solution
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Please read this post:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/help/change-time-t3655054/post73375986#post73375986
The "Date and Time" options in the Settings are available when your Gear is not connected to any mobile device, i.e it runs in the Standalone mode from the first time.
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Exactly, that is why this is a problem. There are several important menus, that are hidden as soon as you connect the watch with a phone. And there are cases when you can get the phone with one time and the watch with another, despite some people believe the watch syncs the time with the time on the phone. It does not. What I found after loosing most of the day, is that there is a bug that makes the watch to give a higher level to the timezone set on the phone than the time that is set on the phone. Therefore if you set your time on the phone manually, without caring about the timezone (because you set the time manually), you may end with the watch with a wrong time and unable to fix it directly. The watch will not have the appropriate menus enabled nor will Gear provide a way to manually adjust the time on the watch.
So here is a text I prepared after receiving a response from Samsung Support recommending me to reset the watch (of course loosing most features and a lot of data). Do not do it. There is a workaround.
I explain everything below. Please excuse me for the lenght.
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I FOUND A TEMPORARY "SOLUTION"
I lost most of the day doing tests, reading a trying to find a solution. I got an answer from Samsung Support as well. They recognize there is a problem as well as the many issues of their only solution, that is to perform a factory reset of the watch - which would not make the watch to regain full control of the menus neither.
Here is what I found so far:
the menus Date and Time - Timezone - Language, under /settings/Device/ simply disappear as soon as you connect the watch with Gear app on a phone. You use Gear app? then check your watch and verify if you can adjust the time and date with its own settings menu... you cannot. Neither the language nor timezone.
If you have your phone set with automatic time/date/timezone, and your are not traveling between timezones, nor your local government changes arbitrarily the time, and your local cellphone providers are such that you never need to adjust manually the time/date on your phone, then you have no problem on your watch neither, despite you did lost these menus as well and you cannot use a different language on the watch than your phone, and if you loose your phone you will not be able to change the time/date on your watch without pain. It may be rare to think on cases like these, but I am one of them; because I want to have my phone in English due to some translation limits on some of my apps, but would like to have my watch in french. If connected to Gear app, this is simply impossible (at least to this post's date and time).
If you find yourself in a situation like missing/loosing/getting robbed your phone and you need your watch to have changed its time/date for some reason (your are ready to take a flight overseas), you cannot do it. Despite being a watch, it does not provide a way to adjust manually the time/date/timezone/language. These options on the settings are lost as soon as you connected the watch to your lost phone. Your only way to regain control is to reset the watch and set it as "standalone" without connecting it to any phone. During the first steps of the setup, the watch asks or provides the chance to choose "standalone" rather than connecting it to a phone. Of course you will loose many things (updates, files, apps, faces, settings, etc.). But you will be able to use the watch as a watch because you will have all the needed the menus.
Samsung Support recommended me as a solution, to reset the watch. This is not accurate. Do not do it. If you do that and later your phone offers to restore it from a previous backup, the watch will still not have the menus to be able to adjust the time and date among others. The problem persists. Also, the Backup/Restoring process is far from being complete neither. You have to know that even using a recent restore, you will loose at least: all your alarm sets, apps updates, your widgets and the order you set them, the cities on your world clock, any change on the units on the Altimeter/Barometer etc and any transferred file to the watch. So, this proposed "solution" does not seem correct to me nor fair. You loose too much on the process and it does not get you back control on the menus that disappear once connected to Gear app. The only actual (to this day) way to recover these menus, is if you reset the watch, and then you set the watch from scratch as “standalone” without linking it to a phone with Gear app. I tried and did some tests on this mode as well. It connects to wifi networks but you cannot retrieve the apps you bought, nor use Samsung Health properly, nor even receive files trough bluetooth from a Pc/Mac/Linux computer. I was able to pair the watch with my computer but after three seconds it closes the connection. Just like my Samsung NX1 (also with Tizen). They are locked to connect only with their own apps.
A temporary "solution"
This is not elegant but it is better than the proposal I receive from Samsung Support today.
The watch, when using it with Gear app on a phone, hides the menus that should never hide, and then seems to sync time/date/timezone/language with the phone. But it does it, not the way you would expect. The watch does it by giving more value to the timezone set on the phone rather than the time itself that is set on the phone. It should sync to the time rather the timezone, but this is key to know.
So, the workaround is:
1. do not reset your watch (not needed)
2. connect the watch with Gear app to your phone as usual
3. disable on your phone the features "automatic date and time" and "automatic time zone". Both are set by collected data from local cellphone towers that I have found in several countries, to not update their time soon enough when changing seasons etc. Again, if you are in a reliable cellphone network, you do not have this problem and you can keep these features automatic. This is a workaround for people like me, that travel into sites without reliable data from cellphone network providers and in need to manually be able to adjust time and date on the smartwatch.
4. adjust the time zone on the phone to one that fits your local UTC or GMT conditions. Like me, now in Chile, I changed manually to "Brasilia GMT-3" fooling the watch. Check your watch because with this, it may already have corrected the time regardless of the time you have on your phone. This proves that Gear S3 sets its time by syncing based more on the time zone rather than the time set on the phone.
5. also, adjust manually the time on your phone.
6. you are set. Do not forget to manually change your time zone and time according to the local conditions as soon as they change.
About the language, there is nothing you can do. Once connected to Gear app, the watch cannot be used in a different language than the phone. With this workaround you can fool the watch and force it to change the time, using the time zone on the phone (not just the time).
Do not you agree with me that at least "Time and Date" should be able to be adjusted manually on any watch? Even more on the flagship of the smartwatches? Gear S3 is primarily a watch.
This is what I think it should be improved with the next updates:
- Gear app should include on the settings, the options to set Time, Date, Timezone and Language on the watch independently from the phone.
- The watch should keep all the menus from Standalone mode, despite being connected to Gear app. Then the option to manually set these variables on the watch, regardless if you have or not your phone nearby and without needing to reset nor loose any information.
Samsung Support, also stated this: “Hopefully you might be getting the feature that you are expecting in the software updates which will be released in the future.”
Lets hope for the best, but always be prepared for the worst
kind regards!
* NOT a manual change solution;
* Mine got 1 hour ahead (than my current time zone); and got into this problem too.
Change your time&date setting on your smartphone.
change your time zone to a different zone; let it sync and reflect on the S3. and then...
change your time zone to where you are; and let it sync again, and it will reflect on the S3.
Hope it helps.
I bought yesterday Huawei Watch 2. Unfortunatelly, I can't sync my data (steps, calories) in Google Fit from my watch to my phone. When I wear a watch and a telephone at the same time, on both devices are the different data. I have the same google account on both devices. Does anyone have a similar problem? How to solve it?
Did you install the Huawei watch app and Huawei health?
Yes, I installed. But sometimes it doesn't sync with google fit. I don't know what kind of dependency. I noticed that the data goes to google fit on the phone, usually around 23 o'clock. Yesterday, I wear only smartwatch (without phone) and yesterday, for example, the data did not synchronize. I don't know how to fix it.
I went for a walk with my phone in pedometer only mode as battery was low..I came back with 17000 steps, this is reflected in the Huawei Health app on the phone.
However it doesn't seem to come to Google Fit in one go..slowly it has been increasing and is now up to 12000 steps from the 1600 it was at before the walk.
I don't understand the sycn between Health and Fit - if the apps are connected why doesn't it go into Fit as soon as the data is there?
Is there anyway to force synch, it's really annoying.
I don't normally use the phone in Pedometer only so didn't see this before, normally my watch faces are using Fit instead of Health so I see the results in Fit app on the phone a lot faster.
I'm having the same issues with my Huawei Watch 2 Classic and Pixel 2 XL phone. Please join this thread and send a bug report so that we can get this issue fixed! https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/77606997
Hi,
Have you tried doing the following in Google Fit:
1. Enter settings
2. Turn off "Track your activities"
This work for me om ny Huawei Watch GT. Still I ONLY gir the steps, not the other data.
Hi, I am having trouble figuring out how to sync the exercise data from huawei health app from the watch to phone. Based on what I'm reading, I'm supposed to download 'Huawei Wear' app, pair the watch to that, and data should sync through 'Huawei Health' app on the phone. My problem is that the watch would not pair with the 'Huawei Wear' app. It kept on telling me to use Android Wear and sync it through that. If I did it that way, my watch still isn't listed inside Huawei Wear app, thus syncing the data isn't possible.
Can anybody drop in some knowledge on what to do? I get that I can disable Huawei Health altogether and just use Google Fit, but that's not what I want to do at this moment. Any help is appreciated, thanks.
I don't know what is wrong in your case. Anyway... you need 3 apps on your phone: android wear, huawei wear and huawei health.If you can't get huawei wear to recognize the watch I recommend you to reset the watch ("settings"-> "system",->"disconnect and redefine") and reinstall the apps on the phone. I had to do that once and it solved some sync problems I was having.
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I don't know what is wrong in your case. Anyway... you need 3 apps on your phone: android wear, huawei wear and huawei health.If you can't get huawei wear to recognize the watch I recommend you to reset the watch ("settings"-> "system",->"disconnect and redefine") and reinstall the apps on the phone. I had to do that once and it solved some sync problems I was having.
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Thanks man. I had all those apps, but pretty much what went wrong is that somehow, huawei wear wouldn't connect to my HW2 if I kept my LG Watch R connected to my Android Wear. Once I removed the LG watch, it started to work. Very odd. I still like using my LG watch R from time to time too, so I said screw it and just uninstall the Huawei products altogether.
my problem is that i need constantly to open the app and scroll down in other the sleep, heart and other data start to sync to the app in the phone. I had multiple devices first the Oneplus 3 and now the 6t and always had the same issue
Hello guys.
I bought a Huawei Watch 2 but I'm having some issue with it, after the update to Oreo/wear Os. I connected my watch with the phone (I've an iPhone SE) but the spotify app doesn't work (when I try to open, it say "no connection" or something like this). Also I can't connect my strava account to the wear os application: it redirect me to the phone to complete the login and authorize it, but after that it open a link to wearOS's site, and nothing happens. The weirdest thing is that the Strava application it's called "common" instead of the real name. So, there are these two problems: no application for spotify and no connection with strava, that are the main reason I bought the HW2. I've tried almost everything, also an hard rese, but nothing canghed. Please help me. Thanks.
P.S: Please, don't ask me why I bought an android wear with an iPhone, it's a matter of taste.
GM all. I had been having trouble with my GW4 LTE (non-classic) not recognizing my home WiFi password, when it had been for many months. I have a Note 20 5G and I'm on the Android 12 Beta. So I wrote to the Beta community and he said to delete the Gear Wear an on the watch, reinstall from the Play Store, and I mistook it for saying to remove it on the phone. Now, when I try to reconnect with the GW4, it says it will delete everything and pair as a new phone/watch. The auto backup unfortunately DID NOT save ANY backups. I have a ton of watch faces that I bought (I know I should be able tor reinstall from Play Store), some watch faces that I created (I may be able to get back), but other data that I know will be lost.
Anybody know of a way to re-connect but preserve the data. There are ways to do it with Wear OS 2, but NOT Wear OS 3. My Tizen watches were not affected and I was able to save all my Samsung Health data to my GW3. Any help, thoughts, would be greatly appreciated.
hello, yes that would be good. i reinstalled wear plugin and wear app due to latest bug on plugin app now cant connect same phone to watch. it stuck at 80-90% during setup. Dont wanna reset the watch before getting my data. No solution?
I finally gave up and reset the watch and paired it again. All is well now. This time did an immediate backup after I tweaked everything I wanted. I will try to now remember to back up at least once a week. Happy Holidays everyone!
It all has to do with the "Galaxy Watch4 Plugin". If you're having any issues syncing between phone and watch. If you end up having to reinstall it then you'll have to reset your watch too. Make sure you backup!