[Other SmartWatches] gigahurts:
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Hi all, I have gmail working just fine. Not sure whats going on with everyone else. I'm also using the latest version of the play store. I took the latest update, unzipped it, put all the apps I wanted in it, playstore, gmail, maps, did the superuser thing from geeks custom rom and everything is working perfectly, including gmail and maps. I also have google+ installed and I'm running the stock launcher and the latest kitkat launcher with google now. Everything is working great, except when I try to tether my phone to my watch to share the internet over bluetooth, the watch spontaneously reboots. Stuck with wifi tethering at the moment. Maps doesnt work without wifi tethering also.

If you dl geeks custom rom, download the latest playstore apk and the system framework. Download the stock 2.5 from from smartdevices.com.cn . Then open both. Put all the apps you (apk) in the system/app folder from geek78 zip into the stock update.zip, then put the latest playstore apk and system framework apks in the app folder (the stock one). Make sure you rename the playstore apk to phonesky.apk. Grab the superuser apk from geek78s rom and replace the one in the stock update.zip apps folder. Also swap out su file from geek78s xbin folder and put it in the stock xbin folder. You will now have an update.zip that is 2.5 with all the apks you want and you will have root.

Now zip the folder back up, remember that you must zip the contents INSIDE the update folder, don't zip the update folder itself, you'll end up with a zip file that looks like this inside : /update/update/blablabla, if you select all the contents inside the update folder: meta, system, etc and zip them up into a zip file named update, you will have the proper file structure to flash the watch.

Now flash the phone with the restore tool, (it wipes everything and returns the watch to the basics, but its the only way you can flash the custom rom you made. I could only get the restore tool to work on a 32bit (x86) system running windows 7. I couldnt get it to work on any 64 bit system or 32bit windows 8. After you're done with restoring the watch, put the zip file you created in the root directory of the watch. Dont do anything else, the watch must be in stock condition. Now navigate to the gear, go down to the last item, then select the first item, then select the left item. It will reboot the phone and you'll get a little android dude with a progress bar at the bottom. If the file structure is correct, the progress bar will continue to the end, if its not correct, the dude will have an exclamation point on his chest, and the next time you boot, you'll be in a custom clockwork mod recovery. At this point you need to use the restore tool again and do it over.

I have the kitkat launcher (launcher without the number 3 at the end) and the stock launcher available. I dl an app called homeswitcher that allows me to select the stock launcher as the default. Then the kitkat launcher can be run through the selection of apps. (I had a problem going back to stock from the kitkat launcher, thats where you use the home switcher app and select return to original launcher). I use dolphin browser, its sick, I can watch flash videos with it without a hiccup and I have had no internet browsing issues like with the aosp browser. I have gmail running perfectly on both launchers. If you run the google search app through the kitkat launcher it will install the google now thingy. So when I slide to the left through the kitkat launcher, I get the google now pane.

If you're having a problem with the playstore forceclosing, go the the install apk app. Navigate to the system folder and then phonesky.apk. Launch it and install it (again). Don't run it. Install lucky patcher. Patch both the phonesky.apk and the systemframework.apk to the 160 dpi patch. They should both work after that.

You can also delete the wechat apk and the other chinese app crap before you flash the rom you built. Its kind of a pain in the a$$ to get rid of them after the rom has been installed. I did, but in the stock launcher, the icons are still there, but when clicked, it says "app not installed". Only thing I haven't got working is youtube. oh well. I can't believe I can watch streaming flash video on my watch (get your minds out of the gutter, lol).

Summary, I have root, I have gmail, google+, maps, google search, google now, dolphin browser that enables streaming flash video, full playstore, not the trimmed one (you'll know if you can click on the 3 dashes on the left and your name comes up and you can select "my apps"), KitKat launcher (names of apps on the bottom row get chopped off), also the 5 items in the tray, only the 4 on the left stay through boot, for some reason the right most one always gets nuked on reboot. I can stack apps on kitkat, but only have a maximum of 6. I can install widgets but they have to be 2x1 or 1x1, others don't work. Kitkat live wallpaper doesn't work (oh well). And to change wallpaper at all, you have to do it through a 3rd party app.

BTW if you have root and all the other crap you already want on your watch, you can upgrade to 2.5 by using your phone to dl the latest rom and installing it through your phone.

As far as Yahoo Mail, I don't use it, sorry. I prefer gmail. You could try lucky patcher on yahoo mail, select it and then select "fix permissions", couldn't hurt.

Tried to install latest playstore while booted, couldnt get it to stop fc, Has to be installed via flashing. Also, I use the cleaner app, everynow and then, frees up a bunch of ram, which really improves performance. I use most google apps without a problem, translate, search, maps, gmail, now, +. I also use the google keyboard, yea, the keys are tiny, but i get the full keyboard and I dont have to hit back that much. I hated the flit keyboard. I can access any key with the google keyboard. You have to be very aware of exactly where the tip of your finger is hitting though (lol), or use a stylus.

I listen to streaming radio with the most popular radio app. The ads were so big though, I couldnt see the interface. I used lucky patcher to disable the ads and now I can see 2 lines of the app. Lucky patcher can get rid of most ads, it really helps when the screen is so small and such a low resolution. If you can't get usb to work to transfer the update.zip, try another computer. Try pdanet drivers. Try clicking on the model number in the about section of the watch 5 times, it enables adb usb. I have one laptop that wouldnt let me transfer files. I deleted the driver it installed automatically. Installed pdanet (and drivers). It wouldn't see the watch, so I enabled developer usb through the watches about section, then the pdanet installer saw the watch and installed the correct driver.

I could just upload the custom rom I made, but that would take away the countless hours (days) of frustration that I went through to finally get everything i wanted working (and thus the joy and pain you all will certainly have trying to do the same). I hope this post helps someone.

Any questions? (Am I the only one with gmail working? seems kinda weird, I just installed it through the latest playstore).