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[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
Okay guys I am going to present my initial impressions of CM12 on the Gear S.

First of all, thank you again and again master [MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]! You rule dude.

The biggest issues are battery life and heat, which are most probably interconnected.

If biktor can find a way to mess with the governor and force the watch to act more efficiently and if he can fix the screen timeout thing, I think that CM will be absolutely perfect for everyday use.

So let's head to my observations:

Phonecalls work. I hear okay and I am heard okay.

BT phonecalls/music I have not yet tested.

BLE is supported!!! Every casual runner's wet dream about a single wearable device that can track route via GPS, connect BLE HR strap, play music (even Spotify / Napster / you name it ...) via BT and at the same time be a phone for emergencies is now a reality! Thank you again biktor my man!!

Haven't tested battery life yet.

Auto screen brightness seems to not be working.

The watch seems to be charging real slow from PC USB. Haven't tried a wall charger yet.

It seems to me that the charging cradle (which has a battery of it's own) is not capable of transferring power to the watch when unplugged.

Most apps I have tried (and I have tried a lot) are working beautifully.

Runkeeper app seems to be a little crowded and I would appreciate it if someone could propose an app that changes DPI on a per app basis.

The text input problem (due to the small screen) is solved by installing Swype keyboard which supports Dragon multilingual dictation (requires internet connection) with amazing speed and accuracy.

All in all I am absolutely amazed at what biktor managed to create. The man is a f***ing poet. I love that guy. :)

I would not go back to Tizen even if Samsung gave me money to do so.

I think that while biktor is finalizing the ROM we could possibly utilize tasker so that to force the watch to automate stuff in order to conserve battery power.

Please share your thoughts / experience.
[Samsung Gear S] Kirrrr:
Xposed App Settings :)
[Samsung Gear S] runningwarrior08:
I received my Jig, it did not work.

I was able to recover from the bootloop. My timing was something like attach dock 1..2..hit. With slightly faster counting. Worked 3 times in a row.. Lol. Like you said its a pain until you get it once.

The funny thing is it looks like when I flashed tizen it didn't flash correctly though. I went to download mode and installed twrp and rebooted into my CM with my apps installed... Go figure.
[Samsung Gear S] buby78:
why download swype if the one that comes in the rom has it and it works great...
[Samsung Gear S] t2bacdp:
Quadrant standard score : 4348. Facebook don't work, but thanks again biktor_gj.
[Samsung Gear S] buby78:
Facebook works you just have to hit the "wait" and it will show up also messenger works too
[Samsung Gear S] t2bacdp:
I'm not very patient. Wait 5/6". Will wait more
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
Check DPI settings, some apps fail at 180 dpi (Settings->display) try at 200

Facebook is a battery hog though, you might want to not have it on the watch, but that's none of my business :)
[Samsung Gear S] buby78:
Yep it drains the battery real quick

I installed it to see if it was working on the rom

Was happy when it did but it killed the battery even quicker lol
[Samsung Gear S] chiikko561:
How much battery life would fellas say you get on a good day light use... Maybe 20 mins phone calls and just checking time now and then...
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
Without SIM and wifi on I topped it at about 18 hours, with 2-3 apps installed through playstore, some mail notifications through gmail and checking the time (and that it was still alive) once or twice an hour...
[Samsung Gear S] chiikko561:
Thanks for the response... I have been waiting for the bugs and stuff to be sorted it's been painful just watching everybody install and brag or CRY lol about battery life on the 300 mah... But I will probably do it after your next release... I along with everyone else here am so grateful to have you here on Xda... You are very talented... Thanks again
[Samsung Gear S] conmonks:
Wear will be nice and all, though full AOSP android is more functional. Using automation app like Tasker or Llama for example to turn cellular data on for 5 minutes with force sync (for notify updates) then back off for X amount would help battery life. Full android has more apps as well, like a dialer app out there with automatic UI theme to day and night mode which helps with amoled display, mobizen, MyScript Stylus, and etc.. though i saw an earlier post or vid saying having both wear and android. So i hope that means development for full android support doesn't drop. Great work though, i plan on buying a gear s.

Oh maybe Greenify app will improve battery life too. hibernates all running background apps that you select.
[Samsung Gear S] Kirrrr:
Regarding Facebook app.

It is a RAM/battery/CPU hog. I guess it is a pretty bad idea to use it on any device without 1+ GB of RAM.

Try to use Facebook's Lite app. This one is slightly truncated but VERY light and includes (!) messenger.
[Samsung Gear S] mlodziezy:
Hi.

Cannot enter security options (force closes) to enable installation from unknown sources.

How to install gapps?

I've pushed them with adb and cannot run setupwizard.apk.
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
Please use the Q&A thread for these questions. Oh, and this has been answered like a million times on both threads, so please search first!
[Samsung Gear S] t2bacdp:
I have a bug : after a long time without touching screen (si screen off) when I press button to wake up screen, the screen don't work. I'm forced to reboot watch. Did you have same bug? I install Llama to shutdown wifi/3g/bluetooth/GPS while offline, could this be thé problem?
[Samsung Gear S] buby78:
Yep this happens from time to time for me too
[Samsung Gear S] Andycar:
I don't use Llama or Tasker but also run into the same issue. I think developer is aware about this bug.
[Samsung Gear S] t2bacdp:
Sorry I don't see that in the post :(
[Samsung Gear S] Andycar:
Biktor_gj told about touchscreen issue in this post:
[Samsung Gear S] psyx3x:
whach on and comands adb run,,i put wach in recovery and comands no run...remmber put your whach on and them run adb comands
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
I've installed the CM, but now it shutdowns in a minute automatically :(

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[Samsung Gear S] buby78:
does the battery have some life or did it die and now you trying to charge it?

if the battery is dead then just do what i do i put the phone into recovery for about 5min (plugged in charging) then turn on and let it charge
[Samsung Gear S] andrew.mackew:
[MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]

How exciting is to see how far you have gone! And the how much is coming soon!

Really, you have a blessed brain! For sure, God have blessed you with a privileged intelligence and perspicacity.

You are really fixing and bringing to life our "smart" watches, in a much better way, that Samsung couldn't ever imagine (or want to ever imagine..)

Kudos for your great work and advancements in Gear family! :good: :good: :good:
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
Thanks buby78, I installed an older CM version. Now it's start working at all!

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[Samsung Gear S] djsmeegy:
Hi guys, I'm so looking fwd to install CM12 to my Gear S, but now Im quite bussy w exams, work and my family. But soon as I have some time I will install this amazin port to.my watch.

Just before that, can somebody from you who have installed CM12 on Gear S, test the Endomondo and workout, how it is running? It's quite important for me, so thank you very much!

Great job, biktor_gj, you're the man! You'r bringing the real life to our smart watches :)
[Samsung Gear S] lvlrdka22:
Out of the popular ones I've tried, Runkeeper has the best UI when scaled down to the small screen. All the rest should work in tracking, but some UI elements end up slightly cut off (I don't think any app developers ever thought there would be full Android devices with such small screens :p).

In fact, I have been running with it since last weekend, and just finished a 10 mile run with it today. Works great!

Starting it up takes some time though, something that probably will be fixed eventually. First GPS lock after a reboot also takes some time, after that, it locks pretty quickly.

Battery also drains a bit quicker compared to Nike+ in Tizen, and probably will die after 2.5-3 hours, where in Tizen it should last 3.5-4 hours.
[Samsung Gear S] Ranomez:
DELETE.
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
What app can be used to reroute the notifications from the note 4 to the gear s by Bluetooth?

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[Samsung Gear S] Beukhof1:
Pushbullet?
[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
What DPI are you using? In my case I had to go to 160 so that to be able to find the setting for the BLE heart rate strap.
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
New builds on the way:

1. Tizen Recovery Package: I removed the bundled modem firmware and reordered the files in the package, so in case something breaks in the middle of the process, there are less possibilities of entering the Endless Bootloop Of Death (r). You can get it on the first post already

2. Android Image: All previous fixes applied:

* Bluetooth: firmware renamed to the chipset requested name

* Keystore: library removed from the build system, since our watch doesn't support hardware DRM

* Modem: Now using the Tizen firmware, T-Mobile / others won't need to copy their modem firmware back to the firmware folder to get the modem running, just boot it and it'll work out of the box

* Mail APP: Changed to 200 DPI by default (fixes the force close)

* Audio: mixer_paths updated with the microphone fix (still no bluetooth headset support)

* SWAP: Bundled a script on boot that will create a 512Mb swapfile if it doesn't exist and will enable the swapspace.

* Enabled MTP support: Though ADB is still enabled by default (now running in secured mode btw), now you can enable MTP at Settings -> Storage to connect the watch to the computer and be able to copy stuff back and forth

NOTES:

* SWAP: The first boot will take a long time, since it will create a 512Mb file inside the data partition to hold the swapspace, and it will need to format it. The next boots will take the usual time, since it will only have to mount it.

* I'm not bundling Google Apps into the image since I would be violating Google license. Use the typical gapps_package and flash it from twrp. I know it's a pain, and I would love to say I fixed the display, but I haven't, so... have patiente ;)

Will update the first post when the upload is complete. Have a good day!
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
I've tested Pushbullet and the notifications from the app pushbullet it's come, but whatsapp or tapatalk doesn't come.

Any suggestion?

I've seen in the web that Pushbullet had an option: "Beta: Sync my notifications with my other Android devices too"

Now this option I think that doesn't exist.
[Samsung Gear S] lvlrdka22:
Stock.
[Samsung Gear S] andrew.mackew:
Cooooool! :D

Dude, u know that we all (Gear users) love ya, right?! :D :D :D Thanks!!! :good: :good: :good:

You rock! :good: :good: :good:
[Samsung Gear S] martreintje:
the best

Your awsome!! tried the older build for a while, (switched from gear 2 to gear s just for the fun of it! :) )

works great.

using off clock which is working well, clock is visable all the time, screen always on and the touch is disabled. only swipe from top down and bottom screen buttons work. so no unintentional wakeup.

as far i could test, the watch whit always on screen, wifi on, and ocasionaly checked and played some songs on soundcloud i managed a full day, arround 10pm gave me a warning low batt ( started the day around 8oc)

tought id share..

( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.saulius.mockus.off&hl=nl )

again thanks for your hard work!!! on this and on the other gear!!!
[Samsung Gear S] t2bacdp:
I test something : no lockscreen and no problem with wake up watch after 3h. I will test soon with PIN or pattern modèle and tell you if it works.

For build #31 : can I install over build #27 with dirty install or clean install ? Swap partition add a real difference ?
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
If you have Google Apps, just after boot you'll already be using about 60Mb of swapspace. I haven't tested it extensively and it's not really optimized, but at least it'll give the watch some headroom for everyone who's got a considerable amount of apps & background sync tasks. More importantly, it'll hold on better and not start killing everything and wasting cpu. (You can check your swap/mem usage by running "free" or "cat /proc/meminfo" in a terminal/adb)

About clean install, you should be able to install it directly, but remember to install again google apps since all your changes to /system partition will be lost!
[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
Hi!

How do you suggest we flash? Via Odin or via TWRP? I would prefer a clean installation.

I flashed via ODIN and my system partition remained.

What should i do for a clean install?

Thank you
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
I guess you mean your "data" partition remained? The system partition gets completely overwritten by odin... Two ways of starting over:

1. Boot to recovery, and press Wipe (top right), then Slide from about 0,5inch from the left-down corner of the screen to the right. If you can't see the screen there's a trick, repeatedly touch the bottom-center side of the screen to toggle between the command log and buttons. After it finishes, touch left-down corner (home), about half an inch from the bottom right (reboot), then top right (poweroff). Power it back on and you'll start fresh.

You can see how many times I've had to deal with this cr** ;)

Option 2: Let it boot, enable ADB and run:

adb shell rm -rf /data

adb reboot

And let it come back with the entire data partition deleted.
[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
Yeah i meant data partition. :)

I am gonna try solution #2.

Thank you [MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]
[Samsung Gear S] almony8:
I'm still curious if this will work on the sprint variant now that it's rooted. Anyone tried it yet or know if it is safe to try?
[Samsung Gear S] kirewade:
So if we are on an ATT device we are never going to get this to work correct?
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
With pushbullet in the gear with a sim card different of my mobile phone, I think it's not possible to mirror whatsapp.

Are there any application more to sync notifications with bluetooth (preferably)?

Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Gear S] iNDEX3:
Hi!

How can I remove the old map from phone?

1|root@pontesolo:/ # ls -la /sdcard/.mos
ls -la /sdcard/.mos
drwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 2015-11-10 03:12 BundleStore
-rw-rw---- root sdcard_r 1 2015-11-10 02:30 consentStatus
-rwxrwx--- root sdcard_r 36 2015-11-10 02:30 unique_id.txt

1|root@pontesolo:/ # rm -rf /sdcard/.mos
rm -rf /sdcard/.mos
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/C3/00167E74.D00: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/C3/00165E62.D00: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/C3: Permission denied
................
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/B3/000016A5.D00: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/B3/00165A6D.D00: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore/B3: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/BundleStore: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/unique_id.txt: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos/consentStatus: Permission denied
rm: /sdcard/.mos: Directory not empty
1|root@pontesolo:/ #
[Samsung Gear S] linomaniac:
Hi

for me it does not work. the ClockPlus does not works too. i cannot find the daydream functionality.

when i push the button for screen off, it stays black. No clock appears.

edit: ...also i cannot set vibration for incoming calls. On the bike i don't hear the ringtone.
[Samsung Gear S] runningwarrior08:
[MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]

New tizen restore works great! No issues until I flashed my system data tar file. Then it booted but the screen would not stay on so I just reflashed your restore and factory reset to English and all is well.

So on to the SIM card issue. Upon insertion I do get the network unlock popup so it is something in CM that was not allowing the network unlock popup to show. Once it is unlocked it is fine(I assume) But it has to be unlocked before going to CM.

I am going to get it unlocked soon and test some more.
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
Nice to know thanks! Given that the system-data partition is at least partially matched with the firmware version, it's probably safe to simply use the one I packaged in the restore firmware. Then factory reset to start over and move to the rom of your choice ;)

About the simlock, it's probably because it's not coded in the ril layer, but since mine is already unlocked, I'm not going to spend time in that. It's easier just to unlock it in tizen and then move to android anyway.

I got a little further with the display. Still no joy though, but upon line by line comparison between the code trees, and found there are some gpio entries that aren't called the same between versions. One of them is the reset gpio for the panel. Modified all of them and managed to reduce the screen fps to 1/2 per second ;) BUT, it sort of came back from suspend in recovery so it seems it could work. Let's just hope I can finally get it out of the way and get my hands into the sensor library...
[Samsung Gear S] lachywallace:
Yay!!!!
[Samsung Gear S] Kirrrr:
Pretty cool. If the cellular calls is the only your desire.

But what about Viber, WhatsApp, Hangouts, Skype and other VOIP-services which just do not have client apps for Wear? Wait another one year? Meh...

Full-fledged Android rules.
[Samsung Gear S] lachywallace:
Its a start in the right direction i think
[Samsung Gear S] dvd52:
I think it depends on how a person sees Gear S. I think that first of all it is a clock that serves as a support to the smartphone, can not be considered a true smartphone, it doesn't have the necessary practicality. it would be good to see a version of Android wear in addition to cm12. I don't think it would be so much wasted.
[Samsung Gear S] Andycar:
Eres brillante, señor!

For me, your recovery package also worked without problems. For some time now, I decided to go back to Tizen and succeeded[emoji6]
[Samsung Gear S] daha80:
Really good. But this problem is not resolved.
[Samsung Gear S] computerguru:
Hey [MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]! I've been busy with work...just finally getting back to checking out Android on the device. I loaded the latest rom from the first post, but getting some weirdness.

TWRP shows it's screen, but as soon as I touch any of the UI components - screen goes black. I can still touch and it vibrates based on the buttons being selected in the UI...just can't actually see what I'm pressing. :) The screen will randomly show again...seems like it'll come back on if I tap midway down the screen to the far left. If I tap anything else, it's lights out again.

Android seems fairly stable comparatively. Just some random garbage on the display here and there (which I'm guessing are the display issues you're working on fixing.)

[EDIT] Got some additional info on the screen blackout on TWRP. I can navigate to the partitions to mount screen, and noticed that when I scroll the list, the image alternates between all black and the actual display contents. Wondering if there's something weird going on with the framebuffers/offscreen rendering. [/EDIT]
[Samsung Gear S] runningwarrior08:
This is a well known issue, tapping the bottom center is your best friend.
[Samsung Gear S] Rpgccv:
It's really amazing what you accomplished biktor_gj ; I'll for sure contribute to this work!!

I'll tell you my experience with the back and forward procedures (Portuguese unlocked Gear S with SIM card):

I flashed the Build #31, and everything went right (with all the known issues to solve; no big problem as i think it's usable already). Then i install the TWRP Manager apk since the known problems with the normal one ( and for me is not just the on/off screen, is that the TWRP is in "SIMULATION" mode so the gapps don't really get installed) and it says that it just works on rooted devices. Well i get back to TIZEN and follow the "Definitive guide to Rooting the Gear S" from this forum, everything went alright again and immediately did all back to Android. The point is that i'm in the same problem, my settings are all the same and the TWRP Manager apk tell me again that the device is not rooted.

What am i missing!?

I see that something is not going right 'cause all the android configurations didn't disappeared and i'm getting out of MB on storage, so maybe a clean install will work!!

Please let me know if anyone got in the same problems.

Best regards,

Rpgccv
[Samsung Gear S] runningwarrior08:
Did you enable root? In CM its in developer settings.
[Samsung Gear S] Rpgccv:
Did it already thanks!!

But when reboots and enter the TWRP it's in "simulation" mode again...
[Samsung Gear S] Andycar:
I'm not sure, but you may want to try removing /data/media/0/TWRP/.twrps file.

It may reset the TWRP settings, I think...
[Samsung Gear S] Rpgccv:
Thanks, but...

I do not have anything in "/data"

What i'm seeing is that when i choose -- install --> add zip -- the default location is "/storage/emulated/0" even if i change it and choose the right gapps it will go all the times to "simulation" mode and show me this: E:Unable to mount '/recovery'

E:Unable to mount '/recovery'

And then nothing go as it should....
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
View attachment 3541659

Okay people, I think this is working nicely. I just finished it so it may still do some strange things when it has spent hours sleeping, but we can't see until we try it...

Fully Functional Display!

* Suspend & Resume

* No screen artifacts on overlay functions (you don't need to turn it off in Developer Settings)

* Fully functional recovery (now you can use TWRP again!

After running the last build (#31) Flash this file via ODIN:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/7865h359r9e12fr/GearS_Kernel___20151114-.tar

If you encounter some problems and need to go back to the previous kernel, you can restore it by flashing this file (via Odin too):

http://www.mediafire.com/download/vjvz4c7fq82wgpy/kernel__only.tar

And if you want to see how many freaking hours I spent on this, just take a look at the Github commit to get an idea... ;)

Have a nice day!
[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
I love you man! I really do.
[Samsung Gear S] Andycar:
What the ****, need to change from Tizen back to Android again????

Thank you for all your hard work!

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[Samsung Gear S] Beukhof1:
Omg dude! You're the best!! How is performance and heat now?
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
I've flashed the CM31, and then in Odin how it must be installed the kernel, with ap option too?
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
Yes, any tar package that I post should be installed the same way :)
[Samsung Gear S] Azatot:
Ok, that's is working!!

Now how the notifications is it recevied from my note 4?

Thanks!
[Samsung Gear S] Rpgccv:
Thanks for the new file, but TWRP is still on "simulation" mode!!

I'm wondering when did i get it wrong!!

Is there any way to clean everything from storage and do a clean install!? Just to see if it's the structure that is getting wrong...
[Samsung Gear S] biktor_gj:
You chose to keep system as read only in twrp, that's why it happens. Remove the twrp settings folder in the sdcard, or wipe the internal data partition by running 'adb shell rm -rf /data' and then 'adb reboot'
[Samsung Gear S] gidi:
[MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION] Hey man, how are you doing? The screen fix is amazing. We wanted this ROM too much to care for the screen flicker but now that it is fixed i am wondering how we dealt with it in the first place.

Does the fix impact heat production/battery life?

Also, what are your plans for the future? What is left to fix? Sensors is one.

I would love it if you could focus on battery life optimization.

Again and again thank you so much for everything you have created.