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[Samsung Gear S] guybrush0000:
I'm wondering if not flashing the kernel can lead to the random reboots that affect sometimes my watch... I have flashed the latest AW image and it worked perfectly until yesterday (for a week long), when the screen became pixelated with a lot of colours and eventually turned off. After about 2 hours it rebooted and it worked fine again. Today I got again the pixels, but it rebooted almost immediately after it.

Sorry for the newbie question, but can it happen because I haven't flashed the kernel?
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Trying to do this on OSX, got this:

Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
ERROR: Failed to send request to end PIT file transfer!
ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!
Ending session...
ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!
Releasing device interface...If you appreciate this software and you would like to support future
development please consider donating:
h tt p:/ /www .glassechidna.com.au/donate/

Initialising connection...
Detecting device...
Claiming interface...
Setting up interface...

Initialising protocol...
Protocol initialisation successful.

Beginning session...

Some devices may take up to 2 minutes to respond.
Please be patient!

Session begun.

Downloading device's PIT file...
ERROR: Failed to send request to end PIT file transfer!
ERROR: Failed to download PIT file!
Ending session...
ERROR: Failed to send end session packet!
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Flashing steps.

Heads up to anyone struggling with the flashing steps - this post in the main DEV thread.
[Samsung Gear S] wyldphyr3:
That does not look like you followed the guide, did you? This is exactly the error you get when you are using an outdated version of Heimdall. You need to compile a current version from git, as I wrote in that post.
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Gotcha. You've spotted the lazy in me :D Will try again later on. Cheers.

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[CM]Just realized that the Clockworkmod Superuser app doesn't seem to work for this device. SuperSU seems to work just fine.
[Samsung Gear S] joytest:
Hi all,

want to ask if I could just flash the tar.md5 from a Tizen firmware downloaded off Sammobile?

Do I need to remove the .mbn files and repack it via 7zip to make it Odin flashable?

When I flashed to CM12.1 I simply used Odin to flash TWRP then flashed with Odin again to CM12.

Gapps was flashed with TWRP.

[MENTION=1219294]samsow[/MENTION] could you please list down the steps you took to return to Tizen?

Thanks!
[Samsung Gear S] sootyhippo:
Took some time to test it, broke my charging dock.

screen off, 77% after 4 hours, so that looks better. But I want screen always on.
[Samsung Gear S] Picard0147:
Hi, please can someone give me a tip for CM 12.1 to get it cooperating with my S5mini?

I don't want to use push bullet or other on-line services, only connection between watches and phone should be bluetooth,

simply said I need something like it was on original Samsung Galaxy Gear and allowed to use watch as BT handsfree with such things as notification sync and so on.
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Having difficulty dialing numbers on the phone once in a call. The numbers look at as in the calculator app. The Header (Material design - obviously non-responsive) shows the dialed number in a font which is top big for the tiny screen, takin about half of the vertical space.

Any app with simpler / configurable phone dial screen ? So far have been researching diallers but them all end up dialling to the same phone screen.

Main issue is trying to dial touch tone numbers once in a call.
[Samsung Gear S] joytest:
m2d sender and receiver.
[Samsung Gear S] joytest:
Just to share how I reflashed to Tizen from CM12.1

1. Get Gear into Download mode

2. Using Odin, flash the Tizen Recovery v2.tar from post 1 of the Dev thread. Select AP

3. Reboot, and reset the Gear

4. Download your region/country's latest firmware from Sammobile

5. Using Odin, flash your fimware.

Everything's ok on mine.

Had some frustration with CM especially battery life and lack of sensor use.

Not sure how folks here are using the Gear S with CM, but I couldn't do much due to the crap battery life, and running anything moderately would kill battery even faster.
[Samsung Gear S] Picard0147:
Thanks for the tip but I want something working between two devices (phone and watch) using bluetooth not internet connection. Maybe I do something wrong but M2D is functional with internet connection only :/
[Samsung Gear S] joytest:
I could suggest that you use bluetooth tethering from your phone to the Gear S, which would grant M2D the internet connection, but is tethered via bluetooth so it won't kill your data too much.
[Samsung Gear S] Picard0147:
Yes, this is possibility but reason why I want bluetooth connection is because permanent data connection even through bluetooth is battery killer for both devices.

I have phone and watch cca 1m or less far from each other so why I need internet to send notifications from phone to watch???

I'm asking for solution (a program or pair of programs that can do what I want) and not for manual how to scratch myself behind right ear using my left leg (what you advising me)...

Still, thanks for effort ;)
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Bluetooth tethering half-works with my phone. I'm finding out why, but.....

- Does anybody know why WIFI tethering doesn't work? Would it have to do with my line (MetroPCS)??
[Samsung Gear S] Myrmeko:
I've bought a Gear S yesterday.

Which one is more stable between CM12.1 and Android Wear.

Does any of them have a working heart rate monitor/step counter?

I cant pair Tizen with my HTC One M9.

(Sidenote: Does anybody know any way to pair a non-Samsung device with Gear S?)
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
go for the wear port
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
This is one of the best phone formats ever (wrist-phone).

My personal choice is CM over Wear. Very stable, for being an alpha, and responsive.

Main issues so far (minor annoyances not listed):

- CPU Power: Google Maps took about 15 minutes to get to a point to be able to indicate addresses. I have disabled CPU throttling.

- Bluetooth calling: Doesn't seem to work.

- Battery longevity is less than desirable.

- Small capacity when compared to a phone with removable SDcard
[Samsung Gear S] NickoGlayre:
Flashing stuff on gear s with fastboot

Hi,

Is it somehow possible to flash twrp and then other stuff thanks to fastboot or is it only possible with odin ?
[Samsung Gear S] Myrmeko:
Can i sideload Google Dialer to the Android Wear port to make calls?

I use my Gear S as a phone, with a SIM card inside.

Edit: also what app do i need to measure heart rate?

I tried Runtastic HRM on my phone, but that one uses the camera. Is as acurate as the actual sensor on the Gear, btw.

Is there any ported S Health for any Android? Maybe the one from the HDC clones?
[Samsung Gear S] andrew.mackew:
Hey fellas,

I wonder if anyone here have news about our beloved dev [MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION] ..

I believe, that not only me, but everybody here is missing his interactions and precious roms :)

And above all we're really thankful for all your hard work!

[MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION]

We all, wish you [MENTION=803006]biktor_gj[/MENTION] all the best, no matter what succeed with your rom :good: :good: :good: We know that you're pretty busy for sure :eek:

God bless you bro!
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Hey guys, anyone knows if bluetooth calling has been fixed?
[Samsung Gear S] DQEight:
No
[Samsung Gear S] choong001:
this i fix the bluetooth calling cm 12.1

https://mega.nz/#!Y1k20ALQ!Irhna_HJ7d0lb2eNl2kWa6l1EUbr7oCFB3-h5_Tetn0
[Samsung Gear S] delboi:
I've just flashed this and can't turn on Bluetooth??
[Samsung Gear S] choong jun fu:
Go to setting app Find the bluetooth share and clear data .....
[Samsung Gear S] arieluya:
Can anyone confirm this is working and fixes bluetooth calling? Thanks!
[Samsung Gear S] choong001:
samsung gear s bluetooth calling work

This is the youtube bluetooth calling for the gear s

https://youtu.be/mbrscSr2EvE
[Samsung Gear S] flubberb:
Bt works. I made a test phone call with bt headset, no problem there. I heard, and was told, sounded like using the headset paired with any other device.

At first it crashed in random situations; at the first try at dialing a call, browsing through menu settings, etc. Now it seems to have settled down, no crashing in the last half hour. A bit early to give a verdict on the stability.

Overall, thumbs up for fixing the bt problem!

EDIT:

as expected, battery lasts less than without BT and without making those calls :)

I used to have battery life of 12 hours with cm2, now it's around 4 hours.

And with BT working, the build is now unstable and crashes a lot(perhaps runs out of memory).

FYI the battery life of latest wear build was 48 hours with my watch. I use the watch at work, so lots of emails and phone calls.
[Samsung Gear S] Jnioms:
[MENTION=2373495]badblood_antony[/MENTION] did you flash the tizen recovery given in the first post before flashing that one?
[Samsung Gear S] martreintje:
question, after going back to tizen, by tizenrecovery v2 pack from biktor..... can i update the "normal' way or do i need to flash with odin??

windows from PDA:0A7 / Phone:NL8 / CSC:0A7 (PHN) ---> PDA:0L2 / Phone:0G2 / CSC:0L1 (PHN)

thank you in advance!

it must be a Dutch version....
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
I just returned to tizen as my ancient Nokia phone died and I needed to use the sim again. I went from the wear port to stock tizen by flashing the recovery image v2 in the opening post and the downloading the BTU rom sammobile as I'm in the UK. All fine, and I've gained a new respect for the tizen software.... It just works very well.... I actually love it.
[Samsung Gear S] martreintje:
so odin it is?? looks like the samsung way won't work for updates??
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
yeah I just used odin...all good. Now I'm stock I'll get any OTA updates if and when they come.
[Samsung Gear S] maheboi:
I flashed from android wear to cm via Odin, and cm boot looped after telling me Google play services has crashed. Went back to android wear, now the ui system ui has stopped. Is there a step I'm missing before flashing in between builds that is making this happen?
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
After you've flashed the rom hold the button down and get to recovery and select advanced wipe and wipe cache, dalvick cache and data. Reboot and should be OK?
[Samsung Gear S] Sparky-Gear S:
Bluetooth Fix - Issues

Hello [MENTION=6431943]choong001[/MENTION] , and thank you for the bluetooth fix !

I flashed it since you posted it and I am very pleased that someone finally tackled this subject ! This fix made my watch leap closer to 100% ideall !

All that beeing said , I have encountered some issues , that I hope we could fix !

After flashing your fix file , and after the first reboot it keeps showing a pop-up of Google Services force closing , every hour or so , althought the Play Store and other Google related apps keep working just fine , as far as I can tell ! ( I wiped the device as usuall , cache and dalvik , after install. )

There seems to be a problem with the cellular data conection timing out , while and after any bluetooth conection has been made . ( usually turning off and on the cellular data conection will fix this )!

The device rebooted on me several times while trying to answer a call , while conected to a bluetooth headset . ( at first I blamed it on the "silent" audio profile set on the watch , but it also did it in the normal audio profile ) .

Thanks again for your work , I really apreciate and enjoy it !
[Samsung Gear S] pprabhu06:
Can someone share me the Recovery(TWRPONLY.tar) for Gear S ....

- Recovery (EXTRACT NEEDED)

http://bit.ly/1OA4tnS ( Link is Broken )
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
Just tried the link and it's working. Maybe try a different browser, or turn off any blocking software.
[Samsung Gear S] pprabhu06:
Thanks for the reply !! Its been blocked in my country . Will try with some proxy ;)
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
if you can't get it I'll upload to a dropbox.
[Samsung Gear S] pprabhu06:
I managed to download it :) thank you very much
[Samsung Gear S] pprabhu06:
How to disable all Vibration in AW ?
[Samsung Gear S] Emblema:
Hi, there's some kind of how-to to install CM on my Gear S?

Sim card works ?

Thanks all
[Samsung Gear S] pprabhu06:
Please Check Post#589 :good:
[Samsung Gear S] Myrmeko:
Hello. :)

If you install Google Dialer and Google Messages on the Android Wear ROM, would you still be able to use the SIM?

Im using my watch as a secondary phone, but i cant connect it to my HTC One M9, because the ported app thread has a broken link right for the most important thing. You know... To install at least Opera on it.

And CM12.1's battery life is not enough. 6 hours is srsly not enough. And the build from the Pokemon GO screenshot (the one where he says it lasts for about 14 hours at a normal use) has not been uploaded yet.

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Yes, search for Jayson Koo on YouTube. He made a very nice video tutorial and a review for almost every build.

https://youtu.be/Ha5cHUC_JS4
[Samsung Gear S] Emblema:
There is a link to download the last build CM 12? I read about .40 release but I didn't found.

Inviato dal mio SM-N930F utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Gear S] 80000037:
hi guys, since this is a full install of Android, does this means we can make Gear S as WiFi Hotspot?
[Samsung Gear S] rkingsparx81:
Guys after reading like 40 pages I gotta ask. So android wear ports don't support calls from the watch is that correct? So once my watch is out of Bluetooth range what happens like will it use the the 4g connection to communicate with the phone similar to how WiFi would.
[Samsung Gear S] primod808:
Yes to your first question .

No to the second one.

Sent from Soft bank 404sc aka s6 edge
[Samsung Gear S] BoGnY:
hi!! I've just installed AW build..

first of all, flashing last AW build (20160708) over Tizen don't work.. I had to flash before AW beta 2 (build 20160320), after flash latest AW, and finally flash kernel patch (20160715)..

But the wifi don't work properly, if I go to wifi settings, my gear s connect succesfully to my wifi router, but if I quit from wifi settings menu', gear s will disconnect immediatly...

how I wrong??

thanks a lot
[Samsung Gear S] DQEight:
I never thought I'd say this but I bought a note 4 and want to return the watch to tizen. I somehow lost the sysdata.tar. I do have the firmware from SamMobile. What can I do from here?
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
I went back to tizen by flashing the recovery image v2 from page 1 of the dev thread and the stock BTU rom from sammobile as I'm in the UK. All good and tizen is underrated, I personally quite like it.
[Samsung Gear S] johnpccd:
Great job guys.. i got my watch a few days ago and since then i cannot stop playing with it..

Can anyone help me install the kernel upgrade? I have Android wear installed and tried flashing the kernel using odin same way you flash CM or AW but looks like it overwrote the recovery or something like that..

Any ideas?

Update: It worked after second trial.. I have no idea what went wrong the first time.

So happy that "Always ON" works now!!

Update2: Ok, I can see a few bugs here..

1- With Always ON, time freezes sometimes (although notifications are received and shown)

2- Screen glitches like on videos shown before in the thread

3- Touch response is not accurate.. specially when trying to swipe up to down, the watch almost always registers right to left. Also tapping is almost always registered as swiping.
[Samsung Gear S] Timberwolfhusky:
I certainly hope this thread does not die anytime soon.

Anything but CM seems like a waste on this piece of hardware, just got mine and was able to flash CM within the hour.

It is a defond hand T-mobile variant that seems to be getting around 9 hrs battery life with WLAN on constantly(I charge all my devices at night anyway so it doesn't bother me).

Has anyone considered porting the gear 1 (SM-V700) framework? Id est, get the notification and media remote providers to work on the gear s CM? The original gear ran Android 4.1 natively so I surmise it would bot be as problematic as tizen... Could there be a way to 'trick' gear manager into believing the S is the gear 1?

I know the latter could arguably be achieved in a rudimentary fashion with third party apps, however it would be nice to have it unified to a single framework and keep most of the operations through BLE(which seems to be working as far as I can tell).

QUICK EDIT:

If anyone is interested in helping, I can provide the relevant packages. I believe they are also available from null_ROM however...
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
Hey guys

Is there a howto to get android wear on the Gear S?

I just got my hands on one and am keen to get android wear on it, please someone share a howto with link to required files.
[Samsung Gear S] primod808:
Download the latest AW ROM AND KERNAL flash through odin. Sorry been a while but I would reccomend to read the whole postings to be on the safe side. The steps are in there just forgot where. Good luck.
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
thanks for the reply

are you using AW on your gear S now ? how is it going ?

So to be clear, so I don't brick my Gear S, I need to download:

GearS_Wear_20160708.zip

Kernal ? (which kernel ?)

also, do i need to flash the twrponly.tar recovery first ?
[Samsung Gear S] primod808:
Yes I'm using now on my gear s. No phone calls but every other thing works okay.

There's a kernal to flash with the latest aw rom but again highly reccomend to read all posts to get a better picture of what you have to do.
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
Thanks primod808, much appreciated

Does anyone know if GearS_Wear_20160708.zip is the latest Android Wear for Gear S ?

Also, I'm having trouble finding the latest Kernel in the thread for Android Wear, can someone post a link ?

So i suspect this is what needs to be done in Odin:

Flash twrponly

Flash GearS_Wear_20160708

Flash Kernel

Reboot

if anyone can help i would really appreciate it, I just don't want to brick my gear.
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
Ok, so I finally found the kernel and flashed android wear GearS_Wear_20160708.tar and GearS_Kernel_20160715.tar

I'm also working on a tutorial, it should save the next person a few hours of his life searching through the dev thread

.
[Samsung Gear S] delboi:
Hey does anybody no if biktor released The New build of cm That he was testing? Been through all post But didnt find anything So was wondering if he released it?
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
Sadly, I think the project is dead :(
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
no he didn't.
[Samsung Gear S] Myrmeko:
Since you've been using CM on your watch, how much does the battery last without WLAN turned on, with a sim card inside, but with 3G mobile data turned off?

I want to install CM on my watch, but i dunno how much the battery lasts.

Im still waiting for the battery fix build, bc some people say that it lasts only 6 hours (but i dunno what that means... Idle (screen-off) 6 hours or using it (screen-on) for 6 hours)

And i dunno if i should replace Tizen right now, or wait until he updates CM12.1/he makes CM13.
[Samsung Gear S] Timberwolfhusky:
Hmm I have yet to test how battery life would be with a SIM card as my Gear is T Mobile and I do not have that carrier currently. I can however say that with WLAN and BT on I get around 14 hrs with around 1 hr of screen on time. It is also worth noting that my watch is second hand, as such your results might be better.

I posit that 6 hour quote comes from a much heavier use case as under no circumstances does mine last that shortly, and idle consumption is negligible.

As I mentioned in my post, it would be better if we could keep the usage to a minimum by porting the gear manager framework and use BLE instead of WLAN and presumably the mobile network only circumstantially...
[Samsung Gear S] Sparky-Gear S:
Hello Myrmeko ,

I've been using my Gear S CM as a daily driver for the last 5 months , with a SIM card ( Vodafone network ) with network data constantly on 2G ( 3G is a big battery drainer in my case ) , paired to a Samsung bluetooth headset and automated with Tasker so that bluetooth is only on when receiving or making a call , Forced CPU to 300-600 Mhz in standby with ondemand posibility to spike higher when needed thru NoFrillsCPU , dark themed everything , and I got to around 10-12 hours on main battery + 7-10 hours extension after a dock recharge !

I have constant Whatsapp , Email , Youtube and Calendar Notifications witch lead me to a sum of around 1,5-2 hours of on screen time each day !

I find this rom very usable and stable ( only bug so far - unregular restarts on bluetooth conection) the bluetooth fix did not came from the biktor ( you can find the fix in previous posts ) , but I belive it would have been fixed in the last update mentioned, that never got uploaded by biktor !

Hopefully this thread is not dead and bitkor is still listening and working on making it better , and we'll see that update uploaded sometime !

Either way , I am thankfull of what we have so far and I am keeping and using my watch untill a similar project is going to come out for the new Gear S 3 Frontier , which i belive is a better hardware platform and may include some Pay services access !

I hope you find my stat and opinions helpfull ! ;)

Cheers !
[Samsung Gear S] Punchlinegott:
removed
[Samsung Gear S] skyred5:
Thanks for your wonderful review on Gear S CM rom... I just want to confirm if you can make calls on it? I am currently using the watch in a non-cam zone for work and am considering flashing CM(again). Previously did not managed to try making calls. If possible, would you be able to share with me the steps(here or PM) on what you did for the watch for battery saving as well? Thanks in advance!

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Just read your tutorial on your blog. You mentioned that everything works, but I've searched before that making/receiving calls is not possible. Can you confirm? I'm comparing between AW or CM and my priority being able to make calls is the deciding factor.
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
Android Wear doesn't support calling in the OS so it wasn't a consideration when I said everything works [emoji1]
[Samsung Gear S] Myrmeko:
Thanks a lot to both of you. :)

I thought the battery was really bad on CM, but it turns out that is actually pretty good.

Anyway, im gonna install CM when Biktor releases the next update, because bug fixes are always good. (Or hopefully CM13/14)
[Samsung Gear S] ipguy:
He's not going to release anything new, I'd flash CM now