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[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] bingblop:
If you're interested in remapping your Bixby Key shortcut to GA, just download and sideload the APK I linked below on your watch and enable GW4 Remap in your accessibility installed services. Tap settings and from here you can configure tasks that run based on certain system events from your watch. You can remap the long pressing of both hardware keys which by default are set to Bixby (Top) and Samsung Pay (Bottom). Now you can't configure anything to launch directly from long pressing of the Hardware keys since Samsung is anal about that. So your options are:

For the top button, you have the option of remapping to launch Google Assistant Go or Ultimate Alexa whenever Bixby OR the power menu is shown. Now, Remapping over Bixby is terrible so I highly recommend going into your watch's advanced settings and changing your top button key shortcut to launch the power menu instead of Bixby when held down. Launching GA Go whenever your power menu is shown is literally instant since whenever another app is launched to the foreground, the power menu instantly closes so most times you won't even see it nor will there be anything else running in the background.

You can add a second task if you wish to launch Google Pay instead of Samsung Pay with the bottom key. Again, very fast switching, almost instant.

If you're feeling froggy , you can launch GA/Alexa from the bottom key and Alexa or Samsung Pay from the top. Or launch GA on top and Alexa on bottom.

Launching something over Bixby causes it to display an error and causes very slow switching to GA. That's is why you should change your settings to Power Menu.

Enjoy!
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] funkpod:
wow, amazing hack, thanks! Question, some of us have the problem of GA Go timing out and the time appearing on top of GA Go.

Know what fixes that?

Also, any ideas about how to get GA Go to trigger Google Messages?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] bingblop:
Can you rephrase your question. Not 100% sure what you mean. Google Assistant Go takes a 2-3 seconds to load if it's not in background. Subsequent launches take less than a second. Especially if you launch it using the hardware key shortcut I linked. I'm shooting Google assistant commands all the time now. Just hold down top button and start talking to GA.

Hmmm.. you mean time is appearing over Google Assistant? That would be an issue with your watch face or most likely Ambient Mode. Are you using watch always on?

To launch ANY app from Google Assistant Go, just say "Open/Launch <Name of App>". So for the messages app, make sure it's set to your default message app and just try saying "Open Messages", Not Google Messages since Its not called that. The issue you might run into is launching the Samsung Messages app instead since both apps are just called "Messages". Try setting your default app like I said and say "Open Messages" or "Open Default Message App" and similar variations. If that doesn't work, you can always uninstall or disable Samsung Messages through ADB so it won't be seen my GA.

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.messaging
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] funkpod:
Hey, thanks for the reply. Let me rephrase.

When a few of us say "send text to Joe 'what's up?'"

Google Assistant Go says "okay, sending message."

But nothing happens.

I am using Google Messages.

About the time appearing over GAGO, yes, I am using Always On Display. Maybe I'll try turning it off and seeing what happens w/ GAGO.

Thanks!
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] bingblop:
So I was able to force connect my Galaxy Watch 4 to the Google Wear OS app on phone while it was connected and setup with Samsung Wearable App... I have a new complication too that is directly from Google and it's called Search .. it works and what it does it launch Google Assistant Go..

The question is how can I get the Google Assistant that that is traditionally used with the Wear OS app? Is it not possible?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] lordmorphous:
Can you explain how you force connected to the wear os app?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] winesh:
As of now, what is the best version to use? This one, or the 2.8 version, or another one?

Maybe is 2.8 the same as this one? I'm on 2.8 and experienced a bit lag, but also had it with this version... 😅
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] bingblop:
Sideload Google Wear OS app and install from play store on your phone. It keeps disabling itself on watch though so you have to go and enable it in the galaxy Wearable App on phone within the app list. If you launch that app from your watch, it actually brings up your Google reminders. You can add new ones too. It just crashed and disables a lot like I said so it's not very efficient.

While the Google app is actively enabled on your watch, go to Wear OS app on phone and pair it. That's it.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU DO NOT DO THIS THOUGH! Here's why through a pros and cons list:

Pros: ......... A **** Google reminders app that is almost to actually unusable. It does not give you access to Google Assistant which is really the only benefit of it for Wear OS watches. A lot of features are not available for GW4 in Wear OS app .

Cons: You can't switch back to Galaxy Wearable App without resetting your watch. You lose basically all functionality of being able to configure your watch from the wearable app bc the Wear OS essentially has no control features. Honestly I could go on and on with reasons but the message should be clear...
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] naaapu:
Google Assistant for the Galaxy Watch 4 is still 'months' away

Google Assistant is confirmed to be coming to the Galaxy Watch 4 series, but even now it is still "months" away from launch.

9to5google.com
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] znel52:
I'm guessing we have to wait for Google to release its Pixel watch to showcase the 'next-gen assistant' before we are allowed to have it. Probably an agreement between Sammy and Goog. I bet it is ready to go right now just waiting on Google to release this watch. I'll be curious to see how soon it comes after the supposed May 26th launch of Pixel Watch.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] anon/droid:
That would be a very stupid move of Google which would sabotage the broader acceptance of Wear OS 3. So I don't consider it likely.

Google wants more Wear OS 3 market share ASAP. So they won't hold anything back artificially what many people are loudly requesting already now.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] znel52:
I'm gonna have to disagree with you on this one. Next-gen Google Assistant for Wear OS3 is likely to be one of the big selling points of the Pixel Watch. Google is going to want to be the first to showcase its improved assistant on its shiny new Pixel Watch. They aren't going to let Samsung steal their thunder on this one.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] :
How well does Google Assistant work on the Samsung Watch 4 currently?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] ALooneyGuy:
Your assertion that it's a stupid move that would sabotage broader acceptance is exactly why I believe it's true.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] dave5777:
The best way to sideload is ADB via wifi, very simple if you have a computer.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] albinoman887:
no
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] karl122132:
Is there any way to make it work with Spotify please?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] karl122132:
Ok
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Aethera:
It works great. The only thing it doesn't do is integrate with things like notifications/messages or Samsung Health data. It would be nice for example if you could ask it "What's my heart rate?", "How many steps did I take today?" , or "Read my notifications".

There's also a mod to remap long-press of home button to open Google Assistant. It's kind of a cludge in that you first have to assign long-press to power menu, and then after it's reassigned to GA when you long press it still opens power menu briefly.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Aethera:
All that is totally unnecessary. You don't need Android Studio to be able to transfer via adb to the watch. You only need Minimal ADB and Fastboot (Windows). On Debian you can simply

apt install adb fastboot

You can also download platform tools directly from android.com. If you install platform tools you need to have adb/fastboot location set in your PATH, or copy them to a location that's already in PATH such as ~/bin or /usr/local/bin

For a terminal on Windows I recommend Cygwin terminal or ConEmu with Cygwin.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] kirvedx:
I didn't say any of it was necessary, I said I'd explain how to sideload like a pro without using 3rd party tools, specifically the official tools. The benefit of going the route I provided (which is honestly nothing extraordinary) is that you're set up to develop for android as well. Fastboot had already been mentioned, so I don't think I was misleading anybody; and most people wanting Android Studio's environment are not going to be installing it from the main repository.

But hey if that's really going to be the vibe on that I can just delete the post
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] anon/droid:
Please don't feel offended, your post is very helpful and appreciated, and it was kind of you to describe everything in such detail so the instructions can be followed even without a vast amount of background knowledge. The XDA forum would definitely be a better place if more people would write their posts in such a way.

But I also appreciate @Aethera's addition that "apt install adb fastboot" may provide a shortcut for some people. IMHO he was just adding something to your post and not taking something away from it.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] kirvedx:
Thank you for the kind words.

I take notes all over the internet, its how I memorize things and preemptively make my life easier. Typically something like this would have been a follow up or supplement on a stack site - or wherever I found the majority of contributing information - if it weren't just a Gist/Snippet somewhere. I didn't want to install a 3rd party tool or app because I'm already setup for Android programming (I'm an engineer) and just wanted to know how to use adb to install a package on a smartwatch with no physical connection; I've had plenty of experience with ADB -> just a little more old school and a bit less for installing apps that aren't meant to be installed.

That said, considering this was such a rich thread, and that it's where I ended up with my searching - I felt that throwing the notes I needed conclusively into a post here would be how I'll have an easier time next time; and to be fair, could share all the steps required to do what I did, even the ones others who weren't set up would need to follow, so as to share the love.

I also only truly meant to say if the vibe was going to be "wtf" then I could delete the post, and just save what bits I needed on a snippet - though I think just having wrote the post to begin with committed what I needed to memory as intended. I'll leave it; and thanks again!
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] sonatamartica:
Thanks for this! Was planning on doing this myself but you saved me a while lot of effort! 😀
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] GeminiRx:
Came across this..

Seems that Google confirmed assistant is NOt coming to the GW4 officially?

Samsung Galaxy Watch4 won’t get Google Assistant after all

Verizon published the changelog a bit too early, thus prompting a response from Google when a major feature was missing.

m.gsmarena.com
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] crxssi:
That update is the one we already have had for weeks on the non-LTE version. We already know Assistant isn't in it. That doesn't mean it isn't ever coming.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] GeminiRx:
Nuts, I fell for it. Should have read better.

Thanks for clearing that up 😊
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] vet0n:
Now once Google Assistant is officially available on Galaxy Watch 4, perhaps anyone can share the official apk which can be sideloaded to the watch?

Thanks in advance!
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] RockLee91:
Unfortunately the official GA isn't avaible in a lot of country (my poor Italy included)... There Is a way to sideload the apk and make It work? Speaking english isn't a problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Aqua1ung:
So far it hasn't shown up anywhere. Methinks "today" pro'lly means May 24, 2024.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] ja450n:
looks like it's live now... it's the 24th in south korea, where samsung is headquartered ... lol. maybe they were waiting for 7AM korea time on the 24th?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] gavelis:
Also successfully installed in Germany. Localized with German language (voice) output. Love it <3
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] AnthonyParryUK:
Got it here on the Play Store in the UK... Is it just me or if using adb commands to set the display scale below .80 that the voice feedback from google assistant breaks up and the app will crash with "sorry something's gone wrong" I had my text tiny at 0.65 and the app was buggy, i rebooted watch (which resets the display scale back) and Assistant worked fine, as soon as i pull the scaling down again it's glitchy.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] kingwicked:
Use Bugjaeger app connect to your watch with wifi adb to your phone and try sideloading this official Google Assitant app pulled from my Watch4Classic 46mm N America Region 😉
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] diegol2k:
It worked, and in Spanish language, thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] alexetna95:
Can confirm that it works fine. I live in Hungary.

Thanks so much.😁
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
Does it work also with the home button? I can start it from the launcher only. (It's already set as default assistant.)
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] alexetna95:
Yes, you can set it for double press.😁
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
I assume I should be able to use it with long press as the default assistant. If Bixby is default it's the one working with long press but when I set GA to default, long press just brings up a Bixby like screen and it stops immediately.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
Ok, i managed to install the apk, but when i open it, it says continue setup on phone, then it opens on the phone and after a while i get the error "couldnt connect to your watch". The watch is connected to a phone by bluetooth. Anyone knows how to proceed after this?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] alexetna95:
You have the Assistant set up on your phone as well ?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] alexetna95:
Long press works fine for me.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
OK my bad. It's working now. I had to explicitly set long press to bring up Assistant on my phone in the Galaxy Wearable app. Settings on my watch weren't enough...
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
yeah, assistant works on the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
Yeah, GA was already set up on my phone. Just had to set it on the Galaxy Wearable phone app also. Thanks! :)
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] alexetna95:
Maybe do a restart for the phone and the watch as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
yeah, i already tried that. i also tried talking to assistant on my phone "setup assistant on my watch" then it searched for the devices but couldnt find any. Im in croatia, btw, 'unsupported" country but i see from post before that shouldnt be the problem. maybe i could try factory reset on the watch and phone later today, dont know what else i could do.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] QuiDC96:
Any idea how to set up the "Hey Google"?

I can't find the point to activate/turn off "Hey Google"

Edit 1: Problem solved ... I clear the assistent app to setup again. The first version of Assistent app is very empty.. no way to setup anything.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
Have you installed the assistant apk on the watch? It sounds like you have installed it on your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
of course i did, i sideloaded apk that was posted here
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
OK, so you can see it in your watch's app launcher. First time you start it from app launcher it will present you a button that starts the assistant setup on your phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] nafroman:
for everyone who wonders, the apk provided by kingwicked (thanks!) in this thread

works on my gw4c in an unsupported country (I'm using English for the assistant and wear OS language) .

so you can sideload it if you want to.

sideload it, setup was easy from the app icon in the watch's app launcher.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
Yes, exactly... And even though i start the setup process from my watch i get the error 'couldnt connect to your watch'
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] saspipi:
Guess you have remote connection enabled already in galaxy wearable app, isn't it?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] keenan1986:
Yes. Everything was done correctly on my end.

I just wanna say that i managed to do it after i did factory reset on my watch. Setup went smothly after that on the first try.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Menipoco:
Thanks 🙏👍
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] gschot:
For The Netherlands, it appeared for me when I went on the watch to Play Store / My Apps. It showed in the updates there.

One issue I have with it, is that the spoken responses (Dutch works) stutter when it contains more than a few words. Anyone else with this issue?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] RvD-86:
There is some delay in the text on the screen, but speaking is fluent.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] gavelis:
I´ve read in a german forum that some have stuttering assistant when using "hey Google" on GW4. Same people report fluent speech if assistant was started with long press button.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] RvD-86:
Hey Google is not available at the moment in the Netherlands.

So i can't test that option.

I also start the GA with long press button.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] gschot:
I did start the assistant by pressing the button .. Maybe I should try turning it off and on again...
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] OnnoJ:
Install Google Assistant in Galaxy Watch 4 in Unsupported Countries

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will show you the steps to install Google Assistant in Galaxy Watch 4 in unsupported countries.

www.droidwin.com
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] Bobyroby:
how exactley to do this?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] naryhd:
guys i have a problem mentioned here , do you know what should I do?
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] kirvedx:
If you go into the Galaxy Wearables app on your phone, then go to Apps ⇨ Store. You can install both Google Assistant and Wallet (the new Pay), enable both on the watch (any Samsung Android watch, i.e. SM-R925U - Watch5 Pro LTE, SM-R895U - Watch4 Classic LTE), and install them.

No more side-loading required, no enabling apps required.

I'll post some screenshots and a screen recorder session that I hope shows clearly enough how to do it. I did forget to show the initial screens for Google Wallet - but for Assistant I was recording from before I started.

Essentially when you visit either app in the Store, there's a trick (attention to detail really) to ensure you are installing for the watch(s):

Scroll down to Top free watch apps:

Click on the arrow near the title and you'll get a list, just search for the apps in question.

1. For Wallet, right near the Enable/Update/Install/Open button (first it'll be "enable", then switch to update/install) - or under it, it'll say "Available on more devices"; ensure you expand that and install it for your watches. The process is a) Enable b) update/install c) ensure its installed on your watch - not by checking for the app in the app list (it doesn't install there), but by going into settings ⇨ connections ⇨ nfc ⇨ payments and verifying that you can now set it to be Google Pay/Wallet.

2. For Assistant, just above the tile that shows the Google Assistant title with "open" button (it'll be "enable" first), there are several labels/tags across under the search bar - some of which are drop downs; [icon] This device, is one - Rating is another. Anyways - expand This device and a buttom nav drawer will open ⇨ Select the watch in question and ensure you a) enable b) install/update if required (sometimes its not).

Hope that helps
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] QuiDC96:
Nop play store still tell me that Google Assistant is not compatible.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] kirvedx:
I'd connect to WiFi and try updating your watch(es) OS/firmware ⇨ As you saw it worked for both of mine. I haven't dug around too much since I installed them and activated the Google Pay service on my Watch5 Pro; I had it installed via the sideload process I used (earlier in the thread) already on my Watch4 Classic, but I was able to select my Watch4 Classic and did not get the error(s) you're showing - everything went smooth on both watches.

Assuming there's no difference between the hardware (both of mine are +LTE versions) I can assure you mine are up-to-date. I'd want to know why it worked for me and not for you; as you saw in my screenshots it worked for me, installed on both successfully.

But whether it function properly - I wont be able to tell you till I hit a store; I will update on that end - seems Google Pay works differently now, requiring the phone for the setup and using the watch only for the NFC tap portion.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] ohrenstaebchen:
I have problems connecting my gw4 assistant to my Phone. Both have the assistant installed, when i want to activate it on the watch it says i have to do it in my Phone first. When clicking in it it opens the Google Feed in my Phone but nothing more.

Rebooted both devices, installed several Apps anew, tried several things - but wasnt successful.
[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] odedi:
Hello everyone,

I'm trying to start the Google assistant in my watch 4. It used to work before i did reset to the device. And now i can use it again. Can anyone help me? Is it a problem with the phone or the watch?
[Networking] chestervn:
Hi there, i just encountered this issue recently when my mobile hotspot on my Samsung S9 root with Magisk wont let my laptop connect to the internet. PC diagnosis says that DNS not available, or it seems to have problems reaching dns of my mobile network. My other phone also wont be able to reach internet when connecting to this hotspot. It used to work a few days ago.

I had no ideas why, i tried to remove cloudfare module in Magisk, no luck.

Please help.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Brow:
I have already unlocked my device, how ca I remove all the nasty orange bits off it.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
Flash a new ROM.

Have a read on the following wiki page, under ROM upgrading: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Kaiser

Ta

Dave
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] sebbes:
if you run WM6.0, hard reset it, then press soft reset when it starts the countdown to customise your Kaiser (you'll get rid of most orange stuff)

the trick doesnt work anymore with WM6.1, you'll have to clean manually.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Brow:
Thanks Dave. I cannot seem to download a WM6.0, can you point me to a link
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DaveShaw:
RTFW (read the fantastic wiki) :)

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=KaiserROMs

Ta

Dave
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Restorer:
Brow, you don't need to flash your device to get rid of the Orange stuff! Just install a few cabs - the latest HTC Home Plugin and a dialler of your choice together with any theme skins (.tsk files which you just dump into the windows folder). Or you may like to try the new Manila2D with its many skins.

If you like to tinker you will have a lot of fun. If you are experienced then of course get stuck into the ROM flashing stuff.
[General Questions and Answers] marcolmz:
Hi guys help me out how can I root my vivo Y12A?

What tricks can you suggest?
[General Questions and Answers] AhanafR:
The best way is Magisk. To do that you need to unlock vivo bootloader first. As far as I know that vivo has a custom fastboot extension for fastboot that helps unloking it. someone did it. I have failed to build the drivers by accidently mixing up various android version soruces like some code from 4 some from android 7 and so on.

never mind you can do it.

GitHub - naveensingh/vivo_fastboot: Modified fastboot sources to unlock vivo (bbk) phones

Modified fastboot sources to unlock vivo (bbk) phones - naveensingh/vivo_fastboot

github.com

best of luck