[Samsung Galaxy Watch 4] vistasdf:
Hi folks,

I'm in a bit of a conundrum here. Decided to grab a GW4 on Black Friday, and tried pairing it with my Pixel, but I don't seem to be able to copy my Google account to my watch in any shape or form! I'm a bit at my wits end here.

My Google account is a Google Workspace / G Suite one; I have completely disabled mobile/device management on it. I also tried turning on basic device management, setting a PIN on the watch and trying to add/copy the account on it as well. I'd very much like to use this account on the watch, as it's my "main account" for pretty much everything.

The symptoms are the following: When I try to add/copy my Google account to the watch, I get the Android-native dialog about signing into a Google account on the watch. Confirm that I am indeed trying to add my only Google account. After about 5 seconds of loading, the dialog just closes.

Tried the following so far:

Try to add the Google account during the setup phase --> got "couldn't copy Google accounts" toast notification error in Galaxy Gear app

Try to add the Google account from the Galaxy Gear app --> got "couldn't copy Google accounts" toast notification error in Galaxy Gear app

Try to add the Google account from the watch itself (Settings -> Accounts & Backup -> Google account). This time, I get the native dialog again, select the account, it loads for 5 seconds again, closes, and the progress indicator just remains circling on the watch without doing anything, telling me to "Check my phone".

(Factory) Reset the watch

Update the firmware to the latest version

Do the steps above again

Reset the watch

Do the steps above again

Reset the watch

Try the steps above while not being connected to WiFi

Try setting the device management to basic in Google Workspace admin, and set a PIN on the watch, and try both options as described above

Set device management back to disabled in Google Workspace admin

Reset the watch

Dig out an older phone, factory reset it, login to my Google account, install Galaxy Gear and the Galaxy Watch 4 plugin, do all three steps above

Try both options for logging in while being on cellular connectivity

Reset the watch

Try the last steps again

Try enabling a screen lock on the phone, reboot phone, and perform the two option again. Got prompted during the account copy for my PIN. After entering it, the copy dialog almost immediately closes.

Add a PIN/screen lock on the watch itself, perform the step above

Honestly, I feel like I've followed all steps as described and followed on-screen instructions, yet I still can't get my Google account to sign into the watch (which locks me out of a lot of functionality, including most of the functions that I'm actually interested in using).

I've also found references to using a VPN while adding the Google account. This doesn't make much sense to me, but I did give it a try: I "emulated" this by using two different cellular providers, using my home Internet connection and tunneling the traffic back to a VM hosted in a datacenter in a different country. Also did the "DNS trick" someone else described and manually set Google's DNS server on my phone, and I can confirm that my home network does not hijack DNS requests.

I tried logging onto the old device with an old, personal Gmail/Google account that I no longer use, this managed to copy / add itself onto the watch without a problem. However, I'm not planning to migrate off of the Google account I've been using for the past 8+ years.

Additionally, I tried to add the Google Workspace account as a secondary account, after I had finished setting up the watch with my old, personal account, but I got the same symptoms/issue as I described above.

Has anyone managed to add a Google Workspace account to their Galaxy Watch 4 yet?

Are there any specific settings (other than Mobile Management) that one needs to set in the Google Workspace admin in order to make accounts on the Workspace usable on smartwatches?

or... does the Galaxy Watch just *not* support Google Workspace accounts at all?