Hello I just bought a 800€ LTE capable galaxy watch ultra and a 1000€ tablet. I returned my phone. I put my telephony carrier on the watch eSim. I bought what I bought because this is what I wanted. My reasons are similar to this guy’s :
You “care” about digital well being but pay high salaries for developers to prevent paying customers to not carry a distraction device everywhere they go (phone).
I’m in the process of decompiling and patching Samsung health, watch7 plugin, Samsung accessory services and galaxy wearables with custom signatures to be able to pair the two devices together.
You literally have lines of code put there intentionally that reads “if tablet : don’t connect”. Besides this it’s just about getting across all the security checks. There is no missing capabilities on a tablet that would make it not compatible. Any developer from Samsung could solve this under a day’s worth of work if not an hour.
But you work against your customers.
For now I manage to connect the watch to the tablet, but then it doesn’t work because I think I didn’t add my signature to all samsung apps. This is without rooting anything so there isn’t any downsides.
Anyone else interested in making this work and dev capabilities should pm me or reply to this post.
If I make it work I will post my apps on Reddit and XDA so that people can install my unsecured sketchy apps with custom signature downloaded from the web because Samsung is working against their interest.
If I can’t make it work I will get a 1800€ refund and never buy anything from Samsung again.
All you have to do as a company is not prevent customers to use what they bought.
How is it that I can pair my watch to a used iphone but not a 1000+€ LTE enabled (or not) tablet from YOUR COMPANY.