Can't connect watch to WFS through bluetooth

Hi Saraliew,

I couldn’t get the bluetooth method to work, and to be honest it seems a bit complex and convoluted, so I have used the wifi method which is actually much simpler. Here’s what I did. (Note there is another thread with a similar discussion - “Galaxy Watch 4 not showing connected devices”).

  1. I downloaded the Android developer platform-tools onto my PC (SDK Platform Tools release notes  |  Android Developers) and installed them. This gives you access to the “adb” tool. Detailed instructions on doing this are in the other thread mentioned above.

  2. I followed the instructions here: Debug a Wear OS app  |  Android Developers to enable wifi debugging, down to the point that adb has connected to the watch.

  3. The watch then showed up as a target device in WFS when I selected “run on device”

A couple of additional detailed points…

  • On my watch when I enabled ADB debugging and then Wifi-debugging, a little message appeared under wifi debugging saying ‘unavailable’. I just ignored this and carried on. it all worked in the end.

  • When I issued the adb connect command from the laptop, the watch vibrated and asked me to confirm that debugging should be enabled, which I confirmed.

Best Rgds,

Rob

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