Getting Samsung Distributor Certificate

Hello I want to create custom watch face for Galaxy Watch Active2(CFE3) SM-R830 One UI Watch 2.0 Tizen 5.5.0.2 . I am thankful for Samsung creating tools to allow editing the watch face, and though it is disappointing to read here that these tools for Tizen-based devices are deprecated and new users are no longer granted certificates, I hope that it might become possible to create custom watch faces for Galaxy Watch Active2 again someday.

I attempted to generate certificates with both Galaxy Watch Studio 2.0.1 and Tizen Studio 5.1, because I hoped that if I could get certificates, I might be able to get GWS to build a .tpk file from my .gwd file and then use Fit2Installer to re-sign and sideload the .tpk, or if it is no longer possible for GWS to build .tpk files anymore, that I could reimplement my watch face in Tizen Studio, but unfortunately nothing happens when I try to generate any certificates with either GWS or Tizen Studio. In C:\Program Files\Galaxy Watch Studio\tizen\keystore I have distributor.p12, but no author.p12. I saw that Facer Creator was recommended, but I read in many places that Facer Creator generates very inefficient unoptimized watch faces that drain the battery much faster than watch faces generated by Samsung tools, so I don’t know how to achieve the same result with that.

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