Thank you very much! I didn’t install the Samsung extension that was my mistake…
But I made it. Now it works! Thank you very much!
I’ve been trying a different approach to getting GWS to work again with my Gear3 watch. I spun up a Windows 10 virtual, removed edge and got IE11 working. I can open IE11 and browse with it. But GWS still won’t create certificates. Is there some other block to getting the certs created?
Microsoft has discontinued support for IE and it is considered a security risk so the seller portal does not support IE (or the Java library used by GWS) for it.
You need to download Tizen Studio install a watch version enable Certificate Extension and Watch extensions
Connect using device manager or just connect using GWS
open certificate manger and create the Samsung Certificates
Download Fit3Installer (it is a tizen watch app installer)
I do not know of another way to do it.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
@muradium found the alternate solution of changing the date on the phone to the date when the certificate was valid so it also changes the date on the watch and it works 
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We don’t even need a new certificate
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Just tried: date on the phone/watch back to one before certificate elapsed… working perfect!!!
Thanks Random_Guy
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Random_Guy solution is working, just tried on GW3 and A54, change date to previous year and is working…Thx
That is great that it works if you have the distributor certificate.
However if you don’t have them you need to use the Tizen Studio to generate them.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Hello all,
Thanks for creating this tutorial. I believe I have a similar issue to ad0nis, except I’m fairly certain that I have to correct Samsung certificates. When I click ‘Build’ in GWS and enter my password for the author certificate it appears to work, but it will not recognize the Distributor certificate and prompts me to create one. This then does not progress because of the original login page issue. I also triple checked the UDID in Tizen Studio when creating the distributor certificate (it auto populated and matched in GWS). Without generating the .tpk I am quite stuck.
Any help would be much appreciated
Cheers,
Peter
It has been a while since I created a new watch face but I’m pretty sure you can “Build” a .tpk file but you can’t run it on device without the Distributor Certificate.
One you build the .tpk file then you can use the certificates created using Tizen Studio and the Fit2Installer to run on device.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Thank you for reaching back out Ron! And thanks to everyone for all of the troubleshooting. Ultimately, it was a problem on my end. I was not running GWS as an administrator and I assume it was not able to either read the author certificate or create the .tpk file. Either way, once I ran it as an administrator the .tpk was created and all of the other steps by tacokoneko worked well.
I have the same problem, I somehow managed to get author certificate through third party link, but I didnt have the same luck for the distributorcertificate. When I go on to create the one through Galaxy Watch Studio I get the blank page and I cant find any way to get it on my watch. I triend installing Watch face studio but it didnt manage to translate .gwd files to it (obviously) and I couldnt connect it to my watch as easy so I guess my Galaxy Watch 3 isnt compactible with it. Also I managed to create both author and distributor certificate through Tizen Manage, but when I try to open file on Tizen it auttomaticly opens on Galaxy Watch Studio, where I cant create Distributor Cer. So I am asking, is there anyway I can have these watch faces on my galaxy watch. Thank you for your time.
method worked perfectly on my GW3, however for my Gear s3 frontier, I followed the instructions 1:1 from scratch and I get this message after “./install.bat”
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[start] val[install]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[install_percent] val[9]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[install_percent] val[12]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[install_percent] val[15]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[install_percent] val[18]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[install_percent] val[21]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[error] val[-4]
__return_cb req_id[1] pkg_type[tpk] pkgid[com.watchface.PIPBOYGEAR] key[end] val[fail]
processing result : Operation not allowed [-4] failed
spend time for pkgcmd is [1025]ms
Press any key to continue . . .
Any Idea as to why this only happens on my gear s3?
Watch Face Studio is for Wear OS based watches. Galaxy Gear, and Galaxy Watch2 and older run Tizen OS
You have to sideload on Galaxy Watch3 using Fit2Installer mentioned previously Or by using SDB command line commands which I don’t think anyone has tried.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Check the Project build settings You need to build for Tizen 3.0 not Tizen 4.0 The default is Tizen 4
I believe all the Sport and Gear S3 were updated to Tizen 3 but if yours is still running Tizen 2.x then you need to get an older version of Gear Watch Designer.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
The watch itself is showing “Tizen version 4.0.0.7”
could it be something else? Thanks
You did create a different Distributor Certificate for the Gear S3 if not that was it.
Check out FAQ 23 it possibly could be the accepting the RSA key
Also The information using SDBoverBT is out dated you can’t do that with Tizen 4 and newer devices.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Can you please tell me is there a video or log explaining this Fit2Installer process, thanks in advance.
See the post by in this topic @tacokoneko he has step by step instructions
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
wow
this thread helped me getting my watchface back onto my Galaxy Watch [1] after switching phones. I’ll try to explain it as good as possible since it still took some time after reading the posts here
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Enable WiFi on watch, Enable Debugging
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Download
– Galaxy Watch Studio
– Fit2Installer!!! ( i unpacked the zip into C:\Program Files)
– Tizen Studio
( before running Tizen Studio change default browser to Chrome start → settings → apps → default apps → web browser ) -
Open Galaxy Watch Studio
connect your watch to GWS
– press f9 → klick + → enter IP adress → klick search -
Open Tizen Studio
– download Samsung Certificates and watch extentions in certificate extention -
Generate certificates
– tools → certificate manager → klick “+” → follow instuctions -
after that you can close tizen studio and GWS →
then open explorer to find “SamsungCertificate” folder underC:\Users\*your user*\ SamsungCertificate
copy that whole folder and insert it into following folders removing all preexisting files from these:
–C:\Program Files\Galaxy Watch Studio\tizen\keystore
–C:\Users\*your user*\GearWatchDesigner\keystore
–C:\Program Files\Fit2Installer\cert -
Now you can open GWS again and either create your watchface or open a file you’ve already created.
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Now you want to create the .tpk file by pressing f10 (Build)
– a warning message will pop up to save your file and generate an AOD. Press “Yes” and “Generate”
– for me the Build window closed. just press f10 or click Build again. a small window pops up first press yes and after that the “build project” window appears.
– enter your certificate password.
– I changed the location aswell to my desktop to find the .tpk file fast
– when you press “build” it starts loading and after 100% there will be an error message but we can ignore it because you can see the TW5.tpk file should appear on your desktop or other location you saved it to -
Now you got everything you need to send it to your watch with the Fit2Installer
Fit2Installer is actually easy to use. Reading the instuctions on “what folder does what” on the fit2installer link that is provided in tacokonekos post helps alot! Fit2Installer is mandatory as far as i can tell to transfer files to tizen powered watches nowadays.
- you remember copying all certificates into “cert”
- copy the .tpk file you just created into “sign_me”
- run the files inside Fit2Installer one by one in following order
“sdb” it may tell you you run an old version but it still worked for me →
“connect” type your ip adress shown on your watch (dont forget debugging [on]) and press enter →
“sign” type your password for the certificate press enter →
“install” the programm should run and upload the files to the watch.
“disconnect”
at first it didnt work and i kept getting errors after installing but turning everything off and back on did fix it haha
dont forget to give permissions on your watch after installing and enable the watch face
(im not sure where to put this post since its very similar to tacokenekos post but it may be easier to understand or just an addition to the post since i had some points i stumbled across like the samsung certificate inside tizen studio and the actual use of fit2installer + reinstalling tizen studio isnt necessary if you change the brower at first)
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Why cant yall make a fix for the creator just like the certificate manager so it can open in edge chrome or firefox or make an solution that we can just upload our distribution certificates and make it work. This is inconvieniant and it makes the galaxy watch 3 and before seem useless against 4 and up.