So, pretty new to designing my own watch faces, but I now I am ready to try on my Galaxy Watch 46mm. This is where the real issues start, and finding the documentation confusing and/or not clear.
So I have installed sdboverbt on my phone (S20Ultra). Developer options are enabled. USB debugging enabled. Phone connected to my Mac via USB cable.
On watch, developer options enabled, also connected to phone via Bluetooth (always is) and connected to same WiFi as phone.
So when I try to run on phone, I get to the scan to connect, and it circles there for an age until it eventually times out.
No matter what I do, it doesn’t find anything. Should it be this complicated? I’ve tried rebooting every device possible.
Also for clarity, is it trying to connect to my phone, so it copies the watch face there and I transfer to the watch via Wear as usual, or is it trying to connect directly to my watch, in which case why is my phone developer enabled.
Hi @GlasBeard,
Did you also turn the debugging on in your watch? You may follow the steps below and see if you miss something,
Make sure that both your phone and watch have the developer and debugging mode turned on.
Install sdboverbt_160523.apk into your phone. You can get this file from the \Program Files\Galaxy Watch Studio\tizen\tools.
Connect your watch to your phone through Bluetooth and then connect your phone to your computer using a USB cable.
Open sdb over BT on your phone, tap SELECT DEVICE FOR DEBUGGING , and select the watch that you want to connect to.
At this stage, keep a close look on your watch, a pop up will be shown to accept the RSA key and you have to accept it very quickly as it will stay for a few seconds. If you miss, it will never come back.
After accepting the RSA key, your watch will be connected to GWS automatically.
Open the Run on Device panel in Galaxy Watch Studio, select your phone from the device list to add the watch connected to that phone. Then select the watch on the list to connect it to Galaxy Watch Studio.
If those steps does not resolve your problem or you don’t see the RSA key pop up, reboot your watch by holding the home key button pressed for about 15 seconds or until it says rebooting. After that try the steps above again and it will solve your problem eventually.
Regarding to your query, yes it connects to your phone and then transfer watch face to your watch through the phone.
hi, if the above doesn’t work try this solution.
Download Tizen Studio
When you have downloaded tizen studio,
1- Open finder> user> (username)> tizen-studio> tools> (you will see the sdb file of tizen studio)
2- Then open a new finder window> applications> right click on galaxy watch studio> click where it says (shows package contents)> Contents> tizen> tools> (you will see the galaxy watch studio sdb file)
3- Replace the galaxy watch studio sdb file with the tizen studio sdb file.
4- Restart the mac and try to connect the smat watch
It does not use the wearable app, SDB stands for Samsung Device Bridge and it is just that, a bridge between your computer and your watch.
To add to the other solutions. If you don’t see a little android icon in the connect to device window then you probably don’t have file transfer set for computer to mobile. If I recall right the default is media only.
Thank you for your help here. Got it working, but really have no idea how. It’s quite a convoluted system I think. Maybe Samsung should have a cousin app on the watch where we can transfer files in an easier way!
Will this work for win 10? I don’t know what happened but I have a gear s2 that I was uploading faces with gwd whenever I wanted but then a week ago can’t connect. I’ve tried everything. I can’t figure this out and it’s pissing me off.
Normally the issue arises due to the RSA acknowledge key hasn’t been accepted.
For your situation in Windows 10, go to your “Users”-folder, search for a “.tizen”-folder. There are 2 files in it called “sdbkey” and “sdbkey.pub”. Delete those files or move them somewhere and then try the steps from 1ts comment of this thread.
did you update to GWS or was there software update or paired to a new device recently? GWD 1.6 was the last version of GWD that supported Gear S2 devices.
I don’t think the wording was RSA Encryption for the older model watch and GWD but there was a requirement to allow transfer. I have one and can work with you if you don’t solve this.
Well that’s the problem than. I’m using the newest version GWD, although unless I’m losing my mind this is the only version I downloaded and it was working fine for several downloads. I am 40 now so maybe I changed versions a bunch of times and don’t remember?
hmm go to Settings and About Watch and see what software version you are using. It could be that it was updated to a newer version of Tizen and if that is the case it may just be you are building Tizen 4 instead of Tizen 3 mine is still set for Tizen 2.x
I run OS X El Capitan 10.11.6
Installed v2.0.0 and after hours of struggle I have it running.
Next problem is, I can’t connect Galaxy Watch.
I use Samsung S9+ and use it as hotspot.
Both phone and watch have debugging on and developer options on.
Watch bluetooth off, WIFI always on.
Tried resetting everything 50 times.
Never had any popup come up on the watch.
Tried manual IP but this does nothing.
GWS behaves like nothing is connected, doesn’t see anything.
I’ve also tried the bluetooth/USB method, which doesn’t work either.
Everything works with debugging etc between the phone and watch.
Phone connects to Mac and I can see everything via Android File Transfer
But GWS refuses to see the phone.
Seems like I tried everything suggested and nothing worked.
Last hope would be to install Tizen Studio.
I’ve downloaded latest 4.1, seems like the only one available and I can’t install it.
I have this pop up
I’ve tried downloading using Safari and Firefox with the same result.
After 2 days of continuous battle, I gave up with Mac and OS.
Started my old Windows 7 (also on Mac, bootcamp partition) updated explorer and GWS starts and connects to watch via WIFI without issues.
I’ll just stick with that for now.
