I just picked up a Samsung Gear Fit 2 while it was on sale to give the Android smart watch experience a try! I was able to download the Samsung Gear app from the Play Store, but unfortunately, I get an error when I try to open the app that says:
Notice
The operating system on your phone has been modified in an unauthorized way, and is not compatible with the Samsung Gear app. Check your operating system and try again.
After searching online for some fixes, some people seemed to have varying levels of success with modifying the build.prop file? A lot of people still had issues then connecting with the Gear device, or with things like the IR blaster being disabled when the manufacturer was changed in the build.prop file.
I'm currently using the MIUI 8 ROM.
Has anyone had success with getting the Samsung Gear app to work with a custom ROM? And if so, what was the fix?
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Hi folks,
I know it might sound weird to want the samsung bloatware on a clean system, but since it's the only way to get the Galaxy Gear watch doing its job...
Most stuff is done via the Samsung AppStore - but installing the apk files just says that it won't install. No reason in sight.
Any clues besides that I'm missing some libs?
Regards
Victoria
cb5264 said:
Hi folks,
I know it might sound weird to want the samsung bloatware on a clean system, but since it's the only way to get the Galaxy Gear watch doing its job...
Most stuff is done via the Samsung AppStore - but installing the apk files just says that it won't install. No reason in sight.
Any clues besides that I'm missing some libs?
Regards
Victoria
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Samsung's apps are signed using Samsung's private signing key, which means they won't work on anything that didn't come from Samsung themselves.
Resigning the Samsung stuff with the platform testkeys (which is what current omni builds use) MIGHT work - but not likely. There are almost surely framework dependencies.
(In general, this is one of the reasons I would recommend that anyone avoid the Gear like the plague. Given the insane amount of CPU power it has, it should be fully capable of standalone operation, barely even needing a phone to operate. However, it has tons of compatibility issues that no other smartwatch has, despite other smartwatches like the Pebble, Sony Smartwatch, and Metawatch being FAR more dependent on the phone than Gear should be.)
Entropy512 said:
Samsung's apps are signed using Samsung's private signing key, which means they won't work on anything that didn't come from Samsung themselves.
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Wouldn't/Shouldn't the "install apps from unknown source" option deal with that case?
Miracle solved by LogCat - No miracles... just a darn library:
E/PackageManager( 2432): Package com.sec.android.app.samsungapps requires unavailable shared library
touchwiz; failing!
W/PackageManager( 2432): Package couldn't be installed in /data/app/com.sec.android.app.samsungapps-
1.apk
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cb5264 said:
Wouldn't/Shouldn't the "install apps from unknown source" option deal with that case?
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No. That only applies to installing apps via ADB and via file managers.
It doesn't apply to key mismatches of APKs that want shared UIDs with platform keys.
Does anyone know how I can put Samsung Link on my Galaxy S5? All Galaxy models have had it (it was once called Allshare), but this app is one of the main reasons why I've stuck with Samsung products. Not only for the auto backup to my desktop PC whenever I snap a picture or record a video (I can still set that up through just about any cloud service, but it still requires the extra step of downloading it onto my PC), but I use it extensively when I'm traveling. If I need a file or document, porn, etc from one of my PCs at home, Samsung Link allows me to access all of my registered devices remotely and download the file no matter where I am. It also allows me to stream video to any of my Samsung TVs in the house. I know I can do this through other apps, but Samsung Link allowed me to do all of these. This is probably the only app from Samsung that I've used on a daily basis since owning my Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. AT&T is my service provider, and I bet they took this app off their phones before loading it up with their stuff.
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On my T-Mo version Samsung Link Platform, the prerequisite to run Link, has been pre-installed, I doubt ATT would mess with Samsung's core apps.
See if this works for you: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sec.pcw
I get not compatible on this device. . I also tried installing the apk from some random site, and I keep getting link fcs
Anyone help with this?
Am not seeing this too. Why?
Just an FYI, I installed the omega rom and seems they have the framework already, and link works fine now
Both yesterday and today, I've gotten a popup from to the effect of:
"These apps may suit your taste
((Ad app 1))((Ad app 2))
ANT+ Plugins Service installed successfully."
Some quick googling has shown me that this comes default with Samsung devices and is tied to bluetooth or something along those lines. Is anyone else getting this? Should I just uninstall this crap since I don't use bluetooth?
Device: SCH-I545 Samsung Galaxy S4 using Echoe
I bought a Kopset Optiumus Prime which has pretty good hardware; 3gb Ram, 32gb ROM, LTE, Ceramic bezel, etc...but the apps are unsat and about anything I install from the Playstore is barely usable if it all. I can't find a way to activate accessibility functions for zoom, so often times I'm stuck with being unable to access buttons that would render in the lower right of the screen.
I've seen several threads on how to install normal Android apks onto a WearOS device, my question is has there been a way found to do the opposite and force install a WearOS apk onto a watch running full Android 7.1? I would love to get the Telegram WatchOS apk installed and running on my watch and would pay a bounty of anyone could show me how to do it.
Also, I have a several WearOS devices and I'm not fond of them (battery life, lag, etc...) along with a Gear S3 Frontier which has its own issues. I see this Kopset or something similar as being potentially very good if I could run apps optimized for it.
No, WearOS is different OS than Android. Some (rare) apps wich do not use any WearOS library can sometime.
For some reason this tablet cannot run the Samsung Smartthings app.
Is there anyone out there how knows why? And if there's anyway around it?
I've tried increasing RAM with swap file, but I can see on my phone that the app isn't using that much, and has used a maximum of 700mb at one point. I've tried changing the resolution to a supported one, but that didn't work either.
The only way that I have found to install the app, is sideloading it and install as a system app. But It wont run past the welcome screen. I was thinking that there were some android modules missing in the tablet, that have been removed by Samsung to make it run lighter?
Is there a way to install a clean full (non samsung)-android version on this tablet?