Greetings
I've had a GearS watch for years. I love it; works perfectly and have no desire to upgrade. It's been working great with my S6edge but last week I just upgraded to the new S8 and everything went off the rails.
I downloaded the Samsung Gear Manager for the S8 (both from the Play store and from Galaxy Apps store after the problems started). I do the app install and it asked to pair with my Gear (My Gear automatically resets after being connected to the S6). Ok works good...then it started going through the "Preparing to Connect" bar and I constantly get this message:
INSTALLATION FAILED!
Error Code 5
The GearS itself just sits in a holding pattern saying "Install Samsung Gear on your mobile device" so I think the issue with with the S8 perhaps.
Tried lots of Google tips and searched this forum, but couldn't find anything that matched up with this. Anyone have any ideas?
I've had a GearS watch for years. I love it; works perfectly and have no desire to upgrade. It's been working great with my S6edge but last week I just upgraded to the new S8 and everything went off the rails.
I downloaded the Samsung Gear Manager for the S8 (both from the Play store and from Galaxy Apps store after the problems started). I do the app install and it asked to pair with my Gear (My Gear automatically resets after being connected to the S6). Ok works good...then it started going through the "Preparing to Connect" bar and I constantly get this message:
INSTALLATION FAILED!
Error Code 5
The GearS itself just sits in a holding pattern saying "Install Samsung Gear on your mobile device" so I think the issue with with the S8 perhaps.
Tried lots of Google tips and searched this forum, but couldn't find anything that matched up with this. Anyone have any ideas?