bkeaver
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Mine shows 11. If I download another it will show 12.
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New Downloaded Watch Faces are nowhere to be found?
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tismydroid
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Yes, that's the way it used to work for me and the way it should work. As much as Samsung is screwing up lately, I'm sure it's a problem with Samsung's phones and probably with their latest update.
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Saw your post on the Samsung forums, and they mark it as solved. This is NOT solved.
You have any luck getting this back to normal?
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Oh, very interesting because it is not solved. I think I will need to go back there to report that it is not solved.
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tismydroid
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Well, that didn't work. No way to respond to that thread so I reposted the problem.
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I believe posting there is a complete waste of time but what the hell. I also posted under Log-Home about the problem.
They will probably say to email the devs and mark the problem as solved :-\
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Lol, I just sent a few replies to your post. I agree that posting there is a waste of time. But trying to anyway. I also find it interesting that they delete any posts of people reporting their bricked GW4's.
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WE HAVE A FIX!
This works and it is all thanks to u/GRRemlin on Reddit. I have just gone through these steps and I now have 14 of my downloaded watchfaces showing on the Galaxy Wearable app and I can now customize my watchface from the app.
The Reddit post responsible for this fix...
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatc...ndroidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
These are the instructions, copied & pasted from his post...
"1. Write down all the names of the installed watchfaces.
2. Uninstall them from the watch (tried several from the watch face selection list and several from the playstore watch app)
3. Play around the Play Store app on the watch a little to make sure the Uninstall info is synched up to the servers. I usually just open a few app listings, enter the app settings then go back into the Manage Apps section. A good way to check is to open the watch face in the Play Store on the phone and check that it doesn't say that it`s installed on the watch.
4. Force stopped the Galaxy Wearable app on my phone and opened it again. There should be nothing in the Downloaded section.
5. Scroll down to the "Get more watch faces" and clicked it so it opened the Play Store
6. Search for the watch face, make sure that both Phone and Watch are available for the install (should have the selectable checkbox on each) and hit install (MAKE SURE THAT BOTH PHONE AND WATCH ARE SELECTED). Get a notification that the app will be installed on phone and watch soon.
7. Either wait a little or check the Play Store on the watch to make sure the watch face says installing or installed.
8. In about 30 seconds the watch face shows up in the Downloaded section of the Galaxy Wearable app AND it's fully customizable, complications and al! I even noticed that some previous customizations I've made before uninstalling were retained!
9..
10. PROFIT!
Like I mentioned above, I am cautiously optimistic because I read posts where watch faces disappeared from the app after a while (?). But it might be worth a try.
EDIT: After fully customizing the watch face via the Galaxy Wearable app and applying the change, I tried uninstalling that watch face's companion app from the phone. The watch face STILL shows up in the Wearable app and on the watch!
EDIT #2: I just tried initiating an install of a watch face I've never installed before directly from the Play Store app (not via the Galaxy Wearable app) and the face showed up just fine. I think the main takeaway that both phone and watch versions need to be installed initially rather than just the watch one."
And BTW, I only uninstalled each watchface from the watch. I didn't uninstall then from the phone and it worked perfectly.
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This works and it is all thanks to u/GRRemlin on Reddit. I have just gone through these steps and I now have 14 of my downloaded watchfaces showing on the Galaxy Wearable app and I can now customize my watchface from the app.
The Reddit post responsible for this fix...
https://www.reddit.com/r/GalaxyWatc...ndroidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
These are the instructions, copied & pasted from his post...
"1. Write down all the names of the installed watchfaces.
2. Uninstall them from the watch (tried several from the watch face selection list and several from the playstore watch app)
3. Play around the Play Store app on the watch a little to make sure the Uninstall info is synched up to the servers. I usually just open a few app listings, enter the app settings then go back into the Manage Apps section. A good way to check is to open the watch face in the Play Store on the phone and check that it doesn't say that it`s installed on the watch.
4. Force stopped the Galaxy Wearable app on my phone and opened it again. There should be nothing in the Downloaded section.
5. Scroll down to the "Get more watch faces" and clicked it so it opened the Play Store
6. Search for the watch face, make sure that both Phone and Watch are available for the install (should have the selectable checkbox on each) and hit install (MAKE SURE THAT BOTH PHONE AND WATCH ARE SELECTED). Get a notification that the app will be installed on phone and watch soon.
7. Either wait a little or check the Play Store on the watch to make sure the watch face says installing or installed.
8. In about 30 seconds the watch face shows up in the Downloaded section of the Galaxy Wearable app AND it's fully customizable, complications and al! I even noticed that some previous customizations I've made before uninstalling were retained!
9..
10. PROFIT!
Like I mentioned above, I am cautiously optimistic because I read posts where watch faces disappeared from the app after a while (?). But it might be worth a try.
EDIT: After fully customizing the watch face via the Galaxy Wearable app and applying the change, I tried uninstalling that watch face's companion app from the phone. The watch face STILL shows up in the Wearable app and on the watch!
EDIT #2: I just tried initiating an install of a watch face I've never installed before directly from the Play Store app (not via the Galaxy Wearable app) and the face showed up just fine. I think the main takeaway that both phone and watch versions need to be installed initially rather than just the watch one."
And BTW, I only uninstalled each watchface from the watch. I didn't uninstall then from the phone and it worked perfectly.
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Actually, without doing anything, I just opened my Wearable app, and all of my previously downloaded faces that were not showing are now showing... go figure...
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Yes, you will need to re-download the watchfaces again. For me, it was definitely worth it. I hate trying to customize the faces from the watch.
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Wow! That's super. I wonder if anyone else also had their watchfaces reappear.
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So, am I now minimally famous? The fix for this problem that I posted on the Samsung Members forum is included in the article below...
https://www.androidsage.com/2022/11/25/galaxy-watch-5-pro-november-2022-update/
Apparently the update that was just released was also a fix to this problem. Mind you, everytime this was mentioned in the SM forum, there were no suggestions or solutions from Samsung moderators except to email the developers. And I never got a response to my email to the developers.
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https://www.androidsage.com/2022/11/25/galaxy-watch-5-pro-november-2022-update/
Apparently the update that was just released was also a fix to this problem. Mind you, everytime this was mentioned in the SM forum, there were no suggestions or solutions from Samsung moderators except to email the developers. And I never got a response to my email to the developers.
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Actually, I have the LTE version, and as I mentioned above, just out of the blue my previously, recently downloaded faces that were not showing up just did a couple of days ago. I didn't do anything, I haven't yet received the new update, they just appeared. /shrug
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You could either wait for the update or follow the steps in that link included in that article which is the same as what I posted on post #28. Those are the only solutions I'm aware of. Or get lucky like Yguideslou.
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Bought a new face just this minute, and by the time I left the Playstore and opened Wearable, the new face was in my downloads' section.
I wasn't sure if the others just showed up the other day because I'd gotten them weeks ago, so I just bought another one and voila, it displays immediately.
Not sure what gremlin fixed my problem, but it wasn't an update, cause I haven't gotten it yet, and I didn't do anything.
I'll take it, lol.
I wasn't sure if the others just showed up the other day because I'd gotten them weeks ago, so I just bought another one and voila, it displays immediately.
Not sure what gremlin fixed my problem, but it wasn't an update, cause I haven't gotten it yet, and I didn't do anything.
I'll take it, lol.
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