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Last active April 21, 2025 13:37
Patching around the Samsung Wearable ecosystem for fun and (no) profit

tl;dr: Samsung is a bunch of crap company that doesn't inform their customers about serious limitations on their Wearables lineup. Great hardware, dog poo software.

So, what's this about: Samsung omits a bunch of crucial information for consumers anywhere on the Galaxy Watch product pages - at least on those for the Galaxy Watch 4, Galaxy Watch 5 or Galaxy Watch 6.

They omit on the product pages, the pages that should inform a consumer about requirements and limitations, that:

  1. unless you're rooted, the companion phone actually must be a phone, tablets and even phablets like the Galaxy Tab Active 3 are not supported. (If you're rooted, you can patch that away. Just follow along for the guide)
  2. only certain wearables