Our latest release has been confirmed to resolve Android 14 QPR2 Bluetooth module issues causing connectivity issues with 5th/6th generation Galaxy Watch devices. 2nd set of upstream Bluetooth bugs we’ve fixed this month. Please provide feedback here:
Strange question: how/why is anyone using Galaxy Watches on GOS?
I tried them a few years ago and they wouldn’t even work without installing like 7 different Samsung spyware apps on the phone. This is the whole reason I avoid Samsung products in the first place.
The app sandboxing in Graphene is the perfect place to use them. All you need is the Galaxy Wear app. Maybe Samsung Health, but I think that is optional.
Along with the protections built into Graphene, I use an always on VPN; and 99% of my accounts use unique email addresses, usernames, and passwords for each account.
App sandboxing is available on standard Android but that means nothing when you log into a Samsung account and give them permissions to all of your personal data.
Well, when they have fake user data and can’t access any data from others apps…it means more than nothing.
Do you not have notifications on your smartwatch? No calendar, location, calls, contacts, etc?
The update did not fix the issue for me. Using a Pixel 6a with Graphene OS and a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. The watch had been working just fine with Graphene OS until the recent OS changes.
Since the most recent update, nothing really improved. The watch had to be factory reset in order to get it to connect the the phone via Bluetooth. That worked for less than 5 hours and it lost connection to the phone and would not reconnect.
Still the only way to get it to reconnect it to factory reset the watch and re-pair it to the phone. Since that connection still only lasts less than 5 hours (sometimes on an hour or so), I’m tired of doing that and have quit wearing the watch.
Sorry to see that are experiencing this. Sounds like a problem with the watch itself, since you have to reset the watch to fix the problem. Hopefully the manufacture of the watch fixes this issue soon.
Doubt it is a watch issue, only started when the Bluetooth bug started with Graphene OS
Has it fixed it? I shut off my Galaxy Watch 5 Pro since I had to reset and re-pair it multiple times a day. Now I’m on vacation and didn’t even bring it with me.
I don’t have a watch to test. .
