Note, pay attention to the watches screen when you do this! If the watch is pin locked or pattern locked you need to unlock it before continuing. The battery will drain much faster.īefore starting Tizen Studio try connecting from the command line. If WiFi on? You will want to go into settings and set the WiFi to 'Always On.' Keep the watch on a charging cradle between debug sessions. Is debug mode enabled? Remember that if you pair the watch with a different phone that debug mode will be turned off. I've tested this method with success two times on two PC's with both Intel & AMD CPUs, the main takeaway is that the Watch seems to hate prompting the user for permissions on the Watch Face screen, and simply navigating off it will get things working correctly. Now connect to your Watch with either the Tizen Studio Device Manager (Tools > Device Manager > Add) or via the CLI using the command sdb connect x.x.x.x.Get the IP of your watch (Settings > Connections > WiFi > WiFi Networks > IP Adress).Turn on your display and Leave the watch face by navigating to another widget (I used the contacts widget).Switch wifi to always on (Settings > Connections > WiFi) and connect to the network your PC is on.Enable debugging (Settings > About Watch > Debugging).Enable developer mode (Settings > About Watch > Software > Tap on Software Version 5 times).

Hi everyone, after some tedious testing I've found a way to consistently get your Watch to connect to your PC, I've tested these steps on two devices and they are as follows:

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