Wear OS smartwatches can be a great companion to Android smartphones. It can help you track your fitness levels, respond to notifications, and even run apps. While Wear OS is traditionally not that intuitive, it is slowly improving. One thing about Wear OS smartwatches that still disappoints, though, is that you can’t pair them with a new phone without doing a factory reset.
At least, not by default. This can be frustrating because you don’t want to lose all the data on your watch every time you switch to a new phone. It’s hard to set everything up from scratch. Thankfully, there’s a neat little workaround for this problem. This trick will let you pair your Wear OS smartwatch with your new phone without a factory reset.
What is the problem of factory reset on Wear OS when pairing with a new phone
Wear OS smartwatches with Wear OS apps from the Google Play Store. The process is quite simple if you are pairing the smartwatch with your phone for the first time. The problem occurs when you switch to the phone.
Wear OS does not allow you to pair your smartwatch with a new phone without resetting the smartwatch. Also, resetting the watch deletes all the watch faces, offline music, podcasts, settings, etc. And it’s hard to re-download them all.
Using this method will retain data on your watch and allow you to pair your watch with a new smartphone.
How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch with a new phone without resetting
The trick is to unpair the smartwatch and clear Google Play Services data. You can do it using ADB (Android Debug Bridge) on the computer. Things are a bit technical, and it helps if you know how to use the Command Prompt on Windows.
Set up ADB
Step 1: Download the relevant ADB files based on your computer’s OS.
Step 2: Extract the ZIP file to a location of your choice. On Windows, hold Shift and right click on the extracted file and select the ‘Open command window here’ option. On Mac and Linux, open Terminal and type CD and press Enter to change to the active directory. Then drag the extracted folder and drop it into the Terminal window. You should now get the path to that folder in Terminal. Press the Enter key.
Step 3: The next step is to enable ADB debugging on the watch. For this, open the Settings app on your smartwatch.
Step 4: Scroll down to the System section and tap on it.
Step 5: Now, tap About.
Step 6: Scroll until you find the Build Number. Tap it 7 times in a row to unlock Developer Options on your watch.
Step 7: Once you open the Settings app, you will now find Developer Options at the bottom of the page. Touch it.
Step 8: Click the toggle next to ADB debugging to enable the feature. Tap the green checkmark when prompted for confirmation.
Step 9: Scroll down a bit and also enable the toggle next to Debugging over Wi-Fi.
Step 10: The watch may initially display an Unavailable message, which will soon be replaced by a string of characters including the IP address. This means ADB over Wi-Fi is enabled. Note the IP address shown here. It should look like: 192.168.1.325:5555.
Use ADB to unpair watch from old phone
Now that you have ADB set up on your computer and have enabled ADB over-the-air debugging on your smartwatch, we can move on to the main part of the tutorial.
Step 1: In the previously opened terminal window, type ./adb connect <Địa chỉ IP>. Use the IP address you wrote down earlier. So the command will look like: ./adb connect 192.168.1.325:5555.
Step 2: Now, you will see a prompt on your watch to allow ADB connection. Select OK.
Step 3: The terminal window will show that you are connected to the watch.
Step 4: Enter the following command. If you see a Success message in the terminal, your smartwatch will restart.
./adb shell “pm clear com.google.android.gms && reboot”
Step 5: Once the smartwatch is back up and running, let the watch settle down for a few minutes, allow the watch to connect to your Wi-Fi network, then reconnect to ADB by repeating steps above.
Step 6: Run the following command in Terminal to make your smartwatch discoverable on the new phone and press Enter.
./adb shell “starting -a android.bluetooth.adapter.action.REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE”
Step 7: Open the Wear OS app on your new smartphone and you should be able to pair the smartwatch with your new phone.
That’s it. You have successfully paired your Wear OS smartwatch with a brand new phone without erasing any data.
Reconnect the watch without losing data
Save your time and connect your smartwatch using the method mentioned above. Setting up a new device can take an unusually long time, especially on a platform like Wear OS. Here’s how you won’t have to re-customize it all.
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