I have a Fairphone 5 running the latest build of Murena’s /e/ OS, and I can’t get it to pair with my Moto 360 Gen 3. Every time I try to pair it via the Wear OS app, the process times out and I get an error that says “Cannot complete setup” at the top, then “can’t update your watch” and it tells me to reset.
I had the watch paired with my Fairphone 4 running iodéOS, but it took some trick involving pairing with the Chinese and US-based versions of the Wear OS app in a specific order. I have a copy of the Wear OS China app, but trying to pair with it gives me an error saying that I can’t use it outside of China. I’ve been trying to find the guide I used for this originally, but literal hours of searching has turned up nothing.
I’m about at my wits’ end here. Any thoughts on what I can do get this damn thing working with my new phone? Even unpaired, I can get wifi debugging working, if that will help!
EDIT: I found the original XDA thread I was thinking of, “Eureka! Wear works on microG!” Unfortunately, the method described there doesn’t work anymore, but I got this working using a modified version of the same approach.
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Install the old version of Wear OS China located here, dated October 23, 2021
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Install the old version of Wear OS US located here, dated October 9 2020.
(Note that newer versions of these apps might still work, but this is what got me up and running while I was experimenting with different approaches.)
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Run the Chinese Wear OS and go through the pairing process until it prompts you to download the US version.
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Run the old US version of Wear OS that you already installed. My watch got about 90% of the way through the pairing process and then the Wear OS app on my phone stopped advancing. After the pairing process stops advancing, uninstall the US Wear OS app.
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Open the Chinese Wear OS app. Your watch should be paired and connected. It may take a minute or two to change out of the “continue setup process on your phone” screen (or whatever the exact language is, I don’t recall).
And that’s it! My Wear device is now paired with a phone that’s using MicroG. This isn’t ideal, since my watch has ended up paired with the Chinese version of the app, but I mostly just want my watch to echo phone notifications, and I keep Wear OS blocked from internet access with a firewall rule anyway.
Let me know in the comments if this works for you! I’m interested to hear other folks’ experience with this.