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Help I am literally at my wits end, please help before i toss it!

jujubeads

jujubeads

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no matter what i do , no matter what i try its always device not found!!! Regardless of pc, mac, usb, mobilego, airdroid, terminal commands, dos prompt commands, odin, cydia, you name it have tried it! im seriously losing my mind. I just want to root my gear! Whether that entails rooting my galaxy 3 is irrelevant, i just want to open my gear! This is my last try to get some help before I THROW IT IN THE garbage! Sorry, just really upset. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide!
 
Please don't cross post in other forums with the same question and thread, also please be careful of your language, one thread in your device forum is sufficient. Now if you have a S3, what carrier are you will and I will move this to that section for proper support.
 
Hey there jujubeads!
I can totally understand your frustration:(
Can I assume you have tried different usb ports, different cords, uninstall/reinstall drivers?

What about trying this...
Power off the device, remove sim and sd card...power up and let it boot up fully....power down again, insert sim and sd, power up again.
 
jujubeads said:
no matter what i do , no matter what i try its always device not found!!! Regardless of pc, mac, usb, mobilego, airdroid, terminal commands, dos prompt commands, odin, cydia, you name it have tried it! im seriously losing my mind. I just want to root my gear! Whether that entails rooting my galaxy 3 is irrelevant, i just want to open my gear! This is my last try to get some help before I THROW IT IN THE garbage! Sorry, just really upset. Thanks for any help you may be able to provide!
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I found this on the xda site if you want to give it a try:

How to root your Samsung Galaxy Gear! - xda-developers
 
Are you using adb and getting the device not found error? If so, you might try a different driver that is reported working for your device for the purpose of adb interface.
 
Im pretty sure i have tried that but Im not sure how to make it use a specific driver as I have only installed the package of drivers (approx. 25) that came with the driver bundle.
 
when using adb i try to list my connected device and it shows..... ./adb devices )hit return) and it show <List of connected devices> then nothing
 
and all-in-all neither the galaxy 3 nor my watch sees that I have a connected device or even a devices at all. Its in debug....etc. im so mad!!!!!
 
Can you link the driver package that you used? Is it the same one (.exe) that was linked above in the xda root thread? If not, maybe give that package a shot.
 
Hey iowabotech... and thoughts on how to get my watch into step #3?

Preparation:
1. Install Samsung's official ADB Drivers from here.

2. Get Cydia Impactor from here.

3. Go to your Gear's settings and enable ADB


To Root:
1. Plug in the device and let it install all the drivers it needs.

2.Unzip the Cydia Impactor folder you just downloaded

3. Open Impactor from the folder you just unzipped

4. The default "# drop SuperSU su to /system/xbin/su" is what you need

5. Click start

6. Once the process completes, the device will still look normal, but is fully rooted!
 
Theres a member Nickdalzel, good guy, who rooted and rommed his Gear and has playstore on it.
Hit him up if you get stuck.
(Wish we could tag people on here lol)
 
jujubeads said:
Hey iowabotech... and thoughts on how to get my watch into step #3?

Preparation:
1. Install Samsung's official ADB Drivers from here.

2. Get Cydia Impactor from here.

3. Go to your Gear's settings and enable ADB


To Root:
1. Plug in the device and let it install all the drivers it needs.

2.Unzip the Cydia Impactor folder you just downloaded

3. Open Impactor from the folder you just unzipped

4. The default "# drop SuperSU su to /system/xbin/su" is what you need

5. Click start

6. Once the process completes, the device will still look normal, but is fully rooted!
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Unless there's actually an option in the device settings to enable adb (I've never seen that but I've also never seen your device), then I think they just mean to enable USB debugging. Which if it's running JB or newer, you have to goto settings > about phone > software info > tap on "build number" about 7 times fairly fast. That should enable developer settings and inside that you can enable usb debugging. If you already have that done, great.
 
yes i did that... those were the instructions via xda. i just have never seen #3 on any menu within the downloading mode of the gear.i just dont get it... it cant be this hard just to get the thing to recognize the device!!!!

thanks for you help iowabwtexh it is much appreciated... im off to my pc to try some of the suggestions!
 
iowabowtech said:
Unless there's actually an option in the device settings to enable adb (I've never seen that but I've also never seen your device), then I think they just mean to enable USB debugging. Which if it's running JB or newer, you have to goto settings > about phone > software info > tap on "build number" about 7 times fairly fast. That should enable developer settings and inside that you can enable usb debugging. If you already have that done, great.
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According to a Google search:

"Tap the Software Version 7 times at your Gear to get the USB Debugging Mode."
 
Just to clarify...you are able to go in to settings on the Gear to enable Debugging; and do you have Gear Manager installed? (still searching for a fix; hope you haven't trashed it yet :) )
 
If your devices still aren't being recognized, open windows device manager and while watching it, plug your device into the PC in USB debugging mode. We next need to verify that its at least being recognized as plugged in...even if its an unknown device. Look for any new entry to show up directly after being plugged in. Unknowns will show up as a yellow question mark most likely.
 
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