Fossil Gen 6 flashing Wear OS 2 instead of Wear OS 3

[nighttheduck]

Hey! This is my first time here, sorry if I'm doing smth wrong, I just really need help. My fossil gen 6 is kinda useless at this point after updating to Wear OS 3 and I would like to flash it back to Wear OS 2, since I don't get any notifications & I can't even sync my notes at this point without connecting to wifi (not even through mobile data, which is pretty annoying -> my phone & watch doesn't connect to each other through bluetooth)
thanks, for any guides in advance!

night

 

[edwin270]

You will have to perform a factory reset and repair the watch and phone again. Only option at the moment.

 

[nighttheduck]

You will have to perform a factory reset and repair the watch and phone again. Only option at the moment.

Did that 3 times already, nothing changed. Thanks for your answer though!

 

[Rogthedodge24]

Did you get anywhere with this? I also want to go back to wear os 2. I hate the fossil app

 

[mickeyvalentine]

I'd like to know too. I just came back to Android with the S23 Ultra and wanted to pair my Razer x Fossil watch to it. But I decided to update since I was doing a factory reset/disconnect anyways. Big big BIG mistake.

There has to be a way to flash wear OS 2.3 back to the watch and re partition it as stock. I'm able to see my watch as a USB perhp on my machine without BT or wifi connection.

Anyone have the old firmware for these watches? Short of buying another Razer watch for $600

 

[Malvik]

I do have all the required files to go back to wearOS 2, but wont suggest it might brick your device. Have a partition backup first.


For OTA add the hash in the placeholder.

Main URL: https://redirector.gvt1.com/packages/data/ota-api/package/<hash_with_extension_here>

v2.30: 230d380c72f87f94cbd4e43b944afd70700d6ffd.zip (Apply updates from playstore regarding wearOS to get it upto 2.38)

Minor Update: 4e201fee66e76ed4694e77eaa589f7767f93beea needs to applied after flashing the above package.

V3: a569fe07dfdcb4edea85f9535d592b9af4621cd1.zip

 

[MiamKebab]

I do have all the required files to go back to wearOS 2, but wont suggest it might brick your device. Have a partition backup first.


For OTA add the hash in the placeholder.

Main URL: https://redirector.gvt1.com/packages/data/ota-api/package/<hash_with_extension_here>

v2.30: 230d380c72f87f94cbd4e43b944afd70700d6ffd.zip (Apply updates from playstore regarding wearOS to get it upto 2.38)

Minor Update: 4e201fee66e76ed4694e77eaa589f7767f93beea needs to applied after flashing the above package.

V3: a569fe07dfdcb4edea85f9535d592b9af4621cd1.zip

Hey ! Thanks for the file. I'll take the risk to brick my watch.
Do you know how I can flash the archive ?

 

[Arkbird1000]

Hey ! Thanks for the file. I'll take the risk to brick my watch.
Do you know how I can flash the archive ?

I'm also looking to be able to flash my watch between WearOS 2 and 3. Have you figured anything out by chance? All the things I normally do aren't working, with and without TWRP.

I do have all the required files to go back to wearOS 2, but wont suggest it might brick your device. Have a partition backup first.


For OTA add the hash in the placeholder.

Main URL: https://redirector.gvt1.com/packages/data/ota-api/package/<hash_with_extension_here>

v2.30: 230d380c72f87f94cbd4e43b944afd70700d6ffd.zip (Apply updates from playstore regarding wearOS to get it upto 2.38)

Minor Update: 4e201fee66e76ed4694e77eaa589f7767f93beea needs to applied after flashing the above package.

V3: a569fe07dfdcb4edea85f9535d592b9af4621cd1.zip

Or would you be able to provide some guidance on how to proceed?

 

[MiamKebab]

I'm also looking to be able to flash my watch between WearOS 2 and 3. Have you figured anything out by chance? All the things I normally do aren't working, with and without TWRP.

From what I found, the original cable with 4 spins (2 on each side) should be used to connect your watch to a PC and use the USB debugging.
So I bought one but nothing happened. I'm just able to use Bluetooth or WiFi debugging and these can't be used to unlock the bootloader as WiFi and Bluetooth are disabled on bootloader mode. So fastboot can't detect the watch.

So I'm stuck and that sucks, my duck.

Another way is to remove the watch's back and tweak the USB connectors but I'll not do that...

 

[Arkbird1000]

From what I found, the original cable with 4 spins (2 on each side) should be used to connect your watch to a PC and use the USB debugging.
So I bought one but nothing happened. I'm just able to use Bluetooth or WiFi debugging and these can't be used to unlock the bootloader as WiFi and Bluetooth are disabled on bootloader mode. So fastboot can't detect the watch.

So I'm stuck and that sucks, my duck.

Another way is to remove the watch's back and tweak the USB connectors but I'll not do that...

I see. I have been able to make it farther, but I also was running into problems getting the USB connection to work. Most of what I did was under Linux instead of Windows but I found that after enabling USB debugging I often had to remove the watch from the cradle, put it back on, then run 'adb devices' from the connected computer to get the daemon going. That usually got the adb popup on the watch to show, then I can select the 'always allow' option.

All that said, at the moment I'm not currently able to boot my watch unless I have the bootloader unlocked. I have restored the stock recovery after using TWRP and unsuccessfully flashing anything via that adb shell or from the bootloader with fastboot. Even worse, some things are not working properly, such as automatic brightness and some of the wireless capabilities. I might need to see if I can work something out with Fossil if I'm unable to resolve these issues.