{"id":5318,"date":"2014-12-23T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T11:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/?p=5318"},"modified":"2019-01-05T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T22:24:50","slug":"fastboot-mode-for-android-wear-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/wordpress\/fastboot-mode-for-android-wear-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Fastboot mode for Android Wear devices (G Watch, Gear Live, SmartWatch 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Putting Android devices in <strong>Recovery mode<\/strong> \/ <strong>Fastboot<\/strong>, when you <strong>don&#8217;t have access to adb<\/strong>, is an art. And Android Wear, where you have only one button (the power button), adds even more entropy to the whole process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So let&#8217;s gather the different procedures for the different watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>LG G Watch<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Find the reset button: it is on the back of the device, near the pins to charge it.<\/li><li>Press the button using a paperclip, a SIM ejector or your fantasy<\/li><li>Wait for LG logo to appears on screen<\/li><li>While the logo is showing, swipe from the top left-hand corner to the the bottom right-hand corner in one, diagonal swipe.<\/li><li>From the Fastboot menu, you can launch the Recovery Mode<\/li><li><a title=\"Lg G Watch fastboot menu\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=efCKX0Npy78\">Video<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>LG G Watch R<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Turn off the watch and then turn it on normally<\/li><li>Wait for LG logo to appears on screen<\/li><li>While the logo is showing, swipe from the top left-hand corner to the the bottom right-hand corner in one, diagonal swipe, pressing and holding the power button<\/li><li>Alternatively, if the swipe doesn&#8217;t work, instead of swiping start tapping the screen with two fingers, one on the top left (10) and one on the bottom right (4), pressing and holding the power button<\/li><li>From the Fastboot menu, you can launch the Recovery Mode<\/li><li><a title=\"LG G Watch R - HowTo access Fastboot and Recovery\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mXoE5_QOxxE\">Video<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Samsumg Gear Live<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Turn off the watch and then turn it on normally<\/li><li>Wait for Samsung logo to appears on screen<\/li><li>While the logo is showing, swipe from the top left-hand corner to the the bottom right-hand corner in one, diagonal swipe, pressing and holding the power button<\/li><li>The bootloader appears<\/li><li>Select the Fastboot or Recovery mode swiping downward, and swipe to the right to confirm the selection.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Sony SmartWatch 3<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Detach any USB cable connected to the watch<\/li><li>Turn it off holding the power button and keep holding the button until the watch vibrates three times and then switches it off<\/li><li>Press the power button and keep holding. A blue screen that prompts to insert an USB cable will display<\/li><li>Double tap the power button<\/li><li>A black menu will display, with on-screen instructions<\/li><li>Move to Fastboot or Recovery Mode pressing the power button, once a time<\/li><li>Select Fastboot (or Recovery) by double pressing&nbsp;the power button<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For extreme modding, there is also a third mode available, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/2014\/07\/05\/how-to-android-wear-enable-debugging-take-screenshots-unlock-the-bootloader-and-root-the-lg-g-watch\/\">Download mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting Android devices in Recovery mode \/ Fastboot, when you don&#8217;t have access to adb, is an art. And Android Wear, where you have only one button (the power button), adds even more entropy to the whole process. So let&#8217;s gather the different procedures for the different watches. LG G Watch Find the reset button: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rainbowbreeze.it\/wordpress\/fastboot-mode-for-android-wear-devices\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fastboot mode for Android Wear devices (G Watch, Gear Live, SmartWatch 3)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[620,518],"class_list":["post-5318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-android","tag-android-wear"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fastboot mode for Android Wear devices (G Watch, Gear Live, SmartWatch 3) - 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