If you have a new Samsung Gear Fit and for some reason you can’t get it to upgrade over bluetooth with Gear Fit manager or by using Samsung Kies installed on your computer, then don’t worry. I am here to help. If you are using Gear Fit with a unofficial Android device, then this will also help you to get your device updated to the latest firmware.
In this tutorial, I will be guiding you through the process of manually upgrading Samsung Gear Fit via PC using Odin. All the required files can be downloaded below. The firmware version of Gear Fit is the latest as of this writing.
Activate Water Lock. On the status panel, tap. If Water Lock mode is enabled, the touchscreen, the wake-up gesture feature, and watch always on feature will turn off and so you can splash around without tapping anything by mistake. The water-drop icon will display on the Watch screen. The gear isn't seen by the phone (Note 3), and my computer doesn't seems to know what this is: Kies3 tries to connect, but finally give up, WonderShare recognize it as a LGE Nexus 4 while in recovery mode, GT-S5690 in download mode, and fails when trying to update drivers. Window make a weird bleep when plugging it, and Odin doesn't even see it.
Download
Odin 3.09.5
Gear Fit firmware (r350xxu0bnd8)
Samsung USB drivers if needed
Step one- Place Gear Fit into download mode
If you are positive that the gear shifter is not stuck in park (see directly above), then it’s likely that the shift linkage may be bad. Either something caused it to bend, or it’s starting to come loose. If it’s come loose, the geometry won’t be right anymore and it may keep your Fit stuck in park. Conclusion: Fit Stuck in Park. Suddenly, you realize that the engine light is glowing on your dashboard and you fail to shift gears from the second or the third gear. While you may take it as a mechanical failure, it may be the activation of the limp mode. If you wish to reset this mode, you would have to learn how to bypass limp mode. Well, here is the process. BMW transmission not shifting, stuck in gear, failsafe mode. Learn how to troubleshoot a BMW automatic transmission. A BMW transmission may trigger a warning message on iDrive or get stuck in gear due to.
To put your Gear Fit into download mode first, turn Gear Fit off then press and hold button until Gear Fit powers back on showing Gear Fit logo and Samsung logo. Continue holding button until Samsung logo disappears and a vibration is felt. Without delay, press button five times when Gear Fit restarting appears on device and once when option appears to select download options. Immediately press and hold for three seconds to enter download mode.
Step two- Start Odin and select Gear Fit Firmware files
If you haven’t downloaded the required files, please do so and extract all the files from Gear Fit archive and launch Odin. Under Files [Download] category in Odin, select all three files labelled starting with BL, AP and CSC. Leave all other options as default.
Update (05/22/2014) – Please note that for future updates where only one update file is available for Gear Fit, use option CSC to select the file in Odin.
Step 3- Start firmware flash process
Connect Gear Fit to your computer by using connection dongle for charging to connect Micro USB cable to Gear Fit. At this point, Odin should display COM ports one and two as connected. You should now be able to click the start button in Odin to begin the process. If Odin doesn’t recognize Gear Fit after connecting to your computer, you will need to download Samsung drivers.
Possible errors:
If the device is not rebooted automatically after downloading binary,
-> Press power button of Gear Fit over 7 seconds. (HW reset)
And then, check the S/W version of Gear Fit.
If Odin3 download program cannot find new Gear Fit device (COM port) after finishing download sequence,
-> Please restart Odin3 program.
Samsung Gear Fit Stuck In Download Mode
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