Hi guys I couldn’t really find a lemmy wearos community or galaxy watch community. I kinda made a post back on reddit in the past talking about how to get around certain limitations on galaxy watch 4/5 (like dnd sync, ecg, samsung pay button maping, etc). This repost also is kinda for me also since every so often I accidently unpair my watch and need to reset it. Anyway enough rambling rest of post is bellow :)

Hi guys I’ve noticed the gear watch 4/5 has a few nit picks:

1. Do not disturb/bedtime mode only syncs with a samsung phone Work around: https://github.com/rhaeus/dnd-sync If your phone is on Android 13 follow this additional step to grant dnd permissions on phone: https://github.com/rhaeus/dnd-sync/issues/7
2. ECG/BP monitering is only availble on samsung phones Work around (install modded version of samsung health moniter app on android phone and watch): credit to u/XDA-Dante63 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wqfz67IUMuY https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/restrictions-removed-samsung-health-monitor-wearos-1-1-1-221-root-age-country-device-restriction-removed-25th-oct-2022.4322527/
3. Samsung pay is hard mapped to the lower button even if google pay is set as default payment method: If your watch didn’t come preinstalled with samsung pay:

• This method is prefered since this app spoofs the samsung pay package name and then launches gpay making it a bit more snappy. https://github.com/blunden/SPayToGPay If your watch came pre installed with samsung pay:
• As Samsung pay is already installed SPayToGPay cannot be installed due to Samsung pay already being present. This app allows you to launch another app of your choice when Samsung pay is opened. https://github.com/BigBoot/GW4Remap

1. Find my phone via Watch5 plugin doesn’t work on android 13 Not sure how to fix the plugin I just use find my phone from google assistant as a workaround. (plug in works had issues with a prior custom rom install)

Hope this helps :)