It is a smart watch launched with Galaxy Note 3. By default, many of its functions depend on mobile phones Someone has developed third-party Recovery and third-party ROM for Galaxy Gear on the forum of, which gives it more functions and features. The editor also immediately tested it.

First, we need to copy the zip brush package to the Galaxy Gear's built-in storage space. Since Galaxy Gear cannot directly read the built-in storage after linking to the computer, we need to use Android synchronization software such as Peapod to implement this function ▼

Before cleaning the phone, we need to add Recovery to the Galaxy Gear. Of course, the tool used is the Odin commonly used by Samsung mobile phone cleaning. Load the tar file of line brush Recovery into the pda ▼

Some netizens may start to think that they have questions. Generally, Samsung mobile phones need three buttons to enter Download mode (coal mining) or Recovery normally. How can Galaxy Gear enter it? Although there is only one button on this watch, we can operate it by long press, multiple clicks, etc. The way Gear enters the coal mining mode is also circuitous. First, long press the power key until the following screen ▼ appears

After Rebooting appears, press the power key quickly and continuously to see the interface for selecting startup items. Press the power key briefly to select in sequence. After selecting Download, press the power key for three seconds to enter the "coal mining" mode, and then the line brushing ▼ can be started automatically

After using Odin to import Recovery, enter the Select Startup Mode again and select Recovery ▼

However, after entering the Recovery interface, there was a problem, and the entire interface was squeezed to the top of the screen. However, the editor still eliminated this interference, and almost brushed ▼ in the case of blind operation

After flushing in, you can see a new third-party ROM after restarting. When you first enter the system, you will find the option to select the initiator. When you see NOVA Launcher, do you feel familiar with it? ▼

After we choose NOVA Launcher, all operations are very similar to native Android on mobile phones, and even this third-party ROM has added native Android settings and graphics ▼

The icon style of the secondary menu is still the default status of Galaxy Gear ▼

The setting interface is exactly the same as the original system. Of course, the watch's screen size is small, the resolution is low, and it is not easy to operate ▼

The system is based on Android 4.2.2, kernel version 3.0 ▼

The virtual keyboard has also been displayed normally (the keyboard cannot be called before the machine is flushed). Of course, it is too difficult to press a keyboard of this size ▼

View internal storage space ▼ in setting

There are even developer options. Galaxy Gear can only open USB debugging by default, but the functions of developer options under this ROM are no different from those of ordinary Android phones ▼

One big improvement of the Galaxy Gear with a third-party ROM is that it can cancel the shutter sound when taking pictures. In the past, the use of Galaxy Gear to take pictures secretly was quite dynamic, so it was really necessary to become a "camera maniac"... ▼

Push a RE manager we commonly use on Android phones, which can facilitate file management ▼

At the same time, we can directly install application ▼ on the watch

The system has its own browser. Normally, we can share the mobile phone network after Bluetooth is connected to the mobile phone, but we can't open the Bluetooth sharing function in this system ▼

It may be a compatibility problem. It is not possible to share the network through mobile Bluetooth for the time being ▼

This third-party ROM has its own Root permission and installed SuperSU ▼ for permission management

Xiaobian also tried to install Fruit Ninja on Galaxy Gear, and used FPS Meter to detect frame count ▼

Since the number of frames is limited to 30, the average number of frames we see is not high. Of course, for Exynos 4212, the 320 * 320 resolution is enough to run games ▼

On the whole, the machine brushing was very successful. In addition to adding many mobile phones to the Galaxy Gear to achieve functions, we also successfully eliminated sound photography, and small watches can also play various tricks.

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