For those of you who are wondering when your Samsung watch will be usable on Facer with the WFF only restriction. One UI 8 Update for Galaxy Watch 7, 6, 5, 4 – Release Date & Rollout by ALLSTARSPACE Just for the record I have my Watch 6 Classic and my Watch 5 Pro both set to not automatically update. I’m not real impressed with the performance on my Watch 7 Ultra.
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Is he misspeaking when he calls OneUI 8 a beta? It’s definitely not a beta version on my Ultra, but maybe there were enough issues that they are now calling it a beta? That said, NO ONE gets beta releases without signing up, and he said it just showed up on his Watch 7. So there’s plenty that doesn’t make sense in this video. Honestly, based on your wording, I didn’t expect this to be a video, I expected it to be an official statement from Samsung with the release dates.
I do look forward to getting WearOS 6 on my 6 Classic. I see no reason to no update.
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It’s a beta version for the non-ultra watch 7 watches. The Ultra version is the release version.
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In my 40 years of IT, I have never seen this. A release out before a pre-release…
I’ve seen pull backs up patches that went poorly, but never this.
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Considering that each watch has its own individual software and then throw in the fact that there are Bluetooth and LTE versions which also has different software requirements. In the video he did say that Samsung was doing things differently this time also. Last time for WOS 5, they pretty much did each group of watches as a whole releasing all the series 6, then 5 and finally 4 within days of each other.
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Thanks for that MAG . So for me GW7 , he reckons September , not far away . Also not Beta for the 7 . I have switched auto update off for my GW5Pro . I heard it said that Updates can force themselves on a Watch . My guess is if the WiFi is off as well that would not be possible .
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I just want to keep my 6 & 5 so I can use all the faces from Facer, not just the WFF ones. I’m not that thrilled with Facer’s adaptation of WFF compatibility yet.
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WearOS is a Bare Metal, it shouldn’t matter what hardware its going on. It’s it’s more about OneUI 8 being layered on top of it. I would guess that’s where the beta comes into play.
I have no concern over being able to use legacy Facer faces. I started with WFS and will continue with WFS.
I don’t think there’s anything wrong with how Facer is handling this transition. I just think it was a bigger undertaking than they anticipated. Plus, they’re hands are pretty much tied when it comes to legacy stuff just working. Most items will need to be ported in some way, and that will take time.
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Let’s not forget that we are still dealing with a beta.
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