Well Iām no expert (I donāt think any member of the forum would disagree with that statement! 
) But I think perhaps you were possibly drinking light beer during the swipe a thon? Better try at least half a bottle of spirits next time (I believe that the good Dr Andy gets well and truly soused before he has a swipe session 
) But no matter what state of intoxication, you wonāt find better help that here on the forum. 
Cheers, 'Make mine a double"!, Doons
whenever Iām suffering a case of the lock-down blues, coming here and reading threads like this somehow always brings a smile to my face. 
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He did it! @pablo11 had me load a bunch of stuff in a PC, turn over control, and I watched him sail through a concert of clicks and drags. He called on me for percussion participating to accentuate the highlights in the score. It took tap of the top watch button followed by a USB insert and a glorious five minutes or so holding the watch as the progress bar slowly scrolled across the screen, only to start again and again for each partition being rewritten. Not your motherās SP Tools by any means. Finally it was done. But not over.
Flashing was finished but the pseudo science of wishing the watch to start still had to take place. Itās not easy to know what actually worked, but after pressing and prodding, swiping and holding, connecting and disconnecting power, and burning incense, one magical touch and it sprung back to glorious KOSPET life with v1.3 firmware oosing through itās veins.
So back on track for a review of this puppy soon. Infinite thanks to @pablo11. There is a path to restoration in all this, and now we know it works.
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Another observation not related to the flashing or resetting, the touch interface over the keyboard is severely out of alignment in the lower right, particularly around the green āenterā button. Trying to tap it is a real art. The nearby keys, like period and āmā are also hard to hit correctly. Iāve worked with many 1.6" screen Android watches, and this is by far the worst. Took me forever to just enter my WiFi PW. Not sure if itās just me and my fat fingers or this watch or something affecting others. How are you guys doing tapping that enter button?
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OK Guys, Iāve figured out the āblack screen of deathā issue that started this conversation, and itās NOT related to any of the custom faces I installed on the PRIME S. In a nutshell:
WARNING: THE APP āFLOATING TOUCHERā WILL BRICK THE PRIME S REQUIRING FLASHING THE WATCH TO RECOVER!
Now the background. Thanks to you guys with suggestions like making sure I opened Settings before messing around with recreating the black screen scenario, I was able to isolate Floating Toucher by doing a factory restore, opening and closing Settings, side loading and setting up Floating Toucher, and, while messing around with it, had it basically NOT return control back to the watch. So it sat there running in overlay. I knew it was there because the white dot was there and I could activate and see it on the screen, but hitting the āhomeā icon closed it out to a black screen (except for the white button). So I went to Recent Tasks, launched back into settings, over to factory restore and reset the watch.
Then I set this all up again, same results, and with FT overlaying a black screen, I launched into Settings from Recent Tasks, went to Apps and force quit, then uninstalled Floating Toucher. Guess what?
It didnāt fix things. All I could do was see the black screen, or activate the power button menu. Thank you thank you thank you for the advice to have opened Settings, because, once again, I was able to get back to the factory restore option and restore into a working watch.
S, do not install Floating Toucher, even though it will physically install with Android 9 on this watch (note: it wonāt install on any Android 10 watches but it DOES install and WORK CORRECTLY in FAW International Android 10 firmware). IF you do experiment with it (shame on you!) open and close Settings first so you can always get to it with a long press of the power button and tap on Recent Tasks.
And now we know.
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It cannot work without the correct permissions and strangely does not ask for all the required permissions when it is installedā¦ 
So I have to say that it is a risk and probably should not be used until I do some research about it.
Thanks @SmartWatch_Ticks
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Not just you but oddly my wife can hit it on her first try from the passenger seat while Iām driving and my daughter (who has my fingers and she hates it ) canāt touch the corners either until a recent update which apparently address the issue but didnāt address the Bluetooth issue
@Gazman I think you should write something to go with the forumā¦ Obviously only if you feel like itā¦ 
Ode to FAW for example 
That would be awesome 
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@montanacrm301
The problem was the Touch panel driver.
It was way out in calibrationā¦
What is the BT issue you are having?
Excuse me asking again but this thread is a little hectic 
The device will not connect to gaofit nor will it connect to my phone via Bluetooth setting but it will connect to watchdroid Iām wondering if I should reset my phone which is a note 20 ultra running Android 11 was thinking maybe the Bluetooth info was currupted some how I donāt want to reset my device itās set up how I like and I have alot of heavy apps that will take forever to download again any help would be tremendous
You are supposed to scan the QR code on the watch to download the app for the phone.
Is this how you installed it?
Yes sir and from the beginning it was doing the connect disconnect thing so I rebooted the watch and phone it got a little better until it flat out just wouldnāt connect at all so I uninstalled the app did a factory reset on the watch and did the syncing action again thatās when the condition Iām dealing with now showed itās face the app on my phone nor my phone through settings would connect to the phone but 8 can connect to watch Droid without issue ā¦ Also today I was able to prt my contacts via Bluetooth from my phone but will not connect for anything else
Do you think a reset of my phone may help itās not the watch Iāve connected to my Chromebook via Bluetooth, my tablet and just to prove to me itās my phone my wife was able to connect with her note 10 does Android 11 not play well with the watch or could the Bluetooth file been currupted some how on my phone
I would suspect that it is a permissions issue on your phone.
When you scan the QR code and install it on the phone - it should ask you to enable all the correct permissions.
But sometimes this does not work and you have to manually check all the permissions.
Same for the watch.
You must check that the background ācleanerā app must be set to OFF in the Optimisation section on the watch and also the other permissions needed.
Usually, if you have scanned and installed the app will do this correctly.
So the issue most likely comes from the phone.
For example, if you setup your phone using BT settings, it will not work correctly.
For correct setup you need to open the app on your phone and then scan the sync QR code which will pick up the MAC address of the watch and create a permanent connection.
Lastly, the app was developed with Android 9 and 10.
So there might be an issue with Android 11. Unfortunately I canāt test this.
I strongly advise you to use Watch Droid tethering app.
Much better.
Also remember that your watch only has 1gb or ram so you may have to kill all other running tasks and keep minimal apps installed.
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On initial start up I did everything you described I really think itās a android 11 thing all permissions were granted except one the background sport setting there is no toggle for this permission Iām pretty good with technology so Im certain there is no permission on my phone for the sports background also my phone just recently received the Android 11 when idk Iām wondering if when I got the update is when everything went to the crapper unfortunately I see a reset coming for my note 20
Iāve figured out how to get the watch to connect I noticed all of my Bluetooth transmission was currupted so instead of doing a full fledge reset I just reset the data connection and Wala connection with no issue no disconnect reconnect shananigins so Iām assuming after the Android 11 update wifi configuration or something like that change now Iām a happy camper I can actually understand the temperature
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