Dev gets Samsung Gear 2 to boot Android Wear

Samsung wants to create its own ecosystem for smartwatches by running its home baked Tizen OS on all of its smartwatches save one. The sole Samsung smartwatch to run Android Wear is the Gear Live. If you prefer one of the other Samsung watches, but want Android Wear there is hope for your smartwatch dreams.

A developer called biktor_gj over on XDA forums has been able to successfully get Android Wear to run on the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch. You can see in the images that the OS was able to boot successfully. Getting Android Wear to work on the device wasn’t an easy task.

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