I have a gear 2 – but do not own a Samsung phone to “activate it” .   So at the moment I am stuck at the “activate with Gear Manager Loop”.  Some people have suggested on the web to swing into a Best buy and use a note 3 to “activate it”

My goal is to rip that stupid loop out or bypass it and gain access to the real tizen platform below  where I can program data sockets to communicate with my cloud applications.  Buidling a UI, should be easy once I have proper OS/platform access.

I did the ROM mod to implment the Tizen Mod 3 – with Root and APK sideloading thinking this can bypass the first menu.  I got the ROM loaded successfully and now seee nice Tizen animations at the load up,,,,   but I have no further access to the device for programmability.

I am at the moment wanting to know if I can take more control of this device to do what I want.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-2/development/rom-tizenmod-3-0-skin1980-t2850351/post54874904#post54874904

I thought maybe I could bypass the initial pairing loop by dowloading my own app via the Wearable IDE but I do not see any connected devices….  I am not sure if the IDE deploys to device straight or proxys through a valid host with Gear manager.