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orangezorki

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Aug 30, 2006
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Hello all,

I don't know if you have any ideas of how I can resurrect my S4 Apple watch. It was working fine until a couple of days ago, when it first showed not connected for a while, connected again for a bit, but had the red iPhone icon on it all day today.

I've tried everything I can find - reseting the watch, reseting the network settings on the phone, switching both on and off multiple times, making sure that the phone is connected to the net. But now I have a situation when I'm trying to pair the watch as a new one, and I can only get to the 'fuzzy' pairing animation. The watch does not show up in the manual list of watches to pair (nothing on the list at all), but when I try to use the camera method, the phone quickly says "Make sure this watch is powered on and is not paired with another iPhone"

Please help, it's made it so close to the S8 being available, I really don't want to have to be without a watch for a few weeks, or panic buy the old model.

Thank you in advance!
 
And now I've found out that the thing won't even turn off - I can press the side button and bring up a grey "power off" button on the screen, but even though I think the touch screen is fine, it doesn't do anything!
 
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