Samsung Gear 2 (samsung-rinato)

The Samsung Gear 2 originally runs Samsungs Tizen operating system, which is based on Linux.

Contributors

 * Eloy


 * FieryFlames

How to enter flash mode
If your Gear 2 is not linked to a Samsung phone, you have to bypass the first screen. Click around 20 times on the watch symbol until the Bluetooth message pops up, then wait until it disappears and then long press the watch symbol once. See this video.

Long press to force a reboot (the regular software restart button does not work for accessing the menu), then press  quickly multiple times to go into the boot menu. You can navigate to downloading mode by pressing and then waiting a few seconds.

Mainline
The device has mainline support, added by Samsung. See here

Needs this patch to get the kernel to load on a retail unit.

Mainline does not currently boot very far, seems to be stuck on Exynos DRM.

GUI
See AsteroidOS