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Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
TL;DR<\/p>\n
Getting early access to in-development software can be a lot of fun. Plenty of us participate in testing programs for some of our favorite apps, both in the interest of helping to make them better and getting to enjoy a sneak preview of new features before everybody else. That extends to software platforms, as well, with Google offering its Android Beta for Pixel program \u2014 and as of just a week ago, a new Canary program<\/a> for even earlier access. But this kind of testing doesn\u2019t happen without some level of risk, and that\u2019s something that wearable fans might want to keep in mind.<\/p>\n Any time you\u2019re testing a new version of Android, there\u2019s the potential that things are going to break. Sometimes, those failures can reasonably be expected, like issues with Wallet tap-to-pay not operating properly on beta builds. And while we tend to go into trying out software like this reasonably well informed of the potential pitfalls, apparently there\u2019s always still going to be room to surprise us.<\/p>\n The latest problem we\u2019re hearing about concerns Samsung\u2019s Galaxy Watch wearables and users running Android 16 QPR betas. Over on Reddit, a thread started earlier this month by user Ecstatic_Estate_6625<\/a> has only been growing and growing, with users reporting pairing failures across a number of different Galaxy Watch models (via 9to5Google<\/a>).<\/p>\n Some users seem to get pairing to work, but then run into trouble with their connection dropping, or Samsung software crashing. 9to5Google reports that in its testing the connected phone got into a loop of trying to download Samsung\u2019s Watch Manager plugin, failing, and \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 crashing.<\/p>\n While we wish we had a fix to share that could keep you testing QPR1, for the moment the only real solution seems to be going back to stable Android 16. If you\u2019re thinking about picking up a new Galaxy Watch 8<\/a>, maybe put off the Android beta testing until you\u2019re able to find a second phone to use for that.<\/p>\n