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Android pairing problem

Former Member
Former Member over 7 years ago
Hi, so since a few days, my Forerunner 235 wouldn't sync anymore with my phone. This has happened before so I deleted the device from my devices on Garmin Connect and tried to pair it back as that usually works. Now it won't pair anymore. It gets so far as to give me the passkey, but before I can type in the passkey in my phone, the watch goes back to "Ready to Pair" and gives me a new passkey, and so forth. On my phone it says "Timed out while connecting to device" over and over in red and "couldn't connect to Forerunner 235" in grey every time the passkey disappears again.

New passkeys keep showing and disappearing and sometimes I'm fast enough to type it, but it just does the same thing.

I've restarted both Forerunner and phone countless times, turned Bluetooth on and off, all in every order I can think of. It just won't pair back up. I have no idea what to do and I can't find this particular problem anywhere on the internet... help would be appreciated. Thanks!
  • 0 over 7 years ago
    Hi, I sell my Honor and now I'm waiting my LG G6. Meanwhile I'm using a very old LG (4 or 5 years), install Garmin Connect on it and Oh My God ! The pairing is perfectly done in 2 minutes, the running session is loaded in 30s (meany minutes with my Honor) and my FR235 is always connected to the LG without randomly disconnection !
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    IT IS FIXED !!!!

    When I connected my FR235 to my laptop this morning to sync via Garmin Express it said I needed a software update. I did that, and tried pairing with my Huawei P9 Lite afterwards immediately.
    First try, success!

    Thank. God.
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    I first did the suggestion in kaso's post which enabled me indeed to finally connect to the FR235 (from P9 lite) after months...
    Then Garmin connect prompted me for a software update on the watch, did this one as well. As of this update... continuously syncing. So perfect, although garmin kept saying it's a Huawei problem it's pretty funny that the Garmin update fixed it?

    Now I even get notifications on the watch from apps that didn't do that before (i even get a notification with the song title when my radio app switches song haha).

    Cross our fingers that it'll hold.

    Side note: i had to retry the suggestion in kaso's post 3 times before it worked, so in case you fail the first time just try again :).

    Good luck!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    I first did the suggestion in kaso's post which enabled me indeed to finally connect to the FR235 (from P9 lite) after months...
    Side note: i had to retry the suggestion in kaso's post 3 times before it worked, so in case you fail the first time just try again :).
    Good luck!

    Before this solution I managed to connect my FR235 once, but since it lost sync never managed again.
    I've tried kaso's suggestion a couple of times with my P9Lite and didn't succeeded, I've also had a watch update connecting it to the desktop with the cable, but no improvements.
    Maybe I'll try once more, but am I the only one that find quite annoying removing and reinstalling, reupdating and reconfiguring Google Services?

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago

    hmz strange, i can say that after 3 days my watch is still syncing with the P9lite. Is your watch perhaps syncing with another device as well? I was using my ipad at home as a workaround, but that resulted in the watch only connecting to the ipad at home and not the phone. Once I turned of ipad's bluetooth the watch connected again to the P9lite.

    Which software is running on your FR235 currently? Mine has been upgraded to 7.6 (connect IQ 1.4.4).
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    grolschie is true, it is Google Play Services problem.
    I found this solution working for me on Huawei P10 Lite (Android 7.0), Forerunner 235 firmware 7.52beta and Garmin Connect 4.2:
    - Remove updates for Google Play Services - Settings/Apps/More/Show system processes - find Google Play Services and click top right "Uninstall updates". This will temporarily disable google services. Clear all data of google play services and Force stop google play services to be sure to restart it.
    - Pair Forerunner with your phone using Garmin Connect - normal way, this should work now.
    - Reboot phone, Forerunner should connect to phone now automaticallly (as normal).
    - After reboot, Google Play Services should ask for update, DO IT.
    - Open again settings for Google Play Services and edit Permissions - disable "Body Sensors" permission.
    - Now all should work.
    - Maybe good to restart phone and forerunner.
    - Sometimes disconnect, then you need to "Force Stop" Google Play Services, but then it restarts automatically soon and works well.
    (Maybe some more restarts during this process necessary)


    After performing the steps above the connection finally works! Huawei P8 Lite, Android V6, Fenix 5. Thank you!!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Which software is running on your FR235 currently? Mine has been upgraded to 7.6 (connect IQ 1.4.4).


    I frequently connect my FR235 with Garmin Express using its cable so the updates are always the most recent.
    I've to add that I lost my sync when I had to sync a Polar just for a couple of days, later I removed it completely but the FR was lost.
    Today I'll retry the google services tip!

  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    I synced it once again without disabling Google Services.
    I cleaned up everything on the P9lite GC app, I started syncing, i didn't stop it while failing, then I disabled and then re enabled bluetooth and I was asked for the pin.
    I entered the pin and as soon as the GC shows a green connection face I turned off geo localization on the phone.
    The connection was established right after this last step, though you can't do this before because geo localization is mandatory for the first setup I guess.
    Now let's count how long it's going to work
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    grolschie is true, it is Google Play Services problem.
    I found this solution working for me on Huawei P10 Lite (Android 7.0), Forerunner 235 firmware 7.52beta and Garmin Connect 4.2:
    - Remove updates for Google Play Services - Settings/Apps/More/Show system processes - find Google Play Services and click top right "Uninstall updates". This will temporarily disable google services. Clear all data of google play services and Force stop google play services to be sure to restart it.
    - Pair Forerunner with your phone using Garmin Connect - normal way, this should work now.
    - Reboot phone, Forerunner should connect to phone now automaticallly (as normal).
    - After reboot, Google Play Services should ask for update, DO IT.
    - Open again settings for Google Play Services and edit Permissions - disable "Body Sensors" permission.
    - Now all should work.
    - Maybe good to restart phone and forerunner.
    - Sometimes disconnect, then you need to "Force Stop" Google Play Services, but then it restarts automatically soon and works well.
    (Maybe some more restarts during this process necessary)


    Can confirm this works for the Vivosmart HR+ and the huawei P9 lite - given the problems I've had since last year I'm not confident it will keep working, but here's hoping!
  • Former Member
    0 Former Member over 7 years ago
    Hi guys, I just downloaded and installed the beta version 7.61 for my FR230 (Fixed Bluetooth connectivity issues with Huawei phones) and it works. At the moment I was able to connect with success a P10 lite with my FR230 and I don't detect issues.