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I'm dan Graziano and I'm here with the newest wearable from Samsung the gear fit this little device can track your steps display notifications from your smartphone and even measure your heart rate it's one of the most interesting wearable devices available today but there's one big problem it only works with a select number of Samsung devices meaning people like me and my Nexus 5 are left out of the fun luckily there's an easy workaround that enables some of the gear fits features for non Samsung users for this to work you will still need to sync the gear fit with a supported Samsung device so it can be updated you must then download the gear fit manager app to your Android device the easiest and safest way to do this is to copy the app from existing samsung device this can be done by downloading a file manager from the Google Play Store such as the free ES File Explorer app open the app on your Samsung device click on the app manager option under the Tools menu long press on the gear manager app and hit backup I usually then save the backup to my Google Drive or Dropbox accounts for easy access the app can also be found on the web however download it from a third-party marketplace or an online form can open your device to malware before you can actually install the gear fit manager you must first enable the unknown sources option on your device to do this venture over to your phone settings menu and click on the security option then just simply click on the file and wait for it to install once that's done open the gear fit manager app and sync your device with the gear fit it's as easy as that obviously since this is a basic workaround some of the features aren't available for example you'll be unable to create or sign in to your Samsung Account you also won't be able to do anything with weather or location however you can still do all the basics like receive notifications track your steps measure your heart rate and even use the device's nifty find your phone feature for more information about pairing the gear fit with other Android devices check out my article on how to dot-com you can always reach out to me on Twitter with questions or comments I'm dan Graziano CNET thanks for watching