Fossil Gen 3 Venture

Fossil Gen 3 Venture

How to reset or restore a Fossil Gen 3 Venture

If your smartwatch Fossil Gen 3 Venture it works very slow, it hangs, you have a full memory and you want to erase everything or you want to sell it or give it away and you want nobody to be able to access your accounts and passwords you can do a factory reset so that it returns to be like the first day.

In the following steps we explain how to format the Fossil Gen 3 Venture to erase all your information and make it totally clean as it came out of the store.

Keep in mind that a reset or return to the factory state on a smartwatch deletes all its content, so make a backup of your data before doing it if you don't want to lose everything.

Restore from the options of Fossil Gen 3 Venture

If you want to make a reset using the device options to return to the factory state an Fossil Gen 3 Venture you have to follow these simple steps:

Estimated time: 5 minutes.

1- First step:

Swipe down from the top of the Fossil Gen 3 Venture screen to display the quick access bar. Click on the settings icon, it is an icon of a cogwheel like the gear of a clock, not to be confused with the brightness adjustment icon that is very similar and represents a kind of sun with its rays.

Fossil Gen 3 Venture Shortcut bar

2- Second step:

Scroll down through the Fossil Gen 3 Venture settings by sliding your finger from the bottom up the screen until you find the “System” section. Press to access.

Wear OS settings menu

3- Third step:

Within the system menu of the Fossil Gen 3 Venture you will see a section called “Reset” or “Restore” this method only restarts the Gen 3 Venture but does not erase all its data or restore it from the factory so We look for the section called “Disconnect & reset” or “Disconnect and restore”. Press to continue resetting the watch.

Wear OS system menu

4- Fourth step:

A message will appear stating that the Fossil Gen 3 Venture will be unpaired from the mobile phone to which it is paired and that all personal data and settings stored in the watch will be erased. Click on confirm to proceed.

Disconnect and reset Wear OS

5- Fifth step:

Your device Gen 3 Venture from Fossil it will restart and take several minutes to start while restoring the device to its factory state and optimizing the applications pre-installed in the operative system Wear OS.

Start Wear OS

If these instructions have not worked, try to follow the following steps in your Gen 3 Venture:

Go to the “Settings” and then scroll to “General Administration”. Click on “Reset device” and then confirm by clicking on “Done”.

Uninstall he Wear OS app on your phone and reinstall it, the try again.

Restore Fossil Gen 3 Venture from a mobile phone

If you want to reset the Fossil Gen 3 Venture from a linked mobile phone follow the next steps.

1- Go to Settings > Bluetooth on your smartphone and find your smartwatch under Paired devices, then tap on the gear icon at the right and choose Unpair or Forget. Fossil Gen 3 Venture.

2- Uninstall the Wear OS app and reinstall on your phone and set up your smartwatch as new.

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About the device:

Fossil Gen 3 Venture is a reloj / smartwatch / pulsera with dimensions of 42 x 42 x 11.5 mm, a screen resolution of 1.2 inches.

It has a processor , a RAM memory 512 MB and an internal memory of 4 GB.

The Fossil Gen 3 Venture comes from the factory with the Wear OS operating system.

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