MY gear manager just updated and after update it crashed. I uninstalled and and went to reinstall it and its no longer in the samsung app store.
raiu said:
MY gear manager just updated and after update it crashed. I uninstalled and and went to reinstall it and its no longer in the samsung app store.
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Try factory resetting your watch, rebooting your phone, and checking again. Make sure that your galaxy app has updated and your phone is updated to the latest software os
I too can't find it in the app store.
Does anyone have a link to the most recent version's apk? It worked great for me with tizenmod 3.0
edouble312 said:
I too can't find it in the app store.
Does anyone have a link to the most recent version's apk? It worked great for me with tizenmod 3.0
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yup, did all that and then some. Still doesnt show in the samsung app store
I've reverted to this gear manager from July, seems to be working fine with notifications. I'd still like the most recent working apk, I think it was from october. obviously the new update broke something, so they're in the process of fixing it and releasing another update (at this point, gear manager is not in the galaxy app store)
Working with GN4, Tizenmod 3.0:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ex3ddaf7q4q9f1g/Gear+Manager_2.1.14071502.apk
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I've reverted to this gear manager from July, seems to be working fine with notifications. I'd still like the most recent working apk, I think it was from october. obviously the new update broke something, so they're in the process of fixing it and releasing another update (at this point, gear manager is not in the galaxy app store)
Working with GN4, Tizenmod 3.0:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/ex3ddaf7q4q9f1g/Gear+Manager_2.1.14071502.apk
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Im trying this. I book marked it a while back and forgot where I found it on XDA but thanks to who every is keeping up with it
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7h23e12rzesi//Gear Manager
raiu said:
Im trying this. I book marked it a while back and forgot where I found it on XDA but thanks to who every is keeping up with it
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7h23e12rzesi//Gear Manager
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whoa, awesome! I'll probably run with the July build, for now anyway. seems fine. let me know how your device turns out.
I got the update yesterday. Post update gear manager crashes on clicking settings. So much for QA by samsung.
Embarrassing for them.
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raiu said:
Im trying this. I book marked it a while back and forgot where I found it on XDA but thanks to who every is keeping up with it
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7h23e12rzesi//Gear Manager
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Every time I try to use a previous build it automatically updates to the newest broken build.
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When the gear manager wants to update, bring up the task list and swipe it away. Launch it again and it won't ask to update.
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just a heads up, I uninstalled it again today and it showed in the app store and I reinstalled it and its back to working like normal. There is now an emergency notification system built in to the watch and the settings are in that menu.
I've been having the same problems. Firsrgear manager was crashing when trying to open settings. Then it wouldn't open at all. I uninstalled and reinstalled complete with full wipe and still nothing. I used the other build that someone provided a few posts back and that works for now. But now I'm noticing that the other watch face apps I use (MW and WS) have disappeared from the app store. Had anyone else noticed this?
Side question. I'm new to the gear 2, just purchased last week. If I was to reroot the gear and find an MW apk, is there a way to side load the MW apk without using the phone but still have the phone recognize it?
Newer Version makes it worse.
How do you keep the old version running when the warning box forces you to install the newest crap version that won't allow the connection? Mine is a brand new Black Friday Gear 2 Neo that was working fine at first, then wouldn't hold the connection. Now it won't connect at all. December update? I downloaded an older version and got them to connect, had everything connecting with the old version and then my phone got commandeered and the newest version just installed.
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How do you keep the old version running when the warning box forces you to install the newest crap version that won't allow the connection? Mine is a brand new Black Friday Gear 2 Neo that was working fine at first, then wouldn't hold the connection. Now it won't connect at all. December update? I downloaded an older version and got them to connect, had everything connecting with the old version and then my phone got commandeered and the newest version just installed.
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I kept the old version from this post:
http://www.tizenexperts.com/2014/09...092299-do-you-still-have-problems-need-a-fix/
I keep cancelling the notification to upgrade and it's fine.
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When the gear manager wants to update, bring up the task list and swipe it away. Launch it again and it won't ask to update.
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Thanks for the thought. I spent 3 hours a couple of nights ago with a nice Samsung tech who tried everything and then admitted he had had 4 calls that day from people whose Gear 2 would not connect to their phone after the latest (December 1, 2014) update. So in spite of all the updates, Samsung keeps making things worse instead of better.
The idea of swiping it off hasn't worked for me on my Note 3. But I have developed a workaround (not a solution) similar to the Ipse_Tase suggestion just above. I downloaded a really old version of Gear Manager at http://www.mediafire.com/download/yo17ta4qyrx50zj/GearManager1_2.apk , installed it, paired the device to the watch, and a connection was established. If you try to actually open the old Gear Manager after the pairing you will get a threatening warning screen saying they're going to delete everything from your Gear 2. But if you just leave the Gear Manager open and running with the warning screen on (don't click cancel or OK), use the phone normally with Gear Manager running, you can use the pre-installed Samsung programs on the watch. If I click cancel the Gear Manager closes and I have to start over. You can turn off automatic updates in the Galaxy App Store, but you'll still get the threatening message that they're going to hard reset your Gear 2. Just leave the message on the screen, let the program run, and use whatever other programs you want to on the phone.
Advantages: Your Gear is not a brick or just a time piece. You are paired. You're not hard resetting the device or trying to pair and connect all the time. You have access to Schedule, Notifications, Weather, Phone functions, S Voice, anything Samsung-based. You can control any app that can be adjusted from the watch itself.
Disadvantages: You can't change or adjust any app that would have to be done from the phone. Third party apps don't work because you can't use the Galaxy App store to get them or install/run them.
But it's better than nothing until Samsung gets its act together and provides an update that actually improves things rather than bricking your watch.
Has anyone found a way to actually use an older version of Gear Manager to download apps, manage the watch, etc. since all the recent updates seem to cut off the bluetooth connection?
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I decided to try to install the newest Samsung update to Gear Manager one more time--just to get a log to send to Samsung. Cleared Bluetooth pairing, uninstalled everything, reinstalled newest version. Failed several times, then finally paired, then finally ran through the bootup process and I am now connected and reinstalling programs, pictures, etc. on the Gear 2 Neo. We'll see how long this lasts. I'll keep you posted. For now, I'm illogically hopeful.
Refusing to connect again.
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I decided to try to install the newest Samsung update to Gear Manager one more time--just to get a log to send to Samsung. Cleared Bluetooth pairing, uninstalled everything, reinstalled newest version. Failed several times, then finally paired, then finally ran through the bootup process and I am now connected and reinstalling programs, pictures, etc. on the Gear 2 Neo. We'll see how long this lasts. I'll keep you posted. For now, I'm illogically hopeful.
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Bad news. Back to square 1. The newest (December 1) update to Gear Manager is no good for Gear 2 Neo with Galaxy Note 3. It will pair and you can get a brief bluetooth connection from the watch to the phone, and sometimes even from the phone to the watch. But it disappears after about 60 seconds. I'm sure it's the Gear Manager update. You can get certain apps to work during the brief periods of connection, but you can't do any settings from the phone, or use the Gear App store through the Gear Manager.
Does anyone know a way to uninstall or bypass the current new version of Gear Manager and install an older version alongside it? If I uninstall it I have learned from bad experience that it will hard reset the watch and I will lose all the time I have spent (3-4x in the last 3-4 days) setting it up. And worst of all, it will delete all Gear Apps that I have paid for from the phone, and I will have to reinstall them whenever I get a connection, and set them all up again.
Workaround
As I was suggesting last night, the best workaround I can come up with is still to install the older version (linked above) by APK, and then leave the warning message running. This way you can get a steady bluetooth connection for as long as you need it, and you can operate all Samsung apps and some 3rd party apps too. You can't, however, use the Gear Manager. You can only make changes/adjustments that can be done from the watch. But it's better than nothing until Samsung gets its act together.
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As I was suggesting last night, the best workaround I can come up with is still to install the older version (linked above) by APK, and then leave the warning message running. This way you can get a steady bluetooth connection for as long as you need it, and you can operate all Samsung apps and some 3rd party apps too. You can't, however, use the Gear Manager. You can only make changes/adjustments that can be done from the watch. But it's better than nothing until Samsung gets its act together.
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Just FYI, I got the same setup as you and out of curiosity I DID update Gear Manager (now called Samsung Gear) to get a fully functional S Health (also updated)...seems to be working fine so far. Even Watch Styler still works.
Sounds like I should try it
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Just FYI, I got the same setup as you and out of curiosity I DID update Gear Manager (now called Samsung Gear) to get a fully functional S Health (also updated)...seems to be working fine so far. Even Watch Styler still works.
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Thanks for this tip. I think you mean that you went ahead and ran the update on the new version (December 1?). Or do you mean you ran an update on the older version I mention above? I'd like to try it to see if they've gotten rid of the bug. Are you saying everything seems to be working fine and your phone updated acceptably?
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Thanks for this tip. I think you mean that you went ahead and ran the update on the new version (December 1?). Or do you mean you ran an update on the older version I mention above? I'd like to try it to see if they've gotten rid of the bug. Are you saying everything seems to be working fine and your phone updated acceptably?
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Also curious about how long you have been running the new update. It worked for me for about 12 hours--then would not connect after that....
Unable to connect - stuck on "setting up" or "connecting to gear s2 (F930)...
Edit: i hate samsung.
Reboot the phone /watch to try again, re-download the gear manager app.. /try to reset the watch /phone ...
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Maybe a similar issue
loppv said:
Reboot the phone /watch to try again, re-download the gear manager app.. /try to reset the watch /phone ...
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I have an unlocked GT-i9505G (Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition LTE). I recently bought a Samsung Gear S2 Classic from Swappa (verified working/perfect order). I've been trying to get it paired and recognized by my S4 phone for several days since I got it, with no luck until today. Brief timeline: installed the Samsung Gear app on phone as instructed by the message that came up on watch ("connect phone's browser to apps.samsung.com/gear and select the Galaxy version of Gear"). What was happening to me was 1) Starting the phone Gear app, touching the "search for Gear watch" tool, pair message on watch (touch OK (check), it displayed "Setting up" animated message on watch face) then 2) the phone app crashed with message "check your phone for current version is OK and restart Gear app", ad infinitum. Did several uninstall/reinstalls of Gear phone app along with watch factory resets (recovery) tool. No luck. After reading several posts over past few days of various phone app/watch issues, I finally decided that the Galaxy version of the Gear app was not recognizing my phone as a Galaxy phone, due to the fact that it splashes GOOGLE on startup and not true "Samsung Galaxy" from the system firmware (no Touchwiz for example). So I went back to the same apps.samsung.com/gear on phone browser, and selected NON-Galaxy version this time-- and after reading a few helpful hints from various posts, I noticed some people were having better luck by side-loading a Samsung APK called "Gear Plugin" which I did. Then I restarted both, held my breath & VOILA! The Gear app on the phone finally paired & connected the watch within the app itself without crashing! (Happy days are here again) Hope this might give you something to work with to get yours hopefully connected & paired with your S7.
I have a oneplus 2 on cm13, root xposed, and I stuck on connecting. I installed the three recommend apps.
Someone can help me please?
I didn't see any discussion topics with the S2 3G on Verizon paired with a Nexus 5X so I thought this might be helpful for anyone else with this setup.
With the last Gear Manager update last week, I noticed the Samsung Pay option, but when I tried to open it on my watch and phone it kept bringing me to a setup screen that would eventually tell me that I needed to upgrade to the newest version to continue. Every time I selected upgrade, my phone looked like it downloaded the new package, but nothing happened. I tried messing around with the allow install from "Unknown Sources" in both the Android and Gear manager settings to no avail. Finally, on my watch I went to settings --> about --> Debugging and enabled it, reopened Samsung Pay, upgraded and it allowed me to complete the setup process. I was able to add my AMEX card and was able to pull it up holding the"back" button on my watch. I haven't tried paying at a terminal yet though.
I've been searching for this since I got my watch, but couldn't find any instructions. Just wanted to put this out there for any other Nexus 5X users. Good luck!
Hi
As of yesterday at about 9PM, the gear Apps store is refusing to load - the app on my phone just shows a 100% white screen when I select 'Samsung Galaxy Apps'. This is 100% repeatable and occurs after restarting phone and watch and after re-installing the gear app on the phone.
Start App -->Goto Settings Tab --> Select 'Samsung Galaxy Apps'
Start App --> Goto Info Tab --> Select 'View More Watchfaces'
Start App --> Goto Info Tab --> Select 'View More Apps' under 'Suggested Apps'
Each of the above results in a 'Loading' dialogue followed by a 100% white screen from which I can only press the Androud 'Back' button to get back into the gear App. Extremely poor...
Interestingly this occurred about an hour after I left a poor review for the Gear App (Which I think is extremely poorly written) on the Play Store. I wonder if they have the ability to disable the watches features for anyone who expresses discontent with them!?
Nigel
I have a Samsung phone so I'm not sure if the steps would be the same for you. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Application manager and then find galaxy apps and clear cache and data if you can find it. For me on my Samsung phone it's a separate app from the Gear app. Hopefully that works for you.
Someone watching you Neo... What a ridiculous suggestion and theory about significant importance of your comment
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Someone watching you Neo... What a ridiculous suggestion and theory about significant importance of your comment
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Lol, ever heard of 'tongue in cheek'?
Thought not!!
I fixed this by re-installing everything. It worked for a day (failing to load intermittantly), and then did exactly the same thing again - white screen, 100% failure to load gear app store. I now have no way to install apps until Samsung fixes whatever they broke.
Appears from another thread on here that I am not alone. Minded to just return the damn thing. Have avoided Samsung stuff for years due to poor quality software - looks like they have not improved.
Nigel
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I have a Samsung phone so I'm not sure if the steps would be the same for you. Go to Settings -> Applications -> Application manager and then find galaxy apps and clear cache and data if you can find it. For me on my Samsung phone it's a separate app from the Gear app. Hopefully that works for you.
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Thanks, tried that my phone does not have a 'galaxy apps' item installes never has had. I reset the cache for the three samsung components that the watch requirea, but still a blank screen rather than the apps store.
I think I will just give up and send it back! Shame cause the hardware side of it is great.
Nigel
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Thanks, tried that my phone does not have a 'galaxy apps' item installes never has had. I reset the cache for the three samsung components that the watch requirea, but still a blank screen rather than the apps store.
I think I will just give up and send it back! Shame cause the hardware side of it is great.
Nigel
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Don't give up, mine did the same, so nothing, but I got it to work. I talked about it on the S3 forum here.
It 'fixed' itself this morning, but still fails intermittantly. Consoled myself by playing with the clever (but pretty pointless) youtube app for the watch. XENOZU
is it soleved yet ? i have the watch since december and this is the 8th time that i get the white screen on apps store. first it whas 2 or 3 days after reset my watch. but the last 3 mounths it whas good every day until today. i opened the gear apps store with bluetooth turned off.
Any solution guys, mine seems to have the same problems, and tried everything, is there a way to boot the phone in safe mode? and check
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Any solution guys, mine seems to have the same problems, and tried everything, is there a way to boot the phone in safe mode? and check
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Have you tried factory resetting the phone? I've used a couple of different phones with the watch and experienced an error similar to what's been described. The problem was solved by doing a clean install of the Samsung apps (via factory reset).
so annoying I got it working for a while by installing older version of gear manager and gear s plug-in but stopped again. The only other way it works is on the watch itself.
If you scroll through your watch face collection on watch, and go to get more watch faces you can access app store. But very limited function.
I had a very similar issue to this. I will copy/paste my post from another thread. Maybe it will work for you all:
"OK so you know how when you are first attempting to setup the watch it asks you to visit a website? You HAVE to visit that website if you want it to work on a non-Samsung phone! You cannot go to the Play Store and search for the Samsung Gear App. Why Samsung did this I have no idea. Basically what they have are TWO DIFFERENT Samsung Gear apps that appear to be identical; except one is for Samsung phones and one is for all others. WHY THEY DECIDED NOT TO STATE THIS ON THE APP PAGE IS BEYOND ME.
Anyway if you are having this problem, uninstall your Samsung Gear app. Then go to your watch, go to settings and choose the option to connect it to a new phone. On your cell phone, go to the website it tells you to. The website will ask you if you are using a Samsung phone or another phone, so obviously don't click the Samsung option. This will give you a direct link to the Samsung Gear app that is meant for all other phones.
Again it's a really bizarre thing on Samsung's part but I am so glad to have figure it out and I hope my post helps you guys or anyone else Googling this issue in the future."
EDIT: The website is http://apps.samsung.com/gear
OK did that chose the non Samsung phone and it redirected me on the app store for gear app. Downloaded it and had the same result... Go figure
Go figure
After going to the site it was stating and choosing the non galaxy version it went to the app store. Apparently I installed it and voila... The same happened..... What the...
Have you tried setting it up using a different phone?
You are right, installing it on my galaxy s6 is working right, but that's not the point since it does not work on my u11. Apparently that's the new way of forcing people to buy Samsung phones. Making products working correctly only with their brand. I feel pity for them.....
I have the same issue with zenfone 3. Its nearly one month of buying gear s3 and i factory reset my gear 4 times cuz of reinstalling the gear app. Its a shame for a top brand like samsung to have a software problem like this with a brilliant smart watch