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Galaxy Gear 2 Neo works w/Note 4

Decided I wanted to grab a different smart watch than my Pebble. So, I went with the Galaxy Gear 2 Neo (black of course). I wasn't thinking at all about compatibility because it didn't make sense that the new Note 4 wouldn't work with one of Samsung's own devices. I was very curious when I didn't find the Gear Manager icon anywhere and I wasn't sure what exactly I was doing because the watch was only working in Korean.
In the end, I looked it up on Samsung.com and under compatible devices the Note 4 was not listed. I was completely shocked to see this. I paired it with my Note Pro 12.2 (yes, I'm a Samsung Fanboy, get over it - I love to draw with the stylus on a screen). It worked great, but it wasn't working with my phone. I figured out later how to get it to work with my phone by pure dumb luck. It's not put out there anywhere on the internet that I could find, so here's the steps:
Step one, go to bluetooth settings and scan for a device on your phone and make your watch discoverable.
Step two, select your watch on your phone
The phone will go and download the gear manager software by itself and do the rest. You don't need to do anything else to make it happen. I was completely shocked it was this easy, and it works perfectly.

Isn't that the standard procedure for pairing any bluetooth device the first time? And Gear Manager is in the Galaxy App Store no?

We are glad you finally discovered this :good: FYI Note 4 works with the Gear 2 as well. the gear 1 Gear 2 Gear 2 neo Gear fit are all compatible with Note 4. Samsung is promoting the Gear S now so cool. I'm sure you have helped someone out

I am trying to pair my Galaxy Note 4 with my Galaxy Gear Smartwatch (1st gen). I have installed Gear Manager from "GALAXY Apps" and am following the instructions for a manual pairing (e.g., NFC is on and Gear charging dock is attached). The devices pair but disconnect in 20 to 30 seconds (message: "Gear disconnected or is out of range of mobile device") during the initial pairing setup resulting in a failed setup. Does the Galaxy Note 4 really work with the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch?
If so, what can I do to get this working?
Should I consider flashing the Tizen ROM with Odin before setting up?

Galaxy Note 4 works with Galaxy Gear Smartwatch (gen 1)
Got it working. I had to install Tizen before the Note 4 would pair. Here's how I did it:
1. Basically followed these instructions:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-pushes-out-tizen-galaxy-gear-sm-v700-how-install-1450698
2. However I needed to figure out how to get the Galaxy Gear into "download" mode. Got those instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LeAPsN8-mc
3. Once Tizen was installed, there was a wizard on the Galaxy Gear to prompt through the process. Everything went smoothly!

Just download Gear manager from Samsung apps. No need to do any other steps.

ozaghloul said:
Just download Gear manager from Samsung apps. No need to do any other steps.
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Probably true for newer Gears but not the "gen 1" that originally came with Android. It needs to get Tizen installed first.

rabilancia said:
Got it working. I had to install Tizen before the Note 4 would pair. Here's how I did it:
1. Basically followed these instructions:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-pushes-out-tizen-galaxy-gear-sm-v700-how-install-1450698
2. However I needed to figure out how to get the Galaxy Gear into "download" mode. Got those instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LeAPsN8-mc
3. Once Tizen was installed, there was a wizard on the Galaxy Gear to prompt through the process. Everything went smoothly!
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That is good to hear you got it working you just had to check usb debugging on watch under gear info and check on phone under samsung gear also. I didn't watch the video just saying. And the above poster is right also. You could have stayed on android Tizen is not that great

The Gear S is also Tizen, so does that mean it will not be compatible with Note 4 out of the box?

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The Gear S is also Tizen, so does that mean it will not be compatible with Note 4 out of the box?
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It will work out of the box gear 2 which I have is Tizen only as well I just prefer android but I wanted this watch so I'm ok with it there are not to many developers for Tizen is all

I have Gear 2 Neo - works well with my Note 4 but it worked better with my old GS3 using Wanamlite ROM.
On GS3 it would show a preview of the sms when i get the initial notification... on the Note4 it just shows that I received an sms from the person.
I can't use handcent on Note4 anymore as it asks to make it the default messaging app, which then makes it so that the "messaging app" on Gear 2Neo does not get notified when I receive sms.
...small things like this are bothersome... maybe it's 4.4.4? or maybe it's because its stock TW? ..

Gear S3 Frontier reconnection issue

Folks hopefully someone can help me with this problem.
I have the gear S3 Frontier and its been perfect since launch but since the last update R760XXU2BQC5 my Bluetooth seems to have gone a little wonky.
My phone is Samsung s7 Edge but since this update my gear refuses to reconnect to the phone at any stage automatically. I can manually reconnect it no problem but this is basically making my gear unusable. Once I leave Bluetooth range the watch goes into stand alone mode and will never come out of it. I've to search again via Bluetooth on my phone to reconnect.
I've tried resetting the gear deleting the gear app on my phone and I cannot get it to work.
Any help greatly appreciated

I had the same problem on my Note 4. I had to reset the watch, then on your phone, go to settings, application manager and look for gear. You'll see that there are 2 entries on the list, named "gear s plug in" and "samsung gear". You need to clear all the data from both of these. Now delete the samsung gear app, reinstall it and this should fix your issue. This was trial and error to begin with, but if you follow these exact steps you should be fine.

Legend mate cheers I deleted one but never noticed the second one

Nice one, did that fix it?

Did for me as I had the exact same problem (thanks Google)

Gear S3 Frontier (4G LTE) Samsung Pay will not launch.

I work for a VZW corporate store as a sales rep. I sold a Gear S3 Frontier to a customer last night who has a S8+. Samsung pay works fine on the S8+ as it should, but the gear plugin for Samsung pay REFUSES to open or work on his gear S3. When you hold the back button on the watch (the shortcut to open the app), nothing happens at all. When you attempt to launch Samsung Pay from the gear manager, it starts loading but eventually says the gear is not responding try again later.. and that happens even when the gear manager shows a connection with the watch. I have tried several troubleshooting steps which I will list below. If anyone has any solution please let me know asap. I actually own a Gear S3 Frontier myself (non 4G) and I never had issues setting up Samsung Pay on the watch at all. Thank you everyone!
Troubleshooting steps I've already tried:
1.Uninstalling the Samsung Pay app for both the phone and the gear (gear s3 plugin). 2.Cleared the cache and data for both the phone and gear s3 plugin app. 3.Tried updating the watch (it's currently on Tizen 2.2). The gear that I use was updated to Tizen 3.0 a few days ago. I am assuming they are being updated in waves. 4.Tried updating the phone (his S8+ is on the latest software for Nougat.) 5.Unpaired the gear from his phone and re-paired it by doing a factory reset on the gear.
I currently use the Gear S3 Frontier (non 4G) with the Note8 (had the S8/S8+), and I never had an issue setting up Samsung pay on either device. If anyone has any ideas please share them here so I can help the customer get his gear working properly, and help anyone else avoid having this same issue.

Reboot.

If Busybox is on the phone you must move the main folder to the SD card.
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Samsung Gear App problem

Hey guys,
So I just bought a brand new Gear S3 and paired it up with my Galaxy S8+, everything was working fine in the first day and I have installed all the apps related to Gear.
After turning it on the next day, I run into an issue that the Gear app doesn't remember my Gear S3, first of all the Gear itself does not reconnect automatically, and besides that, even if I manually connect it to my phone, when I click on the Gear app it shows me "Start the journey" screen, even if my Gear is already connected to the phone via Bluetooth which is very strange. I tried uninstalling it and installing it but nothing changed. It only changes if I reset my Gear, but then after reboot it comes back to the "Start the journey" screen.
Anyone has run into this issue before?
Thanks in advance for your help!

Having the same problem with my Google Pixel XL and Gear S3 Frontier. I'm running Android 8.1. I have gotten "Start Journey" 3 times so far, and every time I have to reset my watch... sign in... restore everything... just to have to do it again in a couple days!! It's getting very annoying.

same issue
same to me. Since the S3 Gear firmware update end of July, the Gear App keeps on resetting itself once every few days.
S3 Gear + Huawei Mate 10
wwjoshdew said:
Having the same problem with my Google Pixel XL and Gear S3 Frontier. I'm running Android 8.1. I have gotten "Start Journey" 3 times so far, and every time I have to reset my watch... sign in... restore everything... just to have to do it again in a couple days!! It's getting very annoying.
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Question Can't pair galaxy watch 5 with redmi phone

Hi Everyone,
I have a Redmi K30 ultra using CN MIUI13 with google service enabled, but i can't pair my phone with galaxy 5.
I tried pair them using Samsung wearable giving all permision to the app, but i got below message:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Also i tried pair with samsung health(giving all permission) from accessories(Settings -> Accessories -> Smartwatch -> Register). After registered samsung account, the app crashed and give me this error:
The last one i tried was using Wear OS of china version. but it just stopped in the pair process.
Pluging installed:
Someone know why i can't pair them?
Thanks

There's something went wrong with compatibility, I guess. Try Restarting both devices and try again.
For testing you can try with another devices.

I had the same problem using a Realme GT (CN version) and a Watch 4. It could be because of Google Services that the chinese phones haven't. In my case, I got solved doing the follow.
1- You must have installed the Galaxy Wearable app and the Watch 5 plug in. I saw that you already have.
2 - I thinks that the problem is that the watch can't pair when you use the Waer app, but when you try to pair using the Wear OS app (CN version), you watch should be able to pair with your phone, so in this moment you have to try to start with the start the pair process with the Galaxy Wearable (you don't close the Waer OS, leave it in background).
This worked for me. I hope you can do it.
Sorry my english.

ljleonardo1 said:
I had the same problem using a Realme GT (CN version) and a Watch 4. It could be because of Google Services that the chinese phones haven't. In my case, I got solved doing the follow.
1- You must have installed the Galaxy Wearable app and the Watch 5 plug in. I saw that you already have.
2 - I thinks that the problem is that the watch can't pair when you use the Waer app, but when you try to pair using the Wear OS app (CN version), you watch should be able to pair with your phone, so in this moment you have to try to start with the start the pair process with the Galaxy Wearable (you don't close the Waer OS, leave it in background).
This worked for me. I hope you can do it.
Sorry my english.
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Hi ljleonardo1,
I tried with your way and i got the same error using samsung health app to pair then
it's said Couldn't set up your watch

When I tried the first time, I putted the code to pair it and got the message "The watch ins't support in this phone", but when started the same process with the Wear OS (CN version) I could pair the watch (the process stopped in the same place that you, but I checked in the bluetooth menu of Android, scrolling down, and I saw that it was pair). In this moment I tried with the Galaxy Wearable again and I could pair it.

Yasin Rafi said:
There's something went wrong with compatibility, I guess. Try Restarting both devices and try again.
For testing you can try with another devices.
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ljleonardo1 said:
When I tried the first time, I putted the code to pair it and got the message "The watch ins't support in this phone", but when started the same process with the Wear OS (CN version) I could pair the watch (the process stopped in the same place that you, but I checked in the bluetooth menu of Android, scrolling down, and I saw that it was pair). In this moment I tried with the Galaxy Wearable again and I could pair it.
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it still doesn't work for me, after log in samsung account, the galaxy watch 5 plugin is just crashed and give me an error.

I had the same issues pairing the watch with my Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra. Tried everything for days with no success. A hard reset of my phone was the solution.

Woodend said:
I had the same issues pairing the watch with my Xiaomi Mi 11 Ultra. Tried everything for days with no success. A hard reset of my phone was the solution.
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I also tried a hard reset but it's doesn't work for me. but i tried with my friend's phone which has same model as mine. he has MIUI stable version(i have beta version).
When pairing his phone with samsung wearable, the plugin wasn't start up and i couldn't do the following step. I will tried again when i swapped to stable version in my phone.

Maybe that's the solution then. Good luck!

** Please note, this guide was initially written for the GW4, but I suspect it is also likely to work for the GW5 **
Try this, in this EXACT order:
You have to install the following apps from Playstore less No.4:
1. Samsung Gear (Samsung wearable)
2. Samsung Watch 5 plugin
3. Samsung Health (SHealth)
4. Chinese version Wear OS (From appmarket)
Once the above are installed. Reset or reinitialize your watch, wait for the "Welcome" intro to start. Open up SHealth app -> click on 3 dot on the top right -> settings -> accessories -> Select Galaxy Watch 5 or Watch 5 Pro to pair up. Follow the setup accordingly. It's optional to sign in to SHealth for your watch btw. Everything will work flawlessly after that.
After you're done with the setup, close all apps via recent and you can launch Samsung Gear as per normal. If you're experiencing intermittent disconnectivity, launch Samsung Gear and lock the app in recents. Do not kill the app. I have not experienced any battery drain from it so far.
DO NOT uninstall the chinese version of the Wear OS under any circumstances. It will disconnect your watch and you won't be able to pair it back. Which means you have to unpair via SHealth, reset your watch and go through the entire setup again.

Tim-2.0 said:
** Please note, this guide was initially written for the GW4, but I suspect it is also likely to work for the GW5 **
Try this, in this EXACT order:
You have to install the following apps from Playstore less No.4:
1. Samsung Gear (Samsung wearable)
2. Samsung Watch 5 plugin
3. Samsung Health (SHealth)
4. Chinese version Wear OS (From appmarket)
Once the above are installed. Reset or reinitialize your watch, wait for the "Welcome" intro to start. Open up SHealth app -> click on 3 dot on the top right -> settings -> accessories -> Select Galaxy Watch 5 or Watch 5 Pro to pair up. Follow the setup accordingly. It's optional to sign in to SHealth for your watch btw. Everything will work flawlessly after that.
After you're done with the setup, close all apps via recent and you can launch Samsung Gear as per normal. If you're experiencing intermittent disconnectivity, launch Samsung Gear and lock the app in recents. Do not kill the app. I have not experienced any battery drain from it so far.
DO NOT uninstall the chinese version of the Wear OS under any circumstances. It will disconnect your watch and you won't be able to pair it back. Which means you have to unpair via SHealth, reset your watch and go through the entire setup again.
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Hi Tim,
I tried with your way and still doesn't work for me, i got the same error mentioned before

Guys I found the way. I have a Remdi Note 9. I booted into safe mode, I went and just paired the phone with the watch from the Bluetooth settings. It finished successfully. Then I rebooted into the regular mode, and went on the Wear app. I tried syncing them and it just succeeded!!!!!

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Guys I found the way. I have a Remdi Note 9. I booted into safe mode, I went and just paired the phone with the watch from the Bluetooth settings. It finished successfully. Then I rebooted into the regular mode, and went on the Wear app. I tried syncing them and it just succeeded!!!!!
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Hi Alexandros,
How did you pair them? i tried pair them in safe mode, i paired succefuly in bluetooth setting, but in the watch screen show the message "check your phone to complete setup" . After returned into the regular mode , the watch just show the message that connection is failed and force me to reset.

I am having the same problem with Realme 8 and Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro
I tried the solutions above and they did not work, samsung support just says that I must use a samsung cell phone

Akalabula said:
Hi Alexandros,
How did you pair them? i tried pair them in safe mode, i paired succefuly in bluetooth setting, but in the watch screen show the message "check your phone to complete setup" . After returned into the regular mode , the watch just show the message that connection is failed and force me to reset.
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After pairing them I restarted both. Sorry for not being clear.

I have swapped to stable version and tried again all above solutions and they didn't work.

i use to use a galaxy watch 4 with a oppo find N (China Rom) and had the same issues and used the workaround posted earlier but i found this didnt work with the watch 5. What i had todo was as per below. Hope it might help:
China Wear OS installed (location permission given but dont open)
Samsung Health from Playstore
Galaxy Wear (from Oppo appmarket)
Didnt install galaxy watch plugin.
I went through samsung health to initiate the pairing with the GW5. This opens the wearable app which then updates automatically to latest version (same as playstore), and then downloads the necessary watch plugin and everything paired fine.
Before this i had tried everything but i think the key is to NOT have the watch 5 plugin installed when you start pairing via samsung health.
So far all seems fine with my china rom phone.
Good luck!

organisedrhyme said:
i use to use a galaxy watch 4 with a oppo find N (China Rom) and had the same issues and used the workaround posted earlier but i found this didnt work with the watch 5. What i had todo was as per below. Hope it might help:
China Wear OS installed (location permission given but dont open)
Samsung Health from Playstore
Galaxy Wear (from Oppo appmarket)
Didnt install galaxy watch plugin.
I went through samsung health to initiate the pairing with the GW5. This opens the wearable app which then updates automatically to latest version (same as playstore), and then downloads the necessary watch plugin and everything paired fine.
Before this i had tried everything but i think the key is to NOT have the watch 5 plugin installed when you start pairing via samsung health.
So far all seems fine with my china rom phone.
Good luck!
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also make sure all background data for the 4 apps is allowed, and no battery optimisations for wear and watch plugin.

Appreciate the walkthrough.... I have a Xiaomi Mix Fold 2 but cant connect it with my Watch 5 Pro. The steps, chinese wear os, not installing the watch 5 plugin, and trying to orsi thru samsung health got me closer than ever, but alas, still csnt successfully pair the watch yet. Any tips?

Same story here, I have Xiaomi 12s Ultra and yesterday got Watch 5 Pro, tried all seps mentioned above but simply no success in connecting it with Galaxy Werable app. For me bluetooth pairing is not an issue, get it paired easily via Werable app process or via Health app, but simply further steps during setup process don't pass and can finish setup/connecting phone to the app...
I still have Galaxy Watch Active 2 which works fine, even with that watch there were few issues with connecting it with Xiaomi but it was more or less easy solved, but with this new Watch 5 Pro, for now I don't see solution