Where's My Yellow Dot? - Samsung Gear S2

Can anyone help.? I have seen others have the Yellow Dot showing they have unread notifications. I have the S2 for T-Mobile. Just got it. I don't get that dot for unread notifications. Anyone else have this issue? What did you do to resolve it or could you not resolve it? I am running the most current software too so I am up-to-date. Thanks!

I'm assuming you have activated the yellow dot notification in your Gear Manager app settings?
Notifications > Notification Indicator
Do you have apps selected to send notifications to your watch?

bfoltyn said:
Can anyone help.? I have seen others have the Yellow Dot showing they have unread notifications. I have the S2 for T-Mobile. Just got it. I don't get that dot for unread notifications. Anyone else have this issue? What did you do to resolve it or could you not resolve it? I am running the most current software too so I am up-to-date. Thanks!
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The 3g version hasn't received the update yet.
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I just got the bluetooth version and its updated to the latest software. I have the option checked in both the gear app and on the phone. Have tried factory resetting the watch and also clearing data on the gear app. I can't seem to get the yellow dot. Any suggestions?
Update: I figured out that if the "turn on screen" option is enabled in gear manager, then it automatically dismissed the yellow dot, the same way it does if you go over to the notification screen and back to the watch face (but without actually clearing the notification).
Anybody know if this is a bug, a recent change, or has it always been like that?

@Lancerz
I have the sim enabled version on T-Mobile and I have the dot. You need to activate it in settings.

TheAnarchist1 said:
@Lancerz
I have the sim enabled version on T-Mobile and I have the dot. You need to activate it in settings.
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So I guess you didn't see the date that I posted that? The 3G version from Tmobile has only had the update for maybe 2 weeks now.

I tried everything in this post and a few others on this forum and nothing works for galaxy note 4

Fixing yellow dot on your Samsung gear S2
This is such an easy fix!!! Go to your device (for example I have Galaxy s4) and go to your gear app and go to notifications and scroll down to turn on or off the yellow dot.

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Notification Icons Not Showing

For some strange reason, my notifications icons are showing when I receive a notification
Anyone have an idea on how to resolve this?
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I don't know how you have yours set up. Mine is stock with a note 3 and it stopped doing some very basic thighs after that last gear manager update. I uninstalled gear manager and reinstalled it and everything is back to working like it should.
Try that.

Persistent Bluetooth notification

Note 5 here, am wondering if there's a way to get rid of the Gear Plugin persistent notification that tells me I'm connected to the gear s2. It's always there (along with the wifi notification) and it's super annoying! If you go into the app manager and into the app the check box for the notification is dimmed out and unselectable.
Wot-75 said:
Note 5 here, am wondering if there's a way to get rid of the Gear Plugin persistent notification that tells me I'm connected to the gear s2. It's always there (along with the wifi notification) and it's super annoying! If you go into the app manager and into the app the check box for the notification is dimmed out and unselectable.
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I've got nothing for you but agree completely. Maybe somebody from Samsung (Or Tizen) reads these forums and will work on an upgrade.
I wish I could get rid of it too. That one reason I miss root. No need for that notification and the WiFi one too.
Sent from one of my many devices.
Couldn't agree more. Both of those notifications are stupid and annoying.
Found a fix...
com.squareheads.disablegalaxygearmanagerenotification_v11_525169.apk

Gear 2 only displays preview to notification in stock Messaging app

Hey guys,
As the title says, I'm unable to get previews to messages on my Gear 2 anymore. I used to have a Note 3 which worked perfectly with it, all apps displayed a brief preview when the notification pops up on screen of who messaged me / what was said. Since I've upgraded to the Note 5, I was initially only able to get the previews on things like Instagram posts and Facebook notifications / messages, and only on the stock messaging app. In the last couple of days I've had nothing but the stock messaging app work with previews - everything else is just an empty notification.
I've tried resetting the Gear, uninstalling and reinstalling the Gear Manager app, leaving all settings as default, removing phone lock, enabling and disabling preview settings on both phone and watch... nothing has worked.
Has anybody else had issues similar to this? Could it have something to do with upgrading to Lollipop? Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edge Lighting not responding to Facebook Messenger

Facebook notifications work however Messenger doesn't? Seems rather odd, anyone managed to get around it?
Is fb messenger set as the default messaging app?
Edge lighting has a list of apps you can enable but Messenger is not in there. Facebook app is in the list but Messenger isn't for some reason. I'm wondering if it's Samsung or Messenger developers who have to tweak something for Messenger to be in that list and have Edge lighting working.
tool2269 said:
Is fb messenger set as the default messaging app?
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No
The G Dept. said:
Edge lightning has a list of apps you can enable but Messenger is not in there. Facebook app is in the list but Messenger isn't for some reason. I'm wondering if it's Samsung or Messenger developers who have to tweak something for Messenger to be in that list and have Edge lightning working.
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I agree thats where I am getting confused, it must need updating
I can't get edge lighting to work at all..
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ingenious247 said:
I can't get edge lighting to work at all..
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Quick menu > Second page > Edge Lighting icon
Long-press it and there will be a list of apps there.
I have enabled it for all apps and so far it worked one time out of two with Textra, for some reason. All good for the 3 Snapchat notifications I received since I have the phone. Didn't have other notifications to test yet.
The G Dept. said:
Quick menu > Second page > Edge Lighting icon
Long-press it and there will be a list of apps there.
I have enabled it for all apps and so far it worked one time out of two with Textra, for some reason. All good for the 3 Snapchat notifications I received since I have the phone. Didn't have other notifications to test yet.
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I know HOW to set it up, what I'm saying is, it doesn't work. At all.
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This worked for me....
After looking this up more I found someone had tried this
Settings > Display > scroll all the way to bottom Keep Screen Turned Off make sure that is off
I did this and it now works for messages all the time but varies for what's app.
ingenious247 said:
I know HOW to set it up, what I'm saying is, it doesn't work. At all.
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Never worked for either.
Sent from S8+ Tmobile
dallastx said:
Never worked for either.
Sent from S8+ Tmobile
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It doesn't seem to work when the screen is off for Hangouts either. (Although I think I saw it working when the screen was on.)
Seems that I can only get it to work for my messages only. All else fails...
I got it working. See this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72027923&postcount=14
The G Dept. said:
I got it working. See this post: https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=72027923&postcount=14
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I use this but the "message preview" is an empty LightFlow icon with no text
Any alternatives?
Pedroc1999 said:
I use this but the "message preview" is an empty LightFlow icon with no text
Any alternatives?
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Same for me, but at least we found why edge lighting was not working, it's a good start. To have the actual app notification message instead of the Light Flow icon, I think the app needs to support natively "wake up screen" for notifications.
I don't know if the Light Flow developers would be able to pass the notification informations (variables?) from the app to Lighting Edge but maybe it'd be a good idea to give them a hint about it. I did send an email earlier today to Messenger developers about it but I doubt they'll receive it or open it, let alone actually do something about it.. but I tried.
I really like the Edge Lighting concept and I hope Samsung will keep developing it and one day soon we'll be able to choose the lighting colors for each app, because right now it's blue, no matter what app.
Got it to work, Kinda!
Pedroc1999 said:
Facebook notifications work however Messenger doesn't? Seems rather odd, anyone managed to get around it?
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The full fledged facebook messenger app didn't work for me, so I tried the messenger lite version, and much to my surprise, the pill notifications with edge lighting now work when I receive facebook messages!
The main downside is that quick reply in-line in the notification card is not supported in facebook messenger lite, although I think i can make due without this, because when I used direct reply, the notification badge would never go away until i long-pressed the app and manually cleared it (even if I opened the app and viewed the "unread" message).
Hope this helps! I have managed to get most of my apps working with edge notifications with playing around. Sometimes I have had to go into specific apps notification settings and play around with toggles and they started working all of the sudden. The last one I'm trying to get to work is the stock email app, but it seems like there's a fundamental flaw because even with edge lighting off, no notification card pops down when I receive an email. May switch to gmail again, but I was also reading that people were having trouble with notification cards on that app as well.
I cannot post a URL to the facebook messenger lite app on apk mirror, but if you go to that site and search for the app, just download the most recent version: Version: 7.0.0.9.280 (57368212)
I've just across this thread after trying to get FB messenger to work, like others have already said the edge lighting is a bit random. I have the default messenger app working when screen is on or off, Whatsapp only when screen is on and FB messenger just not at all.
I used to use lightflow before to customise my notification light, didn't want to go down the router of installing it to fix something that should just work.
recently I find out that the calling screen of OTT applications which have calling feature such as facebook messenger, viber... will be overridden by edge lighting screen (only when screen is off) if you enable edge lighting for these apps, because of that facebook tell samsung to remove their messenger app out of list apps that support edge lighting
enable edge lighting when screen off for viber then use another phone to make a viber call to your S8, you will see what I am trying to say
Edge lighting seems useless. I mainly wanted to use it for Facebook Messenger and pretty much every app is in the list except that. I also enabled it for Gmail and Messages but have never actually seen it work.
Hello. I've got solution. This app translates old style notifications to new style notifications so all the apps have edge notifications enabled. You can customize color for any application and turn on/off edge notifications. Very good application, not like the others, which creates fakes color effects around display. It even works on AOD display, which is perfect. Ofc it has few bugs, like if you enable notification and scroll up than back, it shows like it didn't save your settings, but it did. Just set all your apps, turn off app and on and you can see, that it remembered all your settings. I've reported that bug, so I hope it get fixed. play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.movisoft.edgelighting&rdid=com.movisoft.edgelighting
Pedroc1999 said:
Facebook notifications work however Messenger doesn't? Seems rather odd, anyone managed to get around it?
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I can get it to work on my text app, but not Facebook. How did you get it to work on Facebook? I heard that it won't work on Messenger.

Solution for Notification issue on Nex S

So I tried this on my main social apps and they are appearing flawlessly. I hope they are useful.
Please follow the below steps to solve it:
1. Slide upward from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center, hold and press the WhatsApp icon and click Add to white list;
2. Enter i Manager>Power manager>Excessive background battery usage>turn on the switch of WhatsApp;
3. Access i Manager>App manager>Autostart manager>turn on the switch of WhatsApp.
This worked for me with my Samsung Gear Fit2 watch. You have to make sure all of the Samsung apps and plugins associated with the Gear Fit2 are enabled in iManager (iOS hints everywhere... Lol)
Ok uninstalling iManager app notification from all app works excellent now
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Sofascore notification not working properly. Any solution? Can anyone try?
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Sofascore notification not working properly. Any solution? Can anyone try?
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Notification where? In the lock screen? Notification on the icon? Notifications in the notifications drop down menu?
Saloei said:
Notification where? In the lock screen? Notification on the icon? Notifications in the notifications drop down menu?
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for example ... when a team scores a goal sound notification late more than 5 minutes and so constantly
So I'm dealing with a slight problem. Honestly could just be something to get used to. I have the India Model (Global Rom), and I deal with a notification issue for my lock screen. I've already done adb and gotten rid of iManager, but I still seems to have an issue with notifications coming through.
This is mostly with Android Messages (I use this as my default). If I leave a notification of a message on my lockscreen for too long, it eventually disappears and indicates on my home screen I no longer have a notification (Using Nova). But when I enter the app of course the message is still there and says unread. Its a small problem, but it can become annoying.
Its as if I leave a notification in the status bar for too long, it eventually disappears and then indicates I no longer have a notification. Is this just a normal thing for an international device? ( I am in the states by the way).
Its a small gripe, because otherwise I still love the device and I'm glad I waited for the India model. Its my daily driver for now.
anyone have problem with whatsapp vibration unable to change into the default/short/long options... no matter which option i chose... the whatsapp vibration will just revert back to the default vibration.... my group msg vibrating like mad instead of the short vibration that I really like for grp chat....
Easiest way to deal with problems on the Vivo Nex= just sell the phone and go with Xiaomi or OnePlus.

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