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gear s3 frontier - install is stuck endlessly

got my gear s3 frontier today.
installed the Samsung gear apps on my phone, huawei P9 and the phone connected to the watch.
configuration from the phone to the watch are working but i tried to download some apps to the watch and it looks like it's endlessly stuck on "installing" on the phone and nothing happens.
tried to installed mr. time maker and a watch face. both failed.
upgrading of current apps, also stuck.
what to do?

Factory reset the watch and try again?
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Same issue on note 4
Same issue on note 4. Cannot install apps or watchfaces

Same issue
I have a not 4 and I am having the same problem. I reset the watch and still no use. It seems to be an issue with Samsung that they don'the want to admit to.

Same issue with S7 Edge. Reset everything, but no change. No problems like this with iPhone and iWatch. This is the third issue I've had with the S3!!!

After months of successfully using the S3 with an LG, I wanted to try it with a Samsung phone. I was never able to get it working. I got a "service unavailable 1000" error and couldn't install apps. Factory resetting the watch and phone did not fix it. I ended up using a different Samsung phone, which installed without issue.

Download the apps from the watch it's work for me,I think there is some bug at samsung apps store.

Gear S2 (SM-R720) can no longer connect to my Note 4

Hey guys, wondering if anyone could help on here. Upgraded to the latest PK5 (Singapore) through my note 4, for my R720 a few days ago. After the reboot, i coild no longer get my S2 to connect to the Gear app. So i did a soft reset and now, all my watch shows is the screen stating: "Reactivation lock is enabled on your Gear. On your phone, sign in to the same Samsung account that was used to lock the Gear."
Trouble is, I am using the same Samsung account and though the S2 pairs with my note 4 via bluetooth, it never connects to my phone. I cannot even hard reset it, as the Recovery option on bootup is now gone, with the new firmware. I have tried uninstalling the Gear app, removing my Samsung account and adding it back, together with re-installing the Gear app, but to no avail. Other devices such as my bluetooth earpiece all pair and work flawlessly with my phone, so it cannot be that the phone's bluetooth is faulty. I also doubt it was a bad firmware update, as the S2 was working perfect (except connecting to my phone) after the update.
Any help would be much appreciated. [emoji4]
*Managed to hard reset it, but still not able to connect. sigh...
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Text Message notifications no working on Gear S3 Frontier

Hi.
Have the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier BT version paired with a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
I'm receiving all notifications with the exception of TXT messages even though I believe the setting seems to be correct.
Anyone else experience a problem receiving message notifications?
Ed

Do you use the stock Samsung SMS app on the phone? If not, that may be the issue.

the_scotsman said:
Do you use the stock Samsung SMS app on the phone? If not, that may be the issue.
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Yes I use the stock SMS App

Try this... on the watch open the message app and try to send your self a txt.. on mine the first time i open the app it said i was not using the stock app on my phone and gave me the option to switch it.. Im using Google hangouts as my stock app and it seems to work pretty good.. i cant start a txt from the watch but i am getting all notifications..

jestexman said:
Try this... on the watch open the message app and try to send your self a txt.. on mine the first time i open the app it said i was not using the stock app on my phone and gave me the option to switch it.. Im using Google hangouts as my stock app and it seems to work pretty good.. i cant start a txt from the watch but i am getting all notifications..
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Thank you.
I sent a txt to myself via the watch (no prompt to change app as using the default app already).
Phone received the txt as did the watch.
Watch now displaying notifications of txt's received without making any system changes.
Must have been caught in a lost loop or something.
Weird but I will certainly remember this solution should it occur again.
Cheers.

interesting. I also sent a text to myself and this started working with the default SMS app.

I have the same problem, but that did not fix it for me.
I have Gear s3 Frontier. Number sync on . Connected to s6 edge plus via Bluetooth.
It has been working fine. It quit a few days ago, and I couldn't get it fixed, ended up uninstalling everything and doing a reset on the watch. This is terribly inconvenient, setting up NumberSync again etc.
I go to notification settings on the phone in the gear app and Messages is not listed anymore. I get the texts on the watch, but only if I go into the app. Any help?

[email protected] said:
I have the same problem, but that did not fix it for me.
I have Gear s3 Frontier. Number sync on . Connected to s6 edge plus via Bluetooth.
It has been working fine. It quit a few days ago, and I couldn't get it fixed, ended up uninstalling everything and doing a reset on the watch. This is terribly inconvenient, setting up NumberSync again etc.
I go to notification settings on the phone in the gear app and Messages is not listed anymore. I get the texts on the watch, but only if I go into the app. Any help?
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Open Samsung Gear app on phone >> Settings >> Notifications >> Manage Notifications >> Messages (Slide to ON mode)

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Open Samsung Gear app on phone >> Settings >> Notifications >> Manage Notifications >> Messages (Slide to ON mode)
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That's the problem. "messages" is now missing from there. It's not listed at all. No option to turn it on. Only way is to factory reset the gear and Uninstall and re install gear app on the phone.

I'm in France and i have exactly the same problem since a few days without doing anything in the settings of the gear s3 classic or in the phone (an s7) : all the notifications except sms and "messages" is no more in the gear app settings. Sorry for my english and thank you for the futur help.
Francis.

+1 same problem is that Messages is not showing up as an option within the Gear app's Notification tab/window. It was there previously before recent update on S3 Frontier (using S7 Edge).

enjoythemusic said:
+1 same problem is that Messages is not showing up as an option within the Gear app's Notification tab/window. It was there previously before recent update on S3 Frontier (using S7 Edge).
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I haven't found a fix yet. Only thing that fixes if for a while is completely in installing gear app and resetting the gear itself. But then you have to set everything up again. Very frustrating. I opened a ticket with att and Samsung, haven't heard back in a couple weeks though. Lol

Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Hopefully they fix it soon...
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Same issue here - factory reset of the phone was the only thing that fixed it. Then started to do the same thing a couple days later.

Don't forget to set notifications to On in the phone app
Hi there, had the same issue. I found that although the phone was set to notifications in settings...that in the actual message app (standard one) under settings there, my notifications were set to OFF! So, seems like you need to set notifications ON in app on phone, on the phone settings, in the Gear app..and make sure you give it some sort of vibrate/noise in settings on watch, then it should work! :good:

I've had the issue crop up a couple times but was able to resolve it by activating the cellular on the watch and sending a text to the phone. Yesterday, that didn't work. Today I noticed that instead of 2 Bluetooth connections for the S3 on the phone, there is now 1, shows call audio. Wondering if this is the root of the problem. Can others who have the problem check and see if this is occurring on your phones as well?

here's the fix: Go into your app mananger on your phone, click on the Gear S plugin app, then click on storage and clear the cache. Restart your gear s3 and it's back to normal

Having the same problem
hbelton said:
I've had the issue crop up a couple times but was able to resolve it by activating the cellular on the watch and sending a text to the phone. Yesterday, that didn't work. Today I noticed that instead of 2 Bluetooth connections for the S3 on the phone, there is now 1, shows call audio. Wondering if this is the root of the problem. Can others who have the problem check and see if this is occurring on your phones as well?
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I am having the exact same issue as you with my s3. Did you ever find a solution? I have searched far and wide but im stumped. Even had Samsung look at the watch, but of course they found nothing.

I'm having this problem now too... It just started out of nowhere. I can see the message on my watch if I scroll to the notifications screen, but it does not vibrate nor show when I twist my wrist... I have tried everything... Every single thing necessary is on. I've even done a factory reset WITH uninstalling all the apps on my phone and installing everything in order again. Setup the watch as new. This isn't cool. Half of the reason I have this watch is for notifications. Seriously, Sammy needs to get it together! I've been having WAY too many problems with this watch in the last couple months.
Anyone found a fix? Nothing anyone has mentioned previously works.

Having the same issue here. No freaking idea what's going on. Have tried just about everything. Textra works but AM doesn't. Even Gmail doesn't work. So basically it seems like Google apps aren't working

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)

No text message notification to Gear S3 Classic

Ok, I have Gears S3 classic (bluetooth) and S7 Edge. I have had my S3 for several months and all has been great, I love it. But 2 days ago, my watch stopped receiving notifications for text messages only (I still get notifications for other things like calls, emails, etc...) And yes, in my gear wearable app, messages is marked to receive notifications...they just don't come thru to the watch. I am using stock messaging app for Samsung. One thing I did notice when I was trying to trouble shoot, is that I can send texts from my watch to my phone, on the watch, it shows the spinning circle as if it were constantly trying to send the message. Funny thing is, my phone gets the message, but when I go to look at the watch, the "sending" circle is still spinning. It won't stop. I think the fact that it is getting snagged/caught up on the watch's end might be the culprit. I just cant figure out how to fix it. Factory resetting the watch is the last thing I want to do, I'd like to avoid it if at all possible.

I have the Gear S3 Frontier SM-R760 version and I downloaded the 4.0.0.2 firmware and flashed it. All went well. However, I too don't receive message notifications on the watch. I have removed and reinstalled the app on my Note 8 and reset the Gear S3 to set everything up as a new phone but there is still no luck.
If there is any work around to this or anyone can help then it would be greatly appreciated. All of this seem to have happened since I updated to 4.0.0.2 but I hear it's happening on other firmware as well.
Download Pulse SMS onto both the phone and watch. Don't worry about registering as all you're bothered about is notifications. Enable Pulse SMS from the Gear app for Notifications and any SMS messages you receive you will be notified on the watch from the Pulse SMS app on the watch. This so far seems a valid workaround to the problem.

Yeah...its very frustrating. Is there another text/sms app we can use? I see people mention Textra...but I don't see that on apps for watch, just for phone.

AndHD2 said:
I have the Gear S3 Frontier SM-R760 version and I downloaded the 4.0.0.2 firmware and flashed it. All went well. However, I too don't receive message notifications on the watch. I have removed and reinstalled the app on my Note 8 and reset the Gear S3 to set everything up as a new phone but there is still no luck.
If there is any work around to this or anyone can help then it would be greatly appreciated. All of this seem to have happened since I updated to 4.0.0.2 but I hear it's happening on other firmware as well.
Download Pulse SMS onto both the phone and watch. Don't worry about registering as all you're bothered about is notifications. Enable Pulse SMS from the Gear app for Notifications and any SMS messages you receive you will be notified on the watch from the Pulse SMS app on the watch. This so far seems a valid workaround to the problem.
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So, I unpaired my gear s3 watch from bluetooth list on my s7 edge. Next, I uninstalled gear s plug in from apps list on phone. Then, I went to apps list and cleared cache and data from gear wearable app. Then I uninstalled updates for gear wearable app as well. After that, I went to play store and updated gear wearable app to current version and repaired watch w phone/app. I thought I could do it without resetting watch. But the wearable app and watch wouldn't connect without resetting watch, so I bit the bullet and reset watch. I tried to connect them without resetting watch, but app popped up a message saying I needed to reset watch and it did it itself w push of a button. It didn't take that long to put apps back on watch. And it worked. I am now getting text notifications from stock samsung messages app back on my watch.
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#1 - when watch and app reconnected after reset, I did not restore back up, I skipped it and manually went to wearable app to put apps back on as they are listed there. I didn't want to reset watch, but it seems to be working for now.
#2 - before I did all this, I used Textra SMS, and that app sent notifications to my phone no problem. But I wanted to fix the issue, not use a workaround.