Hi, hope its OK for a soon-to-be user (decided on SW2 over Pebble) to ask a few basic questions about email questions. First, I use a GS3 rooted with a 4.1.2 ROM (BoneStock). I understand that the email notifications using the stock app on SW2 only gets notifications from Sony phones, so I am guessing I will need to use a different notification app to get email notifications other than GMail. I use the stock email app to get my Comcast emails (POP3) on my phone... is there a recommended notification app that works (or works best) with stock email apps?
I also see that there is a K9 email app for the SW2... I can switch to K9 on my phone if it works better with notifications on my SW2. Have others started using K9 on their phones for that reason, and are there added benefits doing so?
Seeing text message notifications (with the added ability to send canned replies easily) will be my primary use case for the SW2, then seeing email notifications, so before I get the watch I wanted to make sure I was able to satisfy both use cases. Thanks in advance!
Hi,
Try researching Augmented for smartwatches. It is more than capable to extract and display notifications from whatever application you want, be it gmail or k9 (it is equipped by design for these two and a few others) or any other you might choose to use.
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I successfully updated my Samsung Galaxy SIII from a 4.1.2 ROM (BoneStock 3.4) to a TW 4.3 ROM (Mother of All ROMs, aka MOAR 7.1). After a few tries (resetting watch, deleting and reinstalling apps, and pairing, unpairing, repairing watch and phone) I was successful at getting the phone and watch to play nice with each other. So I installed WatchIt, gave it permissions on notifications under security. And now WatchIt and the watch is getting notifications. All sorts of notifications... and lots of them.
So I know I can go into my phone, and change preferences and "toasts" (btw, what is the difference between a notification and toast? Are toasts when it tells you to choose a setting, like selecting Switftkey as your keyboard?). Before I mess things up, I thought I would ask the many experts here running WatchIt which apps you disabled notifications (and toasts... what ever they are)?
EDIT: Since there is a really long list of apps to decide whether to ignore, allow notifications, allow toasts, or allow both... is there a faster easier method, eg ignore all, then allowing notifications from just the list of apps or services desired? Sorry if this has been asked and answered already.
It also mentions DayDream as a way to configure... any info and guidance on this would be much appreciated! Also, any apps you think work really well with WatchIt (like... ways to get NBA, NFL, and MLB scores).
Many thanks in advance!!
And I feel dumb replying to my question... but I was able to figure out how to disallow all notifications, then allowing notifications from the apps I wanted. But I must not have it correctly set up, since when I had someone send me a test text message, I only got a WatchIt notification that I received a text message... but not the text message itself on the watch. Did I make a mistake with a setting, either on the phone, the watch, or both?
btw, I found a sports score app on the PlayStore called 365Scores that seems to be very well-reviewed. So hopefully that sends the scores of my favorite teams (selected in the app) to my watch.
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And I feel dumb replying to my question... but I was able to figure out how to disallow all notifications, then allowing notifications from the apps I wanted. But I must not have it correctly set up, since when I had someone send me a test text message, I only got a WatchIt notification that I received a text message... but not the text message itself on the watch. Did I make a mistake with a setting, either on the phone, the watch, or both?
btw, I found a sports score app on the PlayStore called 365Scores that seems to be very well-reviewed. So hopefully that sends the scores of my favorite teams (selected in the app) to my watch.
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You dont need to use watchit for sms. Just use the messaging app from Sony and use watchit only for apps that dont have apps for sw2 and/or you want to receice some notifies.
If you still want to use watchit for sms, have you tried differend setting for it? "show both" (watchit - app setting - sms -> "show both"). Im not sure does it work, I use Sony messaging for sms.
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You dont need to use watchit for sms. Just use the messaging app from Sony and use watchit only for apps that dont have apps for sw2 and/or you want to receice some notifies.
If you still want to use watchit for sms, have you tried differend setting for it? "show both" (watchit - app setting - sms -> "show both"). Im not sure does it work, I use Sony messaging for sms.
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First ff, thanks for the reply. And yes, that makes sense, so I had Messaging, Gmail, and any other extension ignored and the only apps that it now receives notifications for is the stock Email app and the new Sports app. I will use the previous extensions I had successfully used when I was on the 4.1.2 ROM. I verified that text messages now go through and pop up on the watch.
I also tried an email... and that didn't. Will I receive the actual emails via WatchIt? If not, will switching to a different email client like K9 work? On the prior ROM, I had my "stock" (Comcast) emails go to my Gmail account, which then was seen by the watch. So worst case I can go back to that approach.
Will any of the notifications (eg from the new sports app) show up on the watch? Not just a "hey, you just got a notification from 365Sports", but the actual score of the game its reporting?
Again, thanks for the help!!
A later update. Seems I can now get email notifications from the phone to the watch via WatchIt... but they seem to come as a group of emails (three or four at a time), only the email title and sender. As such its not as useful as when I was getting my mail routed through Gmail.
And... it appears that the Gmail extension may not work with 4.3 (at least that is what one review of the app in Play Store said). So going from 4.1.2 to 4.3 in order to use WatchIt does not appear to have been a good move.
I will try switching to K9 as my email client and then try the K9 extension. That combo didn't work for me when I was on 4.1.2 (so I instead routed the email to Gmail).
Anyone running a 4.3 ROM and is using WatchIt to get emails via their "stock" Android email client? Any advice or steps I may be missing to get this to see emails? I hate to think I will need to go back to 4.1.2 after all this...
Gosh, this has been a struggle. The Gmail extension does work with my new 4.3 ROM. So here is the work around I came up with. Using Gmail to get the mail from my Comcast account, then it goes to a K9 account on my phone, then to the K9 extension. It appears to catch and display the email on my phone.
Still can't seem to get scores notifications from 365 Sports app.
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Anybody know how to fix the text wrap issue or another app that has that issue fixed
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Latest update... I seem to have gotten WatchIt to work. I have it delivering Sports 365 notifications to the watch (neat app, btw, as it includes a whistle on the phone notification). And, I am getting email notifications, including the full email but only if it only notifies on a single email. If multiple emails come in... they all get notified at once, and only a list of he emails.
Is there something I can do to force it to notify each email separately?
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I apologize if this has been asked before - I spent hours googling this with no success.
I have a new Nexus 5 (4.4.2) and I'm still customizing it.
I would like to be able to assign a specific ringtone to an individual contact.
I know how to do it and tried it many times - no dice. No matter what ringtone I assign to a specific contact, the phone always rings with the default ringtone.
I use the stock People app and display Contacts from Microsoft. I did try it with Contacts from Gmail - it changed nothing when it came to the ringtone assignment.
Thank you.
Is the ringtone in MP3 format? I know Android can handle a few other formats natively but you're always safe with a compressed MP3
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Is the ringtone in MP3 format? I know Android can handle a few other formats natively but you're always safe with a compressed MP3
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At this point, I tried it only with the ringtones that come with the phone.
I assign a particular one to a contact, i can see my selection sticks in the contact record, but it rings with the general default ringtone...
BUMP?
Anybody?!
I'm not used to having specific rigntones for my contacts but here is below what I did and it works. I have the stock People and Dialer apps.
1. In People app I choose a contact > Menu > Set ringtone > Multimedia storage > "X" ringtone > OK.
2. That's it.
All my contacts are sync with my GMail account. Did you try with several contacts? What happens if you try with a new contact?
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I'm not used to having specific rigntones for my contacts but here is below what I did and it works. I have the stock People and Dialer apps.
1. In People app I choose a contact > Menu > Set ringtone > Multimedia storage > "X" ringtone > OK.
2. That's it.
All my contacts are sync with my GMail account. Did you try with several contacts? What happens if you try with a new contact?
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I do the above and have had no issues assigning ringtones to contacts (I have two custom ones for my girlfriend and best mate)
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Well, aren't I a goose! I had a think about this and thus a revelation. I don't have Caller ID. In Canada this means that the provider actually goes to the trouble to strip ALL the information that comes down the line - yes, they are vicious here. Therfore, even if I'm called by somebody who IS in my Contacts, all I see is "Unknown".
My heartfelt apologies and thank you for trying to help.
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Well, aren't I a goose! I had a think about this and thus a revelation. I don't have Caller ID. In Canada this means that the provider actually goes to the trouble to strip ALL the information that comes down the line - yes, they are vicious here. Therfore, even if I'm called by somebody who IS in my Contacts, all I see is "Unknown".
My heartfelt apologies and thank you for trying to help.
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i got the same issue and my plan has caller id....
hmm
Oh, no! I'm sorry for you. I suggest you email Google Support - I did and received an answer quickly, not that it solved my problem.
Go here: https://support.google.com/nexus/?hl=en#topic=3415518
and select "Contact us" at top right.
Much luck and please come back here and let us know what happened.
Hello guys,
On Android you can set different ringtone to different contacts. So, for example you can set some pop song for your girlfriend and some classic for grandma
And I want similar setting for sms tone/alerts and I can´t find any app for do that. Can you help me?
I have Android 6.0 phone without root.
I have recently got a Gear S3 and enjoying it thoroughly. One small glitch I am facing is the default Mail App
shows only the mails in Inbox and there is no way (at-least from what i explored) to see the mails in other folders.
Am I missing some UI control hidden somewhere or this is not supported feature.