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Reviews should start coming in. Please add more to the thread if you come across them.
From Sammobile:
"Samsung finally understands a smartwatch should be round."
http://www.sammobile.com/2015/09/30...lly-understands-a-smartwatch-should-be-round/
Dom Esposito (9to5google.com) Video Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvOoUlaqzcU
PC Magazine:
3.5/5
"The Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch has great software and a thoughtful design going for it, but a paltry app selection and finicky voice recognition hold it back."
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492805,00.asp
Yahoo:
"The First Smartwatch I’d Actually Buy"
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/samsungs-gear-s2-the-first-smartwatch-id-155919658.html
Tech Insider:
"Samsung's latest smartwatch is the only smartwatch worth using"
http://www.techinsider.io/samsung-gear-s2-smartwatch-vs-apple-watch-2015-10
Tech of Tomorrow Video Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkXzKxpjlS4
TeQreation Video Review:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ZeiSpBCu8
Gizmag Review:
"Awesome potential, incomplete experience"
http://www.gizmag.com/samsung-gear-s2-review/39746/
Tom's Guide Review:
6/10
"Clever Design, Needs More Apps."
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/samsung-gear-s2,review-3104.html
Mashable Review:
"Samsung Gear S2 is the best round smartwatch on the market"
http://mashable.com/2015/10/07/samsung-galaxy-gear-s2/#gpN6DNgLn8qt
Question for people?
The Sammobile review stated
"Hangouts only lets you open the app on the connected phone and doesn’t let you send any emoticon or respond via voice actions. "
This has not been my experience personally. At least I think. I don't use Hangouts much, but the one time I did, I thought I had all the response options available to me. Can anyone confirm?
The Google apps have been integrated really well as far as i can see.
Where did sammobile get hangouts?
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The frustrating part of the new watch is where should I download apps? The Galaxy Apps store doesn't seem to have anything for Google Hangouts, and the Gear Apps store doesn't list anything either.
So where are people getting anything for Hangouts?
I don't need a lot from the watch, but the ability to be notified when gmail arrives or a hangout message appears is essential, else I have to go back to the Urbane, and I don't think I want to because the S2's bezel interface is too cool.
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I'm not using any app for Gmail or Hangouts. Under my notifications settings on the Gear phone app i have Gmail and Hangouts turned on for notifications. Anytime I get an email or message I receive a notification on my watch. I then have options to read and respond, including voice dictation, emojis, predetermined text responses, and a written response via T9 keyboard.
Just got an email back from support. Inside the "Gear" app, under notifications is gmail, hangouts, and a bunch of other applications I can enable/disable. I've pasted the gist below.
Generally, to get the notification of the application on your Gear S2, please follow below steps on your phone which is connected/paired to your Gear S2 device.
a) From the home screen tap on the Applications/Apps tab.
b) Tap on the “Samsung Gear” application from the list.
c) Tap on the “Manage notifications” option from the list.
d) Now, mark the check boxes next to the notifications you want to receive(GMail) on your Gear S2 device.
e) Then tap on “OK” to continue.
Dom Esposito Review:
Pretty amazing that only 2 reviews have been made yet. When thinking of the AW launch....god the tech press is a pathetic bunch....
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Tech of Tomorrow Youtube Review
TeQreation
Bunch of written reviews coming in today.
Gizmag Review:
http://www.gizmag.com/samsung-gear-s2-review/39746/
Tom's Guide Review:
http://www.tomsguide.com/us/samsung-gear-s2,review-3104.html
Mashable Review:
http://mashable.com/2015/10/07/samsung-galaxy-gear-s2/#gpN6DNgLn8qt
PC Magazine:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2492805,00.asp
Yahoo:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/samsungs-gear-s2-the-first-smartwatch-id-155919658.html
Tech Insider:
http://www.techinsider.io/samsung-gear-s2-smartwatch-vs-apple-watch-2015-10
I bought mine from Best Buy a few days ago after going to several stores and calling over a dozen of them. If you call in, they will be very unreliable and won't tell you if they actually have the watch (or, to put it another way, they'll tell you "no" even if they do have it). You have to go to the Internet orders desk and they'll help you locate one at another store. And they'll only help you if no one else is in line. In my area, I got the last one.
So here are my impressions having only owned the original Pebble Watch for a few days. Overall, I'm quite disappointed.
- There are no apps in their store. Seriously, there's like 100 total, most of them useless, and most of them you have to pay for. Most of those apps are watchfaces.
- You can barely customize the default watchfaces. Only one of them allows you to have a digital watchface with the time, day, and date. Even then, the fonts and colors are limited, and only apply to the time itself. I want a detailed watch face program that lets me put on that home screen whatever data I want, looking like how I want.
- The screen turns on when you do not intend it to, which is very distracting since you see a flash of light and think there's a notification. You can turn it off, but this makes the watch less useful. If you're in a dark room, or in bed, or driving, the light is VERY distracting too.
- Battery lasts 1.5 to less than 2 days (with very little use). With heavy use, you won't get through a day. It takes 2 hours to fully charge from 0%, which isn't bad. Be careful that you know it's charging before you go to bed or you'll wake up to a dead watch - it's very easy not to line it up correctly.
- The wheel should have been a clickwheel. You still have to touch the screen for anything. Although they tout the rotating as a huge feature, this seems a little half-ass. You still have to constantly touch the screen.
- No speaker. You can't take phone calls. Although I knew this when I bought it, it really is a huge letdown once you start using it. Especially when you're home and running around the house.
- The vibrating is so weak you barely notice it. If you're running or walking, you definitely will not notice it.
- The Bluetooth range isn't very far. I was in the shower, with my phone in the adjacent bedroom, and it always loses its connection.
- The notifications disappear once you receive them. I can't go back and read them.
- The notifications don't clear on your Galaxy phone after you've played with them on your watch. So if you use your watch all day, you'll open your phone to tons of notifications that you have to clear.
- Many notifications could just be displayed on the watch, but they make you go to your phone for them.
- Compared to some of the other watches I saw at Best Buy, the design is pretty boring and definitely not eye-grabbing. The screen is much smaller than you think, but this might be why the battery is better than other watches. You don't mind the small screen after a while.
- Again, there's no apps. You can't really do much with this watch beyond the very basics.
- There's not much to play with or customize.
Overall, it feels more "gimmick" than useful. But maybe that's all smartwatches in general? I wanted to love it, but I really don't like it.
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I bought mine from Best Buy a few days ago after going to several stores and calling over a dozen of them. If you call in, they will be very unreliable and won't tell you if they actually have the watch (or, to put it another way, they'll tell you "no" even if they do have it). You have to go to the Internet orders desk and they'll help you locate one at another store. And they'll only help you if no one else is in line. In my area, I got the last one.
So here are my impressions having only owned the original Pebble Watch for a few days. Overall, I'm quite disappointed.
- There are no apps in their store. Seriously, there's like 100 total, most of them useless, and most of them you have to pay for. Most of those apps are watchfaces.
- You can barely customize the default watchfaces. Only one of them allows you to have a digital watchface with the time, day, and date. Even then, the fonts and colors are limited, and only apply to the time itself. I want a detailed watch face program that lets me put on that home screen whatever data I want, looking like how I want.
- The screen turns on when you do not intend it to, which is very distracting since you see a flash of light and think there's a notification. You can turn it off, but this makes the watch less useful. If you're in a dark room, or in bed, or driving, the light is VERY distracting too.
- Battery lasts 1.5 to less than 2 days (with very little use). With heavy use, you won't get through a day. It takes 2 hours to fully charge from 0%, which isn't bad. Be careful that you know it's charging before you go to bed or you'll wake up to a dead watch - it's very easy not to line it up correctly.
- The wheel should have been a clickwheel. You still have to touch the screen for anything. Although they tout the rotating as a huge feature, this seems a little half-ass. You still have to constantly touch the screen.
- No speaker. You can't take phone calls. Although I knew this when I bought it, it really is a huge letdown once you start using it. Especially when you're home and running around the house.
- The vibrating is so weak you barely notice it. If you're running or walking, you definitely will not notice it.
- The Bluetooth range isn't very far. I was in the shower, with my phone in the adjacent bedroom, and it always loses its connection.
- The notifications disappear once you receive them. I can't go back and read them.
- The notifications don't clear on your Galaxy phone after you've played with them on your watch. So if you use your watch all day, you'll open your phone to tons of notifications that you have to clear.
- Many notifications could just be displayed on the watch, but they make you go to your phone for them.
- Compared to some of the other watches I saw at Best Buy, the design is pretty boring and definitely not eye-grabbing. The screen is much smaller than you think, but this might be why the battery is better than other watches. You don't mind the small screen after a while.
- Again, there's no apps. You can't really do much with this watch beyond the very basics.
- There's not much to play with or customize.
Overall, it feels more "gimmick" than useful. But maybe that's all smartwatches in general? I wanted to love it, but I really don't like it.
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I want to start by saying I've only had the moto 360 as a smart watch and can only base the following on that.
Where are you located, the day of launch, all the best buy stores I called had the sport in black, but I'm waiting on the classic.
As a 360 owner, I don't think I stuck with any of the apps I downloaded, just stock was fine as it's an extension of the phone so notifications was the main thing and voice commands, primarily everything I do can be done through Google Now. The update of Hangouts was really nice though since it can be pulled up without having to get a message. but that's android wear, back to this. What apps are you looking for you feel should be available?
I think you'll have to wait for people to release a custom watch face maker like "facer" (android wear) in order to get to that level of customization. From my experience, I've tried a lot of faces that resemble real watches and custom designs, I went back to the analog watch face with a custom picture, keeping it simple was the best for me as I didn't want it to look too busy.
Is there no light sensor? also if you get a notification, wouldn't it vibrate?
the clickwheel idea would be a good improvement for the next one. it would make the selection a bit easier, rather than using your finger, but then it would defeat the purpose of having a touch screen too. which if that were the case could potentially save A LOT of battery life.
the non-3G versions don't have a speaker. I believe the 3G one does (source needed)
I think that is across the board with all watches, I notice mine sometimes but other times if I'm moving around I never notice it as I'm focused on something else, unless it's a call which is repetitive vibrations. Doesn't bother me though as I'll flick my wrist to see if there are any notifications.
the material between the wall and bedroom can significantly weaken the bluetooth range, though I've gotten a good 20-25 ft (under estimating a little) with my 360 from my phone.
notifications disappearing; what do you mean? They pop up once and then disappear without you dismissing them?
Just got my classic today, I'm not having this issue unless I manually remove the notification (swipe up)
I'm hoping the clearing of the notifications is just a glitch, though I recall that on the earlier Gear models as well. Android wear luckily doesn't have this issue.
Notifications are clearing on my end just fine, swipe up.
Compatibility for apps is still being worked on I'm sure. For example pandora on android wear use to work, now it doesn't any more; for songs it would be able to adjust volume, next, thumbs up/down. But now it doesn't work though I heard it's pandora's fault for not caring about it. What notifications are you not seeing on your watch that are on the phone?
I agree as far as the sport model goes, but the classic looks a lot better imo, as it has a wheel with ticks (nubs?) on them. I've seen the classic in person from a samsung rep and it does feel and look really nice. Coming from a gen 1 360, the smaller screen doesn't bother me as the watch is overall a bit smaller and I have smaller wrists so it's a win win.
Compared to your experience which you said you've only owned a pebble for a few days, have you used any smartwatch extensively?
His complaints about the notifications aren't because they randomly disappear. Its in comparison to Pebble. On a Pebble if you go to your notifications screen after they have all been dismissed it will show a log of your past notifications. On the S2 it just says there are no notifications. Its not a bug. He just wants a history of dismissed notifications to show up.
Anyone else not getting the vibration when a notification comes in on the gear S2? Mine won't vibrate all the time. At first I had always on screen set to on and I never got a notification. I shut it off and started getting them. Now I'm not getting just the vibration. But if I swipe to the side the notifications are there. Non Samsung phone.
It seems like the watch when the screen is off goes into a sleep mode and doesnt wake up for the notification. What gives?
See my google+ post https://plus.google.com/communities/111224177903657805607
Had two random reboots today and the screen froze up as well. This POS is going back to best buy. Samsung cant get there **** together.
Always on mode doesnt work at all. Watch goes to sleep it seems and doesnt wake up with notifications. This is overall junk.
I had the exact same issue. The vibration issue coupled with a battery that went from 100% to 0% in less than 5 hours, normal use.
I have 12 days to return. I hope Samsung pushes an update within 12 days. I really like the hardware and UI, but it's just so damn buggy.
I have no such issues you guys are describing. I have a black S2. It's paired to a Galaxy S6 Edge.
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If I don't have the always on clock showing on the watch I will not get any notification. Using it with a One Plus 2. If the screen is on I will get nothing. The screen has to be off and in the always on mode or else it doesnt work. I just got a email and my watch did ****. I hate this ****ing ****.
maybe a little of topic but cause its about vibration i thought i could post here
i have no issue with my watch not vibrating at least not as far as i know.
i was just wondering if i can change vibration patterns. i know i can change the strength but the quick 3 times vibration is a bit annoying. i would like to change it so something else.
also the vibration on AW was better in my opinion because it resembled the pattern that was set on the phone for that specific notification
The only thing you can change about vibration, in addition to off/weak/strong, is long buzz or not.
Wait .. is the gear s2 screen supposed to turn on and show a preview of the notification when you get one?
My s2 has simply been vibrating when a notification comes in and there is no change on the screen. I thought that was normal and also thought it was a silly way to design it
If i get a notification right now, I need to wake up the watch, swipe to the left screen and then click it to show details - a lot of moves
You have to set that in the settings.
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The only thing you can change about vibration, in addition to off/weak/strong, is long buzz or not.
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yeah that's right isn't it. i got the same settings. hopefully there will be more options in a future update
My S2 will vibrate and light up (turned that on in settings) for incoming Texts and Phone Calls every time.
BUT for all other notifications it will not. When I get Google Now alerts or score updates from the ESPN app nothing happens. I am using the Modern face with one of the complications set to Notifications, and that will show me that I do have notifications but what use is that? Unless I look at the watch face to see the time I will never know I received these notifications. If I get a notifications I would like for it to alert me with a vibration. Every time, of all apps I choose.
Does this with a Sony Z3 Compact as well as a Xiaomi Mi4c both running 5.1.1.
This watch is a bust because I tested mine with my moto 360 2nd gen. The Gear S2 didnt get all notification if the screen was off. If it was showing the always on clock it would vib and show. Samsung needs to fix this ASAP. This is a watch that needs to tell me every notification I want.
Have you tried a Light or Factory reset of your S2? That fixed it for me, that or reinstalling the Gear app. I did both so, can't actually confirm which did it. Not having any problems getting all notifications.
I think you need and easy button, or try setting,if you can't find it , I can't help you
I have two of these and both do the same. Won't get notifications if the screen is off and not showing the always on clock. Using it with a note 5.
i have another issue. dont know it its the watch or the gear manager app. i wont get notifications for specific apps. the checkmark in the gear app wont stick. e.g. the greader app. also there are not all apps found in the gear manager app. does anyone know why thats so. for example the chrome app does not show in in notifications in the gear app.
FitzAusTex said:
Have you tried a Light or Factory reset of your S2? That fixed it for me, that or reinstalling the Gear app. I did both so, can't actually confirm which did it. Not having any problems getting all notifications.
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Yes,
I have done both as well as switched phones and started from scratch. No notification vibration for anything but Text's and Phone Calls.
Is there a solution for this, or does my watch have to go back to the store. I'm "upgrading" from a pebble, but if I can't get a vibration to notify me of a new email, then it's a non-starter. It seems to me that I get vibrations for notifications on apps that were set up by default. But I'm not getting vibrations on any additional (third party) apps. I use e-notify and aquamail, none of these vibrate on notification. I saw on another forum that the phone must be set to vibrate for it to work, but I've tried this, and still nothing.
Is there a program that will allow me to get reminders? I use Touchdown as my regular calendar and I think I can use my Samsung calendar just for reminders but can't get S Voice to work from the GS2. Google Reminders is the best thing going. Of course, I can't feel the viberation but...
Hello everyone,
yesterday I got my hands on my very own Gear S2 Classic. Since my screen protector won't arrive before tomorrow or tuesday, I let my Gear S2 sit in the box, with its factory screen protector still on it, and tried to set everything up from there.
But then I discovered that not a single notification from my phone has been pushed to my Gear 2S Classic. There were only two exceptions: Incoming Calls/Missed Calls and Calendar Event.
After trying everything out, like addtionally installing the Android Wear App, or restoring all deactivated Samsung Apps on my Phone (Galaxy S5), I finally strapped the watch to my wrist, and then suddenly the watch receives every push notification. As soon as I unstrap the Gear S2 Classic, it receives no notification at all, except missed calls, incoming calls and calendar events.
Both my Gear S2 Classic and my Galaxy S5 run the latest updates/software version and when the watch is strapped to my wrist, everything is fine and runs as it is supposed to be.
But here is my question to you: has anyone ever experienced the same "problem"? If not, can you please try it out for me by unstrapping the watch and waiting for notifications to be pushed to your watch (especially with WhatsApp and/or Facebook Messenger)? Because if I am the only one with this problem, it might be a software related problem and I need to get a replacement unit.
And I don't know why Samsung thinks the watch needs to receive calls and calendar events when we are not wearing our watch, but we don't need to get other notifications. Why can't we get either all or none notifications when not wearing the watch? It makes no sense for me.
Thanks in advance and have a nice sunday
Kind regards
-p7e-
Just posted a separate thread about this, but I thought it was because mine was on the charger, if it's not charging, I'm wearing it. I tested what your describing, and it's exactly what mine does. Did you ever get an answer, or work around for this, as I don't take my cell phone to work (overnight stay at hotel, gone 36 hours), but I have to charge it, and I lose all my notifications.
I have had this issue as well from day one. I had asked on some other forums if anyone has had this issue and no one seems to know or is having it. When I had the Gear S charging I would get notifications pushed to it along with the phone but the Gear S2 will not when charging. Even when its not charging and its on the desk on its side or not strap to my arm it will not receive notifications but as soon as its on my arm it will.
I've gotten used to it and someone actually stated it might be a power saving function which in my mind its fine. I mean if not wearing it why would I want notifications pushed to it if its going to my phone. I also like the fact that when its charging and next to my phone overnight, its not constantly vibrating like the gear s did when getting notifications.
I've experienced the same thing and figured it was by design, although I would really like the ability to change that setting. There are mornings that it would be nice to put my watch on and immediately check notifications that came in while it was sitting on the table. I have not owned another smart watch so first thought that was unusual as I figured with the watch connected it would get all notifications I set up no matter if on my wrist or not.
Anyone else get this since the end of January 2018? I now get a notification after I have removed my watch saying "Remember to charge your Gear if you're not wearing it" every time I have removed my watch (shows up maybe an hour after I take off my Gear S3. It's getting extremely annoying, especially since I can't find any way to disable this! F***ING Samsung! Only 2 options are "Silent notifications" which still shows the icon in the status bar and then the notification in the drop down notifications. The other option is "Don't silence or block" which means it will also make a notification sound. Inside the notification settings I can't silence the Gear S Plugin as the only option is for how the notifications are handled on the Lock Screen.
I hated the damn notifications when the bluetooth connection dropped and/or connected but finally just figured F*** IT and just lived with it but this reminder to charge my watch is seriously F***ING annoying as hell! My watch can have 90% battery life and I still get this notification a little while after I removed it from my wrist. Why the hell does Samsung do this kind of stupid BS? Give me the damn option to completely block/disable these annoying notifications! I am using the Canadian Note 8 (N950W) and literally went through every option on my phone settings and Gear Manager and on my watch even and can't find a way to disable this new ridiculous notification!
Does anyone know how to disable this somehow?
T-mobile note8 and yes i get it too, not annoying to me but yes it started appearing after the latest version of samsung gear
Absolutely agree.
It's F***ing annoying and I can't find any way of stopping it either.
The watch doesn't need charging every night and I'm fed up with being woken up by this annoying message.
I've ended up silencing ALL notifications until somebody (hopefully Samsung) finds a solution.............
Never see this notification ?
I've been seeing this notification now for about a week... I don't understand what the point of it is? This needs to be disabled, like wtf lol.
Same problem here, I've been taking my watch off after a late night walk and after going to bed, I get this annoying as buggery notification on my phone, which wakes me up.
Not happy Samsung, remove the thumb from the ass and get it sorted (fire your software team while you're at it)
I got this notification as well, annoying...
I get the message when it's on my wrist at 100% and 90% charged. This notification is not needed. Samsung we know to charge our watches when we aren't wearing them its common sense. You should set this warning when battery reaches 15% or 10% charge. This what the phones usually do anyway.
Same annoying nonsense here. When I work away I take one charger and alternate charging my phone and watch. Overnight I charge the phone so I get this notification an hour after I go to sleep. Crazy that you can't disable it without turning off other notifications too.
Go into your settings on your gear s3 and click on watch faces scroll down where it says status indicator and turn that off. That should prevent your watch from sending any status notifications to your phone. Hope this helps you I kept getting the same notification
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Go into your settings on your gear s3 and click on watch faces scroll down where it says status indicator and turn that off. That should prevent your watch from sending any status notifications to your phone. Hope this helps you I kept getting the same notification
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But turning that off means I won't have the little orange notification dot on the watch face when I have something waiting cuz at work my phone stays silent and I check my watch for notifications.
I shouldn't have to disable that feature to get rid of the other stupid one cuz Samsung are incompetent. I don't know why Samsung does stupid **** like this, is it so hard to make it an option that can be turned on/off by each person's preference?
Anyway, glad I'm not the only one annoyed to hell by this. I emailed Samsung using the link in the play store app page as well as left bad reviews on the play store and galaxy store in hopes they'll change this stupidity. I won't hold my breath since it is Samsung but you never know, lol.
This is happening on my Gear S2 as well and it's very annoying. In between this and the s-health weekly nag I can't turn off I think this is my last Samsung watch. I skip all Samsung software updates that I can because it seems like every other week they break something or make an app worse. I just don't understand this design decision, I mean do people really want their electronics nagging them this much?
Agree
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Anyone else get this since the end of January 2018? I now get a notification after I have removed my watch saying "Remember to charge your Gear if you're not wearing it" every time I have removed my watch (shows up maybe an hour after I take off my Gear S3. It's getting extremely annoying, especially since I can't find any way to disable this! F***ING Samsung! Only 2 options are "Silent notifications" which still shows the icon in the status bar and then the notification in the drop down notifications. The other option is "Don't silence or block" which means it will also make a notification sound. Inside the notification settings I can't silence the Gear S Plugin as the only option is for how the notifications are handled on the Lock Screen.
I hated the damn notifications when the bluetooth connection dropped and/or connected but finally just figured F*** IT and just lived with it but this reminder to charge my watch is seriously F***ING annoying as hell! My watch can have 90% battery life and I still get this notification a little while after I removed it from my wrist. Why the hell does Samsung do this kind of stupid BS? Give me the damn option to completely block/disable these annoying notifications! I am using the Canadian Note 8 (N950W) and literally went through every option on my phone settings and Gear Manager and on my watch even and can't find a way to disable this new ridiculous notification!
Does anyone know how to disable this somehow?
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It's driving me crazy too. I have filled in contact form on Samsung site. Suggest you all do the same. Just let them know.
This is crazy, how could Samsung developers think its acceptable to make an audible noise reminding me to charge my watch anytime of the day?
I spent half an hour trying to figure out how to disable this only to find out it is not possible.
It's been waking me up at night!
You can turn off the weekly updates now. I just figured it out. On your watch go into apps, then pick s health. Scroll over to settings. Then click health nudges and you should see the option to disable weekly summary. Hope that helps with that issue.
Now someone just has to fix this stupid notification to charge the Gear. I tried tweeting with Samsung Support and they just don't understand that it's not a bug but something that they made in the new update. Sigh.
The real question here is what quality control / review went into this being added to the watch?
I was again woken up by a Gear notification from my phone today, I have no option but to put the phone on silent or turn it off.
The only solution I've found so far......
Having emailed Samsung support who were no help whatsoever I've resorted to a kind of fix - although it's far from ideal.
On the phone -
1 - Goto "Settings/Sounds and Notifications/Do not disturb"
2 - Tick "enable now" and then go to "exceptions"
3 - Select "Custom" and then select "Alarms", Calls from "All", Messages from "All", "Event/task alerts", and any priority apps required (but definitely NOT "Samsung Gear"!)
This doesn't stop the notification but does silence it!
It also brings up a permanent notification saying that "Do not disturb is enabled" - but that's silent too.
Calls and SMS texts etc. still get through with their usual sounds.
Optionally you could enable "Do not disturb" to follow a schedule - e.g at night only.
Until Samsung listen to their customers and pull their finger out with a solution that's the best I've come up with so far. Not ideal - but better than being woken up at 1am every night!
Same here since January. Damn update. I hate this notification. I always have the phone on silent at night so it does not bother me so much. But I hate notifications that I haven't asked for
Maybe this will work
When the notification shows on your phone, just press and hold down till you get to a notification menu and disable it.
I just did it, so let's see if that works
I'm getting all other notifications from others apps
Hope this helps
I got a S8 plus
tamfatula said:
You can turn off the weekly updates now. I just figured it out. On your watch go into apps, then pick s health. Scroll over to settings. Then click health nudges and you should see the option to disable weekly summary. Hope that helps with that issue.......
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That option has been around for a little while, never has worked for my S2 though. Its turned off and I still get weekly notifications.
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When the notification shows on your phone, just press and hold down till you get to a notification menu and disable it......
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That doesn't work on my Note 8. Any option I pick is ignored and I still get the notification.
Hi, owned my Gear S3 for about 5 months now and it is awesome.
Just one issue though;
I have Outlook installed on my phone for work purposes and meeting reminders come up on the watch, usually 15 minutes before the meeting (obviously to give me time to prepare / get to the meeting room etc), which is great, but even if I dismiss it and clear all notifications from the watch, it still comes up every single minute. So that's 15 reminders before the meeting, which is becoming very irritating.
The only way to get rid of it, is to select "Open on phone", which works, but then my phone screen is on and whilst it is in my pocket (as I am driving a lot), becomes very hot!
If I dismiss it from my phone, then it's fine, but very often I am out and about in my car so the phone cannot be used.
Is there anyone else who has this and has a potential workaround?
Many thanks in advance
Mark
Hi Mark,
I have the same issue using a Redmi 4x and a Gear S3 watch. Its very annoying and I have not found a workaround yet.
However, when I get the Outlook notification on my watch, I click the 3 dots on the right hand side of its screen and select the trash can. This deletes the Outlook notification and the phone stops nagging every minute.
Hope this works for you.
MCrid said:
Hi, owned my Gear S3 for about 5 months now and it is awesome.
Just one issue though;
I have Outlook installed on my phone for work purposes and meeting reminders come up on the watch, usually 15 minutes before the meeting (obviously to give me time to prepare / get to the meeting room etc), which is great, but even if I dismiss it and clear all notifications from the watch, it still comes up every single minute. So that's 15 reminders before the meeting, which is becoming very irritating.
The only way to get rid of it, is to select "Open on phone", which works, but then my phone screen is on and whilst it is in my pocket (as I am driving a lot), becomes very hot!
If I dismiss it from my phone, then it's fine, but very often I am out and about in my car so the phone cannot be used.
Is there anyone else who has this and has a potential workaround?
Many thanks in advance
Mark
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Hi... I think this is an Outlook app issue and not a watch issue. I have had the same issue with a Garmin as well as a Huawei and now the S3.
I've noticed that, when I pick reminders on some programs, sometimes it chooses 2 options. So check your reminder and make sure you only have 15 mins selected. Maybe it's firing off on some button you missed when you set it up. Since I retired I don't use Outlook at all so I'm not that familiar anymore.