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Anyone here using tmo with their S2? when in stand alone are you able to take/make calls and have them look like they're coming from your cell number?
(trying to figure out if tmo screwed my setup)

if you are connected via bluetooth, your calls made from the watch should look like your cell phone number
if you are in "stand alone" mode, with no phone connected, it should look like your watch phone number is making the call

how do text messages from your cell get to your s2 if in stand alone? (just on the s2 number?)

they dont get forwarded to your watch when in stand alone if the text is to your cell phone number, since your watch has a different phone number than your cell..

tmo mislead me then. good times. they told me in stand alone all my calls and texts would use the same number as my ph. thanks for the info.

If you have remote connection on, they do forward.

where do you enable that?
thanks

On your gear, go to settings-call-auto forward I believe will do it

I believe that just forwards calls, NOT texts..

I have mine linked with a moto x pure. Although it doesn't save them in the messaging app, I can reply and read, and get texts remotely

on my nexus 6. no matter what settings I use, I do NOT get texts forwarded to my watch; everything else, like emails, facebook, etc does get forwarded, but no texts..

Mine works in standalone with watch number and with cell number when connected with Bluetooth. When remote connected all calls forward after 4 rings on my cell and all text messages are forwarded. I had to call t-mobile to get it working properly. They said the had to change the way the auto forwarding was setup on the network. I would suggest calling them if yours doesn't function as mine does
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thats a good idea, since mine doesnt work that way now..
thanks:good::good:

wase4711 said:
I believe that just forwards calls, NOT texts..
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On a Samsung Note 5 my text get forwarded to me when I am in stand alone mode. My phone is on Verizon, my Gear S2 is on T-Mobile. When I leave my phone at home (phone is on), my text are forwarded. If I turn the phone off the text do not come through. When I leave my phone on and am using the Gear S2 in standalone (physically separated from my phone), I get all notifications, calls, text, social media, etc...

good news/bad news.
I've got everything working as I'd hoped. I had to trade in my LG G3 and now have a samsung phone. I see more apps in the gear store, and I noticed when I reset the watch, I now have different options in the call forwarding area than i had before. I honestly believe that the watch was made to work with samsung gear only...and any other handsets are an afterthought.
Also, it works on it's own with autoconnect. I turn off bluetooth, and the watch goes to stand alone, and once remotely connected tells the handset to fwd calls/sms to it.

I am straying here from the original issue but I think this is related. I have a Moto X Pure (MXP) on AT&T. I have the AT&T Gear S2 (GS2) LTE. I am going to be verbose with this. Both have unique SIM's, IMEI's, phone numbers. I have successfully forwarded the MXP# to the SG2# when connected over the LTE network. MXP will ring 4-6 times, then roll over and ring to SG2 2-4 times. Voicemail goes to SG2.
I have used the watch's settings and S. Gear app settings to forward/unforward (so I thought). I have recently noticed I am not getting voicemails on my phone (doesn't happen much anyways as I don't get many calls I don't pick up). Odd part is that more than once, the voicemail on the GS2 only pops up when I disconnect bluetooth connection between devices. I have figured out this is likely tied to when the GS2 is connected via bluetooth to the MXP, it acts in headset/handsfree mode and controls my MXP dailer.
When I go into S. Gear app, under call forwarding, I see "Turn Off" as "Deactivated XX:XX". When I push Turn On, I see "a request has been made..." on the MXP and "Request has been made..." on the GS2. Toast on MXP after success is "Call Forwarding, Registration was successful". Turn On shows "Activated XX:XX". Then I push Turn Off, and see "A request has been made...." on the MXP, then a "Call forwarding, Connection problem or invalid MMI Code" on the MXP, and then a "A request has been made..." on the GS2. No error on the watch. Funny is that under Turn Off, it shows "Deactivated XX:XX" again.
Calls first go to MXP, then to GS2 and end up in GS2 voicemail. When to MXP Dailer settings, Calls, Call Forwarding. Interestingly, 3 of last 4 options for call forward show forwarding to the GS2. When I click on any of the 3 of the 4 forwarding, I can push Turn Off. Error toast shows up as "Your operator doesn't support disabling call forwarding when your phone is busy". What constitutes "busy"?...and why can't I turn this off?
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UPDATE: I went to the Call Forwarding wiki and used some of the codes to help. ##67#, ##61#, ##62# were used successfully. All is back to normal. I can pick up via the watch, transfer to the phone, reject as needed. Voicemail goes to the MXP as expected. Network really wouldn't let go of the number. I am sure there is a good reason for that but don't get why.

Losing anything getting this on TMo

Am I going to really lose any capability/funtionality if I order this watch from TMo despite the fact I am a Verizon customer? Does the call forwarding stuff work the same?
Thanks,
Adam

awilson181 said:
Am I going to really lose any capability/funtionality if I order this watch from TMo despite the fact I am a Verizon customer? Does the call forwarding stuff work the same?
Thanks,
Adam
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I have a Verizon phone (Note 5) from work which is what I exclusively use. My family is on T-Mobile. I had my Gear S2 and now my S3 on a T-Mobile wearable plan. There is no difference. Call forwarding doesn't care which network you are on, you can even set up call forwarding to go to a land line.
You can initiate call forwarding directly from your phone, or you can use your watch to set it up. If you use your watch all it simply does is use your phone to dial and start call forwarding (on a Verizon phone it is *71 for 4 rings and then forward to new number, or *72 to send all calls directly to the new number). To turn off call forwarding (on Verizon) it is *73.
I don't use the call forward program on the watch. Instead I have a program (like Tasker) called Automagic. It runs on my phone in the background. I have 2 profiles set up. It looks for when my phone loses BT connection with my S3 watch. It then automatically dials *72 and forwards all my calls to the S3. The second profile looks for when the BT connection is reestablished with my phone and the S3. It then automatically dials *73 and turns call forwarding off. Works every time. Most of the time I have my phone with me, but those times when I rush out and forget my phone, or when I go for a run as soon as I am out of BT range my phone starts call forwarding. When I get back in range of my phone it turns it off.
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awilson181 said:
Am I going to really lose any capability/funtionality if I order this watch from TMo despite the fact I am a Verizon customer? Does the call forwarding stuff work the same?
Thanks,
Adam
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Also, when I leave my phone as long as it is turned on and connected to the network, I get all my calls, text, and emails. I often times go for long runs and can keep up with all my notifications, plus reply to them.

I'm with VZW as well and had the same concerns as you. I picked up the S3 from T-Mobile Friday night. Works fine. Also, since I still have the UDP on VZW I'm paying half of what I would have had VZW had them at launch. I'm happy with the $20 unlimited everything wearable plan that T-Mobile is offering. I believe it's a promo deal.

P7M8 said:
I'm happy with the $20 unlimited everything wearable plan that T-Mobile is offering. I believe it's a promo deal.
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Just a small correction: the price is not a promo deal. T-Mobile offers a plan specifically for wearables with unlimited talk, text and data. It's $5 as an add on, $15 as a standalone and $20 for unlimited high speed data (otherwise 500 MB then throttled).

Bladder61 said:
I have a Verizon phone (Note 5) from work which is what I exclusively use. My family is on T-Mobile. I had my Gear S2 and now my S3 on a T-Mobile wearable plan. There is no difference. Call forwarding doesn't care which network you are on, you can even set up call forwarding to go to a land line.
You can initiate call forwarding directly from your phone, or you can use your watch to set it up. If you use your watch all it simply does is use your phone to dial and start call forwarding (on a Verizon phone it is *71 for 4 rings and then forward to new number, or *72 to send all calls directly to the new number). To turn off call forwarding (on Verizon) it is *73.
I don't use the call forward program on the watch. Instead I have a program (like Tasker) called Automagic. It runs on my phone in the background. I have 2 profiles set up. It looks for when my phone loses BT connection with my S3 watch. It then automatically dials *72 and forwards all my calls to the S3. The second profile looks for when the BT connection is reestablished with my phone and the S3. It then automatically dials *73 and turns call forwarding off. Works every time. Most of the time I have my phone with me, but those times when I rush out and forget my phone, or when I go for a run as soon as I am out of BT range my phone starts call forwarding. When I get back in range of my phone it turns it off.
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Also, when I leave my phone as long as it is turned on and connected to the network, I get all my calls, text, and emails. I often times go for long runs and can keep up with all my notifications, plus reply to them.
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Adam- when you reply to text or make outbound calls - it is from your t-mobile number, correct? Does that cause confusion for the respondents? or is there a way to solve this?
thanks,

aaronc_98 said:
Adam- when you reply to text or make outbound calls - it is from your t-mobile number, correct? Does that cause confusion for the respondents? or is there a way to solve this?
thanks,
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When the watch is connected via BT to your phone then the number shown to others is your phone number. When you are in stand alone mode not connected to a phone then others see your texts and calls coming from the watch number.
AT&T uses number sync which I believe always just shows just one number. That is the selling point for that technology. Until T-Mobile gets a "NumberSsync" solution I don't think there is an easy solution.

Bladder61 said:
When the watch is connected via BT to your phone then the number shown to others is your phone number. When you are in stand alone mode not connected to a phone then others see your texts and calls coming from the watch number.
AT&T uses number sync which I believe always just shows just one number. That is the selling point for that technology. Until T-Mobile gets a "NumberSsync" solution I don't think there is an easy solution.
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Yes - I think that you are right- IT appears Tmo said they were working on it in October 2015, but we still have nothing...
thanks,

Bladder61 said:
When the watch is connected via BT to your phone then the number shown to others is your phone number. When you are in stand alone mode not connected to a phone then others see your texts and calls coming from the watch number.
AT&T uses number sync which I believe always just shows just one number. That is the selling point for that technology. Until T-Mobile gets a "NumberSsync" solution I don't think there is an easy solution.
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You may find this video helpful. He has AT&T and uses auto call forwarding and remote connection to preserve caller ID, but he says that Google Voice can achieve the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqxrODCWZH0

Gear S2 T-Mobile - "Auto" call forwarding and call forwarding options.

Hi!
I have Gear S2 watch T-Mobile variant and noticed this:
1) On Samsung phones there is "Auto call forwarding" in the Gear Manager app and turns on/off automatically when user is away from the phone and the watch is connected remotely to the phone.
2) On other Android phones regardless of brand there is "Call forwarding" option in the gear manager instead of "Auto" and user needs to manually turn call forwarding on and off. Basically when user is about to leave the phone at home, then he/she needs to activate call forwarding manually and when user is back then phone connects via Bluetooth again. The problem with this is that user will have to turn off call forwarding otherwise watch will ring instead of the phone.
I found this really annoying that I have to remember to turn on or off call forwarding. Imagine that I turned off my watch and completely forgot that call forwarding is on, then callers won't be able to call me and the call will go straight to voice mail.
Is there a way to make Gear Manager do "auto call forwarding" on phones not built by Samsung? Or is the new update for Gear S2 makes it possible?

Charkatak said:
Hi!
I have Gear S2 watch T-Mobile variant and noticed this:
1) On Samsung phones there is "Auto call forwarding" in the Gear Manager app and turns on/off automatically when user is away from the phone and the watch is connected remotely to the phone.
2) On other Android phones regardless of brand there is "Call forwarding" option in the gear manager instead of "Auto" and user needs to manually turn call forwarding on and off. Basically when user is about to leave the phone at home, then he/she needs to activate call forwarding manually and when user is back then phone connects via Bluetooth again. The problem with this is that user will have to turn off call forwarding otherwise watch will ring instead of the phone.
I found this really annoying that I have to remember to turn on or off call forwarding. Imagine that I turned off my watch and completely forgot that call forwarding is on, then callers won't be able to call me and the call will go straight to voice mail.
Is there a way to make Gear Manager do "auto call forwarding" on phones not built by Samsung? Or is the new update for Gear S2 makes it possible?
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I have a Samsung phone, so can't say if we can do this.
But maybe you can use Tasker profiles? When BT Disconnected...{call the app's intent for Call Forwarding}

CravingMender9 said:
I have a Samsung phone, so can't say if we can do this.
But maybe you can use Tasker profiles? When BT Disconnected...{call the app's intent for Call Forwarding}
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I like the idea...but I have heard of the app, but never used Tasker before. I hope root isn't required for it to work.

Charkatak said:
I like the idea...but I have heard of the app, but never used Tasker before. I hope root isn't required for it to work.
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For most things, root is not required. I'm sure you don't need for BT disconnect profile (I use it for my car).
Only think I'm not sure is if the intent is provided by the Gear app.
And as I said, I have a galaxy. So I wouldn't be able to test it further.

CravingMender9 said:
For most things, root is not required. I'm sure you don't need for BT disconnect profile (I use it for my car).
Only think I'm not sure is if the intent is provided by the Gear app.
And as I said, I have a galaxy. So I wouldn't be able to test it further.
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For a while I won't probably have to deal with call forwarding 10 or so days ago, I signed up for T-Mobile Digits beta which allowed me to my primary phone # onto the Gear s2 watch and just use it without needing to turn on call forwarding. I still use gear manager app to get notifications from apps such as email, messenger....

Charkatak said:
For a while I won't probably have to deal with call forwarding 10 or so days ago, I signed up for T-Mobile Digits beta which allowed me to my primary phone # onto the Gear s2 watch and just use it without needing to turn on call forwarding. I still use gear manager app to get notifications from apps such as email, messenger....
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Ha! That's awesome. I got it yesterday also
Looks good till now.

Tmobile Digits Duplicate Notifications

Ok, so Tmobile finally got my digits working and it's awesome to be able to leave the house without my phone. Now with spotify, I don't have to take my phone to the gym anymore. I just hook my BT ear buds and I have everything I need. I can even use it like a phone with a BT headset and when I call people see as if I'm calling from my phone.
Now with that being said, I have only had one issue so far but it's not a digits or tmobile problem. The way I figure I'll just live with it. The nature of having your watch share the same phone number means you get duplicate notifications. For example, if I'm connected to the phone through Bluetooth or I have call forwarding set to get my notifications from my phone and somebody sends me a text, I get the notification from the phone and I clear it. Now when I disconnect from the phone. My text messages and missed calls show up as notifications from the watch.
It makes sense. If the watch is sharing the same phone number, the phone will forward the message to the watch but the watch is also receiving the message to. I know there is an option to block but I want to be able to get my texts and missed calls if I turn off my phone and am using the watch in stand alone mode.
I figured a fix though for those who use the forwarding function and will always have stuff forwarded from the phone is to block the watch notifications. My solution it to just go to the text messaging app and clear them manually, ignore them or just delete the message conversation.
Just something to make people aware of when using Digits if you haven't signed up for it already. I personally like it so far and will probably pay for the service if it's reasonable.
I had a heck of a time getting tmobile to set it up right but when they finally got it working I like it now.

I'm having the same issue...wonder if there's a way to stop the dual notifications?

Just for my S3 frontier and having the same issue. Any fixes?

Brand spankin' new watch doesn't work.

Got mine (LTE through TMob) a couple of days ago and immediately started with problems. I have a separate watch line with an S7 Edge. Essentially I can send/receive text in the stand alone mode but can not call out or receive. (Can on BT) Had the tech guys play with it (they thought it was a line issue) and they put a ticket in. That might get it working in a week. I thought I could bypass the problem with the line using DIGITS and my cell but nope. Turns out (according to the DIGITS guru) its a sim card problem so they are exchanging the watch. Not an impressive first start but I'm hopeful it'll get better. Hopefully...
Everything BT seems to work but its only been 2 days. I still need to check all the stand alone things when I get the replacement. And, of course, stand alone was the point of the watch.

Also make sure it works in remote connect mode, which is more useful than standalone mode.

How does remote connect work? Wifi?

The connection mode is shown by pulling down on the watchface. It will say "standalone", "connected via BT", or "remotely connected via carrier".
In remote connection mode, the watch doesn't communicate with the phone. Only calls and messages directly to the watch's number are transmitted. No notifications (ie. email, missed calls, Hangouts) from the phone are passed through. In remote connection mode, the watch communicates via it's LTE radio to the phone whether it be in different room or a different state. This allows all notifications to be passed through.
I keep WiFi turned off, it seems (inadequately) redundant for an LTE watch.

And the difference between that and Stand Alone is what?

afblangley said:
In remote connection mode, the watch doesn't communicate with the phone. Only calls and messages directly to the watch's number are transmitted. No notifications (ie. email, missed calls, Hangouts) from the phone are passed through.
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I made a typo. What I meant to say is that in standalone mode the watch doesn't communicate with the phone.

afblangley said:
I made a typo. What I meant to say is that in standalone mode the watch doesn't communicate with the phone.
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AHHHHH... That makes more sense. I'm going to use DIGITS. Do you know how that impacts? Or if it does?

rogerperk said:
AHHHHH... That makes more sense. I'm going to use DIGITS. Do you know how that impacts? Or if it does?
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Nope, sorry. I use Google Voice, so I don't​ have first hand experience with Digits.

afblangley said:
Nope, sorry. I use Google Voice, so I don't​ have first hand experience with Digits.
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How does Google voice work with t-mobile
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cherylbaker said:
How does Google voice work with t-mobile
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Google Voice for the most part, is carrier ignostic. Calls to a GV number can be forwarded to any of several landlines, cell lines, or digital lines. Outgoing caller ID is a bit trickier and device dependent. Messages can be handled through the messaging app or Hangouts.
In my setup, since my public number is under Google's custodianship, carrier assigned numbers are irrelevant/disposable. My watch, phones, and tablets each have their own carrier number, GV is configured to forward calls to each of these numbers, and they ring simultaneously and independently. Ditto with messages. The carrier has no input in this process. The Gear is also ignorant of this. I don't need to use it's call forwarding setting.
I don't doubt that T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon will eventually get all the kinks worked out of their number sharing system. But Google has been at it for a few years and offers more features, flexibility, and gives power back to the user.

So here's what we got after 5 days:
With my second watch in hand Im informed that the tMob engineers have decided the watch os bad and needs to go back to Samsung. After explaining that the odds against 2 bad watches were pretty small and demanding to be escalated I got a good manager who agreed. The watch is fine. After some digging she decided the problem was that the line is screwed up on the back end and won't connect voice. Problem is she has no idea why or how to fix it. So I'm waiting for their "engineers" to look at it again with her cracking the whip. Bottom line for me is if I can't get a stand alone watch I'm not interested and expect a full refund AND for them to not market what they can't provide. We'll see.

If the line is messed up, why can't they just start from scratch and assign the watch a new number? Then setup the watch without a phone to make sure it works. This is true standalone. If that works, then the problem is with Digits, not the watch or the line.

afblangley said:
Google Voice for the most part, is carrier ignostic. Calls to a GV number can be forwarded to any of several landlines, cell lines, or digital lines. Outgoing caller ID is a bit trickier and device dependent. Messages can be handled through the messaging app or Hangouts.
In my setup, since my public number is under Google's custodianship, carrier assigned numbers are irrelevant/disposable. My watch, phones, and tablets each have their own carrier number, GV is configured to forward calls to each of these numbers, and they ring simultaneously and independently. Ditto with messages. The carrier has no input in this process. The Gear is also ignorant of this. I don't need to use it's call forwarding setting.
I don't doubt that T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon will eventually get all the kinks worked out of their number sharing system. But Google has been at it for a few years and offers more features, flexibility, and gives power back to the user.
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Well THAT certainly cleared up the question...

REALLY PISSED OFF!! Over a week now and TMob STILL can't fix whatever THEIR problem is with getting this watch to use voice! They were really happy to take my money though! SO PISSED!!

So today it actually.worked! With the phone off!
Then it stopped.

Wrote the CEO of TMob and got an answer in 2 days. Seems not all of their networks supports Voice-over-LTG on 4G lines so it doesn't work everywhere (or something like that). Like where I am. They are hoping the Tizen 3.0 will correct that so the watch accepts a.lower quality line but not sure. Outstanding...
UPDATE 15 Oct - if I ran the watch as truly stand alone it would work. By using DIGITS it only uses 3G, which my area does not have. More info.