I got a Samsung Gear S2 Classic (Platinum) 2 weeks ago. I have a Galaxy S7 Edge on Verizon I got over the summer. I am not rooted and am on the latest updates. Yet, I am constantly getting this pop-up on my phone when I try to use this smartwatch. "Unfortunately Gear S2 Plugin has stopped" pops up on my phone and interrupts whatever I am doing. I am perplexed and annoyed that I am buying 2 recent Samsung products and they cannot even get these things to seamlessly talk to each other without problems. That is pathetic in my mind.
Is anyone else having this issue? If so, any ideas on how to fix it? The watch does connect to the phone and it seems I am getting notifications and other stuff is working. I am ready to return this watch at this point as it is making my phone unusable.
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Just got my Note Edge yesterday and I love it. But I can't get it to work with my Gear S watch? Very frustrating and I can't figure it out unless they just aren't compatible. Can anyone help?
I have a Note Edge paired with the Gear S that works great. I can use the Gear S via Bluetooth or cell. When you said that you just got the Edge, it makes me think that this Gear was set up with another phone prior to the Edge. If so, you'd have to factory reset the Gear.
My Gear Neo 2 is really finicky with the Edge. I think it is the flakey bluetooth on the entire Note 4 line. Every once in a while (maybe twice a week or more), I have to restart the watch to get it to talk to the phone again. I am totally awaiting the official Lollipop update for my Verizon variant as there are a large number of bluetooth changes in it. I am getting a bit concerned that Lollipop doesn't appear to be on the immediate radar for Verizon now that the S6 is out there
Anyway, I would try and factory reset the watch and start the connection process over. A bit inconvenient but I bet it will work.
i've got both and they're work very well. the bluetooth connection is stable and the reconnection after a disconnect is very fast. i see no trouble
Gregdec said:
Just got my Note Edge yesterday and I love it. But I can't get it to work with my Gear S watch? Very frustrating and I can't figure it out unless they just aren't compatible. Can anyone help?
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download Samsung Gear Manager from galaxy apps..
I installed Marshmallow on my Nexus 5, and then yesterday's Marshmallow updates from Play Store for Gear app, Gear Plugin, and the Samsung Accessory Service (Gear app asks if you want both of those for improved functionality).
All was well until I rebooted my phone, and now I can't reconnect to the S2. Did a hard reset of S2, and worked until S2 went out of range of phone. Then wouldn't reconnect. Kept saying invalid passkey, even though code on phone and S2 were the same.
I would either not update phone to Marshmallow, or not update Gear app, or both, cause I think you're gonna have the same problem.
I'm having the same problem on my Nexus 5X. Is there any fix for this yet? The latest update for the Gear App says it added support for Android 6.0, but that's not the case.
Checking in as well its really really annoying to have to "reset" the watch 3-4 times a day.
I can confirm that I have repeatedly been able reconnect my S2 to my Nexus 5 on Marshmallow after I installed the S2 firmware update that was available in the USA in the Gear app under the About Gear settings. I went from firmware version R720XXU2AOIL to R720XXU2AOJ3. I found that even after installing the firmware, I had to do one Light Reset on the S2 before the S2 would reconnect.
So far so good. Have intentionally gone out of range 6 times and reconnected all 6 times. Will report back if situation changes.
I understand that the compatibility for the devices that are able to pair with the gear S2 do not include the LG V10, but I looked online and many people said that they were able to make it work. I was shocked because I have spent hours trying to figure this out. Can someone please tell me some information about this? Also, will the list of devices expand to where it includes the LG V10 anytime soon? Thanks!
I got my Gear S2 last Friday, and I was able to pair with my LG V10 with no issues. Of course, I have run into issues where notifications are not coming through to the Gear even though I've gotten all the settings for them created. Also, today, I've noticed that it is not counting steps at all, and it is still showing calendar events from yesterday. I need to do a bit more research on that.
Another small complaint is that when I answer a call, it automatically defaults to the watch even if I answer on my phone.
I've had multiple issues with the S2 on my V10 as you are having. I think the problem is that the V10 is not listed as a compatible phone for the V10 and this is giving us software issues. I hope Samsung can get their acts together and give us some support with the V10
It won't pair with nexus 6p as well?
I have problems when Gear S2 is disconected when so far V10, when you come back near to V10 no auto conected you must turn on the screen to conecte Gear S2 a V10 again.
Any fix or solution?
When I first got my watch, when the inactivity warning showed up, it also told me to stretch and showed some suggestions on how to stretch. I can't seem to figure out how to get that to work now. Any suggestions?
Using a S7 Edge on final Nougat Beta, with Gear S3 Frontier on ~APJ9
Not at all sure what I did, possibly just opening S Health but, it started working again today...
Mine doesnt work are you on Tizen 3 or 2?
Short Version
Ok guys, I know I'm not alone on this and I can't find anything on it so I decided to start this thread. I believe the most recent TMobile update that occurred 09/2017 for the Samsung Galaxy s7 has either broken my Bluetooth or is causing some process to lock up and continuously use the CPU once I connect my Gear s3 to my Galaxy s7 or disconnect my Gear s3 from my Galaxy s7. The symptoms are the inability to smoothly stream music via Bluetooth, increased battery drain on the phone because now I can only make it about halfway through my workday vs more than a full day like it used to be and an unresponsive phone most noticeable during the time shortly after connecting or disconnect from my Gear s3. I've had my Gear s3 now for roughly two months and this hasn't been an issue up until this last week of 09/2017. The only thing that has changed was I did a TMobile software update within the past week or so.
Long Version
As I mentioned up above I've had my Gear s3 Frontier was for roughly a couple of months now and everything worked perfectly when connecting and disconnecting from my phone most of the time. The few times I've had an issue it was with the Gear s3 battery draining faster than usual and that was able to be addressed with a restarting of the Gear s3. However I'm having connectivity issues with my Gear s3 and my Galaxy s7. The Galaxy s7 seems to be struggling to disconnect and reconnect to my Gear s3 because the streaming of my music starts to skip and pauses for periods at a time and I can't get the screen on my phone to come on during that time because the phone is working overtime doing something behind the scenes for a minute or two. Even once the phone becomes responsive again, the music continues to periodically skip and the battery on the phone is draining much faster than normal. When I'm at work I stream music all day and occasionally turn on the screen of my phone to check a message that I may not be able to fully see on my Gear s3 so outside of that the screen on the Galaxy s7 remains off. I typically work 10-11 a day while streaming music via Bluetooth the entire time from my sd card via Play music. By the end of my workday, I typically have 27% to 35% of battery left on my Galaxy s7 and this is what I'm used to. What's weird is that prior to me streaming music when I connect my Gear s3 to my Galaxy s7, everything appears to be ok, but once I start streaming music and then I get too far from my Galaxy s7 causing the two devices to disconnect via Bluetooth then connect remotely and reconnect via Bluetooth upon coming back within range of my Galaxy s7 that's when all my problems start. Since today is a non-workday for me, I plan to do a little bit of further testing and see if I can determine what exactly is causing the battery drain. I used to be really savvy at this troubleshooting stuff when I had nothing but time on my hands to install apk that could monitor things but not anymore. So if you guys have any recommendations for diagnostic/monitoring tools that don't require root then please let me know.
The quick fix:
My fix to this so far is to turn off Bluetooth on my Gear s3 so that my watch is forced to connect remotely and only then do my Galaxy s7 symptoms go away. I've already ruled out the portable speaker as the culprit because the same issue exists whether I'm streaming music to my portable speaker or streaming music in my car. I figure since the phone seems to be the one that's causing all the headache then it must be the phone.