Have been unable to find elsewhere where this issue is acknowledged by Samsung or any work around.
Two Samsung Gear updates ago S7 email notifications from the stock samsung email app to S2 stopped respecting per email account notification settings. Now when you set email notifications to on or off in the gear software, it is on or off for all your email accounts. This makes S2 almost unusable if one of your accounts is high volume. And if you turn it off, you don't get important email notifications.
The S7 notifications continue to correctly respect the Samsung email app per account notification settings on the phone.
Can anyone here confirm the issue and if it is in line for a patch? It started the same time that people noted that exchange and other email was no longer displaying on their S2 and had to be read on phone. Different issue but same patch broke both.
Any info welcome. Considering dropping the S2 from use.
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Hello all,
I'm using a Samsung Gear S2 Classic on a Huawei Honor 6 phone, which is compatible, and since I've been using it (2 days) I've never recieved once a text message notification on it, or email. I recieve facebook messenger push notifications, so I can reply to the messages, but no way of going back to the application.
The real problem is that in the Tizen app menu, there is no "Messages" application, nor email for that matter. It's like they don't exist, they were deleted in the OS. But I know that they are there because I've seen the icons on video reviews on youtube. It's extremely frustrating to not recieve text notifications, it makes the watch useless. I've factory resetted twice, played with the options, sent hundreds of text with my phone in vibrate mode, silent mode, screen on, screen off, mixing combinations, but nothing works. I've tried looking on internet for this particular problem of notifications not working but have had no success in finding a fix.
This morning at work I factory resetted the Samsung Gear S2 once more and connected it to a friend's Samsung Galaxy S6, and when everything was synchronised I was shocked to see in the app menu on the watch the Messages and Email apps. I couldn't believe it ! So there must be some sort of compatibily issue with non-samsung (or non-galaxy ?) phones.
I've now synchronised it back to my Honor 6, the Messages app has dissapeard... furthermore I'm not recieving any notifications at all (no push notifications from FB messenger for example).
I don't know what to do, am I supposed to wait for an update ? Will there ever be one ? Are there any hopes ? Should I return my watch to amazon for a full refund ?
Thank you for your feedback.
PS : I imagine that this could be a smart move for non Galaxy users to oblige them in buying new Samsung Galaxy phones... but I would like to keep my android phone for another year at least.
Is the messaging app selected in Gear Manager to forward notifications? Email app?
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Is the messaging app selected in Gear Manager to forward notifications? Email app?
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Are you talking about Notification --> Manage Notifications --> select "Honor 6 internal messaging application" ?
I have selected Phone, and there is no messaging app in the list, which is weird. I think it's included in "Phone" App, since it's the same thing when you open Messages and Phone app on phone, just a different tab inside the application itself.
Here is a video showing the default messaging app on Honor 6 [Here is the video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxiirboGxLnUUHllcW5tN1k3d0k/view?usp=sharing].
Both messaging and e-mail on the Gear are reliant on the corresponding Samsung (not Google, not third party) stock apps on the phone. It makes sense to disable them on the Gear when paired with non-Samsung phones. Third party apps that don't have corresponding apps designed for the Gear are managed through notifications - that includes messaging and e-mail.
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Both messaging and e-mail on the Gear are reliant on the corresponding Samsung (not Google, not third party) stock apps on the phone. It makes sense to disable them on the Gear when paired with non-Samsung phones. Third party apps that don't have corresponding apps designed for the Gear are managed through notifications - that includes messaging and e-mail.
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Thanks for the response. However I have returned the watch, I'll wait probably another year to buy a smartwatch at a cheaper price and better compatibility. It's taken too much of my time already to configure and I've had enough of factory resets
I gave back my Samsung Gear S2 and got a moto 360 2nd gen : it's a completely different world, the moto 360 is 100 times better imho and fully compatibly. HAIL GOOGLE.
hi, I have the non LTE Gear S3 Frontier. Message Notifications from Whatsapp and my phone text are not showing on my watch. same for email notifications... Phone calls are relayed to my watch but not whatsapp calls. Remote connections and the app notifications are checked in Samsung gear app... in Summary notifications are very unstable.... any ideas pls?
I get a problem with notifications too.
Sometimes they arrive , sometimes they arrive some minutes later, sometimes they never turn up whatever the source of the notification.
This is via a BT connection.
Tried resetting and altering the settings to no avail.
I was hoping to use just the vibration notifications on the watch and not sound on the phone as a lot less intrusive in meetings etc. but looks like it is not reliable enough for that.
yes, exactly same problem here! its a problem as not reliable at all... very dissapointed! I am using S7 edge fyi... hoping that there is a fix
Not sure if this will help for you, but one thing I noticed was a setting on the Gear app on the phone, under notifications, "Show while using phone"
Mine was off, which meant that if my phone screen was on, no notifications came through to the watch. I turned it on, and now they all come, all the time.
Is it possible to reply via a voice message on Whatsapp? Not the Svoice.. But a voice message..
So I decided to get notifications for corporate email on my Samsung Gear S3 and when the active sync policy for security came out I set up a PIN. I have now gone in and turned off the corporate email account in the Gear app on my Samsung S6, not getting the emails, but I can not put the PIN selection back to none.. any thoughts?
The question had been asked many times, I know, but I have some specific details still missing:
1) Officially messaging and email are not fully compatible with non Samsung devices, but how much not fully? And what messaging and email do they mean?
1a) Messaging is the Samsung SMS equivalent? Or other messaging apps (WhatsApp/Viber/Facebook messenger)? If only SMS then I can care less about it.
1b) While email is what concerns me: I depend on Gmail and instant notifications, maybe I will do quick replies on the watch, does these work?
2) Technically all notifications should be passed without issues (those you select probably, I have a MiBand 2 and I can choose which notifications to send, love it, but very limited device). But does it in any way support the quick actions Android provides for notifications?
3) Also, do all the above features work when connected to WiFi? I frequently go beyond Bluetooth reach and need to continue getting notifications about everything.
4) Finally, before getting it, is there a way to browse the list of apps on the Samsung apps store for the S3 including available watch faces? Page is not working on PC.
Thanks
I have oneplus3 connected with Gear sport (equal to S3).
1) messages (mail/whatsapp/SMS etc do receive the watch), there is also the app notifications for my SmartWatch in case some notifications won't come through by default.
2) yes, for my emailapp aquamail it does. I suppose Gmail will too.
3) just tested it, yes. Watch connected to wifi and bt disabled. And my phone to 4g. Notifications are comming through.
4) before you buy the watch? I don't know.
I just know,
on iphone,
s3 can't reply message directly, like sms, email, sns.
From samsung's s3 site,
I recently switched phones from an android to the Iphone 8 plus. I also have a Samsung Gear S3 watch that worked flawlessly with my android phone. I realize it will be limited with Iphone, however I am getting texts and other notifications I just can't respond, which I know is how it will be.
My question relates to email. I don't get my email on my watch now unless I put the Outlook app on my phone. I was wondering if there was any way to use the Apple email function on the phone and still get emails on my Gear S3 without having to download Outlook? I haven't seen any options on the Samsung Gear S app that I downloaded
Thank you