My Gear S2 seems to be opening apps on my galaxy s7 by itself after receiving the notification. This is especially frustrating because I don't want a DM on insta, message on whatsapp, or FB messenger to show I've read it RIGHT after someone sent it. I can't figure out if it's a setting or some kind of glitch!
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Cagedust said:
My Gear S2 seems to be opening apps on my galaxy s7 by itself after receiving the notification. This is especially frustrating because I don't want a DM on insta, message on whatsapp, or FB messenger to show I've read it RIGHT after someone sent it. I can't figure out if it's a setting or some kind of glitch!
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I've just come across the answer for my own question. It was a setting on the Samsung Gear app called smart relay. I simply had to turn it off.
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Anyone found a way to get the messages app and the email app working on the gear s2 while paired with the v10? I am able to respond to text from the notification area or buddies list but i dont have an email or messages app in my app circle. I was told that its only able to use those app on the watch when paired with a samsung device but if there is no way around it i am gonna take the watch back.
I believe it is going to vary by each setup. I bought the S2 a few days ago. Calls and Gmail notifications come through fine on my V10. No messages notifications though although I have the messages app in my app drawer.
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?
dwallersv said:
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.
BarryH_GEG said:
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.
I was wondering if someone can tell me what to expect differently when using a Samsung phone? I'm currently using my gear s2 with a nexus 6p and thinking of getting the S7 but only if there are enough benefits to using it with the watch. Can someone who is aware itemize the advantages of using it with a samsung phone?
I use it with a non Samsung phone and the only thing not available are the messages and email apps on the gear.
micro100 said:
I use it with a non Samsung phone and the only thing not available are the messages and email apps on the gear.
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I'm also running the 6p and I receive both messages and emails on my S2, no problem. You just need to make sure they are authorized via the on phone app.
Or are you saying you aren't able to enter or send messages/emails? I've not figured out how to do that .... but trying to do that via the small watch screen would be difficult anyway.
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I'm also running the 6p and I receive both messages and emails on my S2, no problem. You just need to make sure they are authorized via the on phone app.
Or are you saying you aren't able to enter or send messages/emails? I've not figured out how to do that .... but trying to do that via the small watch screen would be difficult anyway.
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Yes i cant send messages or emails because the apps are missing. But of course i get the notifications on the watch which is enough for me .
I have a problem in accepting calling calls in Gear S2. I can see only Reject button, but no Accept button. I am using OP2. Does anyone has the same issue?
You don't have the e-mail app and SMS app, so You can only view the new ones without attachments if You have proper apps and settings for it (I use HUB for e-mails and Messenger(not the fb one!) for SMS in my BlackBerry Priv).
Also, You cannot answer the incoming call. You can reject + reject with text message, but not answer.
What is more - I found out that using non-Samsung phone the Gear S2 does not see the alarm from my phone. Previously it was vibrating and I could snooze / cancel it from Gear S2. Now I cannot.
I use it with LG G4 and I can't buy any apps... I can install only free apps.
How do u set it up to get messages on the watch. I got the free att gear s2 the 4g model, and I can pair it thru bluetooth with my iphone. When I get a phone call, the watch alerts me, but when I get messages, my watch doesn't receive any messages. I'd really like to know how to get it to receive messages.
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..
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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