Hi.
Have the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier BT version paired with a Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge.
I'm receiving all notifications with the exception of TXT messages even though I believe the setting seems to be correct.
Anyone else experience a problem receiving message notifications?
Ed
Do you use the stock Samsung SMS app on the phone? If not, that may be the issue.
the_scotsman said:
Do you use the stock Samsung SMS app on the phone? If not, that may be the issue.
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Yes I use the stock SMS App
Try this... on the watch open the message app and try to send your self a txt.. on mine the first time i open the app it said i was not using the stock app on my phone and gave me the option to switch it.. Im using Google hangouts as my stock app and it seems to work pretty good.. i cant start a txt from the watch but i am getting all notifications..
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Try this... on the watch open the message app and try to send your self a txt.. on mine the first time i open the app it said i was not using the stock app on my phone and gave me the option to switch it.. Im using Google hangouts as my stock app and it seems to work pretty good.. i cant start a txt from the watch but i am getting all notifications..
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Thank you.
I sent a txt to myself via the watch (no prompt to change app as using the default app already).
Phone received the txt as did the watch.
Watch now displaying notifications of txt's received without making any system changes.
Must have been caught in a lost loop or something.
Weird but I will certainly remember this solution should it occur again.
Cheers.
interesting. I also sent a text to myself and this started working with the default SMS app.
I have the same problem, but that did not fix it for me.
I have Gear s3 Frontier. Number sync on . Connected to s6 edge plus via Bluetooth.
It has been working fine. It quit a few days ago, and I couldn't get it fixed, ended up uninstalling everything and doing a reset on the watch. This is terribly inconvenient, setting up NumberSync again etc.
I go to notification settings on the phone in the gear app and Messages is not listed anymore. I get the texts on the watch, but only if I go into the app. Any help?
[email protected] said:
I have the same problem, but that did not fix it for me.
I have Gear s3 Frontier. Number sync on . Connected to s6 edge plus via Bluetooth.
It has been working fine. It quit a few days ago, and I couldn't get it fixed, ended up uninstalling everything and doing a reset on the watch. This is terribly inconvenient, setting up NumberSync again etc.
I go to notification settings on the phone in the gear app and Messages is not listed anymore. I get the texts on the watch, but only if I go into the app. Any help?
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Open Samsung Gear app on phone >> Settings >> Notifications >> Manage Notifications >> Messages (Slide to ON mode)
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Open Samsung Gear app on phone >> Settings >> Notifications >> Manage Notifications >> Messages (Slide to ON mode)
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That's the problem. "messages" is now missing from there. It's not listed at all. No option to turn it on. Only way is to factory reset the gear and Uninstall and re install gear app on the phone.
I'm in France and i have exactly the same problem since a few days without doing anything in the settings of the gear s3 classic or in the phone (an s7) : all the notifications except sms and "messages" is no more in the gear app settings. Sorry for my english and thank you for the futur help.
Francis.
+1 same problem is that Messages is not showing up as an option within the Gear app's Notification tab/window. It was there previously before recent update on S3 Frontier (using S7 Edge).
enjoythemusic said:
+1 same problem is that Messages is not showing up as an option within the Gear app's Notification tab/window. It was there previously before recent update on S3 Frontier (using S7 Edge).
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I haven't found a fix yet. Only thing that fixes if for a while is completely in installing gear app and resetting the gear itself. But then you have to set everything up again. Very frustrating. I opened a ticket with att and Samsung, haven't heard back in a couple weeks though. Lol
Glad I'm not the only one with this problem. Hopefully they fix it soon...
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Same issue here - factory reset of the phone was the only thing that fixed it. Then started to do the same thing a couple days later.
Don't forget to set notifications to On in the phone app
Hi there, had the same issue. I found that although the phone was set to notifications in settings...that in the actual message app (standard one) under settings there, my notifications were set to OFF! So, seems like you need to set notifications ON in app on phone, on the phone settings, in the Gear app..and make sure you give it some sort of vibrate/noise in settings on watch, then it should work! :good:
I've had the issue crop up a couple times but was able to resolve it by activating the cellular on the watch and sending a text to the phone. Yesterday, that didn't work. Today I noticed that instead of 2 Bluetooth connections for the S3 on the phone, there is now 1, shows call audio. Wondering if this is the root of the problem. Can others who have the problem check and see if this is occurring on your phones as well?
here's the fix: Go into your app mananger on your phone, click on the Gear S plugin app, then click on storage and clear the cache. Restart your gear s3 and it's back to normal
Having the same problem
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I've had the issue crop up a couple times but was able to resolve it by activating the cellular on the watch and sending a text to the phone. Yesterday, that didn't work. Today I noticed that instead of 2 Bluetooth connections for the S3 on the phone, there is now 1, shows call audio. Wondering if this is the root of the problem. Can others who have the problem check and see if this is occurring on your phones as well?
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I am having the exact same issue as you with my s3. Did you ever find a solution? I have searched far and wide but im stumped. Even had Samsung look at the watch, but of course they found nothing.
I'm having this problem now too... It just started out of nowhere. I can see the message on my watch if I scroll to the notifications screen, but it does not vibrate nor show when I twist my wrist... I have tried everything... Every single thing necessary is on. I've even done a factory reset WITH uninstalling all the apps on my phone and installing everything in order again. Setup the watch as new. This isn't cool. Half of the reason I have this watch is for notifications. Seriously, Sammy needs to get it together! I've been having WAY too many problems with this watch in the last couple months.
Anyone found a fix? Nothing anyone has mentioned previously works.
Having the same issue here. No freaking idea what's going on. Have tried just about everything. Textra works but AM doesn't. Even Gmail doesn't work. So basically it seems like Google apps aren't working
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Since a few weeks my Gear 2 has the following notification problem:
For example, when I get 3 whatsapp messages on my phone like this:
Hey
How ar you doing
are*
My Gear 2 vibrates 3 times for each message, but it shows them like this:
Name of contact
Hey
Name of contact
Hey
Name of contact
Hey
So it always shows the first message. It's is doing this with all the apps. To get it fixed it I tried a factory reset of my Gear, factory reset of my phone and different phone. But I still have the problem.
Any ideas how I can fix this?
I'm having this problem too. Did you just update your whatsapp app? I noticed this problem after I updated whatsapp.
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I'm having this problem too. Did you just update your whatsapp app? I noticed this problem after I updated whatsapp.
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I don't know exactly at what moment the problem started to show up. After a few tests today it seems like some apps do it right, and some apps don't. There should be an option in Samsung Gear Manager to set the order of the messages before taking the first one.
Help please, I'm not receiving notifications on text messages and emails nor hangouts and fb messenger. I'm using Xiaomi Mi4i, Lollipop 5.0.2. What should I do? I'm becoming desperate. I already did the light reset and factory reset but still I have the same problem. I also signed in my Samsung account. PLease helpppp... thanks in advance
Assuming that your using hangouts for SMS, you need to install the Android Wear app. Make sure that in the Samsung Gear app your apps are selected for notifications.
I'm not using hangout as my default sms. but I'm not receiving any sms nor email notifications. I already downloaded Android App, how do I pair it with gear s2? whats the procedure?.. Thanks for the reply..
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I'm not using hangout as my default sms. but I'm not receiving any sms nor email notifications. I already downloaded Android App, how do I pair it with gear s2? whats the procedure?.. Thanks for the reply..
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There is no need for pairing with the Android app, it just needs to exist. Have you checked the Notifications in the Gear app to insure you're allow notification from particular apps?
wow! you are amazing! I got it working. thanks to u man! u are a life saver..=)
How got it to work?
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I've tried everything. I downloaded android wear don't even get hangouts once i have it. Then if remove it i can get hangouts but not reply. Let me know what works. I have gear s2 paired with note 4
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How got it to work?
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I've tried everything. I downloaded android wear don't even get hangouts once i have it. Then if remove it i can get hangouts but not reply. Let me know what works. I have gear s2 paired with note 4
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Download android wear, then open Gear manager on your Phone, open Notification and make sure hangouts is checked (in my case I checked everything) then restart your phone and your gear s2 and connect gear s2 to your phone. It should work now. thanks!
Im still not able to vet sms messages.. I dont use hang out but stock. Im on lg v10 with gear s2
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Download android wear, then open Gear manager on your Phone, open Notification and make sure hangouts is checked (in my case I checked everything) then restart your phone and your gear s2 and connect gear s2 to your phone. It should work now. thanks!
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What do you mean 'download android wear'? This is Tizen based, nothing to do with Android Wear. As far as I know you need Samsung Gear app on your phone. Am I missing something here?
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What do you mean 'download android wear'? This is Tizen based, nothing to do with Android Wear. As far as I know you need Samsung Gear app on your phone. Am I missing something here?
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Downloading the Android Wear app onto your phone from the Play Store can extend support for certain apps like hangout, etc. Even on Tizen. It doesn't replace the Samsung Gear app, but it can complement it.
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Downloading the Android Wear app onto your phone from the Play Store can extend support for certain apps like hangout, etc. Even on Tizen. It doesn't replace the Samsung Gear app, but it can complement it.
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Thanks, I will try, did not know the Android Wear app was compatible with Samsung Gear watches.
Must admit I realised today emails and texts rarely notify on my S6.
Gear s2 message forwading
Talked to Samsung rep today. He said the lg v10 is not on the list of supported devices and should be soon with a new update in the weeks to come which should enable text message forwarding to the v10. He recommended a 3rd party app from the play store called textra sms. It works to forward texts and reply as well.. You need to make it your primary sms app and select it under the gear manager notification setting in the gear app.
Thank you webberfan. I have the lg v10 (love it, not going back lol), and textra is working great and forwarding them to my gear s2.
Glad i found this thread!
I am getting hangouts notifications, and I did not install the android wear app. I just gave permissions to the Hangouts app to show notifications.
I decided to go back to Verizon and try another watch and the second one is working near perfect. It has not missed a single notification, knock on wood. It seems the first one was bad. I should have know when I had to reset it almost immediately when the heart rate monitor and steps would not function. So far so good with the new one.
Thank you
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Download android wear, then open Gear manager on your Phone, open Notification and make sure hangouts is checked (in my case I checked everything) then restart your phone and your gear s2 and connect gear s2 to your phone. It should work now. thanks!
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Thank you genius fixed it for me, ticked all boxes in notifications and get everything.
Thank you so much saved me sending this Gear S2 back for refund
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This thread is the gift that keeps on giving
I reset my watch then i unistalled the gear app on my phone. Then reinstalled it and the incoming calls notification came back.
pbly something that went away with the last update...
But now its working again.
Not getting notifications other than calls
I am facing this issue. The above proposed solution doesn't work for me. I am getting only calls in my Gear S2. I am not getting any other notification in my Gear S2. I am using Redmi Note 4
Title pretty much says it all!
On my phone (Note 4) the unread mail count is currently one. On the S2, it is twenty-eight. Scrolling through the mail on the S2, I can see emails that I deleted days ago. Am I perhaps missing something from the settings?
(The emails relate to gmail and Google Apps mail)
Many thanks
KJ
I have the same exact issue. I emailed Samsung and they told me to do a factory reset to correct the issue as they have not heard of this bug from the latest update. A factory reset did NOT correct the issue. I believe the latest update caused the issue but convincing Samsung is another story. I was going to call them on Friday to see what the story is but does anyone else know what is going on here?
So I contacted Samsung technical support and they asked me to resync my bluetooth connection with my phone. Basically you just disconnect the gear s2 from the phone and hit connect again in the gear manager. It seemed to have worked for the first email deleted but not for any subsequent emails. I just tried it again and it is actually not working at all.
Because this is not a "software issue" they claim, the watch would need to be sent for repairs. I don't know what else to do but I'm not sending off the watch for repairs. If you are experiencing this issue, please call Samsung because they do not believe this is an issue and let us know here. If you AREN'T experiencing this please let us know as well...
The issue is that when you delete an email from your watch, it will delete from the phone CORRECTLY. However, if you delete an email from your PHONE it will not automatically delete it from the watch... causing you to have to manage the deletions on your watch manually. This was working prior to a software update recently.
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So I contacted Samsung technical support and they asked me to resync my bluetooth connection with my phone. Basically you just disconnect the gear s2 from the phone and hit connect again in the gear manager. It seemed to have worked for the first email deleted but not for any subsequent emails. I just tried it again and it is actually not working at all.
Because this is not a "software issue" they claim, the watch would need to be sent for repairs. I don't know what else to do but I'm not sending off the watch for repairs. If you are experiencing this issue, please call Samsung because they do not believe this is an issue and let us know here. If you AREN'T experiencing this please let us know as well...
The issue is that when you delete an email from your watch, it will delete from the phone CORRECTLY. However, if you delete an email from your PHONE it will not automatically delete it from the watch... causing you to have to manage the deletions on your watch manually. This was working prior to a software update recently.
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I am not having the same issue, if I delete my email from the phone it does delete it on the watch. It will not delete it from the watch when I am connected remotely though, but it does remove it once I get back on bluetooth. This is exchange email through the normal android email system. Have you also tried deleting the email on either outlook or the web client and see if it updates the phone and watch that way?
One thing I do notice though that does throw my mail number off at times. If I do not receive the notification on my phone then I do not get that email on my watch. So far no matter what it doesn't seem to sync back to it. The only instance I have ran into with this is if I have my email application open and a new email comes in. Because the email app is open it never does a notification to my phone so the watch never gets it.
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I am not having the same issue, if I delete my email from the phone it does delete it on the watch. It will not delete it from the watch when I am connected remotely though, but it does remove it once I get back on bluetooth. This is exchange email through the normal android email system. Have you also tried deleting the email on either outlook or the web client and see if it updates the phone and watch that way?
One thing I do notice though that does throw my mail number off at times. If I do not receive the notification on my phone then I do not get that email on my watch. So far no matter what it doesn't seem to sync back to it. The only instance I have ran into with this is if I have my email application open and a new email comes in. Because the email app is open it never does a notification to my phone so the watch never gets it.
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Thanks for the post. I reinstalled Gear Manager and it MAY have fixed the issue. I'm still going through some tests. The only way to get the emails to your watch all the time is to turn off the Limit notifications in Gear Manager > Notifications on your phone. I turned it off for the very reason of getting all the future email to go to the watch.
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Thanks for the post. I reinstalled Gear Manager and it MAY have fixed the issue. I'm still going through some tests. The only way to get the emails to your watch all the time is to turn off the Limit notifications in Gear Manager > Notifications on your phone. I turned it off for the very reason of getting all the future email to go to the watch.
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That's good that you may have got it resolved.
So for mine, I have already turned off the limit notifications option a few days ago. That works good so if I am using my phone the notification will still come to the watch, before I had turned it off if I was using my phone the notification would not come to the watch until my screen on the phone went black.
The problem is that if I actually have my email app opened up on the phone, and an email comes in. The phone doesn't give a notification because I had the app open already and see the email. At this point the watch never gets a notification for that email because the phone never did. So that email never makes it to the email app on the watch. Its almost like the watch didn't see a notification so the email doesn't exist for it.
This is not the same result for text messages, text messages still seem to sync correctly even if I did not actually get that notification on the phone.
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That's good that you may have got it resolved.
So for mine, I have already turned off the limit notifications option a few days ago. That works good so if I am using my phone the notification will still come to the watch, before I had turned it off if I was using my phone the notification would not come to the watch until my screen on the phone went black.
The problem is that if I actually have my email app opened up on the phone, and an email comes in. The phone doesn't give a notification because I had the app open already and see the email. At this point the watch never gets a notification for that email because the phone never did. So that email never makes it to the email app on the watch. Its almost like the watch didn't see a notification so the email doesn't exist for it.
This is not the same result for text messages, text messages still seem to sync correctly even if I did not actually get that notification on the phone.
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Ahhh ok I got ya. If the app is open, no notification, therefore no email on watch. Nice. I wondered why Samsung decided to handle emails like this to begin with. It would have been easier to just read from the phone or something instead of this convoluted sending notifications of future emails. That way I could access all the emails at once as well.
Yeah I agree, not sure what the thoughts were with it either. Owell, hopefully they will have some tweaks to it. The good thing is that it really isn't a big concern. If I already saw the email on my phone before the notification came in then I'm not that concerned about seeing it on my watch. The situation just won't come up very often as I don't just stare at my email app waiting for emails to come in haha. Just more of thought it was an interesting way they did things. Would be nice to know how that back end for that is working.
Either way, maybe it is because it is my first smart watch, but so far I'm still loving it even with some bugs and a lack of apps.
I just got a s2 classic, I am experiencing the same issue, I delete the messages from my phone, and they still show on the watch, I have tried removing gear from my phone and reinstalling, but it did not work, I still have the same issue.
any other people have this issue and have any other advice on fixing it.
thanks
Hi.
I bought my Gear S3 Frontier this week but to my surprise i am not able to receive any notification other than phone calls. No whatsapp nothing.
I already updated to latest version. Tried hard resetting the phone, reinstalling all gear apps, clearing cache and data, restarted both watch and phone, but no joy.
Please help me to get it working.
Thanks.
Sidz4u said:
Hi.
I bought my Gear S3 Frontier this week but to my surprise i am not able to receive any notification other than phone calls. No whatsapp nothing.
I already updated to latest version. Tried hard resetting the phone, reinstalling all gear apps, clearing cache and data, restarted both watch and phone, but no joy.
Please help me to get it working.
Thanks.
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what phone are you using it with?
jaime3344 said:
what phone are you using it with?
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I have One Plus 5T.
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I have One Plus 5T.
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I had this problem too when I had gear s3 connected to Essential ph1. I had to use a different texting app. Textra worked good with it, I would give that a try.
I am assuming u have receive notifications turned on in the gear app.. I am asking that now because it sounds like ur not getting emails either..
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I had this problem too when I had gear s3 connected to Essential ph1. I had to use a different texting app. Textra worked good with it, I would give that a try.
I am assuming u have receive notifications turned on in the gear app.. I am asking that now because it sounds like ur not getting emails either..
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I am not getting any notification at all other than phone calls.
And yes all notifications and notification accesses are enabled.
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I am not getting any notification at all other than phone calls.
And yes all notifications and notification accesses are enabled.
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I got a note9 a couple weeks ago, and in order to get notifications on my S3 I had to uninstall and reinstall gear app, reset watch, and NOT restore a backup. then it worked. maybe that will work for you, worth a try!
Ok, I have Gears S3 classic (bluetooth) and S7 Edge. I have had my S3 for several months and all has been great, I love it. But 2 days ago, my watch stopped receiving notifications for text messages only (I still get notifications for other things like calls, emails, etc...) And yes, in my gear wearable app, messages is marked to receive notifications...they just don't come thru to the watch. I am using stock messaging app for Samsung. One thing I did notice when I was trying to trouble shoot, is that I can send texts from my watch to my phone, on the watch, it shows the spinning circle as if it were constantly trying to send the message. Funny thing is, my phone gets the message, but when I go to look at the watch, the "sending" circle is still spinning. It won't stop. I think the fact that it is getting snagged/caught up on the watch's end might be the culprit. I just cant figure out how to fix it. Factory resetting the watch is the last thing I want to do, I'd like to avoid it if at all possible.
I have the Gear S3 Frontier SM-R760 version and I downloaded the 4.0.0.2 firmware and flashed it. All went well. However, I too don't receive message notifications on the watch. I have removed and reinstalled the app on my Note 8 and reset the Gear S3 to set everything up as a new phone but there is still no luck.
If there is any work around to this or anyone can help then it would be greatly appreciated. All of this seem to have happened since I updated to 4.0.0.2 but I hear it's happening on other firmware as well.
Download Pulse SMS onto both the phone and watch. Don't worry about registering as all you're bothered about is notifications. Enable Pulse SMS from the Gear app for Notifications and any SMS messages you receive you will be notified on the watch from the Pulse SMS app on the watch. This so far seems a valid workaround to the problem.
Yeah...its very frustrating. Is there another text/sms app we can use? I see people mention Textra...but I don't see that on apps for watch, just for phone.
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I have the Gear S3 Frontier SM-R760 version and I downloaded the 4.0.0.2 firmware and flashed it. All went well. However, I too don't receive message notifications on the watch. I have removed and reinstalled the app on my Note 8 and reset the Gear S3 to set everything up as a new phone but there is still no luck.
If there is any work around to this or anyone can help then it would be greatly appreciated. All of this seem to have happened since I updated to 4.0.0.2 but I hear it's happening on other firmware as well.
Download Pulse SMS onto both the phone and watch. Don't worry about registering as all you're bothered about is notifications. Enable Pulse SMS from the Gear app for Notifications and any SMS messages you receive you will be notified on the watch from the Pulse SMS app on the watch. This so far seems a valid workaround to the problem.
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So, I unpaired my gear s3 watch from bluetooth list on my s7 edge. Next, I uninstalled gear s plug in from apps list on phone. Then, I went to apps list and cleared cache and data from gear wearable app. Then I uninstalled updates for gear wearable app as well. After that, I went to play store and updated gear wearable app to current version and repaired watch w phone/app. I thought I could do it without resetting watch. But the wearable app and watch wouldn't connect without resetting watch, so I bit the bullet and reset watch. I tried to connect them without resetting watch, but app popped up a message saying I needed to reset watch and it did it itself w push of a button. It didn't take that long to put apps back on watch. And it worked. I am now getting text notifications from stock samsung messages app back on my watch.
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#1 - when watch and app reconnected after reset, I did not restore back up, I skipped it and manually went to wearable app to put apps back on as they are listed there. I didn't want to reset watch, but it seems to be working for now.
#2 - before I did all this, I used Textra SMS, and that app sent notifications to my phone no problem. But I wanted to fix the issue, not use a workaround.