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S Voice does not appear on my Gear2

Hi all,
New owner of a Gear 2, I followed the tutorial in the General section for pairing a non-Samsung phone and all works well except that I do not have S-Voice on my Gear 2. It's not under apps, or on the first screen, it also does not appear in My Apps in Gear Manager. I did a factory reset, ran through the entire process again... same result. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I'm using an LG G3.
Thank you!

Never mind, got it working using a version of Gear Manager from back in April.

Galaxy Gear 2 Neo works w/Note 4

Decided I wanted to grab a different smart watch than my Pebble. So, I went with the Galaxy Gear 2 Neo (black of course). I wasn't thinking at all about compatibility because it didn't make sense that the new Note 4 wouldn't work with one of Samsung's own devices. I was very curious when I didn't find the Gear Manager icon anywhere and I wasn't sure what exactly I was doing because the watch was only working in Korean.
In the end, I looked it up on Samsung.com and under compatible devices the Note 4 was not listed. I was completely shocked to see this. I paired it with my Note Pro 12.2 (yes, I'm a Samsung Fanboy, get over it - I love to draw with the stylus on a screen). It worked great, but it wasn't working with my phone. I figured out later how to get it to work with my phone by pure dumb luck. It's not put out there anywhere on the internet that I could find, so here's the steps:
Step one, go to bluetooth settings and scan for a device on your phone and make your watch discoverable.
Step two, select your watch on your phone
The phone will go and download the gear manager software by itself and do the rest. You don't need to do anything else to make it happen. I was completely shocked it was this easy, and it works perfectly.

Isn't that the standard procedure for pairing any bluetooth device the first time? And Gear Manager is in the Galaxy App Store no?

We are glad you finally discovered this :good: FYI Note 4 works with the Gear 2 as well. the gear 1 Gear 2 Gear 2 neo Gear fit are all compatible with Note 4. Samsung is promoting the Gear S now so cool. I'm sure you have helped someone out

I am trying to pair my Galaxy Note 4 with my Galaxy Gear Smartwatch (1st gen). I have installed Gear Manager from "GALAXY Apps" and am following the instructions for a manual pairing (e.g., NFC is on and Gear charging dock is attached). The devices pair but disconnect in 20 to 30 seconds (message: "Gear disconnected or is out of range of mobile device") during the initial pairing setup resulting in a failed setup. Does the Galaxy Note 4 really work with the Galaxy Gear Smartwatch?
If so, what can I do to get this working?
Should I consider flashing the Tizen ROM with Odin before setting up?

Galaxy Note 4 works with Galaxy Gear Smartwatch (gen 1)
Got it working. I had to install Tizen before the Note 4 would pair. Here's how I did it:
1. Basically followed these instructions:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-pushes-out-tizen-galaxy-gear-sm-v700-how-install-1450698
2. However I needed to figure out how to get the Galaxy Gear into "download" mode. Got those instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LeAPsN8-mc
3. Once Tizen was installed, there was a wizard on the Galaxy Gear to prompt through the process. Everything went smoothly!

Just download Gear manager from Samsung apps. No need to do any other steps.

ozaghloul said:
Just download Gear manager from Samsung apps. No need to do any other steps.
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Probably true for newer Gears but not the "gen 1" that originally came with Android. It needs to get Tizen installed first.

rabilancia said:
Got it working. I had to install Tizen before the Note 4 would pair. Here's how I did it:
1. Basically followed these instructions:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/samsung-pushes-out-tizen-galaxy-gear-sm-v700-how-install-1450698
2. However I needed to figure out how to get the Galaxy Gear into "download" mode. Got those instructions here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LeAPsN8-mc
3. Once Tizen was installed, there was a wizard on the Galaxy Gear to prompt through the process. Everything went smoothly!
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That is good to hear you got it working you just had to check usb debugging on watch under gear info and check on phone under samsung gear also. I didn't watch the video just saying. And the above poster is right also. You could have stayed on android Tizen is not that great

The Gear S is also Tizen, so does that mean it will not be compatible with Note 4 out of the box?

ozaghloul said:
The Gear S is also Tizen, so does that mean it will not be compatible with Note 4 out of the box?
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It will work out of the box gear 2 which I have is Tizen only as well I just prefer android but I wanted this watch so I'm ok with it there are not to many developers for Tizen is all

I have Gear 2 Neo - works well with my Note 4 but it worked better with my old GS3 using Wanamlite ROM.
On GS3 it would show a preview of the sms when i get the initial notification... on the Note4 it just shows that I received an sms from the person.
I can't use handcent on Note4 anymore as it asks to make it the default messaging app, which then makes it so that the "messaging app" on Gear 2Neo does not get notified when I receive sms.
...small things like this are bothersome... maybe it's 4.4.4? or maybe it's because its stock TW? ..

Gear 2 connection problems with Galaxy Note 4

Hello, I had just bought my gear 2 today and after charging it fully I tried to follow the instructions and download the gear manager app on my galaxy note 4. It installed the latest version. I opened it and it immediately crashed. The only way I can open the app is to press the active apps button at the bottom of the phone and go to the app that way. Doing that it pairs and finds the watch just fine. I press on the gear to start "connecting" after it paired. It endlessly connects, with no error messages. I've updated the gear via kies. I've installed a previous version of gear manager. I've factory reset the gear. All to no avail. I've gotten around the startup wizard on the gear so I can use it but the time is wrong, and I can't use any of the actually useful functions that you need to pair with a phone to use. I called Samsung and talked to some Asian chick who told me to restart the phone and the watch. Obviously that didn't work and I had already tried it so I yelled at her and she created a report. Don't know what that will do for me then she referred me to a freakin best buy and said I quote "go to local best buy and have them look at it"
Seriously hoping if any of you can help me. I don't know what to do after this and I really wanna be able to see even a correct time on my watch. Thanks in advance for anything you can do to help.

Korean Gear S2 not connecting to S6 Edge

Hi all,
I wonder if someone has the same problem as me.
I just got a new gear s2 classic from Korea and it won't connect to Gear manager. it keeps of giving me a message: "check if your phone is compatible and if the gear manager app needs to be updated, then try again".
I have downloaded the latest version of the gear manager, but still same problem. I did reset both the phone and the gear to factory settings and still it won't connect.
anyone have any idea how to fix this issue?
Thanks

I have a Korean phone that works perfectly with my S6 Edge. Took a while to get it paired and I had to restart my phone. That did it.

New S3, can't load apps and watchfaces in the gear app: HELP HELP

Hi all, I just picked up the lovely S3 Frontier.
When I click "view watch faces" or "view more apps" in the gear app
the Samsung Gear APP, after a quick "loading", displays white screen with error
"{"returnCode":"0","errorCode":"0003","errorMsg":" System Error!-[0003]"}"
for the rest, everything works.
I uninstalled the Gear app, the Gear S Plugins and Samsung Accessory Service. Rebooted the S3.
Reinstalled everything but the error remains.
For the rest, everything works just fine.
I can't find anything googling so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance!!!

blackspp said:
Hi all, I just picked up the lovely S3 Frontier.
When I click "view watch faces" or "view more apps" in the gear app
the Samsung Gear APP, after a quick "loading", displays white screen with error
"{"returnCode":"0","errorCode":"0003","errorMsg":" System Error!-[0003]"}"
for the rest, everything works.
I uninstalled the Gear app, the Gear S Plugins and Samsung Accessory Service. Rebooted the S3.
Reinstalled everything but the error remains.
For the rest, everything works just fine.
I can't find anything googling so any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in Advance!!!
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I've no problems so far with my Gear S3 Frontier in combination with my Samsung Galaxy S7Edge...
To what phone are you connected? Probably not a Samsung product?
If not: Gear Apps Store is part of "Galaxy Apps": maybe Galaxy Apps must be installed too on your device? "Samsung Account"?

Hi, mate 9. Everything else is working fine. I'll install galaxy apps, see what that does, thanks.

Fixed it by deleting all Samsung apps cache on the phone. This results in a soft reset on the watch. After re-pairing it works!

I'm having the exact same problem, only for me it doesn't go away after a reset. I've tried resetting all apps, even reinstalling them, resetting the S3, restarting my phone, but nothing seems to work. I can install apps from the watch itself just fine (just the 10 suggestions), but the Gear app just doesn't work.

I did all that after which it worked but I did do something else in between.
I downloaded the galaxy apps apk, from somewhere, ran it but it said no go, only run on Samsung phones.
Maybe that app flipped a bit somewhere, who knows!

I have a similar issue, get a pure white screen on the gear phone app. When I try and load the apps store. Fixed it by resetting watch deleting all the samsung apps, and then reinstalling and re setting everything up. It worked for about a day, and then failed in exactly the same way. I give up with this device, and I shall not be wasting another 30 mins doing the same long-winded process again. Samsung makes nice hardware, but as usual, the software is crud!
I note that Samsung changed the website end of the gear apps store the other day - looks like they fouled it up and have not bothered to fix it yet.

Mine has been working just fine after fixing it and I'm on the gear app store a lot at the moment fooling around with new stuff.
I do agree with you, Samsung is the worst sw developer. Take a look at my 3000 bucks smart tv, it's such a mess!

Mine 'fixed' its self this morning. The white screen is where the app loads content web browser style, they fouled something up server side is my guess. It still fails sometimes, and getting any app to actually install requires several attempts. Pish software.
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i just got my Gear S3 and i'm having the same problem how did you guys fixed this?
Thanks in advance

Any fix for this problem???

I had this issue as well. Some apps or watchfaces would install but most wouldn't. I connected phone and watch to home WiFi and everything installed. I have Sprint LG v30+ paired with watch. Over the network, it's hit or miss but on WiFi all seems to work.