I'm not sure I've actually identified the problem so let me start at the beginning.
I have a new Gear S3 Classic. It randomly will beep and vibrate for no apparent reason. If I look at the watch the only difference I can detect is a watch icon in the 12 o'clock position on the face. If you swipe on it, it will display the word 'standalone.'
The problem is that it should not be in standalone mode since this always seems to happen when the watch is in close proximity to my phone. What's worse is that it doesn't just happen once but 2 or three times in close succession before it finally gives up.
I think I can defeat the notifications by putting the watch in do not disturb mode but that has other obvious disadvantages.
So is my watch defective? Do I need to pursue a warranty claim? Am I doing something wrong, do I need to reconfigure my watch somehow? I have no idea how to proceed from here. Any help is appreciated.
I think the vibrations are BT disconnection alerts. This can be disabled in settings CONNECTIONS -> ALERTS.
In terms of addressing the underlying problem of why the watch and phone aren't able to maintain a solid BT. Have you tried pairing to a different phone, to rule out a problem on that end?
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I think the vibrations are BT disconnection alerts. This can be disabled in settings CONNECTIONS -> ALERTS.
In terms of addressing the underlying problem of why the watch and phone aren't able to maintain a solid BT. Have you tried pairing to a different phone, to rule out a problem on that end?
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Thanks for the tip. I set it to turn of the alerts. That will be very helpful since it could be seriously distracting at times not mention annoying for other people with me.
My guess is that it's an issue with my phone - Alcatel Idol 4. It probably doesn't send out an "I'm here" signal or whatever the technical term is, often enough for the S3 to realize that it's in range. The last time this happened, I swiped the icon and looked at the watch face and within about 10 seconds it reported that it was connected again.
As long as I don't have to listen to the watch and phone work out their marital differences though and they can manage to stay connected when I need them to be, I'm not going to worry about the watch going standalone periodically.
Thanks again.
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Hi to all.
I've a little problem: I go to work with a motorcycle and my S2 recognize it as a sporty activity (cycling): is there a way to stop this behaviour?
Thanks
GS
Italy
GS, I'm with you. I have the exact same problem. Every day I have to zero out the record for that day and then I turn off the cycling tracker (hoping that it just might stay disabled, but of course it never does). I wish there was a way to permanently disable this tracker, as I seldom ride a bicycle and could easily do without tracking this activity...
There automatic activity recognition settings in S Health. Just go to settings
Sorry but I don't have this option...
It seems that you can disable all automatic detections, and that you can not select with detection disable...
GS
ITALY
I have this same issue, the only solutions I've found are:
1) Download S-Health and disable it through manage items, but that does nothing.
2) Contact Samsung for support, which I've read is basically the first solution.
I want to set my watch for all my notifications but I think it's weird how you can't disable a function like that. I also tried factory resetting my watch to no avail...
Same problem here.
I don't want to disable cycling because i DO cycle sometimes and want to record it.
What annoys me is everytime I step in my car or ride a motorbike it detects me as cycling for a few hours.
Seems to be no way to disable it.
Anyone found a fix?
I'm still having the same problem. Strangely, it only seems to happen in my truck. When I drive the sedan, nothing happens and my watch works as intended. i'm not sure what I do in the truck that has my watch convinced I'm cycling down the highway at 70 MPH.
I've had to run off auto-detect which makes me sad because I forget to log my walking and my elliptical all the time. The watch we very good at detecting these 2 activities.
For future users who end up here with a google search:
the workout auto-detection settings are not the the S-Heath (or now "Samsung Health") app on your phone, they are in the S-Heath app that's on the watch itself. In last screen, "settings"
This problem shows up periodically when I leave my S7 stationary on a desk or table while in discharge mode. I found an xda thread describing the exact symptoms, but for the S6. My phone is an S7, of course. That S6 thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s6-edge/help/push-notifications-stop-screen-off-t3071248
I have my device set so notifications will appear on the lock screen. And under Settings > Notifications I have about 5 apps set for priority mode. That works consistently to bring notifications from those apps to the top of the notification list. The problem is that occasionally when the screen turns off --not consistently-- all push notifications are suppressed until I turn on the screen again. At this point, all of the suppressed, pending notifications fire off their associated alert sounds and each of their alert banners pop onto the lock screen. I can never know when the notifications are going to be suppressed like this when I toggle off the screen or when it times out on its own.
Am I the only one who experiences this issue on the S7? I had possession of some other S7's some months back and at least two of them demonstrated similar intermittent push notification behavior. However, I had no idea exactly what was happening at the time (i.e, whether it was the individual apps malfunctioning or perhaps a lagging issue with the servers/networks they were using). But from my experience to date, it appears that the absence of notifications on those devices during screen off mode may have been the same issue.
There was a great deal of concern about this within the S6 thread I've cited above. But no definite solutions were given; the general hope was that a future update would correct the problem on the S6 and that the S7 with android 6 marshmallow would hopefully not include the intermittent notification problem. If I've missed an informative thread on this issue relevant to the S7 (or the S7 edge) please direct me accordingly.
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Used to happen with my S5, afaik it's Marshmallows new low power mode, 'Dose' that causes it as it didn't happen with Lollipop
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Used to happen with my S5, afaik it's Marshmallows new low power mode, 'Dose' that causes it as it didn't happen with Lollipop
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In that case, how is the best way to disable this mode? Package Disabler perhaps? And why am I the only one who seems to have posted about this matter as far as the S7? Timely notifications are pretty important... so I would think that if this were a typical power saving side effect on the S7 that many S7 owners would be speaking out about the notification lapses. It's fairly puzzling.
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Dose being the cause is just my take on it, I couldn't think of anything else it could be with my S5 either, and as I said it never happened with Lollipop, and Dose only arrived with Marshmallow, so I put two and two together
Not sure you can disable Dose, other than have something running in the background causing a wakelock, which would drain your battery
Might be something else causing it, but I couldn't see any other explanation
Something I did notice though was if the phone was on 4G Data instead of WiFi, notifications were instant, but I was only on 4G while I was out, and when the phone is moving, dose doesn't work, it has to be completely stationary
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Dose being the cause is just my take on it, I couldn't think of anything else it could be with my S5 either, and as I said it never happened with Lollipop, and Dose only arrived with Marshmallow, so I put two and two together
Not sure you can disable Dose, other than have something running in the background causing a wakelock, which would drain your battery
Might be something else causing it, but I couldn't see any other explanation
Something I did notice though was if the phone was on 4G Data instead of WiFi, notifications were instant, but I was only on 4G while I was out, and when the phone is moving, dose doesn't work, it has to be completely stationary
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Hmm... in my case it is happening exclusively on 4G without wifi running. So maybe it's something else. Most of the time notifications come though immediately. I'd say that during only about 10 or 20% of the phone's stationary time they are repressed until screen on.
Have a solution!
Faced the same issue, you have to exclude the apps you need notification at 2 places in the settings.
For the doze settings, go to settings, battery, battery usage, more ( top right), optimize battery usage , select all apps and select the apps you need to show notifications.
Second place, settings, battery, go down to app power saving, click details, set app you wish notifications to disabled.
Anyone else seeing delayed by some minutes or non existent notifications on the S3?
This is true for text and email notifications
I can not see any settings for controlling the sync rate or anything else that might impact this.
The phone is a note 4
Yeah. There are times that emails never arrive on the watch.
There is a setting that if you are on the phone, you will not get notifications on the watch. You can set this to receive notifications when on the phone.
Notifications will not show if you have "Do not disturb" enabled or if you are using the phone at the time the notification arrives (though this can be disabled)
Also if you are not wearing the watch, you won't get notifications.
I have noticed very odd behavior with my watch as well. I have the LTE version of the Frontier, with NumberSync enabled, but my watch is mostly connected via Bluetooth which I have found means it is disconnected from cellular. It seems that if the Bluetooth is disconnected and reconnected that I no longer receive any notifications, messages, phone calls, etc from my phone (nor NumberSync) until I reboot my watch. According to the Gear Manager on the phone everything is connected and it shows battery stats and such, but nothing gets sent to the watch until I reboot it.
Having same problem!
Since raising this a couple of weeks ago it seems to be a lot more consistent now, in fact I have only noticed one late notification in the last few days.
I have not changed any options on the phone or watch - go figure.
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Notifications will not show if you have "Do not disturb" enabled or if you are using the phone at the time the notification arrives (though this can be disabled)
Also if you are not wearing the watch, you won't get notifications.
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So DND on the phone will block the notifications on the watch, is that correct? Any way to disable that feature? I often put my phone in DND but would like to get notifications on the watch.
Laban said:
So DND on the phone will block the notifications on the watch, is that correct? Any way to disable that feature? I often put my phone in DND but would like to get notifications on the watch.
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No, sorry, I meant if you had DND set on the watch.
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Very strange but since I don't have a notification sound for my stock email app in my phone when I receive an email, the watch is not vibrating when I get an email. If I set a sound notifications I n in the phones mail app the clock vibrates. Feature or bug?
I have noticed that notifications are not recieved on my watch when it doesn't detect its on your wrist, same for always on display, it only works when it detects its on your wrist. It is very annoying as I constantly struggle to get my frontier to detect a heart rate and know it is on my wrist, so therefore the screen is always turning off and I never get notifications going to the watch.
Might be a fix
Been having the same issue for a couple of weeks since purchasing my s3 frontier. While looking through the notifications setting in gear app on phone. I noticed the notifications are only sent when watch is being worn. I was wearing the watch so disabled this feature. Texts began coming in just as fast as on apple watch. Apparently, the gear s3 is not very good at telling if it's being worn. Might be related to inconsistent fitness tracking.
Hey all! I just got the S3 Frontier a few days ago and I love it! Just one complaint:
The other night I had my watch on while I was sleeping. As always, I put my phone on complete silence. However, while I was sleeping, I was woken up a few times by my watch vibrating.
It's kinda silly that I would have to silence the watch, too (in my opinion). Is there any way to "link" the two? I also want my watch to vibrate even when completely off by means of my cell phone's alarm time, even if I have the watch and phone on silent. Is there a way to "link" the two? My phone is a rooted Google Pixel if it matters.
Thanks in advance!
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Hey all! I just got the S3 Frontier a few days ago and I love it! Just one complaint:
The other night I had my watch on while I was sleeping. As always, I put my phone on complete silence. However, while I was sleeping, I was woken up a few times by my watch vibrating.
It's kinda silly that I would have to silence the watch, too (in my opinion). Is there any way to "link" the two? I also want my watch to vibrate even when completely off by means of my cell phone's alarm time, even if I have the watch and phone on silent. Is there a way to "link" the two? My phone is a rooted Google Pixel if it matters.
Thanks in advance!
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I kind of agree it would be nice if I'm in some setting (doc's office, etc) where I want to silence my phone I have to remember to also put the watch into do-not-disturb.
This is what's missing, and really needed. But there's no way to do it.
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This is what's missing, and really needed. But there's no way to do it.
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Wow, that's crazy! What an oversight! Thanks for the reply though!
Hate revive an old thread, but this does my head in.
I've got a gear s3 classic, I think it makes absolutely no sense for it to no sync the notification volume etc..
Has anyone found a workaround?
#boosamsung
I agree. With Android Wear when You put watch into "do not disturb" phone also switches the same.
I've also noticed that there is no any watchface that shows battery level from phone and watch at the same time..
I like Tizen, but in some cases Android Wear was better. The second is more integrated with phone.
You can set the time for auto do not disturb on the watch. I have mine set from 10:30 until 6:30. The watch doesn't vibrate or notfy me.
Located on watch under Do Not Disturb: set schedule.
You can set different times for different days of the week.
Other way around, just use Tasker to add task like: if phone in silent state, disable bluetooth (to stop connection with gear s3) and exit task is reverse to turn on bluetooth in which reconnect gear s3 automatically
I to wish they would just add a feature to the Gear app for, "Silent Mode Syncing"!
I would think that it would be easy to add such a simple feature compared to all the Samsung Health stuff that they can sync between the Gear and the connected smartphone. But sheesh, guess it's never easy...
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Now does this after update to 4.0?
I think in the latest update for the gear (4.0) it now does this by default! Last night after the update I put my phone on silent. The next morning I had a few missed calls that usually woke me up due to the watch vibration.
Can anyone confirm?
I couldn't find a detailed list of new features for the latest update to check.
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I think in the latest update for the gear (4.0) it now does this by default! Last night after the update I put my phone on silent. The next morning I had a few missed calls that usually woke me up due to the watch vibration.
Can anyone confirm?
I couldn't find a detailed list of new features for the latest update to check.
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How are you putting your phone on silent, Do Not Disturb or using the volume? I have Do Not Disturb set to automatically enable on my phone every night but I still get notifications on my watch. I haven't tried it by pressing the volume key and cycling through Ring, Vibrate and Silent though.
Hi, I apologize if this was posted before but I could not find anything (neither here or on other forums). I have recently bought a Gear S3 (watch) Classic (no LTE) and so far I love it, however I have one question concerning its usage and battery life. I do not wear it when I sleep, and I do not plan to, so I was wondering if there was a way for the watch to detect that I am not wearing it (it's laying on my desk when not charging so it could use the absence of data it recieves from heart rate and movements) and then automatically disables S Health and other functions (except for alarms and maybe phone calls) until I pick it up? I know that there is Power Saving option in the settings, but to manually turn it on and off every day seems like a hassle when I think that it should be able to do it automatically. Is there any way to do that?
Thank you!
It already does detect that you are not wearing it. When that happens it will turn off the screen. Watch also has a "do not disturb" mode which you can turn on on a schedule. This will disable alerts (except alarms) and disable the screen!
Hope this helps!
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