S8 + Gear S3 connection problems - Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers

Hi.
Just got my S8 and tried to pair it to my Gear S3. All goes fine and both stay connected until I disable the watch audio function in the S8 bluetooth options (to not conflict with my car handsfree system).
After that, they just disconnect and don't connect anymore.
Any help out there?
Thanks!

Choose connect to another phone. Gear watch will ask you to light reset, after that you can reconnect your device to the phone. All your downloaded apps will be deleted on gear watch, but you can reinstall them.

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Issues Using BT Headset with Phone When Gear S2 is Connected

Hey Guys -
I've had my Gear S2 for a few months now and even though I enjoy it, have a nagging issue I can't seem to fix. I've searched everywhere and tried a few things, but no luck.
My Issue
My Gear S2 is obviously connected to my phone via bluetooth most of the time. If / when I power on my headset (M 165), it does not work as phone still goes to the Gear S2. In Bluetooth Settings, it shows both connected, but the M165 says "(No Phone) behind it. The only way I can use the headset is if I turn off bluetooth on my Gear S2. The same thing happens when I connect to my car's bluetooth as it says "No Phone" too. (see attached screenshot)
What I've Tried
- Disabling "Phone Audio" for the Gear S2: When I do this, the watch disconnects from BT. When I reconnect it, Phone Audio is enabled again
- Bluetooth Auto Connect: I installed this and set the Gear S2 to enable everything but Media and Call audio then set the headset to have only those two enabled. Didn't make a difference when testing as things still connected the same way
- Tasker: I've tried using a variety of plugins to get things to connect correctly, but still no go
Specs
- Phone: HTC One A9 / Marshmallow 6.0.1 / Rooted / s-off
- Watch: Gear S2 / Latest Firmware
- Headset: PLT_M165
Any suggestions? Am I perhaps using Bluetooth Auto Connect wrong? Thanks!
Have you tried another Bluetooth headset? I recommend you to try it if you didn't. I am not experiencing this issue and here is my setup:
I have Note 5 with latest Android 6.0.1 available.
Gear s2 (3g/4g model from T-Mobile) with latest firmware available.
I have Jawbone ERA (few year old model)
I also have Plantronics Legend
When watch is connected to my phone and then I connect any of the above Bluetooth headsets to my phone, then I am able to make/received calls on the headsets and in Bluetooth settings I see "phone" where as your pictures show as "no phone".
How did you connect your watch to your phone by just pairing via Bluetooth or through Gear Manager app?
I have this same issue with my Pixel 2XL it seems that having a samsung phone fixes this issue but any other android phone will exhibit this issue. if you disable phone call audio to the watch everything else will work properly. but you cannnot take calls on the watch.
Has anyone found a better fix then this???

Bluetooth reconnecting problem

Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
Septoman said:
Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
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I did yesterday, all I had to to was turn on airplane mode then turn it back off, reconnected in seconds.
I also had this problem. Since I switched off WLAN, Bluetooth reconnects automatically.
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Septoman said:
Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
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I had this problem and it was driving me nuts but did a hard reset of my watch and now everything is working ok.
It looks though I had something else competing with my watch and by unpairing the watch, doing a reset and then resetting up my watch, cleared whatever was causing the issue.
I have nearly the same problem with watchmaker App.
When the Bluetooth connection is disconnected because out of range and the BT is reconnected again, the watchmaker has problems to sync with gears s3.
No data like phone battery, etc .. . Also sending watchfaces over BT is not working anymore.
But with other apps (Samsung Gear App), BT is always working great.
To solve the problem, I have to switch off BT on the smartphone and enable again.
After that the sync between watchmaker and Gears S3 is working well again until reconnect.
I have informed the watchmaker developer, but until now, I have gotten no feedback.
Android 6.0.1
Watchmaker App: 4.8.2
Thats a very old version of WatchMaker.

How to connect the Gear S3 with Bragi The Headphones

Does anyone know how to connect the Gear S3 with Bragi The Headphones?
BT-headset pairing from the Gear S3 doesn't recognize the Bragi headphone.
I'm having the same problem. Not recognised by the S3 Frontier.
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This worked for me.
aving the same problem over here. Yet I believe I just found a solution. Have a look if it's working for you as well:
1 Make the Bluetooth connection with your Gear S 3 and your phone
2 Go to the Gear App - Settings
3 Scroll down to 2nd last item: Info Gear
there you select the 4th item (unknown sources. This is my translation. If this is not the correct name, it should be the 3rd starting from the bottom, just above your Samsung account)
4 Activate and accept on the pop-up message
5 Make the connection between your Gear S3 and your BT headset
Still can't connect with my gear s3 and bragi headphone
I did the same steps but still can't connect,is it had any other method to make it connected?
Thanks
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I have the same problem with "The headphone", except for a gear sport instead of gear S3. Still no solutions?
so..... no one succeeds? :/
Hello there,
I have the Same problem like you others here..
I tried to connect my bragi headphone to my Samsung gear sport and also tried to connect it to my Samsung gear fit 2 smartband but both won't find the headphone in pairing mode..
Guess it's a problem with bragi Bluetooth protocol and Samsungs tizen os..?
I submitted a service request to bragi via their website and also sent a message to them via the Facebook page.. Maybe I'll get an answer from them.. Guess all we can do is mail both Samsung and bragi about the issue and wait and hope for a solution..
I havn't found a solution. I ended up returning my watch, as i didn't want to buy a new bluetooth headset. I bought an old and cheap LG g watch (first gen android wear) and flashed it with android wear 2.0. With this smartwatch I am able to connect my bragi earbuds with no issues, but I have to use google play music to sync offline content to the watch. Works great!
I solved.
I managed to solve the connection problem with gear sport.
1 dissociate from the smartphone.
2 hold dash right until you hear "disconnected audio"
3 hold down dash again until warning "dash are visible again"
4 start coupling from the gear s3

Bluetooth connection gear S3 & Oneplus 5T

Hi everyone,
Could you guys answer me this: Is the Gear S3 supposed to disconnect the bluetooth connection to my phone every 2 minutes or so? I can't get it to stay connected no matter what i try. I need to reboot my phone everyday because if i don't.. it won't connect at all.
After the reboot everything seems good and i can connect the gear through the Gear app. it only keeps disconnecting every 2 minutes... I've contacted Samsung about this and they told me that the bluetooth version on my phone was insufficient. They suggested i upgraded my phone from an Oneplus one to a Galaxy S8. I bought a Oneplus 5T instead but the problem remains. After i contacted Samsung for a second time they told me that's its probably a hardware related issue. Sounds unlikely to me since rebooting the phone allows me to connect to the watch.
Anyone having the same problem?
anyone?
no problems here, using oneplus 3T (so not the 5T) (On beta OS: A3003_28_180112) and gear s3 frontier on 3.0.1
jbrugger said:
no problems here, using oneplus 3T (so not the 5T) (On beta OS: A3003_28_180112) and gear s3 frontier on 3.0.1
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Hmm ok. I think it's really weird i need to restart my phone every morning in order to connect to the phone.. Makes no sense
I am experiencing a similar issue with my 5T and Gear S3. Sometimes all the system sound (not multimedia ones though) are being routed to the ear speaker instead of the multimedia speaker. I missed an alarm several times. The fix for me is the same - to toggle BT connection with Gear S3.
I have lockscreen sounds enabled. So, I realize the issue reproduces when the lockscreen sound starts to be very quite and is being emitted via the ear speaker.
Another issue with the Gear S3 I am experiencing is as follows. If I start Google Play Music on my phone, Gear S3 does not see the player is started. Anyway I can start the player from the watch. Also, if I toggle the BT, everything works perfectly. Could you check this on your side as well?
I had a similar situation, the Gear S3 was disconnecting very often. In the end, I found that it was the battery saving settings on my N8 Sirocco that killed the connection to my Gear S3. I turned settings and blacklist off, and now it stays connected.

S7 can't see my galaxy Watch 4 in bluetooth device list

Hi,
I hope someone can help me! I have a galaxy Watch 4 and it was paired with my Galaxy S7 phone. Everything worked perfectly. I had to send my watch for repair. Now it's back and my phone absolutely doesn't recognize the watch at all. The watch is not in the bluetooth device list. I cannot pair the watch with my phone.
I tried pairing the watch with another device to see if the watch was the problem. I was able to pair the watch with another android phone (galaxy A5). So the watch is not the problem. It seems that the problems lies within my galaxy S7 phone.
I tried rebooting both the watch and the phone. Didn't do anything.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the WEARABLE app. Didn't do anything. (the wearable app can't find the watch either).
I tried erasing cache memory of WEARABLE app. Didn't help.
I unpaired every bluetooth device from my phone, then tried to find the watch to pair, but the phone doesn't see the watch. Note that the phone can recognize and pair with every other devices: earbuds, car, speaker,etc.
I tried to find my phone from my watch bluetooth menu, but the watch doesn't see the phone.
I hope I explained the problem clearly. Does anyone have a solution to suggest? I hope so, because without being paired to my phone, my watch is basically useless...
Thanks!

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