Android Wear User Questions - Samsung Gear S3

I current use a Sony Smartwatch 3 running Android Wear connected to an HTC10.
Is there a Phone Weaver/Macrodroid equivalent app for the Gear 2 or 3. Using PhoneWeaver or Macrodroid, I can use my watch to send commands to my phone to switch Wi-fi/Bluetooth/Airplane Mode on and off on the phone.
I use the HTC Music app to play music files stored on the phone. The watch displays some basic controls so I can pause/play skip tracks using the watch. Could I do this with the Gear

foggy69 said:
I current use a Sony Smartwatch 3 running Android Wear connected to an HTC10.
Is there a Phone Weaver/Macrodroid equivalent app for the Gear 2 or 3. Using PhoneWeaver or Macrodroid, I can use my watch to send commands to my phone to switch Wi-fi/Bluetooth/Airplane Mode on and off on the phone.
I use the HTC Music app to play music files stored on the phone. The watch displays some basic controls so I can pause/play skip tracks using the watch. Could I do this with the Gear
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You can control your music with the gear using the music app widget on the watch. It works with many music apps to play pause and skip. Also there is a app that can control bass function of your phones quick toggle in the app store. Forgot the name of it but i know there's one there

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Issues with Sony Smart Watch 2 - Pebble does it better

Hi All
Just for my Sony Smart Watch 2 yesterday and feeling a little underwhelmed
I also have a Pebble which I feel at the moment is better.
Two things:
1. I cannot get the Sony to stay in control of Google Play music when its playing. It will do the volume but then when you go to forward a track it defaults to the Walkman app and starts that and plays the demo tracks. I have tried disabling the Walkman app but then the app on the watch just crashes.
2. The second and less important thing is Facebook integration. On the Pebble it will deal with two Facebook accounts being run on the phone. One in the Facebook app and the other Facebook Messenger. Both running different accounts. The Sony seems to only recognize the actual Facebook app.
Anyone have a solution to these?
Oh I just thought of a third, lack of watch faces! And especially watch faces giving a lot of information. The Pebble face I use has time, weather and phone battery status...
Well theres my rant!
Simon
simonsteele said:
Hi All
Just for my Sony Smart Watch 2 yesterday and feeling a little underwhelmed
I also have a Pebble which I feel at the moment is better.
Two things:
1. I cannot get the Sony to stay in control of Google Play music when its playing. It will do the volume but then when you go to forward a track it defaults to the Walkman app and starts that and plays the demo tracks. I have tried disabling the Walkman app but then the app on the watch just crashes.
2. The second and less important thing is Facebook integration. On the Pebble it will deal with two Facebook accounts being run on the phone. One in the Facebook app and the other Facebook Messenger. Both running different accounts. The Sony seems to only recognize the actual Facebook app.
Anyone have a solution to these?
Oh I just thought of a third, lack of watch faces! And especially watch faces giving a lot of information. The Pebble face I use has time, weather and phone battery status...
Well theres my rant!
Simon
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How are you even controlling media from the watch at all? The media player app is missing in the Android app store at the moment. However, even on the Smartwatch 1 I believe the Sony official app was locked to the default media player on your device. Most brands of phone have their own take on the music player, such as Sony's Walkman app. The volume control is not related to the app as its the master output volume. But the track changes will be sent to a specific app, not the one that's currently playing music.
Now, there is an upgrade of Music Player Extras by Sony that allow to control Google Play Music correctly. You can set volume, play/pause song, go to next or prev song; but u can't see Artist or Title of the song from the smartwatch.
That's an improvement. Shame about no song details. Thanks for the heads up
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fabryx92 said:
Now, there is an upgrade of Music Player Extras by Sony that allow to control Google Play Music correctly. You can set volume, play/pause song, go to next or prev song; but u can't see Artist or Title of the song from the smartwatch.
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Yeah I spotted it last night. I have an HTC phone and before yesterday night, there was no music player at all for the smartwatch 2 hence my previous comment. I have it now.
I too have an HTC phone (One - M7) and the Smartwatch 2. This Music Extras is the only one that work properly with Play Music until now.
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Damn it, you beat me to it :highfive:
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Does anyone know if it's possible to disable or uninstall the New Events aggregator plugin. The one that's just a yellow circle with a number in the middle. I'm using WatchIt!, so don't think I need this New Events thing.

[Q] Smart watch with full music playback control

Hi I would like to know whether there are any of the smart watch compatible with nexus devices out there that I can freely choose music on my device via the smart watch(not just the previous/next track, play, pause.). Personally I would like to buy the Samsung gear fit but I don't know if it can do the thing I mention above. Thanks

[Q] App idea: Soundhound integration

Hi,
Casio's new GShock-GBA400 model watch is able to record music sample and query it from Soundhound app on the phone. Then it returns the result from app on the watch's LCS screen as song title.
The watch is communicating with the Android phone through bluetooth.
I believe this could be achieveable with our beloved Gear 2.
Any developer who could do this ? I'd gladly pay for such app.
any ideas?
is it possible ?
with the soundhound widget and Wearable Widgets app, I was able to do this. Of course it does not use the mic on Gear,instead uses the mic of the phone. But better than nothing.
I use AppLauncher and then added Shazam to the list. In Shazam, there's an option to enable the app to listen right after its been opened. Works great
A new app got posted today called Gearam Music ID - works great and seems to use the watch mic instead of opening an app on the phone. Bonus is you can immediately play to Google Music if you subscribe.
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A new app got posted today called Gearam Music ID - works great and seems to use the watch mic instead of opening an app on the phone. Bonus is you can immediately play to Google Music if you subscribe.
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yes, I saw and tried that. Good one.
But personally I would prefer Soundhound. Because Gearam has a smaller DB (imho) , its recognition is not that well.
mrmrmrmr said:
Gearam has a smaller DB (imho)
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Gearam uses Gracenote DB.
I used to have Gearam Music ID installed on my watch, but I just bought a new phone and had do a factory reset on the watch when pairing them up. I want to reinstall Gearam but I can't find it in the store anymore! Does anybody have an apk for it?

Smart TV Remote for the Gear S3

Hello everyone!
Anyone knows if there is an app for the Gear S3 to control the Samsung TV? Such as volume, mute, channels, Turn on/off...
I believe it is very important to get one from Samsung if there isn't..
Talal.k said:
Hello everyone!
Anyone knows if there is an app for the Gear S3 to control the Samsung TV? Such as volume, mute, channels, Turn on/off...
I believe it is very important to get one from Samsung if there isn't..
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Unfortunately, no. Samsung does have one for the phone itself called Samsung Smart View but currently only Direct TV has an app for the Gear.
Sure would be better to have a remote for the TV on the Gear, anyway you can use a workaround.
Install Anymote on your smartphone, then install Tasker and create one or more tasks that using Anymote as plugin. Then install Tasks2 on the Gear to launch these tasks.
I created a simple task that stops playing on my Nexus Player, then turns off the TV.
Also created tasks for muting TV and to set volume up/down.
Moreover I am testing Autonotification plugin for Tasker, which let to interact with the notifications shown on the Gear.
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Spotify on other market

Good Eve,
I was wondering if it is possible to manually install APK on the watch without having to use the Samsung market.
I explain, I am just bought the watch in a country where Spotify does not work (Israel) however since I am french and we have Spotify back there I do have a Spotify account and use it for music all the time, but since I live in Israel, the Spotify app won't show in the Samsung App Market for some reasons..
Any suggestions?
Can try this.
To install Spotify on your Gear S2 / S3 in a country outside the USA, do the following:
Turn off the phone
Remove your simcard
Turn it back on again
Clear cache/data of "Samsung Apps"
Run Samsung Apps via Hola VPN (free on the Play Store) via USA using wifi.
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Can try this.
To install Spotify on your Gear S2 / S3 in a country outside the USA, do the following:
Turn off the phone
Remove your simcard
Turn it back on again
Clear cache/data of "Samsung Apps"
Run Samsung Apps via Hola VPN (free on the Play Store) via USA using wifi.
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Thank you going to try this tonight. ????
It worked! Problem solved. Thank you very much!
If anyone is interested I modded the Spotify app and changed the default green to other colors.
DOWNLOAD LINKS:
- Green (Default Color)
https://mega.nz/#!vkwXUIhZ!3Euj-Gz0JX_19yG8fu_R27P8POiKqY53MF4BZcXVE2g
- Red
https://mega.nz/#!boxUGahZ!e95sGbRYtvL1stLeDCH9ilfCvs4boaCd6Oc5fQ5-uYI
- Blue
https://mega.nz/#!bgxTWQpR!gSzWRYdQLERNDkG5ddK3JRAoug0RVW7ovBbc43LMT0Y
- Pink
https://mega.nz/#!a5ZhWCTC!G1qnzO_2pm-twqp4Kb5arXSFPuThuFLg4MG5bRgUNXQ
- Purple
https://mega.nz/#!P8Z0CKDa!W5VXlZFSBacqi2vTe4nVuPIfe8eubn6Z_AGWbgCM_MY
- Orange
https://mega.nz/#!D85jQT6C!qfBw-oiIN3wb5DW7HGk5fjH91-HeWfN4l3g-sGaydRY
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How to?
How to spotify apk in my watch?
Do you have Spotify Premium Account or not ? if you have Premium it is easy to play Spotify on your watch but if you are using the free account,you may need the third-party tool Tunelf Spotify Music Converter to help you . you can download Spotify music to your device no matter free users or premium accounts, and even convert Spotify music to DRM-free audio files. Then you can listen to music from the watch itself, either streaming over Bluetooth audio or the internal speaker after you've transferred all Spotify songs to your Samsung Gear S3 which has 4GB built in.
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Thanks. I would like to have a try. I wonder its converting speed. Is the speed 10X faster than the real-time song? I am testing AudKit tool to download Spotify songs to MP3 and its maximum speed is 10X. But I am still looking for a faster one.

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