I got my S2 Classic yesterday and spent a bit of time setting it up. All was going well until I went in to the menu on the Gear app on my Note 3 and found that I was connected to my son's Samsung account. I have no idea how this happened as I didn't enter it at any point in the setup. I tried to see if there was any way to switch to my account but there doesn't seem to be. I decided to delete and reinstall the Gear app from the phone and factory reset the Gear but it's still the same. The only thing I can think of is to delete his Samsung account. He has a Galaxy S5 but says he doesn't remember setting up the Samsung account so I think I just registered the phone when I bought it and that's all the account has been used for. What would the effect be of deleting his account and, if I did, what would i do then?
Also, I have seen a list on here of apps which are compatible with the S2. When I look on the Gear app store there are a lot of them missing such as Gmail, GoSMS, Google Music and a load more. I wouldn't think that this is associated with the above problem but can't see why this would be unless they aren't available in all countries? I am in the UK.
I would really appreciate any help with this. Thanks.
Can anyone help please?
The phone is using whatever Samsung account is on it. You will have to delete that account on the phone and put yours on it. You may need to factory reset the watch too. In the app side the disappearing app seems to be a common problem. The apps do need to be compatible with your phone as well as the watch. Good luck
Thanks for the reply. If I delete my son's account I assume that I will only de removing it from the phone and not deleting it altogether?
I removed my sons's account and added mine OK. Thanks for the help. Re the apps, is there anywhere where you can find out which apps are compatible with which phone?
Not sure on that. If you know the app you can post here and ask someone to give you the developers email address
The one I'm most interested in is Gmail and I'm surprised that I can't find that on the Gear app store. Is it not available on the Note 3 or is it that it's not available in the UK?
If you go to your gear app on your phone and then to notifications you can click on manage notifications ands select Gmail and any other app you want to get notifications for on your watch. try that
Yes, I ticked Gmail there when I set it up but I don't get any Gmail notifications at all. I also have Email ticked although I don't have that set up. I have tried unticking that but it doesn't seem to make any difference. I had assumed that I would need to download a Gear Gmail app, I take it that I don't?
Is Gmail set up on your phone? That's where the notification comes from. . There is no Gmail watch app that I know about
That makes more sense! I had been looking for a separate app for the Gear. I have now gone in to the Gmail app on my phone and turned on Notifications. This is partially successful in that it did start sending notifications to the Gear but it also beeped on the phone which was why I had set Notifications off in the first place. It seems to be a bit unreliable though in that only some of the emails are showing on the Gear. I have fixed the beep by setting the tone to be played as Silent. I'll see how it goes over the next few days with Notifications. I'll also re-explore the list of apps I was looking at as I am now assuming that those I thought I was missing are actually not Gear apps at all but Android apps which can send Notifications to the phone. Many thanks for your help with this.
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how to find which samsung accounts are associated with my gear s2??
I have a Galaxy s6 that I'm trying to backup for my boss.
He has two email accounts for old employers saved on this phone, with messages in the inbox he needs to be able to search through, but of course, no longer has sign in credentials to these companies.
He cracked his screen and got a new phone about 6 months ago and has all his apps and everything arranged and working perfectly on that NEW galaxy s6.
But he needs these gmail accounts and a lot of other data from his old phone on his new one.
How can I back up and restore that data to his new phone.
Or, the best, would be any way to merge the phones? Ie., reverse sink the NEW phone to the OLD one and then forward sync the merged phone to the new one?
Since setting up my phone on 20th April, Google contacts has failed to sync, but Samsung contacts is working fine. This is showing up in both the Cloud/Accounts/Google contact sync and in the Contacts App /manage contacts/sync contacts. Is anyone else experiencing the same, thinking it may be that i used Smart switch to transfer content from my S6.
fridgeman said:
Since setting up my phone on 20th April, Google contacts has failed to sync, but Samsung contacts is working fine. This is showing up in both the Cloud/Accounts/Google contact sync and in the Contacts App /manage contacts/sync contacts. Is anyone else experiencing the same, thinking it may be that i used Smart switch to transfer content from my S6.
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Download "contacts sync fix" from the play store and run it. Worked for me.
Is this with all contacts? Or just those You've entered in your new phone? What if you add a contact via the website? Does that sync to your phone?
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Download "contacts sync fix" from the play store and run it. Worked for me.
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I was having the same issue of not syncing Contacts in two Google Account, used the suggested app, it seems to be working. Thanks.
I've noticed I lost some contacts when I synched my s7 to my s8. I realized it when I would get texts from someone, see no name and just their number in the messaging app but was able to figure out who it was based on the message history which transferred over fine using smart switch. Of course the missing contacts were propogated to google and not sure how they got deleted.
Hope this solution might work for you ! I'm using S8 plus and the root cause was that the battery saving mode disabled these things
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Download "contacts sync fix" from the play store and run it. Worked for me.
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this ap worked for me, THANK YOU SO MUCH
This sucks!
"sync is currently experiencing problems, it will be back shortly"
... AND I HAVEN'T SEEN IT WORK SINCE!
Does the app in the store kick it back into gear... Or is it just a temporary fix?
Fixed
After switching over to to the S8+ from the S7 EDGE, I
1. uninstalled the main Gmail account from my new phone
2. Reinstalled it
3. Restored contacts from main phone settings menu
4. Went to phone, contacts menu, and removed the "hide contacts with no number"
5. Magically, the contacts I wanted... were there. But they had their numbers stored in another account. Not sure why.
6. Copied and pasted the number I had been missing into all my main or pertinent Gmail accounts from within the contacts app of the phone.
7. Beautifully, the contact shows up now... AND... the phone backs up and syncs contacts as it should with no error message.
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Thanks, my friend was having this issue on his older galaxy phone.
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Since setting up my phone on 20th April, Google contacts has failed to sync, but Samsung contacts is working fine. This is showing up in both the Cloud/Accounts/Google contact sync and in the Contacts App /manage contacts/sync contacts. Is anyone else experiencing the same, thinking it may be that i used Smart switch to transfer content from my S6.
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If you turn on power saving mode , just turning off the Power Saving feature .
I try on my Galaxy Note 5 it work....
This app fixed my contacts issue as well. I've used iOS for five years now, but now bought a Samsung S8. LOVE this new device! Only my new contacts wouldn't keep properly synced to my Google Apps account (basically my domain coupled with gmail). This app fixed this, everything now works peachy! I'm going to buy this app just to reward its creator! THANKS!
GeorgeMike said:
Hope this solution might work for you ! I'm using S8 plus and the root cause was that the battery saving mode disabled these things
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Disappearing contacts
I have Verizon S8+ and lately gmail contacts I have had in my Android phones for years, have started disappearing. Last week, I noticed in messages, a number with no name. when I looked at texts, I noticed this is a friend I have had in my phone for years and his number had been deleted in gmail. I noticed about 10 others that same thing has happened. I had to go back into gmail and enter number. Anyone know why this is happening?
Root cause = battery saving mode
GeorgeMike said:
Hope this solution might work for you ! I'm using S8 plus and the root cause was that the battery saving mode disabled these things
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I have the same phone and issue and this was the root cause too! Thank you!!!
What's annoying is that no where does it say anything about the mode interfering with your account settings.
Thank you for the find!
I am suffering from this problem as well, tried turning off battery saving mode, downloaded the contact sync fix app and still nothing. Still says last contact synced in March. Also my calender won't sync nor Keep Notes either :/
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About a month ago, I upgraded my S7 to Android 7.0. Today, I switched to an S8, also with 7.0
Ever since the upgrade to 7.0, I've been having the same problem with both phones - GMail is taking an excessively long time to sync changes.
If I receive a new email on my PC and then delete it, it still appears on my phone. If I delete something on my phone, it still shows up new and unread on the desktop. Sometimes, these changes don't sync for nearly an hour.
Anyone else experiencing a similar issue since upgrading to 7.0?
I and a couple others have got gmail to synch properly by deleting data for the app. Hopefully that will work for you.
Yes same problem. Also cleared data and cache. It worked for about a day then started the same thing again. Very frustrating.
My Xiaomi Mi Max 3's screen has just died and I forgot to set up my WhatsApp, SMS & Call history back up.
I'm going to order replacements parts but they won't arrive until mid-January, therefore, I'm hoping to use my old Samsung Galaxy Note 3 in the meantime.
Currently I can continue using my WhatsApp on my PC even though I've already put my SIM into the Note 3 but haven't installed WhatsApp yet so not sure what's going on there.
If I do install WhatsApp on the Note 3, will I lose my history on the Max 3? Ideally, is there a way of either merging the old history (once I fix the Max3) with the new history on the Note 3 at a later date? The same goes for SMS & call history.
If I could somehow backup the history via WhatsApp via the PC then that would solve the issue but can't see any settings to do so.
What would you recommend? Should I not install WhatsApp on the Note 3? I'm dreading the moment when the WhatsApp on the PC states it's no longer connected to a phone because then I'll really be buggered. Really feel like an idiot for neglecting this.
In fact, is there anyway of accessing the internal storage of the Max 3 without having to use the screen?
Thanks and hope you can help.