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[Q] Will the Note Edge work with the Gear S?

Just got my Note Edge yesterday and I love it. But I can't get it to work with my Gear S watch? Very frustrating and I can't figure it out unless they just aren't compatible. Can anyone help?

I have a Note Edge paired with the Gear S that works great. I can use the Gear S via Bluetooth or cell. When you said that you just got the Edge, it makes me think that this Gear was set up with another phone prior to the Edge. If so, you'd have to factory reset the Gear.

My Gear Neo 2 is really finicky with the Edge. I think it is the flakey bluetooth on the entire Note 4 line. Every once in a while (maybe twice a week or more), I have to restart the watch to get it to talk to the phone again. I am totally awaiting the official Lollipop update for my Verizon variant as there are a large number of bluetooth changes in it. I am getting a bit concerned that Lollipop doesn't appear to be on the immediate radar for Verizon now that the S6 is out there
Anyway, I would try and factory reset the watch and start the connection process over. A bit inconvenient but I bet it will work.

i've got both and they're work very well. the bluetooth connection is stable and the reconnection after a disconnect is very fast. i see no trouble

Gregdec said:
Just got my Note Edge yesterday and I love it. But I can't get it to work with my Gear S watch? Very frustrating and I can't figure it out unless they just aren't compatible. Can anyone help?
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download Samsung Gear Manager from galaxy apps..

VERY SHORT BATTERY USE- Gear 2 and Samsung Note 3

Hello All,
I recently purchased a Samsung Gear 2 running Tizen R380XXU0BOA2 and am using a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 running Android 5.0 and running Gear Manager version 2.2.03.16033141N with Gear Plug In version 2.2.03.16033141N
A full charge of the phone can last 2- 2.5 days with medium use and not connected to the phone. A full charge of the watch can easily last 3-4 day when not connected to the phone.
However, when I connect the watch to the phone using BT, I can only get 8 hours or so from either device. Both end up with less than 5% battery life after both sitting there overnight and not being used, but connected via BT
From what I been reading in the forums, this is not the norm.
Does anyone have any idea what I can do to remedy this?
Or is there another program out there like Gear Manager that may connect differently to BT and the Gear 2?
Thanks,
Also....FYI, neither phone nor the watch is rooted.

Well, I found out that Gear Manager version 2.0.14042803 is much easier on my phone and gear 2.... Only issue appears to be that if I go out of range, I get the message BT is disconnected. And when I get back in range the phone does not connect automatically.
I simply set the Gear Manager app not too look for updates, and when it advised me there is an update I am able to cancel it and it stays at the same version.

Samsung Galaxy s7 battery draining issues when connecting/disconnecting from Gear s3

Short Version
Ok guys, I know I'm not alone on this and I can't find anything on it so I decided to start this thread. I believe the most recent TMobile update that occurred 09/2017 for the Samsung Galaxy s7 has either broken my Bluetooth or is causing some process to lock up and continuously use the CPU once I connect my Gear s3 to my Galaxy s7 or disconnect my Gear s3 from my Galaxy s7. The symptoms are the inability to smoothly stream music via Bluetooth, increased battery drain on the phone because now I can only make it about halfway through my workday vs more than a full day like it used to be and an unresponsive phone most noticeable during the time shortly after connecting or disconnect from my Gear s3. I've had my Gear s3 now for roughly two months and this hasn't been an issue up until this last week of 09/2017. The only thing that has changed was I did a TMobile software update within the past week or so.
Long Version
As I mentioned up above I've had my Gear s3 Frontier was for roughly a couple of months now and everything worked perfectly when connecting and disconnecting from my phone most of the time. The few times I've had an issue it was with the Gear s3 battery draining faster than usual and that was able to be addressed with a restarting of the Gear s3. However I'm having connectivity issues with my Gear s3 and my Galaxy s7. The Galaxy s7 seems to be struggling to disconnect and reconnect to my Gear s3 because the streaming of my music starts to skip and pauses for periods at a time and I can't get the screen on my phone to come on during that time because the phone is working overtime doing something behind the scenes for a minute or two. Even once the phone becomes responsive again, the music continues to periodically skip and the battery on the phone is draining much faster than normal. When I'm at work I stream music all day and occasionally turn on the screen of my phone to check a message that I may not be able to fully see on my Gear s3 so outside of that the screen on the Galaxy s7 remains off. I typically work 10-11 a day while streaming music via Bluetooth the entire time from my sd card via Play music. By the end of my workday, I typically have 27% to 35% of battery left on my Galaxy s7 and this is what I'm used to. What's weird is that prior to me streaming music when I connect my Gear s3 to my Galaxy s7, everything appears to be ok, but once I start streaming music and then I get too far from my Galaxy s7 causing the two devices to disconnect via Bluetooth then connect remotely and reconnect via Bluetooth upon coming back within range of my Galaxy s7 that's when all my problems start. Since today is a non-workday for me, I plan to do a little bit of further testing and see if I can determine what exactly is causing the battery drain. I used to be really savvy at this troubleshooting stuff when I had nothing but time on my hands to install apk that could monitor things but not anymore. So if you guys have any recommendations for diagnostic/monitoring tools that don't require root then please let me know.
The quick fix:
My fix to this so far is to turn off Bluetooth on my Gear s3 so that my watch is forced to connect remotely and only then do my Galaxy s7 symptoms go away. I've already ruled out the portable speaker as the culprit because the same issue exists whether I'm streaming music to my portable speaker or streaming music in my car. I figure since the phone seems to be the one that's causing all the headache then it must be the phone.

Samsung health having issues with a global android phone.

I bought a Blackview BV-9100 android phone I liked it because it has the 13000ma battery and can stay charged for about 5 days.
My issue is that when i pair my phone and gear s3 frontier together and install the Samsung Health app the app does not like a global or unlocked phone and bumps the watch off the connection to the phone. I have to restart for it to connect. But if I have the health app still on the phone it will do an auto sync and again disconnect the watch. I called Samsung CC and they are pretty useless. So about a 3rd of my once used features of the phone with the health app are now useless.
A Korean made phone will not work with a Korean phone/gear companies product because a health app is region locked. Pretty stupid.
Is there a way around this and if so where can I locate it!
Thanks!

Question Dissapointed in watch 4

I use smartwatch since the orignal LG Watch (yeah, that square one) and I got hooked with that new gadget.
Since than I owned all of those devices:
LG Watch, LG Watch R, Moto 360 1 and 2, Fossil Gen 5, Gear S3/Classic, Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 4, Apple Watch 3,4,5.
I mostly went with android (owned all note phones) and then I got the iPhone 11 and then 12. I used then the apple watch and it was just a blast compared to all the others.
But then I went with the Fold 2 and I couldnt go back to any other phone. I knew then that nothing will come close to the apple watch (at least softwarewise) and I went with the galaxy watch 3.
I was pretty happy with it exept for some things like sometimes it would lag and software wasnt that great. But then I had big hopes for the galaxy watch 4.
I really like the design but the battery life is just laughable, even compared to my watch 3 which would last 2 days with AOD, continious HR etc.
The Watch 4 is laggy ( or not faster than the watch 3) and the battery life is just crazy bad for me.
I can BARELY get through the day (46mm classic) and if I do ANYTHING with it you can see the battery go down by the minute.
I really wanted to love this watch. I dont know if my watch is broken or something because I seem like the online one with these problems. The new wear os sounded promising but in my experience its just the "good" old wear os with a samsung skin. Still bad battery and still lots of hiccups in performance.
And no I have never been a fanboy for any brands I just like to use the products I like the most but the apple watch sadly is not available on android and it seems like the best option is the galaxy watch 3 or 4.

I think that you have a problem... I have a battery corruption of about 3/4% hour... I can do all the day and I still have battery... I use it even to sleep...
About speed... I don't have that issue... Is fast and furious
Absolutely more faster than my galaxy 3.

Yeah somethijng not right, this 46mm classis 4 lte I have is certainly snappier than my 3 lte, and battery life is about the same as the 3 lte.
Always on display, using Pujie black watch Face, lte enabled on auto, WiFi on auto,and use it to sleep track, have about 20% after wake up and pop it on charge while I have breakfast and shower and pop it back on.

Motawa88 said:
I use smartwatch since the orignal LG Watch (yeah, that square one) and I got hooked with that new gadget.
Since than I owned all of those devices:
LG Watch, LG Watch R, Moto 360 1 and 2, Fossil Gen 5, Gear S3/Classic, Galaxy Watch, Galaxy Watch 3, Galaxy Watch 4, Apple Watch 3,4,5.
I mostly went with android (owned all note phones) and then I got the iPhone 11 and then 12. I used then the apple watch and it was just a blast compared to all the others.
But then I went with the Fold 2 and I couldnt go back to any other phone. I knew then that nothing will come close to the apple watch (at least softwarewise) and I went with the galaxy watch 3.
I was pretty happy with it exept for some things like sometimes it would lag and software wasnt that great. But then I had big hopes for the galaxy watch 4.
I really like the design but the battery life is just laughable, even compared to my watch 3 which would last 2 days with AOD, continious HR etc.
The Watch 4 is laggy ( or not faster than the watch 3) and the battery life is just crazy bad for me.
I can BARELY get through the day (46mm classic) and if I do ANYTHING with it you can see the battery go down by the minute.
I really wanted to love this watch. I dont know if my watch is broken or something because I seem like the online one with these problems. The new wear os sounded promising but in my experience its just the "good" old wear os with a samsung skin. Still bad battery and still lots of hiccups in performance.
And no I have never been a fanboy for any brands I just like to use the products I like the most but the apple watch sadly is not available on android and it seems like the best option is the galaxy watch 3 or 4.
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I agree with you, the battery life is much less than my old watch active2 (i used to charge it every other day but with the watch4 i have to do it every day)
the performances are worse too... when my alarm rings in the morning i have to wait for the screen to wake up in order to stop it ant it takes some seconds .
but i'm finally able to use google pay instead of samsung pay and i hope that the software will improve over time

the_ape said:
Always on display, using Pujie black watch Face
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Wow thanks for this hint. Forgot completely about Pujie black. Bought it 5 years ago and had Galaxy watches for the past 4 years or so. Just installed it. But there is no data from Samsung health yet. Any info about that?
Thanks Martin

Martin7404 said:
Wow thanks for this hint. Forgot completely about Pujie black. Bought it 5 years ago and had Galaxy watches for the past 4 years or so. Just installed it. But there is no data from Samsung health yet. Any info about that?
Thanks Martin
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You can have both Samsung health and Google fit running at the same time, what I do!

My new GW4 battery goes down with about 5%-6%/hour, so roughly 15-20hrs (this with sleep tracking on, snore detection, all notifications on, some exercise (e.g. one hour swimming) and some new apps installation though not too many - maybe 5-10 new apps installed and NO/WITHOUT all time on display.
So not too happy with battery compared to my GW3 which I may reconsider keeping.
Also I was expecting more from Wear OS, notifications on Tizen were straight out of the box, here I had to install an additional Bluetooth notifying app so that all messages (esp. for Whatsapp, Messenger etc to ensure messages and photos come through)...
So first impressions not so good (also spo2 tracking whilst sleeping not working for me even though switched on)
Will keep evaluating but was expecting more, no WOW effect at this time...

I got the watch today. First thing I did was put it on my Watch 3 charger. It says charging, then after about 20 seconds says charging paused.... I have a NEW (less than 2 months old) Z fold 2 and when trying the wireless power share, it does the same thing. This is a huge deal breaker for me.

the_ape said:
Yeah somethijng not right, this 46mm classis 4 lte I have is certainly snappier than my 3 lte, and battery life is about the same as the 3 lte.
Always on display, using Pujie black watch Face, lte enabled on auto, WiFi on auto,and use it to sleep track, have about 20% after wake up and pop it on charge while I have breakfast and shower and pop it back on.
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How do you use Pujie Black with the Galaxy Watch 4? I installd the app both in my phone and the watch but the phone app still says "install on watch"

daavm said:
How do you use Pujie Black with the Galaxy Watch 4? I installd the app both in my phone and the watch but the phone app still says "install on watch"
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I have no problem with PB, after installing everything i went Galaxy Wear and applied the watch face

stakoz said:
My new GW4 battery goes down with about 5%-6%/hour, so roughly 15-20hrs (this with sleep tracking on, snore detection, all notifications on, some exercise (e.g. one hour swimming) and some new apps installation though not too many - maybe 5-10 new apps installed and NO/WITHOUT all time on display.
So not too happy with battery compared to my GW3 which I may reconsider keeping.
Also I was expecting more from Wear OS, notifications on Tizen were straight out of the box, here I had to install an additional Bluetooth notifying app so that all messages (esp. for Whatsapp, Messenger etc to ensure messages and photos come through)...
So first impressions not so good (also spo2 tracking whilst sleeping not working for me even though switched on)
Will keep evaluating but was expecting more, no WOW effect at this time...
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What app did you find that allows notifications from those apps you mentioned?

gettinwicked said:
What app did you find that allows notifications from those apps you mentioned?
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Informer: messages for Wear OS - Apps on Google Play
WhatsApp voice messages, call notifications, message history, vibration patterns
play.google.com

bishop0114 said:
I got the watch today. First thing I did was put it on my Watch 3 charger. It says charging, then after about 20 seconds says charging paused.... I have a NEW (less than 2 months old) Z fold 2 and when trying the wireless power share, it does the same thing. This is a huge deal breaker for me.
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Something is wrong with your watch. Don't have any issues with my. In fact, the Watch 3 charger is exactly the same charger as the one that comes with Watch 4.

Mine (44mm) only uses ~20% overnight (8 hours) and that is with all the sensors going to continuously measure HR and SPO2. I have the Samsung Trio charger and just toss it on there prior to showering and getting dressed. Seems to work pretty well (shrug).

So with my 40mm LTE i got around 35hrs without Aod, Lte, Wifi, Gps and 10min hr - sleepmode/offline mode at night.
Now I replaced it with a 44mm LTE and I get around 40hrs with aod, gps, continuous hr, stress, etc. but LTE and Wifi off. Only on my 2nd charge though.

stakoz said:
Informer: messages for Wear OS - Apps on Google Play
WhatsApp voice messages, call notifications, message history, vibration patterns
play.google.com
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Btw, you don't need this, those notifications you want ARE all there. Just click more under the apps that show up in the phone app, then the drop-down above that says most recent, then click on it and select all. All there!

Yes however not All notifications pass through normally, there is no notification history, e.g. if you decide to reply to a message later, and there are no photos visible sent via WhatsApp, messenger, etc.

stakoz said:
Yes however not All notifications pass through normally, there is no notification history, e.g. if you decide to reply to a message later, and there are no photos visible sent via WhatsApp, messenger, etc.
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Does all the whatsap function like voice message and voice call works perfectly without any issue? Is it worth purchasing?

Anyone have any issues using the speaker on the watch? It's a hit or miss for me when it works or not either using Spotify or music I transferred via Galaxy wearable app

I've given my GW4 a good shot, but I've now gone back to my Watch 2.
The watchfaces available for the 4 are not good. Few have click-through to apps. Resetting is a chore because backup doesn't restore watchfaces or apps. But majorly the battery life is a real disappointment. I was getting 24 hours if I was lucky and not using it much for workout tracking etc.
Google Maps, Google Keep and Gpay were useful to have on my wrist but didn't outweigh the downers. I'll keep hold of the 4 and hope that software updates improve it.
Pity. I was really looking forward to Galaxy Watch 4.