I recently switched phones from an android to the Iphone 8 plus. I also have a Samsung Gear S3 watch that worked flawlessly with my android phone. I realize it will be limited with Iphone, however I am getting texts and other notifications I just can't respond, which I know is how it will be.
My question relates to email. I don't get my email on my watch now unless I put the Outlook app on my phone. I was wondering if there was any way to use the Apple email function on the phone and still get emails on my Gear S3 without having to download Outlook? I haven't seen any options on the Samsung Gear S app that I downloaded
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Hello all,
I'm using a Samsung Gear S2 Classic on a Huawei Honor 6 phone, which is compatible, and since I've been using it (2 days) I've never recieved once a text message notification on it, or email. I recieve facebook messenger push notifications, so I can reply to the messages, but no way of going back to the application.
The real problem is that in the Tizen app menu, there is no "Messages" application, nor email for that matter. It's like they don't exist, they were deleted in the OS. But I know that they are there because I've seen the icons on video reviews on youtube. It's extremely frustrating to not recieve text notifications, it makes the watch useless. I've factory resetted twice, played with the options, sent hundreds of text with my phone in vibrate mode, silent mode, screen on, screen off, mixing combinations, but nothing works. I've tried looking on internet for this particular problem of notifications not working but have had no success in finding a fix.
This morning at work I factory resetted the Samsung Gear S2 once more and connected it to a friend's Samsung Galaxy S6, and when everything was synchronised I was shocked to see in the app menu on the watch the Messages and Email apps. I couldn't believe it ! So there must be some sort of compatibily issue with non-samsung (or non-galaxy ?) phones.
I've now synchronised it back to my Honor 6, the Messages app has dissapeard... furthermore I'm not recieving any notifications at all (no push notifications from FB messenger for example).
I don't know what to do, am I supposed to wait for an update ? Will there ever be one ? Are there any hopes ? Should I return my watch to amazon for a full refund ?
Thank you for your feedback.
PS : I imagine that this could be a smart move for non Galaxy users to oblige them in buying new Samsung Galaxy phones... but I would like to keep my android phone for another year at least.
Is the messaging app selected in Gear Manager to forward notifications? Email app?
dwallersv said:
Is the messaging app selected in Gear Manager to forward notifications? Email app?
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Are you talking about Notification --> Manage Notifications --> select "Honor 6 internal messaging application" ?
I have selected Phone, and there is no messaging app in the list, which is weird. I think it's included in "Phone" App, since it's the same thing when you open Messages and Phone app on phone, just a different tab inside the application itself.
Here is a video showing the default messaging app on Honor 6 [Here is the video : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxiirboGxLnUUHllcW5tN1k3d0k/view?usp=sharing].
Both messaging and e-mail on the Gear are reliant on the corresponding Samsung (not Google, not third party) stock apps on the phone. It makes sense to disable them on the Gear when paired with non-Samsung phones. Third party apps that don't have corresponding apps designed for the Gear are managed through notifications - that includes messaging and e-mail.
BarryH_GEG said:
Both messaging and e-mail on the Gear are reliant on the corresponding Samsung (not Google, not third party) stock apps on the phone. It makes sense to disable them on the Gear when paired with non-Samsung phones. Third party apps that don't have corresponding apps designed for the Gear are managed through notifications - that includes messaging and e-mail.
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Thanks for the response. However I have returned the watch, I'll wait probably another year to buy a smartwatch at a cheaper price and better compatibility. It's taken too much of my time already to configure and I've had enough of factory resets
I gave back my Samsung Gear S2 and got a moto 360 2nd gen : it's a completely different world, the moto 360 is 100 times better imho and fully compatibly. HAIL GOOGLE.
I was wondering if someone can tell me what to expect differently when using a Samsung phone? I'm currently using my gear s2 with a nexus 6p and thinking of getting the S7 but only if there are enough benefits to using it with the watch. Can someone who is aware itemize the advantages of using it with a samsung phone?
I use it with a non Samsung phone and the only thing not available are the messages and email apps on the gear.
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I use it with a non Samsung phone and the only thing not available are the messages and email apps on the gear.
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I'm also running the 6p and I receive both messages and emails on my S2, no problem. You just need to make sure they are authorized via the on phone app.
Or are you saying you aren't able to enter or send messages/emails? I've not figured out how to do that .... but trying to do that via the small watch screen would be difficult anyway.
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I'm also running the 6p and I receive both messages and emails on my S2, no problem. You just need to make sure they are authorized via the on phone app.
Or are you saying you aren't able to enter or send messages/emails? I've not figured out how to do that .... but trying to do that via the small watch screen would be difficult anyway.
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Yes i cant send messages or emails because the apps are missing. But of course i get the notifications on the watch which is enough for me .
I have a problem in accepting calling calls in Gear S2. I can see only Reject button, but no Accept button. I am using OP2. Does anyone has the same issue?
You don't have the e-mail app and SMS app, so You can only view the new ones without attachments if You have proper apps and settings for it (I use HUB for e-mails and Messenger(not the fb one!) for SMS in my BlackBerry Priv).
Also, You cannot answer the incoming call. You can reject + reject with text message, but not answer.
What is more - I found out that using non-Samsung phone the Gear S2 does not see the alarm from my phone. Previously it was vibrating and I could snooze / cancel it from Gear S2. Now I cannot.
I use it with LG G4 and I can't buy any apps... I can install only free apps.
How do u set it up to get messages on the watch. I got the free att gear s2 the 4g model, and I can pair it thru bluetooth with my iphone. When I get a phone call, the watch alerts me, but when I get messages, my watch doesn't receive any messages. I'd really like to know how to get it to receive messages.
Have been unable to find elsewhere where this issue is acknowledged by Samsung or any work around.
Two Samsung Gear updates ago S7 email notifications from the stock samsung email app to S2 stopped respecting per email account notification settings. Now when you set email notifications to on or off in the gear software, it is on or off for all your email accounts. This makes S2 almost unusable if one of your accounts is high volume. And if you turn it off, you don't get important email notifications.
The S7 notifications continue to correctly respect the Samsung email app per account notification settings on the phone.
Can anyone here confirm the issue and if it is in line for a patch? It started the same time that people noted that exchange and other email was no longer displaying on their S2 and had to be read on phone. Different issue but same patch broke both.
Any info welcome. Considering dropping the S2 from use.
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The question had been asked many times, I know, but I have some specific details still missing:
1) Officially messaging and email are not fully compatible with non Samsung devices, but how much not fully? And what messaging and email do they mean?
1a) Messaging is the Samsung SMS equivalent? Or other messaging apps (WhatsApp/Viber/Facebook messenger)? If only SMS then I can care less about it.
1b) While email is what concerns me: I depend on Gmail and instant notifications, maybe I will do quick replies on the watch, does these work?
2) Technically all notifications should be passed without issues (those you select probably, I have a MiBand 2 and I can choose which notifications to send, love it, but very limited device). But does it in any way support the quick actions Android provides for notifications?
3) Also, do all the above features work when connected to WiFi? I frequently go beyond Bluetooth reach and need to continue getting notifications about everything.
4) Finally, before getting it, is there a way to browse the list of apps on the Samsung apps store for the S3 including available watch faces? Page is not working on PC.
Thanks
I have oneplus3 connected with Gear sport (equal to S3).
1) messages (mail/whatsapp/SMS etc do receive the watch), there is also the app notifications for my SmartWatch in case some notifications won't come through by default.
2) yes, for my emailapp aquamail it does. I suppose Gmail will too.
3) just tested it, yes. Watch connected to wifi and bt disabled. And my phone to 4g. Notifications are comming through.
4) before you buy the watch? I don't know.
I just know,
on iphone,
s3 can't reply message directly, like sms, email, sns.
From samsung's s3 site,
I have a Gear S2, and when I use it on my android Galaxy S7 there is no option to send to gear, forcing me to rely on the tiny keyboard on Here WEGO app.
Anybody know an alternative that I can type an address on my phone and send it to my Gear S2, or ways to fix that above problem.