Received this one this week and have rooted, flashed new rom (which was identical to stock anyway) but there are a few minor annoyances I was wondering if anyone else has any clues to remedy.
First off is the weather DB for TW weather. It is from Korea so has very limited information for other countries. Seems to be no way to add to the DB in UI.
Then there is the SMS app. Each time a new text is received it just says 'New Message' you have received a new message. No details about sender or a preview of the message at all.
Fatila said:
Received this one this week and have rooted, flashed new rom (which was identical to stock anyway) but there are a few minor annoyances I was wondering if anyone else has any clues to remedy.
First off is the weather DB for TW weather. It is from Korea so has very limited information for other countries. Seems to be no way to add to the DB in UI.
Then there is the SMS app. Each time a new text is received it just says 'New Message' you have received a new message. No details about sender or a preview of the message at all.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Don't know the answer to your first question but the second one, probably yes.
If you mean message details showing up on edge screen? Try this:
Go to Settings > Application Settings > Message > Notification > Edge Screen. Here tick that option. Now if you get texts it will show preview of messages.
Thats great thanks, now get message preview and a popup. Strange that is disabled by default.
Ok noticed some other problems now.
One is S Planner, it likes to crash when I am trying to alter any time. Also is there any calender app that lets you duplicates events likethe web one? Pretty annoying missing functionality.
Another weird thing is the edge notification bar. It nearly always says no nitrifications even when an SMS or e-mail is in notification bar!
Weird that Korean has no S Health app as well, or voice recorder,
S health and voice recorder needs to be downloaded from the Samsung app store.
My notifications works fine and also the s planner.
Thanks for that tip. I had searched the galaxy store with no luck but it seems you have to drill down to the essentials list to find it. I downloaded S Health and it crashes before launching. There must be some disabled service (Greenify?) or configuration that is causing issues with some Samsung apps.
Fatila said:
Thanks for that tip. I had searched the galaxy store with no luck but it seems you have to drill down to the essentials list to find it. I downloaded S Health and it crashes before launching. There must be some disabled service (Greenify?) or configuration that is causing issues with some Samsung apps.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have not had any such issues with S Health or S Planner apps.
A few days ago I noticed that the notifications weren't showing up but resetting the phone it returned to normal.
Hi guys,
Is there a way to change the default quick reply messages when I receive a Whatsapp notification on my Gear S2?
I've added my own message templates via the Quick Messages settings within my phone's Gear app, but these don't seem to apply to Whatsapp.
Any ideas?
+1 silly why it's not one quick reply list.
Mubble said:
Hi guys,
Is there a way to change the default quick reply messages when I receive a Whatsapp notification on my Gear S2?
I've added my own message templates via the Quick Messages settings within my phone's Gear app, but these don't seem to apply to Whatsapp.
Any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
did you find out how to do it, have the same issue here
I've just been trying to change this too but thought it was weird that the recent templates I added weren't in the list. That's said, the experience seems enhanced somehow for WhatsApp as I can see the person's avatar plus a cute little animation when I read the message so I wonder if something proprietary exists underneath that doesn't refer to the default list.
Unbelievable that Samsung isn't actively doing much about this.
It's been almost 1 year since the OP posted this. I'm guessing people have given up on Samsung.
Quick Reply list is messed up. Not even related to the template we have configured in Gear Manager. Worst part is there's some bogus foreign language option showing up in the Quick Reply list.
Here's the bogus Quick Reply option (shows up twice in the Quick Reply list):
{A la llibreta d'adreces d'Android, assegura't ߘÀ002004ߘހv que tots els grups de contactes (Amics, Família, etc.) siguin “visibles”
Time to revive the dead...
Still have no idea how to change the stock WhatsApp reply messages on my Gear S2 Classic.
Another year passed and I still didn't find any solution... Anyone?
When I receive a WhatsApp message, I can see the message and read it,
but I cant reply to it vwith the Gear S2, it only shows me the option "open on phone"
Does any one know if this is a bug or is it because I dont have a Samsung phone?
It is not a bug. Even witch Samsung phone it is not straightforward.
Look at the app Chat Hub, it does allow you to answer WhatsApp and other social services. It is not free though...
OnnoJ said:
It is not a bug. Even witch Samsung phone it is not straightforward.
Look at the app Chat Hub, it does allow you to answer WhatsApp and other social services. It is not free though...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
So the only way to get it work without a Samsung Smartphone is to download that App?
The most recent Whatsapp update did something to gear s2. Now I don't see the "read more" icon. Sigh..
That's more than Handcent will do. If I get a message in handcent, the watch just displays a message to check phone. Doesn't show the message, or who its from or give us a way to reply to it. I've written to handcent and they have completely ignored me. I have since quit using handcent and went back to the stock messaging app.
bendez1985 said:
The most recent Whatsapp update did something to gear s2. Now I don't see the "read more" icon. Sigh..
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the same problem, help please.
Hi everybody,
I'm new so I'm sorry if I violated a rule, or I missed the section, or else.
But I bought recently this beautiful smartwatch and paired with my P9 lite (Nougat) and I just saw the VERY BIG problem of this watch: WhatsApp's notifications.
So I started to download all the solutions, like the Chat Hub, W History etc etc ... all s**t both software and UI.
Downloaded Notification for Gear s123 (both versions available) but app crashed frequently.
I downloaded Double Check that you can receive notification via this app and WhatsApp too, so double notifications for one message and the watch receive double notifications too and often the watch did not vibrated.
With all this "test" I understand the mechanism of Gear s2's notifications system so I started to develop an app for that, but immediately I applied the first rule of programming:
If something has already been done, do not do it again.
I looked for a message merger:
Then I downloaded an app called Disa from the play store and installed the WhatsApp plugin and now all is ok !!!!!
PRO
- Read all messages
- Reply to all messages
- On phone, you can merge all the notification from the same sender.
CONS
- When you open a message on watch you can see this struct:
Sender
Messages
---------------
messages
But only when you open the notification!
-Sender profile image no more on the background of the watch when receiving a notification.
-Has a different UI for use whatsapp.
However, it's a temporary solution, basically it's just an update to whatsapp or Gear or ... Then I don't know if an update will breaks the app, but at the moment works very very well.
Now I'm working on the development of an app I'm going to do for free but my work takes me a long time.
I hope to have helped.
Best regards!
Thank you so much for the tip! Appreciate your work and may you develop an awesome app to rectify a problem that Samsung doesn't want to
Thank you, I appreciate your support.
However it's not all the fault of Samsung. In fact, the Gear Notification Manager (seems) works that if the app on the phone has the permission to vibrate, the smartwatch vibrates, if the notification on the smartphone contains some information (in this case the messages) then the smartwatch shows that information. WhatsApp restricts Gear functionality through the notification system it has adopted. In other words, Disa sends notifications to the smartphone in a different way, for example, Disa doesn't show the sender's profile photo.
Little update:
Reply via Speech-to-text isn't supported on Gear.
I recently bought a Gear S3 and since then looking for a nice decent solution to the WhatsApp problem.
W-History is doing as promised, but a really ugly GUI.
Notifications for S123 doesn't work on my S3
Chat Hub I didn't check.
I ended up using Notifications Wear Style, which works well for me.
The free version can show 20 messages and then tells you to buy the premium version.
I was about to buy the premium version till I saw your post.
It made me really curious if you can come up with a free app and nice GUI would be a big plus.
Anyway, keep up the good work and hope to see your app soon.
Note that there are a lot of message merger in play store! I just download the first.
However, my work take me long time so I don't know when I can develop the app.
I can only view last received message from notifications thats it. Cant find a place for all messages.
Download from Play Store, an app called Disa. Then download (from app) the plugin for WhatsApp. After that you will able to read (and reply) all WhatsApp messagges.
erfack said:
Download from Play Store, an app called Disa. Then download (from app) the plugin for WhatsApp. After that you will able to read (and reply) all WhatsApp messagges.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Downloaded Disa yesterday, but when started it said that the original WhatsApp app needed to be deinstalled.
Is that correct ?
What are the consequences when the original client is deinstalled ?
Yes. I use this app from 9 days and no problem. The plugin support the end to end encryption.
If you use Disa you can't do call and videocall from WhatsApp.
For what remains you can do all what you do with WhatsApp.
On p9 lite works very well.
erfack said:
Yes. I use this app from 9 days and no problem. The plugin support the end to end encryption.
If you use Disa you can't do call and videocall from WhatsApp.
For what remains you can do all what you do with WhatsApp.
On p9 lite works very well.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the quick answer and information.
Will I loose any current conversations from the original WhatsApp client when I deinstall it and start to use Disa ?
(just want to know before I get into surprises).
No problem man, we are all in the same boat.
And yes, you will loose all conversations.
Received today an upgrade for WhatsApp's plugin. Still no problem with the Gear.
was perfect solution if only allows call and videocall.. maybe in future this possible with Disa?
in every case thank you so much for the Trick
Well, I was thoroughly investigating the problem of notifications, not only with WhatsApp, but with apps like Telegram, Hagouts, Allo and so on. (Of all, only Facebook Messenger Lite had no problems and showed the history normally).
Well, from Android Nougat, the notifications have changed and have come to present more information, but the way Gear handles them yet! The Gear app sends the notifications by the title (or the name of the contact) AND the last information received.
Tizen receives the title and compares it with existing notification titles. If it matches, it will add the last information received in the saved messages. If the title of the notification differs from the one stored, it will understand that it is a new notification and then create a new page.
WhatsApp and Telegram notifications on Android nougat are like this:
For a message:
Name
For two messages:
Name (2 messages)
For three messages:
Name (3 messages)
And more ...
Therefore, the notification title changes each message, making what Tizen thinks is a new notification and creating a new page. The old message is deleted the title has changed and soon the system thinks it has been read.
Anyone who owned a device with the MM or lower could confirm my thesis?
yuzaman said:
was perfect solution if only allows call and videocall.. maybe in future this possible with Disa?
in every case thank you so much for the Trick
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Maybe... but I don't believe. The scope of Disa is to merge the messages not to do calls.
UPDATE: Yesterday I received an update of DIsa and WhatsApp's plugin. Still work!
erfack said:
Maybe... but I don't believe. The scope of Disa is to merge the messages not to do calls.
UPDATE: Yesterday I received an update of DIsa and WhatsApp's plugin. Still work!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi @erfack, I don't know if you are using any other method to read Whatsapp messages on Gear, but I have a Gear Sport and I still don't like any of the solutions when I compare to Android Wear.
I started to investigate it too, and this is what I found: If I connect an Android Wear device to my phone, a "Read More" option appears on the Gear Sport (tested in S2 and S3 too).
Full history:
I have a Gear Sport and, as many others, I'm trying to understand why the Read More options is not appearing in some third-party apps, like Whatsapp.
What I found is that if I have only my Gear Sport connected to my Galaxy S8+, the Read More options does not appear and I can only read the last message received, not the full conversation.
But if I connect another watch to my phone (I also have a Huawei Watch, which runs Android Wear 2) then the Read More option appears on the Gear Watch! Then I can read all messages received.
I have to believe that Samsung can correct this, since it appears to be a notification bug, solved somehow by the Android Wear connection.
For now, I'm just unable to switch from Android Wear to Tizen because of this ridiculous bug that is here since the Gear S2, as far as I read here on the foruns.
Anyway, thanks for your info on Disa!
Hi @Lucas_Skyline, I found there is an incompatibility by Tizen in the android notification system. This is caused by the new Android notification system that have more function and more types respect the oldest versions. Furthermore there's some difficulties about to write code 'cause, in Tizen, apps are written in C (now C++ and .NET too) while android is full Java. This is for Tizen. For WhatsApp, Mr. Zucks decided to not release API or source code of WhatsApp then is more hardest to circunmavigate this (ugly...very ugly!) bug.
erfack said:
Hi @Lucas_Skyline, I found there is an incompatibility by Tizen in the android notification system. This is caused by the new Android notification system that have more function and more types respect the oldest versions. Furthermore there's some difficulties about to write code 'cause, in Tizen, apps are written in C (now C++ and .NET too) while android is full Java. This is for Tizen. For WhatsApp, Mr. Zucks decided to not release API or source code of WhatsApp then is more hardest to circunmavigate this (ugly...very ugly!) bug.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Understood!
I was wondering why it works when I have a Android Wear device connected. I mean, it works on the Gear Sport, I connect my Huawei Watch and the "Read More" option appears. Maybe we could find a way to emulate an android wear device?
Is very very hard to simulate a OS (I think is possible, but the battery will drains after a couple of hour), but a custom solution is easy. Just change the notifications popup like Disa does. However I have the impression that is a commercial move by Android because Tizen is the 2nd wolrd's most popular OS for smartwatches ( Watch OS at 57%, Tizen at 19% and Android Wear at 18%).
not wark now whatsapp plugin ..
been doing some digging on this and I think the answer is eventually going to be no for all but figured I'd run it by and see if anybody has any good workarounds.
Major messaging issues with this watch are:
1. Can't see whole text thread from single sender or group chat. Only most recent messages shows in notifications section left of the watchface. I've seen videos of users accessing the whole thread by swiping up on notification or by going to the messages app on the app wheel. Neither work for me. Swipe up does nothing and I have no dedicated messaging app to select. I've looked to dl a Samsung gear messaging app from Galaxy store but can't find one.
2. Picture messages don't come through on text. It just says "picture". Again have seen video of users of this watch see the physical picture appear on the watch in a text notification and in-line when scrolling through a text chain. Again can't seem to do this at all.
3. A distant third is doodle. Can't send them. Every time I try I get an error message on the watch that reads "can't send multimedia messages from gear to this type of phone." I've tried sending them to iPhones, Android, even Samsung phones, get the same message every time.
Tried vetting these issues with Samsung tech support over the phone, thoroughly worthless. Hoping to find someone with a brain here.
For reference, on big red pixel 2 xl, Google messaging app.
Thanks in advance!