Hello.
After finally getting life back in the gear 2, I wanted to use it again. Downloaded gear wearables from playstore, connected the watch with Bluetooth after factory reset, but it can't see it at all in the wearables app.
Got past the login with the taping trick at start, but don't help me much when I can't set the correct time, get notifications etc. Atleast I can take pics and monitor the heart rate xD
Do anyone know a way I can make it see the clock in the app? Or another app that can connect with it?
I found a solution that worked.
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Hopefully someone here can answer this question. I am pretty sure I have a "Smart Watch Addiction". I love my Samsung Gear watch (original) as well as my new Gear 2 and I have a NEO as-well. WHY??? Well I keep the original because I like the build quality and the Android options on the original, I like the Orange Neo I just picked up for the color and the Gear 2 is just cool with the metal and new placement of the camera and speaker. And I don't know about the rest of you but after using a smart watch for awhile it is really hard to go back to a regular watch once you get used to the notifications. So now to my question: When I want to switch from one watch to the other I power off the first watch which is currently connected. Once it shuts down I power on the watch I want to currently connect with. Once it is powered up I open up gear manager and it shows no watch is currently connected. If I tap the top of the screen it has a "+" and it says the current gear will be disconnected. I am ok with that since I am wanting to connect to the other gear...I hit ok and then it shows currently paired devices in gear manger. I see all 3 watches listed. If I tap say the orange Neo it will show a message: Your Gear will be reset to the factory default settings. All the settings and downloaded applications data related to your gear will be deleted and the Gear will be reconnected to the mobile device. If I touch "OK" it proceeds to totally erase the watch I am trying to connect to and it does eventually connect but takes over 5 minutes. I tried unparing the device first and made it visible then searched for new devices and it finds the watch but once again want to reset it. Does anyone know a way to basically swap between multiple gear watches without resetting the watch each time? I have tried uninstalling gear manager and reinstalling I have rebooted both devices. I have a Note 3. Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Wow. I just asked the same thing before seeing this post. I bought two Neos in different colors and have the same problem. If you let it reset the watch it will then offer to restore it from backup, which it does, but not everything gets restored and you have to find and redownload everything that is missing. Then more often than not, it hangs up at the end of the restore and you have to reboot the watch. Takes an hour to go from my black one to my orange one. Aarrgggh.
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did you guys figure it out?
I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
dave1977nj said:
I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
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Did you solve this, I too am having the same problem
alienmaan said:
Did you solve this, I too am having the same problem
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I had this issue on my GS6 and it drove me crazy. I ended up using D.M.A. Navi Watch instead. It shows the weather by default and when you're navigating somewhere it shows you directions. I was finally able to get the weather service to work with the stock weather watch face by uninstalling everything to do with Gear from my phone and reinstalling. I think the problem was initially with the WeatherProvider app, but it's one of the pieces of software that's installed automatically when you pair your Gear 2, so you have to uninstall all of the Gear software and let it reinstall itself when you pair your Gear again. It's a pain I know, but I don't know a way around it.
Noyes86 said:
I had this issue on my GS6 and it drove me crazy. I ended up using D.M.A. Navi Watch instead. It shows the weather by default and when you're navigating somewhere it shows you directions. I was finally able to get the weather service to work with the stock weather watch face by uninstalling everything to do with Gear from my phone and reinstalling. I think the problem was initially with the WeatherProvider app, but it's one of the pieces of software that's installed automatically when you pair your Gear 2, so you have to uninstall all of the Gear software and let it reinstall itself when you pair your Gear again. It's a pain I know, but I don't know a way around it.
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Samsung is such a jerk that it ruins something on purpose so that people will go and buy new one instead.
Beginning to think that the Samsung remark is on target. I spent over an hour on phone with tech - my belief that users give up and purchase new phone. However, it does not make me want to invest in Samsung tech when this happens.
dave1977nj said:
I changed my main screen to show the time and weather, and it says: tap here to use location info on mobile phone. I tap it but it does nothing. I am on a Galaxy S 5.
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Galaxy Note 8 and Galaxy Gear 2 Neo. I unpaired my watch, uninstalled the Gear app on my phone and the other 3 apps it said would be uninstalled. I touched Pair in bluetooth to reconnect to my watch and go through that. It should start installing the gear app on the phone. Allow phone/gear pair. It took 3 tries for successful pair. This fixed my weather on the watch. Hope this helps.
Folks hopefully someone can help me with this problem.
I have the gear S3 Frontier and its been perfect since launch but since the last update R760XXU2BQC5 my Bluetooth seems to have gone a little wonky.
My phone is Samsung s7 Edge but since this update my gear refuses to reconnect to the phone at any stage automatically. I can manually reconnect it no problem but this is basically making my gear unusable. Once I leave Bluetooth range the watch goes into stand alone mode and will never come out of it. I've to search again via Bluetooth on my phone to reconnect.
I've tried resetting the gear deleting the gear app on my phone and I cannot get it to work.
Any help greatly appreciated
I had the same problem on my Note 4. I had to reset the watch, then on your phone, go to settings, application manager and look for gear. You'll see that there are 2 entries on the list, named "gear s plug in" and "samsung gear". You need to clear all the data from both of these. Now delete the samsung gear app, reinstall it and this should fix your issue. This was trial and error to begin with, but if you follow these exact steps you should be fine.
Legend mate cheers I deleted one but never noticed the second one
Nice one, did that fix it?
Did for me as I had the exact same problem (thanks Google)
GM all. I had been having trouble with my GW4 LTE (non-classic) not recognizing my home WiFi password, when it had been for many months. I have a Note 20 5G and I'm on the Android 12 Beta. So I wrote to the Beta community and he said to delete the Gear Wear an on the watch, reinstall from the Play Store, and I mistook it for saying to remove it on the phone. Now, when I try to reconnect with the GW4, it says it will delete everything and pair as a new phone/watch. The auto backup unfortunately DID NOT save ANY backups. I have a ton of watch faces that I bought (I know I should be able tor reinstall from Play Store), some watch faces that I created (I may be able to get back), but other data that I know will be lost.
Anybody know of a way to re-connect but preserve the data. There are ways to do it with Wear OS 2, but NOT Wear OS 3. My Tizen watches were not affected and I was able to save all my Samsung Health data to my GW3. Any help, thoughts, would be greatly appreciated.
hello, yes that would be good. i reinstalled wear plugin and wear app due to latest bug on plugin app now cant connect same phone to watch. it stuck at 80-90% during setup. Dont wanna reset the watch before getting my data. No solution?
I finally gave up and reset the watch and paired it again. All is well now. This time did an immediate backup after I tweaked everything I wanted. I will try to now remember to back up at least once a week. Happy Holidays everyone!
It all has to do with the "Galaxy Watch4 Plugin". If you're having any issues syncing between phone and watch. If you end up having to reinstall it then you'll have to reset your watch too. Make sure you backup!
Hello, i've got a non Samsung phone. Recently there has been a bug with recently released gw4 plugin app. Bug is that wear app force prompt user to update the app although its already up to date so wear app doesnt open and watch cant connect to phone.
Reinstalled the wear app and plugin apps on watch. During pairing setup stage "Getting your watch ready" it always stuck at 80-90% and doesnt complete setup so watch cant connect to phone. Cleared cache on watch via recovery menu but didnt help. Tried connecting another phone but watch doesnt allow it without factory resetting. I dont want to reset watch as i have some health and watch settings data on it that hasnt been backed up yet. There is an adb trick to connect wearos watches to another phone without resetting but seems like it doesnt work with wearos 3. Cant manually pull the data from watch via wifi debugging either because it's not rooted. Any solution would be much appreciated. Cheers
How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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How to pair a Wear OS smartwatch to a new smartphone without resetting it – Phandroid
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Nope that trick dont work.
My Galaxy plugin today just forget how to be a plugin and stop connecting to watch restarting it does nothing so i clear data of it and oh boy i am formatting my watch right now.
That's great
PS. If anyone find some solution for this let me know xD i have a feeling that i might need it in the future