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Whatsapp on Gear S2

Anyone know if whatsapp is available on the s2???? I like the look of the S2 but kinda wanna wait for the LG Urbane 2 for the Google support
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squeakywipers said:
Anyone know if whatsapp is available on the s2???? I like the look of the S2 but kinda wanna wait for the LG Urbane 2 for the Google support
When I grow up, I wanna go to Bovine University!
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not avail. there are limited apps right now. but stock msging app works fine.

riz_zo said:
not avail. there are limited apps right now. but stock msging app works fine.
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Whatsapp not available? This Review says something different....

straylight23 said:
Whatsapp not available? This Review says something different....
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I don't use Whatsapp... and I actually dispute some of the info in that article (Hangouts works just as good as FB Messenger and Whatsapp from what I understand)... but I think I can clear up the confusion.
On the Gear S2 there is no Whatsapp app available to download and use. However, when you get a notification for Whatsapp on your watch you can still view the message in your notifications window and reply to the message with an emoji, a dictated reply, or a typed out message.
What it comes down to ultimately meaning, you can reply to messages, you can not initiate them.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, as I've said before, I do not use Whatsapp.

supersoulfly said:
I don't use Whatsapp... and I actually dispute some of the info in that article (Hangouts works just as good as FB Messenger and Whatsapp from what I understand)... but I think I can clear up the confusion.
On the Gear S2 there is no Whatsapp app available to download and use. However, when you get a notification for Whatsapp on your watch you can still view the message in your notifications window and reply to the message with an emoji, a dictated reply, or a typed out message.
What it comes down to ultimately meaning, you can reply to messages, you can not initiate them.
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, as I've said before, I do not use Whatsapp.
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Thats right! :good:
Btw: I have a S2 Classic

Has anyone noticed that sometimes when receiving an image on Whatsapp, the notification shows the image on the watch, but not always.
What gives?

eugenedfourie said:
Has anyone noticed that sometimes when receiving an image on Whatsapp, the notification shows the image on the watch, but not always.
What gives?
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For me it never shows, but the person pic profile sometimes shows, others don't

Hi,
I noticed the same thing on my gear S2, wherein the images show up sometimes but not always.. the same for the person's display picture as well..
Any fix to this??

There's a problem with the WhatsApp notifications, it only shows the last message for each person, instead of each and every message.

WhatsApp on Gear S2..
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One can get WhatsApp notifications and even reply from Gear S2 but not start a session from Gear S2 or any gear at all. There is no app like the messenger app.

Text on watch using Hangouts instead of Gear Messages app

Has anyone been able to start a text message on the watch using Hangouts instead of the default watch app for messaging? I use Google voice so need to use hangouts for all texting.
I know I can rely to hangouts messages received on the watch... But can't initiate new texts on the watch. Any message started with watches messenger app results in failed send.

When I get a Hangouts notification on my S3 - I can push the reply button but then it doesn't give me a keyboard to actually type in a reply - it just goes away

Try installing Android wear app if you haven't already. Seems there might be a dependency.

soundneedle said:
Try installing Android wear app if you haven't already. Seems there might be a dependency.
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It is not Android Wear OS, it is Tizen OS.
So nope.

There is a strange effect, where people have found that installing the Android Wear app on their phone and launching it once and then just hitting home to leave it, helps with using Hangouts on the S3. Strange, but has been reported here.
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Redflea said:
There is a strange effect, where people have found that installing the Android Wear app on their phone and launching it once and then just hitting home to leave it, helps with using Hangouts on the S3. Strange, but has been reported here.
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+1 strange but it does work. I had Hangouts working in that manner on my S2 after I installed Android Wear on phone.

maxip said:
+1 strange but it does work. I had Hangouts working in that manner on my S2 after I installed Android Wear on phone.
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.. hey brother. . did you sideload the Android Wear app?

travperk said:
.. Hey brother. . Did you sideload the android wear app?
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on the phone.

I'm using Blackberry Hub
soundneedle said:
Has anyone been able to start a text message on the watch using Hangouts instead of the default watch app for messaging? I use Google voice so need to use hangouts for all texting.
I know I can rely to hangouts messages received on the watch... But can't initiate new texts on the watch. Any message started with watches messenger app results in failed send.
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I started using the Blackberry Hub app and this allows me to see messages from Google Hangouts on the new Samsung Watch. It also allows me to reply from it. You don't need to install anything on your watch. Blackberry Hub is $1 a month after 30 day trial but I think is worth it until Samsung comes up with a native way to push the notification.
-EDIT: sorry I think this is what you were looking for, should had read it better first.

they are def right. download android wear on your phone and just open it up. dont even need to set anything up. just close it after it opens. i can reply to hangouts no problem ever since i read and did that a while back.

send and reply whatsapp

I have the new Huawei smartwatch w2 (coming together with P10) and when I say the command "send a whatsapp message to xxxxx" it never recognizes the contact who I want to send the message. The system always is asking "who" again and again. It seems to not recognize the contact.If I say "send an email to xxxx" (same person) or a simple sms or call it works fine.
Also if I reply whatsapp notification, there is not an error, it seems fine , but the answer never is sent through whatsapp
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

whatsapp
Hi.
I got same offer.
You can recive whatsapp in the watch but no send any.
I use Skype or Hangouts to have conversations with my people.
I will come back always here to change information about my use daily with the watch.
Bye

I have the exakt same problem with replying whatsapp

spenstberg said:
I have the exakt same problem with replying whatsapp
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I have installed the app "Messages" on the watch and now I can reply to whatsApp. I guess a have to take this solution until it works. I had a moto 360 sport before this watch and it is the same problem there with whatsapp. And that watch does not have android wear 2.0. It worked with replying messages earlier but something has happend...

my huawei watch has same problem from some days

Try to install the beta version of WhatsApp. It worked for me.
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tonic01 said:
Try to install the beta version of WhatsApp. It worked for me.
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It sadly did't work for me
But I have read that android has problem with android wear 2.0, so thats why the release for other watches are delayed. So I wounder how good the android 2.0 in this Huawei watch 2.0 is?

I get an android wear update for the watch today. Now the replay for whatsapp works again

I have a Problem i cant install WhatsApp its not at the watch playstore an at the google Playstore it says its not combatible with the Huawai Watch 2 .. any Ideas?
I have the 4G with own Sim Slot and to use Whatsapp i need it to be installed at the Watch. I just now send a Request to Whatsapp i hope they will answer.

I have the same Problem....Huawei watch 2 4G but I can't install whatsapp....not compatible with my watch.

ricon900 said:
I have a Problem i cant install WhatsApp its not at the watch playstore an at the google Playstore it says its not combatible with the Huawai Watch 2 .. any Ideas?
I have the 4G with own Sim Slot and to use Whatsapp i need it to be installed at the Watch. I just now send a Request to Whatsapp i hope they will answer.
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Hello ricon. Have you found a solution to install whatsapp

teletimmy78 said:
Hello ricon. Have you found a solution to install whatsapp
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"We provide notifications for Android Wear. We do not, however, have a dedicated Android Wear app. If you are unable to receive notifications on your watch, please try all troubleshooting steps on our FAQ."
Thats the answer from Whatsapp. Really not what i wanted to hear.

ricon900 said:
"We provide notifications for Android Wear. We do not, however, have a dedicated Android Wear app. If you are unable to receive notifications on your watch, please try all troubleshooting steps on our FAQ."
Thats the answer from Whatsapp. Really not what i wanted to hear.
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Today i tried saying "send whatsapp message to XXX" and it asked me for the message and it went thru successfully.
I'm using the HW2 BT version

I'm having the same problem, my hw2 get stuck asking for the contact.
How did you solve it?

Use wear messages for WhatsApp and Facebook messenger. You will be able to respond that way.

So the trending theme here seems to be pronunciation of contact names. I noticed that most people posting to this thread seem to have english as a second language and from what I can tell, you are attempting to send the message in english. Try and speak the contact name slower, this will allow Android Assistant to learn the contact name easier over time since the name possibly sounds different when pronounced with an accent.

Watch faces
The problem, at list in my case resolve just changing the watch face that supports it. The once that I tried are the once with the "setting" icon. I'm using the Huawei watch 2 sport with the official watch face, the one on the demo.

funanxu said:
I have the new Huawei smartwatch w2 (coming together with P10) and when I say the command "send a whatsapp message to xxxxx" it never recognizes the contact who I want to send the message. The system always is asking "who" again and again.
Also if I reply whatsapp notification, there is not an error, it seems fine , but the answer never is sent through whatsapp
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
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I'm having the same problem.
I have tried the different solutions proposed in the thread, but the problem continues.
Have you found the solution?
Thanks

Gear s2 and WhatsApp Fix

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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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!
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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.

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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.
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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 ..

How To Guide Whatsapp voice message through 3rd party app on XDA - Watch Droid

I'm a bit annoyed that we don't have a decent Whatsapp app for the GW4. But maybe there is still hope, after all with Whatsapp Beta 2.22.21.6 there is now a companion app for tablets. I came across the app Watch Droid on XDA, which was originally written for Android Watches (i.e. those with real Android, such as the current Lokmat Appllp 4 Pro with Android 11), but has also been available as a Wear version in the Appstore for some time . This means that Whatsapp voice messages work reliably on the watch, which the app retrieves from the cell phone in real time after receipt. Lots of setting options, free version can receive five voice messages, premium version costs $2.49 through the app on the phone. Here is the link to the developer's thread on XDA, the links are to the playstore versions for phone and watch.

thanks, I'll try it!

Informer does send Whatsapp voice and photos to watch
You may also respond with Gboard from watch - including voice recognition

pabgar said:
Informer does send Whatsapp voice and photos to watch
You may also respond with Gboard from watch - including voice recognition
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Indeed, on subscription.

Lucas0511 said:
Indeed, on subscription.
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Shure. Sometimes you have to pay for somebody's work