Hi, I purchased a refurbished ATT version of this watch on Ebay and found a few issues. I'm in Canada, so I'm thinking it has to do with region locking.
1. The software update keeps repeating, it installs but then constantly says an update is available and installs again and again every few minutes. I have disabled it for now.
2. When installing the watch faces in the Wearable App on my S22, its seems to freeze alot, mostly on the health faces.
3. The ECG and Blood Oxygen app don't connect to the phone, saying it's not available in the region or no compatible devices found.
Otherwise, everything else seems to work, other health apps, along with Google Assistant, Google Pay.
I'm thinking of returning this watch, but it concerns me that unless I'm buying new and directly from Samsung that I might be getting a non-Canadian variant and thus face these problems as well. Can anyone share any insight? Much Thanks.
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I just recently bought the samsung gear s2 because i wantef samsung pay in my watch. I saw there was an open beta for it. I go into Samsung Gear manager on my phone and yes its it the latest update 2.2.1 and my watch is updated as well, but samsung pay is not there. I saw that the update for samsung pay beta is in the next update past 2.2.1, but it keeps yelling me im in the lastest verson of the app. Its now augest 11th 2016 and the update was in july. I have att service if that makes a difference. Can anyone help or explain why its not there?
Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe that the Samsung Pay Beta only works with the WiFi versions of the Gear S2 and it isn't currently available for the Cellular versions.
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The beta is now opened to 3G S2 watch models..... Although I can't get mine working.... Installed fine, loaded cards but fails to work....
I now have this same problem. Samsung pay was working, I updated the watch on 02-12-2017 now pushing the back button and holding does nothing.
At least you got cards to load, what phone are you using. i have the 3G model, and i have tried loading about 6 different cards, i even ask friends that use apple pay with their cards if i can try and load it, and then delete if it does, and cant get it to take a card. And EVERY card i have tried is on the list that it is available to be loaded.
I have the S2 classic Tmobile with Note 5. I've found that Samsung Pay works hit or miss, depending on where you are trying to use it. Not sure if it's specific store's equipment issues or what.
BPRN said:
I have the S2 classic Tmobile with Note 5. I've found that Samsung Pay works hit or miss, depending on where you are trying to use it. Not sure if it's specific store's equipment issues or what.
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Try processing the transaction as credit instead of entering a PIN. I've found that works much more reliably. I use SPay on my S3 almost exclusively (keeping a physical card only for backup) with success 9 times out of 10.
Edit: I don't know for sure, but parameters set by the financial institution may also impact reliability.
Got my note 7 today, and went to setup Samsung pay on my gear s2.. it seems like there is a version of the tpk preinstalled that does not get updated when installing the gear s2 Samsung pay app, so when you go to use Samsung pay on the gear s2 it constantly tells you that it needs to update ... hoping it's fixed soon, tried resetting the gear we didn't work
I assume you have the non 3g version of the s2, correct? I have the 3g version but am not able to use Samsung Pay on it yet.
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Same issue here. Using At&t note 7 android ver 6.0.1 and the gear s2 classic (non 3g) samsung pay throws an app error.
Error Product does not exist in this store (2316:4004).
This error can be replicated by holding the back key on the gear s2. Samsung pay will prompt you to look at your mobile device and a video begins to play on it. During the video "Update Samsung Pay" appears. When you update it the error is thrown.
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I assume you have the non 3g version of the s2, correct? I have the 3g version but am not able to use Samsung Pay on it yet.
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Yes, using Wi-Fi variant it was working fine on my s7 edge, not working at all on note 7, just keeps asking me to update. When you look at installed applications on the gear it shows Samsung pay twice, so my best guess is that one is up to date and the other is not, when you go to use it, it's probably checking version on the non updated TPK, then forwards you to the update and says you are already up to date because of the updated version. The solution is most likely to get rid of the old version, but it is not uninstallable
Fixed?
I had this problem as well. I'm on Verizon with Galaxy Note 7 and have a non-3g Bluetooth only classic gear S2. I just opened pay on my watch a few minutes ago, it opened the app on the phone, got the usual update message, so I hit update as I have tried every day since I got the phone last Thursday, and to my surprise, it actually worked this morning. :good: After it was updated, I closed the app on the phone, and re-initiated pay on my watch, and the app on the phone opened and the "Start" option was finally there, and I was able to add my card details. So now the trick will be to see if the pay actually works whenever I try to make a purchase.
Hi the community,
Few months ago I bought a SGS7 SM-G930K (Korean variant). I'm almost happy with, expect the battery life which has never been very good, the software limitation with the Korean variant and Samsung Pay which doesn't want to work because of the sim card.
Now I have moved to China and the battery is even worse than before. The services of Google try to connect to the Google server, but it doesn't work here. So the Google services sometimes more than 40% of the battery... Plus the Google Services, the Play Store often crash. I can't use Gmail, Google Maps etc. I don't know why but here the wifi and network reception are very bad.
I don't know what to do, because my phone here became in pain in the neck. The phone is very good, but because of all my problem since I'm living in China, I was wondering if it was not better to sell it and buy a Chinese variant or another phone? Or do you know if I can modify the software to fix my problem? I don't want to root the phone because I'm still hoping to use Samsung Pay on day or to sell the phone.
Thanks in advance.
You could sell it and try a Chinese Variant however I would recommend firstly flattening it and starting from scratch (so full factory reset) and see how you get on
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You could sell it and try a Chinese Variant however I would recommend firstly flattening it and starting from scratch (so full factory reset) and see how you get on
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Thanks for your answer. But if I do a factory reset, I won't be able to install any app or synchronise my data again because I can't access to Google services... Of course there is VPN, but I will need 1 week to synchronise my phone again because it's super slow.
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I'm thinking of buying a Gear S3 (bluetooth, not LTE) to pair with my Moto Z. Any experience on here with compatibility issues? Limited functionality problems?
I have a s3 frontier Wi-Fi only and I didn't have any real issue with a gsm moto z play. The only thing I noticed was that sometimes it wouldn't connect automatically to phone. I would habe to go in and manually connect the watch through the gear app. It want always the case.
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I have a s3 frontier Wi-Fi only and I didn't have any real issue with a gsm moto z play. The only thing I noticed was that sometimes it wouldn't connect automatically to phone. I would habe to go in and manually connect the watch through the gear app. It want always the case.
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have you been able to use samsung pay (MST, not NFC)?
I was able to with no issues.
I have a Moto Z force through Verizon. I have the gear 3 classic. I use Samsung pay. I can receive calls and I can get text from what's app but not from message+ through Verizon. It notifies me that I have a message but tells me to go to my phone. I also do not get any email at all. I try to get support from all three, Samsung, Verizon and Motorola, no one seems to be able to help. Stuck in a 2 year contract so I have to do the best I can.
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have you been able to use samsung pay (MST, not NFC)?
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I can confirm that samsung pay is working, MST is supported. tested in walmart yesterday
Samsung Pay on the watch is independent of the phone. Other than occasionally needing to sync with the Gear Manager app to replenish tokens, the phone is irrelevant.
Long story short, I had Note 9/GW2A, upgraded to S22 ultra/GW4 classic; Tmobile says the GW4 can't be activated because it isn't compatible. I told them to try different plans, try the standalone plan - they never confirmed if they did try any of those. They just said it isn't recognized on their network and I had to return it to Samsung and buy in the store. I told them it is the EXACT same hardware that if it's a firmware issue, they need to provide me the firmware. Samsung confirmed it is the same hardware. Their IT is "looking" into it now; response in 48-72 hours.
Has anybody else here had the same issue? I've read on reddit some solutions, namely it goes down to the plan they are trying to activate, but yes, also GW4 only works with Samsung phones, not an issue here obviously.
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Model name?
Example...
SM-R875F
or SM-R875UUUUU
Or you are have SM-R875N
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I bought my watch (SM-R895U) at best buy and had absolutely no issues activating with T-Mobile
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Long story short, I had Note 9/GW2A, upgraded to S22 ultra/GW4 classic; Tmobile says the GW4 can't be activated because it isn't compatible. I told them to try different plans, try the standalone plan - they never confirmed if they did try any of those. They just said it isn't recognized on their network and I had to return it to Samsung and buy in the store. I told them it is the EXACT same hardware that if it's a firmware issue, they need to provide me the firmware. Samsung confirmed it is the same hardware. Their IT is "looking" into it now; response in 48-72 hours.
Has anybody else here had the same issue? I've read on reddit some solutions, namely it goes down to the plan they are trying to activate, but yes, also GW4 only works with Samsung phones, not an issue here obviously.
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I bought mine on Amazon and activating with T-Mobile was easy. I activated the LTE through the wear app and I am using the original Asus ROG phone.
I have a GW4 and I'm on TMobile. LTE definitely works