Hi, yesterday I set up the auto call forwarding calls from my phone to gear S, when the pairing is lost (ine the gear app). It works fine. Today it's not working. After the BT pairing is lost, I'm just getting the message on gear, that calls weren't forwarded, clik OK, to try again.
When the gear is paired remote (wifi), the OK click starts the fwd. But usually when I left the phone home, I got the fwd msg after couple of minutes, when I'm fair away, so I'm not even remote connected, and the OK click doesn't helps.
Anybody with this problem?
My workaround is to use Tasker, but better will be, if the auto fwd would works as it should.
Gear S, slovakia, O2 network, paired with i9505
i have the same problem....can you explain how you set up tasker? maybe it can be a solution for people with the same problem until we find another fix...thanx
tasker workaround
for auto fwd when BT pairing is lost:
(gear and phone should be paired via BT before starting this set up)
1. at the home screen I created new profile named Gear S (not necessary)
2. clicked "+" and selected State
3. click Net
4. click BT Connected (the task will be run one time after BT device is paired)
5. at State Edit screen in the Name field click magnifier icon and choose paired Gear S. The same do in the Address field.
6. Click back on your phone or the icon in the left top to go back.
7. new menu should appear, choose new task. Fill in name and click the Check icon
8. on Task Edit click "+" to add action
9. chose Phone
10. chose Call
11.now you have to find the operator code, which you have to call, when you want to redirect calls to another number. In my case it is **21*phonenumber#
12. click Auto Dial
Thats it, now just go back.
to disable autoforwarding, just create another State event and on the step 4. also choose Invert. and at the step 11 choose the code, in my case ##21#.
Analogicaly you can create another task (not BT con discon), when you ring your phone from gear number, than start auto forward to gear number.
hi, first of all thanks for the explanation..it works (kind off)
i followed your directions and now when i turn off BT on the phone the calls get redirected to the gear s, but only when the gear s is configured with mobile networks "always on"....when i put the mobile networks to "auto on/off" and call my phone, i get the answering machine from the sim in my gear s....is this normal?
i just worry when i have to put network always on, that the battery will drain much faster...
hmm, in my case, I have setings to auto ON/OFF. I think, that after disconecting BT, you have to wait couple of seconds (around 120) until the gear S gets registered to network, or until the phone autocalls call forwarding.
I had the same problem. that soon after closing BT I was unable to call to my phone number.
But It's still not working perfectly, I have to do some more research, why today after leaving phone home, the calls didn't get forwarded....
niio said:
hmm, in my case, I have setings to auto ON/OFF. I think, that after disconecting BT, you have to wait couple of seconds (around 120) until the gear S gets registered to network, or until the phone autocalls call forwarding.
I had the same problem. that soon after closing BT I was unable to call to my phone number.
But It's still not working perfectly, I have to do some more research, why today after leaving phone home, the calls didn't get forwarded....
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The only way i am able to get a remote connection successfully is if my phone is on wifi and my watch is on wifi, i left my phone at my house on wifi, walked o my neighbors house and we sent messages to my phone and i got them on my watch. I noticed i successfully get a "Remote connection" notification on my watch, however if I'm using mobile data and blue tooth gets disconnected i will not have a "remote connection" notification on my gear and if someone calls it will take almost 10 mins before i say i got a missed call on my watch, just like your problem on the first post i get a phone icon that lets me try to retireive my missed call but it keeps failing and i get a phone icon with a small yellow "!". Ive tried resintalling gear app, ive wiped the watch plenty of times. Im starting to think it has something to do with ATT. As the remote connection always works if both are on wifi no matter where they are, which is removing the att network connection all together. The app is working by sending me data once wifi is connected.
niio said:
for auto fwd when BT pairing is lost:
(gear and phone should be paired via BT before starting this set up)
1. at the home screen I created new profile named Gear S (not necessary)
2. clicked "+" and selected State
3. click Net
4. click BT Connected (the task will be run one time after BT device is paired)
5. at State Edit screen in the Name field click magnifier icon and choose paired Gear S. The same do in the Address field.
6. Click back on your phone or the icon in the left top to go back.
7. new menu should appear, choose new task. Fill in name and click the Check icon
8. on Task Edit click "+" to add action
9. chose Phone
10. chose Call
11.now you have to find the operator code, which you have to call, when you want to redirect calls to another number. In my case it is **21*phonenumber#
12. click Auto Dial
Thats it, now just go back.
to disable autoforwarding, just create another State event and on the step 4. also choose Invert. and at the step 11 choose the code, in my case ##21#.
Analogicaly you can create another task (not BT con discon), when you ring your phone from gear number, than start auto forward to gear number.
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Yessss...it's working
had to put gear manager back on my note 3 and to reset my gear s, but now it works great...when out of bt range it automaticaly forwards all calls to my gear s, and when i come back into range it automaticly goes back on bt mode....
perfect workaround till they firgure out how to make their built in function to work as it should.
thanx again
What do you mean built-in function working as it should?
As far as I can tell everything is working as designed. I didn't have to configure anything to get auto-forward to work....it seemed to be the default operation. As soon as the watch loses bluetooth connection with the phone, about 2 minutes later, all calls are re-directed, and a 3G data link is established between the watch and the phone so that notifications continue to work.
The ONLY issue is that when you dial-out from the watch it of course presents the caller ID of the SIM in the watch rather than your normal number, so your friends, relatives etc won't recognise the number.
the build in autofwd is sometimes working but usually not. Maybe the problem is, if the data on the gear S are off, than there are problems with autofwd.
When I have data "on" on gearS, there was no problem with autofwd, or the gearS were able to start autoFWD, after clicking on the OK in the "not paired message". Probably the autoforward is not working via network forwarding, but via samsung account.
Anyway, if data are off, then the gear is not receiving any notifications, just calls and messages (I guess).
niio said:
the build in autofwd is sometimes working but usually not. Maybe the problem is, if the data on the gear S are off, than there are problems with autofwd.
When I have data "on" on gearS, there was no problem with autofwd, or the gearS were able to start autoFWD, after clicking on the OK in the "not paired message". Probably the autoforward is not working via network forwarding, but via samsung account.
Anyway, if data are off, then the gear is not receiving any notifications, just calls and messages (I guess).
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Okay I understand. The forwarding is indeed done via data. It sends a data signal via Samsung's server to your Note 3 to tell the Note 3 to forward the calls. It cannot be done at the mobile network level because the forwarding has to be set on the originating number. So the only way to do that is to send a signal back to the phone to tell it to forward the calls. And this is done of course by data.
Tasker solution sucks for me. one thing is my phone brings up a text box prompt asking if i want to forward calls before dialing the number and for some reason when i reconnect it does the cancel call forwarding task twice and again with a prompt.
Same problem.
It seems to be a problem with the Gear S watch. If I restart the watch all works fine for a while.
Wrong way round
niio said:
for auto fwd when BT pairing is lost:
(gear and phone should be paired via BT before starting this set up)
1. at the home screen I created new profile named Gear S (not necessary)
2. clicked "+" and selected State
3. click Net
4. click BT Connected (the task will be run one time after BT device is paired)
5. at State Edit screen in the Name field click magnifier icon and choose paired Gear S. The same do in the Address field.
6. Click back on your phone or the icon in the left top to go back.
7. new menu should appear, choose new task. Fill in name and click the Check icon
8. on Task Edit click "+" to add action
9. chose Phone
10. chose Call
11.now you have to find the operator code, which you have to call, when you want to redirect calls to another number. In my case it is **21*phonenumber#
12. click Auto Dial
Thats it, now just go back.
to disable autoforwarding, just create another State event and on the step 4. also choose Invert. and at the step 11 choose the code, in my case ##21#.
Analogicaly you can create another task (not BT con discon), when you ring your phone from gear number, than start auto forward to gear number.
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I did this set up as explained above but found it was the wrong way round step 11 I had use the cancell Divert code ##21# and click revert don't know why but it works for me . When I did it as explained above when the phone and gear were connected it was diverting to the gear . Then when they were apart (lost Bt connection ) it would cancell the Divert. Anyone else had this problem regards Rob west ps top forum site very helpful
Here's the deal...
Use SVoice on my Note4 and say "text this person" "my message" and then "send" all is good.
Use SVoice on my GearS and do the same using the same name and Gear S says that person is not in my contact list.
Check my contact list on the GearS and low and behold, they are there.
Any ideas? I've done a full reset on my GearS & it was working fine when I had my Note2 connected.
corbin dallas said:
Here's the deal...
Use SVoice on my Note4 and say "text this person" "my message" and then "send" all is good.
Use SVoice on my GearS and do the same using the same name and Gear S says that person is not in my contact list.
Check my contact list on the GearS and low and behold, they are there.
Any ideas? I've done a full reset on my GearS & it was working fine when I had my Note2 connected.
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I am having this same problem connected to my S5, only for me not all contacts are showing in my Gear.
I attempted to contact Samsung customer support for this issue. They told me that only the phone contacts will show on the gear and synced contacts will not. I tried to explain that all of my contacts are synced via my gmail and not a single one has been entered on my device, but she insisted that only phone contacts will display.
SteveO58 said:
I attempted to contact Samsung customer support for this issue. They told me that only the phone contacts will show on the gear and synced contacts will not. I tried to explain that all of my contacts are synced via my gmail and not a single one has been entered on my device, but she insisted that only phone contacts will display.
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I was able to find a work around. I edited the contacts that were not showing up (I starred the contact) and it then synced with my Gear S. I then unstarred the contact and the star went away on my phone and Gear but the contact remained.
To make it easier I starred the contact in my gmail and hit the sync on my phone, instead of doing it all on my phone.
Can I please ask, if someone calls your note 4 or whatever phone you have connected to your gear s does the call still come though to your watch
I use gear 1 with tab 10.5 s 4G and use this as my phone so u can understand why I use gear 1 to take calls, with gear s I would still like people to call my tab and answer on watch, is this still going to be possible
cheers
lee
EFCLEE said:
Can I please ask, if someone calls your note 4 or whatever phone you have connected to your gear s does the call still come though to your watch
I use gear 1 with tab 10.5 s 4G and use this as my phone so u can understand why I use gear 1 to take calls, with gear s I would still like people to call my tab and answer on watch, is this still going to be possible
cheers
lee
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Yes if some one calls my phone the call can be answered on my Gear. If connected via bluetooth they will ring at the same time. If running in standalone I have call forwarding setup so the call will be forwarded to my Gear. One complaint I have at the moment and have not looked into a work around for is if connected via bluetooth and I ignore a call (either on the Gear or phone) the call will then still be forwarded to my Gear.
Do you have the Tab S 10.5, the Gear S does not connect to mine!!! So I have 2 standalone devices, I only bought into this whole smart watch nonsense because I use a tablet as my phone, so now I have ended up with 2 separate numbers????
Considering a Gear S over an Urbane, specifically because the Gear S can function absent my phone (Note 4). However, I keep reading the Gear S won't do this or won't do that. It has me confused. Please confirm the Gear S will do the following if my phone is absent:
1: Recieve a call, Make a call.
2: Recieve a text, Reply to a text, Send a text.
3: Recieve notifications (Gmail, Handcent, Calendar, ect).
4: Using Opera Mini, view/reply to email & add Calendar events.
What won't it do without the phone?
Lastly, I understand the Gear S can be connected via Bluetooth (phone close by) or via data (phone far away). Which is better for battery life?
It does everything you have asked as long as you have a data plan through a carrier (Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, etc.). The watch is given it's own phone number to receive and make calls/texts. There are options to use the watch's # or the phone's # when you are connected via bluetooth to the phone. It also has a wifi chip so you can connect to a network instead of using your data plan. It also has a standalone GPS chip for navigation or running.
When you're not connected to your phone, it will still receive all your phone notifications on your watch.
If you have a note 4 and are looking for a watch, this is a no brainer. I have a note 4 and I love mine.
Excellent. Thanks for the response.
Running Gear S with UK firmware and Galaxy S 5.
Good trusted connection to the Gear/ Gear manager connected, yet I have never been able to have the Google mail notification sent to Gear S, despite the option box being ticked on Gear Manager notifications. How can I get this to work.?
Also What's App and other notifications like messaging, only work sporadically. A full reset will enable and then the next day, it will not work.
Has there been a change in the way the Gear S works with Gear Manager?
Finally, is there a way to get the little Gear connected icon to show at the top of the Galaxy S 5 scree at the notification area? It used to be, but since the u/g to Lollipop is not there anymore.
Do you have this notification on the Notification bar ?
Example : If my computer read the Gmail email, the phone do not display them because there are yet read. Same for hangout.
I don't get Gmail notifications on the phone. Maybe this is why it doesn't work? I do though with WhatsApp and the stock email service.
Since the latest update of the gear manager i don't receive any messages on my gear anymore. Make and receive phone calls work. Anyone else have this and have a solution for this? I unchecked and checked in the settings the notifications but that didn't did the trick. Any help or recognition is appreciated.
After the last update s voice sends texts to whomever it feels like and call whomever it feels like. Svoice call bob........it replies calling bob.....then phones a random person from my address book. Meh 1st world problems.
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JezzeB said:
Since the latest update of the gear manager i don't receive any messages on my gear anymore. Make and receive phone calls work. Anyone else have this and have a solution for this? I unchecked and checked in the settings the notifications but that didn't did the trick. Any help or recognition is appreciated.
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Same thing happened to me. I was receiving all other notifications except messages. All I did was power cycle my gear s and it fixed it
Naw I just factory reset the gear and reinstalled gear manager and now it works again. Tnx