Am I missing something? the auto call forwarding seems to be missing from the verizon version. The manual call forwarding seems to be working well, but would love to have auto call forwarding. I tried the tasker method and it didnt work either as the phone (note 4) has a popup confirmation for call forwarding before making the call when using tasker.
I don't have it on mine either. I've got a Sprint Note 4 paired with an AT&T Gear S. My gf has an AT&T Note 4 paired with an AT&T Gear S and she has the auto forward feature. Only difference between us is the carrier of the phone.
For me, on Verizon, the auto forward used a *90 or *92 code I believe... Doesn't matter, whatever it is, didn't work. It's a regional thing. If the code doesn't work for you, you'll have to do it manually... No biggie.
Here's what I did. First, click disable forwarding. Some genius decided to enable 3gwhenever forwarding us active. Next, From your phone dial *72 1234567890. Replace with your 10 digit phone number. If successful, it will beep then hang up. If you don't care about voicemail skip ahead a step, at this point.
Then, unless you want to check your voice mail from your watch, forward your watch to Google voice, or my favorite, youmail. First, disable Bluetooth on your phone, then make sure mobile data us on, and set to use your watch number is set in call settings. Then, dial the same *72 code with your Google voice or youmail number.
Once forwarding is set, you probably don't want your friends to wait twice as long for voicemail to kick in, or listen to your ringer twice as long when ignoring calls (30s on phone, 30s on watch) . Now, set mobile data to auto switch, test that 3g goes off and on opposite Bluetooth connection.
I personally like this way better than the factory way. When I don't answer phone, it goes directly to voicemail. When my phone is dead, it automatically forwards to my watch without remembering to enable forwarding. When the watch doesn't answer, it gets forwarded to the same combined voicemail box
*92 does not auto forward calls
Update 12/14/14:
I finally spoke to someone at Verizon that understood the *92 issue not working.
They entered a ticket to the tech team.
He contacted me and I described the problem in great detail.
A day later the issue with using the auto-call forwarding has been fixed!
He said he was going to check other regional switches to verify that the *92 option was valid.
The issue has been corrected and the auto forward from the watch works perfectly now.
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Same issue here....
When trying to forward all calls from my cell phone to the Gear S, it dials *92 as the prefix to my number.
Called Verizon and they said it is a Samsung problem....talked to Samsung and they say it is a Verizon issue.
Neither of them are willing to report this as an issue...time to return it! Ugh!
Also the watch keyboard dis missing some special characters like the dollar sign $??
This "smart watch" appears to be in beta form.
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After a bunch of clicking and rebooting I got auto call forwarding working when Bluetooth disconnects, but it's not what I expected. It's only forwarding calls when unanswered.
I want to walk away from the phone and leave it behind and have calls forwarded immediately, all calls. I thought that was the point of this feature. I don't want them to have to ring for 20 seconds.
Is there some way to make this happen? I noticed it changes the network settings for unanswered, busy, and unreachable to forward, but all call forwarding is never enabled by auto forward.
Lucent said:
After a bunch of clicking and rebooting I got auto call forwarding working when Bluetooth disconnects, but it's not what I expected. It's only forwarding calls when unanswered.
I want to walk away from the phone and leave it behind and have calls forwarded immediately, all calls. I thought that was the point of this feature. I don't want them to have to ring for 20 seconds.
Is there some way to make this happen? I noticed it changes the network settings for unanswered, busy, and unreachable to forward, but all call forwarding is never enabled by auto forward.
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Wild guess you have AT&T?
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Wild guess you have AT&T?
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Nope, T-Mobile. Why? Are there ways around this on non-AT&T carriers?
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Nope, T-Mobile. Why? Are there ways around this on non-AT&T carriers?
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You could try this
AT&T and T-Mobile both use the same method, which lets you change the number of rings right from your phone. To do it:
Dial *#61# from your phone. Tap Send.
You should see a new screen that displays a bunch of information about what's getting forwarded. You should see a line under "Voice Call Forwarding" that says "Forwards to +11234567890" (where 11234567890 is an eleven digit phone number, likely different from your phone number). Write down this number and tap Dismiss.
Now, dial **61*+11234567890*11*XX# and hit Send, where 11234567890 is the number that you found in step two and XX is the number of seconds you want to wait until voicemail picks up. You can set it in increments of 5, where 30 seconds is the maximum.
After you hang up that call, you can have someone call your phone and see if it worked. On some phones, you can dial *#61# again and see how long it's delaying your calls, but our test phone (the iPhone) did not show this information.
Alternatively, you should be able to call AT&T or T-Mobile customer service and have them change it from their end, if you're uncomfortable doing it yourself.
Another thing that may work for you is to get up a google voice number and just give people that number. Then you they call you, it will ring at both numbers and you wont have to use the call forwarding option.
If only I was not in an area were I cant port my current cell number over to google voice, i would have dont that years ago.
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Another thing that may work for you is to get up a google voice number and just give people that number. Then you they call you, it will ring at both numbers and you wont have to use the call forwarding option.
If only I was not in an area were I cant port my current cell number over to google voice, i would have dont that years ago.
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THIS is true I have google voice I haven't ported my number over but I get calls and text fine from both numbers
So while messing around with the settings for google voice and the gear s, I have found that if you activate google voicemail on your phone then the call forwarding option will not work when remotely connected to your gear. Calls forwarded TO the gear s work as they should. As soon as I deactivate google voicemail on my phone, and my phone & gear are connected remotely I have no issues with getting my calls from my main cell phone line forwarded to the gear. This is kind of a bummer cause I was hoping that i'd be able to use google voicemail and thier transcription service because tmo charges $3 per month for it. Womp comp. I rarely get voicemails so it's not the end of the world.
Lucent said:
I want to walk away from the phone and leave it behind and have calls forwarded immediately, all calls. I thought that was the point of this feature. I don't want them to have to ring for 20 seconds.
Is there some way to make this happen? I noticed it changes the network settings for unanswered, busy, and unreachable to forward, but all call forwarding is never enabled by auto forward.
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I have a call forwarding widget on my Note 3 that I use all the time. It instantly forwards all calls to whatever number you wish. Works great as when I'm in my office at work, I have it forwarded to my land-line, same at home, etc. I do this now on my Gear S too as like you, I don't want to have people wait through long numbers of phones ringing before it reaches me.
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I have a call forwarding widget on my Note 3 that I use all the time. It instantly forwards all calls to whatever number you wish. Works great as when I'm in my office at work, I have it forwarded to my land-line, same at home, etc. I do this now on my Gear S too as like you, I don't want to have people wait through long numbers of phones ringing before it reaches me.
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which app/widget you speak of? i want to give it a try.
I just hate when people tell you something helpfull and dont provide a link to the help seriosly you come here tou tell about widget but didnt even mentioned wich widget you using to call forward .....dahhhh
idelgado782 said:
So while messing around with the settings for google voice and the gear s, I have found that if you activate google voicemail on your phone then the call forwarding option will not work when remotely connected to your gear. Calls forwarded TO the gear s work as they should. As soon as I deactivate google voicemail on my phone, and my phone & gear are connected remotely I have no issues with getting my calls from my main cell phone line forwarded to the gear. This is kind of a bummer cause I was hoping that i'd be able to use google voicemail and thier transcription service because tmo charges $3 per month for it. Womp comp. I rarely get voicemails so it's not the end of the world.
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They both use the same conditional forward entry for your line. You can only have one. Not both. If you want to forward to Gear S, your own voice mail will never be reached. And vice versa.
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I just hate when people tell you something helpfull and dont provide a link to the help seriosly you come here tou tell about widget but didnt even mentioned wich widget you using to call forward .....dahhhh
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I suppose, but honestly, it's not that hard to just get on the play store and look them up. They all function pretty much the same. The one I use is RedirectCall. All one word. Very simple and works great.
I couldn't get it to forward right away either. It's pretty simple to actually just forward the call to the Gear S manually. On T-Mobile devices dial **21*your ten digit number# then when you want to cancel it dial ##21# that's it works like a charm. I use tasker now to do it automatically and have had no hiccups. Although it would be nice if it just worked correctly through gear manager.
My Gear S (Verizon) is paired to my Note 4 (Verizon). While paired via blue tooth the watch performs beautifully. Unfortunately, when not connected via blue tooth I'm unable to get Call Forwarding to work. The Samsung on-line tutorial shows an "Automatic Call Forwarding" option within the Galaxy Gear App, however, the only call forwarding option I see in my Galaxy Gear App simply says "Call Forwarding". When I choose that option...and verify my Gear number is the number I want to forward calls to...my Note 4 dials *92 then my Gear number. The Verizon message then says that number is not valid and my call forwarding stays in "Requested" mode without actually enabling. I've checked with Samsung help they say it's Verizon. I've checked with Verizon they say "that's correct *92 is not valid...you need to request Call Forwarding from your Note 4". When I try to explain the Gear is supposed to automatically request call forwarding when away from my Note 4...the customer service people at Verizon have NO IDEA what I'm talking about. So...after this long post...does anyone have this working with Verizon? If so, how?
*92 will work, but only after several rings. I counted like 8 rings. *72 is the right number to use. not sure if it can be changed anywhere. As for auto-forward, this feature was just added for everyone else in the most recent update. unfortunately, Verizon being the software nazi they are, have not released this update to their version. Just need to wait.
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*92 will work, but only after several rings. I counted like 8 rings. *72 is the right number to use. not sure if it can be changed anywhere. As for auto-forward, this feature was just added for everyone else in the most recent update. unfortunately, Verizon being the software nazi they are, have not released this update to their version. Just need to wait.
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I've tried everything to get *92 to work. Each and every time I'm greeted with "We're sorry your call cannot be completed as dialed. Please check the number and dial again. Announcement for Switch 192-4" The Call forward option on my Gear stays in "Requested"...without actually having completed a successful call forward request. Verizon did get call forwarding right (on my Note 4) for "All Incoming Calls"...which properly dials *72. For "Unanswered Calls", however, I believe it should be *71 not *92 (as my Note 4 dials) . Unfortunately the Gear does not allow you to choose "ALL" or "UNANSWERED"...seemingly defaulting to "UNANSWERED". The people at Verizon say I have the correct two prefixes to forward "ALL" (*72) or "UNANSWERED" (*71) and they can't tell me why the Note 4 is hardcoded to *92 for Unanswered. The people at Samsung simply state it's a problem with my carrier (Verizon). As a workaround. I entered a FWD contact into my Note 4 that properly dials *71 .but I have to remember to do so from my Note prior to departing with my Gear (leaving the Note behind for a run). When I told the Verizon rep this was how I was getting around the issue she replied "there is NO DEVICE that can forward your phone...you must forward from the phone itself" I'm hopeful Verizon issues an update quickly...and pulls their head out of their rear...but I have friends with Verizon Nokia Lumia Icons still waiting on their 8.1 update (Verizon is the last carrier...and almost 5 months behind to release)...so I'm not holding my breath.
Same issue here with Verizon Gear S.
When attempting to forward all calls from the watch, it dials *92 not *72.
*92 does not forward the call, only get the number was mis-dialed recording.
Major function of this watch is non-functional and Verizon or Samsung say it is each other's problem.
So Sad because this device is so promising!
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Is this resolved yet?
I can set up call forwarding independently but then if I get a call on the watch, I am unable to transfer it to my Galaxy Note II (the button doesn't work). I suspect this is the reason.
Solution to Gear dialing *92 instead of *72
Found it on the Verizon Community page. Following is the entire transcript:
One of the coolest features of the Samsung Gear S watch is the ability to forward all calls from your phone to your watch remotely from your watch. Unfortunately, the software dials *92 then your Gear S number.
This call fails because *92 is not the proper number to forward calls. It should be *72.
According to Verizon and Samsung support, there is not a way to change the *92 to *72.
There is also no known software update to fix this error.
This takes a MAJOR function of the watch away and with no "promise" to correct.
Sadly, the omission of this feature = return it to Verizon. Any Gear S watch owners found a way to fix this issue?
by TL-was-taken on Dec 16, 2014 2:52 PM
After talking to several "levels" at Verizon tech support, I finally got someone that knew what was going on.
They entered a ticket to the network team to add the *92 short code to my area's switch.
Now the *92 auto forward is working flawless.
He also stated that he would check the other switches nation wide to verify that *92 was an allowed short code.
So the problem is FIXED!
So I have google voice set up for my voicemail. I noticed that this has not been working. I had to reset up my phone and then it stopped working again. It looks like when they phone is set to forward my calls to my watch, it disables google voice forwarding and my att voicemail program then pics up. I was wondering if any one knows how I can get this working again.
I went and removed my phone from google voice and then reactivated it but once my phone starts to forward me calls it no longer works.
Just wanted to see what other google voice users are doing.
They both use the same entry for your phone line: conditional forwarding. So, you can only have one at any time. When you setup auto-forwarding, it will change the conditional forwarding to Gear S number and when it no longer need forwarding, it resets which will be back to your network default that is your voice mail number.
I set up my gear s # as an additional phone in Google voice and had t-mobile turn off voice mail for it, that way I don't need to worry about calls forwarding.
I don't use my Google voice number as my main number so I like the forwarding set up. I wonder if I can have my voicemail number changed on my phone to my Google voice number.
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I don't use my Google voice number as my main number so I like the forwarding set up. I wonder if I can have my voicemail number changed on my phone to my Google voice number.
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Go to the google voice web site & look in settings under that number. It should say "activate voicemail" and it'll give you a code to dial on the phone. It's something like *444*YOURNUMBER*# or something like that. But the gear forwarding will always disable GV when it's enabled.
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Go to the google voice web site & look in settings under that number. It should say "activate voicemail" and it'll give you a code to dial on the phone. It's something like *444*YOURNUMBER*# or something like that. But the gear forwarding will always disable GV when it's enabled.
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Ya thats the problem im am running into. I may call att to see if there is something else we can do to fix this.
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Ya thats the problem im am running into. I may call att to see if there is something else we can do to fix this.
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The only other thing i can think of is using the short code to set your watch to use google voicemail so your phone would forward to the watch & the watch would forward to GV if you missed it on the watch. It's just a thought but I'm waiting to use gear forwarding for that reason so lemme know if you find a setup that works.
One option is to turn off all forwarding in the watch and phone, then set up both the watch and phone normally in Google Voice.
All calls will be sent to both the phone's number and the watch's number. For whatever reason, the phone tends to ring at least 3 or 4 seconds before the watch rings, so there's no problem with multiple ringing devices. If neither the phone or watch are answered, the call will go to Google Voice voicemail.
Also, within Google Voice Settings / Phone, click "Activate Google voicemail on this phone" and dial the number string indicated. You'll have to do this twice, once through the phone, and again through the watch. An important note is that the phone needs to be disconnected from the watch when you dial the code through the watch.
The easiest method is just to put the phone into airplane mode before dialing the number from the watch.
Just spent an hour and a half on the phone with Verizon, and then Samsung. Remember that *92 issue where hitting "Turn on Call Forwarding" in the Gear Manager or on the Gear S would try dialing *92 (a non-working short code) instead of *72? Yeah, that's still a thing. And Verizon and Samsung don't care. They don't care about you. Here is a run-down of what I went through in almost 2 hours.
-Call Verizon
-"I can activate call forwarding on your phone?"
-"No, I just want the *92 short code added to my area's cell switch."
-"You sure you don't want me to activate call forwarding?"
-"No, I can do that MANUALLY myself fine. I need either *92 to be added to my area's cell switch as a "call forwarding" short code, or I need someone to fix my Gear Manager/Gear S so that it dials *72 instead of *92."
-"OK, let me ask our engineer."
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-"He says that would interfere with FiOS."
-"Other people in other areas have been able to do it fine."
-"He says it would interfere with FiOS."
-"OK...then can you fix the Gear Manager/Gear S so it dials *72 instead of *92?"
-"I mean...we can call Samsung."
-"OK, lets do that."
-3-Way Call with Samsung
-"We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier (Verizon)."
-"That makes NO sense. I can manually dial *72 then the number fine. It's only through your Samsung Gear Manager and Samsung Gear S firmware when I hit "turn on call forwarding" that it tries to dial *92. It's YOUR app that has the problem."
-"We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier."
-"So, you're saying that the reason my SAMSUNG Gear Manager app dials *92 rather than the *72 EVERYONE ELSE knows as the proper code...is Verizon?"
-"Yes. We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier."
-"So...you can't look into it and see if there's a way to update anything?"
-"You can take it to a Samsung Experience Store and they can try doing a Smart Update."
-"I've already been to a Samsung Experience Store. They said there was nothing they could do. It sounds like this is a fundamentally broken feature that neither of you are willing or capable of fixing."
-"I do apologize. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Just a heads up. I was FAR nicer than the above implies, that is a shortened version. The bottom line, Samsung and Verizon do not care that your call forwarding does not work. They do not care about you. They literally have to change ONE number, and both of them are refusing.
The only way to make Verizon listen is vote with your wallet. I personally don't want to deal with Verizon, ever. Not even consider their FIOS unless I have no alternatives.
The thing is you bought a branded watch that is custom-made by Samsung per Verizon's requirement. Samsung can't just make a change to use different code (which requires a firmware update, BTW, new Verizon firmware for the watch just released today) without Verizon's explicit request.
What phone are you using? I actually turned off auto call forwarding all together and set up conditional call forwarding on my phone. Now when I get a call my phone rings, then if I don't answer it goes to voicemail, only its the watch's voicemail. When I'm connected remotely, my phone rings first, then my watch rings and I answer normally. Works perfect without the hassle or that ugly forwarding icon on my watch's screen. Just look under phone call settings. I changed the forward when busy, forward when unanswered, and forward when unreachable to my watch's number. That's all the auto call forwarding does anyway. I'm using the note edge on at&t but I imagine it should work that way with other carriers.
I hear your pain.....mine dials *28 and *38 for sprint and they don't use those codes so I get a call forward error......they need to change it to *72 and *720. I left a comment on the gear manager app....and they were going to send it to the software engineers for a change on a future update.....but you knows how that goes. As of now......I just down loaded a app.....and when I go jogging I use the app on the phone to call forward to the gs while the phone is at the house. Now I was playing with a file in gear manager that has the codes for call forwarding...but I could not get the changes to stick.......if they would of.....the problem would of been fixed. I guess I will be waiting for an update and hope for the best.
It would of been great if you would of ref this file below to samsung when you had them on the phone.
This was the file:
data/data/com.samsung.:android.hostmanager/files/callfwdlist.xml
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Just spent an hour and a half on the phone with Verizon, and then Samsung. Remember that *92 issue where hitting "Turn on Call Forwarding" in the Gear Manager or on the Gear S would try dialing *92 (a non-working short code) instead of *72? Yeah, that's still a thing. And Verizon and Samsung don't care. They don't care about you. Here is a run-down of what I went through in almost 2 hours.
-Call Verizon
-"I can activate call forwarding on your phone?"
-"No, I just want the *92 short code added to my area's cell switch."
-"You sure you don't want me to activate call forwarding?"
-"No, I can do that MANUALLY myself fine. I need either *92 to be added to my area's cell switch as a "call forwarding" short code, or I need someone to fix my Gear Manager/Gear S so that it dials *72 instead of *92."
-"OK, let me ask our engineer."
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-"He says that would interfere with FiOS."
-"Other people in other areas have been able to do it fine."
-"He says it would interfere with FiOS."
-"OK...then can you fix the Gear Manager/Gear S so it dials *72 instead of *92?"
-"I mean...we can call Samsung."
-"OK, lets do that."
-3-Way Call with Samsung
-"We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier (Verizon)."
-"That makes NO sense. I can manually dial *72 then the number fine. It's only through your Samsung Gear Manager and Samsung Gear S firmware when I hit "turn on call forwarding" that it tries to dial *92. It's YOUR app that has the problem."
-"We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier."
-"So, you're saying that the reason my SAMSUNG Gear Manager app dials *92 rather than the *72 EVERYONE ELSE knows as the proper code...is Verizon?"
-"Yes. We're not responsible for call forwarding. That's the carrier."
-"So...you can't look into it and see if there's a way to update anything?"
-"You can take it to a Samsung Experience Store and they can try doing a Smart Update."
-"I've already been to a Samsung Experience Store. They said there was nothing they could do. It sounds like this is a fundamentally broken feature that neither of you are willing or capable of fixing."
-"I do apologize. Is there anything else I can help you with today?"
Just a heads up. I was FAR nicer than the above implies, that is a shortened version. The bottom line, Samsung and Verizon do not care that your call forwarding does not work. They do not care about you. They literally have to change ONE number, and both of them are refusing.
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The call forwarding feature works just fine on my Verizon Note Edge paired with my Verizon Gear S
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I hear your pain.....mine dials *28 and *38 for sprint and they don't use those codes so I get a call forward error......they need to change it to *72 and *720. I left a comment on the gear manager app....and they were going to send it to the software engineers for a change on a future update.....but you knows how that goes. As of now......I just down loaded a app.....and when I go jogging I use the app on the phone to call forward to the gs while the phone is at the house.
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How do you guys know what code your phone dials? I have an ATT Gear S with a Tmo sim and a Tmo Note. Call forwarding sometimes does not work, and sometimes does, but I could never figure out why that is.
Also, what's the name of the call forwarding app that you use?
xendula said:
How do you guys know what code your phone dials? I have an ATT Gear S with a Tmo sim and a Tmo Note. Call forwarding sometimes does not work, and sometimes does, but I could never figure out why that is.
Also, what's the name of the call forwarding app that you use?
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For the call forwarding codes you can google your carrier call forwarding codes for that info.
Don't quote me on this, but I know on some phones in the call setting you can edit the call forwarding codes. But, I think the Gear Manager overrides the phone and uses this own. I have the Sprint Note2 (4.4.2) and I don't have that call forwarding setting in the call setting menu. So either I enter it manually on the key pad or have a program do it for me. The Gear Manager has a call forwarding list in the program that it uses when you use the gs to call forward. The codes that it uses for sprint is wrong and needs to be fixed...so for me I have to override manually with a program.
I use "Simple Call Forwarding" play store.
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For the call forwarding codes you can google your carrier call forwarding codes for that info.
Don't quote me on this, but I know on some phones in the call setting you can edit the call forwarding codes. But, I think the Gear Manager overrides the phone and uses this own. I have the Sprint Note2 (4.4.2) and I don't have that call forwarding setting in the call setting menu. So either I enter it manually on the key pad or have a program do it for me. The Gear Manager has a call forwarding list in the program that it uses when you use the gs to call forward. The codes that it uses for sprint is wrong and needs to be fixed...so for me I have to override manually with a program.
I use "Simple Call Forwarding" play store.
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By poking around in Gear Mgr, I don't see any such code, so where exactly is it listed? I see my Gear's number under auto call forwarding, but no short code anywhere.
Also, thanks for the app tip!
The short code is hard coded. You won't find it. Gear S auto-forwarding is designed to use conditional forwarding for all carriers. I guess Samsung wants you to be able to pick up calls from either device. The thing is on AT&T, I can easily change my conditional call forwarding time via another short code dialing. But you can't do so with Verizon IIRC. Right now, I have my forwarding wait time set to 15 seconds and tell my friends and family to be patient.
You can google your carrier's conditional forwarding code on the internet.
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By poking around in Gear Mgr, I don't see any such code, so where exactly is it listed? I see my Gear's number under auto call forwarding, but no short code anywhere.
Also, thanks for the app tip!
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The short code is hard coded. You won't find it. Gear S auto-forwarding is designed to use conditional forwarding for all carriers. I guess Samsung wants you to be able to pick up calls from either device. The thing is on AT&T, I can easily change my conditional call forwarding time via another short code dialing. But you can't do so with Verizon IIRC. Right now, I have my forwarding wait time set to 15 seconds and tell my friends and family to be patient.
You can google your carrier's conditional forwarding code on the internet.
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This was the file:
data/data/com.samsung.:android.hostmanager/files/callfwdlist.xml
This file has the list of codes to use.....I tried to edit but the changes would not stick.
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The short code is hard coded. You won't find it. Gear S auto-forwarding is designed to use conditional forwarding for all carriers. I guess Samsung wants you to be able to pick up calls from either device. The thing is on AT&T, I can easily change my conditional call forwarding time via another short code dialing. But you can't do so with Verizon IIRC. Right now, I have my forwarding wait time set to 15 seconds and tell my friends and family to be patient.
You can google your carrier's conditional forwarding code on the internet.
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Thanks. Lots to research at this point!
I don't know if it'll help any but I left samsung and email about this. I suggest everyone does it. I just said they should let us manually put in whatever we want.
My local area cell switch did not have the *92 short code programmed into it. So the auto forward from the watch failed every time. After talking with Verizon Tech support & Samsung (both pointing fingers at each other) I stopped the insanity and ended the call. I called Verizon back a few days later and got a tech support person that had a Gear S in their hand. He was located in a California call center and was able to get *92 auto forward from the Gear S to work perfectly. So he entered a ticket with the Verizon "Network team" to have the *92 shortcode added. A few days later someone from Verizon called me back to make sure the changes he made fixed the problem. It did not. So I explained to him the problem of my local switch not having the *92 shortcode and he said he would fix it and call me back. He called back in about 30 minutes and it worked!
I wish they would allow you to change the short code used to auto forward calls. I would prefer the *72 immediate forward over the *92 no answer forward.
But at least the keyboard now has a $ (dollar sign) as part of the keyboard symbols (newest software update), so slow progress is being made.
I expect that new features and more compatibility will be in future FW updates but they really need to make the Gear S compatible with more smart phones to gain greater sales! They also need to better explain in their advertising the true un-tethered features (like not needing the phone to make calls).
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My call forwarding on my AT&T Phone and AT&T Gear S won't connect. Anyone know of any threads or remedies?
Fixed My Own Problem
Ok I fixed my own problem and now it works better than before. I got on the chat with AT&T and they set up the call forwarding on their end. The Gear S still says there is no call forwarding connection though, so I disabled the option. Since it is enabled through AT&T, however, on a remote connection I can receive calls from both my phone number and my Gear S number. All the while call forwarding is disabled on the Gear S. I can receive texts through both numbers as well. The only downside is, to disable the call forwarding I would have to contact AT&T again. But I don't really know why I would ever want to disable that. I'm just going to leave my phone in a constant remote connection and get all the benefits of a regular bluetooth connection plus the ability to receive calls and texts on my Gear S number.
Customization
Ok wait. To customize my watch, such as adding new clocks and wallpapers, I would have to be on bluetooth. But that's no biggie i'll just reconnect.
Nevermind
This method does not work. Calls to my original number do not show up on my phone. Just my watch. I missed a call today because I had my watch turned off. Even though my phone was turned on, I didn't see the call. It went straight to my watch which wasn't on. AT&T said there is no way I could get the same call to appear on both my watch and my phone. So I'm still out of luck on getting the call forwarding option thru the Gear S working.