hi guys, im having a little bit of a problem and hopefully you guys can help.
all of the sudden, my sms is not being forwarded to the gear s whilst connected via bluetooth.
it was working fine yesterday and for some reason, for the entire day today, i recevied sms on my phone but its not displaying/forwarded onto the gear s.
i checked the notification setting and the messaging app is checked and is the default app.
also tried resetting the gear s and repaired it with the phone and still no dice. im using the note edge btw so i know its not the phone
any input will be great, thank you
Have you tired to manually update the watchphone and the Gear manager
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I am very happy with my Gear S so far, only one ting is bothering me:
I don't receive any SMS Notifications on my Gear S (when paired by bluetooth to my phone), as a matter of fact I am not able to check the stock program "Messages" in the Notifications of Gear Manager, it just isn't there. Anyone has similar problems or a solution? Thank you!
Every time I thought something was not working right on my Gear S, it turned out to be user error
I almost brought mine back to T-Mobile because of that!
I assume you are in the US and have separate SIM cards for watch and Samsung phone? For that matter, I assume you have a compatible Samsung phone connected to Gear S?
If yes, here is how I set up my settings:
In Gear app on phone:
Notifications - manage notifications - make sure messages are enabled (along with all other apps you want to see notifications for, but I suggest to limit those, don't pick everything, the watch starts buzzing all the time then and it tends to drain the battery)
Limit notifications - don't check
List view - I have that checked
Settings - use remote connection checked
On Gear S:
Settings - mobile networks - use mobile networks: set to always on
If you use auto on/off, you will not receive any SMS sent to watch # while connected to phone via BT
Settings - notifications : check both list view and notifications
Settings - Messages - outgoing number: mobile device
Make sure you don't have "do not disturb" enabled under settings. I use that feature every night when the Gear charges and I sleep...it charges on my nightstand and drove me nuts the first night buzzing every time I received any type of notification...
Hope this helps!
Cyman said:
I am very happy with my Gear S so far, only one ting is bothering me:
I don't receive any SMS Notifications on my Gear S (when paired by bluetooth to my phone), as a matter of fact I am not able to check the stock program "Messages" in the Notifications of Gear Manager, it just isn't there. Anyone has similar problems or a solution? Thank you!
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Yes. Everything was working this morning, but I received a text on my mobile and several emails, but they haven't appeared on the watch. And like you I can no longer see the stock sms app or email app in the list of notifications in Gear Manager!
This is very frustrating .
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Update: I completely uninstalled then reinstalled Gear Manager - (which resulted in the Gear being factory reset too). This solved the problem but it did mean reinstalling and setting up all my apps from scratch which took forever.
It seems I was doing some clearing out of unused apps using a memory cleaning app that was a bit too thorough. I deleted one of the Gear Manager's components .
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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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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????
Hi to everyone.
I recently got my Gear S and after trying everything including reseting and uninstaling gear manager on my Note 4, I cant get notifications to vibrate or make a sound for viber. Everything is ok with sms and calls, I get both vibrate and sound but nothing for Viber even thought it pushes the notification and appears on the watch it is always silent. I have tried different settings on viber aswell and spent the whole day yesterday reading this forum.
Any ideas?
Anyone?
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Viber notifications now working following viber update
And with Gear Notification Extender you can now reply from you watch!!! Awesome
Hi all, I just got my gear s but Viber notifications not working for me despite the latest version of viber
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
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
Hi, sorry if this has been answered previous but I can't see it. I've had a gear s before and recently purchased a new one however I'm sure the last one I had I was able to receive notifications on the watch even when my phone was not on me, I don't seem to be able to get this to work on my new one. Also my gear s won't allow me to set up the call forward from mobile feature so I can only receive calls and notifications while Bluetooth is connected. The only thing I can think I've done differently this time around is taken out a SIM on a shared plan rather than the SIM having it's own data allowance. Anyone got any ideas what I'm doing wrong?