Since the last Samsung Gear S upgrade a number of months ago, I have had the ability to reply to text messages using the Verizon Message+ App with my Gear S. I could dismiss or reply to my texts until they were read on my phone. Then about 2 weeks ago, I used the stock app to send a text message and I lost the ability to reply. It might be unrelated, but now I can only dismiss. I can reply on all my other apps but not texts with message+. Any ideas? I have uninstalled updates and tried to reset settings. No go. Really want it back. I might reinstall the whole phone unless someone can give a setting to change or another idea.
I have a gear 2 and never got the verizon messages+ app to work with my gear 2 and note 4. Did you every have any luck with that? I really like being able to quick reply on my wrist so I switched to the samsung messages app but definitely prefer the verizon messages+ app. I would like to hear if you found a way to get verizon messages+ working with the quick reply. Love my gear 2 gold with a 12 dollar ebay gold colored metal band. Thanks!
I'm in the same boat people. I have a Gear S and a Note 5 and really badly want to be able to use the Verizon Message+ app on the watch and have them sync up, but as of right now, I can only compose new messages from my watch, but I don't receive the incoming ones, or have any reply ability.
@jedi you say it used to work flawlessly before some update? Any luck talking with Samsung about it? or Verizon?
Hoping we can figure this out.
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Hi,
On monday I was able to receive notifications for messages. Today I noticed that I didn't receive any messages on my Gear S.
When I check the "notifications" tab on my Gear Manager app, I can't see the "Messages" app in the list.
How can I solve this ?
Thanks.
mrmrmrmr said:
Hi,
On monday I was able to receive notifications for messages. Today I noticed that I didn't receive any messages on my Gear S.
When I check the "notifications" tab on my Gear Manager app, I can't see the "Messages" app in the list.
How can I solve this ?
Thanks.
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This happened to me after I set up Milk music. I uninstalled Milk then reset watch and the messages appeared again in notifications. Using restore feature did'nt work, had to setup watch again like new. Everything else I tried wouldn't bring back messages in notifications..
I had to reset as well.
it is a real pain. Samsung should solve this bug...
I'm not sure what happened to mine but late last evening during the course of normal day to day with both my Note 3 and my Gear S, the Gear S decided not to receive text messages any longer. Rebooted both devices, no go. Restored my Gear, no go. This morning I'm in the midst of a full restore from scratch to see if that fixes it. Hmmm.
I'm using the Verizon messages + app. The gear is lighting up with the notification but not vibrating or ringing. It is working for other notifications. Resetting the gear and not restoring didn't fix. Any suggestions?
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So I ended up buying the Gear S after having tried both the Gear 2 and the Gear Live and was fully aware that Samsung made it tough as possible to reply to SMS from the watch unless you use the stock messaging app on your phone (which blows). Does anyone have any advice on the best way to use the Gear S to respond to texts without using S Voice or the stock app. I currently use either Hangouts or Google Messenger and am happy to use pretty much anything other than stock.
Thanks in advance
richmondimage said:
So I ended up buying the Gear S after having tried both the Gear 2 and the Gear Live and was fully aware that Samsung made it tough as possible to reply to SMS from the watch unless you use the stock messaging app on your phone (which blows). Does anyone have any advice on the best way to use the Gear S to respond to texts without using S Voice or the stock app. I currently use either Hangouts or Google Messenger and am happy to use pretty much anything other than stock.
Thanks in advance
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There is an app for that! lol
In all seriousness tho, if you read the apps section you will see a beta in the works and there is another app in the google play store (yes the google play store) Its called notifications for gear s and it allows you to reply to all incoming notifications I believe.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pacosal.gear.notificationsgears&hl=en
Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
Gear Notification Extender app
demonkc135 said:
Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
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On the playstore will let u reply to messages an alternative way... may help
demonkc135 said:
Hello. I have a TMO GN3 and gear s watch, which I love, but I'm having a rather annoying issue that I've had little luck in solving. If anyone can point me in the right direction or provide a solution, I would be forever indebted.
I am part of a golfers group that constantly sends group text messages. I've used. Textra with great success, but it doesn't work with my watch. I like getting my messages and being able to reply on my watch, but unless I use the stock messaging app, my watch is useless. I'd like to use the stock messaging app and figure out a way to remove the 10 recipient limit. My phone is rooted with a very stable ROM, but it doesn't have that feature. I'd really like to use a modified stock application that works with the gear s. Thanks for any help.
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In the Google Play store, there is an app called "Notifications for Gear S" it supports a bunch of messaging sevices, that you may want to check out. I don't know all of them, but Hangouts is on the list, which supports texting to regular cell numbers. May be worth looking into.
In terms of a different ROM, there is a Rooting thread here that you could check.
Good luck.
I was on the fence of getting a Gear S because I primarily use hangouts (SMS integrated) as my primary messaging platform. I was aware I'd be able to receive messages on my watch, but not be able to respond. However upon getting my watch and setting it up. I got a hangouts message, swiped to the left, clicked the three dots.. To my surprise I had the option to REPLY or DISMISS. Replying works fantastic with either the preset messages, keyboard, or voice input, and SENDS THE MESSAGE OVER DATA! ( Not even SMS.) This is absolutely fantastic. I figured I'd post this here because I was looking tirelessly for concrete evidence on this before making my purchase and was unable to find any. It's also worth nothing, that if i dismiss the message from my phone, I lose the ability to reply to it from my watch.
I'm not using Gear S Notification extender app either, it's working natively.
xramzal said:
I was on the fence of getting a Gear S because I primarily use hangouts (SMS integrated) as my primary messaging platform. I was aware I'd be able to receive messages on my watch, but not be able to respond. However upon getting my watch and setting it up. I got a hangouts message, swiped to the left, clicked the three dots.. To my surprise I had the option to REPLY or DISMISS. Replying works fantastic with either the preset messages, keyboard, or voice input, and SENDS THE MESSAGE OVER DATA! ( Not even SMS.) This is absolutely fantastic. I figured I'd post this here because I was looking tirelessly for concrete evidence on this before making my purchase and was unable to find any. It's also worth nothing, that if i dismiss the message from my phone, I lose the ability to reply to it from my watch.
I'm not using Gear S Notification extender app either, it's working natively.
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Yes, viber and whatsapp work as well.. The only con would be that you can't initiate a new message from the watch like messages.. Also in viber notification, it allows to reply only the first time you see it.. Next time it shows only dismiss option..
I've noticed that i can ONLY reply if i have Android Wear installed also. I don't even have to open it, just have it installed. If I remove it, I lose the functionality to reply.
Good to know! I was using Gear Notification Extender (got my Gear S Thursday) but didn't like how it labeled everything as GNE. I look forward to using this. Now if I could just get the Gear S to last me a full 24 hours...
Great! Thanks for posting this. Some Google apps play nice with Samsung features.
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I've noticed that i can ONLY reply if i have Android Wear installed also. I don't even have to open it, just have it installed. If I remove it, I lose the functionality to reply.
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Thanks for this info. I installed Andriod Wear and now I have the reply functionality for hangouts which I did not have prior to doing so.
Would anyone know how to get email notifications over 3g while the watch is "Remotely Connected" to a phone (Note 5 in my case)?
I have a VZW S4 (stock OC1). I bought a Huawei Watch and a Moto 360 (2015) in the last week to try out.
I'm having trouble with emails and texts. If I receive 2 emails (or texts), on the watch it should show me that I have 2 emails and let me tap into email, show me a short piece of each and let me tap into each one to read it and dismiss it.
What it actually does is only show me the one I received most recently. I can read that one. But, if another one comes in the previous one gets replaced, so I can only ever see the most recent email.
Same for text messages.
On my phone, I am using the stock Email (not Gmail) app and stock Messages app.
Anyone else got the same phone and an Android Wear watch (and using the Email app, not Gmail)? How does it work for you?