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I wanted a way to get other notifications to the Gear without having to run another client app on the Gear.
There is another project (ATN) that initially used the Email notification to do this. I liked this approach because it was simple, used the gear manager as the delivery mechanism, and the Email notification app on the gear which is robust enough to handle long notifications.
I reached out to Dattas Moonchaser, who wrote the popular Pebble Notifier to see if I could use his app as my base. He obliged so here it is....
Install this on your phone, there is nothing to install on the Gear. The only thing you need to know is to go into Accessibility settings and give Gear Getter permissions (it has a big RED link for this when you launch the app). Also make sure you have Email notification checked in the Gear Manager.
Here are some better instructions - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47449016&postcount=119
Once you enable Accessibility you are able to setup your apps you want to receive notifications from. Couple cool things..
- There is the ability to setup filters
- Ability to setup quiet times
- There is tasker integration (I haven't messed with this)
- This reads the data from the expanded view so you should get pretty robust notifcations
- Easy on the battery
If you feel the need to donate, please do it from the app, and it will go to Dattas who would appreciate it.
mhoepfin said:
I wanted a way to get other notifications to the Gear without having to run another client app on the Gear.
There is another project (ATN) that initially used the Email notification to do this. I liked this approach because it was simple, used the gear manager as the delivery mechanism, and the Email notification app on the gear which is robust enough to handle long notifications.
I reached out to Dattas Moonchaser, who wrote the popular Pebble Notifier to see if I could use his app as my base. He obliged so here it is....
The only thing you need to know is to go into Accessibility and give Gear Getter permissions (it has a big RED link for this when you launch the app).
Then setup your apps you want to receive notifications from. Couple cool things..
- There is the ability to setup filters
- Ability to setup quiet times
- There is tasker integration (I haven't messed with this)
- This reads the data from the expanded view so you should get pretty robust notifcations
- Easy on the battery
If you feel the need to donate, please do it from the app, and it will go to Dattas who would appreciate it.
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Quick question..
I did not install anything yet but I wanted to understand this. Do we install on both the gear and the phone ?
Where does it pull information from ?
I never used the app before, I just wanted some more info before I experiment with it.
And does it require 4.3 ?
Thanks
Can you read the notifications from the gear with this ?.
Elgreco333 said:
Quick question..
I did not install anything yet but I wanted to understand this. Do we install on both the gear and the phone ?
Where does it pull information from ?
I never used the app before, I just wanted some more info before I experiment with it.
And does it require 4.3 ?
Thanks
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You only install it on the phone, there is nothing to install on the gear. It uses the built in Email notification on the gear to display the notifications.
You tell it which apps you want to receive notifications from on your gear.
This doesn't require 4.3, but the Gear Manager does (which this uses).
jawonder said:
Can you read the notifications from the gear with this ?.
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This send notifications from your phone (for the applications you select) to the gear, using the Email notification on the gear to display them.
Thanks, checking it out. I want to see if I can get Instagram notifications. I will report back.
So far so good! Gmail is sending full subject and body of emails! However, when you click "Show On Device" it launches the stock email client instead of gmail. It sounds like that's because it uses the email notification methods.
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So far so good! Gmail is sending full subject and body of emails! However, when you click "Show On Device" it launches the stock email client instead of gmail.
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Great! The logic for getting the notification details is pretty battle tested so I would expect the content it sends to the gear to be pretty good and mostly match what you would see in an expanded notification on your phone.
The Show On Device I don't think I will get to be able to actually work to open the app on the phone....
Tried twice to install apk and it crashes my Note 3, it reboots on it's own and the apk is not installed .
Strange it doesn't do anything at my end.. I do not get any notifications. Could possibly show a short video of how it works??? Do I need to select the Email in Gear Manager .. Cause I aint getting any Noti's....
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Tried twice to install apk and it crashes my Note 3, it reboots on it's own and the apk is not installed .
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Hmm, have not seen any issues like this, and I have a Sprint Note 3. Can you try to re-download the apk?
Ok it works on my stock rom but not on roms i'm using in SafeStrap slots .
Jeshter2000 said:
Strange it doesn't do anything at my end.. I do not get any notifications. Could possibly show a short video of how it works??? Do I need to select the Email in Gear Manager .. Cause I aint getting any Noti's....
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Yes, you need Email selected in Gear Manager for it to work
Mmmm ok like ATN was in the first place??
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Under FilterList in the settings it states Pebble. FYI.
Ok, this does not work for me. Although it is probably because I running an S4 on 4.2 so far. Waiting for the update to be online.
I'll have to wait for the update to get me to 4.3 for the gear manager to work properly. I have limited functionality still
UPDATE : Well, email does not work, only get recipients name showing, but on the other hand, texting works (using sms pro)
But everything displays double, I mean I see the text and who is from and then under s separator I see it again with just a bit smaller fonts. Don't know why, maybe a setting I need to play with ?
I am glad at least for the texts for now.
Ok strange , after i boot into stock rom and then back to rom slot i installed .
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Under FilterList in the settings it states Pebble. FYI.
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LOL thanks, must have missed that one... It will work for the Gear even though it says Pebble.
I would like to point out that using this method if you use the stock browser it will talk to you and to the best of my knowledge there is no way to stop it.
Also last I knew if you were on a note 2 it will also talk when opening and closing folders and when switching home screens
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cherylbaker said:
I would like to point out that using this method if you use the stock browser it will talk to you and to the best of my knowledge there is no way to stop it.
Also last I knew if you were on a note 2 it will also talk when opening and closing folders and when switching home screens
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Crazy! I use Chrome so didn't notice but you are right. More research shows its a bug with Samsung. I'll switch over to the 4.3 method using the security setting in the next few days. Until then I suggest using Chrome.
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Does anyone else have problems with notifications? For me they work for few hours and then they stop working and only rebooting the phone fixes it.
It happened to me today...
Non of notifications alerted on my gear 2....
Restarting the gear, no change, restarting the phone... the notification is back
I do have notification but I don't get any details about it, no preview of the messages at all, just that I should check details on my phone... ridiculous! they do it on purpose...
I have found that I only get notifications on the Gear when the phone screen is on. If the phone screen is off, no notifications except Gmail.
Similar issues
hene193 said:
Hi
Does anyone else have problems with notifications? For me they work for few hours and then they stop working and only rebooting the phone fixes it.
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Yep, having similar issues, however I get the notification on the phone, however it doesn't vibrate for all apps, behaviour is very inconsistent. I have emailed samsung support but am not holding my breath
hurdlejade said:
I do have notification but I don't get any details about it, no preview of the messages at all, just that I should check details on my phone... ridiculous! they do it on purpose...
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With the new gear manager update i seem to be getting my notifications more consistantly, but also, like you, have lost all detail to them. Only the fact that I got a notification and what it came from (text, email,...). It no longer gives the text or email body.
I would love to hear if someone has a fix for this.
Milimbar said:
With the new gear manager update i seem to be getting my notifications more consistantly, but also, like you, have lost all detail to them. Only the fact that I got a notification and what it came from (text, email,...). It no longer gives the text or email body.
I would love to hear if someone has a fix for this.
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see here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/solution-notifications-issue-t2885697
munzil said:
It happened to me today...
Non of notifications alerted on my gear 2....
Restarting the gear, no change, restarting the phone... the notification is back
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I'm getting exactly this issue.
Hopefully we'll see a fix for this. I'm sure Samsung is right on top of it.
:/
The issue is you updated galaxy gear manager.
There is a new setting in it to control it the notification has a preview, or just to tell which app gave the notification.
Seems like this setting only works for tizen os.
I updated to tizen using these instructions and all works again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/how-to-properly-flash-tizenmod-t2886991
(kies3 wasnt recognizing my phone) .
Good luck.
I didn't feel the need to update to tizen. I liked android and my watch styler. But preview of messages is a necessity.
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The issue is you updated galaxy gear manager.
There is a new setting in it to control it the notification has a preview, or just to tell which app gave the notification.
Seems like this setting only works for tizen os.
I updated to tizen using these instructions and all works again.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/how-to-properly-flash-tizenmod-t2886991
(kies3 wasnt recognizing my phone) .
Good luck.
I didn't feel the need to update to tizen. I liked android and my watch styler. But preview of messages is a necessity.
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Weird. That option has always been available
I dont rememeber which thread i got this File saprovider , all you have to do is Force close GearManager , then uninstall Saprovider "settings > application manager " then install the one from link.
this should fix everything , stop battery drain and make it works as it should be, notification and media control ... etc
Just incase , stop auto update from samsung app market.
Tried the saproviders.apk mod, and it still didnt bring back complete notifications.
All WhatsApp notifications show as "WhatsApp" instead of the senders name, which is kinda useless.
Cant stop Gear Manager from updating, as there is no option.
If you hit cancel, it will exit. If you hit update, it will update even without samsung Apps, as it's updating independently now.
I know this because I don't have Samsung Apps on My phone.
yeah its damn force update again and mess up everything again
I'm getting notifications, but no popup on my gear. They show in the notifications app on the gear, though. Sad days...
Issue where the full message doesn't show and you can't scroll left like regular messenger to read the full message because it just goes to the "like" thumbs up icon. Any fix or work around for this?
Same thing here. I think we'll have to wait for fb to update the app.
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Bleh, figured. Thanks though. Have you had any luck speaking different languages? Mine recognized Spanish once and never again
I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
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I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
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I myself am not a fan of it, I have no idea how to turn it off. I have yet to dig around in the settings.
nonmindo said:
I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
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I hate it so so much
I absolutely love the new notification grouping lol
I am with all of you, do not like the grouped settings, would love it if someone finds the setting to turn it off, I have been looking but cannot find it.
Deja Vu all over again.
I dont get Samsung, they always take something nice and make it crap. Just seems like they were trying to be apple to much. Does anyone remember when the s5 and note 4 came out they advertised the crap out of having a removable battery and expendable storage?? But the very next year they eliminate both those features and water resistantance(s5). Now it's locked bootloaders Which blows. they rushing quality control to beat Apples new release, Like they made a very good comeback with the s7 and s7 edge. I just dont get why they went to far from their roots,why would you want to be like apple? They mess things ups pretty good on their own every year.
Don't know if it helps anyone, but Samsung updated the Good Lock app to work with the Note 7. It doesn't group up the notifications and you can get rid of the white color and have the notifications match your UI better. Anyone that isn't familiar with it, it's an alternative lock screen and notification app that makes both closer to stock android. There are lots of settings to play with and you can customize the colors of everything in the notification shade. Also adds some really nice lock screen effects. It's on the galaxy app store.
EDIT: Apparently they updated it again and you can set each individual color in your routines to be literally any color you want. Combined with the lack of grouped notifications, this app is basically perfect.
It's terrible and definitely a step backward in the evolution of the notification system. It might as well just not tell you anything and make you open each app to see what the notification is.
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After seeing so many people recommend Good Lock, I decided to try it out.
Holy ****. It actually made me wish my phone would catch fire just so I didn't have to use it. I couldn't get it uninstalled fast enough. On the bright side, grouped notifications don't seem quite so bad now.
This is one of the reason I may be swapping this out for the v20. This bugs me more than any other issue with the phone, including constantly signal dropping.
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black96ss said:
I dont get Samsung, they always take something nice and make it crap. Just seems like they were trying to be apple to much. Does anyone remember when the s5 and note 4 came out they advertised the crap out of having a removable battery and expendable storage?? But the very next year they eliminate both those features and water resistantance(s5). Now it's locked bootloaders Which blows. they rushing quality control to beat Apples new release, Like they made a very good comeback with the s7 and s7 edge. I just dont get why they went to far from their roots,why would you want to be like apple? They mess things ups pretty good on their own every year.
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I'm with you man. I do t know what else I can do now, other than deal with LG's buggy, crap UI. At least they don't sell out and repeatedly botch their phones hardware.
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Dont really like it. Sucks there no options to turn ot on and off. It reminds me of windows when it groups all your tabs together.
Now on windows i like it but on the phone i dont think its all that.
Also hate how they made the notify bar so flat and dull. It look way better before
I want to know why the goddamn wifi calling preferences is stuck there unless you turn it off. Or for that matter ANY application. None of them should ever stay there forever. Maybe one exception if you have a vpn connected, but it should go away when it is closed and most of them do not. Otherwise I kind of like the grouping.
I'm one of the few that like it lol
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I like it a lot. Less clutter. Also, all you have to do is tap the notification to get it to expand.
I'm one person among the few whom "Really Really LIKE it" !
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
The grouped notifications wouldn't be so bad if they didn't make the bar on the drop down that ugly gray color.
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Chr0nicDreamz said:
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
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YEs, I've noticed that.
I finally have my V2 in hand and as much as I thought I would really dislike the green battery...it isn't that bad. Still can't stand the grouped notifications, though.
Heinous said:
YEs, I've noticed that.
I finally have my V2 in hand and as much as I thought I would really dislike the green battery...it isn't that bad. Still can't stand the grouped notifications, though.
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They broke the software lol. Luckily the sim slot on my phone died, so I got a new v2 and rooted it immediately
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I'm still rooted on apgc on v2 phone. I still haven experienced the new update yet
Chr0nicDreamz said:
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
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I've had that problem since my Galaxy S6 actually. I always keep the setting to show notifications for open WiFi off, but I still get them on my phone. It's strange because it doesn't seem to show notifications for every open WiFi network, but only with some networks. (I've actually noticed it more on the NYC subway for some reason. Somehow whatever network they have down there can override the phone's settings and show a notification.) I usually just turn my WiFi off if I'm going to be out and about and that stops the problem.
Just tried to set my alarm clock for the next two hours or so, noting. It keeps pushing for tomorrow's date and plus on top of that the toast message doesn't appear anymore saying " alarm set for 2.4 hours time" .
Major fail .
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Limeybastard said:
Just tried to set my alarm clock for the next two hours or so, noting. It keeps pushing for tomorrow's date and plus on top of that the toast message doesn't appear anymore saying " alarm set for 2.4 hours time" .
Major fail .
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Works just fine for me. If your clock is 24h make sure you select the right time and not 12 hours out.
I set mine almost right out if the box and it worked as I would have expected. I did see the toast message as well when I set it
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I set mine almost right out if the box and it worked as I would have expected. I did see the toast message as well when I set it
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Wow, still cannot get it working here. No toast message.
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Limeybastard said:
Wow, still cannot get it working here. No toast message.
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Maybe try to uninstall the Alarm app and reinstall it from Galaxy Apps. If that doesn't work maybe a force stop on the app in the settings?
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Maybe try to uninstall the Alarm app and reinstall it from Galaxy Apps. If that doesn't work maybe a force stop on the app in the settings?
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Thanks will try that. I'm thinking other option might be substratum. I'll have to dig deeper.
Edit. The strangest thing, notifications for the clock app were all blocked.
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Limeybastard said:
Thanks will try that. I'm thinking other option might be substratum. I'll have to dig deeper.
Edit. The strangest thing, notifications for the clock app were all blocked.
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That's really odd. I have had so many things popup and ask if I want them enabled, disabled, etc though. Maybe it got blocked on accident if yours is doing the same thing. Glad you figured it out!
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That's really odd. I have had so many things popup and ask if I want them enabled, disabled, etc though. Maybe it got blocked on accident if yours is doing the same thing. Glad you figured it out!
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I just had a look under settings and apps, all my other apps the notification says blocked also?
Would you or anyone know how this could have happened?
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I just had a look under settings and apps, all my other apps the notification says blocked also?
Would you or anyone know how this could have happened?
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My guess would be a Gremlin in the system, it happens on all mobiles. Either that or when you changed mobiles you used your old mobile to copy from or the cloud in which case sometimes things do go wrong.
I was told years ago to always start a fresh with each new mobile. I don't I use Samsung sync but there is ALWAYS some sort of minor **** up and its never perfect. :crying:
Like I wrote sometimes its just down to an odd behaviour...Gremlins as I call it.
I hope you got it sorted?
Ryland :highfive:
Ryland Johnson said:
My guess would be a Gremlin in the system, it happens on all mobiles. Either that or when you changed mobiles you used your old mobile to copy from or the cloud in which case sometimes things do go wrong.
I was told years ago to always start a fresh with each new mobile. I don't I use Samsung sync but there is ALWAYS some sort of minor **** up and its never perfect. :crying:
Like I wrote sometimes its just down to an odd behaviour...Gremlins as I call it.
I hope you got it sorted?
Ryland :highfive:
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Yes , something went amiss as it wasn't like this until yesterday. I found that all my notifications were turned off in this menu.
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