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Galaxy Gear with Galaxy S4

I just got the Gear and saw a video online showing someone using it with their S4. I couldn't get the app. Its not available on the Samsung apps store or Google Play. Anyone else get it working?
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I just got the Gear and saw a video online showing someone using it with their S4. I couldn't get the app. Its not available on the Samsung apps store or Google Play. Anyone else get it working?
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I have it with my S4 and can find and download the Gear Manager in Samsung APPS. Search for Gear and find "Samsung GALAXY Gear Manager".
Not everything working but ok.
Cheers, Jorge

I'm using Gear with my Galasy S4 and already when i was on 4.2.2 i found Gear manager at Samsung Apps.but now with leaked firmware 4.3 all works like a charm.

[Gear with Galaxy S4 or Any Galaxy Series] ... First of all, Galaxy Gear will only works with Galaxy (with Android 4.3), but at the moment they are with Android 4.2.2, so ... you will check out the apps for Gear and your Galaxy HERE below :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476319
You will find all the apps (at the moment), and the main app to connect your Device with Gear is ... GEAR Manager (you need to download this first.
Good luck!

big_pongo said:
[Gear with Galaxy S4 or Any Galaxy Series] ... First of all, Galaxy Gear will only works with Galaxy (with Android 4.3), but at the moment they are with Android 4.2.2, so ... you will check out the apps for Gear and your Galaxy HERE below :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2476319
You will find all the apps (at the moment), and the main app to connect your Device with Gear is ... GEAR Manager (you need to download this first.
Good luck!
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If your rooted and have the 4.3 leak everything works most of the apps work on 4.2.2 roms

cruckus said:
If your rooted and have the 4.3 leak everything works most of the apps work on 4.2.2 roms
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Yes, I'm waiting for it ... I'm using S4 I9500 (not I9505 with 4.3 leak.)
Thanks.

4.2.2 no go for S-Voice
Guess, this what shows up when your phone isn't on 4.3 JB, right?

Onyok said:
Guess, this what shows up when your phone isn't on 4.3 JB, right?
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Does your battery drain fastest on your phone while connected to the watch?
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cruckus said:
If your rooted and have the 4.3 leak everything works most of the apps work on 4.2.2 roms
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Are you sure in 4.3 everything works. Because I tried 2 different touchwiz 4.3 roms. And none of them worked. Gear manger said device was not supported
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I'm running Hyperdrive on my s4 and the svoice notification is as far as I get too. I'm tempted to try a 4.3 and see if anything works better

starscrean said:
Are you sure in 4.3 everything works. Because I tried 2 different touchwiz 4.3 roms. And none of them worked. Gear manger said device was not supported
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It works but not everything. S VOICE, weather, txt and email alert doesn't work on me using a 4.2.2 rom.
Media control, answer/make calles, change watch face, install apps via apk not using thw samsung app store all work. I'm sure that are other things that work and other things that don't work. I just can't remember all right now
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dmoney94 said:
Does your battery drain fastest on your phone while connected to the watch?
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Not that I notice anything monumental on saving juice. Maybe, there would be a significant change once my S4 is on 4.3 JB cuz I know I can check notifications, use S-voice as it's meant to be and what not so less time unlocking the phone and screen usage... although phone's BT is running all the time so Gear could remain tethered to it but i believe it's BT 4.0 LE*, right?
*LE, Low Energy... though am not sure it's got a real world impact or just a marketing scheme...

dmoney94 said:
Does your battery drain fastest on your phone while connected to the watch?
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Nope I didn't see any faster battery drain on my note 3 9005

Alright, so I have been tinkering with my watch and have a few questions. I have rooted my watch and installed busy box, and all is going well so far. Additionally, I am using my watch with my S4, rather than my Note 3. I wanted this topic to be more of a few questions and general discussion/clarification.
I have installed the newest Gear Manager and when I go to Weather on the watch I get "Add city to weather widget on mobile device" but it never seems to sync. I have added a location to the weather widget. Is this by chance just a feature thats not quite working on the S4 yet, or am I missing something?
Pedometer - When I try to send my steps to SHealth it fails to sync. Also, known S4 issue, or missing something?
Gear Manager - Unable to install apps - When I navigate to My Apps > Featured > MyFitnessPal for Samsung Galaxy Gear (or any other app), I select Install, and I get "Product does not exist in this store(4002)". Im guessing this is because the Samsung store is reading my S4 build.prop and determining there are no compatible apps.
In re the last topic, could someone send me the APK from their watch for this app, Ill side load it.
I am at the office and want to install some apps via ADB, but don't have my cradle handy. Is there any way to get an APK to the watch that anyone can think of?
I am working on recompiling the stock camera app that does not have the shutter sound. Ill share when I get it done.
Update: Here is a thread with all of the APKs: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2468522
Thanks!

I got every thing working on my gs4, including svoice, text notification, and weather by using the 4.3 rom. I also downloaded the latest gear manager from a post in this forum and ot seems to work great, including allowing me to download apps from samsung.
Gear is rooted, running smart launcher, a few games, camera silent hack, and everything is still working.
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Android-hotness said:
I got every thing working on my gs4, including svoice, text notification, and weather by using the 4.3 rom. I also downloaded the latest gear manager from a post in this forum and ot seems to work great, including allowing me to download apps from samsung.
Gear is rooted, running smart launcher, a few games, camera silent hack, and everything is still working.
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Which 4.3 ROM are you using? Looking for support on a 4.3 ROM for a Sprint GS4

The 4.3 Rom im using is here. Not sure if it will work for sprint.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467693
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My brother just brought galaxy gear but he's on att with an s4 what 4.3 s4 roms works best with the gear also with almost a stock feel. I need help answering this as I have a note 3. Hopefully someone on here has an att s4 and a working galaxy gear
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randy2 said:
My brother just brought galaxy gear but he's on att with an s4 what 4.3 s4 roms works best with the gear also with almost a stock feel. I need help answering this as I have a note 3. Hopefully someone on here has an att s4 and a working galaxy gear
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i have an S4 and cannot get weather or texts to work! Samsung needs to give us 4.3 on the ATT i337 now!

Any cyanogenmod S4 users have any success using the gear ?

My Sony Z Ultra with GPE KITKAT 4.4.2 & Samsung gear watch

Ok so it seems to be working same as the nexus but still have a few problems to iron out if anyone can help out with a similar setup I would appreciate it.The pictures from the watch do not transfer to the phone not sure why pedometer don't work so uninstalled it and the usual voice and weather apps.I hope we can get all bits working I made this thread pacific for z ultra owners of the GPE rom and gear watch setup hope we can fix things here thank you in advance.

Not going to happen unless you can figure out what parts of touchwiz are required, and then port it
(Or maybe sdk if it is ever released)
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Brendo said:
Not going to happen unless you can figure out what parts of touchwiz are required, and then port it
(Or maybe sdk if it is ever released)
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To be honest I can live without the voice and weather my calls and notifications work and a load of other stuff very happy that it's even working and that samsung deprived us of being able to use other devices with their gear watch.

jutley said:
To be honest I can live without the voice and weather my calls and notifications work and a load of other stuff very happy that it's even working and that samsung deprived us of being able to use other devices with their gear watch.
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Yep, I felt the same with my nexus 5, but then went back to my s4 for full compatibility
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Connected Gear to any Android

It seems nobody has noticed new Gear Manager connect to any Android 4.3 on. I test with Xperia Z1 updated with Kitkat and tested with HTC Butterfly 4.3. Calls and notificatications work fine

Want to elaborate a bit more on your setup?
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Yes please, I'm on cm 11 beanstalk note 3 and I can't even get it to connect and I don't want to use a touchwiz Rom
Note 3 Beanstalk 4.4

Yes I got it going on my nexus 4 running pa 4.4.2 beta 3 no problem didn't have to manually load apk couldn't get notifications until I loaded atn manager but there seems to be more compatibility???
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imsiin said:
Yes please, I'm on cm 11 beanstalk note 3 and I can't even get it to connect and I don't want to use a touchwiz Rom
Note 3 Beanstalk 4.4
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I believe it's tw only brother. My son was on cm 11 and had to bounce back to tw to install gear manager.
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Gear Manager
Just downloaded new Gear Manager and installed on Xperia Z1. Everything works fine, notifications and calls. I tried to do samething with LG G2 and it connects but not notifications are received. I have a Gear Neo

mig1401 said:
Just downloaded new Gear Manager and installed on Xperia Z1. Everything works fine, notifications and calls. I tried to do samething with LG G2 and it connects but not notifications are received. I have a Gear Neo
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Ya I had it installed and working once by installing apks from different versions but I could not get notifications to work including using atn. The watch is just sitting here until I can find a fix
Note 3 Beanstalk 4.4

I have a Galaxy S4 but would love to not have this TW Rom anymore and move to Cyanogen or something. So....it's still not possible to have all the features working on the Gear if I move from TW? I really want to keep my watch stock.

geefer said:
I have a Galaxy S4 but would love to not have this TW Rom anymore and move to Cyanogen or something. So....it's still not possible to have all the features working on the Gear if I move from TW? I really want to keep my watch stock.
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Correct. Although wether watch is stock or not makes no difference

yeah, could you elaborate ? I got a replacement phone (a xperia sp) which is up to date. So I think that it should be quite similar to your z1. I'm on 4.3 too. How did you get it work ? I only managed to have a full connection with v1.6.111801 of gear manager, and still notifications weren't working.
How did you do with latest gear manager ? I tried by installing only, or everything... and can't get it connecting to the gear. Just stays on first screen "connecting to gear..."
Any help ?

I'm interested to know as well.. I'm looking at getting the Z2 and would love it to work with my Gear

great
You make my day mig1421, I`m finally no need to replace my moto g with any Samsung.
Loving this.

Anyone care to tell me the latest version of gear manager version and a link possibly? Just ordered a gear 1 yesterday for $99. Don't have it yet but doing my homeworl
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So the gear will work on any device running the touchwiz launcher and Gear Manager or just Gear Manager? I use Nova Launcher and would prefer to stick with it especially if I change to a non-samsung phone
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gumbyx84 said:
So the gear will work on any device running the touchwiz launcher and Gear Manager or just Gear Manager? I use Nova Launcher and would prefer to stick with it especially if I change to a non-samsung phone
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Launcher has nothing to do with gear manager, touchwiz framework is necessary although in this topic people are saying the new update is less dependant on touchwiz.. you can use any launcher you want it has nothing to do with the files needed to run gear manager..
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ozzmanj1 said:
Anyone care to tell me the latest version of gear manager version and a link possibly? Just ordered a gear 1 yesterday for $99. Don't have it yet but doing my homeworl
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You can find it here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2573200

Where can I get the framework?
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gumbyx84 said:
Where can I get the framework?
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You definitely don't need a Samsung phone to have the phone work with the Gear. I've had my Gear running with a Moto E and a Moto G - neither of them were rooted or modded in any way. I just installed the latest Gear Manager from a link on here after updating my Gear to Tizen. It's worth mentioning that I was running an old version of Gear Manager originally and my battery wouldn't even last half a day. Since I installed the latest version I'm getting days of use out of it -- having activated only Tweeting, Hangouts, WhatsApp and Gmail for notifications and turned off the auto activate backlight feature. It's four days since I charged and I'm still on 72%
None of the Samsung apps show up on the phone if it isn't Touchwiz based - so there's no S-Voice or Weather. I can use the Bluetooth Trusted Device feature on my Moto to have my phone turn PIN off when my Gear is connected to it.

leoni1980 said:
You definitely don't need a Samsung phone to have the phone work with the Gear. I've had my Gear running with a Moto E and a Moto G - neither of them were rooted or modded in any way. I just installed the latest Gear Manager from a link on here after updating my Gear to Tizen. It's worth mentioning that I was running an old version of Gear Manager originally and my battery wouldn't even last half a day. Since I installed the latest version I'm getting days of use out of it -- having activated only Tweeting, Hangouts, WhatsApp and Gmail for notifications and turned off the auto activate backlight feature. It's four days since I charged and I'm still on 72%
None of the Samsung apps show up on the phone if it isn't Touchwiz based - so there's no S-Voice or Weather. I can use the Bluetooth Trusted Device feature on my Moto to have my phone turn PIN off when my Gear is connected to it.
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Good to hear. My last question: Will you still be able to use the speakerphone to make and answer phone calls with a non-Samsung phone?

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Good to hear. My last question: Will you still be able to use the speakerphone to make and answer phone calls with a non-Samsung phone?
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Yes. I do it all the time. The only difference between doing it on a non Touchwiz phone compared with a Touchwiz phone is that the phone sees it as a handsfree device so will answer on the Gear by default, even if you hit the answer button on the phone. You just need to tap the little icon next to the 'End Call' button on the Gear though and it will route the call back to the handset. You can also tap the bluetooth icon on the dialer and switch the source to earpiece or speakerphone. Bit of an annoyance but not a particular problem.

[working!] G Flex and Gear 2 (+ Neo)

Followed an XDA guide to pair the Galaxy Gear Fit with the LG G2 for a friend... Then wondered if it would work with my Flex (Ls995). Never finished getting the Gear fit working, but when I reattempted the task with the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, both worked. Using the Neo for now, feel free to ask questions... So far I like this much more than my Sony SW2.
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There will be a bug report in the coming days. Not everything is cooperating perfectly
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Any updates on whats not working?
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Working: phone calls, file transfer to/from watch, and of course all watch apps (pedometer, TV remote, all non-phone-dependent stuff) . Not working: all notifications. There's a setting under Security that allows an app like Galaxy Gear Manager access to all notifications, and this setting is only present after an update to Kit Kat. This is why my G2 works flawlessly while my Flex is limited. I'm unrooted waiting for OTA KK but I'm sure rooted devices could have full Gear compatibility.
Kind of disappointing, I was so excited to see it pair up correctly and make a call that I posted right away!
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The Gear fit is working with my Flex. But i've got the same Problems as you.
Notifications arent working, except Phonecalls and Messages. But no Mail, whatsapp, Facebook or so..
So come on LG: I want my KitKat!

Pair Galaxy Gear with (almost) any phone (No root)

Install all files provided in this zip package and pair as usual. Calls and notifications work fine.

hi,
just to be sure. i install all of this on my Galaxy S2 and connect via bluetooth? S2 has noNFC...
thx.
cheers

Sure. It'll work IF your s2 discovers the gear from within the gear manager

install all files where...?
on my device,on the gear,i just bought a galaxy gear 1st gen off of a friend and paired it with my jiayu S3S (64bit mtk soc),am still very green when it comes to smart wear this is my first,i think i have rooted the gear,(not sure for certain),and am looking to flash a custom rom and/or kernel to the device,sorry to go a little off topic in your thread
i have downloaded your files in the link of the OP but am clueless how to install them on the gear

Lollipop working?
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mrsim said:
install all files where...?
on my device,on the gear,i just bought a galaxy gear 1st gen off of a friend and paired it with my jiayu S3S (64bit mtk soc),am still very green when it comes to smart wear this is my first,i think i have rooted the gear,(not sure for certain),and am looking to flash a custom rom and/or kernel to the device,sorry to go a little off topic in your thread
i have downloaded your files in the link of the OP but am clueless how to install them on the gear
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Install on the phone. If this doesn't work for you then a custom ROM for the gear should be your best bet

solrac21 said:
Lollipop working?
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Not tried that yet. I'm on KitKat.

goldfinv said:
Install all files provided in this zip package and pair as usual. Calls and notifications work fine.
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So i installed these files on my Nexus 6 Lollipop and it WORKS!. Only issue I have left is the extended notifications are not working. I am using Textera for SMS and not the default messaging app so i cannot get SMS notifications. Anyone have any ideas?

solrac21 said:
So i installed these files on my Nexus 6 Lollipop and it WORKS!. Only issue I have left is the extended notifications are not working. I am using Textera for SMS and not the default messaging app so i cannot get SMS notifications. Anyone have any ideas?
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Did u enable notification access for gear manager? Settings>security>notification access

goldfinv said:
Did u enable notification access for gear manager? Settings>security>notification access
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I did and i also rebooted the phone. The watch notifies me of incoming calls and i can change the clock....

solrac21 said:
I did and i also rebooted the phone. The watch notifies me of incoming calls and i can change the clock....
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I'll look into it, tho I already sold the gear off to a friend...

goldfinv said:
I'll look into it, tho I already sold the gear off to a friend...
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Thanks! Thats the only thing I need from this thing

What about calls, are they still redirected by default to the gear (which is really annoying)?
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What about calls, are they still redirected by default to the gear (which is really annoying)?
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Calls are directed to the gear and for some reason I can't add my bluetooth headset as the audio only. i have tried diabling the phone audio option for the Gear but it still sends the calls to it. I'll keep messing around with the settings to see how it works. Last night I was able to install watchstyler on the phone by installing the apk and i can use those clocks now. Also, the watch is on non-stock Android rom from these forums.

solrac21 said:
So i installed these files on my Nexus 6 Lollipop and it WORKS!. Only issue I have left is the extended notifications are not working. I am using Textera for SMS and not the default messaging app so i cannot get SMS notifications. Anyone have any ideas?
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Hi, you are using Gear1? Tizen or Android? Sounds very interesting if this procedure works with gear manager 2.2, gear1 tizen and non Samsung lollipop!

trondjl said:
Hi, you are using Gear1? Tizen or Android? Sounds very interesting if this procedure works with gear manager 2.2, gear1 tizen and non Samsung lollipop!
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Here is my setup:
Phone: Nexus 6
Phone OS: Lollipop 5.0.1
GG1: Android Null ROM 23
Gear manager ver: 2.2.15022599
FYI, I tried using the default messaging app on Lollipop but I still cannot see SMS on the GG1.

solrac21 said:
Here is my setup:
Phone: Nexus 6
Phone OS: Lollipop 5.0.1
GG1: Android Null ROM 23
Gear manager ver: 2.2.15022599
FYI, I tried using the default messaging app on Lollipop but I still cannot see SMS on the GG1.
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Ahhhh crap, I thought it's a Tizen device... You had my heart skipped a beat
Mine's a Gear 2 with Tizen. Guess we ain't getting Gear Manager to work with Tizen Gear after all...

hadobac said:
Ahhhh crap, I thought it's a Tizen device... You had my heart skipped a beat
Mine's a Gear 2 with Tizen. Guess we ain't getting Gear Manager to work with Tizen Gear after all...
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I'm feeling adventurous and might flash Tizenmod on the watch to see what happens....

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I'm feeling adventurous and might flash Tizenmod on the watch to see what happens....
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Nice attemp my friend solrac21. I look forward to hear your outcome on the compatibility. I'm on Z Ultra, and want to jump to the ship of Lollipop, as soon as Gear Manager works on Lollipop !

Hello Friends, i have the Galaxy Gear with a HTC One M7 ... apparently works but i have two issues,
1) the pics taked by the gear did not sync with the phone.
2) The gear have not load the phone contacts. (There is really important for me)
Somebody have information about it?
Thanks in advance.