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re-pair everytime it reboots.

hello all.
quick question ... why does my galaxy gear ask me to pair everytime i reboot it? it prompts for a code ... cant it auto - pair and just do it itself?

cylent said:
hello all.
quick question ... why does my galaxy gear ask me to pair everytime i reboot it? it prompts for a code ... cant it auto - pair and just do it itself?
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Sounds like you may need to reset it

Brendo said:
Sounds like you may need to reset it
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the thing is i am using a custom rom on my note3.
when i first got the gear yesterday and i scanned it via nfc it gave me a weird "new nfc scanned" dialog... because the custom firmware had removed the samsung apps store.
in the end in paired it manually and installed gear manager manually also.
it works but is annoying.
i think i'll look for the samsung apps and hopefully that'll fix my issue.

Two Gears, One Note

I am now the owner of two Gears thanks to AT&T. I have an orange for everyday and black for business/formal events. I am starting to explore switching between the two. Anyone else connecting multiple Gears to one phone, yet?
When you use Gear manager to switch back and forth it has to sync with the gear each time. I switched using the settings>Bluetooth and gear manager shows the new one connected, but it doesn't have record of the apps that are installed.
I guess you would just make sure the same apps are on each watch.
Looking forward to feedback

Well, you can only connect one gear to a phone or one phone to a watch. Can't see it being easy to work with both :s

Brendo said:
Well, you can only connect one gear to a phone or one phone to a watch. Can't see it being easy to work with both :s
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I also have two and connected them both is no problem even at the same time but it sometimes makes you restore on reconnect to other device. loose all but stock apps.

Update
I was mistaken. Do not use gear manager to switch between watches.
Go to Bluetooth devices and switch there. I have renamed each watch for identification.
When you switch and go into gear manager, you will find the apps are now the apps on the newly connected watch
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Brendo said:
Well, you can only connect one gear to a phone or one phone to a watch. Can't see it being easy to work with both :s
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Not at the same time, was looking for an easy way to switch. Found it. Just switch in Bluetooth devices, not gear manager
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srtpusher said:
I am now the owner of two Gears thanks to AT&T. I have an orange for everyday and black for business/formal events. I am starting to explore switching between the two. Anyone else connecting multiple Gears to one phone, yet?
When you use Gear manager to switch back and forth it has to sync with the gear each time. I switched using the settings>Bluetooth and gear manager shows the new one connected, but it doesn't have record of the apps that are installed.
I guess you would just make sure the same apps are on each watch.
Looking forward to feedback
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Did you eve find a good solution! I have two gears and a Note 3. I am trying to find the correct way to get them to work without having to go through the Restore Process every-time I switch Gears. (I have tried using the Switch through Bluetooth Method) It is still asking to setup as new with option to restore.

Gear Manager no longer auto reconnects

Anyone else seeing this? After the last couple updates to gear manager, when the watch goes too far away and loses connection, often Gear Manager doesn't try to reconnect automatically like it always used to do.

mhoepfin said:
Anyone else seeing this? After the last couple updates to gear manager, when the watch goes too far away and loses connection, often Gear Manager doesn't try to reconnect automatically like it always used to do.
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I noticed the exact same thing.
I have to open GM & manually tell it to reconnect. It sometimes takes three of four times before it actually connects without timing out.

same thing for me, after the update last week or so it doesn't auto-reconnect anymore...as a work-around, i ended up making a tasker profile to connect to the gear when its not connected...

[Q] Get Gear to access to WLAN?

Hey, is there any way to get the galaxy gear to connect to my WLAN at home?
I am using null rom and tethering to get internet to work on my gear now, but i got this tv controller app that needs to connect to my wlan in order to work. Soooo, is it even possible in any way to get my gear to recognize a wifi other than the one my SGS3 creates? I see so many benefits to this because I want to control everything that's electric at home from my gear.
I have read everywhere and i can't find any solution for this.. The only thing i found was someone with about the same connection problem i think, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2537003 . Where fOmey says something about using tasker & autoremote in order to get it to work, can any kind soul help me decipher these hieroglyphics so that I may get an answer?
I'm a noob at this as i got null yesterday.. Really good stuff though!! :good:
Thanks in advance
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well the answer in simple terms is to install Tasker on your phone and AutoRemote on your Gear.
so after you read from Tasker dev site on using it properly the long and short is that autoremote can send commands to your phone and then Tasker on phone will execute said command. your Gear has no wifi so this setup pushes command to phone that has wifi and phone sends command via network.
not a complete answer with instructions but with research now you should be able to get it working.
good luck because Tasker can be challenging but also once you understand it also very rewarding

Thank you very much for the answer and for opening my eyes to Tasker! But i'm sorry to say that i'm not really sure how to take it from here.
I have now installed Tasker on the phone and Autoremote on both the phone and the gear and I found that the tasker truly can be rewarding as you say, I have read alot about it and found several things that I can have use of.
But the thing is, will I be able to trick my gear through the phone into thinking it has access to my home network and use the app that way (I can and have installed the app on the gear but it can't find the tv-box as i don't have access to my home network). Or will the gear only be able to command the phones app 'Telia Zappa' to change channel on the tv-box? I don't get where to begin in either way and for me I would love to get access to the network right away instead of making scripts or what to call it for every app that must have access to my home network.
If someone have this figured out or have any ideas especially on how to trick watch to get access to my home network through my phone and bluetooth tethering of course, please help me out. I have so many fun and useful ideas for the watch wich I gladly share with you if I only could get this to work.
Thanks,
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I've got some apps on my Gear to connect to my computer, as Spotimote and Unified Remote. But I dont really get how the Gear can connect to my computer when it can't find my tv-box on the local wlan because it says it's connected to 'unkown ssid' in the tv-box's app. When I got the other apps to work I had the ability to manually set the ip adress to connect to, so I did just that and it worked! But I don't have that ability in the app for the tv-box. So how can my gear connect to my computer on the local wlan, but it cant find my tv-box or even the local wlan when I use the other app and both my computer and tv-box is of course on the same network. The app for my tv-box works just fine on the mobile device.
Nothing of above has been done with Tasker, or has it? Can it be that the connection between my phone and Gear through Autoremote provides the gear with the ability to communicate with my computer via phones wifi?
Anyone? It must be any way to trick the Gear into thinking that it have Local network access through phones wifi connection and bluetooth tethering.. If someone knows the answer or got any ideas plase tell me, and if it really is through Tasker and Autoremote please tell me where to begin!
My question remains unanswered, but only for now i hope!
/P

Petteer said:
I've got some apps on my Gear to connect to my computer, as Spotimote and Unified Remote. But I dont really get how the Gear can connect to my computer when it can't find my tv-box on the local wlan because it says it's connected to 'unkown ssid' in the tv-box's app. When I got the other apps to work I had the ability to manually set the ip adress to connect to, so I did just that and it worked! But I don't have that ability in the app for the tv-box. So how can my gear connect to my computer on the local wlan, but it cant find my tv-box or even the local wlan when I use the other app and both my computer and tv-box is of course on the same network. The app for my tv-box works just fine on the mobile device.
Nothing of above has been done with Tasker, or has it? Can it be that the connection between my phone and Gear through Autoremote provides the gear with the ability to communicate with my computer via phones wifi?
Anyone? It must be any way to trick the Gear into thinking that it have Local network access through phones wifi connection and bluetooth tethering.. If someone knows the answer or got any ideas plase tell me, and if it really is through Tasker and Autoremote please tell me where to begin!
My question remains unanswered, but only for now i hope!
/P
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sorry, did you actually get to work Unified Remote via 'wifi'?
i was only able to do it by direct connection between gear and pc, note 3 was skipped.

hurdlejade said:
sorry, did you actually get to work Unified Remote via 'wifi'?
i was only able to do it by direct connection between gear and pc, note 3 was skipped.
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Since I don't have Bluetooth on my computer I assumed that it was wifi/local Wlan, through the phones tethering to Gear. Maybe I'm wrong, but the only other explanation I have would be that the Gear connected through an internet connection to my computer wich i dont see how it would be possible when i only entered an local ip adress.
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[Q] Wont get past initial setup

Got Gear Live and Factory reset to start the process. Installed Wear app and it sees and connects to Gear Live but get stuck on some "Downloading" part and it never finishes. Tell it to dont try and still same screen. Any one else see this?
Nexus 5 with L preview.

slimdizzy said:
Got Gear Live and Factory reset to start the process. Installed Wear app and it sees and connects to Gear Live but get stuck on some "Downloading" part and it never finishes. Tell it to dont try and still same screen. Any one else see this?
Nexus 5 with L preview.
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You need to make sure that your phone is connected through wifi and not 3g/4g. I had the same problem. It needs to download the update no matter what, but since the update is so huge it will refuse to download if your connection is not wifi.

novadaemon said:
You need to make sure that your phone is connected through wifi and not 3g/4g. I had the same problem. It needs to download the update no matter what, but since the update is so huge it will refuse to download if your connection is not wifi.
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Thanks for the reply, I am on WiFi but will try on another network.
Cheers!

slimdizzy said:
Thanks for the reply, I am on WiFi but will try on another network.
Cheers!
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Another network worked. Must have been some packet prioritizing on my works network or something.
Cheers!