I have the GT-7000 and I am to understand that both mobile hotspot and usb tethering come as default features. ive seen a simple guide on how to get it working and it basiscally states the obvious: Check it on. The wireless hotspot is no problem, its working, but the usb hotspot option is forever grayed out and I cannot turn it on. Tried every stupid simple thing but it never becomes selectable. I downloaded and installed pdanet and that works fine but i want to know why the native setting isnt functional so I can just hot swap between computers without having to go through that install process on each computer wherever I may be. Anyone?
EDIT: For some odd reason the next time I tried on another day the option became select-able. I still dont know the reason it stayed grayed out before but at least its working now. So yay =)
im assuming your phone is connected to the pc when you are trying it?
what rom are you using?
Richy99 said:
im assuming your phone is connected to the pc when you are trying it?
what rom are you using?
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LMAO....
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No rom, unrooted, stock GB, and yes, it was connected. Like I said, I tried all the obvious simple stuff. Dunno if i gotta do some weird ninja thing but it just seems like it doesnt want to work.
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Also the computer is windows 7, i hear that matters
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For those of you who have this problem, here is a potential band-aid:
When I installed the Galaxy Gear apk on my phone and tried to connect it to the Gear it would try to install 19 items / fail then try to connect to the watch, pair and then disconnect never actually finishing.
I finally got it working by going into the Gear Directory on my phone and running the APK's in that Directory using a file manager, the one which seems to have done the trick is "SAccessoryService_signed.apk", after running that it finally allowed gear to connect and stay connected.
Once you get gear connected you'll likely want some new apps, I installed several from here
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/m6ldp4k0d9xrq/GearApp
Hope it helps
Thanks!
You sir, are a lifesaver! I will test this in the morning, but I can confirm the Signed.APK installs. Thanks!
I installed the signed.apk, but how do I actually run it? Mine still doesn't connect :/
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got it to work. All I need now is notifications to work and I'll be golden
Great. Thank you. I starting doing this. Then gave up.
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Still having issues
SO, I got to my Gear this morning and tried this solution, but I am still having issues. I cant get through the setup and I keep getting "connection failed" even after I run the Signed APK. Anyone have any idea? I see others have it working so I must be doing something wrong.
I am on CM 10.2-20130920 which is Android 4.3.
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SO, I got to my Gear this morning and tried this solution, but I am still having issues. I cant get through the setup and I keep getting "connection failed" even after I run the Signed APK. Anyone have any idea? I see others have it working so I must be doing something wrong.
I am on CM 10.2-20130920 which is Android 4.3.
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Check in your phones settings. In all application for the SAccessorries_service.signed. and run it.
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No Luck
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Check in your phones settings. In all application for the SAccessorries_service.signed. and run it.
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Can't see that program even after I install the APK in the Gear folder. The only things I see that may be relevant are The Gear Manager APK and the Samsung Accessory Service in the All programs list in settings. I keep getting Bluetooth to connect on the watch (says connected for a second then goes to the spinning watch/device animation), but after a while of the animation on both the phone and watch a message on the phone comes up with "Can not connect". After that point the bluetooth connection seems lost and the Gear Manager asks to connect with the watch again.
SO, I figured it might be my CM 10.2 nightly build on my phone and installed the stable CM 10.1.3 build. Sadly, the same error is happening,:crying:
Any thoughts on what I am doing wrong?
gregkeys said:
For those of you who have this problem, here is a potential band-aid:
When I installed the Galaxy Gear apk on my phone and tried to connect it to the Gear it would try to install 19 items / fail then try to connect to the watch, pair and then disconnect never actually finishing.
I finally got it working by going into the Gear Directory on my phone and running the APK's in that Directory using a file manager, the one which seems to have done the trick is "SAccessoryService_signed.apk", after running that it finally allowed gear to connect and stay connected.
Once you get gear connected you'll likely want some new apps, I installed several from here
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/m6ldp4k0d9xrq/GearApp
Hope it helps
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Does everything work.. Even notifications?
Thanks
How do you run the signed apk, I've installed it from gear directory using astro file manager , do you need to do anything else.
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gregkeys said:
For those of you who have this problem, here is a potential band-aid:
When I installed the Galaxy Gear apk on my phone and tried to connect it to the Gear it would try to install 19 items / fail then try to connect to the watch, pair and then disconnect never actually finishing.
I finally got it working by going into the Gear Directory on my phone and running the APK's in that Directory using a file manager, the one which seems to have done the trick is "SAccessoryService_signed.apk", after running that it finally allowed gear to connect and stay connected.
Once you get gear connected you'll likely want some new apps, I installed several from here
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/m6ldp4k0d9xrq/GearApp
Hope it helps
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Could your post SAccessoryService_signed.apk Im unable to locate it in my directory. Want to try to upgrade to 4.3 Liquid Smooth and see if installing this APK would do the trick because previously I was getting device not supported, but working on 4.2.2 ROMs
Hey guys just wanted some clarification before I go out and purchase one of these beautiful gears !
I own a Galaxy S4 currently running cm10.2 built from source.
Can anyone verify that using the supplied .apk from the OP, you have had success pairing up your gear with your S4 running cm10.2 and have all the main functions working ?
Can anyone please reply with a detailed response on what type of function's are working and what is not.
The only thing that work was making phone call. Notification, Weather, and svoice does not work.
Now if you install a stock 4.3 rom, everything works.
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gregkeys said:
For those of you who have this problem, here is a potential band-aid:
When I installed the Galaxy Gear apk on my phone and tried to connect it to the Gear it would try to install 19 items / fail then try to connect to the watch, pair and then disconnect never actually finishing.
I finally got it working by going into the Gear Directory on my phone and running the APK's in that Directory using a file manager, the one which seems to have done the trick is "SAccessoryService_signed.apk", after running that it finally allowed gear to connect and stay connected.
Once you get gear connected you'll likely want some new apps, I installed several from here
http://www.mediafire.com/folder/m6ldp4k0d9xrq/GearApp
Hope it helps
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Can you post the apk, " SAccessoryService_signed.apk" please.
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Hi Guys,
First to find SAccessoryService_signed.apk it is in the /sdcard/Gear directory.. It is downloaded by the gear manager software
Anyway I have found something else out too... once you run that apk, if you re-open the gear manager, it will download the next app and put it into that gear directory (it also deletes the old one)... if you keep doing this, you get through mose of the providers necessary. As of writing I have got through to SAmusicprovider_signed.apk which fails install and has left me stuck here.
I have tried this on a HTC One X running CM10.1 and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running stock AOSP 4.3.
If I have an s4 with stock 4.2.2 which installs all ofthe apps automatically which means it is something that sammy has added to their version of android to get the stuff to install.
Will post logs if anyone is interested...
Cheers!
thegatsbylofiexperience said:
Hi Guys,
First to find SAccessoryService_signed.apk it is in the /sdcard/Gear directory.. It is downloaded by the gear manager software
Anyway I have found something else out too... once you run that apk, if you re-open the gear manager, it will download the next app and put it into that gear directory (it also deletes the old one)... if you keep doing this, you get through mose of the providers necessary. As of writing I have got through to SAmusicprovider_signed.apk which fails install and has left me stuck here.
I have tried this on a HTC One X running CM10.1 and a Samsung Galaxy Nexus running stock AOSP 4.3.
If I have an s4 with stock 4.2.2 which installs all ofthe apps automatically which means it is something that sammy has added to their version of android to get the stuff to install.
Will post logs if anyone is interested...
Cheers!
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Same issue with a Note 2 running an unofficial CM11. :crying:
And also with the s4. No touchwiz no gear. Dont know what the first poster made there...
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hey guys! i just bought a gear and everything is working fine except for notifications and bluetooth... the bluetooth part, it connects to the gear.. tethering works.. i hear notifications.. but i cant seem to hear anything on speakers of the gear when i make a phone call.. is that like a bluetooth profile missing in cm or a bug? i dont know anything about BT but if anyone could shed some light that would be great.. btw connected gear w/ tw and confirmed that speakers work fine during calls... thanks! also i already asked this question in cm thread already but no one has replied to it.. hopefully someone can answer this here..
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SnMSlrC said:
hey guys! i just bought a gear and everything is working fine except for notifications and bluetooth... the bluetooth part, it connects to the gear.. tethering works.. i hear notifications.. but i cant seem to hear anything on speakers of the gear when i make a phone call.. is that like a bluetooth profile missing in cm or a bug? i dont know anything about BT but if anyone could shed some light that would be great.. btw connected gear w/ tw and confirmed that speakers work fine during calls... thanks! also i already asked this question in cm thread already but no one has replied to it.. hopefully someone can answer this here..
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Gear Needs touchwiz elements in order to operate all functions such as shealth svoice and other elements. I have saw where others have got it to work somewhat but not fully. I can confirm with Gear 1 all hyperdrive roms work extremely well with gear.
hope this helps!!!
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.
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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.
Anyone knows the easiest solution for BT tether to a rooted GN3? I don't want to put Safestrap on it right now. I don't want to pay $10 for Easy Tether which is the solution I found on the gear thread. Thx
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The easiest and free way is to safestrap with xnote on rom slot 1 (leaving stock intact). BT tethering worked with my gear on Null 17. But the screen is so small typing was annoyingly difficult. BT tethering is also very slow. Downloading Tasker on the Gear play store took a long time. I got gmail installed but the small screen and slow tethering really made it impractical...after a day I went back to stock rom on the phone and flashed the gear back to stock (actually the leaked ML1 firmware, it added the alarm apk)...YMMV
I ended up getting it to work with EasyTether free version. I thought I could do some cool stuff with Tasker, but can't think of any.
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Now before anyone jumps down my throat I've googled the hell out of my question and i cant find the solution to it.
I have a moto droid maxx this is my work phone so rooting or anything like that is not an option. The issue is after I upgraded to the latest version of android on my phone 4.4.4, gear manager stopped working. now my gear is rooted and running null_ and i had gear manager running with ATN on the previous version of android for my phone i believe i was using GM 1.6.something and after the last android update it stopped working it and ATN, so for a while now Ive been using the gear sms server and client app i found but i miss being able to use the other things that gear manager aloud me to do. so my question to anyone that can figure it out, is what do i need to do to get this functionality back? now im no noob to this kind of stuff Ive just hit a brick wall and cant seem to get anything to work now. and a little info i forgot is gm stopped working after the update so i uninstalled to do a reinstall and now it wont load up says install failed. now i went though the whole proses of tearing down gm and installing all the apps and gm addon that had it working before like in the nexus how to. and that used to work but not now. so i am at a loss... as much as i like my gear this is proving to be a head ache. and i know i will be switching to moto 360 when it finally comes out. but i hate owning useless tech. so any advice or links would be very much appreciated.
Hey. One thing you can do is put the Gear over to Tizen and just install the Gear Manager like usual. I had that setup working fine on my G2 unrooted and the majority of things worked fine. Never had a connection problem, just weather and s-voice didn't work.
Try it and see. If not, follow the guide to go back to Android and do everything from scratch. Good luck.
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Hey. One thing you can do is put the Gear over to Tizen and just install the Gear Manager like usual. I had that setup working fine on my G2 unrooted and the majority of things worked fine. Never had a connection problem, just weather and s-voice didn't work.
Try it and see. If not, follow the guide to go back to Android and do everything from scratch. Good luck.
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Now is that a different version of gear manager cause the issue is gm won't run on my phone anymore
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Now is that a different version of gear manager cause the issue is gm won't run on my phone anymore
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Nope. I just made sure that I uninstalled every Gear Manager component, reset the Gear(in Tizen), downloaded the latest Gear Manager and started the sync. I can't see what difference there'd be between Moto and LG in the process. That's all I ever did with my Gear. I never had Android on it so I don't know if there's a different way of doing things.
Good luck
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