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!
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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 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!
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[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
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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
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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?
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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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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
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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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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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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...
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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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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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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 ?
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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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.
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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.
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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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Well i was able to connect my gear with my g flex thanks to this info i found online everything works except weather and music, but all notifications work and calls. Also using the new s5 gear apk.
http://m.smartwatchfans.com/how-to-galaxy-gear-nexus-5
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Well i was able to connect my gear with my g flex thanks to this info i found online everything works except weather and music, but all notifications work and calls. Also using the new s5 gear apk.
http://m.smartwatchfans.com/how-to-galaxy-gear-nexus-5
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Thanks. I'm getting the game flex for free from att in exchange for my note 3. Was annoyed I couldn't use my watch. Now I'm excited.
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I have a gear 1 and tmobile flex. i have gear manager 1.2 and tizen installed on the gear (XEO region). I cant get gear manager and phone to connect to each other. the gear is paired to the phone though.
Well after spending on this, I found out that I have to use the newest version of Gear Manager (1.7). Now, my main issue is the phone call automatically routes to the watch and not my LG HBS730 that is paired to my Flex. Also the Email app on the gear manager doesn't sync up with the email app from the phone.
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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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
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Hi,
Is there possible to install google now on gear2 instead s-voice ?
best regards.
Not yet. There are talks about people working on it but so far it is not possible.
This would make me want to keep my Gear Neo if we could use Google Now. I keep going back to my LG G Watch because Google Now works so much better than S-Voice. I like the hardware of the Neo, just not the software
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Then you should instal Google Wear on Neo...
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Then you should instal Google Wear on Neo...
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Do all of the hardware items still work like the remote control and health options?
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In the latest builds, the hardware works. All that doesn't work is having phone conversations on the Gear and the photo gallery.
I really wish we could dual boot between the two. I like features of both and neither has any particular thing that'll keep me from the other.
I will have to try it. Do you have a link to where I can get the instructions and download information?
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