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Apps (or lack of)

Are any fellow Gear users slightly disappointed by the lack of new apps appearing in the official Samsung store? Like, I'd love a Spotify app that showed the name of the track/album art etc...
I know unless I can program (which I can't), it's not going to happen. It seems the update for dev's is really slow :/

I was just thinking that today. I am less impressived now that the excitement of a new device is over
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I just got the gear 2 days ago and I expected much more from sammy. Altho I should have learned my lesson getting the note 1 opening day and I was in this very same situation, awesome new device that might as be a paper weight. The few apps there are are littered with bad reviews or they are the pointless. Sucks
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samsung store has been empty since day one. i do not expect it to change anytime soon. there is still no official SDK available to developers. we can make apps for android that will work on gear by sideloading, but we can't use all of it's features..

An SDK will not come any time soon.... Only to selected partners Sammie choose...
It is Sad but it is how it is ...
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Jeshter2000 said:
An SDK will not come any time soon.... Only to selected partners Sammie choose...
It is Sad but it is how it is ...
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I love samsung products, although hate there attitude..
SDK is the last piece of the puzzle.

fOmey said:
I love samsung products, although hate there attitude..
SDK is the last piece of the puzzle.
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Considering how powerful the hardware is, Sammy should be really pushing this with an SDK. Unless they are planning to load the gear up with missile blasting codes, they should cut the secrecy and get everyone to start developing, or hang around while iWatch or Pebble 2 or Google Watch or whatever comes and takes away the advantage.

Who received the gear for Christmas

Who received the gear for Christmas. Please share. If you have any questions or just need help. Please post.
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I got my Gear just under 2 weeks ago, free gift with my new contract, so I guess that kind of counts

Just got my gear this morning from the mrs!! I was wondering if I want to root it, should I not update it? Or what should I do
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Jaybenosa said:
Just got my gear this morning from the mrs!! I was wondering if I want to root it, should I not update it? Or what should I do
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Root it. Then use null latest rom.
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freefalling0411 said:
Root it. Then use null latest rom.
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Will do!! Thanks for the quick reply!!!
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Got the gear yesterday, waiting for sdk! great potential for this watch once the sdk is up
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freefalling0411 said:
Who received the gear for Christmas. Please share. If you have any questions or just need help. Please post.
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I got one for Christmas and am kinda disappointed so far. Got it connected but the functionality sucks without all of Samsung's bloatware. Lack of weather no camera uploads no extra apps. Whatnot.
I'm not sure if I want to ROM the watch it give it the full android feel. Plus I love gear managers watch faces.
Is there way I can give the full functionality on 4.4? I'm even willing to download a little bit of bloat.
I just found a ROM that really works for me and it makes me sad to have to lose it.
Please help. I need some direction!

Got one from my wife for Christmas... Haven't really had any time to set it up... Any pointers? (I will read the forums a little later)

Got one from my father for Christmas. Really happy with it so far. Used the camera a lot
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Jokerslie said:
I got one for Christmas and am kinda disappointed so far. Got it connected but the functionality sucks without all of Samsung's bloatware. Lack of weather no camera uploads no extra apps. Whatnot.
I'm not sure if I want to ROM the watch it give it the full android feel. Plus I love gear managers watch faces.
Is there way I can give the full functionality on 4.4? I'm even willing to download a little bit of bloat.
I just found a ROM that really works for me and it makes me sad to have to lose it.
Please help. I need some direction!
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It's not the most advanced watch in the world. But works wonders.
jjenkins2005 said:
Got one from my wife for Christmas... Haven't really had any time to set it up... Any pointers? (I will read the forums a little later)
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Give it time. Once you float around the forum. There is many options for it.
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I'm loving mine, had it 4~5 days. I'm not sure I want to run null. #1, my eyes are too old to make it worthwhile, xda or g+ on that screen...really?
So while I'm not opposed to rooting and I'm amazed with what Fomey has done with null, can you give me a good reason for null? I'm looking for a good reason, lol.
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tkjeeper said:
I'm loving mine, had it 4~5 days. I'm not sure I want to run null. #1, my eyes are too old to make it worthwhile, xda or g+ on that screen...really?
So while I'm not opposed to rooting and I'm amazed with what Fomey has done with null, can you give me a good reason for null? I'm looking for a good reason, lol.
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How about this? I'm also too old to read "fine print" without glasses. But w/Null and Freefalling's theme we've achieved superior battery life and an awesome look!
I use TW instead of Nova but still have Nova installed.
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ebay still has that $200 deal for a refurb
without bluetooth tether (AT&T Note 3), is the null rom still useful?

Still syncs with the phone but no internet
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Still syncs with the phone but no internet
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Call me crazy, but I'm one of those guys who likes tw, I was a long time before flashing a rom to the n3. I rooted fast, but with wanam, I saw no need.
So since I'm able to receive and reply to email, texts, calls, I'm not sure what I'm missing, honestly, I'm looking for an excuse to flash it
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Got it for Xmas from My girlfriend..
Rooted and working with my SG4. Still working to make it stable to last longer. But i have internet and trying all options that i dont make it past thr regular 8-10 Hour... Tomorrow i gonna give it the basic setting to try and get the best juice out it.
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Gear for christmas
My wife gave me mine yesterday.
I am so happy )
Nice watch
rui

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Call me crazy, but I'm one of those guys who likes tw, I was a long time before flashing a rom to the n3. I rooted fast, but with wanam, I saw no need.
So since I'm able to receive and reply to email, texts, calls, I'm not sure what I'm missing, honestly, I'm looking for an excuse to flash it
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what do you like about touchwiz? everyone use their gear differently, but i really hated these black and white icons, and you couldn't change how many icons at the same time are displayed.. so if you want to go to voice memos for example, you had to swipe so many pages just to get to that app. i can't stand that. to this day, there is only one custom rom by fomey (bless you). i wouldn't even consider keeping the gear if not the custom ROM. samsung ****ed up big (not the first and not the last time).

As for the face and font colors, I'm sure Samsung will update it with more colors in customization in the future.
Adding more color plates....it is a piece of cake from the technical point of view! :silly:

I got mine a week early and have been loving it since I got it. I think more would get it, if it cost less. It is a very cool and useful watch.

it's possible to make one of the ios pebble app to talk with an android app over bt?

As iPhone owners we are looking for a solution to get better interactions with galaxy gear. With the rooted rom the gear it's kinda mini tablet. On ios there is a lot of good pebble app, do you think it's possible to create an apk that could catch over bluetooth the notifications That the ios app it's sending?
Thanks

Lot of people reading this post, but no ideas so far!
C'mon developers!

Do you have a gear or a pebble? Your post confused me.
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nolageek said:
Do you have a gear or a pebble? Your post confused me.
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I have a gear, but there is no iOS app for that, and we (iPhone owners) are looking for a solution, considering that the gear with iPhone it's only a standalone device tethered over bluetooth, a solution was to use one Of the existing iOS pebble app (that got a lot of notifications) paired with another app in android over bluetooth, just to see notifications on the Gear.

Gear doesn't support iphones, iphones don't support gear. Pebble doesnt support gear. (So the answer is no) But pebble does support iphones. Get a pebble. Problem solved.
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jt323bd said:
Gear doesn't support iphones, iphones don't support gear. Pebble doesnt support gear. (So the answer is no) But pebble does support iphones. Get a pebble. Problem solved.
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You are wrong. Pebble does support Gear, cause see it like a phone, but this is not the matter, I'm talking about make different apps in different os to talk together. Pebble it's not involved, we are only using pebble app to try something different.

jt323bd said:
Gear doesn't support iphones, iphones don't support gear. Pebble doesnt support gear. (So the answer is no) But pebble does support iphones. Get a pebble. Problem solved.
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Supposed that xda it's a board about hacking, developing, and roms, not about using devices in stock way

Open mic+

Anyone try this on the gear?
Pretty neat. I installed it on my s4 n when it responses, I can use the gears' mic to command.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RSen.OpenMic.Pheonix
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Battery drain might be crazy
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battery life will be an issue.
and personally i prefer to touch the right icon in order to do something. i don't like talking to my watch.

Good to know, at least the option is there for whoever needs it.
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I had this on the Gear for the few days that I ran the null rom and it was pretty cool. You could just say something and the watch would pick it up even with the screen off.
That said, I wasn't a big fan of trying to do much work on the watch rather than the big Note 3 so I went back to stock.

Galaxy Gear 2 Models Image Leaked

http://www.sammobile.com/2014/02/22...y-gear-2-neo-leaked-ahead-of-official-unveil/

Cool!
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Dont look like they are running tinzen os then?

Evleaks is now saying that these watches are not Galaxy branded. So it seems Samsung is presumably just going to run with the Gear branding.
This is from gsmarena.com

Yep, these are probably the Gear 2 and Gear Neo... later will probably be the Gear Fit. I'm glad it doesn't look too different from my Gear watch... as I'm not ready to shell out more loot yet.
Digging the physical home button and new camera placement though.
Skype, anyone?
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These look very nice !
Thanks for sharing.

T-Anthony78 said:
Yep, these are probably the Gear 2 and Gear Neo... later will probably be the Gear Fit. I'm glad it doesn't look too different from my Gear watch... as I'm not ready to shell out more loot yet.
Digging the physical home button and new camera placement though.
Skype, anyone?
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I am hoping that I can get a Gear Fit with it still having all the Gear 2 features like the camera.

I need to start saving now to buy this. Got to have it for my Note!

I saw a report saying they are indeed running tizen os.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/19/samsung-galaxy-gear-2-tizen/
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Tizen on the new gear is a dead nogo imediately for me that is, I can imagine no apps for this thing and since tizen dont have an app store tell me how will we sideload apps from google play to it? The whole point was to make it slimmer and better. It looks the same. Looks thick like the gear and now its running tizen? Hell nah. Ill have to test it out and look more into it for me to buy it. Considering tizen is the os. I think I'll stick with my gear
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