Well, in the middle of using my Gear 1 w/ Tizen a few nights ago, it froze up. I rebooted the watch and attempted to reconnect to my ATT Note 3. The bluetooth settings on the phone show it's connected, but Gear Manager refused to connect. I tried several things: uninstalling and reinstalling Gear Manager, uninstalling and reinstalling a 1.2 version of Gear Manager, factory resetting the watch, and lastly flashing a stock Tizen ROM (same one I initially flashed on day 1 of Tizen launch for Gear 1), and nothing worked.
Next steps- I took the watch to my local ATT store and attempted them to do 'tech support' (yeah right). They said they don't do device support on accessories, but would connect me directly with Samsung. I could've done this from home. The Samsung tech support rep was basically worthless, and wasted an hour of my time after he logged remotely into my phone to check out some things.
Last steps- He emailed me a UPS label and I am sending in my watch to Samsung for repairs. 3 days to receive it, 7 days for repairs, and 3 more days to get it back.
Anyone else having this issue now with not being able to connect their Gear 1 w/ Tizen to their phones? Specifically a Note 3 running latest GM version (2.1###) This literally stopped working for me in the middle of using it.
I was having this same issue. I used titanium to remove all the supporting apps. Then deleted the gear manager app. Then went into recovery and wiped cache and dalvik. Then redid the whole process of installing the preinstalled apps and then gear manager. Nothing works. It will not connect.
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Anyone? Can't believe OP and I are the only ones with this issue...
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I've been having similar issues, after resetting and reinstalling gear manager a bunch of times it works better. It will connect now but when it fails it can take hours to get it working again. I think it's to do with recent gear manager updates. Samsung just don't seem to be very good at software.
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I have the same issue with mine, but I have a note 2. It's definitely the tizen update.
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I had the same. Reflashed mine with latest tizen an it worked
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I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that so many people are affected. My watch is currently at Samsung getting 'serviced'. I wonder if they even know that GM v2.1 is broken w/ Note 3s. Awesome job once again, Samsung.
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Every galaxy gear app is stuck at installing. The watch and phone are working fine together other than that. Non-Gear samsung apps install fine.
Anyone else having problems installing Gear Apps from Samsung apps?
This is on a stock note 3 stock gear. Installing eventually times out actually installing nothing. But then the samsung apps thinks it's been installed. Now I have 10 apps or so that are not on the gear that the app store thinks are downloaded and cant remove. Any help out there?
I have power cycled the phone and the gear. I have disconnected the Gear and added it back as a new gear.
Bump am I the only one with problems?
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Every galaxy gear app is stuck at installing. The watch and phone are working fine together other than that. Non-Gear samsung apps install fine.
Anyone else having problems installing Gear Apps from Samsung apps?
This is on a stock note 3 stock gear. Installing eventually times out actually installing nothing. But then the samsung apps thinks it's been installed. Now I have 10 apps or so that are not on the gear that the app store thinks are downloaded and cant remove. Any help out there?
I have power cycled the phone and the gear. I have disconnected the Gear and added it back as a new gear.
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Had the same problem... when trying to install from Note III phone the Galaxy Gear Watch, the Samsung Note III phone software got stuck/hung. Also, calls out originating from the watch were not performing correctly. Lastly, I could not use the Samsung App store as it would show an error saying something along the lines of not being logged in to access apps or some such. Only remedy seems to be to wipe the Note 3 and watch and start over again. Here is what I did:
Backup everything to Kies 3 (though other methods should be ok I assume).
Reset Note III and watch back to factory.
After reboot I made sure the phone/watch interface worked. Verifying this, then restored phone using Kies 3.
Of course there is always a bit more work than this, as the Phone's home screen/sub-screens layout need to be redone and other bits needs to be manually changed back to your preferences. Also, some of your e-mail account may need to be re-entered/reconfig as they were deleted and not restored. Took me ~60 min and now everything, including sideloading with Wondershare MobileGo, works great.
Same here although I am using a gs4. Everything works fine but I can't install new apps I am using 4.2.2 I figured that might have something to do with it so I'll wait until 4.3 and go from there.
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I need help! I have an unrooted gs3. I just bought the galaxy gear and through aptoide down loaded gear manager. I paired to the watch fine. Only I can only make calls...and obly from my phone. As if its only playing the roll of a Bluetooth. Cause on the watch all I see is the icon showing the phone finding the watch. Bottom line...I need help on how to do this fron beginning to end. Please...I dnt want to wait til nov. 11 for the 4.3 upgrade...thank you
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Same here although I am using a gs4. Everything works fine but I can't install new apps I am using 4.2.2 I figured that might have something to do with it so I'll wait until 4.3 and go from there.
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me too. s4 first i was on 4.22 and couldn't instaal anything on the gear, then upgraded to 4.3 rooted it, but the problem is still there - can't install anything on the watch. even svoice wouldn't work
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After some tests I think that the problem is located in the Samsung apps itself.
Since we (may be all of us) have custom ROM, Samsung apps is not correctly installed or is in a older version. Remove the actualization of the Samsung apps in the app manager and restart the phone.
After that open again the samsung apps and it will install actualizations.
Some force closes after that open the gear manager and you will be able to install apps to the watch.
Seem confusing but worked for me. Already in tall ever note and line after that.
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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Finally Samsung got it right, there was quite the update this morning and now there is one health app.
Version 3.5.1.0693 makes me very happy.
I got this update quite a while ago...
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Can you synchronise your steps and activities (or anything!) in this application? I cant!
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Can you synchronise your steps and activities (or anything!) in this application? I cant!
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Yes I finally can now use one interface and the syncing works great - I knew something was coming down the pipe as Fitness with Gear disappeared for a bit last week. I actually went into the gym this morning and tested it out, so the phone and the watch track the exercise. With that knowledge I can now leave the phone in the locker or even home so that I can only use the watch and not have to worry about things going missing (which unfortunately happens). For others that got the update sooner, I am in Canada and I had been longing for this update. Check your version number of sHealth and check if it is the same as what I reported.
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Anyone else has problems syncing Gear 2 Neo with the new S Health? My S Health sync is just spinning and spinning away and won't sync anything from my Gear 2 Neo. I've tried to reboot, uninstalled and reinstalled but no luck.
The last sync from the Gear 2 Neo to S Health was 5 days ago and that's when I upgraded S Health.
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Anyone else has problems syncing Gear 2 Neo with the new S Health? My S Health sync is just spinning and spinning away and won't sync anything from my Gear 2 Neo. I've tried to reboot, uninstalled and reinstalled but no luck.
The last sync from the Gear 2 Neo to S Health was 5 days ago and that's when I upgraded S Health.
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Unpair the Gear 2 Neo and repair it again. Last resort is to reset the gear.
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I am opening this topic to inform other people that this is an existing problem with gear 2 neo because if you are stuck at 99 % on the gear app then you cannot sync your phone with your gear and that is sad and frustrating to me.
I dont know why samsung had no fix for these despite the release of many versions of gear manager.
The important thing is i figured out a workaround.
Temporary fix for me:
when you are connecting your gear to your phone and when it is downloading additional software , DONT USE WIFI. I managed not get stuck on 99% when using my mobile data connection.
Please post here for a permanent fix thanks
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Did what you did. still doesn't work.
ive never been stuck at 99% in gear manager with apps. seems like a weird issue. are you running a stock ROM?
Has anyone tried connecting a Gear S2/S3 to their Mi Mix? I got it to connect to my 3g Gear S2 just fine and gave all the apps all the permissions they needed (and then some) but the Samsung Pay app won't show up in the gear app for install and nothing, and I mean nothing, will show up in the galaxy app store. I've tried 2 factory reboots and rebooting my phone and still nothing. To me, the Gear S2 is worthless without a working galaxy app store. Anyone else have this problem or have a possible solution? My Huawei watch works perfectly as does my Pebble Time Steel so the Gear S2 seems to be the only one with an issue.
Please help! Thanks.
If I remember the Samsung store app won't run on non Samsung devices, could be wrong though. I dropped Samsung watches awhile back after the proprietary behavior they showed with the early Fit's ... went to a Moto 360 and haven't looked back.
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If I remember the Samsung store app won't run on non Samsung devices, could be wrong though. I dropped Samsung watches awhile back after the proprietary behavior they showed with the early Fit's ... went to a Moto 360 and haven't looked back.
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Well I would agree except my Gear S2 works perfectly on my old Nexus 6P and Honor 8. So I'm thinking there is something that is blocking its use. I have noticed that the China rom blocks a few things (google opinion rewards for example). I've tried the latest global official rom too and it is even worse. I can't even connect the watch to the phone before the gear app just crashes. I guess it just won't work on MIUI. No big deal really as my Huawei watch is sufficient and nicer in my opinion.
I have the same error with my Samsung Pay Gear S2 app. Whenever I try to open it, it returns the error that Samsung Pay cannot be accessed by rooted devices for security reasons. Unroot your device to use Samsung Pay. I have downloaded the SuperUs app to try to unroot it and it says that no root detected on my phone. My Samsung Pay app used to work just fine until they upgraded it. Now it doesn't work anymore.
Does Samsung Pay work on non Samsung devices?