Replying to Texts While Paired to a Galaxy S5 - Samsung Gear Live

Has anyone with a Galaxy S5 (using the stock Messaging app) had a problem with responding to SMS text messages from their watch? For me, I'm given the option to reply, but as soon as I do, it just shows the green circle with the check mark and says replied. No voice typing prompt ever comes up. Has anyone found a workaround? I really don't want to use Hangouts for SMS, or any other texting app for that matter, because the stock app integrates very nicely with the S-View cover window on the phone. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Workarounds?
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oldblue910 said:
Has anyone with a Galaxy S5 (using the stock Messaging app) had a problem with responding to SMS text messages from their watch? For me, I'm given the option to reply, but as soon as I do, it just shows the green circle with the check mark and says replied. No voice typing prompt ever comes up. Has anyone found a workaround? I really don't want to use Hangouts for SMS, or any other texting app for that matter, because the stock app integrates very nicely with the S-View cover window on the phone. Any thoughts? Suggestions? Workarounds?
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8sms until Samsung updates the stock app to be compatible with Android Wear.
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I have the exact same problem, using it with my GS5... The only work around i found is to use google now using your voice to reply...
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Google Hangouts 2.0 and Gear Notifications

Anyone successfully using this yet? I'd like to use the SMS feature of hangouts, but still receive my text notifications on the gear. However I don't want to get double notifications on my phone.
Anyone tried this out yet?
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PhilPan said:
Anyone successfully using this yet? I'd like to use the SMS feature of hangouts, but still receive my text notifications on the gear. However I don't want to get double notifications on my phone.
Anyone tried this out yet?
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Yes ive done it. I did disable notifications from the stock samsung messaging app. Theres only one downside to it. You only get notified that youve received a hangouts message on your gear but you cant read it on the watch
mtsingson said:
Yes ive done it. I did disable notifications from the stock samsung messaging app. Theres only one downside to it. You only get notified that youve received a hangouts message on your gear but you cant read it on the watch
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Well that's lame... I really liked the hangouts... Back to textra
You can read SMS from Hangout on the Gear. I'm on null 17. I unchecked notification from stock SMS.
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Are you able to reply using a keyboard? Thisnsi the one thing I am waiting to find out before I make the jump to null
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gordec said:
You can read SMS from Hangout on the Gear. I'm on null 17. I unchecked notification from stock SMS.
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Way to dig up an irrelevant thread from 3 months ago. Since the Gear Manager update in December i think it was, you can get previews of notifications on the watch from all apps, including Hangouts.
justin94 said:
Are you able to reply using a keyboard? Thisnsi the one thing I am waiting to find out before I make the jump to null
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If you install null_, then tether the Gear to the internet, you can use the play store on the Gear to install the full hangouts app on the watch. Then you can reply to messages on the watch, but you'll have to keep internet tethering on to do it.
omniwolf said:
Way to dig up an irrelevant thread from 3 months ago. Since the Gear Manager update in December i think it was, you can get previews of notifications on the watch from all apps, including Hangouts.
If you install null_, then tether the Gear to the internet, you can use the play store on the Gear to install the full hangouts app on the watch. Then you can reply to messages on the watch, but you'll have to keep internet tethering on to do it.
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Hi, have you personally done this? I got my gear a few days ago. And i havnt flashed a custom rom on it yet. But if you can confirm you have done this than i will most certainly go ahead with it! Thanks.
you i have done this. It only works for "internet" hangout messages though, not SMS.
keeping internet tethering enabled all the time is a battery killer for the watch and the phone though.
omniwolf said:
you i have done this. It only works for "internet" hangout messages though, not SMS.
keeping internet tethering enabled all the time is a battery killer for the watch and the phone though.
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Hi, i took the plundge last night and installed Null rom on my Galaxy Gear, and tried what you suggested and it works!! Thanks alot for the info!

[Q] Can the Gear get notifications from 3rd party SMS apps?

Or do I NEED to use the TouchWiz messaging app? Because I use EvolveSMS, so i was wondering if I'd still receive text message notifications on the Gear? Thanks.
Was gonna buy one today, but I saw online that the Galaxy Gear 2 is dropping in a couple of weeks with the S5! So I'll probably just wait for the Gear 2. But still wondering this question... thanks to anyone that ca help!
I use EvolveSMS and the notifactions work I can even read them just can't respond with the gear or S Voice just open on phone to respond
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seanpkelley said:
I use EvolveSMS and the notifactions work I can even read them just can't respond with the gear or S Voice just open on phone to respond
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That kinda really sucks lol. That's the whole point to be able to respond too!
You could always send through the stock messaging app but personally i don't like S Voice kind of slow and the sound is always broke up compared to Google voice
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seanpkelley said:
You could always send through the stock messaging app but personally i don't like S Voice kind of slow and the sound is always broke up compared to Google voice
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What else can you do thru the Gear, rather than using your phone? I know you can make/accept/deny calls... but what else?! Can I, let's say, send a tweet?
Joe0113 said:
What else can you do thru the Gear, rather than using your phone? I know you can make/accept/deny calls... but what else?! Can I, let's say, send a tweet?
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I can send a tweet from mine. Although a bit of a different topic...I can also start my car from mine (directed smart start), control my thermostat at home (Nest), watch live TV (Slingplayer), get emails, check sportscenter app, sign into bank app, check fandango etc. You can do just about anything with it. Granted some things might not be as practical as when done on your phone but can be convenient on the gear in certain situations.
Oh... And I get my text notification via Handcent sent to my gear but as mentioned before I can't reply directly from that notification. I usually just send a text command through s voice to respond.
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mickeywdw1254 said:
I can send a tweet from mine. Although a bit of a different topic...I can also start my car from mine (directed smart start), control my thermostat at home (Nest), watch live TV (Slingplayer), get emails, check sportscenter app, sign into bank app, check fandango etc. You can do just about anything with it. Granted some things might not be as practical as when done on your phone but can be convenient on the gear in certain situations.
Oh... And I get my text notification via Handcent sent to my gear but as mentioned before I can't reply directly from that notification. I usually just send a text command through s voice to respond.
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That's F'ING SICK!!! Can't wait, I'm 100% getting the Gear 2 when it comes out, I'm so excited. But what do you mean by your last statement "I usually just send a text command through s voice to respond."??
I get my text notifications through Handcent but you can't type a response or a pre typed response from that message view. I just activate s voice on the gear and say "text whomever". The gear will process that and respond with "whats your message?" I speak my message, it responds by showing a printed version of what I said and asks to confirm if I want to send it. I say yes and it sends the text.
Oh and for most of the other things I mentioned above, the gear of course requires Internet access via blue tooth tethering. Easily doable though.
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mickeywdw1254 said:
I get my text notifications through Handcent but you can't type a response or a pre typed response from that message view. I just activate s voice on the gear and say "text whomever". The gear will process that and respond with "whats your message?" I speak my message, it responds by showing a printed version of what I said and asks to confirm if I want to send it. I say yes and it sends the text.
Oh and for most of the other things I mentioned above, the gear of course requires Internet access via blue tooth tethering. Easily doable though.
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Yeah I figured that. Can't wait for the Gear 2! Thanks for the info!
How is it that you can respond to texts through S Voice i deleted the stock messaging app and use EvolveSMS but can't respond with it
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It isn't a "direct" response per se but when I use s voice to send a text back to the person that texted me it sends it and it falls in line with the rest of the conversation in Handcent. If that makes sense.
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To me it sound like you are sending through the stock app but prefer to use handcent do you still have the stock app on your phone..
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Yeah, I still have the stock messaging app.
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seanpkelley said:
To me it sound like you are sending through the stock app but prefer to use handcent do you still have the stock app on your phone..
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I use GoSMS, but whenever I get MMS I open up the stock messaging app (so I can respond while watching the video). Any messages sent/received go to both Messaging and GoSMS, so if I were to use a gear, I imagine I would get notifications on the gear through GoSMS and then just use S Voice to respond (through Messaging). When I go on my phone later, both SMS apps would still have the entire conversation.
Problem is what about when/if your phone is running KitKat and you can only run 1 messaging app....?!

[Q] Can't reply to messages from watch

Weird issue ive been running into. I can use google now to send a text to somebody, but when somebody messages me (sms), i get the notification to read it, and then the options to reply, mark as read, call, etc. however, when i try to reply inside that notification (one swipe from right to left), the green check mark just pops up instantly, and the voice prompt doesnt even load for me to dictate a response to that message. anyone else running into this? if so, did you solve it and how?
More info on phone/watch:
-watch is running latest firmware as per samsung
-watch is paired to verizon galaxy s4
-s4 is rooted running Danvdh's KTU84Q (AOSP) ROM (8/10/2014) with the Ktoonsez kernel installed (7/12/2014)
EDIT: using 8sms from the play store, works perfectly in place of the stock sms app and looks the same as well
Here's the question is 8sms wear compatible because it needs to be to have the reply option on the watch.
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Here's the question is 8sms wear compatible because it needs to be to have the reply option on the watch.
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Yes it is. Works perfectly as a factory sms application, and allows you to reply on the watch.
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spadz93 said:
Weird issue ive been running into. I can use google now to send a text to somebody, but when somebody messages me (sms), i get the notification to read it, and then the options to reply, mark as read, call, etc. however, when i try to reply inside that notification (one swipe from right to left), the green check mark just pops up instantly, and the voice prompt doesnt even load for me to dictate a response to that message. anyone else running into this? if so, did you solve it and how?
More info on phone/watch:
-watch is running latest firmware as per samsung
-watch is paired to verizon galaxy s4
-s4 is rooted running Danvdh's KTU84Q (AOSP) ROM (8/10/2014) with the Ktoonsez kernel installed (7/12/2014)
EDIT: using 8sms from the play store, works perfectly in place of the stock sms app and looks the same as well
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I used Hangout instead because there was no way to reply and no way to acknowledge the text, which made me pickup the phone every time.
Thanks for the heads up on 8sms.
This is on a stock Sprint Galaxy S5.

[Q] Just got the watch and have some questions....

Hello,
I have had a first gen samsung gear since it came out. Just got my G watch R and loved it. I have a galaxy note 4 edge phone, and noticed right away that when i get a text message I cannot open it on the gwatch. I am using the samsung stock messaging app... is hangouts really the only way to view a text? what other apps work, or I would prefer if there was a way to read my samsung messages.
WearResponses works with any messaging app. That would be your easiest option. It would allow you to read and reply to messages from your watch.
I have a HTC One M7 GE. The stock Google Messaging app works fine with Wear.
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Thanks for the reply. I tried wear responses but that caused some additional issues.
I am now using google messenger, not the google hangouts and it appears to have what i need. I just need to leave the samsung texting environment.

SMS issue with Google message app

Hi all,
I have a strange issue that I cannot solve.
I am using the Samsung standard messaging app and all is working perfect.
I wanted to test the Google messaging app so I installed next to the Standard Samsung one.
The problem is that in the Google app not all messages are showing. It is random and has nothing to do with people having Iphone or not.
And not all messages of the same threat are not showing up. Some do and some don't.
If I open the Samsung app all are present???
Any idea what the problem is?
Thank you
Maybe some of the messages in the samsung app are probably enhanced messages, meaning they were sent as data like an imessage. So when Google messages looks at your list of sms, it doesn't see those
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harlenm said:
Maybe some of the messages in the samsung app are probably enhanced messages, meaning they were sent as data like an imessage. So when Google messages looks at your list of sms, it doesn't see those
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Ok, I understand. But I thought that Google message had also enhanced messaging. Or am I wrong?
And how could I solve this?
Thank you in advance
peterkef said:
Ok, I understand. But I thought that Google message had also enhanced messaging. Or am I wrong?
And how could I solve this?
Thank you in advance
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Did you enable and register enhanced messaging service for Android messaging? Failing that try this. View attachment 4617783
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