[SOLUTION] Notifications issue? - Samsung Galaxy Gear

Samsung has screwed us, early adopters again and they disabled certain apps to show notifications (Gmail being one of them).
Phuck them! Not the first, not the last time... but if you want to get your notifications back, just uninstall gear manager and install this file - Gear Manager_2.1.14071502.apk - i did it, and now i have my notifications back.
NEVER EVER AGAIN perform any updates to gear manager.

This is not a fully solution, day later, the Gear Manager shows up a notification, make update.
I deleted my Manager, and install again 502 version*, then I try to block connection by AFWall+ for Samsung Apps aka Galaxy Apps (anyway, this is a only place where we can find Gear Manager) and when I start a Gear Manager, I see black screen for 1,5s and then "set your personal....."
* and he ask me to upgrade a Watch, so I pressed YES and later I just got a naked Apex
Later I try do this again on my other gear

my fix
I kept getting unfortunately saproviders has stopped also no notifications so i found saproviders in app mangers and cleared the cache and now my notifications are working again.

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Problem with Featured Apps

Hello!
I was playing with rooted image and decided I do not really need that. so i reset my Gear, reflashed with stock and wanted to set it up to my liking.
Turned out that the Featured Apps list now is not including some of the apps - the ones I had installed on the rooted image. Of course this are the ones I really want......
I was able to install ebay, runtastic and spedometer from apk's I found in another thread. But Evernote and Glympse will not install, they just say "Not installed" at the end of install.
Also - when I go to Samsung Apps in Gear manager the apps I want are impossible to download as they just say "View in Gear Manager".
Also - the apps mentioned show in Notifications section of Gear Manager but not on the watch.
Any idea hot to reset Gear Manager to get rid of the problem?
BTW: I tried removing GM and reinstalling - of course the problem is still there.
Thx.

No more email notifications to gear?

So not to derail the watch gear faces thread, I brought up a problem in there were I wasn't able to get some of the watchfaces to appear correctly, Missing day of week, ect... and it was suggested to me to rather not apply them with Watchstyler but to just do within Gear Manager. Well at this point, this is were I figured out Gear manager wasn't wanting to change the selected watch face so I proceeded to try to disconnect and re-connect in gear manager and had all sorts of problems. I managed to finally get reconnected to Gear manager but it wouldn't complete the "Restore from backup" so I ended up partially wiping my Gear somehow in the process of reconnecting. I'm able to get Gmail, Handcent, ect.. alerts in the "Extra Notifications" selections but I have stopped getting regular email alerts now for some reason.
Also, the watchstyler problem persists were I download a given watch theme per that thread and go through the exact instructions of creating a theme then deleting it's dir contents and copying over the newly unzipped one and am able to get most functions as replicated in the given theme but missing parts like digital stuff, day of week, ect...
Help! :silly:
PS: I'm running Null Rom 21 w/ Apex launcher.
Update: Ok, I resolved my Watch theme problem by updating the Watch Styler program on my phone through Gear Manager - Samsung Apps. Didn't realize I had downloaded an old version along the line externally somewhere.
My lack of getting email alerts to the Gear still persists however.

[Q] side loaded apps dissapear after 5 minutes

as title, I have just installed wondershare on my pc and sideloaded mx player, angry birds and a couple of other apk files. my watch and phone (s4) are both stock unrooted and running the latest gear manager and watch software.
now after about 5 minutes I get a notification on the gear that it has disconnected from the phone and the sideloaded apks have gone. they still show up on wondershare but have to be uninstalled and reinstalled to show on the gear.
The installed apps work fine after installing them, and I didnt I have this issue when I 1st played with it at Christmas on my wondershare trial , but the trail ran out and I updated things.
So is this a problem with the gear manager software? or the gear itself? or me?
Use an older version of gear manager
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delboydell said:
as title, I have just installed wondershare on my pc and sideloaded mx player, angry birds and a couple of other apk files. my watch and phone (s4) are both stock unrooted and running the latest gear manager and watch software.
now after about 5 minutes I get a notification on the gear that it has disconnected from the phone and the sideloaded apks have gone. they still show up on wondershare but have to be uninstalled and reinstalled to show on the gear.
The installed apps work fine after installing them, and I didnt I have this issue when I 1st played with it at Christmas on my wondershare trial , but the trail ran out and I updated things.
So is this a problem with the gear manager software? or the gear itself? or me?
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hi ,
first ,it is not a Wondershare "problem "but i think its just "Sammy" that not to happy to let us sideload on Gear ??
As this issue with apps, worked 100% on previous rom and Gear Manager software untill a" few " versions" back .
yes ,i have same problem ( using rom NA6 and Gear Manager v1.6.132701 )
but it does not worry me ,as i know apps are working ..etc
i use a workaround , Thus having benefits of latest software /ROM and gear manager (unless its really buggy )
if you want to ,all you have to do is reboot Gear and if you look in 'apps 'section on your Gear ,
all your sideloaded apps should show ( before they evenually disappear from "apps " section.)
i launch each app once and close it straight away .( the reason is that it is in memory of recent use app )
if i need to launch a sideloaded app i tap screen with 2 fingers on screen , and hold to bring up all recent used apps and select relevant app ?
(No need to reinstall etc .)
also yes,
you should get it right, with previous version of Gear manager
but you would have to go back 2 ..3 versions mabe to vers .1.5......?
(but you are going to lose other" improved benefits eg. like better bluetooth stability between phone and Gear ? etc.
just an alternative suggestion if you interested
Previous posters solution works however.....I have experienced the same issue tonight after the most recent upgrade to Gear software. Rebooting worked also. My fault as I wanted to restore to factory settings to remove QuickTwit from Notifications (a bug). The upgrade did offer a restore which I didn't take D'Oh!! I then did a restore via Wondershare.
I found that the approved Samsung apps like eBay for Gear and RadiOn although restored to the Gear via Wondershare had to be installed to Gear Manager by installing the apps from scratch.
Now all the apps don't disappear after 5 mins. Co-Incidence?
However, they do not appear on the list of downloaded apps, as they did with the previous version of Gear Manager.
Do also make sure the 3rd party app permissions box is ticked on the Gear Manager too.
willcor said:
hi ,
first ,it is not a Wondershare "problem "but i think its just "Sammy" that not to happy to let us sideload on Gear ??
As this issue with apps, worked 100% on previous rom and Gear Manager software untill a" few " versions" back .
yes ,i have same problem ( using rom NA6 and Gear Manager v1.6.132701 )
but it does not worry me ,as i know apps are working ..etc
i use a workaround , Thus having benefits of latest software /ROM and gear manager (unless its really buggy )
if you want to ,all you have to do is reboot Gear and if you look in 'apps 'section on your Gear ,
all your sideloaded apps should show ( before they evenually disappear from "apps " section.)
i launch each app once and close it straight away .( the reason is that it is in memory of recent use app )
if i need to launch a sideloaded app i tap screen with 2 fingers on screen , and hold to bring up all recent used apps and select relevant app ?
(No need to reinstall etc .)
also yes,
you should get it right, with previous version of Gear manager
but you would have to go back 2 ..3 versions mabe to vers .1.5......?
(but you are going to lose other" improved benefits eg. like better bluetooth stability between phone and Gear ? etc.
just an alternative suggestion if you interested
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thanks for the reply, however your method does not work for me, after a reboot of the watch the sideloaded apps are not there??
looks like I am going to have to root the watch.
delboydell said:
thanks for the reply, however your method does not work for me, after a reboot of the watch the sideloaded apps are not there??
looks like I am going to have to root the watch.
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Did you make sure the 3rd party app permissions box is ticked on the Gear Manager too?
Going back from Gear Manager v1.6 to v1.5 fixed issue for me. There's a nice collection of Gear Managers in this page:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593066
I hope it was just a bug in Gear Manager v1.6, and Samsung is not really trying to prevent sideloading.

Sideload apps disappear

Have a Galaxy Gear, non-root.. default launcher
sideloaded 2 different calculator apps and they both disappear shortly (for sure after a watch reboot, but it might in fact disappear even earlier)
i saw some post telling to backup and restore after.. is there any easier way to make sure all sideload app stays there?
Notice that Gear Manager -> Application does not show any sideload app.. is that the reason?
thanks
Your sideloaded non-gear certified apps will disappear once you open Gear Manager. Gear manager does not support non-Gear certified apps.
If you need Gear Manager to adjust some settings, then Just set whatever you need in Gear Manager, back out. Then restart your Gear.
All your sideloaded apps will remain in the launcher as long as you don't open Gear Manager.
This needs to be a sticky, too many people ask the same question in a day.
Why don't people use search these days?
Unbelieveable bug! Open gear manager and the non approved apps disappear! Wtf!
klau1 said:
Your sideloaded non-gear certified apps will disappear once you open Gear Manager. Gear manager does not support non-Gear certified apps.
If you need Gear Manager to adjust some settings, then Just set whatever you need in Gear Manager, back out. Then restart your Gear.
All your sideloaded apps will remain in the launcher as long as you don't open Gear Manager.
This needs to be a sticky, too many people ask the same question in a day.
Why don't people use search these days?
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Thanks.. sorry.. I did search but didn't find the answer .. thanks for telling me the "feature" of Gear manager.. I hope someone can come out with a permanent solution.. honest.. Gear really don't have enough app.. and missed some key app (like calculator)...I wouldn't want to sideload if they have the "basic" one on their store.
thanks

No Message in Gmail Gear Notification

I always used to be able to read any short gmail message in my gear 1. Now it just says Gmail but nothing else...no body nor even who it is from. I still get complete messages from samsung note 3 stock email app. Outlook app also only notifies how many messages I have. Does anybody know why I don't get complete gmail messages in gear 1 any more? I am on latest version of gear manager.
recDNA said:
I always used to be able to read any short gmail message in my gear 1. Now it just says Gmail but nothing else...no body nor even who it is from. I still get complete messages from samsung note 3 stock email app. Outlook app also only notifies how many messages I have. Does anybody know why I don't get complete gmail messages in gear 1 any more? I am on latest version of gear manager.
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In the latest versions of Gear Manager, Samsung disabled the option to view full notifications for several apps (the apps you have installed onto your phone, not the ones already implemented onto the Gear itself).
Here's how you can revert back to older version and get back all full notifications : http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-gear/help/broken-notifications-gear-manager-heres-t2915460
Only "problem" is that it keeps nagging, after you are back to old version, to update Gear Manager.
Just ignore those nagging messages untill a newer version is out which enables full notifications again.
It wouldn't work. Perhaps because I'm not rooted? I uninstalled everything. I believe it was 5 different apps. I shut off watch. Shut off bt and data. Installation went fine. It showed my watch as paired but would not allow me to change any settings until it scanned for device....so I let it scan but watch off so it found nothing but finally shut itself off. Next I turned on watch and scanned several times (scanning from gm automatically turns on bt). It could never connect to watch. Watch on, bt on but it just could.not find watch even though it was already listed as paired. I tried resetting watch and restarting phone but nothing helped. Finally I turned on data and I could not cancel the forced update.
Are you on Tizen or Null ?
Watch doesn't has to be rooted, I performed same procedure both on my rooted S5 as well as on my non-rooted S4.
Both have older version now with full notifications.
I'm on Null and not Tizen
Tizen
100% stock qnd updated note 3
Maybe you should "downgrade" (although it's actually upgrading) to Null.....it's better anyway
Nah, maybe the next gm update will fix. Thanks anyway. Wish this forum were more active. Folks may know other solutions but nobody reads it anymore

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