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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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!
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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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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Hello is there any messaging apps other than the stock S5 mms one with Samsung Emoji?
I've looked and simply can't find one at all! I know you can use the emoji switcher app in the play store but most of the time it doesn't work.
Any suggestions is appreciated! [emoji106]
Anybody?
I'm not sure what the stock Samsung emoji list consists of but I highly recommend Textra SMS & their emoji package as a replacement for the stock app. Has so many features and not a big heavy app either. Check it out in the Play store, it's free. They finally updated it to allow you to view & answer texts on the Lock Screen!
8sms is a Samsung stock message replacement app. I love it.
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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.
What do you guys prefer in regards to texting?
I find hangouts a bit choppy but seems like it has more features.
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What do you guys prefer in regards to texting?
I find hangouts a bit choppy but seems like it has more features.
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I have 2 gmail accounts work and personal and it is a pain in the butt looking for different contacts in hangouts because you can only use one account at a time they dont combine the contacts of the 2 accounts
It seems like Hangouts does not work with the Galaxy Gear (watches), huh?
my choice messenger will always be WhatsApp (messaging, voice/video clips, voice calling) for its simplicity, yet is pretty feature-packed. i hate what Talk has become (since it became Hangouts Messenger). but for voice or video calling, i ultimately prefer WeChat. the quality is really good and it holds on to a connection pretty well (doesn't disconnect so easily) when in poor signal conditions.
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I like the way Google Messenger and Hangouts work with group messages but for right now I can't get with the lag that both app have so im sticking with the stock messaging app for the moment. if they update them to make the more fluent I will jump on hangouts. Google Messenger also have too many colors.
I went back to the stock messaging app, Google hangouts doesn't have quick reply, and it lags.
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I went back to the stock messaging app, Google hangouts doesn't have quick reply, and it lags.
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I noticed the new 4.0 version of Hangouts lags backing out of app and opening some MMS. Clearning cache/data and reverting to previous stock version fixes the lag.
I'm currently using Google messenger. It does lag a bit.
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Stock messages works just fine for me
Textra
Yeah Google hangouts is really laggy I went back to messages. I'd type several letters before they'd register on screen
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S197Mike said:
Yeah Google hangouts is really laggy I went back to messages. I'd type several letters before they'd register on screen
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I only had this problem with the stock keyboard. No lag problems for me on hangouts + Swype.
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I only had this problem with the stock keyboard. No lag problems for me on hangouts + Swype.
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I never tried that.
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UPDATE : This man was right. Totally made a difference
I have this with Hangouts 4 and Swiftkey. Constant lag. But the Sammy messenger app is butt ugly.
I'm using hangouts due to the Google voice ans hangout integration. It is a bit laggy with swiftkey
I just started using textra, I like it so much more. Just had to disable it from turning the screen on.
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Hangouts notifications were really inconsistent for me on the Note 3, so I'm not even going to bother testing with the N5. I have my Google Voice integrated into Hangouts, and I use it occasionally for work chatter, but nothing that requires any sort of reliability.
I only stick with stock apps if they off what I want, and that's mainly a Quick Reply feature. I was using Google Messenger as my SMS app because my last phone (One M8) did not have that built in. Since the Note 5 does have it, I found no need to use Google Messenger anymore. And I like the stock app cause I can quick reply while in landscape aswell. Google Messenger would only allow you to quick reply in portrait.
Sfkn2 said:
It seems like Hangouts does not work with the Galaxy Gear (watches), huh?
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Check out an app called Gear Notifications. It will allow you to reply to hangouts messages. The device also has a thread on the gear s forum on xda.
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If you are using the stock keyboard because you like google's speech-to-text, check out the swype xposed plugin 'SwypeTweaks.' Replaces the dragon voice with google's. I get lots of lag in several apps with the Samsung keyboard on my Note 5...Swype all the way for me.