Does Galaxy Gear receive whatsapp notifications? - Samsung Galaxy Gear

I recently received a Galaxy Gear as a gift. After updating it (Android not Tizen), I receive my whatsapp notifications (After configuring Gear Manager) but I can't read the message. I only see the person who sent it and for more details I need to use my phone. Is it solved in the custom rom null 23, tizen or whatever? Is it possible to see the full messages in the Galaxy Gear 2 based on Tizen?
I don't know what to do because I can change this one to Gear 2 until Monday.
Thanks in advance

mannuk said:
I recently received a Galaxy Gear as a gift. After updating it (Android not Tizen), I receive my whatsapp notifications (After configuring Gear Manager) but I can't read the message. I only see the person who sent it and for more details I need to use my phone. Is it solved in the custom rom null 23, tizen or whatever? Is it possible to see the full messages in the Galaxy Gear 2 based on Tizen?
I don't know what to do because I can change this one to Gear 2 until Monday.
Thanks in advance
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You need to give a little more information, like what kind of phone you have and which version of Android is running on it.
Or do you use an iPhone ?
I have a Galaxy S5 with Lollipop and my Gear 1 (with Null_23) shows whatsapp messages perfectly. So the whole message.
Also for emails (Gmail and corporate email from Airwatch) and Facebook as well.
But read the forum here, as I think all your questions have been answered multiple times already.

Receiving whatsapp messages is easy. Sending them from the gear requires a little work

Santaclauswitz said:
Receiving whatsapp messages is easy. Sending them from the gear requires a little work
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you got me curious now.. Ive been trying to find ways round it as my job requires me leave phone in my locker so ill take advantage of the watch
Care to share how or any links to get me started ?

I just wrote a long reply and the xda app ate it! Bah and humbug!
Do you use tasker?

Santaclauswitz said:
I just wrote a long reply and the xda app ate it! Bah and humbug!
Do you use tasker?
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Yes i did use when i was on KK but now on lollipop not all functions work.. I am aware of Tasker on the Gear too but now took android off and went to tizen so i might be handicapped when it comes to what i can do.. I suppose i may have to just put up with normal messaging using fleksy messenger from Gear.
I appreciate your reply anyway

Alas I know nothing about tizen..... that'd be your biggest handicap. I think I'll stay kit Kat for a while longer.....

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[APP] Gear Getter - based off Pebble Notifier - v1.2 <No More Development>

UPDATED - v1.2 removes the double messages from some apps, fixes another bug.
I wanted a way to get other notifications to the Gear without having to run another client app on the Gear.
There is another project (ATN) that initially used the Email notification to do this. I liked this approach because it was simple, used the gear manager as the delivery mechanism, and the Email notification app on the gear which is robust enough to handle long notifications.
I reached out to Dattas Moonchaser, who wrote the popular Pebble Notifier to see if I could use his app as my base. He obliged so here it is....
Install this on your phone, there is nothing to install on the Gear. The only thing you need to know is to go into Accessibility settings and give Gear Getter permissions (it has a big RED link for this when you launch the app). Also make sure you have Email notification checked in the Gear Manager.
Here are some better instructions - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47449016&postcount=119
Once you enable Accessibility you are able to setup your apps you want to receive notifications from. Couple cool things..
- There is the ability to setup filters
- Ability to setup quiet times
- There is tasker integration (I haven't messed with this)
- This reads the data from the expanded view so you should get pretty robust notifcations
- Easy on the battery
If you feel the need to donate, please do it from the app, and it will go to Dattas who would appreciate it.
mhoepfin said:
I wanted a way to get other notifications to the Gear without having to run another client app on the Gear.
There is another project (ATN) that initially used the Email notification to do this. I liked this approach because it was simple, used the gear manager as the delivery mechanism, and the Email notification app on the gear which is robust enough to handle long notifications.
I reached out to Dattas Moonchaser, who wrote the popular Pebble Notifier to see if I could use his app as my base. He obliged so here it is....
The only thing you need to know is to go into Accessibility and give Gear Getter permissions (it has a big RED link for this when you launch the app).
Then setup your apps you want to receive notifications from. Couple cool things..
- There is the ability to setup filters
- Ability to setup quiet times
- There is tasker integration (I haven't messed with this)
- This reads the data from the expanded view so you should get pretty robust notifcations
- Easy on the battery
If you feel the need to donate, please do it from the app, and it will go to Dattas who would appreciate it.
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Quick question..
I did not install anything yet but I wanted to understand this. Do we install on both the gear and the phone ?
Where does it pull information from ?
I never used the app before, I just wanted some more info before I experiment with it.
And does it require 4.3 ?
Thanks
Can you read the notifications from the gear with this ?.
Elgreco333 said:
Quick question..
I did not install anything yet but I wanted to understand this. Do we install on both the gear and the phone ?
Where does it pull information from ?
I never used the app before, I just wanted some more info before I experiment with it.
And does it require 4.3 ?
Thanks
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You only install it on the phone, there is nothing to install on the gear. It uses the built in Email notification on the gear to display the notifications.
You tell it which apps you want to receive notifications from on your gear.
This doesn't require 4.3, but the Gear Manager does (which this uses).
jawonder said:
Can you read the notifications from the gear with this ?.
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This send notifications from your phone (for the applications you select) to the gear, using the Email notification on the gear to display them.
Thanks, checking it out. I want to see if I can get Instagram notifications. I will report back.
So far so good! Gmail is sending full subject and body of emails! However, when you click "Show On Device" it launches the stock email client instead of gmail. It sounds like that's because it uses the email notification methods.
ProximaC said:
So far so good! Gmail is sending full subject and body of emails! However, when you click "Show On Device" it launches the stock email client instead of gmail.
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Great! The logic for getting the notification details is pretty battle tested so I would expect the content it sends to the gear to be pretty good and mostly match what you would see in an expanded notification on your phone.
The Show On Device I don't think I will get to be able to actually work to open the app on the phone....
Tried twice to install apk and it crashes my Note 3, it reboots on it's own and the apk is not installed .
Strange it doesn't do anything at my end.. I do not get any notifications. Could possibly show a short video of how it works??? Do I need to select the Email in Gear Manager .. Cause I aint getting any Noti's....
jawonder said:
Tried twice to install apk and it crashes my Note 3, it reboots on it's own and the apk is not installed .
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Hmm, have not seen any issues like this, and I have a Sprint Note 3. Can you try to re-download the apk?
Ok it works on my stock rom but not on roms i'm using in SafeStrap slots .
Jeshter2000 said:
Strange it doesn't do anything at my end.. I do not get any notifications. Could possibly show a short video of how it works??? Do I need to select the Email in Gear Manager .. Cause I aint getting any Noti's....
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Yes, you need Email selected in Gear Manager for it to work
Mmmm ok like ATN was in the first place??
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Under FilterList in the settings it states Pebble. FYI.
Ok, this does not work for me. Although it is probably because I running an S4 on 4.2 so far. Waiting for the update to be online.
I'll have to wait for the update to get me to 4.3 for the gear manager to work properly. I have limited functionality still
UPDATE : Well, email does not work, only get recipients name showing, but on the other hand, texting works (using sms pro)
But everything displays double, I mean I see the text and who is from and then under s separator I see it again with just a bit smaller fonts. Don't know why, maybe a setting I need to play with ?
I am glad at least for the texts for now.
Ok strange , after i boot into stock rom and then back to rom slot i installed .
cvondra said:
Under FilterList in the settings it states Pebble. FYI.
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LOL thanks, must have missed that one... It will work for the Gear even though it says Pebble.
I would like to point out that using this method if you use the stock browser it will talk to you and to the best of my knowledge there is no way to stop it.
Also last I knew if you were on a note 2 it will also talk when opening and closing folders and when switching home screens
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cherylbaker said:
I would like to point out that using this method if you use the stock browser it will talk to you and to the best of my knowledge there is no way to stop it.
Also last I knew if you were on a note 2 it will also talk when opening and closing folders and when switching home screens
Sent from my SM-N900P using Xparent Purple Tapatalk 2
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Crazy! I use Chrome so didn't notice but you are right. More research shows its a bug with Samsung. I'll switch over to the 4.3 method using the security setting in the next few days. Until then I suggest using Chrome.

How to get notifications to Gear without Gear Manager

Ok, so I solved this. Not sure how the battery drain is, but this is what I did:
Installed the NULL ROM (not sure this is required, anyone can test this by just installing the unhacked bluetooth chat apps)
Hacked the BluetoothChat sample app to listen for notifications via AccessibilityService and send them and their contents over via chat
Hacked the BluetoothChat to move to foreground and sound a buzz when it gets a chat message from its peer
Installed hacked BluetoothChat app on both Nexus 7 and Galaxy Gear
Voila! Now when there is a notification on my Nexus 7, it sends it over to my Galaxy Gear which buzzes me. As a bonus, archived list of notifications are available in the chat history.
Anyways, this is just a POC. Improvements are to measure battery drain and if necessary find a way to better use BLE.
Cheers
Good for those who love the Gear but not the Galaxy.
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That's a neat way of doing things, not tried this but maybe Tasker could be used to send messages to the watch over bluetooth when "stuff happens".
Then each user could change what they see on the watch..
Anyways, great stuff
bluecube said:
That's a neat way of doing things, not tried this but maybe Tasker could be used to send messages to the watch over bluetooth when "stuff happens".
Then each user could change what they see on the watch..
Anyways, great stuff
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Anyone. What's the best third party music remote for gear?
blazespinnaker said:
Ok, so I solved this. Not sure how the battery drain is, but this is what I did:
Installed the NULL ROM (not sure this is required, anyone can test this by just installing the unhacked bluetooth chat apps)
Hacked the BluetoothChat sample app to listen for notifications via AccessibilityService and send them and their contents over via chat
Hacked the BluetoothChat to move to foreground and sound a buzz when it gets a chat message from its peer
Installed hacked BluetoothChat app on both Nexus 7 and Galaxy Gear
Voila! Now when there is a notification on my Nexus 7, it sends it over to my Galaxy Gear which buzzes me. As a bonus, archived list of notifications are available in the chat history.
Anyways, this is just a POC. Improvements are to measure battery drain and if necessary find a way to better use BLE.
Cheers
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Wow this sounds awesome, because I don't have any incoming notifications; I'm on Android 4.2 with non-Samsung phone paired.
Could you share the hacked app for me? I would live with it for a while since I am not going to have 4.3 upgrade soon,
Thanks!
nucleiis said:
Wow this sounds awesome, because I don't have any incoming notifications; I'm on Android 4.2 with non-Samsung phone paired.
Could you share the hacked app for me? I would live with it for a while since I am not going to have 4.3 upgrade soon,
Thanks!
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Yeah, I'll see what the demand is like. Little nervous about sharing an apk that requires complete access to your accessibility, as it's a very big security loophole. If I do, I may only share the source code and ask folks to download eclipse and build it for themselves.
Another possibility is someone may carry the baton from here and do a less hacked version. If such a person is out there, I'd be happy to assist / collaborate. Little pressed for time unfortunately, but isn't everyone.

Google Edition KitKat & The Galaxy Gear

I just tried a KitKat GE rom on my i9505, To my surprise the gear paired up !
You need to make sure you have the relevant gear apks in /system/app.. although it did pair up fine..
I'll give more information on this shortly.. going to verify everything works as intended.
EDIT: To my surprise, the latest version of kitkat comes preloaded with the needed gear manager files.
All that is really needed is accuweather & gear manager and your set!
EDIT 2: In saying that, its no where near stable to be used as a daily driver, random reboots & wifi connectivity issues.
Although its nice to know its being incorporated.
Hmmm...I wonder what files it needs to make notifications work. I'm getting nothing on my Nexus5 even though it is set to send them
Brendo said:
Hmmm...I wonder what files it needs to make notifications work. I'm getting nothing on my Nexus5 even though it is set to send them
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Do you have GearManagerStub.apk ?
You running kitkat or jellybean on your nexus ?
fOmey said:
Do you have GearManagerStub.apk ?
You running kitkat or jellybean on your nexus ?
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Yeah. Without that, gear manager won't open
All I get is:
Incoming
Missed
More notifications
I've ticked things, but nothing seems to come through. Going to play around with it a bit more
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Brendo said:
Yeah. Without that, gear manager won't open
All I get is:
Incoming
Missed
More notifications
I've ticked things, but nothing seems to come through. Going to play around with it a bit more
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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You do get notifications from your nexus ?
If you do get notifications, what dont you recieve ?
fOmey said:
You do get notifications from your nexus ?
If you do get notifications, what dont you recieve ?
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Nah. Only phone calls and caller details. No stock contacts, notifications, logs, etc
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Brendo said:
Nah. Only phone calls and caller details. No stock contacts, notifications, logs, etc
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Oh ! I see..
If we figure out how "more notifications.." works then were set.
Have you tried connecting the gear via gear manager ? Running a logcat at the same time..
Hi, i have an HTC one with Android_Revolution_HD-One_40.2 ROM with Android 4.4 Kitkat, aso i have a Samsung Galaxy Gear with MK7 ROM.
when i install Gear Manager 1.5 i can enter into "notification menu" and select for example whatsapp to send notifiations to the watch but it seem that don't work, Gear don't showme any "extra" notification.
I installed GearManagerStub.apk also. can you help me please?
PD: Sorry for my English, i'm spanish
Brendo said:
Nah. Only phone calls and caller details. No stock contacts, notifications, logs, etc
Sent from my Nexus 5 using XDA Premium 4 mobile app
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Hey Brendo, how did you manage to installgear manager on your nexus 5?
nitropollo said:
Hi, i have an HTC one with Android_Revolution_HD-One_40.2 ROM with Android 4.4 Kitkat, aso i have a Samsung Galaxy Gear with MK7 ROM.
when i install Gear Manager 1.5 i can enter into "notification menu" and select for example whatsapp to send notifiations to the watch but it seem that don't work, Gear don't showme any "extra" notification.
I installed GearManagerStub.apk also. can you help me please?
PD: Sorry for my English, i'm spanish
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Yes, this is the issue we are trying to resolve
mrnovanova said:
Hey Brendo, how did you manage to installgear manager on your nexus 5?
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Make sure you install gearmanagerstub (I copied to system/app and then ran it to install). Then you need to install the extra apk files separately. All downloads available in link in my sig
Brendo said:
Yes, this is the issue we are trying to resolve
Make sure you install gearmanagerstub (I copied to system/app and then ran it to install). Then you need to install the extra apk files separately. All downloads available in link in my sig
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I'm almost there. Thanks buddy. I got gm installed but it doesn't run it's idle. At least I have call the display function back. I'll try to mess with it some more tomorrow. Thanks again.
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fOmey said:
I just tried a KitKat GE rom on my i9505, To my surprise the gear paired up !
You need to make sure you have the relevant gear apks in /system/app.. although it did pair up fine..
I'll give more information on this shortly.. going to verify everything works as intended.
EDIT: To my surprise, the latest version of kitkat comes preloaded with the needed gear manager files.
All that is really needed is accuweather & gear manager and your set!
EDIT 2: In saying that, its no where near stable to be used as a daily driver, random reboots & wifi connectivity issues.
Although its nice to know its being incorporated.
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Does Everything work? Contacts? dialer etc? Whats the problem with stability? Is it due to the 4.4 ROM you are using or with the gear mangaer? I got a real S4 GE edition and wourld love to have the Gear
For any one in the future going through what I did: YOU NEED THE STUPID " GearManagerStub.apk " for watch to work!!! OMFG what a waste of time to get this working!!!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=47681531&postcount=3
fOmey said:
I just tried a KitKat GE rom on my i9505, To my surprise the gear paired up !
You need to make sure you have the relevant gear apks in /system/app.. although it did pair up fine..
I'll give more information on this shortly.. going to verify everything works as intended.
EDIT: To my surprise, the latest version of kitkat comes preloaded with the needed gear manager files.
All that is really needed is accuweather & gear manager and your set!
EDIT 2: In saying that, its no where near stable to be used as a daily driver, random reboots & wifi connectivity issues.
Although its nice to know its being incorporated.
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I was able to get Gear Manager automatically installed on my i9505g as well using the NFC bump.
It seems none of the notifications work other than phone calls. I can't get Gmail or Hangouts to notify the GG. Have you had any luck with this? I was able to enable those notifications in Gear Manager, they just don't work.
Anyone tried it with the recent 4.2.2 update?
ksujace said:
I was able to get Gear Manager automatically installed on my i9505g as well using the NFC bump.
It seems none of the notifications work other than phone calls. I can't get Gmail or Hangouts to notify the GG. Have you had any luck with this? I was able to enable those notifications in Gear Manager, they just don't work.
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+1 same here
Deleted wrong thread
Strangely I'm having more trouble installing the Samsung App Store on the GPE rom than Gear Manager. It keeps coming back as app not installed.
This thread has some more info about getting the Samsung App store working with GPE devices
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593004
daclothe said:
This thread has some more info about getting the Samsung App store working with GPE devices
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593004
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Samsung GPE devices dont need this, they contain touchwiz frameworks..
As per the notifications working, I recently tried to get them working although did not have any luck doing so..
It seems not all the APK's are being installed, media controller provider APK is not installing.. I havnt figured out why !
Also it seems that the services gear manager uses are not starting, may be due to all the initial APK's not being installed I assume..
I believe if we can get all the APK's that gear manager initially installs completed successfully, it will trigger the services to start.

Get whatsapp in gear 2

We all wish there was a way to answer the whatsapp from our gear 2, either by voice messages, some t9 (old-style) keyboard, text to speech ... or endless options Google technology Current presents. But the problem is that as I read whatsapp creators themselves have to give permission (if I remember correctly), or do themselves make this possible. So it occurs to me to do a bit of pressure and show that we are no longer enough and that this market of the wereables with tizen .... especially when they have brought the Gear s new one.
We can write individually to:
Whatsapp Support:
[email protected]
Twitter WhatsApp Inc. (WhatsApp): https: //twitter.com/WhatsApp
htcmania Asked: https: //twitter.com/CarlosGaMartin/s...33732529426432
Let me ask you, when your gear 2 screen is off and you get a message, does you gear turn its screen on to notify you that you received a whatsapp message?
chispas109 said:
Let me ask you, when your gear 2 screen is off and you get a message, does you gear turn its screen on to notify you that you received a whatsapp message?
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Yes.
Just make right settings in notification centre of gear manager. I get whatsapp mesaages on my neo even when my phone is switched on and neo2 is screen off.
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smrsxn said:
Yes.
Just make right settings in notification centre of gear manager. I get whatsapp mesaages on my neo even when my phone is switched on and neo2 is screen off.
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I actually had to uninstall and reinstall whatsapp. It is working as it should now.
there is no way to reply???
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there is no way to reply???
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Unfortunately, not with Tizen.
I flashed Android wear on to my gear 2 Neo via a method i found here on XDA
Now, I can read and reply to Whatsapps.
I would much rather be able to use the original software that came with the watch though, as some features dont work in Wear on the neo

Answer whatsapp?

Hello people I'm thinking if buy a galaxy gear for use with my Samsung Galaxy s4 mini but I want to know if exist a way for at least answer my whatsapp messages..
I know that the gear with the last ANDROID update can show all the notification but cannot answer them.
it's possible to install a APK file of whatsapp or whatsapp plus and copy the data with titanium backup of your phone and restore on your galaxy gear and use it like anothe normal Android app? or when you try to open the installed whatsapp on your galaxy gear the app crash?
I hope someone try that and answer me, because I dunno if buy this watch or a Sony smartwatch 2 that can answer whatsapp, I know all the differences between them and I know the gear it's absolutely better, starting on the gear use a full version of Android, and has the capacity for install full Android app and the smartwatch 2 can't, etc, etc..
I just want to know if exist a way to use whatsapp or answer my whatsapp directly from the Galaxy gear. Thanks.
Nope, you need a watch with android wear
yes you can if you are on null rom. simply install playstore apks as normal im using hangouts now even better now that they migrated hangouts dialer so now i can make google voice calls from my gear watch as well as normal call app. and we can also reply to sms via svoice or as im using now google now..
Cod3L1ne said:
yes you can if you are on null rom. simply install playstore apks as normal im using hangouts now even better now that they migrated hangouts dialer so now i can make google voice calls from my gear watch as well as normal call app. and we can also reply to sms via svoice or as im using now google now..
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So, you can install whatsapp and use it like a normal cellphone? Someone said to me that when you install whatsapp from an APK on the watch it say that isn't compatible with tablets.
migueldvp said:
So, you can install whatsapp and use it like a normal cellphone? Someone said to me that when you install whatsapp from an APK on the watch it say that isn't compatible with tablets.
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Read again he said if you use null Rom. Now search forum for what is null Rom. Then you will understand. Null Rom is full android Rom for gear one only.
If WhatsApp is installed as an APK on Gear, It will be an independent application with a different number which will operate without any dependence from the WhatsApp in your Phone. You will have to activate it for a different number other than your primary number on the phone. So yeah, You can only run WhatsApp on Gear as a relay to your Note 3 to delievr notifications. Even installing NULL wont do any help to this. It will be a relay only to view messages.
My Understanding ^ Do Correct me if I'm wrong.
Would be awesome to reply via the gear... probably my most wanted feature...

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