Hello all,
I am about to purchase a second hand Samsung Galaxy Gear. The only purpose I am buying the watch is that I want to view pdf doc and txt files on it? Can I do this with this watch? I am not interested in the other fancy things like bluetooth or else...I just want this functionality. Nothing else. I also don't have a galaxy phone. I read that it is neccesarily for the watch to upload apps. Is that true?
P.P: Are there any replicas of this watch?
Thank you,
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Hi!
I'm not really a technic geek, so for me its not easy to root my galaxy gear
But I want to have a pdf-reader on the gear. Whats the simplest way to install it and what for a reader should i take?
Anyone tested it yet?
Thank you guys
Check the threads for how to sideload apps using overshares. It's very simple
Remember the screen is tiny, can't imagine being able see much of a pdf
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I'm running Null rom and have Office suite pro and quickoffice installed. They actually work better than one might think. As far as reading them, you'll have to do some zooming. Just like my kindle app I loaded on my Gear - which may sound ridiculous, but actually it works better than one would expect. Not hard to read, just more swiping to change pages obviously. So it's doable and not as cumbersome to use a PDF reader or office app on the Gear. Now the fact that it doesn't have a WIFI radio really is what makes many apps not very useable as you have to BT tether for internet and that is slow and eats battery.
LOL, I installed kindle myself just to see if it would Work.
I think I Used it for 10 Minutes before deciding it was totally worthless and uninstalling it.
I can't even imagine trying to read a PDF on the gear (or why you would want to)
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LOL, I installed kindle myself just to see if it would Work.
I think I Used it for 10 Minutes before deciding it was totally worthless and uninstalling it.
I can't even imagine trying to read a PDF on the gear (or why you would want to)
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Each to their own. I would not read Kindle books on the gear often, but on a plane or in certain situations it's fine. As far as PDF - I do all my payroll (about 25 employee's) on my TF300 or Note 3 via an excel sheet I made. I loaded the excell sheet with office suite pro and save each bi-weekly payroll so that I have it readily available. The excel sheet figures payroll for me as I plug in hours for each employee, etc. Anyway, I actually loaded that payroll excel sheet onto my gear and I could use it in a pinch. But yes, you had to zoom - a lot - and it was cumbersome. Point for me was more "can I" than "will I" much, or at all. I got the Gear as an Xmas gift, didn't ask for it, so for me it's a fun gadget that I enjoy pushing the limits of the device. :good:
Hello,
I didn't manage to upload my PDFs to Gear.
I've searched for similar topics on this site, but I didn't find relevant posts.
Please help!
Hi everyone, I am new in this forum and I am planning on buying a galaxy gear, however I read online that it is not possible to directly share pictures taken via you galaxy gear, unless you have an application that helps you to do so, and I was wondering if any of you know of an application that helps so I can share pictures taken directly via my galaxy gear?
Best regards.
If you run NullRom then you'd have access to all the apps you'd normally use to share stuff on your phone on your gear.
Hi, I am thinking about taking the plunge and getting a Gear Neo. Besides notifications and the ability to actually making/receiving phone calls (and the IR blaster is also very nice..), the other killer features for me would be:
- a good S Note/note app, the ideal would be to be able to run Google Keep on it... Is it possible? What is there for the Gear Neo/Tizen smartwatches?
- being able to read documents (*.DOC or *.RTF or even *.TXT files would be OK). Is this possible?
Ideally, I would have Dropbox on my smartwatch and could open my docs from there but I realize that I may be asking too much... LOL
So, anyway, what can you do in these 2 areas on a Gear Neo?? All of the other features are very much talked about everywhere and are clear to me but few seem to care about these 2 use cases...
TIA
Hello all,
I have two questions about the watch.
1. I have Xiaomi Redmi note 3. I've read few threads, and I now know that it is possible to connect the watch to any android. device However, is everything working the same as on Samsung phone? Are there any differences, lack of functions?
2. The reason why I want to buy this watch is to make & send picuters. Is it possible to make a picture directly from the watch, and then send/share it to someone via whatsapp, messenger or other messaging app also direclty from the watch, without touching my phone?
Thanks in advance for all the answers.
Takwej said:
Hello all,
I have two questions about the watch.
1. I have Xiaomi Redmi note 3. I've read few threads, and I now know that it is possible to connect the watch to any android. device However, is everything working the same as on Samsung phone? Are there any differences, lack of functions?
2. The reason why I want to buy this watch is to make & send picuters. Is it possible to make a picture directly from the watch, and then send/share it to someone via whatsapp, messenger or other messaging app also direclty from the watch, without touching my phone?
Thanks in advance for all the answers.
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1. I hope you get it working as I read it works without touchwiz phones .. but I am not sure how..
I know 1 thing for sure - things like "S-Voice" won't work on your phone ^-^ and all the other Samsung stuff
2. Hm ...I always thought about that too as the gear takes good pictures but I came to the conclusion that sending them to my phone and then over WhatsApp is simply better.
I mean you can isn't all WhatsApp on your gear, that's not the problem but you'd need to tether your Internet over Bluetooth and ..your gear will heat top much and..it's not worth it ^-^'
Instead - why don't you download from this thread : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2680828
"Camera360" and "Mini gallery" , install them on your phone while being connected to your watch and using gear manager.
It should be automatically installed on your watch and all you do now is taking a picture (normal or camera360 ((much better!)) ) go to mini gallery and click there on "share" and send it immediately on your phone ^-^
I hope I could help you ^-^
Any way to view notes from galaxy note 9 on galaxy watch? I use my note to write down a bunch of skus of soils and mulch and when I'm driving the forklift I'd like to just look at my watch instead of having to constantly get my phone out of my pocket to see what I need to grab. Thanks in advanced