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Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
kingofthebraves said:
Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
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1. Yes. You can use the gear manager to disable/enable which app you wanna show/hide
2. you have to swipe back again since the screen will turn on with default watch face
3. I use Chomp SMS so I can't comment on this. With Chomp, it won't dismiss on the phone even after you read on the watch or vice versa it won't dismiss on the watch even after you read on the phone.
4. Nope. it becomes second nature for me.
5. no you can't specify individual app control notification. You can choose sound, vibrate, both or silent.
Shock shouldn't be a problem. But sweat is the problem. What other members have done is wear a wrist sweat band and then wear the watch on top of it to protect.
Hope this helps.
kingofthebraves said:
Thinking of getting either the Galaxy gear or pebble smartwatch for my note 3 and I hope someone can clarify some questions I have:
1. You have to swipe left and right to toggle through the app selection right? Is there a way to disable some of the apps to make them not appear when you're swiping? I don't normally use voice memo, svoice or gallery.
2. When playing music and the display of the gear turns off and you activate it again, will music toggle show on the home page / lock screen or do you have to swipe left/right a few times again to get to music control?
3. I understand the gear syncs with your phone, does that mean all read sms via the gear will also be marked as read on the phone? After you read the sms on your gear does it disappear or can you still access everything through the watch?
4. Is it annoying to have to flick your wrist everytime you wanna check the time?
5. Can you customize which apps you want sound / vibrate notifications from? Like sound only when getting sms and vibrate only when receiving phone calls?
I'm planning on using the gear while out jogging to easily switch music tracks, do you think it can withstand heavy sweat and a little shock?
Thanks
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1. Yes, the apps you see are favourites and you can configure in Gear Manager
2. There is a music control app on the Gear. You would need to change option in settings to display last viewed screen (instead of main screen)
3. Can't remember as currently using unsupported phone. I think the answer is yes though for some notifications
4. It comes naturally
5. No
I've found sweat doesn't affect mine, but others say it can get in the little hole behind the camera and fog up lens (it goes away and doesn't affect the physical camera)
Thank you for responding to my queries.
So there's no way to incorporate music control while playing music on the home screen /watch face?
I plan on getting the gear primarily to answer phone calls while driving and controlling media while working out. Very disappointing
Are you satisfied with yours?
kingofthebraves said:
Thank you for responding to my queries.
So there's no way to incorporate music control while playing music on the home screen /watch face?
I plan on getting the gear primarily to answer phone calls while driving and controlling media while working out. Very disappointing
Are you satisfied with yours?
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What do you mean? It works the way it seems you want it to
http://ukm.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/...amsung-Galaxy-Gear-Black-Media-Controller.jpg
(but when playing/paused; background is cover and song title/artist appear at top of screen)
It is a million times better (and useful) than my Pebble - apart from the fact I need phone/rom with TouchWiz for full use (notifications, weather)
I want to be able to control my music instantly when I flick my wrist while something is playing, is this possible? Similar to the music control on our phones lock screen
kingofthebraves said:
I want to be able to control my music instantly when I flick my wrist while something is playing, is this possible? Similar to the music control on our phones lock screen
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Well, mine is set so that when I use motion to turn on (flick wrist) the last used screen comes on - just need to make sure that I opened media control initially
Can't do anything with playlists
You can try setting up Tasker profiles for anything more advanced
Brendo said:
Well, mine is set so that when I use motion to turn on (flick wrist) the last used screen comes on - just need to make sure that I opened media control initially
Can't do anything with playlists
You can try setting up Tasker profiles for anything more advanced
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Yeah I won't be needing the players. Just the basics
Thank you for the input guys, seems like I haven't met anyone who didn't enjoy their gears.
Are SMS and call logs stored on the watch or are they instantly deleted once you dismiss the notification
kingofthebraves said:
Are SMS and call logs stored on the watch or are they instantly deleted once you dismiss the notification
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As long as the phone is connected to the gear, any notifications it receives are archived (ie if you receive messages while not connected, the gear knows nothing about them). You can manually delete from archive
I think that notifications delete themselves after a while, as far as I can see they only seem to stay for around 2 days, which is fine
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markyboy81 said:
I think that notifications delete themselves after a while, as far as I can see they only seem to stay for around 2 days, which is fine
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I know emails will be marked read when they are viewed on the gear, not sure about SMS messages, cant rememeber.
Also a nice thing is when you get a message and you are looking at it on the gear, if you pick up your phone it automatically goes right to that message without having to do anything on the phone.
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I know emails will be marked read when they are viewed on the gear, not sure about SMS messages, cant rememeber.
Also a nice thing is when you get a message and you are looking at it on the gear, if you pick up your phone it automatically goes right to that message without having to do anything on the phone.
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Is this the smart relay feature? I can't seem to get it to work. The only way I can do it is to hit 'show on device' on the gear.
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But if you read an SMS from your gear it automatically gets marked as read on ur note right?
Has anyone been successful using this app? It is the messaging app I use the most, but in its current state it appears quite useless. It claims it can be used for making calls and sending stickers, but the only option available is to turn the alarm off and on.
If you have figured out how to get this app working, please let me know.
LaDamian said:
Has anyone been successful using this app? It is the messaging app I use the most, but in its current state it appears quite useless. It claims it can be used for making calls and sending stickers, but the only option available is to turn the alarm off and on.
If you have figured out how to get this app working, please let me know.
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It used to work! I love Line and you could reply with a sticker right from the Gear. But now it doesn´t work...
Alarm off or on refers to the alerts of the Line messages, but no...doesn´t work.
Every time theres an update for GM, I dont restore data from the last GM, this has solve my problems with line. or do a fresh install of line on your gear. you can also try to have notifications on when screen is off.
allendj81 said:
Every time theres an update for GM, I dont restore data from the last GM, this has solve my problems with line. or do a fresh install of line on your gear. you can also try to have notifications on when screen is off.
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Do you use Null or the stock rom?
LaDamian said:
Do you use Null or the stock rom?
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stock rooted only
Ok. One more question. Do you have notifications turned on in gear manager for line, or do you let the line for gear app handle them?
Thanks
I finally figured it out after reading through reviews. You have to have pop up notifications turned on in the line app on your phone for the program on the gear to work properly. You can use either the "simple" or "default" setting. This pretty much just makes me not want to use the app.
Thats what I meant when I recommended to have notifications on when the screen is off. you have to play with the notifications settings on the phone. Ive also notice that sometimes notifications dont get send out to the gear when you have a screen lock. How do you like it now? its pretty cool huh, I just wish they included more stickers for the gear
The app requiring pop up notifications was a deal breaker for me. Half the reason I wanted the watch was so I didn't have to turn my screen on as often as I do. I also don't want people just seeing random pop ups. I deleted it in favor of the regular notifications until it gets better.
I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
nonmindo said:
I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
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I myself am not a fan of it, I have no idea how to turn it off. I have yet to dig around in the settings.
nonmindo said:
I absolutely can not stand the new grouped notifications and I have spent so much time trying to find some way to turn it off, it makes the status shade completely useless for quick glance checking, its most annoying with facebook messenger where if you get a single message it will register the "chat head" service and the message as multiple notifications for the messenger app and you have to expand it to see who said what.
Anyone else?
Anyone by chance know any way to turn it off?
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I hate it so so much
I absolutely love the new notification grouping lol
I am with all of you, do not like the grouped settings, would love it if someone finds the setting to turn it off, I have been looking but cannot find it.
Deja Vu all over again.
I dont get Samsung, they always take something nice and make it crap. Just seems like they were trying to be apple to much. Does anyone remember when the s5 and note 4 came out they advertised the crap out of having a removable battery and expendable storage?? But the very next year they eliminate both those features and water resistantance(s5). Now it's locked bootloaders Which blows. they rushing quality control to beat Apples new release, Like they made a very good comeback with the s7 and s7 edge. I just dont get why they went to far from their roots,why would you want to be like apple? They mess things ups pretty good on their own every year.
Don't know if it helps anyone, but Samsung updated the Good Lock app to work with the Note 7. It doesn't group up the notifications and you can get rid of the white color and have the notifications match your UI better. Anyone that isn't familiar with it, it's an alternative lock screen and notification app that makes both closer to stock android. There are lots of settings to play with and you can customize the colors of everything in the notification shade. Also adds some really nice lock screen effects. It's on the galaxy app store.
EDIT: Apparently they updated it again and you can set each individual color in your routines to be literally any color you want. Combined with the lack of grouped notifications, this app is basically perfect.
It's terrible and definitely a step backward in the evolution of the notification system. It might as well just not tell you anything and make you open each app to see what the notification is.
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After seeing so many people recommend Good Lock, I decided to try it out.
Holy ****. It actually made me wish my phone would catch fire just so I didn't have to use it. I couldn't get it uninstalled fast enough. On the bright side, grouped notifications don't seem quite so bad now.
This is one of the reason I may be swapping this out for the v20. This bugs me more than any other issue with the phone, including constantly signal dropping.
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black96ss said:
I dont get Samsung, they always take something nice and make it crap. Just seems like they were trying to be apple to much. Does anyone remember when the s5 and note 4 came out they advertised the crap out of having a removable battery and expendable storage?? But the very next year they eliminate both those features and water resistantance(s5). Now it's locked bootloaders Which blows. they rushing quality control to beat Apples new release, Like they made a very good comeback with the s7 and s7 edge. I just dont get why they went to far from their roots,why would you want to be like apple? They mess things ups pretty good on their own every year.
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I'm with you man. I do t know what else I can do now, other than deal with LG's buggy, crap UI. At least they don't sell out and repeatedly botch their phones hardware.
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Dont really like it. Sucks there no options to turn ot on and off. It reminds me of windows when it groups all your tabs together.
Now on windows i like it but on the phone i dont think its all that.
Also hate how they made the notify bar so flat and dull. It look way better before
I want to know why the goddamn wifi calling preferences is stuck there unless you turn it off. Or for that matter ANY application. None of them should ever stay there forever. Maybe one exception if you have a vpn connected, but it should go away when it is closed and most of them do not. Otherwise I kind of like the grouping.
I'm one of the few that like it lol
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I like it a lot. Less clutter. Also, all you have to do is tap the notification to get it to expand.
I'm one person among the few whom "Really Really LIKE it" !
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
The grouped notifications wouldn't be so bad if they didn't make the bar on the drop down that ugly gray color.
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Chr0nicDreamz said:
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
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YEs, I've noticed that.
I finally have my V2 in hand and as much as I thought I would really dislike the green battery...it isn't that bad. Still can't stand the grouped notifications, though.
Heinous said:
YEs, I've noticed that.
I finally have my V2 in hand and as much as I thought I would really dislike the green battery...it isn't that bad. Still can't stand the grouped notifications, though.
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They broke the software lol. Luckily the sim slot on my phone died, so I got a new v2 and rooted it immediately
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I'm still rooted on apgc on v2 phone. I still haven experienced the new update yet
Chr0nicDreamz said:
Anyone else still getting notifications for open wifi when the option is turned off?
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I've had that problem since my Galaxy S6 actually. I always keep the setting to show notifications for open WiFi off, but I still get them on my phone. It's strange because it doesn't seem to show notifications for every open WiFi network, but only with some networks. (I've actually noticed it more on the NYC subway for some reason. Somehow whatever network they have down there can override the phone's settings and show a notification.) I usually just turn my WiFi off if I'm going to be out and about and that stops the problem.
I love the device so far, ran only into two minor hiccups.
1) I had other Huawei phones recently and either this is new or I managed to disable it previously and forgot how: When I open the app list I get a row of "suggestions" and find those useless/annoying. Can I fix that?
2) I .. didn't even know that it would come without a notification led before it arrived at my doorstep. Somehow every phone I owned in the last decade or so had one and I start to miss it. Are there any software fixes for this, maybe using the always on display mode?
darklajid said:
I love the device so far, ran only into two minor hiccups.
1) I had other Huawei phones recently and either this is new or I managed to disable it previously and forgot how: When I open the app list I get a row of "suggestions" and find those useless/annoying. Can I fix that?
2) I .. didn't even know that it would come without a notification led before it arrived at my doorstep. Somehow every phone I owned in the last decade or so had one and I start to miss it. Are there any software fixes for this, maybe using the always on display mode?
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for 1) - unninstall tips app
Thst doesn't change the behavior (bit is probably a good idea anyway..).
My app drawer starts with a row of suggestions (recent apps I guess), a little bit of separation space and then I have the normal A-Z listing of apps.
The suggestions are bad/crap/wasting space 99% of the time, so I want them gone. Tips doesn't do that as far as I can see..
darklajid said:
I love the device so far, ran only into two minor hiccups.
1) I had other Huawei phones recently and either this is new or I managed to disable it previously and forgot how: When I open the app list I get a row of "suggestions" and find those useless/annoying. Can I fix that?
2) I .. didn't even know that it would come without a notification led before it arrived at my doorstep. Somehow every phone I owned in the last decade or so had one and I start to miss it. Are there any software fixes for this, maybe using the always on display mode?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/re...pp-notch-pie-ring-overlay-to-battery-t3917168
darklajid said:
I love the device so far, ran only into two minor hiccups.
1) I had other Huawei phones recently and either this is new or I managed to disable it previously and forgot how: When I open the app list I get a row of "suggestions" and find those useless/annoying. Can I fix that?
2) I .. didn't even know that it would come without a notification led before it arrived at my doorstep. Somehow every phone I owned in the last decade or so had one and I start to miss it. Are there any software fixes for this, maybe using the always on display mode?
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For the second the P30 pro has Always on display and after the 124 update shows all messages from all apps. Even from 3rd party apps.
How.. why..
That is a (cool?) app to show your battery status around the notch area.
It certainly has nothing to do with the app drawer/launcher problem, but I also don't see the relation to the missing notification led (although it would be cool if the app could function as that instead of a battery indicator, but then it also would need to be displayed whole the screen is "off").
Unrelated, no?
nnik_1969 said:
For the second the P30 pro has Always on display and after the 124 update shows all messages from all apps. Even from 3rd party apps.
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Unfortunately that seems not good enough.
For one, notifications are funky/working only half the time for me so far.
Worse, the notifications that do appear on the always on display are gone after I unlocked the phone once. Even if the notification still exists/wasn't dismissed, it's now gone from the always on display.. :-/
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Unfortunately that seems not good enough.
For one, notifications are funky/working only half the time for me so far.
Worse, the notifications that do appear on the always on display are gone after I unlocked the phone once. Even if the notification still exists/wasn't dismissed, it's now gone from the always on display.. :-/
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I think this app might work for you Always On Edge - Edge Lighting ? ; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
I'm using it on my p30 pro and also the s10 plus. You can disable the edge lights and only use the notification icons if you want.
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I think this app might work for you Always On Edge - Edge Lighting ; https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.used.aoe
I'm using it on my p30 pro and also the s10 plus. You can disable the edge lights and only use the notification icons if you want.
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Thanks, that .. might be a solution, maybe. Will spend some time with it, a quick install was both interesting (it's really customizable) and disappointing (some things didn't work at all and I'm .. unsure how it interacts with my default lock screen, how the unlock process is changed).
Maybe just needs more time to check it out? Unfortunately I haven't found proper documentation and the spelling in the options is a bit hard in places [English is a foreign language for me too, so no blame here].
Hi, I'm running stock Android 10 on my Note 9. One of the most annoying "features" is that incoming calls take up the whole screen with no possible means of dismissing, or switching to another app while its ringing. Often I don't want to send it to VM so I don't want to reject nor answer the call. I silence the ringer, I want to let it ring but I don't want to stare at the screen for the entire time its ringing. I have the show in pop up window enabled, but that only works if I have another app open. If a call just comes in when I don't have another app open, it obnoxiously takes over the phone with no options to do anything other than pressing either the red or green call buttons. Is there a way to change this behavior or can I install another dialer app and make it my default? I'm seriously amazed this is how it was designed to work!
If you're not in another app, why does it bother you?
If you mean when the phone is idle with screen off and a call comes in then I don't see a point in not being fullscreen.
When it is updated to ui 2.1 there might be a setting to change call display while using other apps/mini popup
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If you're not in another app, why does it bother you?
If you mean when the phone is idle with screen off and a call comes in then I don't see a point in not being fullscreen.
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Whether you see the point or not doesn't really matter, if I'm asking, what I'd like to know is can it be done or not? I don't understand these non informative responses. Why do you bother taking the time to respond only to say you don't see the point why I'm asking?
However, if you must fully understand before giving a more useful answer, I use Google voice and I need to see which calls come from Google voice as a forward versus direct calls to my cell phone number. The only way to differentiate is seeing if hangout is also ringing or not. Occasionally hang out starts up first in which case it works like a charm. But every time the phone app rings first, it locks the screen and I cannot navigate to the Hangouts app or even pull down the notification to see if Hangouts is even ringing.
That's only one reason. The other is if I don't want to send the call to voicemail, and I want to let it ring, I don't necessarily feel like staring at my phone for 30 seconds if I want to do something else on it. I've had many phones and this is the only one that is acting this way. It's dumb.
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as I have already stated, I already have that option checked off but it only works as you said while in other apps. I question specifically was for times when I am not in other apps.
@Ztones try the things suggested here: https://webcazine.com/forums/how-to-reduce-a-call-screen-that-i-dont-want-to-answer-on-galaxy-s10/
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@Ztones try the things suggested here: https://webcazine.com/forums/how-to-reduce-a-call-screen-that-i-dont-want-to-answer-on-galaxy-s10/
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Thank you, that was much more helpful! I'm not sure if it's due to the difference of S10 vs Note 9, but the swiping down diagonally from your left to lower right doesn't do anything for me. Anyways, I guess we have exhausted all options and using the edge is probably the best one for me. Thanks again!
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Thank you, that was much more helpful! I'm not sure if it's due to the difference of S10 vs Note 9, but the swiping down diagonally from your left to lower right doesn't do anything for me. Anyways, I guess we have exhausted all options and using the edge is probably the best one for me. Thanks again!
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Glad it works. If you'd like to try the swipe from corner to make the window small but you can't right now try to install Good Lock and use the module MultiStar. Inside this module there's an option called "Pop-up view action" which enables (or forces or re-enables xd) the functionality to swipe from the top corner diagonally in order to make the currently open app's window smaller.
If Good Lock does not work where you live then use either FineLock or NiceLock from the play store and install the module from here manually: https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/samsu...amsung-multistar-3-2-28-android-apk-download/