I have the original samsung gear watch and the s5 and both devices are currently up to date with firmware etc. Occasionally I will get a text message but not all of them. I do have the notifications switched on and selected within the gear manager but does not work consistently. Actually a couple of days ago I got Gmail and Facebook notifications too but that all disappeared and never to happen again. Samsung mobile support was useless, I knew more about the devices than they did. I know the screen has to be off (phone basically hibernating) in order for the notifications to be sent to the gear but that doesn't seem to work all the time. Is there some magic setting for the display timeout or lock screen settings need to be very specific for this to work every time? Sort of defeats the purpose to have this gear if it only gives you time and weather.