I just received a Gear 2 Neo I purchased off of ebay, dowloaded Gear Manager, but have been unable to finish the setup. It keeps giving me the error message, "Unfortunately, Host Manager has stopped". Tried several times to uninstall the app, restart the phone, and factory reset the Gear.
I was reading the reviews for the latest version of the Gear Manager app and others, like you, are having connectivity issues also. I wonder if the connectivity issues your all experiencing are also preventing me from completing setup.
So frustrating. I'm giving up for the night. So much for taking this on my run tomorrow.
Welcome to the land of Samsung where the customer are the test Guinea Pigs! LOL!, thats the difference between Android or Tizen in this case and IOS Apple technology, You may get it FIRST but usually is not Polished and free from bugs, We shall see if Apple keeps to the same methodology of not releasing things until they are Rock Solid Reliable and what is their reputation.
Apple is not for me as I don't like having a Clone of what the person next to me has?, I like being able to customize it to my liking and personality quirks!, So it is a personal choice of what you want, the latest and the greatest with possibility of imaturity quirks and issues or wait sometimes YEARS before feeling secure issues will be to a minimum.... Notice I said minimum because a Friend of mine got the NEW iPhone 6 Plus and had come over so that I can help him FIX his phone in a Constant Loop and he can't remove the Battery? (Another Quirk!) so I had to try a variety of things before getting it to stop and 5 minutes later same problem so she and I went to Apple and got a replacement iPhone!... so NOTHING IS GUARANTEED TO BE PERFECT? just different levels of it....
So is life for us mere Mortals! LOL!
Thanks Dave... I'll let you know what the outcome is...Swade8, call Samsung. 800 726 7864
Update to my problem: and all is working now:I have a Note 2 and have been trying to get my Gear 2 Neo connected with the latest GearManager and it just won't connect, I've uninstalled and reinstalled the gear software, rebooted both the watch and the phone, connected both to computer, verified the latest firmware, and still nothing. All I do get is that my phone and watch connects via Bluetooth, but not the gear manager. It just sits there, and says connecting. Then after about 15 or 20 minutes it says host not responding.. Ugh... I've tried every trick I know, except breaking both devices. Not that I would, but it does test your patience when it doesn't work correctly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.....
And if it helps... I didn't have any issues with the last gear manager, just the latest one.
Update to my problem: and all is working now:
1. Uninstalled the Gear Manager.
2. Unpaired connection between phone and Gear2 Neo .
3. Rebooted watch.
4. Paired the watch after the reboot of the watch.
5. Downloaded and installed the new Gear Manager.
6. Upon opening the Gear Manager, it found the paired watch.
7. It automatically took control of the watch and factory reset the watch for me via Bluetooth.
8. It then restated, and reconnected via Bluetooth.
9. Gear Manager finished it's process and updated the watches' firmware.
10. I then rebooted my phone while the watch rebooted again by the gear manager.
Everything is working great and better.
seems as people are figuring out you have to clear things out and reinstall things for Gear to work again.... it's disappointing as I don't see why gear Manager was updated anyway?
in my opinion jellybean was working better for me with Gear 2 neo.Hi guys! I am using my Galaxy S4 with the Gear 2 neo that I bought today... and for using I mean I´ve been all day trying to get a propper connection. I am not very clever for the root things and I am still using jellybean. Do you think that it is a problem?
I´ve tried both ways you guys posted to get connected but none has worked for me.
Thanks!!!