I just took the plunge coming from an iphone 7plus, watch, macbook pro, ipad.. basically, I was in the apple ecosystem for almost a decade
Since yesterday, I have the S8+, Gear S3 Frontier, and Surface Book Laptop
I have a few questions, mainly about notifications for now, and SMS on the laptop
1 - I liked being able to have silent notifications on the phone and watch for gmail emails. I receive a few hundred emails a day for work. I just want the little orange dot to show when there is an email, and be able to look at it when I need to. But while i can do silent notifications on the phone, the watch still vibrates. Every. Single. Email.
2 - How do I turn off notifications on the phone while the watch is on? It's pointless for me to have the phone sound off, or vibrate for a notification, when I'm getting it on the watch too
3 - I found Pushbullet that can do SMS between my windows laptop and the phone. It seems to work okay, but there are a few bugs and not all messages are sent or received. Especially if the laptop went to sleep, or the phone hasn't been opened in a while. Notification / badge icons aren't synced either. How can I fix this, or is there an alternative? I'm in Canada, so Cortana isn't an option yet
4 - I set the Gear S3 as a trusted device, and set my home as a trusted area, and yet my phone still locks every now and then, and I have to swipe the screen up 50% of the time. How can I just get to the home screen?
Thanks for the help in helping me come over to Android!!!
Since yesterday, I have the S8+, Gear S3 Frontier, and Surface Book Laptop
I have a few questions, mainly about notifications for now, and SMS on the laptop
1 - I liked being able to have silent notifications on the phone and watch for gmail emails. I receive a few hundred emails a day for work. I just want the little orange dot to show when there is an email, and be able to look at it when I need to. But while i can do silent notifications on the phone, the watch still vibrates. Every. Single. Email.
2 - How do I turn off notifications on the phone while the watch is on? It's pointless for me to have the phone sound off, or vibrate for a notification, when I'm getting it on the watch too
3 - I found Pushbullet that can do SMS between my windows laptop and the phone. It seems to work okay, but there are a few bugs and not all messages are sent or received. Especially if the laptop went to sleep, or the phone hasn't been opened in a while. Notification / badge icons aren't synced either. How can I fix this, or is there an alternative? I'm in Canada, so Cortana isn't an option yet
4 - I set the Gear S3 as a trusted device, and set my home as a trusted area, and yet my phone still locks every now and then, and I have to swipe the screen up 50% of the time. How can I just get to the home screen?
Thanks for the help in helping me come over to Android!!!
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