While I still wait for my unlock code from AT&T and unable to check this myself, are you suggesting that SMS forwarding is handled by the Gear Manager as well, meaning you will receive text to you gear from the number on your main line?
Can we use AT&T Gear S with TMobile as our carrier or vice versa?
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Yes, SMS, email, whathaveyou, as long as you switch on forwarding on your phone in Gear Manager, and your phone is connected to the internet (it needs data for for the forwarding piece)
If you get Notifications for Gear S from the Google Playstore, a bunch of other notifications like whatsap also will be sent and can be answered from your Gear S, if that's what you want. You select whoch services you want and do not want forwarded.
When I go running, I leave my phone behind, and since my Gear S has a SIM card in it, my Note 2 sends everything to my watch... All while I listen to music from my watch over bluetooth, track my heart rate, and track my progress over GPS... It's pretty awesome.
I have a ATT Samsung Gear S that is factory unlocked and I am using it with a T-mobile sim. All works great but I am only getting 2g speeds on the data. I have seen a YouTube video stating that he had a ATT gear S on T-mobile and was getting 4g speeds. Not sure how that happened.
T-Mobile has old 3G/4G towers running on 1700/2100Mhz bands and new ones on 850/1900 bands. The watch, both T-Mobile and AT&T, only supports 850/1900 bands. So, it really depends on where you are, you may get 2G or 3G/4G.
Guess I am lucky! Here in New England I get mostly 4G (or so the display says) on T-mo with my ATT Gear S.
How are folks getting it to work with tmobile?
All i get is the MM#6 error.
Spent 3 hours at tmobile with the sales associate on the horn with whoever they can and it still doesnt work. But when a regular voice sim (popped out from a sales associate phone), it works just fine.
So it is definitely unlocked and the imei is not blocked as a voice sim will work but tmobile's wearable plan doesnt work.
Am going to give them till next week, and then just cancel my plan and ask for my 16$ back.....
BTW - how does one confirm if sim is truly unlocked?
Anybody have a solution?
regards,
asmd.
All i get is the MM#6 error.
Spent 3 hours at tmobile with the sales associate on the horn with whoever they can and it still doesnt work. But when a regular voice sim (popped out from a sales associate phone), it works just fine.
So it is definitely unlocked and the imei is not blocked as a voice sim will work but tmobile's wearable plan doesnt work.
Am going to give them till next week, and then just cancel my plan and ask for my 16$ back.....
BTW - how does one confirm if sim is truly unlocked?
Anybody have a solution?
regards,
asmd.
agreed.
but tmobiles wearable plan does not work.
i get the error MM#6
i checked the IMEI, its clean. (not blacklisted, reported stolen etc... )
currently using H20 pay as you go and it works fine but prefer Tmobile 15$/month unlimnited plan.
any ideas?
Where did you buy the watch? Att? I am a T-mo customer and bought mine out front from T-mobile originally, who refused to unlock it, so I returned it and bought it from ATT. ATT unlocked it for me and i use it with the T-mo wearables plan added to my regular plan.
The SIM T-mo sim works perfectly for voice and data on my unlocked ATT Gear S,
Woah, you;re the first person who has confirmed that it does work.
Thanks for that.
Mine is refurbished unlocked AT&T. (claimed to be unlocked)
I get a MM#6 error/phone not allowed. Gear S does not ask for an unlock code or anything like that.
regards,
asmd.
Weird, I have not gotteen a single error message ever. T-mo needs to enable the wearables plan and data when you give them the IMEI. Beware, though, that if you then put that same sim into a regular phone, T-mo gets alerted and they restrict the SIM and maybe also the Gear S to be treated as a non-wearable. Someone here or on XDA did that and found out the hard way.
If you happen to have done the same, you need a new SIM card and they have to do something on your end as well, but not sure what.
Thanks for the reply.
Ive never done that (read about it)
I dont any other GSM phone. Am on sprint for all my other lines.
I'm pretty sure whoever open that account for you didn't do a good job on it. There shouldn't be anything special for you to do. GSM with SIM is suppose to be as simple as put in the card and go.
I'd call T-mo again and insist them to make sure everything is done correctly. Your watch seems to be already unlocked.
I'd call T-mo again and insist them to make sure everything is done correctly. Your watch seems to be already unlocked.
on the phone with tech support now...
am on hold... so far he says the wearable plan is not guaranteed to work on a non tmobile gear S.
It may or simply may not work. Getting bounced to one other person, then im giving up on this.
update - He just said no can do... i will require a regular style phone line for it to work. No 15/month joy for me. but he is looking into it, if he can do something. I'm not holding my breath.
update - they said NO. Plain and flatly, No. Gong to cancel and just stay with h20 pay as you go.
regards,
asmd.
am on hold... so far he says the wearable plan is not guaranteed to work on a non tmobile gear S.
It may or simply may not work. Getting bounced to one other person, then im giving up on this.
update - He just said no can do... i will require a regular style phone line for it to work. No 15/month joy for me. but he is looking into it, if he can do something. I'm not holding my breath.
update - they said NO. Plain and flatly, No. Gong to cancel and just stay with h20 pay as you go.
regards,
asmd.
That person told you total BS. Firstly, it works for me. Secondly, I asked repeatedly if I could add another Gear S, and they said if I did, it would be the regular $15 because I can only connect 1 wearables plan to a voice plan.
I'd connect with @johnlegere (head of T-mo) on twitter directly and post about this f up. He responds to every tweet. You can point him here. Or try again and hope the next T-mo person is less clueless.
BTW, I was completely disenchated with T-mobile when I was being given the run-around for wanting to get my device that I paid money for unlocked. Unreal the ATT treated me better as a non customer than my own mobile service provider.
T-Mobile used to be #1 on customer service. What happened? I know their coverage suck but at least CS was better than other guys. I guess when your business model is to offer lowest price, everything else will have to be sacrificed.
Thanks for the repy and positive note.
I'm done with them. Cancelled my tmobile wearable line.
Using h20 pay as you go for the interim until i can switch to harbor mobile 10$/month plan (business only, tax id required)
I find this to be more useful than it is, i'll sprin for a new unit or wait for the next one to be released.
It should have been easier than this.
Also other problem with gear S.
- GPS takes forever to lock,
- Wifi cannot connect to free Wifi. No wpa enterprise security,.
- HR monitor for health apps are all over the place. (maybe my hairy arms, but even ehen i turn it around, it still erratic... but it averages ok)
- Milk music wont play by itself over the phone even when of wifi unless bluetooth is connection is cut.
- theres is no way to send route information from HERE to the Gear S. (option is missing from HERE)
on the other hand, screen is brilliant (readable in bright sunlight), UI is smooth as silk, an actual usable keyboard (voice recognition aint half bad), notifications arent as intrusive as android wear which frequently obscures the clock face (i have a gear live.. and replying to anything using that was a pain just using voice) and the ability to answer the phone over my wrist - priceless!!
Summed up, the Gear S is a keeper!!
Regards,
asmd.
I'm done with them. Cancelled my tmobile wearable line.
Using h20 pay as you go for the interim until i can switch to harbor mobile 10$/month plan (business only, tax id required)
I find this to be more useful than it is, i'll sprin for a new unit or wait for the next one to be released.
It should have been easier than this.
Also other problem with gear S.
- GPS takes forever to lock,
- Wifi cannot connect to free Wifi. No wpa enterprise security,.
- HR monitor for health apps are all over the place. (maybe my hairy arms, but even ehen i turn it around, it still erratic... but it averages ok)
- Milk music wont play by itself over the phone even when of wifi unless bluetooth is connection is cut.
- theres is no way to send route information from HERE to the Gear S. (option is missing from HERE)
on the other hand, screen is brilliant (readable in bright sunlight), UI is smooth as silk, an actual usable keyboard (voice recognition aint half bad), notifications arent as intrusive as android wear which frequently obscures the clock face (i have a gear live.. and replying to anything using that was a pain just using voice) and the ability to answer the phone over my wrist - priceless!!
Summed up, the Gear S is a keeper!!
Regards,
asmd.
Weird about Milk, .. i never tried it on Wifi, but you are right.
The SHealth GPS lock is really slow and used to drive me nuts. I started using Nike for running, and the Nike app makes the GPS signal lock almost right away. There is clearly an issue with SHealth, which is kind of wrong.
My lock is decently fast when connected via BT. It can take awhile in stand-alone mode but always connects eventually. I'm guessing it's because of the tiny antenna a wearable mandates.
You can connect to any network that uses a simple password to validate access. Site's that redirect to a secondary page fail (EG: a hotel that redirects to their home page after sign-in). I travel a lot and I'd say my success rate is 60+%. But isn't that why we have 3G? Android Wear requires the phone be present to sign the watch in to any Wi-Fi network. So if a Urbane owner is trying to connect to a Wi-Fi network while in remote mode and away from their phone they can't. I'm not sure, but I think Apple Watch works the same way. So glass half full people will appreciate getting the Gear on Wi-Fi remotely 60+% of the time.
Certainly not unique to the Gear S.
I'm guessing that's by design. BT LE uses a fraction of the energy that using either 3G or Wi-Fi on the Gear would. So what's wrong with it using BT whenever it can? It's kind of cool that it gives you the option to use Milk to control the host app on your phone or play musing directly from your Gear.
Navigator for Gear only supports walking and transit directions and that's what is available to transfer from Here on your phone. If you have a walking or transit route open the "Send to Gear" option appears.
That does not explain why GPS takes longer in SHealth than in Nike+. I am guessing just worse implementation in SHealth.
I think some of us bought the Gear S to use it in stand-alone mode at times, ... Nothing "wrong" with using BT, but I do agree that Sammy should have made it a bit more stand-alone. Then again, they do want to sell those phones they have on the very limited Gear S compatibility list.
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