Not receiving notifications on my Gear S2

[honeybeevegan]

The solution to hold the volume up, power, and home keys while restarting and wiping cache fixed my problem with my S7 and Gear S2. Thank you!

 

[CHRISALLEN3285]

I have solved my issue with not receiving any notifications on my Gear S2 since my Galaxy S6 Edge updated to the Marshmallow operating system. I had done a factory reset on the watch and that didn't help. I had verified every setting and still received no notifications on my smartwatch. I cleared the cache on my phone and everything is working perfectly now.
To do this on the S6, just restart the phone while holding the "volume up", "home" and "power" buttons all at the same time until the recovery menu appears. Use the "Volume down" button to scroll down and select "wipe cache partition". When this completes, scroll up to the reboot phone option and you are done. Don't worry about damaging the phone, the cache partition is just temporary files and those temp files are what was creating the conflict that caused my issue. It all works as it should again. Thank you everyone for your input.

Will this work for the Gear S3 Frontier? Sorry to post this on the Gear S2 forum but I'm having the same problem with my Gear S3 Frontier. I'm not receiving notifications anymore on the watch. I have factory reset the watch 5 or 6 times and that didn't solve the issue. The next thing I was going to try is hard resetting my Samsung Galaxy S7 but I don't think that will do the trick. Can anyone help? This is my 2nd watch. I was having issues with the original watch and I had it replaced. Now it seems I have to replace the 2nd watch.

 

[afblangley]

Will this work for the Gear S3 Frontier?

Yes. This will do a factory reset so the watch will be like it was the first time it was turned on. I had to do it on my S3.

 

[kaydinyan]

I had this issue for the longest time but recently figured it out. In the notification settings in the gear app, make sure the setting "only show while wearing gear" is unchecked. For some reason the watch gets confused into thinking that the watch is not being worn, and doesn't display any notifications besides phone calls and alarms.