Notifications for Gear S
- Thread starter pacosal
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I spoke too soon, google now alerts through your app are now back. Here's the funny part, I unactivated the notifications app, but STILL get google now messages!! I know it's your app because it has the large pixelated weird looking contact picture on there.
I had to uninstall the app, hopefully in the future it will be ready for prime time. Some suggestions:
The listener part, that listens to alerts turns on EVERY single time I get a notification, even if they are blocked. It's very annoying to have to turn this off, I suggest it only run in the background or maybe just once the first t ime you get the alert so you can block it or allow it. Also put in a decent background, the one on there looks horrible, maybe just a plain black background.
Fix the google now weirdness.
Fix the contact picture to not be overblown/magnified like the stock gear app does.
Alerts get truncated very badly. The stock gear app displays an entire page of text, your app only displays the first half dozen words then just cuts the rest off. The usefulness of the gear S is instantly seeing what message or alert you missed, and not having to touch the watch to get the entire message.
I had to uninstall the app, hopefully in the future it will be ready for prime time. Some suggestions:
The listener part, that listens to alerts turns on EVERY single time I get a notification, even if they are blocked. It's very annoying to have to turn this off, I suggest it only run in the background or maybe just once the first t ime you get the alert so you can block it or allow it. Also put in a decent background, the one on there looks horrible, maybe just a plain black background.
Fix the google now weirdness.
Fix the contact picture to not be overblown/magnified like the stock gear app does.
Alerts get truncated very badly. The stock gear app displays an entire page of text, your app only displays the first half dozen words then just cuts the rest off. The usefulness of the gear S is instantly seeing what message or alert you missed, and not having to touch the watch to get the entire message.
Paco, I do not know what I'm doing wrong, but the application does not work. I installed the application on my notes 2. Next, open the application and chose gmail and whastapp. I went to Gear maneger and pulled out the options of these two applications there, concerning my gear s. However, despite arriving messages on my notes for the whats and gmail, nothing comes to my gear S. Am I doing something wrong?
This is happening to me too on my note 4, I get no notifications what so ever. I even uninstalled the app and the gear manager and re-installed them. still nothing.
I bought this app via google play store and it does not work at all. Even after the update. I checked and unchecked all notifications I want to see on my gear but when I go to the screen to see what apps wil and will not be send to my gear s there are no apps visible, the screen remains empty.
there is so little you can do with this app that i don't now what to do with this app any more, it is the most expensive app I bought till now and it does not work at all/
is there anybody who can tell me what i'm doing wrong?
Did you go into gear manager and under notifications check the box next to notifications for gear s?
Well I didn't do that because the app is installed on my oneplus One and the gear manager is installed on my samsung mobile so both apps are installed on two different mobiles.
It could be that the Gear S is looking for information regarding notifications to the gear manager app and blocks the info of the oneplus one..
But still (on my oneplus one) you should see some apps in this screen
It could be that the Gear S is looking for information regarding notifications to the gear manager app and blocks the info of the oneplus one..
But still (on my oneplus one) you should see some apps in this screen
Apps are added to that screen when u use the phone and the use of the phone is kicked off by gear manager. I did not have apps there until I started using the device with the notifications checked in gear manager. When u get a new notification u get a pop up asking if u want to be notified about this alert in notifications.
I can't see how the app would interact with the phone without it but I don't have a non Samsung phone to test it out with either. My other thought is they claim this can only be used with one device at a time as well. Did u just connect it to activate it and then switch or are u using it between the two?
When you buy this app, is it mentioned anywhere that you need samsung gear manager to let the app work?
Hi Priceslss.
When I bought the watch I needed to have a samsung mobile to activate it. I used an old mobile which i had at home.
When you have a samsung mobile with gear manager on it you don't need a notification app because the manager is pushing all the messages through to your watch.
but the phone I use on a day to day basis is a oneplus one and that one doesn't work with the gear S. you can use all the methods you can find on XDA but not all apps will work and you get error messages on your phone.
When I bought the app from pacosal I thought that this app could be used on any mobile and pushing the notifications through to your watch but it is not so and the information on google play was not clear at all, I am not happy now because I paid for something I can not use because the information was not clear.
if you have a gear manager working, again, you don't need this app at all, it must be redesigned that it send messages from nun Samsung phones.
Okay u thought this was for non Samsung phones but actually the statement above is not true. This app allows me to reply to messages that before I could only get alerts from on my gear S before. It also allows my notifications to no longer appear on my device after I have read them on the watch. A lot of people had complaints about not being able to respond to all notifications and this was the answer to that for us.
I don't think that Pacosal was out to get everyone for $1.49 I think he was trying to be helpful to those with the device who wanted to be able to use it to the best of it's abilities. When I tried the app the first time I didn't understand it and got a refund 10 minutes later. I ran across this thread in the forum and decided to give it another shot.
I am aware that u can activate this watch with Samsung and use it outside from that and u can even use this with non android phones. (Yes I have seen a work around where u don't even need a Samsung to activate this watch) My thought is how many people know this when it is advertised as Samsung only and the developer for this app doesn't even own a gear S. (Unless that has changed since the original posting)
So at the end of the day 2134jt I agree with u he should put something in the description that states it's for Samsung devices now that we see how it can be misinterpreted. I don't think it was any type of trickery on his part though.
OK this is VERY weird. I uninstalled Notifications a couple of days ago, and today I get a google now alert from this notifications app!!!!!!! It's got the blown up pixelated contact picture, and also the little blue chat icon at the very top so I know it's definitely this app. Why am I getting alerts when the app has been uninstalled?!?!?!!? Makes me a bit scared about privacy.
That is not possible my friend.
BTW, I'm going to release a new version that correct reply to whatsapp groups that sometimes fail and quit Internet permission, that is no needed and that was here because copy paste projects.
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