So, I just today got the new Samsung Galaxy watch. I lost my Gear S3 Frontier so decided it was time for an upgrade to the latest Galaxy Watch.
I had it set up perfect on my frontier watch where I used Google Hangouts as both my phone dialer and text message program since that is what I was using on my cellphone anyway. I never used my actual dialer or texting program native on my Samsung Galaxy S9 phone.
My phone has not changed and I retrieved and updated my settings to my new Galaxy Gear phone. But something is amiss...
It was a few years ago but I *THINK* the way I made Google Hangouts messaging program and the Hangouts/Talk dialer work is there was an app by Google either in the Galaxy App store or Google play store and someone passed the messages to my watch.
Now I cant find it or remember the way I made it all work. When I call my Google Voice/Hangouts phone number from another phone I get a quick popup notification on my watch but it does not vibrate nor can I use quick reply or reply at all. I used to be able to do that on my Gear S3 Frontier. Also my watch does vibrate and fully functional on other programs like Facebook messenger.
Anyone know how I can get it to work again like that on my new Galaxy watch? Its a big deal breaker for me since that is my main number Google number!
It won't work because Hangouts is Google App and Samsung run Tizen.
You can reply to messages such as WhatsApp or IG but you can instigate.
choccy31 said:
It won't work because Hangouts is Google App and Samsung run Tizen.
You can reply to messages such as WhatsApp or IG but you can instigate.
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Incorrect. I had it working perfectly find on my Samsung Galaxy S3 Frontier watch. You are correct it is Tizen OS on watch but somehow I got it to work perfectly. I think they may have had the hangouts app in the Samsung app store but I dont see it there anymore.
Bottom line there is a way to do it because I have before and it worked perfect with notfication and vibration but I forgot exact how I did it and lost old watch now have the new latest Galaxy Watch.
So I get all other notifications on my new Galaxy watch with both visual popup on watch notifications and vibrations with the exception of the Google hangouts notifications they just show up my watch does not vibrate on those which is the most important thing to me which I am trying to figure out but my phone does vibrate on those alerts.
just wondering if there is an update, would be great to get Google Voice on the Galaxy Watch active 2
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Is anyone else having this issue? The device fails to receive notifications from Gmail, Twitter, Snapchat, etc. until I turn on the screen and unlock the phone. I'm currently connected to Wifi. There's a lot of crap apps that I disabled, so maybe that could be the culprit? Perhaps I disabled a necessary one on accident? Maybe there's a bloatware app that's disabling my Wifi? I haven't changed any Wifi settings and I don't see any noticeable culprit in the settings menu. Either way, here's the list of my disabled apps.
ATT FamilyMap
ATT Hot Spots
ATT Live
ATT Locker
ATT Mail
ATTMobile Locate
ATT Navigator
ATT Ready2Go
ATT Smart Wifi
BlurbCheckout
Caller Name ID
Device Help
Drive Mode
Facebook
Famingo
Flipboard
GALAXY Apps
Games
Google Play Books
Google+
Hancom Office 2014
HP Print Service Plugin
Keeper
Live weather
Lookout
Milk
Mobile TV
PEN.UP
Samsung Account
Samsung Billing
Samsung Galaxy
Samsung GALAXY Apps Widget
Smart Remote
Uber
Wallet (ISIS)
YP
Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
When you say not receiving, is it not notifying you until you wake it up, or is the notification icon there, it just doesn't play a sound?
chadderbox said:
When you say not receiving, is it not notifying you until you wake it up, or is the notification icon there, it just doesn't play a sound?
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It's legitimately not receiving any notifications after until I wake it up.
I give up.
I've tried everything at this point. I reset the phone twice. I monitored it on both Wifi and Cellular data. I monitored as many stock apps as I could. Something is stopping the damn phone from receiving data while it's asleep and I have no clue what the hell it is. I've scoured the settings menu countless times as well. Seeing how there's no replies, I'm just assuming that I'm the only person with this issue. I might have to just exchange the phone because I'm starting to believe that it's a hardware problem. Doesn't seem like it really, but damn this is annoying.
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I've tried everything at this point. I reset the phone twice. I monitored it on both Wifi and Cellular data. I monitored as many stock apps as I could. Something is stopping the damn phone from receiving data while it's asleep and I have no clue what the hell it is. I've scoured the settings menu countless times as well. Seeing how there's no replies, I'm just assuming that I'm the only person with this issue. I might have to just exchange the phone because I'm starting to believe that it's a hardware problem. Doesn't seem like it really, but damn this is annoying.
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Have the same problem. Chatted with 2 people at Samsung, both useless.
The first person told me that "you will receive only notifications for text messages and call logs on the lock screen". I told her there should be a tiny icon near carrier name...
The 2nd person suggested I contact AT&T.
Like to know if anyone has more info regarding this issue.
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I have experienced same issue particularly with hangouts for me. From the brief searching I did about this I found it seems a common issue with Android lately and also saw an app suggested called pnf--push notification fixer. I have tried it and seems to do the trick. Something you may find helpful. Root and non root versions in play store.
Google was down this morning. Hangouts, and gmail wetter effected. It should be back up and working now. You may have also experienced they Google Play Services crashing.
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I have been reading about Google play and different issues with Google services. I will be receiving the phone tomorrow. Google voice (for the voice-mail and transcribed messages) and Gmail are the only 2 apps from google I care about. Anyone have Google Voice working ?
If so how did you enable it.
Thanks!!
It works ok with play services uninstalled. It never was totally reliable though. About 60% of the time it works, the rest of my calls just go out through the cell provider directly. Also you have to keep it open either manually or with an app as it closes down after a while. On my last android phone it worked at least 90% and it didn't have to be watched constantly.
If you rely on anything google, I would just forget this phone though. It is nearly 2 weeks since the play services update and no word or update from google. Without constant fiddling, my gmail, hangouts, and play store are always broken.
Depends
Depends on your setup. If you are using Gvoice with hangouts, be prepared to be frustrated! If you are using Gvoice stand alone, it will work after a few tries.
Hangouts:
Had it working fine with play services 7.0.9 and Fire OS 3.6.8. I did the manual update to 4.6.1 and it all went to hell.. I gained a bunch of functionality but because I use Gvoice integrated in Hangouts I am constantly having issues. Issues ranging from play services updating all the time and causing notifications, sync and reply to all not work, making it useless.
If you are using Gvoice stand alone, it took me a few tires to get outgoing calls to route through Gvoice.. Download and install the Gvoice app, set it for the call settings you want. I had to do this a couple times before those settings stuck.
Until the play services are fixed this is going to be frustrating. I don't see an end in sight right now seeing as it has been this long and I see no official talk about it.
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I have been reading about Google play and different issues with Google services. I will be receiving the phone tomorrow. Google voice (for the voice-mail and transcribed messages) and Gmail are the only 2 apps from google I care about. Anyone have Google Voice working ?
If so how did you enable it.
Thanks!!
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Well the problem here will be that play services is causing us a lot of problems since the update. Other than that I can't imagine it being a problem. I don't install the Google voice app anymore since I forward the calls and Hangouts does work to make calls from voice number. I can vouch for that.
I got the phone, was able to get google voice installed (had to remove the store afterwards) But it will only show new messages when I open the app, there are no notification.
Is it possible to get notifications ?
Working !!!
Had to re-associate phone with Google voice and then notifications would pop up
soverc said:
I got the phone, was able to get google voice installed (had to remove the store afterwards) But it will only show new messages when I open the app, there are no notification.
Is it possible to get notifications ?
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Hi guys. I'm using huawei watch (wear 2.0) with my s7E (Nougat). I am using default Samsung messages app on my phone. But when I use my watch (contacts then to try send message), the message "to improve contact recognition. Google needs to use your device contacts". When I click "turn on", nothing happens.
Please help me fix this. Thanks!
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I got the same question on my device at sending an SMS and trying to call people.....
So is my watch just defective? Seems only two people have the issue
Using texting with the same combo S7edge Nougat and AW2.0 Huawei watch just fine...I am using Google Messages on the phone. Maybe the Samsung App isn't ready for AW2.0?
I see. I'm using samsung's default messaging app. I tried installing google messages on my watch but it required me to install google messages on my phone as well. Any workaround aside from installing google messaged?
Apparently you can still send messages using google assistant. Why is that possible while you can't do that using contacts?
I also have the same issue. For me it's now useless as a smartwatch. Don't know why it just stopped working all of a sudden. Hopefully there's a fix soon. I think it's a software issue.
I currently use the 1st gen galaxy watch 46mm.
I really find it useful how on my android phone, I can talk to the google assistant and stay "note to self" say something, and it's saved in my google keep notes.
I've been trying to find a app similar to this for the watch.
I tried installing the google assistant app on the watch but in the google cloud portion of the install the shb fingerprint verification doesn't work so that's on hold.
Currently, I use the alerts feature and it seems to work well. I press the button on the side twice, speak to the watch, and an item is saved to a list on my phone. I only use this for actionable tasks for my "to do" list.
Is there another app similar to this that I could use that's as easy to use? I'm kind of frustrated with the install process of google assistant which I hear stopped working in the most recent update.
I installed the Google Phone app because I like it better, but incoming calls are still being routed through the Samsung phone app, even after I've set the Google Phone app as the default and gave it all permissions.
Is there something else I need to do to get incoming calls to route through the Google Phone app instead of the Samsung one?
I think I got it, I removed the permissions from the Samsung Phone App and I believe calls are incoming through the Google Phone app. I'll keep trying it and will post here again if it stops working.
You have to go into the apps settings, then look for a setting called DEFAULT APPS. Go into that, and then choose phone app, this is where you set the Google Phone app to default....