Hey all, as i learned here, since the last update in firmware, my Samsung Galaxy Watch 46mm should be able to view Whatsapp Images. I have tried to do all, upgraded to the right software, and enabled all notifications on my phone in the Gear app, yet nothing, still only get that icon of a picture.
I have also tried the Vie Whatsapp Images app, that should also make a sort of a double notification, and nothing. C
Can anyone, please, help me as what to do step by step, or what to check so that i get to the final state? I love my watch and the images is the last missing thing I would realy love to see work
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Hi ALL,
I just got my ZW yesterday and although there was a fair amount of frustration initially I think I'm getting the hang of it. I do have small wrists so its kind of big, but I think its livable. I have a few questions I hoping to get some answers to.
It is paired with an LG Volt running Kit Kat 4.4.2 and the ZW got updates to Android OS 5.1.1.
1. Part of the frustration I had yesterday was in connecting to my phone. I had already installed the Android Wear and Zenwatch apps on my phone and I started both and then turned the ZW on for the first time and it did connect reasonably soon. It updated and then I played with it for a while powering both down to see what would happen. But then I had hard time re-connecting and ultimately had to do a factory reset and the ZW updated again and at least it did connect. Now when I want to use the ZW I power on the phone, start the A-Wear app and then power up the ZW. The last several times it did connect but took a minute or so. My question is this all normal operation for the ZW and have others had to do a factory reset?
2. One thing that really bothered me was that when the ZW was connected all the sounds on the phone (like the sound when you tap on an icon) were very low, almost silent. Even when I powered down the ZW the sounds were still very low. I had to restart the phone to restore the proper sound level. BUT . . . this morning I tried everything out before writing this and the ZW connected and the tapping sounds on the phone are FINE!!! This is not what it was doing yesterday! Has anyone seen this behavior?
3. When an incoming call comes in the ZW displays the caller ID and if its in my contacts their name and picture - this is what I really wanted in a watch. Then you can swipe to the red to send the call to voice mail or swipe to the green to connect the call. Once connected there are three screens: Mic, Speaker and Hang up. Tapping on the Mic draws a line though it and mutes the mic. But tapping the Speaker also draws a line through it but that TURNS ON THE SPEAKER, just the opposite of the Mic. Is this a bug?
4. Lastly, from the clock face, when I swipe to the left the first screen are the apps. The third screen is the Google Now stuff. But the second screen says: No contacts found - Add contacts to contacts app on phone. But I have plenty of contacts in the app on the phone and when a call comes in the ZW correctly shows the called ID info from my contacts. Is there another place I have to enter the contacts on the phone?
Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me out!!
Gerry
1. I definitely have seen some delay between connecting the Zenwatch and my phone (Zenfone 2), sometimes I have to fully close the Android Wear app and reset the BT connection before it reconnects, usually if I reboot either the watch or phone, or if I separate the pair too far, and the connection is dropped. I did, at one point have to do a system wipe, but it's gotten better over the updates.
2. It might be that your phone is trying to route sounds to the ZW as an audio device (not too sure about this one, since I leave my phone on vibrate at almost all times).
3. The call control is pretty buggy, since it's not Android Wear native, it's an Asus made app. It's kind of weird, if I tap the speaker button, it doesn't reflect it on my phone, but it turns on speaker anyways, and if speaker was already on, it also draws a line through the icon on the watch. Hopefully they fix this in a future update.
4. I believe you need to have your contacts synced with your Google account, because I think incoming calls just read off of what the phone says.
Hi itechnoguy,
Thanks for the input. First off I just wanted to say that I ordered the Zenwatch 2, but not for its new features. My wrist is kind of small and the original ZW was just way to big on it. So I ordered the smaller ZW 2 and I'm hoping it fits better.
As far as my questions:
1. Before I decided to get the ZW 2 and was still playing with the ZW it did seem to connect more reliably. So maybe the ZW 2 will connect even better!
2. I don't know why it did that but the last several times that the ZW connected the phone's sounds were normal!! Strange!
3. Yeah, I kind of figured that.
4. Once I get settled with thee ZW 2 I'll play with Google some more to see if that helps.
Again, thanks very much for your comments.
Gerry
hi
i got ZW yesterday and it syn to my lg g2 mobile but the contacts it says" add contacts to contacts app on phone" .all my contacts are in my phone tho
can you help me please
dharmateja said:
hi
i got ZW yesterday and it syn to my lg g2 mobile but the contacts it says" add contacts to contacts app on phone" .all my contacts are in my phone tho
can you help me please
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I have the same problem. But I've gotten answers from several people that the contacts on you phone are NOT the contacts that will show up in the contacts on the watch. It seems that you have to add contacts into Google somewhere and frankly I really haven't looked into it any further. I think if you go into you Gmail account on the web there is some place to enter contacts and perhaps they will then show up on the watch.
Gerry
Hi all, my mom has an LG G3 phone. Have noticed many weird things happening on the phone since today.
The notification panel won't slide down. Also, no notifications are displayed in the notification bar, even when there are notifications, like receiving sms or messages on Whatsapp.
The phone has a swipe lock screen. But, the lock screen won't work, even though it shows in Security settings, that there is one.
Calls are being made from the phone, but no calls are being received. For example, if I call the phone, it says that the person is busy and the connection ends. My brother had also tried calling... same thing.
No apps can be downloaded or updated from the Play Store.
I tried to connect the phone to the PC, but, since I cannot slide down the notification panel, there is no way to change the connection mode to transfer data.
I should mention that the storage on the phone was getting close to being filled, and the phone was showing the warning that storage was less and that some of the functions might stop working. So, are these things because of that?
But, I did delete a lot of photos and videos and uninstalled apps, and now there is sufficient storage for the phone to run properly, but it still doesnt work, and these weird stuff are happening.
I suspect from the weird behavior that there might be a virus. Is that so?
What do I do? How will the phone return to sanity? How do I backup the data... if the solution is to factory reset the phone. There are important photos and videos and whatsapp data which I would like to save before performing a reset.
Any help will be appreciated.
Any help please?
I am really sorry. The phone my mom has is Motorola Moto G3 and not LG G3. I got confused.
I request the admins to please delete this thread, and I am again really sorry.
Just got myself a GT 2 - love the hardware and just hope I will be able to live with the software. There are a few thing I haven't found, can you please let me know if I'm missing something?
Is there no way to adjust the step goal per day? It is set to 10.000 steps and I want to change it.
Can't I receive notifications while in the workout mode, like a walk och running?
If I get a notification on my phone and delete it from the phone it is still visible on my watch. And if I delete a notification on my watch it is still visible on my phone. This can't be right?
Is there no way to see coming calendar entries?
I got a Gmail but could only see the subject and sender, nothing of the content?
Is it likely that more features will be added, maybe when GT 3 is released?
After an update incomming phone calls do not show up on my watch. And in the list in the Health app I can no longer enable notifications from "Phone". Anyone else with this issue?
Would really appreciate if someone could comment on the above.
Thanks a lot!
You're right, hardware is great, software is limited.
#1, change step goal in Health app on phone (settings, goal).
#2-5, unfortunately correct.
Having said that, I'm wearing this watch since December, day and night, only taking out during shower. I have latest Samsung watches, have few Wear watches, like all of them, but GT2 just looks great and does just enough job (tell time and show notifications). I've loaded multiple custom watches and love it.
ddavtian said:
You're right, hardware is great, software is limited.
#1, change step goal in Health app on phone (settings, goal).
#2-5, unfortunately correct.
Having said that, I'm wearing this watch since December, day and night, only taking out during shower. I have latest Samsung watches, have few Wear watches, like all of them, but GT2 just looks great and does just enough job (tell time and show notifications). I've loaded multiple custom watches and love it.
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Thanks @ddavtian! I have been through every single menu without finding step goal, can you please help me find it? I consider myself as a "power user" so this is really embarrassing
Health app: Me, Settings, Goal
There you can set weight and steps goals
6. I do jot think so.
7. What firmware version are you on? Did incommig call work correctly before update?
bokyfly said:
Health app: Me, Settings, Goal
There you can set weight and steps goals
6. I do jot think so.
7. What firmware version are you on? Did incommig call work correctly before update?
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Wow, that one wasn't there until I switched to English language on my phone. Now it was there and I could finally change it. What a bug
Regarding incoming call I cannot even find "Phone" under notification settings in the long list of all available apps. It worked just fine when I got the watch a week ago. Do you have "Phone" in the app list in the Health app under "Notifications"?
Firmware: 1.0.6.32
Health app version: 10.0.5.317
No, if you gave Health app permissions, it will do its work, no need for separate settings, just watch needs to be connected to phone via bluetooth.
Hi all,
I've just bought a new phone and pairing my Smartwatch 3 with it is causing multiple issues, firstly it wouldn't sync all my apps, having to push them over manually via ADB after having updated Google Play Services, but the other issue is, I used to know the way to move the status icons (e.g. charging, no cloud etc.) to different positions on my watch screen. Currently it's at the top in the middle, but I want it on the top left as that's where I used to have it with my old phone. I've looked through all the settings in the Wear OS app and my watch face app (I'm using a modified watch face via Facer). Does anyone know how I amend this? It's been bugging me for the past day or so and I can't figure out how I did it with my previous phone.
Many thanks,
I didnt had problems moving the icons in facer, did you find a way to fix it ?
No, I haven't yet. Can you tell me where you found the option as I'm struggling. Would greatly appreciate the help.
Hey all, I got a Google Pixel Watch today, and I noticed that one of my complications in my watch face says "Empty" and it's not showing the "Date, Date & Time" options. I've tried Factory Resetting my watch and it seems like it only triggers when I charge it. I can't do it from the app on my phone but when I go to edit the face on the watch itself I can see it all.
I know it's not a BIG deal since I can do it from the watch instead of the app, but has anyone have a fix for this from the app since it's definitely ALOT easier to navigate through?
Thanks!
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Hey all, I got a Google Pixel Watch today, and I noticed that one of my complications in my watch face says "Empty" and it's not showing the "Date, Date & Time" options. I've tried Factory Resetting my watch and it seems like it only triggers when I charge it. I can't do it from the app on my phone but when I go to edit the face on the watch itself I can see it all.
I know it's not a BIG deal since I can do it from the watch instead of the app, but has anyone have a fix for this from the app since it's definitely ALOT easier to navigate through?
Thanks!
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