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[Samsung Galaxy Gear] djskipellis:
block gear manager?

Does anyone know how to block gear manager from updating? I managed to put an old gear manager on my S4 but every time I start it up it goes to update and all I can do is cancel. Sometimes it will open after cancel and sometimes it just closes the app.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] diamantericos:
X privacy xposed module check the other gear 2 forum for further detail.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] djskipellis:
I have a Galaxy Gear(Null 23), Not a gear 2. I thought this forum was for the Galaxy Gear - I apologize .
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] stevedrz:
I found force closing gear manager, allowing it to relaunch gives me back the manager for a period of time...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] rmont23:
from the samsung app store app.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] pakisan:
Do the backups created by Gear Manager, that list is collected?

Inviato dal mio SAMSUNG-SM-G900A utilizzando Tapatalk
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] c_86:
looks like gear manager / samsung gear doesnt work on Android L... anyone else having issues? it isntalls fine, but FC when launched
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
Same here. I can get to the Gear Manager screen if I try to pair with the NFC in the charging cradle, but it tries to download an update, and fails.

Really liking the last L preview, but I think I like having the gear working more. Anyone figures it out or if they update the GM for L that would be awesome if not I'll have to stick with KK for now.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
I wonder if the issue with lollipop is due to art?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
I'm not the most knowledgeable but I highly doubt it. I ran ART on all my previous KitKat installs and had no issues. I suspect it might have something to do with the new structure in the system/app area. Now they're all folders with the APK inside and ARM folders. But as I said i'm not the now knowledgeable. I can get it to pop up and it appears to attempt a download to update or something of the sort, and stays open, but does nothing until I hit cancel.

I however did notice there was 2 or 3 more APK's in the PreInstalled APK's forlder of older versions of gear vs this new one.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Hmmm...that could have something to do with it (however my knowledge on the structure is also currently limited). How do you install the gearmanager stub? Just move to system apps? or run it to install?

Newer versions contain less apks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
I just dumped it over to system/app after rooting the latest preview. After reboot it did the android is upgrading, so it saw it (and SU uses the old structure it seems), as it's just an APK in system/app and works. I see the orange Gear Manager connecting screen and all when I do it by NFC, it just says it has to download an update, fails and then the only choice is try again to fail, or hit cancel and it boots out. If it's of any use only an NFC connection attempt does this, trying to open gear manager on it's own just makes it hang and nothing happens, or a FC.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
I've uploaded the latest version of gm. Give it a go
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
Gentleman and a scholar Sir! Thanks for the upload. Will report back tomorrow, have to charge up before I do a fresh flash (as we all know nandroids dont' play nicely with L as of yet). Will keep all posted and thanks again for the upload.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] nmtuan.pnt:
I use n7100, i can not use s voice on my ss gear 2( erro : connection_fail_msg) ( s voice on my phone very perfect ) . Can u help me ?

Signature : nmt
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] DannyBiker:
Delete please....
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] lazer9:
Having similar problem. I opened a thread in the Q & A section totally describing situation. Seems brilliant sammy as screwd the pooch for many of us with damn Gear Manager & particularly the latest "Sa-providers" app of it. If you revert that app to a previous version as mentioned earlier either in this thread or another (can't remember) to prevent the persistent FORCE CLOSES on the phone by it, it breaks s-voice from Gear to Phone.

Anybody have a fix for this situation or suggestion to try. I'm about ready to sell my damn Gear and give up. :crying:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
I can't even revert back to previous version of saprovider, error unable to install in app manager.

My problem, and it is stated before (I am not the only one), is that I do get notifications but without text.

Option is enabled in Gear Manager to show preview of the notification, but still it doesn't show.

Tried to uninstall everything Gear related and go back to a previous version, but then as soon as I start the Gear Manager it tells me that it needs to update.

I can then only proceed (and gives me newest version of GM) or cancel, which will exit the program and no connection is made.

has anyone found a good working solution for it ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] lazer9:
Yea, I'm at this exact point myself. I downloaded a prior known working version on my phone. Deleted everything Gear related on phone side. Rebooted phone, did a dalvik & cache wipe. Proceeded to install older Gear Manager version I downloaded via OP here and got it paired via BT but when I open Gear Manager it insists it needs to update and the only option is to allow it to OR cancel.

I'm stuck as to how any others were able to revert back to an older GM version. :confused:

---------- Post added at 06:26 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:23 PM ----------

See my previous posts here and in Q & A. Went to use S-voice via Gear to watch command and this above method seems to have broken that from working. :silly:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] anthonyg45157:
I didnt revert to an old gear manager i installed the newest and removed saproviders(part of gear manager in application manager) then i installed the older verison(last known working) of "saprovider" which i belive i uploaded. I did thid and it all worked flawlessly.

I've never had an issue with s voice. Have you opened s voice in your phone at least once before opening on the watch.? if I recall correctly i had to open s voice on my phone and accept something.

What issue are you having exactly? I hope i have help my friend:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] nmtuan.pnt:
Thank you. I have found the cause :D

Sign: nmt
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
I've tried that, but it didn't work....at least not with the saprovider.apk which I found in this thread :

http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-gear/help/update-broke-notifications-t2882421/page2

It installed fine, rebooted phone and made test notification from Gmail : same result
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
I think I have it working again.

See my post http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-gear/help/broken-notifications-gear-manager-heres-t2915460
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] anthonyg45157:
Try the saproviders apk i providied in this thread... Although it coild be same as the one from the other thread. Have you made sure youve checked gmail under gear manager to recieve notifications... Un pair watch from phone, remove gear manager EVERYTHING. Factory reset your watch. Then All i did was install latest gear manager. Go to phone settings>app manager. Uninstall saproviders. Then download the saprovider apk that i posted earlier in this thread. Reboot and everything should work. At least it did for me.

Start from square 1. Remove everything gear related from phone and factory reset watch.

Let me know...i hope this helps. Try sending yourself a text message using samsungs messaging app send text and then screen off immediately. See if notication comes through on watch. Follow these steps and see what happens.

Also what phone do you have? I have galaxy s4
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] DO Trong Hieu:
Help

HI everybody...i just bought samsung gear 2 neo because i hear that it can connect with android 4.4...my phone is Gionee elife s5.5....i can't connect it :(((.....please help me....
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
Thanks for your help, it is really appreciated.

However I had the day off and spend a great part of the day figuring out this issue.

And I finally managed to get it fully working again.

What I did to get it working is explained in this thread : http://xdaforums.com/galaxy-gear/help/broken-notifications-gear-manager-heres-t2915460

I have a S5 with Phoenix ROM
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
Still no go, same message says Downloading additional software, then it says Download failed try again. Knowing Samsung i'm sure they'll take their sweet time to make a version that works with L.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Did you try installing all the other associated apks? I might try and find all related ones and upload since the later versions don't seem to include them (not really looked into how the newer versions [v2<] work). Maybe also try the workaround a couple of posts back by speedme with an older version
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
Actually just doing that now, going to install the preinstalled APK's that are present in the older version, I think the older versions had 5 or so ones to install vs the 3 in this version.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] DO Trong Hieu:
help

Pleaseeee help meee...why no one help me :(((.....i cant connect to gionee elife s5.5 and oppo find 7 :(((( why :((
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
This is gear 1 forum. However, there are heaps of threads around for connecting to non-Samsung device. Install gearmanagerstub and then gear manager (plus associated apks)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
It was way too long a day at the office to do a fresh flash of the latest L Preview on my Nexus 5 (I hope I mentioned that at some point and no one thought I was using a Sammy device), but I tried real quick to just install the additional APK's that the older versions have. For the most part it wouldn't even allow them to be installed. I'm not sure if this is due to the new Gear Manager or the L preview, but thankfully weekends are mine, and I plan on doing quite a bit of tinkering tomorrow, but if I'm honest I have a feeling when I leave in a few weeks for vacation I'm going to be running KK instead of L.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
Bit of an update. I managed to get the watch to connect with version 2.1.14052101 well sorta.

It would keep FC Gear manager, but you can install the rest of the APK's it requests if you hit ok on the force close quickly then install on the extra APK's it wants to install. Eventually after installing all those, the watch shoes the gear manager connection, and I could transfer images I took with the watch to the phone, but nothing else seemed to work including incoming calls. Thought since it was connected now and seemed to have all the old APK's when it worked on KitKat I decided to try and update to the latest gear manager.

The watch stays connected on 2.2, and I can open up gear manager, but same thing, fails on trying to download additional software. I think I give up for now haha.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Tomatolita:
to add a bit to this, I can use it as a bluetooth headset (if I answer on the handset, it will forward the audio to the watch, but it doens't show up the call or answer on the watch.). I can also see my phone book and contacts, and as aforementioned the pictures transfer. So I suppose the basic bluetooth features are working, but anything to do with Gear Manager is borked.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] AnDrOidRuLs:
Hello. i installed the v2.2.14100299.apk gear manager and all the other sub apk files and the gearmanagerstub.apk onto my htc one m7. The big problem is that now the app says dowloading failed every time i try to open it up. do you maybe know any fix to this? Regards
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Conanzulu:
I have had my galaxy gear 2 paired and working with my nexus 5. No issues other than wanting to install some of the other tizen stuff.

Anyway, today my phone upgraded to lollipop. After that, any attempt to open gear manager was getting a "Unfortunately, gear manager has stopped". I've tried so much. I tried the newest gear manager I could find: 1.7.031004. It keeps crashing as soon as you try to open it. I also tried Samsung Gear_2.2.14110499.apk. I've rebooted my phone a ton of times, I've reset my watch back to defaults. If I uninstall that and attempt gear manager 1.6.111801. The bluetooth will connect to my watch but the gear manager keeps failing. I've tried a few other older visions of gear manager with no luck. So I either run the 1.6 and the damn thing never takes over the bluetooth connection to install the gear software or I use the updated apks and it keeps crashing as soon as I try to open it.

Does anyone have anything I can try to fix this? Ha, damn this is really upsetting me that samsung didn't just make this damn watch open to all phones.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Not a Samsung issue per se. Judging by a few other comments, gm is not compatible with lollipop
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] andrewbat:
Sync

Slightly off topic, can you please let me know how you sync'd you gear to your nexus?

Did everything work?...messages, email etc...

Would love to know
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] cyberdelia:
You don't need to block. Just disconnect from internet before enter to Gear Manager. And then, start Gear Manager, go to Settings and uncheck Automatic Update
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] trondjl:
For me it works well to just accept the update, but only if gear manager is installed (not stub) as normal app, not system or priv-app. Then you can cancel the installation of the other parts it downloads as per of the update. Then it won't ask again for that version.

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[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Conanzulu:
Anyone know if they fixed the compatibility with lollipop?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] wesleyrpg:
Now that Poland has lollipop for the GS5, you'd think Samsung would have a compatible version of Gear Manager
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
yep, hoping it'll be soon
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Conanzulu:
Out of frustration I just attempted in a row:

1.7.031004

1.6.132701

1.6.131003

1.6.111801

1.5.123002

and got all sorts of problems. The biggest overall problem was that say when I installed 1.7.031004. Id open gear manager and get that damn horrible annoying, "Unfortunately, Gear Manager has stopped".

My watch worked fine till this update! Seriously considering selling it on ebay or craigslist and buying another brand for my nexus 5.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Dezben:
I'm trying to get my non-touchwiz GS4 (running CM 10.2) and my gear 1 with null 23 to work together. Right now they kinda detect one another on Bluetooth but the most recent gear manager doesn't seem to work and keeps crashing and restarting. I've tried going to older versions but they all want to update to the newer stuff. Anyone had success making this work? Can't seem to share internet to the gear either.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] parcou:
So no love yet for those with Gear s but on a Nexus 6 v5.0.1?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
I have the new Lollipop update installed on my Galaxy S5 and it works good with my Gear 1

Even an older version of Gear Manager works.

I tried it because of the full notifications.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] LuvTechnology1:
Gear 2 Neo will not connect to my S4 its pared but wont connect

Hello

I am trying to get my new Gear 2 Neo to "connect" with my Galaxy S4. It is already pared but will not connect and its not just me my brother in law and sister in law and niece all work for Samsung and none of us can get it to connect to ANY phone even a brand new S5. I took it to Best Buy and met with the Samsung rep in the store and he could not get it to work either, he asked me to go to a different location of Best Buy where I met with another Samsung rep who said to call 1-800-Samsung which I did and spoke to 2 different people who I swear knew LESS THAN I DO about the stupid thing. I have been using a 1st Gen Gear and I really love it but I want to us my new one. I just feel like everyone kept focusing on my S4 but it is NOT the phone it is totally updated and is currently connected to the older Gear, It is the gear it only gives us 2 screens the first says "download Samsung Gear Manager" then I press "next" button at the bottom of the screen, then it says "select the devise you want to connect to from list" and has a button at the bottom that says "Previous" and when pressed it takes you back to the screen telling me to download Samsung Gear Manager, and so it goes around and around with no other options (except on the first screen it does offer a short video).

I just want to use my new Gear can you PLEASE help me or direct me to someone who can.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HELP.john.lindeman143@gmail.com
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] cobyman7035:
Waiting for this too hopefully the gear 1 or the gear 2 will work with the Nexus 6 5.01

Via my NeXus™ 6 on Tapatalk⁴
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] kashis32:
easy fix

download gear manager 1.6.111801 and change from apk to zip then extract and install all the apks in the file then instal gear manager stub and install gear manager from above and factory reset gear and your all good. if your on null23 that is.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] jun3280:
A few questions for you

1. What version of Android are you running (4.1.2, 4.3, 4.4.2, etc) ... On my Note 2 and S3 - the problem you described - went away when I upgraded to 4.3 and above.

2. What version of Gear Manager are you using? Did you side load the APK or download it from the Samsung Galaxy App Store (the latter works for me).

3. Have you tried running a custom rom on your S4/S5 (Touchwiz)...usually these already come preloaded wiht a working Gear Manager.

Cheers

J
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] wesleyrpg:
Brendo, is there any chance you can chase after the elusive 2.2.14112899 for us.

I'm hoping it will solve alot of problems with people running android 5.0!

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] pavlos46:
Here it is.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] leojab:
i installed your file [MENTION=3119752]pavlos46[/MENTION] but it cannot download the remaining items saying the Download URL is not available. any way you can provide the remaining components of the Gear Manager as well.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] pavlos46:
If I am not mistaken all 2.2 apks do not include these, in order to download them you neeed to change build.prop to a samsung device and load galaxy store.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] trasig:
note 3

My note 3 with lollipop (leak) updated today to that new version. installed first 2.1 and that worked on lollipop. couldent even find gear manager on galaxy store but today it all fixed itself :) Hope it will work out for rest of you guys :)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
Do you have that APK file for us ?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] wesleyrpg:
it seems Samsung is making it harder and harder to get the Galaxy Gear working on anything other than a Samsung phone.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] PieOfJustice:
Not only that you have to be running touchwiz as well. Running SlimLP and there is zero support for it. Gonna have to figure out how to port it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Are you able to post your gearmanagerstub apk?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] TRoN_1:
I installed Galaxy Apps on my S4 running a Lollipop rom (JFLTE-GPE 5.0.1), but Gear Manager does no show up in search. Is there a way to rectify this? Do I have to update Galaxy Apps?(how?).

Thanks
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] GoLfWRC:
Thanks mate!
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] pizza_pablo:
I have A Gear 2 Neo and an S4 running on Hyperdrive RLS19 Touchwiz. I have tried Samsung apps and Galaxy apps stores, with similar results.

Many apps do not download. Some download, but do not show in the Gear Manager or on the Neo.

I've had success with a couple cheesy apps, like a tip Calculator and a flashlight, but nothing I was looking forward to like Watcher or Watch Styler.

Is it a conflict with the rom or does the Gear vs Gear Manager vs Samsung apps interface just suck?

ETA: I failed to say that I have tried several different (older) versions of the Gear Manager app. with no success.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] SlavKor:
Your phone runs Android 5 Lollipop, runtime is ART, however, Gear still works with KitKat runtime Dalvik

We all have to wait till bloody Samsung will make up their mind and do a support for other Manufacturers or, at least, support Lollipop...
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
Sorry, but you are wrong.

I have a S5 running Lollipop and Gear Manager works fine.

Today I received a new update for Gear Manager, I am now on version 1.8.011799
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] vaibhav100:
Gear Manager for Samsung gear 2 Neo link to HTC M8

HI ,

I had gear 2 neo want to connect to HTC M8 (lollipop),

How to go ahead i tried 2.2.14112899,

it opens tries to connect,

it shows "Downloading additional software",

and then it shows "Download failed"

i had not rooted either of them,

i dont have sysem/app so just pasting in internal memory,

do we need to install GearMangerStub.apk first.

Please help tired :eek:

Thanks to reply.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] speedme:
It even looks like Samsung has brought back the extended notifications on the Gear 1 .

I now see full emails from Gmail, full test in Whatsapp, etc.

Wasn't there for a long time
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] F1USGP:
Any problems with the latest version? I think it was updated on 1/28/15. My GS4 can't fully download it.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Ultimo125:
... +1

:good:
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ian.k.larson:
Root required?

I've been searching for a couple weeks now trying to get my Gear 2 to sync with my OnePlus One. This post is the most promising I've found, but I can never get this install to function. First, I cannot save anything to /system/app, as it tells me this is a read-only folder. Does this require a rooted device? Second, when I attempt to extract GearManater_2....apk.zip, it will never extract, telling me it is a bad .zip file. I've attempted multiple versions.

Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
gearmanagerstub.apk needs to go into system/app which requires root. however you could just try running it to install

just rename the .apk.zip to .apk Some browsers/sites add the .zip for some reason. No need to extract; just copy to device and run
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] ian.k.larson:
I have now unlocked the bootloader and rooted the device. I still cannot save to /system/app, and get the same error. Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
You might need to mount system as read/write
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] iGordy101:
Is this for lollipop 5.0.2?
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
You'll have to test. I did upload a new version recently with support for gear circle (only change noted in changelog details). Given more and more devices are being updated to lollipop, I'd hope that this has support or a version in the very near future will
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] iGordy101:
I have hands on 2.2.15 but till test the one listed on here
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
Yes, 2.2.15011799 is the latest
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] iGordy101:
Still no luck m8 :/ God i hate Samsung :s
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Vicntc:
Anybody else having problems downloading these files or the files from Brendo? As in File Not Found or

"An error occurred while retrieving this file"

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/e7h23e12rzesi/Gear_Manager
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Brendo:
I've just tried mine and they work fine. The latest version has been downloaded 359 times. bigpongo links work too (although I have all the latest versions of them in my mediafire folder)
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] Vicntc:
Quite right, it does seem to be woking now, my apologies.

That said, I am working with a Samsung Note I717 using the Canadian (Rogers) ROM running 4.1.2 so getting GearManager to work at all is probably not going to happen correct?

I've just downloaded a few ROM's from XDA (Broken, UBER, CM10, CM2, etc). Hopefully one of those will allow me to connect my watch.
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] andrewbat:
Hey guys and [MENTION=352841]Brendo[/MENTION]

I am running a gpe based rom on my s4. I have loaded and installed the gearmanagerstub in the system/app folder.

What do I do next please?

Also, which gear manager should I use and what components to I subsequently download?

Once downloaded, where do I place and install the components and where do I place and install gear manager itself?

Ps: I have the original galaxy gear with tizen.

Thanks in advance
[Samsung Galaxy Gear] andrewbat:
Anyone?