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[Samsung Gear S] jongcruz:
This app only works with samsung phones right?
[Samsung Gear S] 2727alex2727:
Naa man its only for iPhone 6 and 6 plus, sozz
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
If you can get gear manager properly installed on your phone it MAY work, but samsung has created a bit of a mess with Gear Manager tying it tightly to Samsung phones, so it's hit or miss and probably depends on how you well you get gear manager installed.
[Samsung Gear S] jongcruz:
I've been looking for an installable modified version of gear manager for my Tmobile Z3 but no luck at all. I wish I could use it with my Z3 and also with my note4.

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No need of your sarcastic answer.....
[Samsung Gear S] BACARDILIMON:
You know what they say about karma lol.

BAD ASS NOTE 4 + BAD ASS GEAR S
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Were you able to get replies to work on your note 4?
[Samsung Gear S] Uniquebarbee:
New Version 1.2.1 works for me Note 4 Gear S
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
good. This version should be much more stable, and use a lot less memory, even with hangouts 2.5
[Samsung Gear S] sonic76:
I've installed the new 1.2.1Version from PlayStore,

when i recived message from Whatsapp i can replay to the message,

when i recived a SMS i can't replay from Gear S.

Is this a known issue?

Regards

Sonic76
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
More than likely the SMS app you are using does not support the android wear actions. SMS clients tend to be standalone gear s (or android wear) apps and not just simple notifications. I recommend using the SMS app on the watch, since that allows replies anyway.
[Samsung Gear S] jongcruz:
Thank you, yes I did. WhatsApp is a little hit and miss but will give some more test on it. Great job......I also trying to make it work on my Z3 with some modified samsung files.....will post later.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
when you say it's hit or miss, what do you mean? Sometimes you can't reply? Are they grouped messages? Look at the notification on the phone, are there more than one in the notification? Maybe from different people?
[Samsung Gear S] VenpaCasa:
Hey i finally got to try out the new version but unfortunately evolve sms doesn't have keyboard reply. I guess it mist be due to what u explained to me earlier. I did notice however that the app has a pebble notification option of that helps at all.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Yeah you're probably better off using built in SMS app for SMS, or you could try using the hangouts SMS integration. That would probably work with with my app.
[Samsung Gear S] jongcruz:
After several testing all I can say this app is great, everything is working fine........only app I'm not able to respond with is TextMe....any advice is wellcome. ..

Thank you!
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Glad you got it working, more than likely that app is not Android Wear Compatible. I would suggest to the developer of textme to add AW support.
[Samsung Gear S] 2727alex2727:
Great app and it works great since last update but everytime I get a notification that gets relayed to my gear s, the app opens up on my phone? Anyway to fix this or is it in the settings, cheers
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Really? Wow that is very odd. That should not be happening. Can you tell me what settings you have in my app? The only possibility that comes to mind is that you have Smart Really turned in in Gear Manager? That's actually what it's supposed to do, though I've never gotten it to work.
[Samsung Gear S] Mender:
Hi, I like you app, but today I got one bug.

I send an e-mail with attached 12Mb file form G-mail to some exchange e-mail address that is not supporting so big attachements. I got to my G-mail email taht my e-mail was not delelivered. When I try open this notification in Gear S I can not open it and I get info that W-home is not responding and I can choose close or wait. After it may Gear S frozen and I have to restart it. :confused:

I do not care of it - such situation happen one time in xxx years, but ..... :)
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
I gave it a shot and had no issue, but my guess is maybe the reply thread was too large for the Gear S to eat. I'll take a look to see if there is some size limitation issue. There is nothing in the documentation , but then the documentation is terrible
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
OK Yes I think you've got "Smart Relay" turned on, which will activate my app when you turn on your phone right after you get a notification. Ill look at having this actually open the app that sent the notification, but not sure I can do that. For now I would suggest turning off "Smart Relay" in Gear Manager.
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
Hangouts has an update today.. version 2.5.83281670. Not sure what changed, but I will install it and see if there are any issues. Maybe this fixes the memory issues?
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Yeah I gave it a shot. Not sure what they changed, but it seems harmless so far. :D
[Samsung Gear S] gingerdude:
I have a small question regarding whatsapp. Sometime the gear will show images but most of the time it just says in text "image". I was wondering why this was so. Great app by the way.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
it depends if the image is in the notification on the phone. if you see it in the pull down it should show on the watch. if it doesnt let me know
[Samsung Gear S] dnkeyhnter:
Bought the app from the playstore even though I can't get it to work from my non samsung phone. Just wanted to show some appreciation to a dev that continually tries to make his products better and offers help to those of us that have issues.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Yeah some others have had issues with non samsung phones. The cobbled together Gear Manager seems to be missing something. I'll add a note to the play store posting to warn people. If you want a refund, just email me your order number.

Sorry about that.
[Samsung Gear S] dnkeyhnter:
I hope you didn't take that as me *****ing. I don't want a refund. I want more devs like you to continue to enhance the capabilities of this watch. I knew the app didn't work with my phone when I bought it. I simply bought it to show some appreciation for your work.

I actually used the version posted here a few weeks ago when I had my galaxy note 2, so I do know it is a great app. Then I switched phones to an htc one m8, tried the app on that phone and I couldn't get it to work. So I knew it wasn't going to work when I bought it. ?

Pretty cool of you to offer a refund though… Gives me another reason to be happy I know I'm supporting a good person!
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Thanks for the support.
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
So today I ran into something weird. I was replying to messages on LINE from my watch. I had a message from a friend that I received earlier in the day, but didn't reply to it right away. A couple hours had passed, and I received other message on LINE from other friends. I searched and found the notification from my friend that I wanted to reply to, sent her a message, but it went to someone else. Even though I was clearly in her notification window, verified with her avatar as the background.

So I did some testing, and it looks like no matter what notification I choose to reply to, my reply will go to the last person I received a notification from, even if I didn't choose it specifically to reply too.

What do you think?

I haven't tested this out with Hangouts or any other apps. But will later.

So just tested this with Hangouts and it does the same thing. Replied to notification that was 5 minutes old and it went to the last person who sent me a message in Hangouts, not the person intended.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
That is strange. I have not had that issue. I've used notifications that were days old. I'll try again. Maybe something is broken.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
So after some more testing, you are right. Some apps are doing this including hangouts. I even went back to an old version of my app and hangouts and it still happens, so either something in android updated or this was completely missed in testing.

Unfortunately I don't see an easy way to fix this and rather than leave this issue I'm going to have limit the reply option to the last notification on an account for an app and once a notification on the phone is dismissed it will remove the reply option.

I will be updating shortly.

Hopefully I can find a better way to deal with this soon.

To be clear this is an issue with individual apps using actions from old notification to reply to the last notification.:crying:

UPDATE: I have modified the app to allow reply only to the last notification for each app for each recipient, and also to not allow reply to notifications that have been dismissed on the phone. Unfortunately in my testing now that I see this issue, several apps do not behave right with dismissed notifications. This is unfortunate and I will be looking for a way to fix this, but in the mean time it's better to disable this since it really is unstable.

Thanks for catching this. Hopefully I'll be able to get most of the functionality back soon or at least provide a cleaner way to handle it.
[Samsung Gear S] jordant2:
I actually reported this on December 20th if you read my post that I quoted from this thread. I thought it was the latest version of hangouts causing it but it wasn't. I've had this issue for a while now and it wasn't there at first. I would definitely buy the app if this gets sorted out. Actually I'll probably buy it anyway to support your efforts. I appreciate the contributions you've made with this watch.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
yeah I thought that was from the memory issue. I'll be digging tomorrow to make sure its not something I broke(hope it is), I swear this used to work.
[Samsung Gear S] jordant2:
You're right. It used to work. But it's something Google did since I tried another app that I won't mention in your thread and the same thing happens. The ability to reply to my hangouts completes the watch experience. I have faith that if a workaround exists, you'll find it.
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
Is the update making its way to the playstore also?
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
Hi,

Not sure if I am missing something or I have misread but regardless of my settings I'm getting a massive accumulation of notifications.

I use whatsapp a lot, so say I have read 25 whatsapp messages from one person today on my phone. When I connect my watch via Bluetooth, I get an instant notification from this app saying I have 25 new notifications. Anyway to avoid this happening?

Thanks.

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
if you look at your phone is there a notification there that says the same thing from whatsapp? if so then then yes you have a big grouoed notification. this app works off notifications on your phone. it usually works best to have it always connected and reply to new messages when they come in.
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
Whatsapp on my phone shows no new notifications when I Bluetooth connect my phone to watch. It's as if this app shows me all whatsapp notifications as new from the time the watch was last connected to the phone.

I did a test where I cleared all notifications from my watch, disabled Bluetooth, got 3 new whatsapp messages on my phone, read them, then enabled Bluetooth. My watch then said I had 3 new notifications from gear notification extender (whatsapp).....

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
So when you look at your watch is it one notification that says "you have 3 new messages" or 3 individual messages? If the latter then that is what it is supposed to do, so you don't miss notifications. If you don't want this and you are reading them on your phone, then check the preference to dismiss them on your watch when read on phone.
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
On my watch face it says 3 new notifications but I'd have to say they are grouped under the one notification heading.

The issue is I have that preference ticked, that's the strange thing about it. I guess I'll do more testing.

Thanks for your help!

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] POWERPALM:
Problem

When I receive a notification and receipt no answer and then another and then gives me no option to respond, ie if I receive multiple notifications at once no longer gives me the option to respond, you could fix that?
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
If they are from multiple people, and grouped on you're watch then you are correct, that is how the source app puts out it's notifications. We can only respond to notifications that the source app allows.

That's how the app has and will probably always work. These are the same restrictions that Android Wear users have to live with. It sucks but that's how google wants it apparently.

I'm working on a separate issue which also appears to be a limitation of Android Wear which is that we can only reply to the latest message for a given app, even if the previous notification allowed responses. Any attempt to reply to earlier messages either don't go or may go to the wrong recipient depending on the source application. This one is something I am hoping I can fix, but don't have a solution for yet.

one way or another I will have an update soon that will at least allow us to reply to the last message even if it has been dismissed on the phone. I will put that out tomorrow, which should make the issue more bearable.
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
After further testing, I have another issue. Woke up this morning, connected phone to watch and immediately this app said I had 51 new messages from whatsapp, which I had already read yesterday. I assume this is a bug at the moment?

I cleared all from my watch but now I realised something else. When I have my watch and phone connected via Bluetooth and I receive a whatsapp message and I check it on my phone my watch still says I have X number of new notifications. And I do have the option ticked where it says dismiss watch notifications......

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
So if I understand, your phone is getting notifications overnight, but your watch is not connected, then when you connect they come in to the watch?
[Samsung Gear S] MrAwesome75:
I don't know if I just don't know how to set it up, or if there is something else I'm missing, but for some reason the Hangouts notifications on my watch don't always give me the option to reply. I originally installed the trial APK in OP1 about a month ago and it worked fine until Hangouts 2.4. Then, I had to install Android Wear on my phone to make it work properly. I decided to go ahead and purchase the app from the Play store a few days ago. It was working fine until yesterday afternoon. I hadn't made any changes to anything on my watch or phone. I reinstalled Android Wear to see if that would fix it. It started working again. Then, today it stopped working again. I hadn't changed anything in Hangouts, Android Wear or Gear Notifications. I don't understand why I can't get it to stay the way it is. What am I doing wrong?
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
Yeah basically, except that my whatsapp are coming during the day not necessarily overnight. Say I had 35 messages from whatsapp since I last disabled Bluetooth. I have read and replied to them on my phone, then I enable Bluetooth, my watch says I have 35 new notifications.

The other problem that's more annoying is the fact that when I have my phone and watch connected and I get a number of new whatsapp messages, read and reply to them on my phone they still remain as new notifications on my watch.

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
I'm working on a couple issues right now around being able to reply to all messages. Somewhere along the way the Android Wear extensions I am using changed and right now we can only reply to the latest message for any given source application. Attempting to reply to older notifications will either fail or actually go to the wrong recipient, which is why I updated the app this weekend to only allow replying to the last message for a source app. I am currently trying to resolve this issue. At this point I am not sure if I will be able to provide reply to all old messages or not or if I will have to simple clean up the existing ability to reply to the last message so it is more intuitive.

I had hoped to have some update today but I am pursing something that looks promising.

Please be patient I will update the app as soon as I have something better than what it's doing now.

BTW my app is not the only one affected so while I understand if you want to try other apps, it's likely there will be issues there too, but by all means if you find something better....
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Ok I will look at the first issue, maybe gear manager is not dismissing them if the watch is not connected. This one should be pretty easy to fix.

The second one is called out on the main page. There is not way to flag a Gear Message as "Read" from the phone(or at least I haven't found it). You have them dismissed when read on the phone, but that will delete them from the watch.
[Samsung Gear S] MrAwesome75:
Thanks for your reply. I do have a question about the Android Wear app. I "activate" the app--but since the Gear S isn't compatible it just tries indefinitely to connect to my watch (I assume because they are not compatible). Do I need to leave it alone to continue in perpetuity to try connecting to my watch, or do I simply need to have the Android Wear app installed on my phone? I think part of my problem is that I activate Android Wear-which starts it trying to connect to my watch-and then I get tired of seeing the notification (forever) trying to connect that I end up doing something to make it stop. Is this the wrong thing to do, or do I need to not even start up Android Wear app in the first place?

Thanks for your app and continued support.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Yeah don't even run it. Just install it. Stupid Google added a check that it was installed before they add the reply actions.
[Samsung Gear S] Mender:
Did I miss something?

You speak about Android Wear app - is it necessary to install it for proper working of your aplication or is it something specific by MrAwesome75??

What is reason for to have it If I have Gear S???
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Because as I said in the previous post, Google in their infinite wisdom, in the last version of hangouts(and maybe other apps) decided not to attach the "Reply" action to notifications unless Android Wear Application is installed. These actions are what allow apps and others like mine to reply.

It's stupid on their part, but I guess them and samsung are not on the same page.

On the upside I think I have a good lead to the problem with replying to old messages. I'm very hopeful I will have full reply capabilities available again soon as well as perhaps some other cool features out of this find.

It is a major change so it may take me a couple days to get it going.
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
Looking forward to the update!
[Samsung Gear S] DoofDoof13:
Thanks for the feedback and quick response.

I'm happy to have the messages deleted from the watch once read on the phone rather than having an incorrect number of new notifications on my watch. How do I get the messages to auto delete on the watch once read on the phone?

Thanks.

GT-I9500 running OzcanRom
[Samsung Gear S] aslandholm:
I'm also having problems with the notifications not deleting on the watch even with the boxes checked. I'll read the message on the phone and it'll still be there on the watch. It doesn't happen all the time. I did some tests

I sent a message saying testing it it went to my phone and watch. Read on phone and it was still on watch. I had to manually dismissed it on the watch. - each message after that put a number 1 in front of the message and did not dismiss it on the watch.

Another time I'll get the message twice on the watch, one without the 1 in front of the message and one with it.

One more question - is there a way to get calendar reminder notifications to work. I use Jorte and I have to have it send the reminder through sms to get around it not working. I could use the stock calendar if that would work.

I'm sorry if this has been addressed.

LOVE LOVE LOVE the vibrate and notification at the same time!!

I'm using the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and the payed version of the app with Message+ and I do have the samsung gear downloaded.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
As soon as I finish reworking the notifications to allow replies to old notification, I'll take a look at the calendar question. Just to make sure have you checked it of in the notification list and it doesn't have reply option?
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
Good News!!

I have a rough rework of my app that can not only reply to old messages, but can now separate out grouped messages and allow reply to each of them :D

I still have a lot to clean up and testing to do, but this has the promise to be even better than the previous version(which didn't work right anyway). With luck I'll at least get a test version for folks here tomorrow night.
[Samsung Gear S] jordant2:
Man this is awesome news! You may have completed one of the missing links, full hangouts integration! Now if only we had Google voice. ..
[Samsung Gear S] aslandholm:
I have checked it in the notification list and it doesn't do anything for a pop up reminder, that's why I switched my reminders to come through as sms so that I could get them on my watch. :)
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
SO I have an opinion question. as it turns out even on android wear there are cases when you cannot reply to certain messages based on how old they are or how they were dismissed. My thought is rather than disabling the reply button, when these notifications cannot be sent it will send another notification to the watch saying it failed. This is kinda what android wear does. It allows for more messages to keep the reply option and creates less updates to the watch constantly removing action buttons.

To be clear the message not send to the wrong person, just fail to send.

What do people think?
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
Hmmm.. Tough one.. Are there any advantages over one or the other? Like as in, making your app run without issues? I mean if I had to choose, I'd say disable the reply if we are going to get a failed message either way.
[Samsung Gear S] gottahavit:
ok maybe I can make it an option. still trying to dig out all the details.

it's actually kinda strange how this goes. if you dismiss each notification as they come in, then only the last one can be replied too. If however you let them group in the notification panel and then dismiss the group notification then you can keep replying to all of them.

It's kind of a mess and you can see it in the different apps(including mine) that have built on this capability. I have looked at several apps and all but android wear itself have some set of steps that cause a reply to go to the wrong user, and android wear in those same flows just fails to send with an error, which is much better than the alternative.

I will have something better soon, but I want to make sure I have closed the gaps that cause a message to go to the wrong recipient.
[Samsung Gear S] duongdn:
Ultimately you are the one that makes the decision on what needs to be done. And you've done an awesome job. You really take the time to listen to what we want or would like. Can't say that about a lot of other developers.

From what it sounds like, letting it send a failed message to mirror what Android wear does seems to be the best choice.

Still a tough one though... So I'll retract my vote for disabling the reply and go with sending a failed message. Lol
[Samsung Gear S] jordant2:
I'd rather the option to reply shows and it gives a failed to send error. As long as messages aren't going to the wrong person I'm cool.