Can you read text messages that are still on your phone from your watch? I recently saw that you can read through your phones text messages on the Samsung Gear watch, wondering if we can do that.
dspcap said:
Can you read text messages that are still on your phone from your watch? I recently saw that you can read through your phones text messages on the Samsung Gear watch, wondering if we can do that.
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only when you receive a notification. unless there's a messaging app that also installs an app on the watch, there isn't a method for reading your messages. and you'll only be able to see the messages from the user who messaged you. and if you receive more than one photo, you'll only get a preview of the latest photo.
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hi all,
this has been bugging me for 1 week now. whenever i received a sms, i only gets a notification on my watch. when i swipe right, it says, open at phone. can't i read my sms on my watch? i can read my email (gmail), whatsapp messages. is there a configuration that i have missed or i need to enable?
thanks in advance.
cad_2011 said:
hi all,
this has been bugging me for 1 week now. whenever i received a sms, i only gets a notification on my watch. when i swipe right, it says, open at phone. can't i read my sms on my watch? i can read my email (gmail), whatsapp messages. is there a configuration that i have missed or i need to enable?
thanks in advance.
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I have the same issue to get past this I just use hangouts for sms
i fixed it by doing a full reset on my phone and the watch. not sure what settings i made or change but it works for me now.
When I initiate a text via my M360 it sends fine but doesn't pop up in my message list. If I reply to anyone message it shows, just not when I start a text. Anyone else?
bigboi0523 said:
When I initiate a text via my M360 it sends fine but doesn't pop up in my message list. If I reply to anyone message it shows, just not when I start a text. Anyone else?
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Please explain in more detail, does it not show up on the moto 360 or does it not show up on the hangouts app on your primary device? If it doesn't show up on M360 I believe it's because of the way the software is coded to show apps only when a notification is prompted. Initiating a text doesn't prompt a message but when someone replies it does. I believe that is the problem you have.
It doesn't show on either device the phone or watch. I know it sends because I get responses from people.
bigboi0523 said:
It doesn't show on either device the phone or watch. I know it sends because I get responses from people.
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DId you try updating Hangouts yet? Are you on the latest version with the Material Design UI and the Hangouts Dialer app too? I just tried sending a text to a friend via Hangouts and it worked perfectly fine. It's showing in the app and on my M360! Try updating and then resyncing all available apps through the Android Wear app settings. That might solve your issue!
The latest Hangouts app is a turd. So many bugs I finally switched to the HTC messaging app on my One M8.
Yeah hangouts suck. Try textra. I love it cuz it's so fast. It has android wear support as of today.
We have two moto 360s. On one of them it seems to be impossible to actually read received text messages if you receive more than one text from the same person.
Instead of displaying the text of the messages, the notification on the watch will just say the sender's name and "2 text messages received" with no apparent way to view the messages. If you catch the notification when only one text has been received, you can read the single text just fine.
On the other moto 360, it just displays all of the received texts, and doesn't summarize them with a count. That is, you can just keep scrolling down and can read all of the texts in a big list.
The watch having the problem is running 5.01 android wear connected to a Note 4 with android 4.4.4.
The watch that lets you actually read the text messages is running 4.4W.2 android wear and is connected to a Note 3 with android 4.4.2.
Anyone have any ideas? Is this something that just works better on the older software? Not being able to actually read the text messages on the moto 360 breaks one of the major functions of the device!
jackdawfool said:
We have two moto 360s. On one of them it seems to be impossible to actually read received text messages if you receive more than one text from the same person.
Instead of displaying the text of the messages, the notification on the watch will just say the sender's name and "2 text messages received" with no apparent way to view the messages. If you catch the notification when only one text has been received, you can read the single text just fine.
On the other moto 360, it just displays all of the received texts, and doesn't summarize them with a count. That is, you can just keep scrolling down and can read all of the texts in a big list.
The watch having the problem is running 5.01 android wear connected to a Note 4 with android 4.4.4.
The watch that lets you actually read the text messages is running 4.4W.2 android wear and is connected to a Note 3 with android 4.4.2.
Anyone have any ideas? Is this something that just works better on the older software? Not being able to actually read the text messages on the moto 360 breaks one of the major functions of the device!
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If you use googles messenger (not messaging, its the new one made for lollipop but works on 4.4) then one of the tabs is a full conversation list.
If you need the app I can provide you with links and/or instructions
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I just received my watch today and noticed whenever I receive a text message I don't have the option to read it. The only options I see are reply, mark ad read, call, open on phone,and block.
Is this normal or am I missing some settings?
Any suggestions or help is appreciated.
Thanks
You just have to tap the text message and then scroll up and down to read.
eggnoodle said:
I just received my watch today and noticed whenever I receive a text message I don't have the option to read it. The only options I see are reply, mark ad read, call, open on phone,and block.
Is this normal or am I missing some settings?
Any suggestions or help is appreciated.
Thanks
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Read title, solution.
vvveith said:
Read title, solution.
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I'm using the textra app as my message app.
After additional research I found out that the watch is basically a mirror of the phone (on the notification part), so if I wanted the conversation on the watch, I'll have to enable that in textra too. I have textra set to not show text message on the phone (a privacy setting). Whenever I get a text message on the phone it'll just show xx # of text message I would then press on the notification to see who texted me.
In the end I enabled show message in textra, now I can see the messages on my watch.
Hey guys so im currently using wear messages for texting on my watch and its great, my only problem is i hate viewing my texts on the watch and then going to my phone later and it showing the text i viewed on watch as a new text, is their any way for my phone to not show me text ive already seen on my watch as new text. Email notifications work great is see them on my watch and thats it they don't show up on my phone again as new email
bayniner said:
Hey guys so im currently using wear messages for texting on my watch and its great, my only problem is i hate viewing my texts on the watch and then going to my phone later and it showing the text i viewed on watch as a new text, is their any way for my phone to not show me text ive already seen on my watch as new text. Email notifications work great is see them on my watch and thats it they don't show up on my phone again as new email
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Try using Textra for SMS, works very well.
ikenvape said:
Try using Textra for SMS, works very well.
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I second that .. textra also shows you mms images sent to you
i use chomp sms
coffee is much better wear app for sms imo
@samjoandco brilliant call i now recommend coffee too