So far no scratches, but look for ceras he is bringing in the sp at a good price.

If used purely standalone, you can use the phone, sms and web functions. No notifications will be received since there is no paired device to send notifications from.

If paired with a non-samsung phone, you can have some notifications but I'm not sure what works or not.

There's a thread on XDA for this, pinned to page 1 of this thread.

S-health probably, since the pedometer is always on.

Music player also probably usable.

Here Navigator has some kind of bug which I first reported on XDA and many around the world have confirmed that it is also not working without bluetooth on some ROM versions.

LOL welcome.

Please add yourself via the owners' form in post 2.

There is a user ceras in GS bringing this in for a good price. Arrival probably 2 weeks.

I quite like the s-health app overall.

Yeah hope to have respondable notifications at least....coz I suspect that's how it will work.

Could you share how are you streaming from Spotify?

Hi, you need to download the map directly from Here within the Gear S. It's 200Mb+ I can't recall...

Yes, GPS does not seem to work for Here, and this has been reported worldwide. It seems that Here worked for some early firmware version in some European countries, but later updates borked it.

I posted a thread in XDA about this and it is fairly active.


You can receive notifications, but probably can't install other Tizen apps without some manual workaround.

It does, I tried it last night, purposely left the phone at home. When I reached home, it connected via bluetooth automatically.

I think it can be intermittent.

Yes, all connections active. It was on Bluetooth first, the it was remotely connected when I was out. When I reached home, it automatically connected to Bluetooth again.

Hi it won't fully pair without a Samsung phone.

You also can't install any IM apps like Whatsapp, but you can install "Notifications for Gear S" app in Playstore to get the reply functionality from Whatsapp notifications.

See page 1 for links to XDA showing how to pair without a Samsung.

It doesn't need to be a Note4. A Note 3 will also do, or any recent Samsung mid-to-flagship phone.

See page 1 for links to XDA showing how to pair without a Samsung.

See video in page 1.

I do not have the multiple notification problem, since I only allow once.

You need to only allow it once, either in Gear Manager, or Notifications only. The interface in Notifications is horrible, but just disallow those notifications which you have allowed in Gear Manager.

Eg, if you allow Whatsapp in Notifications, then don't allow Whatsapp in Gear Manager.

Hi all, Samsung USA has published a table about email replying functionality on the Gear S.

My interpretation of the table is that it needs an Android 4.4.4 device for full email functionality on the Gear S.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/SupportO...&fm_seq=109944#

Works for Whatsapp to reply. Working good for me so far.

Yes. However you may need to subscribe to the Call Forwarding service of your telco. If you are on Maxis you can get a multim 1 line where you have the same number and can swap between your watch or phone.

Yes, in which case I believe you need to get a Call Forwarding service.

Yes you can use it standalone with a SIM, it is a phone anyway.

However, if you want to leave your main phone at home and just use the watch and receive calls from your phone, then you need Call Forwarding activated.

Since I don't use this feature due to my multisim, I am quite certain you need to subscribe to Call Forwarding service from your telco.

The XDA Gear S thread actually has a long discussion on this, but I didn't follow since they are mainly talking about US telcos, and also I don't use this scenario.

The scenarios are as follow:

1. Connect via Bluetooth
Can make calls and receive from the MAIN phone, IF you set "Auto Connect". Can receive notifications from main phone.

2. Connect via Bluetooth
IF set to Mobile Network Always On, then the watch is a fully separate phone, but you can receive notifications from main phone, and make and receive sms on watch separately.

3. Remotely connected
Same as 2 above


3. Not connected
Watch and phone are separate devices, no notifications from phone.

I believe most people are using scenario 1.

I use 2 and 3 most of the time, sometimes 1.

This post has been edited by joytest: Dec 1 2014, 05:02 PM

If you do not intend to forwards calls from the phone, then I don't think you need to subscribe to call forwarding.

I haven't watched it, but I'm sure some of you may find this useful