Galaxy Watch 5 Facebook Messenger
Stayla Casillas
I bought this ***** called Galaxy Watch 4, because I thought if it has android then my regular apps will work on it. Just to realize that basically a 30 EUR Chinese noname fitness band gives you more than this useless pieces of *****. Because the 30 EUR chinese noname fitness band usually shows your notifications from Facebook messenger, Signal, Instagram, but this sophisticated piece of Samsung technology is apparently incapable of doing that.
Does someone have any idea if there is any way to get your Facebook messenger or Signal notifications on it? Or I will return it and get the 30 EUR Chinese fitness band, because that seems smarter than this thing.
Still I cannot pickup calls from FB Messengers, or Signal. Only Whatsapp calls can be picked up through the watch. If the notification arrives in time, but usually there is a delay of 5-10 minutes. Despite of the fact that my galaxy wearable app is on all the time and ate up 10 percent of the battery of my S21 ultra.
If yours is anything like mine the notifications did not come whilst wearing the watch but when you removed the watch the notifications all arrived.... So now my watch is in the service center either being fixed or replaced...
My Galaxy Watch 4 "Classic" has worked out of the box with FBmessenger. Even the messenger calls. My wife's Galaxy Watch 4 has not worked even after the options were selected. Would it have something to do with mine being the large Classic version?
Hi,
Unfortunatelly I updated my Galaxy Watch to the new Tizen 5.5 SW. Since then the Facebook Messenger messages are now in a bubble with white background and black font color on the watch. This is awful!!!! My eyes are not perfect and I can't read the messages well... Is there any way to change this setting back to the original layout where background is black and font color is white and no any bubbles??
I hate Samsung updates, they always ruins something that was good and worked properly...
Please help!!
I switched back to Samsung to get better compatibility with my Galaxy S10e. But I really don't like this purple theme of messenger. The color is just really ugly. Because of this I think I will use the grey-scale mode, and if I won't like that than I will send this watch back and switch back to Huawei. It may sound like I'm too picky, but this purple really frustrates me so bad I might get rid of the watch because of it.
Hi - I have just got my Galaxy Watch 3, bluetooth version, and I have a setup problem. Although I can get it to notify me of a Messenger message, it tells me to open the message on my phone - it won't let me read the message on the watch. Help! WhatsApp seems to work fine, I can read messages and reply to them. I have set both Facebook and Messenger to send notifications to the watch in the Wearable app on my phone - what else do I need to do?
Having the same issue but in my case I used to be able to reply from my active 2 watch but that ability has vanished with the only option to open on phone. Like yourself, WhatsApp and text messages work fine but FB messenger I now can't even see the message let alone reply any more. Have tried to speak to live help but they're always busy.
I am having the same issue. Hoping for an update that fixes it soon. I haven't tested yet...but maybe shutting off messanger notifications temporarily will help for now. You won't see facebook messages on your phone though. :(
Thanks, you saved me time and frustration trying to find where to turn this off. Messenger is worthless on the watch anyway, wouldn't even use it except for video chatting with my elderly mom's facebook portal.
And yet no amount of clicking on the Open Calling Setup does anything either on my Moto365 Gen 2 or my LG V20. There's no speaker on my Moto360 so setting up calling from my watch is illogical. I just say OK Google call such-and-such and that's all I want to do. Can someone at Verizon please give me the ability to dismiss and disable this constant setup message that doesn't do anything for me?
Hey everyone I have a solution! I know it's a bit of a pain, but it's not too bad, if you'll factory reset your smartwatch and let Verizon Messages install itself on the newly reset watch message notifications are INSTANT!
Man, I'm so excited. Messages is such a terrific app with its ability to use the web to send/receive messages or the desktop app, to have this as the limiting factor was really troublesome. I'm so happy I found a solution. Hopefully that works for everyone else here and that helps Verizon's programmers figure out what was wrong and work to a solution so people don't have to reset their smartwatches in the future.
Ironically, this says "compatible smartwatches" and yet given the Moto360 does NOT have a speaker, it's flat out stupid that it harasses me to setup calling on my watch. Yet another bug or design flaw, among the plethora of them, that Verizon has yet to address (or even comment on).
It's important to get this working the way you'd like it to work, TubaOrNOtTuba. Let's roll up our sleeves to find a solution. I see that the developers recently push a 2nd app update for Verizon Messages on February 4th ( =com.verizon.messaging.vzmsgs&hl=en ) . Has this latest been installed?
If so try resetting the app like this: -base-203565/
Note: These are the steps for a Samsung Galaxy. If these steps do not work for you, then let us know the make and model of your device.
DavidH_VZW
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Next, I have reset the app. The FACT is this app is trying to setup calling on smartwatches. If you'd bothered to test it you'd have seen it yourself, instead you reply with condescending and inaccurate information and then tell me to do something that you know good and well isn't going to fix anything.
Furthermore, I should have the RIGHT to decide if I wanted to make calls from my watch or not and yet you guys think it is your right to tell me what to do with my watch. Had you asked, "Would you like to setup your watch to make calls" and let me choose NO and have it go away that'd be fine, but as it stands now you just harass me about this. That's unacceptable.
Which is TOTALLY unacceptable. Notice how NO Verizon employees have chimed in after their ridiculous and clearly UNTESTED response FOUR days ago? Clearly they have no clue what's going on and I have to seriously wonder if they have any intention of helping.
There's no way to dismiss it. I've uninstalled back to the factory version (again, you cannot remove Message+ from a Verizon Android (non-Pixel) phone) which removes the new version from the watch and yet the second the new version, 6.4.4, is reinstalled this comes back. I reset it to "Deny and don't ask again" and this screen still comes up. Sure looks like Verizon is ignoring permissions anyway. Maybe the app should be reported to Google. Any app that attempts to circumvent Android permissions will be removed from the Play Store. That'd stop the shenanigans with 6.4.x quickly wouldn't it?!
Getting rid of unwanted prompts from your smart watch is a must TubaOrNotTuba. I appreciate all the details and screen shots you have provided in this thread and I have passed this feedback up to our application developers to review. I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.
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That's not entirely true. You can use any SMS app you want, including the manufacturer's app. Whispersystem's Signal is great. Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, and a plethora of other SMS/MMS apps exist. That said, you shouldn't have to do that, Verizon needs to step up and fix their junk rather than continue to push broken, poorly designed, and with a MAJOR privacy vulnerability on customers.
About 2 days ago it completely dis-connected itself from my moto 360 Gen-2 (46mm). By that I mean completely terminated message+ notifications. I tried everything to get it to recognize the watch and could not get it to sync-up.
I cleared all cache from Android Wear, turned off and then on ALL Android Wear notifications, and once again repeated all the above steps with message+.... still no incoming text notifications at all were getting to my watch.
Deactivate and terminate everything having to do with message+ (clear cache, clear data, restrict background data, terminate all permissions, force stop and disable). Its carrier bloatware so unfortunately it can not be completely un-installed without rooting.
Download and install Google messenger. This is the OEM text app that comes with the Google branded phones. So far, going on 1 week its been awesome. Very streamlined, compact, and efficient. PERFECT sync-ing with my moto 360 gen2. Best of all the voice recognized texting function works MUCH better, faster and more accurate than message+.
I had the same problem too. The only solution I found was to check the "Enable Popup" option. While I was excited to see the Heads up Notification option, if you enable that you get no notices on your smartwatch. This is just yet another example of clueless programmers at Verizon's 3rd party contractor (Verizon doesn't actually write this software so they really have no control over it) not having the equipment or wherewithal to actually test what they write.
BTW, be careful using the four letter "R" word here. Despite the bloatware that exactly zero Verizon customers want, the "R" word is definitely a four letter word here. If Verizon doesn't like it perhaps they should fill OUR phones that we PAY FULL PRICE for with their unwanted bloatware. If they actually believed we wanted their junk, like VZNavigator (who's dumb enough to pay for navigation in the day of Google Maps and Waze????), they'd let us uninstall it and those who wanted it would keep it. Eventually, the Samsung's, LG's, HTC's, etc... of the world will stand up to Verizon (and the other carriers) and tell them "We're not installing any more junk on our phones. Take them our way or see if you can make it selling only iPhones." Verizon and the others would back down so fast it'd make everyone's heads spin!
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