How To Turn On Call Forwarding In Gear App

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Gear S2 T-Mobile - "Auto" call forwarding and call forwarding options.

Thread starter Charkatak
Start date Dec 15, 2016

: Aug 11, 2012

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Hi!

I have Gear S2 watch T-Mobile variant and noticed this:

1) On Samsung phones there is "Auto call forwarding" in the Gear Manager app and turns on/off automatically when user is away from the phone and the watch is connected remotely to the phone.

2) On other Android phones regardless of brand there is "Call forwarding" option in the gear manager instead of "Auto" and user needs to manually turn call forwarding on and off. Basically when user is about to leave the phone at home, then he/she needs to activate call forwarding manually and when user is back then phone connects via Bluetooth again. The problem with this is that user will have to turn off call forwarding otherwise watch will ring instead of the phone.

I found this really annoying that I have to remember to turn on or off call forwarding. Imagine that I turned off my watch and completely forgot that call forwarding is on, then callers won't be able to call me and the call will go straight to voice mail.

Is there a way to make Gear Manager do "auto call forwarding" on phones not built by Samsung? Or is the new update for Gear S2 makes it possible?

Hi!
I have Gear S2 watch T-Mobile variant and noticed this:

1) On Samsung phones there is "Auto call forwarding" in the Gear Manager app and turns on/off automatically when user is away from the phone and the watch is connected remotely to the phone.

2) On other Android phones regardless of brand there is "Call forwarding" option in the gear manager instead of "Auto" and user needs to manually turn call forwarding on and off. Basically when user is about to leave the phone at home, then he/she needs to activate call forwarding manually and when user is back then phone connects via Bluetooth again. The problem with this is that user will have to turn off call forwarding otherwise watch will ring instead of the phone.

I found this really annoying that I have to remember to turn on or off call forwarding. Imagine that I turned off my watch and completely forgot that call forwarding is on, then callers won't be able to call me and the call will go straight to voice mail.

Is there a way to make Gear Manager do "auto call forwarding" on phones not built by Samsung? Or is the new update for Gear S2 makes it possible?

I have a Samsung phone, so can't say if we can do this.
But maybe you can use Tasker profiles? When BT Disconnected...{call the app's intent for Call Forwarding}

: Aug 11, 2012

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I have a Samsung phone, so can't say if we can do this.
But maybe you can use Tasker profiles? When BT Disconnected...{call the app's intent for Call Forwarding}

I like the idea...but I have heard of the app, but never used Tasker before. I hope root isn't required for it to work.

I like the idea...but I have heard of the app, but never used Tasker before. I hope root isn't required for it to work.

For most things, root is not required. I'm sure you don't need for BT disconnect profile (I use it for my car).
Only think I'm not sure is if the intent is provided by the Gear app.
And as I said, I have a galaxy. So I wouldn't be able to test it further.

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