Does Gear work with Nova? - Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I was at thinking of purchasing a Gear watch to go with my Note 3. I am stock unrooted but use Nova Prime. This means I cannot use the Samsung Accuweather widget on my phone. I noticed the Gear gets its weather info from Accuweather. Will the Gear still get weather info when my phone is not running the Accuweather widget from the stock launcher?
Maybe someone could try it? Best Buy guy had no idea.
Thanks!
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Nobody tried this yet?
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I don't have a gear, but widgets are just front-ends for data, they don't provide the information themselves. The gear wouldn't ask a widget for this info. It should work regardless of launcher.

I am using gear with go launcher on the phone. The weather works fine on the gear because it updates itself from the weather info on the lock screen
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My lock screen has a pin.no weather.
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Shouldn't matter, the gear will get weather from an underlying service.
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Just like the Spen services, the Gear services have nothing to do with Touchwiz.

recDNA said:
I was at thinking of purchasing a Gear watch to go with my Note 3. I am stock unrooted but use Nova Prime. This means I cannot use the Samsung Accuweather widget on my phone. I noticed the Gear gets its weather info from Accuweather. Will the Gear still get weather info when my phone is not running the Accuweather widget from the stock launcher?
Maybe someone could try it? Best Buy guy had no idea.
Thanks! widget
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hi, yes it will work ( and yes you can use a Accuweather widget ,see my screenshots ) ..! Been using it for about two weeks now no problems.
First of all,i have also Nova prime with the Gear( stock, unrooted ) and can see my weather updates on Gear,no problems.!
what i did was place the relevant stock (Accuweather ) widget on my Note 3 screen ,
now when i update weather ( i enable location, every time i update, manually,my personal choice , otherwise extra battery drain etc etc )
Open /tap widget on your Note 3 screen and then ,bottom right corner (small circle, is update icon )
Either i am connected to gear via bluetooth,so it will update straight away or whenever its connected.Works 100 %
look at my screenshots !!
good luck

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I managed to overwrite the stock weather widget from the Samsung Apps with a different style but i'd like to go back to the original weather widget. Any ideas if this is possible?
mwatson said:
I managed to overwrite the stock weather widget from the Samsung Apps with a different style but i'd like to go back to the original weather widget. Any ideas if this is possible?
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if you go to settings-applications-manage applications and choose the widget from there you may see an option which says ''Uninstall updates''
this is how it works in SGS but I am not sure about sgs2. it should work the same. just give it a try...
What warfanax said. I also updated, but the 'new' weather clock was broken - no locations were recognised. I uninstalled and got my old widget back (which is much better because it can be resized).
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Does any one have the Galaxy S3 or S4 clock apk that can be installed on Galaxy Note 3 in order to get the 'briefing alarm'?
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i also tried to restore the alarms, but when i want to edit them, they FC the clock app.
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Umpfi81 said:
i took the clock app from my SGS3, but the briefing option is still missing.
i also tried to restore the alarms, but when i want to edit them, they FC the clock app.
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How do you add a settings widget shortcut?

How do you add a settings shortcut for battery and wifi manager on the home screen? I've been scouring through the widgets and nothing seems to appear, normally with all other phones a "settings" widget is available and you get to choose which settings you want a link to.
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kingofthebraves said:
How do you add a settings shortcut for battery and wifi manager on the home screen? I've been scouring through the widgets and nothing seems to appear, normally with all other phones a "settings" widget is available and you get to choose which settings you want a link to.
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i was using the galaxy note ii for a while and loved settings widget/shortcut. i moved on to the galaxy note 3 on a different carrier. i also have sm-n9005. both note 3s do not have the settings widget. it is frustrating. what i recommend is installing action launcher by chris lacy. it will add 2 widgets to the widget launcher/menu. choose the activities widget. the list of apps and settings that populates is more extensive than the note ii's version. there you can add bluetooth, data usage, wifi, and tethering one by one. after creating all the shortcuts i needed, uninstalled action launcher. remember to keep touchwiz as your default launcher in the beginning of the process.
(on a side note, action launcher is great. i even purchased the pro key. however, i just don't like the way apps look in folders. in addition, 1x1 widgets do not align properly with regular app icons sometimes. as for 4 row widgets, it automatically adds margins/padding so they look more align with other same sized widgets. some 4 row widgets on touchwiz go edge to edge which is annoying. in regards to the s pen features, air command did not pop up on action. honorable mention, shutters is a great action feature. last mention, i don't use action on the note 3.)

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Quick question, on my s6 even with nova prime I had the ability to use the Samsung weather widget.
I'm actually quite happy with how stock touchwiz is but randomly i thought lemme install nova, and go to find the weather widget is no longer available. Has anyone got it to work? Or is the only other choice is to use a different app?
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Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.
FAUguy said:
Do, I can't use the Samsung Weather Widget when running Nova Launcher on S7. I use Beautiful Widgets and select their time and weather widget.
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Might give that a go as I bought the pro version almost 7 years ago lol
Download Xwidget from the play Store
andres2428 said:
Download Xwidget from the play Store
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Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?
jlv3 said:
Xwidget appears to be a different weather widget. How does it solve the OPs problem?
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It looks almost the same, he can choose the weather app of samsung to opens with the widget
Thank you for a the suggestion guys, just read on a reddit that Samsung is blocking 3rd party apps. I've been messing with beautiful widgets and for now I'm happy with it.

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