Galaxy Watch LTE duplicate messages

@magenta6238774​, no, I do not believe so. DIGITS should be disabled and remote connection enabled to prevent the duplicate texts. Can you confirm if this is how your watch is set up and how it functions with the setup?

@dupsla  - I'm happy to hear that the phone number issue seems to be fixed!

Hello. I tried both routes from the thread.

With DIGITS for the watch disabled and bluetooth / wireless connection

on, things work well. However, then the watch won't connect to the phone

number on LTE.

With DIGITS enabled for the watch and bluetooth / wireless connection

off, the phone and watch get copies of all messages somewhat

simultaneously. Sort of works, but as other noted, involves heavy

battery drain.

It isn't really a good solution to have to log in to enable / disable

DIGITS each time the watch is to be used separate from the phone. It

also takes time for enable / disable to take effect; a few minutes but

the point is to be able to go use the watch (for a run, for example)

without the phone. Inconvenient to have to wait some time before heading

out.

So, no good solution.

@dupsla​, YAY! Good news! 😊 I'm happy to read that everything is looking up with your watch! Thank you for the update.

Thank you for that detailed info, @magenta6238774​! Let me send that to my Samsung team to see what other suggestions they have. I may say this a million times in this thread but I truly do appreciate you taking the time to try each different configuration then getting back to me with the outcome.

Oh nooooo!! Let me update the people I'm working with and let them know that the steps I provided didn't work.

Has there been any update to this?  My watch is still doing this and it essentially makes the LTE function useless as anytime i disconnect from bluetooth the next 20 minutes are spent receiving old texts.. i took my dog for a walk and the entire time we were out my watch was vibrating..  I dont want to have to turn off notifications b/c that defeats the purpose.

T mobile ended up warranty replacing my watch. I just recieved the new one yesterday. They called in the Samsung rep to help set it up. So far so good. He has me testing the battery with the new settings. LTE is always on and it does work but the battery drain on the first one was with in 3 hours dead. So I am testing this one. Another problem I was having was a couple people in my contacts, their number was coming thru as the digits number. That happened a couple times last night but has corrected itself as of now. Anyways I can go over the settings if you like for the message problem how he set it up, but keep in mind I do not know how the battery life will be. I'm hoping for at least 14 hours. Also this one updated the software this morning with the newest version.

Under connections:

Bluetooth on

Mobile networks always on

Mobile data on

Wifi auto

Wifi networks connected using networks

I disabled the report diagnostic also.

On the phone in the app under watch connection all 3 of the settings are enabled, remote connection, connection notification and wifi sync.

Restart after all settings are changed.

I'm going to watch it a few days/week to see if the battery lasts. It was at 100% at 9am and it's at 62% now at 3:30. It did update so I'll give it a few days to settle in with new watch syndrome.  

I hope this helps and I'm hoping it's not a battery killer!

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I honestly don't think it's on the digits side. I think its something in the software.  Yesterday was the first day with the replaced watch and the new settings. I got 14.5 hours and it had 15% when I went to bed. Today I'm hitting about 5% per hour so far. So far everything is working correctly. I checked the battery usage and it is showing watch faces using the most (15%) which I'm using a stock dark face. Also notifications at 11%. I'm going to keep an eye over it the next week and see if it improves. I figured the first day or so would be a little less because of updates. Also the advertised battery life being on the longer side was for the BT version and size 42mm vs 46mm. Even the best of the best of smart watches have a 2 day battery life. If I get that or close I'll be happy!

Hi dupsla, many thanks for sharing your watch settings! Since re-toggling the settings, I'm getting better battery life as well; after 12 hours I was at 25%.

To T-Mobile tech:

I'm not sure where DIGITS ends and software begins, but I think it has to do something with the intersection of these, and it does relate to battery life.

It looks to me that if the watch is not communicating through LTE and using the DIGITS framework, incoming messages are just stored until such a connection is made. This would happen when disconnecting from a BT-linked watch with LTE on AUTO (LTE off if BT is on). This behavior makes sense for a phone as most of the time it would be connected to a mobile network / LTE. For the current watches, however, the problem is that having LTE on shortens battery life from the two or more days (which we get with for BT modes) to less than a day. It would be a great thing to be able to keep LTE off when there are other connections to the phone available, but then the messages get stored for later delivery when there is a mobile / LTE reconnect. I get the same behavior when I start DIGITS on my iPad, all the messages that piled up since the last time there was a connection now come through.

So, better synchronization of messages across devices through DIGITS would potentially solve this, whether it is in the watch software or DIGITS infrastructure. My Apple-centric colleagues tell me duplicate messages aren't an issue in that system, so iMessage evidently sorted this out. I hope I am just missing a setting somewhere, and look forward to a solution.

Still having this problem ! Happening on my watch as well as my wifes. Once disconnected from bluetooth and transfered to the mobile network, we are getting 80+ text that we have already received. Tmobile tonight said the update released on Oct. 19th should have fixed the issue but it did not.

I'm definitely still working on this and I apologize for the silence. My contact that I've been working with to report the issues and get this fixed is out of the office until next Tuesday. I'm hoping I have answers soon because again, I can't imagine how much of a pain this is for each of you.

Hey Everyone! I should hear something back tomorrow and will update you right away.