Plan
Premium
Country
Tested in Germany and Sweden (as if that would make a difference...)
Device
Samsung Gear Sport (tested), Samsung Gear S3, Samsung Galaxy Watch (there are threads describing these problems for these devices as well, but the search on this help forum is so terrible that I don't feel like doing your work)
Operating System
Tizen 3 and Tizen 4 (problem persits since Dezember 2017, when I got my watch)
My Question or Issue
Im finding the Samsung gear sport app almost unusable. Is anyone having the same issues? So far this is what happens at least once a week and it's usually while I'm running so can't sync with my phone.
- offline music gets deleted
- stops playing to bluetooth earphones but looks like it's still playing.
- controls stop working and get stuck on one song.
- bluetooth headsets play button is not supported
- when the health apps voice takes over to say something like my KM distance it stops playing and does not start again.
- no repeat in offline mode
- music starts playing after phone call
- difficulty logging in (although this is probably just terrible design, as it works for me by using a device password, which I set online on the spotify pages and then logging in with the Spotify option in the app, not with facebook, even though my account is a facebook account...)
Note that the default music apps works just fine with all these things. Note I am not talking about the connection to the phone. I am talking about the premium feature of standalone offline music (which is btw something the watch is advertised with).
Like a year ago I already went through some useless steps, like reinstalling the app on my phone (note that I am still talking about the STANDALONE OFFLINE mode, i.e. the phone has absolutely nothing to do with it).
I am honestly very disappointed by Spotify not updating this app a single time in over 2 years. The support is terrible and I have no hope of this getting fixed.
I can only advice everyone not to buy any Samsung Watch in the hope of using Spotify on it, as the app is a total mess. I dont know if this is Samsung's fault or Spotify's, but since Tizen at least gets updated once in a while, so I believe it's Spotify's.
There are numerous threads in this forum describing some or multiple of these issues:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Samsung-gear-sport-app-full-of-bugs/t...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-playing-on-Galaxy-Watch-after-phone-call-unw...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Cannot-Shuffle-Offline-Music-on-Samsung-Galaxy-Watch/m-p/45...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Samsung-galaxy-watch-issue/m-p/4586751
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Galaxy-Watch-Issue-Spotify-automatica...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-app-on-samsung-gear-sport/idi-p/4350785
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Spotify-Gear-S3-Bugs/m-p/4583462
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Samsung-Galaxy-Watch-Login-Problems/m-p/4562825
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Can-t-login-on-Gear-Sport-Watch-an-endless-journey/m-p/4480...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/offline-not-working-with-Samsung-Gear...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Does-Samsung-Gear-sport-Spotify-have-shuffle/m-p/3855397
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Spotify-Audio-gets-permanently-muted-...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Samsung-Gear-Sport-Tizen-OS-Spotify-app-basically-un...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Samsung-Gear-Sport-Playlists-Offline/...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Samsung-Gear-Sport-Can-t-Play-Music-O...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Gear-Sport-App-Navigation/m-p/4565217
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-stops-playing-on-gear-sport-when-offline-and...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Gear-S3-Shuffle-Save-Repeat-Not-avail...
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Partners-Web-Player-etc/Samsung-Smartwatch-Spotify-App-needs-...
I know there is probably no developer working on this app anymore, so there will not be any change. But I hope to stop some people from making the same mistake as I did and just switch away from Spotify and go for Android Wear, or Apple Music and go for an Apple Watch. Terrible experience overall.
