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Call/Text Forwarding to Galaxy Watch (from Sprint)
I have the Galaxy watch, and I finally got it activated (T-mobile reps didn't tell me I'd need a T-Mobile phone) by borrowing a friends phone to activate the LTE and phone number. Now with tha...
Gotcha! With DIGITS, this currently is not an available but the feature has already been requested. The only other way to do call forwarding would be what you mentioned a few days ago.
Hey there, @guitarjesus (great name, BTW)! Excellent question! Now, according to DIGITS de T-Mobile | Plan tarifario DIGITS | Mantente conectado en cualquier momento, en cualquier lugar , the Data with Paired DIGITS is the only plan with which the watch is compatible. For billing purposes, the line is assigned a "phone number" but it cannot be used for incoming voice calls.
The required plan utilizes your primary number and acts as a copy. This is how the watch is able to receive incoming calls from your primary number AFTER you have turned on the Multiple Devices option in the My Account app or T-Mobile.com. Not 100% sure if Sprint supports this function (like AT&T's NumberSync) or if so, I don't know if a number can be shared with a non-carrier device without loading a specific site or application (Such as the DIGITS app or web portal). The watch has no such abilty to access the actual portal, the DIGITS compatible funtion is built into the watch's dialer. And furthermore, the Data with Paired DIGITS devices are required to be paired with a T-Mobile line on the same account as the DIGITS line in order for the LTE function to work properly.
I understand you utilized a friend's T-Mobile phone to establish the LTE function which is required to receive the paired number's calls, but now that it's paired with your phone, does it work without being connected to Bluetooth?
I ask because an alternative way of activating the watch's data is to place the user's T-Mobile SIM card into a Galaxy device, complete the setup, then return the SIM to the primary phone. As you have a Sprint phone and SIM, I'm sure the procedure would not work for the reason specified above. Según Tecnología wearable | Apple Watch, Samsung Gear y más | T-Mobile , a T-Mobile wearable can only be paired via Bluetooth with a non-T-Mobile device.
Anywhoozle, sorry about the novel!
For the TL;DR- you can't forward your Sprint calls to your T-Mobile watch. Sorry for the bummer!
(BTW, fellow community members! I don't have access to all of my resources at this very moment, so if I misspoke anywhere, please let me know!)
