Silly Question

[TechnoSteve]

I have a Z fold 6, S10 Ultra Tablet, Watch Ultra, buds pro 3 and Samsung ring

Right, so on my phone I can see the battery strength of all my devices, apart from my S10 Ultra 🤷🏽

When my phone rings, my watch and S10 Ultra ring at the same time

My watch syncs with my phone's do not disturb, but my S10 Ultra does not, and I have looked through every setting to see if I could get it working

My buds pro 3 works with my S10 Ultra and ZF6 phone, without having to constantly pair between them

Now, why can't all my Samsung devices sync with each other, considering they all share some things with each other. If I set my watch to DND, it should sync on all my devices because they are all signed into the same Samsung account, I don't think I should have to keep setting alarms or DND manually, the S10 is really just (kinda) an extremely large S24/25 Ultra with a few tweaks 🫣, I haven't even tried the clipboard with copy and paste yet, I know it used to work fine with my Microsoft surface pro.

If any anyone knows how to work this sync problem out, please let me know

Thanks in advance😎🙏🏾🫶🏾

[arianwen27]

With syncing I think the idea is you have a phone then accessories that link to that phone. Owning 2 phones you actively use together is quite rare so in the case someone does do that, they usually want them to act separate. Yes having the option to sync them would be nice but I think it's just really niche so samsung didn't make it a feature.

Assuming you have "continue on other devices" enabled as well as "multi control" and "call and text on other devices". Those would be your multi device stuff. There's some more in the connected devices menu but I'd say those are the important ones that might make 2 phones work

[TechnoSteve]

I think I should of put S10 Ultra Tab sorry it's not 2 phones, its a tablet and phone . I'm gonna edit the the post

[arianwen27]

OH, yeah thats my bad dw. I was thinking of the s10 as in, the phone before the s20. Not used to seeing tablet names.

The second part of what I said should still apply, those sync options are the best you have right now. Surprised tablets don't sync like the watches do as they probably should.

[arianwen27]

A little research shows people asking for this a year ago and even in 2022. Guess it just never became a thing

[smiley]

My guess is that some devices are classed as 'master' and others as 'slave'. Very common in the engineering world and with data... software traffic...handshaking... etc.

So your phone is a master device. It can sync with many slaves... I.e. buds...watch... ring... etc. Your s10 tablet is also a master... it can do exactly the same.

Some things with the buds and the 'seamless' buds connection mean that a slave device can be passed from one to other with this method, and save having to pair individually to each device. Multi device Bluetooth has been possible with some headphones for a while now.

I could be wrong but I believe the watch can only be paired to one or the other device... It doesn't have the ability to pair to both simultaneously. However, it is possible that you can sync the health data fron watch to device and then between the two devices in the cloud sync of samsung health.

However it is not possible to pair two 'master devices' together. So to pair the phone and the tablet is not possible by a connection. Evidence with smartswitch might say otherwise, but for permanent connectivity I believe it isnt possible.

Ways around this is with the cloud saving of your photos, notes, and able to share and sync data between them clouds... but actually pairing the hardware together on the two master devices is not strictly possible.

Just to say that I am making an engineering judgement with this. I don't know for certain. But this is the best explanation i can think of. Hope it makes sense.

Smiley.

[GoanGeek]

I am presuming your Tablet appears on smarthings and smart things find on your phone.

[TechnoSteve]

That long ago 😩 it's just getting their gear working together

[TechnoSteve]

Sorry my bad too, should of made it clearer

[TechnoSteve]

Yes it does