u/tomaesop

> I used to think we had no hope against the alien overlords controlling the government.. until I saw Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. We have a chance; the lizard people have nepotism, too.

It's too wordy, I know, but I think there is an original take in there if I can pare it down.

This post went up a few days ago and then the account got nuked. It was probably an AI post since it was long and lacked personality and methodically formatted. But there was a lot of stuff in there I didn't know about, even after manually sifting through Setlist FM and Jane's dot org. Can we try to re-create such a list? The big ones I remember were a half dozen performances with Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell tribute (I Am the Highway), the Doors concert in 2000 where he did "L.A. Woman" with Ray, Robbie, and Densmore, plus a Pearl Jam Lollapalooza show, and the Hollywood Undead premiere.

We are parents in the USA on AT&T. We have been using Galaxy Watches LTE with their own dedicated phone number as safety and social devices for our kids. I repeat, the watches have their own number, full lTE connection, and can make and receive calls when the phone is turned off/disconnected. (They are allowed to have watches at school but not phones.)

It's never been great, honestly. Sometimes they would drop messages. Often they'd fail to send. But still, they could usually message us parents or their friends in a pretty safe way for their age range.

Now that Samsung Messaging is gone, though, the Google Messaging endlessly requires the watch to "Switch Inbox" to the main phone's inbox. This is absolutely not what we want.

It's ridiculous since Apple watches have a dedicated family mode that performs this exact standalone-kids-watch function fairly well from what I hear. Though the telecom companies don't love it, they still get an additional monthly fee from parents like us for each add-on smartwatch line, and our initial sales rep told us that it's very common and though not explicitly supported, it is something we can do. Up until now, as long as you activated the watch then reset it and retained the activation you could always get the watch back to a place where it would function as a standalone device.

Text messaging is the essential feature of this device for our family and I'm sure we are not alone. Are there really no parents at Google who use watches in this fashion?

Does anyone know a workaround? I considered installing a third party watch app that might manage SMS like Whatsapp or LINE, but I suspect they don't work the way I want to since they also require the parent phone have the matching app.

Does anyone know any other fixes? I've tried applying updates. I've tried resetting the watch from scratch again. We've tried all the typical annoyance management strategies like turning off wifi and bluetooth, turning off the parent phone, etc. Nothing helps.

Brand Samsung Model Number SM-R915 Google Messaging updated to latest version as of today, May 5, 2026