I want my gear s2 to notify me when I've reached 1.5 miles as my physical test is 1.5 miles. I can only get it to set increments of 1 miles.
I have similar problem with setting time. It only goes by 10 minutes. I can't do 12 minutes which is usually how long it takes me to run 1.5 miles.
Anyone?
So how do people work around this? I can't imagine I'm the only one
No idea. Maybe ask someone from Samsung store or email them.
I did. They said the watch was unable to do it. However I found a work around
If you set your target to 3 miles, you receive a half way target-achieved vibration.
You would manually have to stop your exercise session
Also, you will receive half-way alerts for calories and time. I made their targets high so I would never reach them.
I also use flaunt to keep my screen alive
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Sorry guys, I need to find a wm6 program that would have a timer for me to start when I arrive at a customer's house with a programable rate (in increments of, let's say, 15 minutes, that I could start from the today screen and when I leave, would calculate an amount based on the time that I stayed. again with programable fields like hour rate, minimum (1 hour), in increments of 10/15 minutes. even cash and check rate... I know, it's kinda picky...but when i arrive at a customers house I would like to start a timer and by the time I leave I just want to look at the phone and tell them: "it's 75 dollars". It would make my life easy... and I did not find anything on the NET about this.
Thanks
JP
Greetings,
I have set my Gear S2 to auto check my pulse every 10 Minutes. But sometimes it doesnt check for my pulse for 2 - 3 hours...
Is it dependent on something like if I move or something? Or is it a bug in the firmware?
Greetings
Robin
I know that if the watch doesn't get a good read on your pulse (too much movement, not sitting on wrist right, etc) it won't record the heart rate. At night while sleeping, I'll get pretty consistent readings for an hour or two, and then there will be like a 6hr gap. And on numerous occasions, I'll feel the watch vibrate slightly with no notifications or anything going off. I assume it's just error ed out on the read, and will try again later (or at the next scheduled interval)
Hi guys,
I'm using the S3 a lot for tracking my running and that's going pretty good. Really good actually. Satellites are locked super fast, in 4 or 5 seconds and tracking is accurate.
Today I tried the cycling activity. Unfortunately it does not track kms. Time and heart rate are logged but no distance.
I tried multiple times, satellite is locked, the program is running, time is ticking.
Does anybody have any experience, do I forget to do something?
Nobody tried cycling mode?
Not intentionally, a couple of times driving the S3 has decided I am cycling and offers encouragement.
If you start it manually I recall it has ALL the distance details, including a summary map. I don't think you get that if it senses a ride and starts automatically.
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Well, I started it as an activity, so manually.
I'll do it again in a bit, see what happens.
With auto detecting it doesn't seem to use the GPS, like running is detected fine but no track logging.
Update : 1 just cycled 200 meters and it tracked 170. First 30 locking the satellites.
So... Why it didn't do anything yesterday, trying a bunch of times, booting in between, beats me. Maybe it's today's health update?
I'm having the same problem, walking tracks distance covered, but Cycling doesn't. Calories and time were tracked, but not distance. Really disappointing.
I use my Gear S3 to track my cycling activity all the time.
I go to the S Health app on the watch, set activity type to cycling then set a "target" based on how far I plan to cycle.
Whilst in the setup part of the watch app there are selectable options for "location" (make sure you are selecting this or it won't track where you are, which may be why you're not getting distance?)
I also select "auto pause" to pause tracking if I stop cycling. I then scroll up to the top and hit Go.
After a 3 second countdown it starts tracking my ride.
If I stop cycling briefly (at red traffic lights etc) the watch automatically pauses tracking. When I start riding again it automatically starts tracking again.
At the end of the ride I simply choose finish on the watch and confirm I wan't to finish.
It then syncs all manner of information with my phones S Health app including:
A map of the ride showing my route
Total distance (which is always with a few metres of my Cateye bike computer)
Total duration (e.g. the total time from starting the watch to hitting finish, including time the watch paused due to me being stationary)
Workout duration (the time I was actually moving)
Average & maximum speed
Average pace & maximum pace
Lowest & highest elevation
Total ascent & decent
Average & maximum heart rate
Workout calories & total calories
Weather
There is also a Selectable option to show the whole ride on a graph broken down by up to 2 options from speed/heart rate/elevation
When I used to rely on the Gear S3 workout detection to pickup my cycling, the information available at the end was very limited.
It works brilliantly when I set it manually before my ride (and only takes a few seconds too)
Do you have your phone with you while you cycle?
As I understand when your watch is connected to phone it uses phone for location.
I had a same problem and after I turned location on phone Off and than back to On problem disappeared.
Not sure if this is your problem but it is worth a try
I'm loving my new gear sport especially with the look, speed of operation and battery life for a full colour display due thanks to Tizen ecosystem. I have been looking for ages for some way to have an alarm when my heart rate goes over say 150bpm. I would like it to be persistent until my heart rate drops below that level again. I did find an app called heartby which does pretty much just what I want except for when the screen times out and it no longer sends me alarms. I have tried to contact the developer, but haven't had a reply yet. I understand that the watch isn't meant to be relied on for any medical condition and don't have a heart condition but this would really help me out. Does anybody know of an app which I could use or a system setting that might achieve this. At the moment I use the other workout option in samsung health. I Just changed my age to an age which will give me the maximum heart rate I want as the zones can't be manually set up but it isn't persistent.
After a long period of time, researching all over the internet & talking to Samsung, I now finally have an app that gives me a warning when my heart rate goes over a set amount. I can program the notification value, vibration intensity & amount of vibrations using the gear watch without having to be connected to anything else.
"Heart Rate Graphic" by Igor Cherneyshov is well worth installing on your gear watch. It's even free. If you want heart rate notification, install this app. Been looking since December for this basic feature.
Thx for your answer Fipoly, i am looking for an app measuring low or irregular heart rate, alarming - messaging/calling contacts/assistance....
I use the SOS feature where you press the bottum button x3 with a 5sec countdown. Don't think you'll find an automatic way of doing it. You can user Monitor by appyhapps for low HR but nothing for irregular as the watch isn't accurate enough.
I'm finding HR graphics is chewing up my battery since the tizen 4.0.0.2 update. Hoping for a fix soon.
I need a vibration warning when my heart rate goes over a specified rate. Can you let me know if you find something.
I just found this app and going to try it out. Unfortunately it costs around $1 but don't mind paying for an app that does what we want. I will update this after I've tried it for a while.
HR monitor plus
By Roger van Hout
Unfortunately the app only works while the screen is on with it displayed. It stops monitoring HR when screen is off or app is in background.
Have contacted designers, but no one has emailed me back at this stage
After time, somehow the heart rate graphic app is now working better on my watch. There was no update of the watch or the app but somehow is gone back to the battery usage I used to get. It's a stand alone app on the watch so should and does use less power than others I've tried. I love the customisable amount of vibrations that you get as you know without doubt that your heart rate is too high and will repeat until your heart rate is back to an acceptable value. The only downfall is it doesn't have a minimum heart rate warning but the more I think about it, I realise that I don't really need it myself.
I was able to get a full day out of the watch with the heart rate graphic running. Still don't know why I only got a few hours with the same phone settings and apps running before, so hopefully the problem doesn't come back.
I only bought the watch originally to get a warning when I went tachycardic without having a non watch looking monitor on my wrist or having to wear a chest strap, so was so frustrated until I found heart rate graphic.
A few days ago when I was doing absolutely nothing all day, I got about 12 minutes somehow on the 30 minute "moderate to high intensity" fitness ring but i've no idea how as every day otherwise, including today, it stays at 0.
I just went for a 45 minute run, keeping my heart rate in the aerobic and anaerobic zones - on the Huawei Health app on the phone (which oddly displays a slightly different number of steps) the ring is completed and says 41 minutes. On my watch.... still 0.
The app is connected to the watch, which is listed under "Me -> My Devices"
Any idea what's going on?
Restarted the watch, no difference.
Did a "clear data" on the app on the watch. Now the green ring works but the blue one (steps) doesn't (it stopped at 292 for some reason) - meanwhile on the phone, which has clearly synced with the watch as it has my exercise record from my 5 mile walk, it says I've done 10000 steps but 0 minutes.
Guess I'll just ignore the rings then if they're buggy, which is a shame as they're a nice feature. Alternatively might look into selling this thing and going for a Galaxy watch.