Who knows, they might find this thread and act
To kick it off:
1) Heart rate sensor is more miss than hit. I see a lot of 'clean the sensor and move it backward' messages. Nonsense of course, it should just work.
2) Floor count is totally 1000% off. Today I climbed well over 20 stairs (3-4 meter stairs) and the S3 indicates a glorious total of 3. Yes THREE Samsung, 3.
3) Altitude meter tells me I live 16 meters below sea level. I live in Amsterdam which is 3 meters below (really). But it gets better. During my yesterday's run it registered an elevation of -112 meter.
4) Messages from the phone do not always arrive on the S3. Maybe aliens interfere but that's unlikely so Samsung, please fix this. nr 1 missed is GMail, then Whatsapp.
5) This is not a bug but I would really like to see an option to permanently disable this watch as a Bluetooth device to take phone calls. I have my car for that, or my phone. Not the stupid watch.
OK, over to you guys, bring it on!
For your point 5, I think you can do this in the bluetooth settings for the watch on the phone - just turn off 'call audio'. NB: I have not tried this...
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For your point 5, I think you can do this in the bluetooth settings for the watch on the phone - just turn off 'call audio'. NB: I have not tried this...
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If it worked... But it keeps switching back on, also after a soft and full reset.
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If it worked... But it keeps switching back on, also after a soft and full reset.
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I was able to get it to stick permanently by repairing my car bluetooth and setting it to Phone Calls while having the watch disabled.
I'll try it again tomorrow, who knows!
Spotify
Advertising Spotify compatibility when as of right now, there is not.
Wrist gestures like in Android Wear
I always thought that you had to calibrate the altimeter at sea level???
Regarding #4: are you using AOD? If not, try using AOD and see if your notifications are more consistent.
PLS give me options for Google maps directions. I need nothing more than the direction arrows on the watch. No map needed. Anyway screen is too small for that. Just xxx meter +arrow
But I am super happy with the rest (off topic)
edit. I have found possible solution for the nav arrows Directions gears s2, which works with google maps.
Both on Phone and on gear an app is needed.
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I always thought that you had to calibrate the altimeter at sea level???
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Tried both ways, Calibrate known height and altimeter.
Googling this there are loads of S2 complaints regarding this, I guess this is not much improved.
most people complaining about altimeter don't know how a barometer works
also the best altimeter based on atmosferic pressure must be calibrated every time is possible to give good results
when the weather change a variation in pressure can be of 3-5 Hpa in 30 minutes and on altimeter more than 50m
weather change is a storm but also a fairy wind
when s3 measure a floor it register a .3 Hpa variation that must be in 5 to 20 sec
also a slap on the watch can be seen as a floor and the immersion in 50 cm of water can be 10 floors and also a shower and a storm
after a shower o a swimming pool the barometer is out of order for hours
samsung is most of times a good tech but can't do miracles
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I always thought that you had to calibrate the altimeter at sea level???
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It is a good thing to do. However it's based on barometric pressure so really doesn't matter that much. The key is to do it near something you know has a known elevation that way you know if it's correct. Like a sign in a national park or something that tells you, "you are at such and such El. ..."
BTW, a lot of you take things too seriously on this device. It's a watch, as long as the time is accurate all else are fun gimmicky gadgets for your wrist. If serious accuracy of data is important to you, buy the right tool for the job. It's like owning a repair business and trying to run it using a Leatherman tool.
Well, I live in Amsterdam, pressure has been 1027 hpa all day, we're at 3m below sea-level but the watch is all over the place and I've calibrated it like 209 times. Hasn't been wet, smacked, dropped. It's a watch with a barometer that's not too good.
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1. hair, tattoo, excessive sweat, a large band can and will interfere with HR
2. floors / stairs / floors / stairs / verdieping / trap (used GT for dutch) -- or maybe you're trying to tell something else because 20 stairs are relatively close to 3 floors
3. atmospheric pressure is pretty unstable even at known sea levels and when is taken into account for altitude can be messy
4. I don't know, it never happened to me but it could be an issue I suppose
5. connections, disconnect BT
20 floors, some 60.meters.
When wanting to look at widgets from the clock face the bezel it turned clockwise - but the display animation rotates anti clockwise
The opposite is true to see notifications.
This just seems wrong to me and I often turn the bezel the wrong way.
I cant see Samsung changing the default behavior and I am starting to get used to it but an option to make it work 'correctly for my head' would be nice.
Hey guys, I did a full test of the gear s3 heart rate against my chest strap and Apple Watch 2 Nike. I did indoor running and indoor biking for three days. My findings are that it's almost perfect, with 2 or 3 bpms difference with my chest strap. This difference is not always, some most of the time gear s3 was matching my chest strap. The Apple Watch was good too.
Method: chest strap + wahoo iPhone app. Gear s3 below my wrist ( this is key, when you find the sweet spot, it's super accurate) + s-health on iPhone. Apple Watch + workouts app.
Let me know your findings!
Is the step count accurate and for everyone. For me I think it counts too many...,
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Is the step count accurate and for everyone. For me I think it counts too many...,
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It does.
It should only count arm movements combined with forward motion but it also incidentally counts just arm movements. Plus, this morning, it showed 54 steps when I picked it up from the drawer. Obviously it should have been zero.
Than again, on a full day it's pretty good, about the same as my Pebble Time Steel (which I compared it with over the weekend).
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Ive had the Gear 2 for 6 days. I bought it last thursday, put it on and paired it in the parking lot and then went to the gym. While riding the recumbent bike I noticed the heart rate monitor was accurate and matched up with the bike's up until around 125 bpm and then it would either give me the "cannot measure" error or would give back a really inaccurate reading... like 71 bpm when it should have been around 148-150. This has been the case every time i go to the gym, no matter how i wear the Gear 2, on the top side of my wrist or the bottom side. I actually live chatted with a Samsung Customer service rep and he told me to do a factory reset to see if that would help. I haven't gone to the gym to see if this helped.
Is this a known issue? I also shaved the hair off my wrist and am now wearing it a bit further up on my arm to test it again today when i go to the gym.
Also another question i had is when you turn the volume all the way up (level 6) when using the gear 2 as a speaker phone is it normal for the speaker to buzz slightly when a person is talking to you?
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Ive had the Gear 2 for 6 days. I bought it last thursday, put it on and paired it in the parking lot and then went to the gym. While riding the recumbent bike I noticed the heart rate monitor was accurate and matched up with the bike's up until around 125 bpm and then it would either give me the "cannot measure" error or would give back a really inaccurate reading... like 71 bpm when it should have been around 148-150. This has been the case every time i go to the gym, no matter how i wear the Gear 2, on the top side of my wrist or the bottom side. I actually live chatted with a Samsung Customer service rep and he told me to do a factory reset to see if that would help. I haven't gone to the gym to see if this helped.
Is this a known issue? I also shaved the hair off my wrist and am now wearing it a bit further up on my arm to test it again today when i go to the gym.
Also another question i had is when you turn the volume all the way up (level 6) when using the gear 2 as a speaker phone is it normal for the speaker to buzz slightly when a person is talking to you?
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I have this issue for only a few minutes in an hour workout... but then it will go back to normal. I compared it to a strap heart rate monitor and it would stay +1-5 versus the strap. Otherwise it even gets up to 170 when I go hard. I usually start with it higher on my arm because my bone sticks out sometimes it doesn't get a good connection, but it usually falls and still tells accurately. Otherwise I would say it is accurate a majority of the time.
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I have this issue for only a few minutes in an hour workout... but then it will go back to normal. I compared it to a strap heart rate monitor and it would stay +1-5 versus the strap. Otherwise it even gets up to 170 when I go hard. I usually start with it higher on my arm because my bone sticks out sometimes it doesn't get a good connection, but it usually falls and still tells accurately. Otherwise I would say it is accurate a majority of the time.
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Yeah it must be how close I wear it to that bone. I actually took my first one back thinking there was something wrong with it... The problem is i have a big wrist... I think I will replace the band. Thanks for the reply!
Does this watch support continuous heart rate monitoring during exercise or throughout the day? I have seen conflicting information regarding this feature, some saying that it works in S-Health and Nike+ and others saying you have to manually check each time you want a reading.
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Does this watch support continuous heart rate monitoring during exercise or throughout the day? I have seen conflicting information regarding this feature, some saying that it works in S-Health and Nike+ and others saying you have to manually check each time you want a reading.
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Looking for a response on this too. Went to the gym tonight and tried it out, found out I have to press the heart rate monitor to give it a test every time I wanted an update. Was hoping I could just look at the watch to know my current heart rate every time I wanted the info during cardio.
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Looking for a response on this too. Went to the gym tonight and tried it out, found out I have to press the heart rate monitor to give it a test every time I wanted an update. Was hoping I could just look at the watch to know my current heart rate every time I wanted the info during cardio.
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Were you using any of the apps (S Health, Nike +)? I saw this thread about the older "s" watch that says they can do it. http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-gear-s/459764-continuous-heart-rate-monitoring.html
In S Health on Gear S, start an exercise and you will have the continuous heart rate displayed on screen. It records all the history and has nice chart for it all on the watch itself. If you have a compatible phone (Samsung's 2014 models), you can use S Health app on the phone to show the results as well. Older Samsung phones don't work though without hacking through hell to port the apps that currently are only available on new phones so far.
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I knew I couldn't be the only person with this question. You can see my question and answer to this person's review. At about 10 minutes in his YouTube video he shows some things that the watch does, that I could not get it to do. And he answers the question if it provides live continuous heart rate monitoring while you work out, and the answer is yes. I couldn't get it to do it. But I will try again later today.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXC8Npgedo
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Yes
Yes it has continuous heart rate monitoring. And there is an option to turn it off. I have it off during normal use. However, it always activates when I'm working out. It works pretty well I'm my opinion
Yes, go to shealth app on watch. Go to record exercise screen. Pick any icon does not matter just use hiking for you work out. Then set a time. It start recording continuous heart rate plus other stats. Then saves them to your shealth account for reference.
Confirmed.
first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx
drewmc2007 said:
first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx
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Could've been the sweating or maybe you had the watch too loose.
From my experience, the Heart Rate readings are pretty accurate and fairly consistent with my other devices.
TyrantCAT said:
Could've been the sweating or maybe you had the watch too loose.
From my experience, the Heart Rate readings are pretty accurate and fairly consistent with my other devices.
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also make sure that the watch is not sitting on your wrist bone (if there is such a thing) something you have to move the watch off of your bone.
drewmc2007 said:
first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx
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I had a similar experience. I was wearing the S2 and a Polar chest strap at the same time. At times they were very close and at times they were VERY far apart. I believe this issue could be the sampling rate of the S2 and that it is not picking up on changes as fast as the chest strap. Does anyone know the frequency of readings in "continuous" mode and how to make it more often?
Does anyone know if it's possible to remotely monitor someones heart rate? For example, a lot of people are dying from heroin overdose these days, So I was wondering, if the user was cool with it, I could see his heart rate somehow from his watch while sleeping? Not in the same house.
I am using the Wear GPS app to find if I have a GPS lock. Strange, sometimes when wearing the watch, I couldn't get a lock at all, waited more than 30 mins. It was almost like the watch GPS was broken.
I am still researching the problem, but this is what helped me to get a lock in less than 1 minute:
Method#1. Take the watch off and hold it by the clasp,
Method#2. Flip the watch up-side-down a few times (to calibrate the compass),
Method#3. Open the Hiking watch face.
What is your experience?
Thanks,
S.
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I am using the Wear GPS app to find if I have a GPS lock. Strange, sometimes when wearing the watch, I couldn't get a lock at all, waited more than 30 mins. It was almost like the watch GPS was broken.
I am still researching the problem, but this is what helped me to get a lock in less than 1 minute:
Method#1. Take the watch off and hold it by the clasp,
Method#2. Flip the watch up-side-down a few times (to calibrate the compass),
Method#3. Open the Hiking watch face.
What is your experience?
Thanks,
S.
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I'll try this next time I have an issue, thanks for yet another tip! Today, Wear GPS could not lock into any satellites at all. I saw one after a while, but Ghostracer recorded 0 miles run. I was starting to wonder if I broke the GPS because I have to tighten the watchband all the way to the second hole, but later, I tried again and it locked to a bunch of satellites.
Is the GPS module inside the watchband, do you know?
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Is the GPS module inside the watchband, do you know?
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I don't know where parts are, but taking the watch off and holding it by the clasp gives me immediate lock with or without Wear GPS.
Smatofu, how do you come with this stuff?!? So, I waited forever for a signal today, then remebered to shake it, and voilá, I had a bazillion signals!
Will try out the holding by the clasp thing next time. Thanks for your solutions!
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Smatofu, how do you come with this stuff?!? So, I waited forever for a signal today, then remebered to shake it, and voilá, I had a bazillion signals!
Will try out the holding by the clasp thing next time. Thanks for your solutions!
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Shaking/flipping came from the LG Hiking watch face. You have to flip the watch a few times to calibrate the compass. I noticed that calibrating the compass helps in GPS lock.
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Same problem here,
I've installed wear GPS app to see satellite view and signal quality on watch.
With the watch out of the wrist, got lock after few seconds with very good accuracy (4m).
If I put it back on the wrist, the signal quality goes down and accuracy goes very bad. I've the same results if I put two or three fingers in the back of the watch when out of the wrist. Seems that body affects to signal reception.
I don't know if is a core production problem of the watch or is an individual problem of my watch.
Anyone has good gps working? I'll replace it with new one, but maybe is a watch design problem.
Br.
jambolero said:
Same problem here,
I've installed wear GPS app to see satellite view and signal quality on watch.
With the watch out of the wrist, got lock after few seconds with very good accuracy (4m).
If I put it back on the wrist, the signal quality goes down and accuracy goes very bad. I've the same results if I put two or three fingers in the back of the watch when out of the wrist. Seems that body affects to signal reception.
I don't know if is a core production problem of the watch or is an individual problem of my watch.
Anyone has good gps working? I'll replace it with new one, but maybe is a watch design problem.
Br.
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I've had my watch for about 13 months. I had similar issues except mine seemed to be sweat related, similar to issues some have had with the Sony SW3. I would get a lock and start a run but the signal would sometimes lag after a mile or so causing an erratic recording on ghostracer. I started wearing a 2" wristband under my watch during runs starting last summer and GPS has been perfect since then (about 70 runs ranging 3 to 10 miles each).
I'm always paired to my phone through cell data and I think that has helped also.
I've had my Gear for about 10 days and have piled up over 12000 steps each day, but have only been credited with 1 floor climbed. My house has 3 stories so I'm pretty sure that total should be closer to 100. Anyone else having this issue?
Don't hold onto any railings and make sure your arm swings as if you are walking.
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Don't hold onto any railings and make sure your arm swings as if you are walking.
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LOL, all I could thing of was Seinfeld when I read your response. "How's this? Or this?" "You seem to be getting the hang of it." Seriously, though, I deliberately hold the rail with the opposite hand when climbing stairs so that I can swing the one with the Gear on it. Still nothing. Not sure what's up. Any other ideas?
I walk up and down to the sixth floor at work a couple of times a day and typically that adds up to 2 or 3 floor. I have a 3 story house, same thing. The floor counter sucks...
Thanks. Definitely sounds like it's not just me. Maybe a firmware update will fix it.
Well, at least now I know it's not just me having this issue
same problem never counts my stair climbs
If it is basing floors on the altimeter, that might explain the problem. The altimeter on this thing is trash. It's rarely within 100 feet of my actual elevation, even after a calibration. Doubt that can be fixed, but I'll keep my fingers crossed.
Thinks I'm riding a bike when I get in the car sometimes. Also the pace in S Health is way off. Not the best fitness tracker around but we don't have any other options.
Though not accurate; mine is working fine. I remember reading something like 'one floor is calculated as approximately 3 metres'.
Can someone confirm this?
Floor count
I've done at least 10 floors today and the Gear shows 1. It was OK yesterday. Any ideas?
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A reboot got it counting floors accurately again
Same problem. Altimeter has me at -6M! Fitbit shows 10 floors to S3 2 floors. Rubish
On the flip side of the problem - Mine detects elevator rides as stairs climbed.
I think it is the same "rules" as the FitBit I was wearing before the S3. They only register a floor if the flight of stairs consist of 10 continuous steps.
I have a split level house, two flights of 8 steps.
If I walk up one it doesn't register as a 'floor' but if I walk up both (as long as I don't delay on the landing) it increases my S3's floor count by 1 floor.
On my outside walks a steady climb up a hill does register floor counts as well.
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On the flip side of the problem - Mine detects elevator rides as stairs climbed.
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Same issue for me too. Had the watch for about 3 weeks and very few floor counts
I've noticed the same as all, I get a very low stair count. I have one set of stairs in the house and I'm up and down them all day, but the count stays low. I had a Fitbit that would give me a very accurate count of my stairs. I've turned off floor count since it's almost useless.
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Yeah it's not accurate at all....I get less than 5 floors a day and I have 2 stair wells at home which I dash through hourly...It's flawed for sure.
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I've been trying out different functions; floor count is definitely buggy, so is the heart rate monitor especially when you are working out, the distance counter too counted an extra 1 kilometre on my run, the Calorie counter is also buggy for Other Workout option as it confuses vigorous and moderate intensity.
I've tried turning it on and off, I've tried cleaning the ram, I've tried swinging mu arms, I've tried to walk slower and faster but it's still there. I would send an email to S Health, but they'll like send me to another guy and ask me to detail it again, and I'm jist too lazy.
To be honnest, all the sensors on the GEAR S3 are totally screwed up.
Floor count, steps, heart rate, altimeter, barometer all terrible. The most inccurate looks to be the altimeter. Staying in my house for a week, altimeter fluctuate between -71m and +70m... USELESS! Not too sure if a firmware upgrade can fix those sensors or if they are low cost pieces of crap. Will see... or not
Hi,
I have had the Gear Sport for a few weeks and while I miss the battery life of my Pebble Time Steel and the app selection of an android wear watch, overall I am pretty happy with it apart from one thing. I bought it as a present to myself to get a bit of inspiration to be more active, mainly running and cycling. Spotify offline and GPS tracking works very well, but I wish I could say the same about heart rate monitoring. It monitors the heart rate OK when I am not active, even if it skips some of the measurements when set at 10 minute interval, but it tolerable. However, when I am running or cycling - apart for some jumps up, or down, the trend is normally just a flat line. I have tried tight strap, loose strap, re-position, inside wrist, etc, but to no avail. I have managed to track HR as it should for one run when I actively used the HR widget (while under running activity) and by that kind of forced (turning off and on a few times) the watch to track HR. Not very practical though.. I can see from the flashing IR that it is continuously trying to measure HR during activity, so apparently there is no hardware faults with my watch. For info I have also tried factory resetting the watch.
I know that wrist HR monitoring will never be accurate, but for a watch with Sport in the name I did expect better than this. Is this just one of the drawbacks with this watch, or do I have a faulty watch and should return it? Experience from other users would be highly appreciated.
Steinar
For info - I gave up this watch due to the above mentioned issues and returned it in favour of a Polar M600.
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For info - I gave up this watch due to the above mentioned issues and returned it in favour of a Polar M600.
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Here the heart rate monitoring works ok during my gym time.
Same problem too.. I was wondering if it is a defective unit..
After month i have to say that i have no problem with mine at all.
I have had the same problem. I have tried everything like you have. Worn it tighter, looser, other wrist, other side, ect. It is completely unreliable as a fitness monitor. For something that is at a premium price, and supposed to work underwater, I am appalled that it cannot handle a basic workout without going blank. I was hoping for a patch or update but even today I am seeing the same issues. I cannot recommend this to anybody and will be jumping ship to a different brand as soon as I get another chunk of money saved up.
One thing that helped slightly during daily use was the continuous heat monitor setting.
the gear sport is a piece of **** !
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