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
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I've never got this to work. Using the Walk function I walked around our mall, a distance of .7 mi, and it shows either a mile or a half mile, the heartrate is in the 120 range, and the time is off by 20 mins. Anyone have an answer for this? It kinda defeats the purpose of having a "fitness" function when it's not accurate.
Auto pause and / or Dynamic workout might be your culprit.
Auto Pause will automatically pause the workout if it thinks you are taking a break, then restarts it when you start moving.
Dynamic Workout Detection will start a new workout if it thinks you are exercising. It might be overriding your Walk function if it thinks you're doing more than walking.
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Currently using Strava to track my cycling and finding in general The HW2 works pretty well, especially how easy it syncs to my phone afterwards. Seems to track pretty accurately with my favourite walks and rides. I am having two problems that hopefully someone can help with;
1. Whilst cycling the ride pauses occasionally when I have not pressed pause on screen. Does one of the physical buttons pause the session? Am I catching the button when descending over bumpy sections or climbing out of the saddle. I have considered wearing the watch upside down, so the buttons don’t catch the back of my hand. Has anyone got any other ideas?
2. The distance on my watch displays distance in kilometres but I would like this to be in miles. Can this be changed and do I do this on the Strava on my watch or my phone?
Thanks in advance.
Percy247 said:
Currently using Strava to track my cycling and finding in general The HW2 works pretty well, especially how easy it syncs to my phone afterwards. Seems to track pretty accurately with my favourite walks and rides. I am having two problems that hopefully someone can help with;
1. Whilst cycling the ride pauses occasionally when I have not pressed pause on screen. Does one of the physical buttons pause the session? Am I catching the button when descending over bumpy sections or climbing out of the saddle. I have considered wearing the watch upside down, so the buttons don’t catch the back of my hand. Has anyone got any other ideas?
2. The distance on my watch displays distance in kilometres but I would like this to be in miles. Can this be changed and do I do this on the Strava on my watch or my phone?
Thanks in advance.
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i haven't used Strava, but may consider.
i use Map My Run - and that automatically pauses when it detects that I am NOT moving. So it could be a GPS signal thing. I would imagine to change the measure to miles, you could do that within the phone app (imperial).
Thanks for that. Found Strava settings in the app on the watch and changed units to imperial. Just discovered the bottom button on the watch pauses and resumes the work out. So it looks like I will have to wear the watch a bit looser or where it upside down. Not ideal but should work.
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.
If I run on a treadmill, the watch will track the steps correctly. It even registers the speed correctly, or at least close enough. However the mileage is not even 10% of the distance reported by the treadmill. I did a hard reboot (hold down both buttons until it rebooted) and that fixed it for 2 runs. Then it quit working again and the reboot didn't fix it. I'm at a loss.
Maybe if you do a few outdoor runs, it will better calculate your stride and give you more accurate results.
I have the same problem, and it's very intermittent. It will track treadmill distance for a few tenths of a mile and then stop. I think it starts trying to use GPS for some reason but that's just a guess. If I turn off "location" it will usually start tracking again. Today even that didn't work, so I went in and denied location permission for samsung health and health services. It tracked fine after that and was really pretty accurate. I've allowed the permissions again and will see what happens tomorrow.
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I have the same problem, and it's very intermittent. It will track treadmill distance for a few tenths of a mile and then stop. I think it starts trying to use GPS for some reason but that's just a guess. If I turn off "location" it will usually start tracking again. Today even that didn't work, so I went in and denied location permission for samsung health and health services. It tracked fine after that and was really pretty accurate. I've allowed the permissions again and will see what happens tomorrow.
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Interesting.... I'll give that a try myself.
Same issue here. It used to read about 10 percent low for distance on a treadmill activity. I would get somewhere around 2.7 miles on a 3 mile treadmill activity. Then after the most recent Samsung Health update on the watch, it now reads about 85-90 percent low. I'm getting .15-.17 miles on the same activity.
OK, I found a bandaid that will fix this. Apparently the latest update of Samsung Health on the watch inexplicably enables GPS to track the distance of treadmill activities. Disable GPS when you start your activity and your distance will be as close to accurate as it was before the recent SHealth update. Then reenable GPS when you're done. Hopefully Samsung will fix this.
Just finished in the treadmill, and same thing. Started with location on and it tracked .02 miles. Turned off location for the watch and it tracked to .05 miles and stopped again. So then I went in and denied the location permission for samsung health and it worked fine. I agree, it had to be an issue with samsung health using gps instead of just using step count to estimate distance.
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OK, I found a bandaid that will fix this. Apparently the latest update of Samsung Health on the watch inexplicably enables GPS to track the distance of treadmill activities. Disable GPS when you start your activity and your distance will be as close to accurate as it was before the recent SHealth update. Then reenable GPS when you're done. Hopefully Samsung will fix this.
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I'm happy to report that turning location off before this mornings treadmill run seemed to have done the trick. Watch tracked less than a tenth of a mile difference from what the tread reported.
I got a question. On my old Gear S3 when i enabled auto workout detection and started running, after 10 minutes my watch said "Keep it up!" And i could track how long i was running and stuff. Is there a way to have this on my Watch 4? Cause it does auto track my workouts but i cannot track em trough my watch and it does not pop up after running for 30minuted and stuff while i'm exercising. Thanks for the help!
Nobody?
I was using this option long time ago. If I remember well you can switch on Auto detect Activities in Settings - Samsung Health . Watch detects only walking and running, after ~10 minutes. Tracking screen should pop up or there will be small Activiti icon at screen bottom. Just touch it to see full tracking.