I have the AT&T version of the S2 and the Note 5. Both are paired with my Motorola Boom bluetooth headset. Whenever I place or take a call from the S2, the stupid Samsung music player starts up through the headset as soon as I hang up the call. Does this happen to anyone else and what can I do to stop it from happening?
baldwyn said:
I have the AT&T version of the S2 and the Note 5. Both are paired with my Motorola Boom bluetooth headset. Whenever I place or take a call from the S2, the stupid Samsung music player starts up through the headset as soon as I hang up the call. Does this happen to anyone else and what can I do to stop it from happening?
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You somehow enabled the Muzak setting, which provides elevator music between calls.
Kidding aside, sounds like a bug in a feature... IF you are using the music player and a call comes in, it will automatically pause during the call, and then automatically resume when the call finishes.
I'm guessing the music player was "active" -- i.e. you had used it, and it was an active app but in the background, paused from when you had last paused it. After a call, the watch probably blindly sends out the "done with call" even to all active apps, and the music app simply starts playing again.
As a workaround, try bringing up Recent Apps (like many others, I've assigned the double-press of the home key to this function to get to it easily), and kill off the music player when you're not using it.
It was suggested in another thread to close all apps regularly to improve battery life. I've taken to doing this, especially after some apps that seem to be poorly designed in terms of memory usage, etc., and have seen meaningful gains in battery life.
Some minutes after manually starting a workout the Gear S3 acoustically announces the "heart rate", the "calories burned", etc.
Where do I disable these announcements to make my watch remain quiet even during workout?
many thanks, Felix
fxrb said:
Some minutes after manually starting a workout the Gear S3 acoustically announces the "heart rate", the "calories burned", etc.
Where do I disable these announcements to make my watch remain quiet even during workout?
many thanks, Felix
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SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
10urshin said:
SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
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Thank you! I must have missed this somhow .
10urshin said:
SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None
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Oh man, I've been looking for that setting for so long!
Thanks!
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Where?
I can't seem to find this exact settings, I keep turning more off and it continues to announce. Is that on the watch?
rackflot said:
I can't seem to find this exact settings, I keep turning more off and it continues to announce. Is that on the watch?
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It is on the watch, as state in post #2.
Is there any way of making it louder? I want to hear the information but it comes out really quietly compared to my music and I can't catch what she's saying.
Tmel14 said:
Is there any way of making it louder? I want to hear the information but it comes out really quietly compared to my music and I can't catch what she's saying.
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that voice is really loud i hate it lol. try changing your watch volume. easiest way i know to do thar is if you have the music wiget on which source to gear mode instead of phone to control media and change the volume to the desire level
There is no --- SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None --- on the watch. There used to be. But the isn'tany more. Does anyone know of another way to disable this voice.
No More Annoying 5 minute voice interruptions to my workout
On my gear fit pro 2,my Activity Type that I use at the gym is Other Workout. But every 5 minutes of my workout, my Bluetooth music is interrupted by that annoying voice.
To Fix it....
Go to Workout>activity type>other workout>guide intervals>none
ajpn said:
There is no --- SHealth -> Workout -> Guide at intervals -> None --- on the watch. There used to be. But the isn'tany more. Does anyone know of another way to disable this voice.
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You now need to go to the actual exercise. So say click on "other workout" if that's where you're getting your notifications from, and then scroll down to "guide frequency" prior to actually starting the workout. Click "none".
I just got the Samsung Watch today and tested the workout widget. I was annoyed by the voice too and just figured out that you have to turn off "rep counter" for each workout. So, it turns off the voice completely.
Glad I found this post, here is my situation with s health.
I use the watch alone to run, at first was great with the s health voice, every km a message saying my speed and HR and just half my goal a remind of it.
I use it Spotify premium to download my playlist and run without the phone and with the s healt voice the music stops/pause and after the message of s health the music used to resume, BUT last week just after reach half (and the respective message) of my goal the music doesnt resume, it is weird because seems that everything is connected and working, but no sound at all, not even from the internal speaker, the only solution is to restart the phone and is annoying because I have to stop to do it. Does anybody face the same issue? any solution?
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You now need to go to the actual exercise. So say click on "other workout" if that's where you're getting your notifications from, and then scroll down to "guide frequency" prior to actually starting the workout. Click "none".
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That worked for me! Thanks very much!
About "guide frequency" and other Gear S3 issues...
I have been dealing with these "audio guides" since I got my Gear S3. I wanted to disable them so the music I listen while workout is not interrupted. The above procedure is correct: setting guide frequency = none does work, BUT that setting is not remembered (at least in my Gear S3 Frontier), so the next time you go for a workout (and forget to set guides frequency to "none"), there you have again the watch talking and interrupting your music.
However, due to the S3 battery drainage issue (I have it too), as described in this article:
https://www.sammobile.com/2018/10/23/gear-sport-gear-s3-battery-fix
I have tried to install that Gear S plugin version 2.2.03.18101561. It did NOT fix the battery drain issue, but made the "guide frequency" remembered as a setting (good!). But this plugin came with yet another bug: when you go for a run using Location services along with your phone (so the GPS information is taken from the phone), Samsung Health + Gear S Plugin does not work: only can register location from the watch´s built-in GPS.
So I went back to my standard Gear S Plugin Version 2.2.03.18083051, and I have to remember to set guide frequency to none every time.
Samsung needs some software debugging on the Gear S3 !
juliospinoza said:
Glad I found this post, here is my situation with s health.
I use the watch alone to run, at first was great with the s health voice, every km a message saying my speed and HR and just half my goal a remind of it.
I use it Spotify premium to download my playlist and run without the phone and with the s healt voice the music stops/pause and after the message of s health the music used to resume, BUT last week just after reach half (and the respective message) of my goal the music doesnt resume, it is weird because seems that everything is connected and working, but no sound at all, not even from the internal speaker, the only solution is to restart the phone and is annoying because I have to stop to do it. Does anybody face the same issue? any solution?
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Good day... by any chance have you found a solution to this problem? I have been using my Galaxy Watch with Spotify since I purchased the watch back in September, but as of the latest update I am experiencing the same issue of my music not resuming after a running audio cue. I either have to turn off notifications to hear my music for my entire run, or I get to listen to music for about four and a half minutes when my 1st km notification occurs.
Thanks
EbertsR said:
Good day... by any chance have you found a solution to this problem? I have been using my Galaxy Watch with Spotify since I purchased the watch back in September, but as of the latest update I am experiencing the same issue of my music not resuming after a running audio cue. I either have to turn off notifications to hear my music for my entire run, or I get to listen to music for about four and a half minutes when my 1st km notification occurs.
Thanks
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I have the very same issue. Although I find I can manually kick of the music via Spotify again on the watch with some perseverance. Complete pain in the back side when you are jogging though! If you find / have found a solution, please share. Thanks.
On my watch, the audio guide, which I have set to give me info every 1 km, doesn't 'dip' the sound while I'm listening to any music or other audio like it used to. If I have no music going at all, and only my bluetooth headphones on, it works normally. THe other thing is, if I am running without the watch connected to my bluetooth headphones, it works fine through the watch's speaker. THis watch is so full of bugs. I'm seriously thinking of moving on to a Fitbit Ionic or something.
After three hours:
Problem solved!
On you watch
Go to Apps
Go to S Health
You see the heart, then
Scroll down running man figure - it says “record your workout. Click on it.
Click on bubble with “work out”
There is a list now of all work out types
Click on the relevant settings cog
In the list select guide frequency
Click **** off you *****! NONE!!!!!
LOL, good to know! Cheers
Hey all,
I have had my gear sport for a week now but I'm having an issue with exercising using Samsung Health and listening to music using Spotify.
I have downloaded a playlist on Spotify to my gear sport and also have Spotify set to offline. I have also started the 5k run program on Samsung Health.
This has happened 4 times now and i hoping someone can help me fix the problem... I'm all ready for my run, have my bt headphone on and I start playing music through Spotify on my gear, all working so far. Then I open Samsung Health on my gear and go to the exercise screen and start my 5k journey. It all works fine, listening to music and doing the warm up but once the main workout starts the music just stops. This morning I managed to restart the music but about half way through the first song it stopped again. When i went back into spotify it still appeared as if it was playing, I could pause and restart the song but I was getting no audio.
Also note that Spotify does work fine when I'm not working out, just listening via my sport.
Really home someone can help me sort this out.
Thanks.
I get exactly the same issue, did you find a solution?
I too have this stupid issue.....
Hello,
I have Spotify installed in my gear s3 and also have my guide at intervals enabled when running. Whenever i reach the half point and at the same time my interval, it will have a voice notification. However, after the voice notification, it kind of mutes the spotify. I noticed that spotify keeps on playing but there's no sound. I tested other sound like ringtones, etc and they are okay. I needed to reset the watch to be able to hear the music from spotify again.
It doesn't have any issues if it's only the interval playing. It only happens when i reach half point and interval at the same time.
Anybody has the same issue?
Thanks.
Even after 1 year the problem has not been solved. I am also facing it till date in INDIA on my Gear S3. Spotify or Samsung doesn't seem to care about it..
Hello to all. I am a running person with offline spotify music.
I dont use Samsung offline music because i am a spotify premium user.
You know, sometimes "while running" you have to take a piss or drink some water.
To do so i always pause my workout by pressing top button on my device.
(music is still playing though)
When i am done, i re-press the pause button to resume my workout.
WHATTT?????!!!
GPS SIGNAL LOST!!!. That ugly orange GPS icon with cross on it appears.
This is a bug because while working out (running), GPS does not lose signal at all. This is not a hardware problem.
When i pause it for "lets say 5 minutes", it loses signal.
(spotify offline music is still playing)
I searched everywhere, have not found a proper solution to this problem. Turns out, or at least what i found is before pausing the workout, if i pause spotify music, my watch can detect GPS right after i resume my running.
I am at TIZEN 4.0.0.2
Firmware: R600XXU1BSB1
Knox : 2.3.0
I have been experiencing the same problem as you, my friend. It is nice to see at least a partial fix to this stupid problem. Do you experience any other problems with Gear Sport and Spotify?
cvlaros said:
I have been experiencing the same problem as you, my friend. It is nice to see at least a partial fix to this stupid problem. Do you experience any other problems with Gear Sport and Spotify?
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The problem is not fixed. It sometimes helps, sometimes dont. I have some more solutions, one of which worked.
1) Before pausing the workout, stop, dont move for 3 seconds. Then hit pause. Before you start the activity. Stop. For 5 seconds. Then resume. [This partially works. About %80 of the time]
2) Buy Gear Tracker. It is an alternative tracker. Never experienced GPS issue but it uses Strava. I ran 9.23KM with Gear Tracker today. It is just beautiful. So many customization.
3) Never trust spotify. I use Sidify Music Converter. It helps a lot. I deleted spotify. It really sucks on Tizen.