S3 Heart rate monitor wildly over reporting bpm
I searched, but didn't find a suitable post. I also Googled my querry with no satisfaction. Anyway my S3 has been working like a champ until a few days ago it started reporting 170-201 range. My age heart rate max is 156. After finishing a recent run, I dashed into the house while the HRM was still way over reporting and had my wife take my heart rate. As I suspected, mostly because I'm still alive, my heart rate was fine.
I factory reset the watch, played with heart rate settings and I am still at a loss.
My questions is, anyone else have this or similar issue that they overcome.
Any suggestions are welcome.
Did you try to measure your HR by your own by using ordinary clock and compare with the one on the Gear?
I made a thread about something similar: https://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-s3/help/questions-heart-rate-sensor-monitor-t3665746
However, today I tried something new during my run this morning. Normally, they advise wearing the watch up past your wrist bone, but I decided to push it up even further, almost 3 or 4 inches from my wrist bone. The good news is that the results were much more accurate. Prior to the adjustment, I was getting similar results of 200 bpm, which is just impossible - my max heart rate is 189. The readings I received after the run showed 190 max and 177 average. That appears to be much more accurate and realistic, even if it may be 3 or 5 beats off. It's at least useful now in terms of maintaining peak rates during workouts.
I pushed the band further up my wrist and tightened that sucker like a bale of hay. Heart rate came down, but my wrist hurts now. LOL
I think it's time to try Sammy's support. Although I've had perhaps 8-10 Samsung phones in my life and similar number of other high end phones for family members, I have never had to deal with their support. Wish me luck and thanks for your help.
25% over reporting bpm
Chest hart rate band : 103 avg bpm
Fitbit BLAZE: 105 avg bpm
Samsung Gear: 129 avg bpm
I also have the same problem and could not find a way to real with this problem. I compare it to a new chest hrm and the difference is day and night. My S3 shows me around 190 bpm in a 10K run wheras chest strap hrm shows 150 bpm; so bad.
I have the same problem
I've had my gear3 for about a year and just this week it started reading my daily bpm range between 79-208. My normal resting is under 60 and I can only get it up to 180 in a dead sprint.
I turned it only always read and then watched it. As soon as I woke up the screen it would around 200 but would drop with every beat until it got to around 65 and go back to sleep. When I woke it back up it had climbed high again. I wonder if there is a way to recalibrate it.
You can stop discussing this issue as there is no solution.
In the official Samsung forum, there are hundreds of posts claiming this issue but no solution from Samsung.
It is a design error of the sensor which cannot be solved with SW. Even changing the mainbord several times did not solve the issue.
So finally: heart rate monitoring with Samsung watches (Even the new ones) is useless.
Regards,
Dodger
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Hi everyone,
When I purchased Gear Neo, I really saw the potential in it and today I have to say I feel frustrated with what I have... and the biggest deception might be the heart rate monitor. How awesome is this thing ? It works pretty great I think! But how much do I use it ? Almost never...
You have to think "oh, I'll measure my heart rate now" which feels quite weird... A real intelligent use of this thing would be to gather information automatically during the day. What about that :
- automatic measurement everyday every three hours, the watch gathers the information.
- at the end of every day, you can see a graphic showing the evolution of your heart rate during the day
- the watch then calculates your average heart rate during this day and is able to make another graphic for your week, month, year ?
That really sounds awesome to me and if you don't refresh the measurement too much, I think you can keep a decent battery life. What do you guys think ?
Other impressive tool could emerge from automatic measurements, far better than a pedometer...
I was thinking the same thing! Would be great if someone could create an app to automatically monitor heart rate every hour (or predefined frequency). Is anyone with programming experience able to write something??
McGuigew said:
Hi everyone,
When I purchased Gear Neo, I really saw the potential in it and today I have to say I feel frustrated with what I have... and the biggest deception might be the heart rate monitor. How awesome is this thing ? It works pretty great I think! But how much do I use it ? Almost never...
You have to think "oh, I'll measure my heart rate now" which feels quite weird... A real intelligent use of this thing would be to gather information automatically during the day. What about that :
- automatic measurement everyday every three hours, the watch gathers the information.
- at the end of every day, you can see a graphic showing the evolution of your heart rate during the day
- the watch then calculates your average heart rate during this day and is able to make another graphic for your week, month, year ?
That really sounds awesome to me and if you don't refresh the measurement too much, I think you can keep a decent battery life. What do you guys think ?
Other impressive tool could emerge from automatic measurements, far better than a pedometer...
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Wodge80 said:
I was thinking the same thing! Would be great if someone could create an app to automatically monitor heart rate every hour (or predefined frequency). Is anyone with programming experience able to write something??
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Thanks for answering, I thought nobody gave a F*** !!!
Hy i am asking myself about the fiability of the heart rate sensor for runing. Do you use the Gear S3 to have your heart rate?
Ther is no such word as fiability. Do you mean viability?
The heart rate sensor is poor and often does not take accurate reading. It's supposed to take a reading every 10 mins but often doesn't due to movement of your hand or fingers. Try and take a reading whilst moving your fingers. When you run it takes a constant reading but is inaccurate due to movement. My Garmin has none of these issues probably due to the sensor being raised from the back and hence makes better contact. I do have a small wrist which probably doesn't help.
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Yep, it's totally crap. Hit and miss with 1:10 ratio. So it sucks. When you sit still that is. During running it does measure quite reasonable showing enough data points on the graph.
What I find more worrying is that is insists I live 18 meters below sea level even though I calibrated manually like 20 times!
Ok thanks for answers. So te heart rate sensor is not made for sport activity.
Can't say I've ever had an issue with mine. Works when it's supposed to.
Is it possible to use and external HR sensor like the polar h7 when runnig
mambraxneol said:
Ok thanks for answers. So te heart rate sensor is not made for sport activity.
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Actually I'm saying it's pretty good for sports. It just doesn't work well when you do a manual measurement, it than constantly nags to clean the sensor.
Really enjoying the watch but I have an issue with the calorie counter on S Health, it seems to decide I've already burned a significant amount of calories each day by the time I've woken up. For instance, the last couple of nights I have gone to bed with the watch next to me (I don't like sleeping with a watch on), once on aeroplane mode and once just as normal. When I then wake up at 7am and look at the S Health counter on the watch, it seems to decide that I've already burned about 500-600 calories for the day! Whilst I would love to burn that in my sleep, it's obviously well off.
Is it possible to set it so that the calorie counter is at 0 or a realistic level until I put the watch on in the morning? Or is the issue that I'm not sleeping wearing the watch?
you are living and so you burn calories
the value without moving is calculated on your age, weight,sex
gianoit said:
you are living and so you burn calories
the value without moving is calculated on your age, weight,sex
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But if the poster is not wearing the watch during sex - how is it calculating the calories burned??
Calories Count
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But if the poster is not wearing the watch during sex - how is it calculating the calories burned??
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The calories count on my S3 are completely wrong.
The actually counting from S3 shows enormus calories burned during the day - more than 11.000 average and at the same time, within calories counting during running it counts just 61 calories during 35 minutes of fast running 12,5 km/hr (my age is 63, height 189 cms and weight 86 kgs). Something is completely wrong.
Any idea how to correct this calculations?
I am having the exact same issue. I burned insanely 25 000 kcal today. Amazing. But when I was running for an hours, I only burned 60 kcal. Better doing nothing
Omg, I am annoyed. Also, it did not show the distance run etc. This is new and I must say, I am sorry that I have purchased this watch. Nothing for fitnessfreaks like me....
Unlike Apple Samsung takes into consideration your basal metabolic rate . So when you plug in your age, sex and weight it's going to use that to calculate your BMR. Any calories burned through actual exercise will just be added onto that.
aGua421 said:
Unlike Apple Samsung takes into consideration your basal metabolic rate . So when you plug in your age, sex and weight it's going to use that to calculate your BMR. Any calories burned through actual exercise will just be added onto that.
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Well I must have an outstanding metabolic rate. In taking the watch off the charger and putting it on my wrist in the morning I burned 575 kcal!! Come on. Just like several other things it's not working right. Anyone have a work around?
I have a watch 2 classic and it looks like the heart rate sensor works fine only up to 110-120bpm. After sports when my heart rate is way more than 150bpm it always shows something in the 110-120bpm range.
I don't care if it is off by +-5bpm, but being off by 40+ is definitely not ok. I understand that movement during sports could pose a problem, but that happens after I sit down and am not moving at all.
Does the heart rate sensor work for you normally for higher bpms?
If it does, then I should probably send it to be repaired.
yupi303 said:
I have a watch 2 classic and it looks like the heart rate sensor works fine only up to 110-120bpm. After sports when my heart rate is way more than 150bpm it always shows something in the 110-120bpm range.
I don't care if it is off by +-5bpm, but being off by 40+ is definitely not ok. I understand that movement during sports could pose a problem, but that happens after I sit down and am not moving at all.
Does the heart rate sensor work for you normally for higher bpms?
If it does, then I should probably send it to be repaired.
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looking at my data via the Huawei Health app over the past few weeks, there have been a few instances (when running) when my heart rate got above 175. maybe the watch is not registering your heart rate during those peak times, so it only catches it on the way down?
jco23 said:
looking at my data via the Huawei Health app over the past few weeks, there have been a few instances (when running) when my heart rate got above 175. maybe the watch is not registering your heart rate during those peak times, so it only catches it on the way down?
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I doubt it. I have tried it many times using google fit, huawei health or just by launching the heart beat app. My heart rate was definitely much higher at that time than the watch measured.
Does it only peak for you or is it above e.g. 150 for a longer time?
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I doubt it. I have tried it many times using google fit, huawei health or just by launching the heart beat app. My heart rate was definitely much higher at that time than the watch measured.
Does it only peak for you or is it above e.g. 150 for a longer time?
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so looking at my 18-min 2-mile run on Tuesday, my heart rate was above 150 from 8:08am to 8:16am. keep in mind that my rest heart rate is about 55. i know that's a small sample, so maybe I'll test on an elliptical machine next time I go to the gym.
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so looking at my 18-min 2-mile run on Tuesday, my heart rate was above 150 from 8:08am to 8:16am. keep in mind that my rest heart rate is about 55. i know that's a small sample, so maybe I'll test on an elliptical machine next time I go to the gym.
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I think that's a good sample. Now I know that the sensor should be working and it's obviously not. I've only seen it peak a few times above 150 and then it was back to 110-120. I'll check if my brother's watch can measure my bpm correctly and if my watch can measure his bpm correctly. Then I'll definitely know if the watch is a problem or there's something with me
Hello everyone. I have been using the watch 4 for around five weeks. It has several + and -, but one issue is really unforgivable for me. When I exercise (usually running) outside, if the temperature is relatively low (lower than 10-15 C), the heart rate monitor simply does not work and registers the last recorded heart rate as constant during the whole activity. Today I had a run a 6C, and within a couple of minutes the heart rate frost. For me, this makes the thing useless. Does anyone else have experimented the issue?
Thanks