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annoying exercise tracking

Hi,
Annoyingly my S2 classic thinks I'm riding a bicycle whenever I'm riding my motorcycle? Which is annoying because S-health then reckons I've burnt loads of calories. I'm just wondering why this is as surely if it works on speed it should figure that I'm actually in/on a motorized vehicle especially from like 40 mph upwards? My only other explanation is that it uses the gyroscope and/or accelerometer to figure out that I'm holding on to handle bars?
Also is there anyway to change this so I can tell S-health that I wasn't riding a bicycle?

I have the same problem. Is there even a way to delete the data?

calibrate altimeter

does anybody know how to calibrate the altimeter on the watch 2? it does work very precise tracking how many meters you ascent or descent while out and about, but knowing your excact altitude depends on barometric presure which is variable and needs calibrating. there is one standard watch face included called 'outside' on the watch which shows pressure and current altitude, but i cant seem to find a way to calibrate the altimeter. anybody any ideas?

glenner05 said:
does anybody know how to calibrate the altimeter on the watch 2? it does work very precise tracking how many meters you ascent or descent while out and about, but knowing your excact altitude depends on barometric presure which is variable and needs calibrating. there is one standard watch face included called 'outside' on the watch which shows pressure and current altitude, but i cant seem to find a way to calibrate the altimeter. anybody any ideas?
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Did you ever find a way? I'm at sea level and it tells me I'm -21m
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It's not that simple, and it's probably nothing that should be calibrated too. Giving you the altitude, based only on the barometic pressure (which is the sensor that the watch has), it's impossible. You need the local temperature too. Since the watch doesn't have a temp sensor, it relies on the temperature received from the internet to calculate the altitude. So, if the temperature is not accurate enough, it wil show you incorrect altitude "readings".

you can calibrate it by tapping the weather icon on Outdoor watch face ( see https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/faqs/detail/?id=154328&name=HUAWEI WATCH 2 ) .It has nothing (or very little) to do with temperature. Altitude can be directly estimated from pressure, the problem is that air pressure varies over time (cyclone, anticyclone...).

More to the point is how to calibrate the barometer. It reads way too low (by 9mb/hPa).

Samsung Health GPS bug

Hi,
ever since I've bought my Gear S3 Frontier I have an issue with buggy GPS tracking with Samsung Health. Recently I'm exercising much more and it's driving me nuts.
When I start any training (regardless of high accuracy or energy saving GPS mode) it works fine as long as I don't click pause button and try to resume training later on. If I'm on high accuracy, it will reconnect after a while providing gps in a watch is enabled. If I'm using energy saving it never locks position again, until I end that exercise and begin a new one.
High accuracy tracking drains battery in just a few hours so biking for over 3 hours is out of the question.
Can anybody confirm that bug or have a solution?
EDIT: I can add the fact that it existed both in Tizen 3 and Tizen 4, including data wipes.

Honor Magic Watch 2 - Calibrate altimeter

Hello there,
I have been trying to calibrate the altimeter on this amazing watch. I checked both on the watch and the Huawei Health app, but there is not an option to calibrate the altimeter when you are at a point with a known and certain altitude.
Anybody could help please?
This is such a simple option that would allow to make this watch way more reliable for mountain use.
Thanks a lot

Richacinas said:
Hello there,
I have been trying to calibrate the altimeter on this amazing watch. I checked both on the watch and the Huawei Health app, but there is not an option to calibrate the altimeter when you are at a point with a known and certain altitude.
Anybody could help please?
This is such a simple option that would allow to make this watch way more reliable for mountain use.
Thanks a lot
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Nobody knows??
Then I assume this altimeter is useless. If you cannot calibrate it, then it doesn't work in the mountain at all. It is not reliable.

This issue persist even from original first Gt watch. Was never fixed. Due almost non existent support from Huawei, I'm almost certain it will never be fixed. On the other hand I see on Honor GS pro there is an option to do so but barometer not. And it always shows wrong readings. Strange.
Whatever...at the end of the day it's China based company, what did you expect

Question Anyone care to comment on the Sleep Tracking and BP/ECG?

I am looking at purchasing the UK version with BP and ECG and currently have a A52 phone to work with it.
I currently use a Fitbit Charge 4 but really need a device with ECG. Anyone coming from a Fitbit or Garmin or other device with good sleep tracking care to comment on how close the GW4 compares? From the reviews and comments under the reviews it looks like there might be some bad batches of GW4's out there in the wild that are not performing as good as some others?

The sleep tracking on GW4 (same as in previous models like GW3 etc) is Not good. It mainly misses most the deep sleep cycle. I've also had Fitbit before and it seemed better. The best sleep tracker is the Oura ring which I also use and sometime compare with the GW4, which again fails to track deep sleep

stakoz said:
The best sleep tracker is the Oura ring which I also use and sometime compare with the GW4, which again fails to track deep sleep
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Try using Sleep as Android (works with both Tizen and WearOS). Not sure if they've optimized for GW4 yet, but I find Sleep as Android very comparable to Oura - deep sleep metrics are a very inexact science, but agree Samsung watch algorithms do that poorly.
The other nice thing about Sleep as Android is it also graphs SpO2 (again, not sure they've added support for GW4 yet) and HRV. So the only metric missing from that equation is temperature (which can be very useful) that Oura does do.

I am using a beta version of sleep as android created especially for GW4 support. You can check if the update is live yet or also join their beta program.
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for anyone who is interested:
Samsung Watch 4
Hello @sonofanut, I think you are right. Google did just removed the Sleep as Android Wear OS app from the Play Store… This is part of their “rising the quality bar” initiative. The reason in the notice is we are not showing the the time of the next alarm on the tracking screen… The reason for...
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Hi I've the galaxy watch 4 classic, I've the heart and stress on continuous, but sometimes the green light on the back doesn't flash at all, is that normal??Hi I've the galaxy watch 4 classic, I've the heart and stress on continuous, but sometimes the green light on the back doesn't flash at all, is that normal??

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Hi I've the galaxy watch 4 classic, I've the heart and stress on continuous, but sometimes the green light on the back doesn't flash at all, is that normal??Hi I've the galaxy watch 4 classic, I've the heart and stress on continuous, but sometimes the green light on the back doesn't flash at all, is that normal??
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You might want to start a thread if you are having issues as you will defiantly get more responses.

Anyone check if the sleep tracking has improved any with the latest firmware/software updates to the GW4?
Also is anyone using the ECG feature? That is one of the main features I need as I have heart palpitations on a regular bases but of course whenever I go the doctors it never occurs so its not something they can ever see on a machine and would like to try and catch it on the GW4 when I have an episode to see what it is actually doing.