I just got this watch 3 days ago, Sony smartwatch 3, for the reason it had its own standalone GPS reciever. I work for the railroad running trains. And can't have my smartphone on me. So I'm looking to setup my watch for checking the speedometer on the train. Specifically MPH, with a satellite accuracy mark as well.. All the apps I've been trying only work when my phone is on and connected with its GPS on. Anyone know of any androidwe apps that will work for me? Thanks!
Mytracks and Runtastic are the only apps i know of that can operate the gps independent of the phone.
Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
Septoman said:
Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
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I did yesterday, all I had to to was turn on airplane mode then turn it back off, reconnected in seconds.
I also had this problem. Since I switched off WLAN, Bluetooth reconnects automatically.
Try this
Septoman said:
Hello everyone,
I have a Gear S3 Frontier bluetooth only model, and I noticed that if go outside the bluetooth range (10-15m from the phone) after I come back within the bluetooth range, the watch doesn't reconnect automatically, and I must reconnect it manually from the Gear Manager app.
My phone is a Samsung S6 edge+, and until now I had a Garmin Vivoactive which didn't had this problem.
I found in the Gear S forum a similar problem, and one proposed solution was to unpair it and pair it again.
I tried that and it worked, the watch reconnected automatically 2-3 times, but after 30min-1 hour the problem appeared again.
Does anyone else has this problem ?
Thanks
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I had this problem and it was driving me nuts but did a hard reset of my watch and now everything is working ok.
It looks though I had something else competing with my watch and by unpairing the watch, doing a reset and then resetting up my watch, cleared whatever was causing the issue.
I have nearly the same problem with watchmaker App.
When the Bluetooth connection is disconnected because out of range and the BT is reconnected again, the watchmaker has problems to sync with gears s3.
No data like phone battery, etc .. . Also sending watchfaces over BT is not working anymore.
But with other apps (Samsung Gear App), BT is always working great.
To solve the problem, I have to switch off BT on the smartphone and enable again.
After that the sync between watchmaker and Gears S3 is working well again until reconnect.
I have informed the watchmaker developer, but until now, I have gotten no feedback.
Android 6.0.1
Watchmaker App: 4.8.2
Thats a very old version of WatchMaker.
Hi,
I'm using Gear S3 with S7 edge. Once I start workout using the phone S Health app it doesn't show up on the watch. In addition it doesn't use watch HR sensor so it's kind of useless. I would like to track cycling with BT speed/cadence sensor connected with S health (works fine with phone) with HR data from watch.
I've tried to start same activity on the phone and on the watch but the data won't merge eventually.
Is there any way to monitor an activity on the watch once initiated on the phone?
Is there a way to access the HR function on the Gear S2 from my (android) phone as if it was just a HR monitor?
I know I can run an app like Samsung Health or Endomondo on the S2 and have it record my HR, but for super secret reasons known only to me I prefer to run the activity app from my phone. Sadly, in that case, I don't seem to be able to use the S2 HR function.
So I have the Gear S3 Frontier LTE and noticed tonight while walking that the GPS can only find a fix when the watch isn't connected to my phone via Bluetooth.
Is this the correct behavior? If not, how do I fix it?
mattman86 said:
So I have the Gear S3 Frontier LTE and noticed tonight while walking that the GPS can only find a fix when the watch isn't connected to my phone via Bluetooth.
Is this the correct behavior? If not, how do I fix it?
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I had the same problem, Gear S3 F paired with Huawei P10 lite... when I connected to phone GPS didnt work... BUT only with Android Oreo 8.0! If I installed other ROM, Nougat 7.x or 8.1 it worked perfect! With other phones with Oreo 8.0 or without pairing too... I dont understand, why... I gave Gear 3 times to service but they didnt find any problem (they tried it without phone I think....)
I have the same problem with Huawei p20 pro. Tried disabling all battery saving options for Samsung apps but no go. No GPS when connected on Bluetooth, making this "smart watch" just a watch and a step tracker.
After updating the Gear S Plugin to 2.2.03.19010761 and Galaxy Wearable t0 2.2.21.18080361, GPS works properly again.