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.
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I may have a lemon S2 Classic. 24 hours in and there are 3 relatively bad issues:
- Pedometer step counter does not work AT ALL. Wore watch all day and it shows I took *zero* steps.
- Heartbeat measuring is a major fail. Click the icon, and the resulting curve is erratic & all over the place. Never even locks on a heart rate and eventually gets to a "try again" button every single time.
- I have display set to always on. After a few seconds, it reverts to a plain black display with clock hands only. No other features. I can live with that, but wait a few minutes more and the screen goes completely black until I touch it or shake it to wake it back up.
I'm hoping someone can point out tips that mean some of this stuff is just user error, but I've spent a ton of time combing the settings both inside the watch as well as inside the phone app. HTC One M9, by the way, and the BT paired without a problem. Thinking Best Buy is about to get a watch returned! Thoughts on what I'm missing?
Sounds like you have a bad unit. My steps have been as accurate as any other wearable I've used. The heart rate monitor is excellent (you need to wear it snug though)... I can't comment on the ambient display as I don't use it
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I think You should return it - the problems You mentioned don't occur on my S2c.
The pedometer is not perfect, at least not before You make more than ~10 steps. If less, the smartwatch is not recording it (as far as I read, it suppose to work like that, cause devs implemented it to be 'eco-energy' and not start recording with every move). But in daily use it works fine for me.
Heartbeat sensor should record fine, maybe the grip on the belt is to loose? Try to make some activity with sHealth and observe if the sensor records anything.
About display - if You choose from settings 'always on' it WILL show only plain black display with clock hands. That's how it suppose to work If You are interested in having the face always turned on then look in the Store for 'I am Alive' app.
I want my gear s2 to notify me when I've reached 1.5 miles as my physical test is 1.5 miles. I can only get it to set increments of 1 miles.
I have similar problem with setting time. It only goes by 10 minutes. I can't do 12 minutes which is usually how long it takes me to run 1.5 miles.
Anyone?
So how do people work around this? I can't imagine I'm the only one
No idea. Maybe ask someone from Samsung store or email them.
I did. They said the watch was unable to do it. However I found a work around
If you set your target to 3 miles, you receive a half way target-achieved vibration.
You would manually have to stop your exercise session
Also, you will receive half-way alerts for calories and time. I made their targets high so I would never reach them.
I also use flaunt to keep my screen alive
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
Since I got my Gear S3 last year I use it when I go hiking to track my workout. My chosen workout type is set to default to Hiking and all I usually did was tap on the green start arrow at the start of my hike and it would track it and auto-pause when I stopped for a rest. At teh end of teh hike I then had to select to end the recording. This was working fine but for past 3 weeks when ever I try it I find that it only recorded the first part of a hike (say 30- 50 mins) and then stopped. I'm assuming it's giving up when I pause for a rest but cannot be sure. It's most frustrating as it used to work well but now I can't trust it at all. Any suggestions?
MapMy Run also auto-pauses and will not resume tracking
Update: My problem as described above with SHealth has continued. Yesterday I downloaded and installed the new MapMyRun app for the Gear S3 as just released by Under Armour. Today I went on a hike in the mountains for 3 hours or so and decided to try out MapMy Run. I set it for hiking mode, started it up, and for first couple of hours it was working great. It looked really good (nice clear sharp display with lots of information) and I was well pleased with it, until it just stopped tracking after around 2 hours 20 mins. The display just stopped at the same time and distance travelled etc and stopped updating.
I tried pressing the Back button and the voice announcement offered to Pause tracking. As I did NOT want to pause tracking I clicked the Back button again, and it said it had resumed, but it stuck at same time and distance for the rest of my hike. So it seems that my problem as reported above with SHealth is somehow affecting all exercise tracking on my S3. It appears that at some point it just auto-pauses itself and will not resume again. This is very frustrating as tracking my hikes and other workouts was one of the main reasons why I bought this smartwatch but it is now just totally unreliable for this. Soooo frustrating!
If anyone can suggest any fixes I should try I'd really appreciate it.
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Update: My problem as described above with SHealth has continued. Yesterday I downloaded and installed the new MapMyRun app for the Gear S3 as just released by Under Armour. Today I went on a hike in the mountains for 3 hours or so and decided to try out MapMy Run. I set it for hiking mode, started it up, and for first couple of hours it was working great. It looked really good (nice clear sharp display with lots of information) and I was well pleased with it, until it just stopped tracking after around 2 hours 20 mins. The display just stopped at the same time and distance travelled etc and stopped updating.
I tried pressing the Back button and the voice announcement offered to Pause tracking. As I did NOT want to pause tracking I clicked the Back button again, and it said it had resumed, but it stuck at same time and distance for the rest of my hike. So it seems that my problem as reported above with SHealth is somehow affecting all exercise tracking on my S3. It appears that at some point it just auto-pauses itself and will not resume again. This is very frustrating as tracking my hikes and other workouts was one of the main reasons why I bought this smartwatch but it is now just totally unreliable for this. Soooo frustrating!
If anyone can suggest any fixes I should try I'd really appreciate it.
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Just to update on my own issues with MapMy Run app on the S3 locking up part way through a workout. Since installing latest version 1.1.3 of MapMy Run I tested the app on a 6 hours + hike on Friday and it worked great without locking up at all. It automatically paused and resumed whenever I stopped for a rest. I will test it again this coming Friday before being overly confident, but so far so good!
Hi,
I have my Huawei watch 2 for two months now and I like a lot of features, but on the other hand I am quite disappointed that some features which I know from other devices are missing... Now I am looking for setting or some app which will beep/vibrate every time I get in a get out of desired hr zone. I had this on my sporttester: 1 beep -enter zone 1, 2 beeps - enter zone 2, 3 beeps - enter zone 3, how simple. But I cannot find anything similar for Wear OS...The only settings I can find is HR limit warning ( https://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/faqs/detail/?id=137396 ), but I am more interested in reporting entering the hr zone...any ideas?
Thanks!