Wondering if anyone else is facing this. My Gear S3 Frontier's HR monitor works perfectly alright in normal circumstances ( I have it set to always-on).
However, when I record a workout manually with S Health (mostly runs or rides), the heart rate recorded is very erratic. The watch would record the HR maybe 10 times during a 1.5 to 2 hours workout. That's it. Wondering if anyone else has had this issue, and how they solved it.
Some more info:
- I have the latest software for Frontier
- I have tried several times with and without a phone
- I have reset the watch multiple times
- I have also tried using third party apps like Gear Tracker, and Sporty Watch. The HRM works well in these cases, but the watch frequently freezes/reboots if I get a call or when I try to switch tracks on Music.
Attaching an example screenshot of a ride to show what I mean.
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Hi to all.
I've a little problem: I go to work with a motorcycle and my S2 recognize it as a sporty activity (cycling): is there a way to stop this behaviour?
Thanks
GS
Italy
GS, I'm with you. I have the exact same problem. Every day I have to zero out the record for that day and then I turn off the cycling tracker (hoping that it just might stay disabled, but of course it never does). I wish there was a way to permanently disable this tracker, as I seldom ride a bicycle and could easily do without tracking this activity...
There automatic activity recognition settings in S Health. Just go to settings
Sorry but I don't have this option...
It seems that you can disable all automatic detections, and that you can not select with detection disable...
GS
ITALY
I have this same issue, the only solutions I've found are:
1) Download S-Health and disable it through manage items, but that does nothing.
2) Contact Samsung for support, which I've read is basically the first solution.
I want to set my watch for all my notifications but I think it's weird how you can't disable a function like that. I also tried factory resetting my watch to no avail...
Same problem here.
I don't want to disable cycling because i DO cycle sometimes and want to record it.
What annoys me is everytime I step in my car or ride a motorbike it detects me as cycling for a few hours.
Seems to be no way to disable it.
Anyone found a fix?
I'm still having the same problem. Strangely, it only seems to happen in my truck. When I drive the sedan, nothing happens and my watch works as intended. i'm not sure what I do in the truck that has my watch convinced I'm cycling down the highway at 70 MPH.
I've had to run off auto-detect which makes me sad because I forget to log my walking and my elliptical all the time. The watch we very good at detecting these 2 activities.
For future users who end up here with a google search:
the workout auto-detection settings are not the the S-Heath (or now "Samsung Health") app on your phone, they are in the S-Heath app that's on the watch itself. In last screen, "settings"
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.
guitareth said:
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,
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.
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:
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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.
Hi,
I've only just got my GW4 (after upgrading from the original GW). One thing i noticed is that although i have heart rate set to "Measure continuously", it doesn't seem to work on watch faces i downloaded from the play store. On those faces it rarely seems to update and i often have to press the icon on the face to get it to update manually. This used to work on the original Tizen GW. Is this a bug or deliberate? Is there any workaround ?
Hello,
From what I have read, watch faces has its own method for reading the HR, who is not correlated with the Samsung Health HR setting.
Creators can set the update interval and normally they put an interaction to manually trigger the measurement.
I never work with watch faces, but I think it's possible to create one with a lower interval period.
This is a question that I also had because all of the watch faces that arent from Samsung has this annoying issue and the other watch faces from Samsung aren't even available which sucks. I thought someone would have been able to create some work around since it was based on android now.
I am using the I-Digit watch face and continuous monitor works on it, but you have to have the AOD enabled. The setup app told me this, so I turned it on and it works just fine. You mite try that on the watch face you are trying.