Hi, I am looking for a watch (or band/whatever) that can measure my HR continuously for the entire day. I would like the HR to be shown on the home-look of the watch (next to the hour) and it needs to be always ON
I have seen that the Fitbit inspire HR does this (in the display you can see the hour and you HR below), but the screen is always turned OFF until you touch it. Is there a way you can set it up so it's always ON (even better if you can set hours to sleep and turn the screen off)
Or recommend other watches/bands that do this please, no need to be fitbit
thanks
The recent Fitbit device has no always ON screen, just one device the Fitbit Surge.
Otherwise use some Garmin Watch.
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hi,
i was using garmin vivosmart HR for my training, the screen was always on so i could watch over my pulse.
now with the Gear S3 i can see my pulse during training if i start a s-health training and i also got the HR application from the samsung store but both cannot override the watch configuration and always stay on.
if i choose always on, when my hand is on the eliptical (where i run) the watch shows the watch face, not the HR.
only if i get my hand up - i see the HR.
any hack for this?
There is an app called: I am alive. It let's you to keep the display on. Battery drainer though.
I have big concerns of consumption of battery with this application
Am I the only one?
You have can be trick?
Thank you
Some watch faces are too bright or consume too much battery in their always-on state. Try a watch face that has a dimmer always-on state, or take your favourite watch faces, and change their always-on state to have higher opacity.
I made a dial I same, quite black
I am going to try a reset of the watch, seen that nobody confirms me the same problem
I use this app(watchmaker) and consumption with always on display is approximately 25/30 % per day.
Wifi is switched off , Bluetooth used when needed.
krca5 said:
I use this app(watchmaker) and consumption with always on display is approximately 25/30 % per day.
Wifi is switched off , Bluetooth used when needed.
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Either some functionality on your watch is disabled or something is wrong here. No way, watchmaker can beat stock watchface. I loose 45-55 percent a day with stock gear dashboard watchface. AOD, wake-up gesture, shealth features and bluetooth on. Wifi auto. NFC, bt connection notifications off. Using GPS occasionally. Without AOD i can easily get 3 and a half day. I've never saw anyone claim to can get more than 2 days with AOD on on the forum before, so this is really confusing.
You can believe or not, but for me the battery consumption with watchmaker is lower than with stock Watchface. it is also true that some Watchface consume a little more, but we are talking about up to 10% more per day, i start to use Watch at 10am and remove Watch at 23pm,all' shealt notification on,wifi off,gps off, Bluetooth when needed,AOD always on,screen brightness 7. When use stock Watchface i lose 45/55% of battery per day.
I think I may have worked out what is going wrong, perhaps one of the developers can confirm,
under ‘my watches’ I have a number of other whatchfaces that I have downloaded, these aren’t selected on my watch but are there as an option, where as the chosen one only has basic functions, the others all have fancy meters, data sourcing apps - after deleting these from my phone and checking they are not available for selection on my watch the battery life seems to be normal, I wonder if the other watch faces are in some way working in the background and therefore draining the power even though I am not actually viewing them
It is Wi-fi connection what drains LOT of power. Be sure it is turned off when not in use to keep your power as long as possible.
Hi,
since yesterday i have a HW2. Usaly im a wearable user like miband, garmin, Fitbit...and brand new in the android wear universe.
- there are no "nightmode" ?? Do not disturb and shut down your Display between 10pm and 6am setup?
- there a no sleep tracking per default? I try sleep as android. But that lights the display all the night with "Sleeptracking" - and in the morning there are not data
- no altimeter, no barometer per default? (see it on the S3 frontier per default)
A lot of questions and not enough answers
Hexxer said:
Hi,
since yesterday i have a HW2. Usaly im a wearable user like miband, garmin, Fitbit...and brand new in the android wear universe.
- there are no "nightmode" ?? Do not disturb and shut down your Display between 10pm and 6am setup?
- there a no sleep tracking per default? I try sleep as android. But that lights the display all the night with "Sleeptracking" - and in the morning there are not data
- no altimeter, no barometer per default? (see it on the S3 frontier per default)
A lot of questions and not enough answers
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On the clock screen pull down a little shortcut menu that contains airplane mode, sound, theater mode (turns the display black until you press the power button), do not disturb, settings.
There are no sleep tracking. There is though a app called "sleep as android" you can download as you mentioned.
Barometer and altimeter can be showed in some watch faces
Thanks. Today was the second night that sleep as android crashes after 4 minutes on my OP3
Yesterday i had to charge the HW2 2 times - that a but to much. Have to optimize that thing.
Today i try it at my desk. Sleep as android crash after 3-6 minutes on my handy. Dont no why. This log-logger from the faq dosent make a file. Very anoining.
Heart Rate sensor while a bike round. Im not sporty. If my wrist is wet....i get ~70Bpm. If i try that it shows me like i feel. 140Bpm and more. Go ahead and my wrist is wet again....plays start from the begining.
The first 10 Minuites are NOTHING...till the time i dry my wrist.
Today after 11 hours I had only 15% left of the watch. But it was down to 40% before I did a 20 min run with endomondo on the watch and listening to music with bluetooth headphones while running. I also hade a sim card in the watch and the display set to always on. So it was heavy usage. But I did not run for long time..
Air pressure/Barometersensor look not calibratet or whatever. Here we are at 1022hpa, whatch show 1009. Yesterday 1020hps - watch show 1009hpa
I want to switch from my Moto 360 because when I use StayLit Wear to set the display to remain indefinitely on, the battery drains completely in three hours. I want a smartwatch with a display lit constantly (with automatic brightness, so it's bright enough to be visible in daylight and dim enough to not attract attention in darkly lit environments) that can still last me 24 hours, running the default watch face.
I use a Bluetooth headset connected to my phone to attend to calls all day long and I want the watch primarily to show me the time, alert me to calls and look good while doing it. I'll try to use the health stuff and the sleep tracking and the notifications, but they're not terribly important. Can I get that from the Samsung Gear S3 Frontier (with the latest battery draining update installed)?
Upon doing some Googling, I found that the watch face will dim after a specific timeout even with AOD enabled, and that I need to install either Flaunt or I Am Alive to get it to truly remain always on. So I guess my question is, with the display set to always on via either of these apps, can I expect it to last me a full day of use?
Yes the AOD dims but is still readable and depending on the watchface still quite bright. The watch has auto low light and auto outside modes to cover the extremes. With the wrist gestures, the watch brightens to your set brightness. I don't think you would be disappointed. The battery still gives me a full day 05.15 - 22.00 with 25-30% left with Tizen 3.0.0.2
Hi, sleep recording in Samsung health in very random, deep sleep 15 min each night, not sleeping for 1 h and a half, clearly not accurate. Does it works better android app or simply the watch can't make better ? (GW 4 by). Also, while hiking, Samsung health stops recording hearth rhythm for 5-10 min, restarts again, stopping again and so on. Same question, with another app can I get better results ? Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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Hi, sleep recording in Samsung health in very random, deep sleep 15 min each night, not sleeping for 1 h and a half, clearly not accurate. Does it works better android app or simply the watch can't make better ? (GW 4 by). Also, while hiking, Samsung health stops recording hearth rhythm for 5-10 min, restarts again, stopping again and so on. Same question, with another app can I get better results ? Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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The Samsung sleep monitor in health doesn't work work a crap. It'll say I slept 2 hours when I slept 8, etc.. Download sleep for android on your phone and watch and use that. It works awesome. It even has an alarm setting that looks for the perfect sleep pattern to wake you up so you're less tired. I have mine set to only 20 minutes within my alarm time, and I feel pretty good most mornings. Hope this helps with that piece.
As for heart beat and such, I've never had an issue with both my watch 4 and watch 5. You might want to try a factory reset of the watch for that.