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.
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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
Hello,
Gear S2 is here for about a year - what is the battery experience?
For example, someone charging the battery every day for a year - do you experience battery capacity drop?
My coworker owns Moto - after about a year of daily charging the battery lost most of its capacity making the watch unusable.
Does Samsung put better batteries?
I bought S3 recently and hope for a good news...
I have had my watch for over a year. Gear S2 classic non 3G. I charge it at night and use it all day and it is still at 60 to 70% I haven't noticed any real drop in the battery capacity
Same here. Not noticeable degradation after a year.
I received mine for Christmas 2015 and been wearing it every day since.
In fact, with the firmware upgrades, it may be better than when I first received. I do keep my brightness at 3, Always On, and Bluetooth only. No Wifi, no NFC.
I can get around 2 full days with a charge, but it takes some settings tweaking to get it. Normal stock settings, I'm lucky for 18 hours. Worse if I am running an overly elaborate watch face.
I enable Do Not Disturb when sleeping.
Delete Running widgets that you don't use (steps, heart rate, water /caffeine), stuff like that.
On the Gear Manager, go in and modify what notifications you receive on your gear.
Maybe it's just me, but it seems the more apps that send notifications, it drains both my gear and S7 battery faster.
I also like to look in the information screen, and look at the Memory Usage. CPU / Memory hogs will show there.
My setup
Style
Watch Always On - Disabled
Device
Wake Up Gesture - Off
Auto Open Apps - Disabled
Display
Brightness - 3 or 4
Auto Low Brightness - On
Screen Timeout - 15 seconds
Call
Voice Answer - Off
Messages
Send as Audio - Disabled
Connection
Bluetooth - On
WiFi - Off
NFC - Off
Alerts (Receive BT disconnection alerts) - Off
Gear Info
Report (Diagnostic and Usage) - Off
Fitness tracking apps the past few weeks (Endomondo, Strava) have really poor GPS tracking - the track jumps around and is very jagged. The fitness apps are not running in low power mode of any sort. This occurred before and after the Android P update, and a full system wipe after upgrade to Android P did not fix it.
When looking at GPS Status & Toolbox, GPS lock only takes ~2 seconds but accuracy never goes lower than 9m. It is seeing ~25 satellites and fixing on 20. Resetting cached GPS data does not improve it.
Side by side with an S9+, the S9+ consistently gets 3-4m accuracy. Any idea what other steps I can take to improve accuracy? It hasn't always been this way, and I haven't changed anything like the case that might impact reception.
If I run on a treadmill, the watch will track the steps correctly. It even registers the speed correctly, or at least close enough. However the mileage is not even 10% of the distance reported by the treadmill. I did a hard reboot (hold down both buttons until it rebooted) and that fixed it for 2 runs. Then it quit working again and the reboot didn't fix it. I'm at a loss.
Maybe if you do a few outdoor runs, it will better calculate your stride and give you more accurate results.
I have the same problem, and it's very intermittent. It will track treadmill distance for a few tenths of a mile and then stop. I think it starts trying to use GPS for some reason but that's just a guess. If I turn off "location" it will usually start tracking again. Today even that didn't work, so I went in and denied location permission for samsung health and health services. It tracked fine after that and was really pretty accurate. I've allowed the permissions again and will see what happens tomorrow.
roaddog665 said:
I have the same problem, and it's very intermittent. It will track treadmill distance for a few tenths of a mile and then stop. I think it starts trying to use GPS for some reason but that's just a guess. If I turn off "location" it will usually start tracking again. Today even that didn't work, so I went in and denied location permission for samsung health and health services. It tracked fine after that and was really pretty accurate. I've allowed the permissions again and will see what happens tomorrow.
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Interesting.... I'll give that a try myself.
Same issue here. It used to read about 10 percent low for distance on a treadmill activity. I would get somewhere around 2.7 miles on a 3 mile treadmill activity. Then after the most recent Samsung Health update on the watch, it now reads about 85-90 percent low. I'm getting .15-.17 miles on the same activity.
OK, I found a bandaid that will fix this. Apparently the latest update of Samsung Health on the watch inexplicably enables GPS to track the distance of treadmill activities. Disable GPS when you start your activity and your distance will be as close to accurate as it was before the recent SHealth update. Then reenable GPS when you're done. Hopefully Samsung will fix this.
Just finished in the treadmill, and same thing. Started with location on and it tracked .02 miles. Turned off location for the watch and it tracked to .05 miles and stopped again. So then I went in and denied the location permission for samsung health and it worked fine. I agree, it had to be an issue with samsung health using gps instead of just using step count to estimate distance.
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ALooneyGuy said:
OK, I found a bandaid that will fix this. Apparently the latest update of Samsung Health on the watch inexplicably enables GPS to track the distance of treadmill activities. Disable GPS when you start your activity and your distance will be as close to accurate as it was before the recent SHealth update. Then reenable GPS when you're done. Hopefully Samsung will fix this.
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I'm happy to report that turning location off before this mornings treadmill run seemed to have done the trick. Watch tracked less than a tenth of a mile difference from what the tread reported.
Hello,
my Watch 4 Classic 46 mm BT starts draining my battery while and after working out, walking, hiking etc.
While starting a workout via samsung health the watch asks me to switch on lacation manually. That`s something that never happened before the latest update. Before the update I just started my walk or hike and the watch accquired location on it`s own. That drained some juice, but when finishing the workout, everything was fine again. Now my watch just drains the battery even after the workout has finished due to the constant gps usage. Am I missing something, the battery life has become a lot worse due to that behaviour.