Is there any reason that after an entire year we still dont have most of the 3rd party watch faces that have a realtime HR complication working? What's up with Samsung/Google that something as basic as that isn't fixed? Are they even looking into fixing this - or will this always remain a broken feature?
dreamtheater39 said:
Is there any reason that after an entire year we still dont have most of the 3rd party watch faces that have a realtime HR complication working? What's up with Samsung/Google that something as basic as that isn't fixed? Are they even looking into fixing this - or will this always remain a broken feature?
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AWF does a complication tat gets over this if you are interested, but as you say, this should be a standard feature.
Heart Rate Complication - Apps on Google Play
Heart rate complication for Wear OS 3 Watch faces. Galaxy Watch4 / Watch5 Pro.
play.google.com
After using the complication and a custom watch face....my battery life has dropped by 50%
not sure if its the complication or the watchface....so i went back to my older samsung watchface - and my battery life is still horrid.
Need to uninstall and see if thats contributing to the drop
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Its pretty stupid that in S health are so many sports to choose from, but in the watch you have almost only excercizes that are strange to do with a gps tracking watch, pilates or other funny things that watch will not calculate correctly.
I mean where the f... is alpine skiing programm or snowbording or rollerskating, football etc. there is only cykling, running and walking to use gps with.
Why i cant synchronise my sports that i choose in S health app with S health app in the watch, i dont need pilates pushaps and the rest of this kind.
Anybody knows how to use the watch with skiing etc?
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Its pretty stupid that in S health are so many sports to choose from, but in the watch you have almost only excercizes that are strange to do with a gps tracking watch, pilates or other funny things that watch will not calculate correctly.
I mean where the f... is alpine skiing programm or snowbording or rollerskating, football etc. there is only cykling, running and walking to use gps with.
Why i cant synchronise my sports that i choose in S health app with S health app in the watch, i dont need pilates pushaps and the rest of this kind.
Anybody knows how to use the watch with skiing etc?
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Hi, I am very curious as well. It frustrates the hell out of me that I can't use S Health for all activities I do and there are many useless ones instead. Anybody can help? How logical to me. Obviously not for Samsung.
You cant even start activity in the phone and see it on the watch, just like in android smartwatches on endemondo etc.
I will not wait until sombody will write an sports app, specially that i dont want 3rd party app and nowbody knows if there will be any first party sports app other than shealth with pilates, joga, pushups and other...
Because of that I have returned gear to the shop.
For notifications and watchfaces I dont need gear s3 with GPS. Also in my country there is no lte frontier version and no samsung pay.
I think i will buy Huawei Watch and use endemondo or other activity app connected to my phone.
I miss alpine skiing in the S-Health app on the S3 as well. But I hope that Samsung will add these activities in the nearer future. For the meantime I have installed Rossignol Ski Pursuit. I wll see next week, how it works in real life.
I have found Ski pursuit too, but what with other sports, i dont belive Samsung will add more in watch S health, couse gear fit 2 with GPS is almoust 6 months old and yet dont have many sports too...
I have had Fenix 3, wasnt afraid to use it everywhere, but gear s3 with that delicate bezel on slalom ski.
I will buy Huawei now, for superb price.
I will come back to gear s3 if samsung will add different sports and more first party apps
So I initially bought this watch on release and unfortunately had to return it due to massively overspending that month. I only had time to have a quick play with it but I loved the screen and the look (Classic) and am now really tempted to repurchase.
One thing I did note at launch was that the selection of apps was pretty woeful, basically everything was a watchface and there wasn't even Spotify, Uber etc. at least not in the UK app store. Has this situation changed at all? Is there any way of seeing a list of current available apps?
Secondly, one of my main reasons for buying would be tracking distance, pace and calories for runs using the watch as a standalone - can anyone tell me how reliable this is and if it works well?
I will post here what I have already said elsewhere on the Gear S forums, because it's relevant to your question,
People complain about there being more watch faces and not enough apps on the Galaxy Store...
well firstly there are hundreds of apps on the store! but just how much do you expect to be doing on your watch? I mean essentially it's for time and date function, relaying of notifications, messaging, call taking/making, health tracking, weather, news and navigation. All these functions are covered out of the box.
So what are you expecting? Microsoft Office? Minecraft? Photoshop? Hello... it's a watch!! and considering that you will be looking at the time more than anything else on the watch, having a huge choice of watch faces is not only a GOOD thing, it's essential!
Now I have downloaded various apps:
Voice Memo
Guardian News
Speedometer
Gear Navigator
Calculator
Cooking Timer
Xenozu (YouTube videos)
Spotify
Gear Browser
Flashlight Premium
Brrr (disconnect warning)
Yelp
Stopwatch
Timer
Hangman
And you know what? I hardly use any of them! So I wouldn't worry about the app situation.
Also, Spotify is available in the UK
and S-Health will track your performance and upload to your Samsung account, so it will sync with your phone(s) when reconnected.
Hi there
I am going to be retiring my 2nd Gen Moto 360 and buying a Samsung Gear S3 in a couple of days. I've never really seen one in person because smart watches aren't really popular where I live but the pictures look good online, I also love the fact that it doesn't have the annoying flat tire that my Moto does.
I am not sure if it uses the exact same Android Wear OS as my Moto (heard Samsung has its own interface) but is there a way to install custom watchfaces from facerepo to it? I always use facerepo for all my Moto watch faces which can be imported using different applications like Watch Maker, Facer, etc. but I haven't seen any faces for the Gear S3 specifically, just the Gear Live watch.
Am I missing something? Are we stuck with the stock watch faces Samsung provides?
And what about the "custom ROMs" I see here? I'm a fan of modding and installing custom ROMs on my Android devices but I've never really seen one for a smart watch before.
Thanks for your time.
1st, the S3 is a Tizen watch, not android wear, and so will not run android apps. Including google maps and assistant.
2nd, if you have Watchmaker, there is a companion app, call appropriately, Watchmaker companion. It allows faces from facerepo to be loaded to your S3. I'm using it and it works well. the only caveat is that sometimes I have to load a face twice to have the units converted correctly.
Also, Facer has a similar companion app.
3rd, since it's a Tizen watch and not open source, I would personally stay away from custom roms until more experimentation is done (on other peoples watches) unless you want a $350 brick on your wrist or are totally OK risking that.
Hello,
Sorry my english is not so good itranslate by google.
I have a couple ask for this watch.
I need some help from people who already have experience with the clock.
1)
how is a good way to save the best battery life.
what should be considered as a tip to adjust the watch.
for a night whit sleep tracking.
and a Day for good long way to run one two days.
If you only use samsung's automatic sleeping app or download the seep app, which is better for the battery
2) search watch faces for free
and have Pay problems way not no credit card in the samsung store to buy.
There is no other way
where can i find packages or links to watch faces for samsung designer GWD files from other users.
why can i find not the watchmaker companion app.
i downloaded the app watchmaker now for the watch.
at watchmaker there are many free faces .
That's because I use a Sony Xz1 instead of a Samsung phone?
3) searching apps for good work on the watch
so man is not loading trash on the clock
I need healt fitness tracking and Navigation alarm sleep and ohters good apps.
if possible, do not eat the battery empty.
Do you have some recommendations for me?
4)What are the differences between a Samsung mobile phone and another Android smartphone
thank you @ all
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With seeing all the development here that de-Samsungize the Watch 4 (like the Samsung Health App mod for BP and ECG sensor for anyone), I became really confident on picking up one soon.
If I understand correctly, the modded samsung health apps will allow me to use every sensor of the watch with my Pixel, without any limitations. But can it sync the data to Google Fit, or is Google Fit supported by the watch as well? I could live without BP sync, but I would like to have my health data synced to Google Fit, just as it is now.
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With seeing all the development here that de-Samsungize the Watch 4 (like the Samsung Health App mod for BP and ECG sensor for anyone), I became really confident on picking up one soon.
If I understand correctly, the modded samsung health apps will allow me to use every sensor of the watch with my Pixel, without any limitations. But can it sync the data to Google Fit, or is Google Fit supported by the watch as well? I could live without BP sync, but I would like to have my health data synced to Google Fit, just as it is now.
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Not everything can sync yet according to Dante (the dev making the modded health apps) but he's working on it. With that said, the sync he's referring to I believe is with Samsung health, but for syncing with Google fit I found a solution to that years ago with an app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.appyhapps.healthsync
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Not everything can sync yet according to Dante (the dev making the modded health apps) but he's working on it. With that said, the sync he's referring to I believe is with Samsung health, but for syncing with Google fit I found a solution to that years ago with an app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.appyhapps.healthsync
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I know not everything is syncing at the moment, and I think it's one of the greatest things that after many years of not needing mods & hacks to use my device the way I want to, when the need arose, I could find a solution here in mere minutes. It's sad that Samsung is scamming users into their ecosystem, but that's probably the price we have to pay to get a Wear OS 3 watch this year.
The app you linked looks to do exactly what I was looking for, I'll still have to use the modded Samsung Health, but at least the data can be stored in my GFit profile easily. This is what I was looking for, apart from using Google Pay, which is also confirmed.
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Not everything can sync yet according to Dante (the dev making the modded health apps) but he's working on it. With that said, the sync he's referring to I believe is with Samsung health, but for syncing with Google fit I found a solution to that years ago with an app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.appyhapps.healthsync
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Healthsync works well, been using it for years now.
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I know not everything is syncing at the moment, and I think it's one of the greatest things that after many years of not needing mods & hacks to use my device the way I want to, when the need arose, I could find a solution here in mere minutes. It's sad that Samsung is scamming users into their ecosystem, but that's probably the price we have to pay to get a Wear OS 3 watch this year.
The app you linked looks to do exactly what I was looking for, I'll still have to use the modded Samsung Health, but at least the data can be stored in my GFit profile easily. This is what I was looking for, apart from using Google Pay, which is also confirmed.
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You don't actually need modded Samsung Health but the modded Samsung Health Monitor. Two different apps for some reason. The latter is only for BP and ECG. The former is where all the other health data goes.
I've set up the sync with that same app from Samsung Health to Google Fit and it works wonderfully. Even the GPS tracking data is included when it syncs runs.
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You don't actually need modded Samsung Health but the modded Samsung Health Monitor. Two different apps for some reason. The latter is only for BP and ECG. The former is where all the other health data goes.
I've set up the sync with that same app from Samsung Health to Google Fit and it works wonderfully. Even the GPS tracking data is included when it syncs runs.
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So basically there is a Samsung Health Monitor (SHM), that is only used to gather sensor data and pass it to Samsung Health, so it's basically just an intermittent interface provided as a separate app?
And Google Fit will get the data from Samsung Health, which gets it from the (modded) Samsung Health Monitor?
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So basically there is a Samsung Health Monitor (SHM), that is only used to gather sensor data and pass it to Samsung Health, so it's basically just an intermittent interface provided as a separate app?
And Google Fit will get the data from Samsung Health, which gets it from the (modded) Samsung Health Monitor?
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Not exactly. SHM is only for blood pressure and ECG. The rest (steps, hr, runs, etc.) is handled directly by Samsung Health.
Regular SHM would share the blood pressure measurements to Samsung Health but modded version doesn't.
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Not exactly. SHM is only for blood pressure and ECG. The rest (steps, hr, runs, etc.) is handled directly by Samsung Health.
Regular SHM would share the blood pressure measurements to Samsung Health but modded version doesn't.
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So let me see if I got this straight: the modded SHM, which I need for both the phone and the watch, is only for BP and ECG, and that data won't sync (as of yet) with SH on my phone. All the other data will correctly sync with SH because they come from a non modded app.
The app health sync can sync data from SH to google fit.
Is that correct?
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So let me see if I got this straight: the modded SHM, which I need for both the phone and the watch, is only for BP and ECG, and that data won't sync (as of yet) with SH on my phone. All the other data will correctly sync with SH because they come from a non modded app.
The app health sync can sync data from SH to google fit.
Is that correct?
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That's correct