Hello. I'm having problems in setting the time of my gear fit. When it connects to open gear an hour is automatically added. No matter the settings of my galaxy, no matter if i change time zones, set the time manually on the phone, such value is transferred to the gear fit but with an.... added hour. Can someone help?
I have the same problem on a S6 with Android 6.0 on board. With open fit manager the clock is ok, but that software doesn't transfer fit data to SHealth.
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Hello! I have two questions:
1) Whenever I use the camera on my S5, gear fits disconnects from the phone. Anyone else facing the same issue?
2) I thought Gear Fit is as an active HRM device. When I try to use it with S-Health and start the workout, it says no HRM connected. In the setting it does show Gear fit connected. If the gear fit does not have this capability, how does the phone provide real time updates (like to speed up/ or slow down). And do you really initiate that workout?
TIA.
samsingla said:
Hello! I have two questions:
1) Whenever I use the camera on my S5, gear fits disconnects from the phone. Anyone else facing the same issue?
2) I thought Gear Fit is as an active HRM device. When I try to use it with S-Health and start the workout, it says no HRM connected. In the setting it does show Gear fit connected. If the gear fit does not have this capability, how does the phone provide real time updates (like to speed up/ or slow down). And do you really initiate that workout?
TIA.
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1. No idea. It shouldn't happen.
2. You start the workout using the gear fit itself. Go into the Exercise menu and choose one of the options. Then it syncs up with your phone and does the "coaching" function.
I have two Gear Fits connected to two non-Samsung phones (Nexus 4 and a Sony Xperia Z Ultra). Both have the same issue where most notifications will not show details, but just a message of: "For details, view this notification on your mobile device."
There seems to be no consistency of when I may or may not get details. Sometimes it shows it for a bunch of notifications in a row, but once it stops working, I have no idea when it might start working again. Anybody else have this problem and any ideas?
Additional info:
Gear Fits on firmware NG2, Gear Fit Manager 1.70
I have the same issue as well and no idea why it happens, I usually try to restart the phone and I think it gets back to working
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I used to have this issue. It occurs when the host fit is connected back to the device after any loss of connection. The guy works everytime. Once you connect fit to phone, go to gear manager app, notifications, use the switch at the top to turn off all notifications. Wait 5 sec, turn notifications back on. Will be fine until next time fit disconnects. So repeat with each connection.
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solve the problem
When u lose connection
Close bluetooth
Open bluetooth
Open the gear manager app
I use automatelt to automate that to reconnect and fix that problem
Works 99% of the time
Last year I decided to downsize from my Galaxy S3 to a basic flip phone. I still have my original Galaxy S (sch-i500 Fascinate [CM 10]) that I use as a WiFi media player (love the Wolfson dac), check my email, and offline GPS from time to time. I don't regret my decision as crazy as it sounds (also gave up my Verizon unlimited data) but I'm saving $50 per month and also feel more connected to the world around me. The only thing that I absolutely hate about my crappy LG flip phone it texting with it. T9 texting is so hideous! I've played around with the Gear S at a Verizon store and concluded that texting on the Gear S is much more superior to T9 texting on my flip phone and would like to use the Gear S as my main phone. It's my understanding that the Gear Manager app is needed to load apps and sync to the Gear S and I realize that I'll need to mod my original Galaxy S even more to get Gear Manager to work, but if I can't get it to work I figure I could just use my parents Galaxy S4's to load apps onto the Gear S.
The only other real problem I've read about on the Gear S forums that concerns me is the matter of Contacts and that with the Gear S itself you can't manually add contacts but have to use a Galaxy phone synced with Gear Manager. Before I got rid of my Galaxy S3 I backed up my contacts to the micro sim card. Couldn't I just trim down the micro sim to a nano sim and have all my contacts added to the Gear S that way? If that won't work what about sending contacts to the Gear S via bluetooth without Gear Manager?
I don't think that will work but if you still have your old phone you could use it if it has the correct OS. You only need to install the Gear App via WiFi. It will transfer your contacts during the setup (after connecting via Bluetooth). I would try it with the old phone before cutting you sim down
Have had my Gear S since June 2015 with issues the past three to four months. TMo and Samsung have been unhelpful.
1. Not connecting to network
2. Mic intermittent, mostly stopping immediately after trying to turn on
3. Samsung Play store apps do not work, such as gear task-will not add tasks nor lists. Wrist list will not add
4. Hi Gear wont work since the watch can't find a network
5. Apps will not run/work or force closes
6. Sometimes Remote works between Gear S and Note Edge, most of the time, not.
The only things that do work on the Gear S are the standard watches and S-Health. I've tried downloading watch faces from the app store and they crash the watch. I had loaded Nike Running now can't remove the app. Same with Milk Music-it wouldn't play on the watch, it just acted as a remote control for Milk Music on my Note Edge. I've disabled/removed Gear S apps on my phone (that do not show up on the Gear Manager app) but they do not remove from the watch itself.
I've already sent the Gear S into repair due to flashing between screens. I've spent days with TMo and Samsung help on all social network sites--they take 2-3 hours between answering questions and 'helping', so one issue will take 3-5 days.
SO Frustrated with the Gear S and Note Edge, sometimes i just want my money back, but way beyond the time frame now.
Want to share my experience on fixing my GPS tracking during my run.
BACKGROUND
For a few weeks, I noticed that my Samsung Gear Fit 2 no longer tracks location during a run and walk. But it was doing that when I brough my Fit2 last year. I have Google and not much info on the problem. I have noticed that the Fit2 was working properly when I had a Samsung phone. The problem occurs when I switch to a new (non-Samsung) phone. Location is turned on on the Fit2, GPS was turned on on my new phone, reset Fit2, etc... nothing would bring back the GPS. More specifically, the problem is that after my run, the map would not show up in SHealth.
Until I read a post somewhere that Fit2 will not use its onboard GPS until it is disconnected from the phone. In a nutshell, someone on the Internet suggested that turning off Bluetooth on the phone allows her to track her run. I use GPS Info Watch watch face to verify. Bingo solution. But not yet. What about my alerts during my exercise? If I turn off Bluetooth, I would not be receiving alerts.
SOLUTION
The solution is simple. Enable Your Location (aka GPS) App Permissions on Gear Fit Plugin.
It seemed that Samsung design the logic of the Fit2 to read GPS location first from the phone (if the Fit2 is connected via Bluetooth). If the Fti2 loss connection to the phone, it will activate the onboard GPS. In my case, because My Location was blocked in App Permissions for Gear Fit Plugin, GPS location was not passed onto my Fit2.
I wish Samsung would have better design and support for its product. But XDA fills in the gap. XDA ROCKS :highfive:
same problem
r_fung said:
Want to share my experience on fixing my GPS tracking during my run.
BACKGROUND
For a few weeks, I noticed that my Samsung Gear Fit 2 no longer tracks location during a run and walk. But it was doing that when I brough my Fit2 last year. I have Google and not much info on the problem. I have noticed that the Fit2 was working properly when I had a Samsung phone. The problem occurs when I switch to a new (non-Samsung) phone. Location is turned on on the Fit2, GPS was turned on on my new phone, reset Fit2, etc... nothing would bring back the GPS. More specifically, the problem is that after my run, the map would not show up in SHealth.
Until I read a post somewhere that Fit2 will not use its onboard GPS until it is disconnected from the phone. In a nutshell, someone on the Internet suggested that turning off Bluetooth on the phone allows her to track her run. I use GPS Info Watch watch face to verify. Bingo solution. But not yet. What about my alerts during my exercise? If I turn off Bluetooth, I would not be receiving alerts.
SOLUTION
The solution is simple. Enable Your Location (aka GPS) App Permissions on Gear Fit Plugin.
It seemed that Samsung design the logic of the Fit2 to read GPS location first from the phone (if the Fit2 is connected via Bluetooth). If the Fti2 loss connection to the phone, it will activate the onboard GPS. In my case, because My Location was blocked in App Permissions for Gear Fit Plugin, GPS location was not passed onto my Fit2.
I wish Samsung would have better design and support for its product. But XDA fills in the gap. XDA ROCKS :highfive:
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I have a same problem, but with bicycle, at first it worked, but after one time using, it does not recognize GPS and past track anymore, the permission is on, I just reinstaled galaxy wear app, I will see what will be now
shota_k said:
I have a same problem, but with bicycle, at first it worked, but after one time using, it does not recognize GPS and past track anymore, the permission is on, I just reinstaled galaxy wear app, I will see what will be now
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the GPS does not work with a bicycle