Hi,
i wanted to share my experience with latest Amazfit FW for stratos 3: it seems very buggy
- after the initial update i was able to activate the Stress widget even if i do not see the app in the launcher. (i was able to see also some other CN widget in the amazfit app but they were not shawn on the watch).
- i decided to factory reset the watch (i do it after each new FW)
-After that the stress widget is no more avalaible... even in the amazfit app and i noticed other bug
- the weather app is no more updating the weather.
-i have some deconnexion with the phone (which was not the case in 4.2.5)
is it possible to rollback to 4.2.5 on official FW? (without unlocking bootloader)
i hope fix will come soon.
do you have same pbs?
Hi,
it seems i found a solution for the weather: following some tips from other devices i tried to set the location instead of autolocalisation and guess what? it's working!
the weather never stops syncing and it seems that i have no more connection break ...
perhaps there's a bug with sending location to watch in autolocalisation mode?
FYI i'm in french language.
After last FW update I have issue as well =(
After the last firmware update to 4.2.6.0, my Stratos 3 stopped syncing exercise logs to the mobile app. And it looks that watches spend more battery doing the same as previously.
When I scroll down on the main page at the Amazfit app. There are two sync loading, the first done with 100% but the second stopped on 10% always!!!
When I´m trying manual sync on Stratos, I always got the message: "Couldn´t verify access token. Update your Amazfit app and try again."
But the app is up to date so I tried to reboot watches and phone, unpair, and pair watches to phone again, but nothing works..
Do you everyone the same problem or it happened only to me?!
Has someone some solution for me, please?
As winni21 asked, can I rollback to previously firmware.. In the past, it works "more or less"
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anybody has this weather bug also? when i try to set a location or autolocate it freez my watch for a while and connection is broken. weather is not updated.
everything was ok on 2.4.5
First cycling workout:
disaster the record just went crazy, like reinitialize after 1hr of workout whith no more GPS tracking, time reset in sleep mode and in active mode with ununderstandable data...
this FW really sucks, no pbs for 7 months then this **** arrived.
Winni
winni21 said:
First cycling workout:
disaster the record just went crazy, like reinitialize after 1hr of workout whith no more GPS tracking, time reset in sleep mode and in active mode with ununderstandable data...
this FW really sucks, no pbs for 7 months then this **** arrived.
Winni
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I'm experiencing the same thing. It's not just limited to Cycling only but in fact it affects every outdoor workout e.g Running, Hiking, Trailing etc.
so i decided to rollback to 4.2.5 FW wich was much more reliable... Everything is ok now.
My update.
I did not find the answer on how to roll back FW in an easy way. So I tried factory restart and it works for me (for now).
I do not have problems with sync anymore. I think I do not have a problem with the weather (but I can not say more because I do not use weather on watches often)
After I did the factory restart, I lost my activities on the watch.
Is there any way to sync activities to the watches?
Wenty91 said:
My update.
I did not find the answer on how to roll back FW in an easy way. So I tried factory restart and it works for me (for now).
I do not have problems with sync anymore. I think I do not have a problem with the weather (but I can not say more because I do not use weather on watches often)
After I did the factory restart, I lost my activities on the watch.
Is there any way to sync activities to the watches?
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i tried factory reset when i was on 4.2.6.0 but it was not better
Hi
Same problems for me with a lot of bugs :
- Wifi works and finally not after restart
- crashes with GPS in 2 outdoor running sessions and i lost my statistics
- stess mesures are disappeared after restart
>>> i returned in 4.2.5 FW but Health App crash
Le_Guiv said:
Hi
Same problems for me with a lot of bugs :
- Wifi works and finally not after restart
- crashes with GPS in 2 outdoor running sessions and i lost my statistics
- stess mesures are disappeared after restart
>>> i returned in 4.2.5 FW but Health App crash
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after first restart in 4.2.5 me too, do a factory reset and health app will no more crash
winni21 said:
after first restart in 4.2.5 me too, do a factory reset and health app will no more crash
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Have you lost your running datas with the factory reset ?
Le_Guiv said:
Hi
Same problems for me with a lot of bugs :
- Wifi works and finally not after restart
- crashes with GPS in 2 outdoor running sessions and i lost my statistics
- stess mesures are disappeared after restart
>>> i returned in 4.2.5 FW but Health App crash
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Have you lost your running datas with the factory reset ?
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they are still in amazfit App but no more on the watch.
winni21 said:
First cycling workout:
disaster the record just went crazy, like reinitialize after 1hr of workout whith no more GPS tracking, time reset in sleep mode and in active mode with ununderstandable data...
this FW really sucks, no pbs for 7 months then this **** arrived.
Winni
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Same problem. Purchased my Sratos 3 one week ago and is a disaster. Watch is unusable. Thinking of returning it under warranty.
Or should I wait for new firmware?
Touchscreen stopped working recently (after installing amazmod). Factory reset did not change anything. Any ideas?
golic.uros said:
Same problem. Purchased my Sratos 3 one week ago and is a disaster. Watch is unusable. Thinking of returning it under warranty.
Or should I wait for new firmware?
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It is a good watch indeed. I was using Amazfit Pace for 2 years and changed to Stratos 3 a few months ago.
It is a very good sport watch. Best in price I think.
I tried Huawei (Good watch, but bad company policy. No sharing with other apps like Strava & Co) and Garmin (really bad software on watch and in web).
Amazfit sometimes has problems with their servers, so that the sync from App to web (and Strava & Co) is not working. But this was 1 or 2 times in the past 6 months and in my experience Garmin or Polar are not better in this task.
The real problems with Stratos 3 started with firmware 4.2.6.0. Normally Amazfit does a good job with releasing their firmware very fast. So I would wait until the next firmware and give it a try.
Normally best way for you would be to unlock your Bootloader (very easy) and make a rollback to 4.2.5.0 and later to custom ROM from Saratoga. But with this step you would loose your warranty and if you are not sure if you want to keep the watch, this is probably a bad idea.
I would wait 1 or 2 weeks for new firmware and hope it helps, otherwise send it back to be sire. But don't go to Huawei or Garmin.
Radnerd said:
It is a good watch indeed. I was using Amazfit Pace for 2 years and changed to Stratos 3 a few months ago.
It is a very good sport watch. Best in price I think.
I tried Huawei (Good watch, but bad company policy. No sharing with other apps like Strava & Co) and Garmin (really bad software on watch and in web).
Amazfit sometimes has problems with their servers, so that the sync from App to web (and Strava & Co) is not working. But this was 1 or 2 times in the past 6 months and in my experience Garmin or Polar are not better in this task.
The real problems with Stratos 3 started with firmware 4.2.6.0. Normally Amazfit does a good job with releasing their firmware very fast. So I would wait until the next firmware and give it a try.
Normally best way for you would be to unlock your Bootloader (very easy) and make a rollback to 4.2.5.0 and later to custom ROM from Saratoga. But with this step you would loose your warranty and if you are not sure if you want to keep the watch, this is probably a bad idea.
I would wait 1 or 2 weeks for new firmware and hope it helps, otherwise send it back to be sire. But don't go to Huawei or Garmin.
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I would have to disagree. My experience with amazfit has been terrible so far. Number of things that did not or do not work properly is too high. Sync did not work for months, activities measurement is inaccurate, battery life is significantly lower than they advertise, official support is non-existent - never got reply to my queries. Now, touch has stopped responding.
Could you elaborate why do you think that Amazfit is better than Garmin? The only advantage that I can see is the price difference - but this approach is shortsighted. I would prefer to pay 3x as much but have a watch (Garmin) that will last 3x longer, with way better functionality, support and overall experience.
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Could you elaborate why do you think that Amazfit is better than Garmin? The only advantage that I can see is the price difference - but this approach is shortsighted. I would prefer to pay 3x as much but have a watch (Garmin) that will last 3x longer, with way better functionality, support and overall experience.
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I think experiences can be different. I never had this terrible problems with my Amazfit watches like you describe.
I'm a Triathlete and coming from road biking. I used a lot of Garmin Egdes from 605 to 500 to 1030. Because back then Garmin was best in class. Therefore I tried their watches, starting from Vivoactive to forerunner.
In the last few years I recognized that the software (on devices and web) did not make any progress. Very bad UIs (in my opinion) and handling and battery time was not as good as I experience it now with the Stratos 3.
Only when I use an external heart rate monitor, I wish the battery would last longer :/ Without external HR my Stratos 3 keeps working for ~30 hours (GPS-Tracking, internal HR and recording) - with external HR this time goes down to ~5 hours :/ I think because the Stratos 3 has bluetooth, but not Ant+.
To garmin as bike Computer: In my team most bikers switched from Garmin to wahoo in the last year, because most of them had trouble with crashing devices on long rides and problems with handling. After I saw the wahoos working I followed now with a Wahoo Elemnt Roam. WHAT a difference and what hughe progress in Software, Display, UI and Handling.
The roam is the device I ever wanted.
And as a developer I have projects in using APIs of POLAR, STRAVA, Garmin, Komoot and so on ...
And the Garmin API is a mess!! Comparing to Strava or Polar I feel ported 8-10 years back.
After Polar released their new watch (can't remember the name right now) I see absolutely no reason to buy a Garmin device.
But everybody should make his own experiences.
The guy asked for experiences with the Stratos 3 and I told mine. Feel free to tell yours.
Because I change my devices every 2-3 years I'm not willing to pay 3 times more for comparable features. But as a developer perhaps I have a differnt view on things like firmware bugs and so on.
Edit: And for me it is important to have an ongoing software support. There IS a reason why it's usefull to update the firmware of a device frequently. The Forerunner 735XT for example got its last update on October 2018. In my opinion it is not good enough or "finished" so that there is no need to make things better. With Amazfit I have the possibility to use custom roms when there is a motivated developer or a community that ca make some things better than the manufacturer (thanks saratoga for Amazfit). I can not complain about update cycles from Amazfit or Xiaomi (since 4 years my wife and me are using smartphones from xiaomi) and additionally I can use custom roms. But of course this is tricky sometimes and perhaps you wouldn't get expected results at the first time. Than better go with POLAR or Corus or Suunto and so on.
hi, i also have a problem with this update. they worked normally before the watch was update, but since then i have a problem measuring my heart rate. my rate not go up over 100 beats per minute,but in real i must have min. 160. but if watches have good day too a work normal. does anyone have the some problem too? maybe it is my fault? Do i have a badly tightened strap??
Hi ! Is there a new 4.2.6 version available without all bugs seen in this thread ?
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Hi there. Long time listener, first time (Android) poster here (and previously infrequent Windows Mobile poster).
I'm in Australia and ordered a Galaxy S2 from the UK, which I love. But the last couple of days I've noticed MASSIVE unintended 3G data use. I only have a 1GB limit and I was going along merrily for the last week. Then yesterday all of a sudden in one day I'd used around 300MB. So I did some tweaking, installed 3G Watchdog and this morning I'd used another 400MB!! The reason I installed 3G Watchdog is because it can tell me my data usage by app, and it turns out (according to 3GW) that the offender is AP Mobile, which had received 339.1MB this morning! So I'm just wondering if I could get some help with this.
AP Mobile as I understand it is purely an RSS type widget. Doesn't seem to be an app anywhere for it, and when you go into the widget, there are only like 2 configurable settings. Can't even choose which feeds it gets, from what I could tell. I had looked at it initially and set the refresh to 3 hours, but later removed the widget. It must have kept updating though (but even so,for a mobile device seems like a massive amount of data still!). I didn't realise this, but have now set the refresh to 'none'. I hope this works! Does anyone know much about it?
OK, so my questions really are:
1. Does anyone know how I can make sure this never accesses data again? I use Juice Defender but it doesn't even appear in the list of configurable apps (though things like the BBC iPlayer do). Perhaps because it's only a widget? Is there another app that might help me do this?
2. Ages ago I used Android Assistant to kill the APM process on startup since I wasn't using it. But it must still auto start itself at times (perhaps this was connected to the update interval, which is now set to 'none'). Is there an app that could persistently disable this (and other) service(s) without rooting?
3. Which leads to my third question. I'm assuming the only way to uninstall this (since it came as part of the original ROM) is to root my GS2? I saw the thread on rooting a GS2 but I'm not sure about all the terms, like which specific firmware I have and which kernal to install after rooting. I'm more than happy to root it but had a bit of trouble working out what it all meant. If I was to root it, is it simple to uninstall original firmware apps or is the only way to install a custom ROM?
EDIT: Ok, I think I have a handle on rooting my device now, my apologies for not researching thoroughly enough. I think I know which firmware, kernel etc. I have so it's just a matter of doing it now. And then I can use Titanium backup to uninstall stock Samsung apps? Is this the best/only way to do this?
4. I'm generally happy with the device as is so I don't necessarily (yet) want to install custom ROMs. If I only root it, without installing a new ROM, will I still be able to install Kies updates as and when they appear? And does that unroot it?
Sorry for all the questions! And I'm so sorry too since I know most of this is completely n00b stuff to you all. This is my first Android phone so still learning the ropes. And if I should have posted elsewhere please reprimand me accordingly. I did search before posting, but being a new platform, I don't have a framework yet for knowing the right search terms exactly.
I am having the same problem. I am also in Australia.
Is there a non root solution?
I use Quick Settings Mobile Data APN off unless i want it on .
jje
After my initial ramblings, I ended up rooting my phone and removing the app entirely using Titanium backup. It was easy and painless and only took like 5 minutes. I assume it's worked for my data consumption, but haven't been able to test on 3G yet because I went over my limit for the month (thanks to APM) so have shut down mobile data until my next billing cycle. Doesn't seem to be anything like the data consumption over wifi though, so far. I still don't know though whether by rooting, if i load the next update through Kies (whenever it is released) I lose root or not, but so far the benefits far outweigh the inconvenience.
Without rooting, you can in the app set the update frequency to 'none' (one of the 2 settings it has!) but I didn't test whether this actually stops it or not, before I uninstalled it.
I too have the same problem with the AP Mobile App/Widget. At first when I got my SGS2 I used the widget as it looked pretty nice, but I soon stopped using it as it is almost entirely exclusively US news - pretty lazy of Samsung considering this is a UK version... you would think they could have got AP to configure it to EURO market or work with someone else such as the BBC instead. Anyway, the first time I noticed it was a CPU hog was when I noticed that in the space of my morning alarm, and me getting up (an hour, in which I took the phone off charging) the battery had gone down about 30%! In that hour I had not been using the phone at all! I checked the battery usage and it was clear what was responsible.... the AP Mobile app was using about 50% (can't remember exactly now) of the whole battery - more than the display and everything else! I force stopped it, and reported it, but still can't believe how much this can hog cpu/drain battery/data without even being used!!! Remember, this is without using the widget anymore, or ever checking the app! Today, I had my phone in my pocket (and inside a pouch) and all of a sudden I noticed it was really hot! To notice a unused phone, inside my jeans pocket, inside a pouch was really hot shows just how much the cpu must have been going crazy! When I took it out of my pocket the whole phone (including the screen) was very hot... something I've noticed a few times before when under intensive use (flash video streaming/1080p video taking/taking a call whilst charging) but for it to get like this whilst it shouldn't even be doing anything is crazy! Sure enough, when I checked the battery usage, AP was the guilty party! See attached screenshot from today as an example - notice the battery go off a cliff (over say half an hour, presumable whilst AP did it's thang) before I force stopped it! I should note this has happened over different firmware versions, so it's very much an app issue.
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After reading this post I have set the frequency to 'none' and hope that fixes this issue, but a widget really shouldn't be acting like this when not in use. I would be interested to hear if anyone else spots this in their battery usage - if so please post a screenshot also!
Samsung/AP please fix!
BTW, You will see that Wifi Sharing was draining the battery also... again without me using it. Could AP be activating it?
I am having exactly the same issue.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S2 and live in the UK so I too found the AP Mobile app a waste of space so I removed it.
A week into my monthly data quota being refreshed O2 txted me telling me I had used 80% of my 500Mb data - which was bizarre since I use my phone mainly on wifi and not for downloading large files. Even more bizarrely ONE HOUR later I got another txt telling me ALL my data had been used - and I had done absolutely nothing. In fact I even closed down the widgets I thought were consuming data.
I didn't realise it was APM at the time - however a few days ago I woke up and noticed my battery level abnormally low. I checked the usage and it had AP Mobile As the culprit - even though I had removed the widget weeks earlier! It was right at the top of battery usage, even above Display and Android OS
There is something seriously wrong with the AP Mobile App on Galaxy S2.
Based on another poster's above advice, I just added the widget again, went to SETTINGS for it and set the update frequency to NONE (it had been on hourly before I last removed it), and then I removed the widget again. I will keep an eye on my phone.
Really annoyed that Samsung Galaxy S2 auto starts this app even after you kill it AND especially after you removed the widget too!
Looks like I am going to have to root my phone if this don't work!
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I am having exactly the same issue.
I have the Samsung Galaxy S2 and live in the UK so I too found the AP Mobile app a waste of space so I removed it.
A week into my monthly data quota being refreshed O2 txted me telling me I had used 80% of my 500Mb data - which was bizarre since I use my phone mainly on wifi and not for downloading large files. Even more bizarrely ONE HOUR later I got another txt telling me ALL my data had been used - and I had done absolutely nothing. In fact I even closed down the widgets I thought were consuming data.
I didn't realise it was APM at the time - however a few days ago I woke up and noticed my battery level abnormally low. I checked the usage and it had AP Mobile As the culprit - even though I had removed the widget weeks earlier! It was right at the top of battery usage, even above Display and Android OS
There is something seriously wrong with the AP Mobile App on Galaxy S2.
Based on another poster's above advice, I just added the widget again, went to SETTINGS for it and set the update frequency to NONE (it had been on hourly before I last removed it), and then I removed the widget again. I will keep an eye on my phone.
Really annoyed that Samsung Galaxy S2 auto starts this app even after you kill it AND especially after you removed the widget too!
Looks like I am going to have to root my phone if this don't work!
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Same problem here with AP mobile. AP mobile is a badly written App. It drains battery like crazy, so I ended up removing it. There are better news feeder on the market, so it's not a big deal to just delete it.
iamthecosmos was right.
Adding the AP Widget again, then setting the update frequency to none before removing it again works just fine
Thanks!
AnthonyDeSouza said:
iamthecosmos was right.
Adding the AP Widget again, then setting the update frequency to none before removing it again works just fine
Thanks!
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Same problem here, UK based. Wake up Samsung.
How did you add the widget again please? New to the phone.
TIA Dave
I had the same problem, I've had the phone for about 5 months now,but last night I'd notice it heating up and using ridiculous amount of battery, I just ignored this, switch off then switch on. This afternoon I noticed 3g Watchdog say I was nearing my data limit, Netquin confirmed this, check the usage, was APM! used up 1.1 gig of my monthly 1.5 gig quota! I'd never used the widget before now and as nice as it looks was pointless with me being UK based and the app more US stories.
I'm hoping putting the refresh to 'never' does help, but after reading this thread and going to check that, it was already on 'never'!
Still, I now have 26 days of non data usage thanks to that widget
Something is seriously wrong with you guys' phones. I have AP mobile refresh every hour and it only use about 350 MB per month.
Also Associated Press (AP) is american, so obviously you are going to get mostly american news.
I am on Stock 2.3.5 and its rooted. Installed the free version of titanium backup and i m unable to delete the application. The AP Mobile is not even on my widgets. The frequency is set to None. Still when i see 3G Watchdog, the maximum utilization is of AP Mobile. My ISP is screwing me with long big bills. Thanks to 3G watchdog, at least i know the culprit now.
Pls help how to delete this crap application.
Open up titanium. At the top hit 'backup/restore' and you should see it there. Click on it and you should have an uninstall option.
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Open up titanium. At the top hit 'backup/restore' and you should see it there. Click on it and you should have an uninstall option.
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Yes, when I do that, it gives me option. "Force remove app (by recovery exploit)". When i select this, it says blah blah and your phone will reboot twice.
But in the first reboot only, the phone goes to 3e recovery. The msg is, could not install the AP mobile (and gives the path to apk).
then I do reboot phone and nothing.. AP Mobile is still there..
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4. I'm generally happy with the device as is so I don't necessarily (yet) want to install custom ROMs. If I only root it, without installing a new ROM, will I still be able to install Kies updates as and when they appear? And does that unroot it?
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Updating through Kies does remove root access, but you can just re-root it straight away.
Hi All,
I'm a noob here, so please correct me on things which I may state incorrectly. I'm no expert on the Android OS or Samsung devices (first time user of the OS and phone manufacturer), but I too am experiencing the same problems everyone else is having.
I have tried countless methods mentioned on multiple forums to reduce the high data usage, but many only suggest data monitoring.
AP Mobile is definitely a culprit, but there are many other processes in the background which are continuously syncing to somewhere without our knowledge. I had performed all that was suggested (disable all forms of background syncing, deleted AP Mobile, etc. and data usage was still very high)
Recently, I came across two apps which has helped me better control my data usage.
I will give a little review of what I found useful, and what I found I disliked about the two apps:
1) NetQin Security
This app provides multiple functions, acting as an Anti Virus, Optimization of the device by closed all programs and freeing up RAM, and mostly importantly, Network Manager.
The Network Manager allows for Daily and Monthly Traffic views and you will be able to view the processes connecting to the Internet.
Great thing is, you can also view data usage per app.
There is also a Firewall feature, which will allow you control data traffic for individual apps for both WiFi and 2G/3G connectivity.
If the phone is rooted, there is a setting which can be enabled, called "Disconnect at limit", which is self explanatory
One thing I don't like as much as the next app I will mention, is that it doesn't offer as many apps to manage in the Firewall list.
2) DroidWall
This app is only a firewall. Allows users to control the data that passes through their phone, and has more controllable apps.
Things I dislike, it is doesn't offer a network monitor, or an option to Disconnect on Limit
Both apps are available from the Android Market.
Please be aware that both these apps will need root access.
I know this doesn't completely resolve the high data usage issue, but will help reduce the high data usage.
Please let us know if someone does find a solution to this issue.
Exactly the same ...
Hi,
last month ( November) I had a data usage of 3.6 GB :O ... cost me £20 . And I'd been using Facebook a lot more than normal + emails, however this month, 15 days into the billing period I've used over 1GB of data , costing me £11. I downloaded my data manager and realised it was AP, however I'd already tried that widget in the past, and already set it's update frequency to 'None', but it did nothing!!
Sooooo, I guess the only solution is root and delete :/ Urgh... wanted to wait more than 2 months of having the phone before rooting... ah well!!
just root and uninstall it.
same issue here
Hi, sporadically I had the same issue too. Sometime 100Mb, other time 250Mb, I could not understand what was taking so much data, heating up the phone and draining the battery. Instead of going straight back to the shop, where generally you find [email protected]@Kwits that understand zero about this sort of problems, I decided to study the issue a little bit by myself. And installed data traffic programs to check what was going on. Initially I thought google+ was doing it but AP mobile came out to be the first cause.
I ask myself the following questions:
-what is the point in installing a program only for american news on phones that are sold in europe....mistery...
-there are obviously many cases related t this [email protected]@ked up program that samsung insists on installing, as the first posts related to this came out in april/may 2011, so nearly 8 months ago and with the new releases of firmware nothing has been done.
-get your functional tests right guys in samsung!!! how long do you test your [email protected]@t before handing it over to volume manufacturing??
So, at the end, I rooted the phone and uninstalled this crap. Big plause to samsung for this totally (useless) crap and for wasting money and time of it customers!!!!
I have the same problem intermittently. Fortunately I am on an unlimited data tariff, but yesterday my phone used ~350mb and drained the battery in a few hours. Battery and data use statistics showed that AP mobile used nearly 30% of the battery, despite the fact that I had not run it and do not have the widget installed!
I used the "My Samsung" UK site to contact tech support to ask about the issue. The response I got was:
"Thank you for contacting Samsung.
Can you please go menu>settings>accounts and sync and turn off automatic
sync
If you require any further assistance, please contact Samsung again and
we will be more than happy to help."
Useful. It's not like I want to get my e-mails/calendar events/twitter feeds/facebook updates/BBC news updates...
Weibo Amazfit saying about new update, how i understand update is for Verge smart watch. Description talking about optimization, so maybe finally will be fixed some issues/bugs which was after past updates. As i saw international update must be about middle of month or faster
Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/4402763091901649
It's Chinese 3.0.41.0 version, not the US/International/Global.
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It's Chinese 3.0.41.0 version, not the US/International/Global.
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Well yeah, i know and understand that, but must be International/US update too in any days. Past update release about middle of July, so this one, even if released Chinese version, must be too about middle of August, i think. Most updates came similar time as i saw.
By the way if someone will get update for Verge, please write here what's new in it. Thanks in advance.
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Well yeah, i know and understand that, but must be International/US update too in any days. Past update release about middle of July, so this one, even if released Chinese version, must be too about middle of August, i think. Most updates came similar time as i saw.
By the way if someone will get update for Verge, please write here what's new in it. Thanks in advance.
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CN version is updated weekly, US version used to be updated every 4-6 weeks, but nowadays seems to be updated every 6-8 weeks so let's see.
Saratoga79 said:
CN version is updated weekly, US version used to be updated every 4-6 weeks, but nowadays seems to be updated every 6-8 weeks so let's see.
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Last update for Verge International/Global/US version was released the same days as Amazfit watch app (Android), it's about July 13 - 16 days or closer to it, I don't remember now exactly date, but that was middle of July or closer to it. The same, I think, will be now too, even when you saying similar period. Coz last time Amazfit app for Android and update for Verge released almost or the same days, I thought after released of Amazfit app 3.2.0 version will be the same now. But looks like these update is not related with each other and releasing at different times and can be that ROM update will release without app release.
What's will be new? I guess: some new faces, bugs/issues fixing and stabilization, also can be new features/widget and ect.
Of course we will see, just need to be patience, but it's a little bit hard to do, when your watch battery need to charge almost every 3 days or closer to four, sometime faster. So I still waiting for battery optimization, of course I love all the time to get some new faces, coz Huami/Amazfit developers doing it great. Also still waiting Alexa or any other voice assistant for Europe/Global/International costumers. So I hope they will be as soon as possible, maybe this time
P.S. From next weekend I guess we can check is new update or not or just to wait notification about it in watch
Like I mentioned at middle of month must be update for Verge. So I got one today with number 3.2.5.0.
What's new? Actually nothing. Just some simple things like:
Redesigned dial pad, which, if say honest, did just with bigger number, that's all
Refined translations of Japanese, which for Global world is not need it. So again empty update from Amazfit/Huami, like was with Alexa update for US.
There are no any new watch faces, new features or bugs/issues fixed, which I hoped will be fixed at last. I don't talk about Alexa or any others voice assistant for Global world, even European costumers, which probably will not be at all until this model will get support.
In a place of that I can't to update my weather information, cuz in Watch app often I can't find location by GPS or at all to find it manully. GPS loading information very long often, manually writing that can't find.
If I did not wrote yet, thank you, Amazfit, for empty update which probably will kill my battery faster again and without weather, which information was until now often incorrect, but after update I will not know it now at all. Cuz I can't to update it, bravo ":good:" Perfect.
If you are not from Japan, I don't recommend to update, but... Probably you will have to do anyway... Cuz watch will do automatic probably that if you will not do later, but I hope i'm wrong and there is no automatic update in watch
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UPDATED: After factory reset of Verge in Watch app location is finding good and fast, even manually. So as always after update need to do factory reset too. Bravo, Amazfit, stability is perfect in yours software. But if say without sarcasm, when you do factory reset do it without restore in Watch app. As I know restoring only settings, with it backing all problems again. So don't do restore in watch app. Yours activities data will not lose at all and it doesn't matter that you can see it in watch, that day when you doing factory reset only this day you will lose in watch (will be not showing), but not in app. Others yours activities is safe. Past days I mean. But as I mentioned I don't recommend to update if you are not from Japan and small redesign is not important for you. Even if you do not want to reset yours watch factory setting and to lose in watch that day activities.
Yes, a tiny toon update for global market. Shame.
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Yes, a tiny toon update for global market. Shame.
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It's not for Global, I will call it for Japan only, coz redesigned dial when numbers just is bigger is not big deal I think, but maybe just for me, I agree really shame. Costumers still waiting for voice assistant, but even watch faces, new others features like payment via watch and ect., is not added in this update
SOME UPDATED INFORMATION:
After to update to 3.2.5.0 Verge ROM first day after factory reset wasn't synchronized sleep activity between app and watch (in app wasn't showed it), I had to add it in app manually. Tonight wasn't tracked sleep activity at all. I had to add it manually to app.
I STILL DON'T RECOMMEND TO UPDATE TO 3.2.5.0 version VERGE WATCH, cuz will be a lot of problems and always need to do FACTORY RESET. Which I have to do again. Coz I don't know where is problem that don't tracking or synchronized my sleep activity.
After 3.2.5.0 update.
My Verge was updated automatically and since then no problems - synchronisation works, sleep is tracked, everything seems to be fine.
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I STILL DON'T RECOMMEND TO UPDATE TO 3.2.5.0 version VERGE WATCH, cuz will be a lot of problems and always need to do FACTORY RESET. Which I have to do again. Coz I don't know where is problem that don't tracking or synchronized my sleep activity.
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Don't know, but I never had to do a factory reset after an update. Everything is running stable since at least half a year and battery/sync is good. I have to say that I use AmazMod for notifications instead of Amazfits own. Might that be a reason?
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Don't know, but I never had to do a factory reset after an update. Everything is running stable since at least half a year and battery/sync is good. I have to say that I use AmazMod for notifications instead of Amazfits own. Might that be a reason?
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Maybe, I really don't using AmazMod and everything in my watch/smartphone is original. I mean there is no 3rd parties apps like AmazMod in watch or there is no rooted both devices. I don't know why i'm so "lucky", but from day when I bought Verge after update I did factory reset more as 3 - 5 times, maybe more
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My Verge was updated automatically and since then no problems - synchronisation works, sleep is tracked, everything seems to be fine.
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I don't know why i'm so "lucky", but I had did factory reset after update more time. But now after 3rd reset from last update everything working fine. Just with Compass old problem, which I had test some days ago under sky, altitude always is not working (exactly altitude only), from day when I bought I tried in some situation, all the time was under sky, also in yard where wasn't any magnetic fields, but couldn't found how high i'm. I don't know or I do something wrong or something wrong with watch. Amazfit couldn't explain how to use it and where is problem.
3.2.6.0 update for Verge 2019.09.13 - 2019.09.27, any news, information about that?
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My Verge was updated automatically and since then no problems - synchronisation works, sleep is tracked, everything seems to be fine.
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I had some and still have: from wrong location in weather to battery performance (with most activated features only 3 days and this is the best tries, when before all updates which i got from March of this year, i could do not charge 4 days and was about 30% alive of battery)
By the way, have you any news when will be new update for Verge (ROM)? I thought some new features will be in August update, but was strange update at all, even for rest world costumers, except Japan, but this time I have feelings that upcoming new update can be with some news really (I mean new features and ect.), coz too soon i expected it in August update. So after month maybe will be voice assistant and ect., at last? I starting to thing that Amazfit is unfair a little bit with costumers which living in not US or China market. To advertising Verge watch with voice assistant which most market can't have it's not pretty steps from it I hope i will can use voice assistant until warranty will ends, i really hope... In others ways it's first and last product from Amazfit/Huami/Xioami at all :fingers-crossed:
P.S. Last time when i talk with Amazfit i got information that about new feature like voice assistant will be said to developers, so after month which i mentioned i hope they will add it to watch features list, also as i know developers must be informed about calendar widget in Verge and some others things. So ran out month, maybe at last non US/China costumer will can enjoy voice feature. Need massive ask about it, coz i'm afraid warranty will ends faster till we will get this feature official without any strange methods which was mentioned here like phone language English and ect
Where the hell is update for Verge? Already month ran out, there is no Amazfit app update too. I hope they will release huge update, not simple as was last.
At last Amazfit app for Android out today. What's new:
The satellite map mode is added into the workout tracks map;
The workout history summary page is optimized, and the sharing feature is introduced.
App you can update from Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.huami.watch.hmwatchmanager (Version 3.4.1-play)
If version is not compitabled, you can try from APKMirror - https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/huami/amazfit-watch/ (Latest version in here is 3.2.0-play)
Waiting update for Verge watch, which I hope will be in any days
do not update to 3.4.1, wait for 3.4.2.
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do not update to 3.4.1, wait for 3.4.2.
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Why? You mean crashing? For me working fine, there is no any crashing until now. By the way I don't use sport modes in watch and my smartphone still running Android 6.0, so maybe crashing only in Pie, which costumers reporting about this problem. About 3.4.2 there is no any information how I saw.
UPDATED: Released, but I don't understand why need this update if everything is fine? By the way do you know when will release ROM update for Verge and what will be in it new? As I know must be in any days (by plans, dates).
Seems that Verge was a very bad seller. Zero attention from Huami and updates that means nothing... Sad, it's a cool watch.
Hi guys,
I've recently bought an amazfit gts and I like it!
Unfortunately when I try to track a fitness session (free excercice, but is the same for other kind of tracking) my amazfit app doesn't track my heartrate well.
Actually it track only a part of the workout and it is really frustrating!
I.e.: if I do a 50 minutes workout when I check my zones on the app I found someting like: 2 minutes light, 7 minutes intermediate, 15 minutes aerobic, 7 minutes anaerobic...
so I lost 20 minutes of statistics! :|
At beginning the watch too was traking bad my heart rate zones; but now it seems to be consistent with the full workout time. (but I don't know if it's completely reliable)
The strange thing is that using a 3rd party app (notify and fitness) I found all the statistics and I don't feel any issue.
I found a strange statistic for sleep too... it seems like the app doesn't consider the not sleep time (yellow in the app) and my statistics are allways lower than real
here too notify and fitness do a better job.
Some other has same problems? it could be that my watch is not working propertly?
Just last question about gym based exercices... I see my heart rate is not so high, but I can't understand if it's correct or not (my upper rate is around 165...).
Some one else use this watch for HIIT or gym based exercices?
thanks in advance for answers!
Update Amazfit app to latest version (3.4.7 as of now), and factory reset watch. Use the watch about 2 fingers from the wrist bone and as tight as possible without making it uncomfortable.
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Update Amazfit app to latest version (3.4.7 as of now), and factory reset watch. Use the watch about 2 fingers from the wrist bone and as tight as possible without making it uncomfortable.
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Thank you very much for your answer!
Actually I've done a factory reset of watch a couple of time, and upgraded it to the last official firmware version.
About the app, I have the last version available 3.4.6-play for my device (Google Pixel 3a XL with Android 10).
Do you know for sure that these issues affect the 3.4.6 version and the 3.4.7 will fix them?
Thank you.
3.4.7 fixes a lot of syncing issues, as well as HR problems in GTS/GTR. Update and try it to see if it helps...
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3.4.7 fixes a lot of syncing issues, as well as HR problems in GTS/GTR. Update and try it to see if it helps...
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Ok... do you even know when amazfit will release the 3.4.7 version of the app? (on android 10 the last is 3.4.6-play and it has been released on November the 22th).
I created an Interval Workout from the Official Amazfit App, Synced it to the Watch and Tested it. Everything worked fine except the Lap Duration always show 4s, no matter what kind of pace I was running.
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So, have anyone here tried and got this problem?
Is it because of the Rom? If I update to another Rom, will it be fixed?
One more thing is that Best Pace in the Info always shows 0'00", which is really weird.
Thanks for your time.
Any suggestions will help.
Ps: I tested it right out of the Box.
Hi, i have received my amazfit bip s but I have a problem and wanna know if somebody had the same.
All is working Great when the screen is lighted but when screen is in sleep mode (using transflective screen) the screen is flickering. I can make a à video if needed.
Is anyone having this problem?
Many thx
No, sounds like a hardware issue.
I would reset the watch and try again otherwise let you give a guarantee replacement.
I found the problem if it can be of usefull to someone. After thinking about it, I realized that the flickers appeared after logging into the amazfit & tools app. I returned and received a new one and the concern is not present. Therefore, if you have this application, do not absolutely connect it to the amazfit beep s otherwise you will have flashing and in addition to big bug with the heart rate sensor which makes continuous measurements while this is disabled in the application.
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I found the problem if it can be of usefull to someone. After thinking about it, I realized that the flickers appeared after logging into the amazfit & tools app. I returned and received a new one and the concern is not present. Therefore, if you have this application, do not absolutely connect it to the amazfit beep s otherwise you will have flashing and in addition to big bug with the heart rate sensor which makes continuous measurements while this is disabled in the application.
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the same thing happens to mine. uninstalling the application was solved? or how did you solve it?
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I found the problem if it can be of usefull to someone. After thinking about it, I realized that the flickers appeared after logging into the amazfit & tools app. I returned and received a new one and the concern is not present. Therefore, if you have this application, do not absolutely connect it to the amazfit beep s otherwise you will have flashing and in addition to big bug with the heart rate sensor which makes continuous measurements while this is disabled in the application.
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I saw a lot of people with this trouble, I never synced with stranges apps. Only Amazfit, Notify and Gadget Bridge. So.. is related to soft or hardware? Is weird!
Seems hardware problem, I do à return on Amazon and my new one doesn't have the issue.
Yesterday I returned the watch to the seller and next Saturday I get another one. I will let you know if you have the same problem.
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Yesterday I returned the watch to the seller and next Saturday I get another one. I will let you know if you have the same problem.
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My first one has the issue but the second as no flickering even connected with amazfit tool. BUT there is another little prob, during night, heart rate sensors stay active every 2 min like amazfit and tools was having control.
Flickering coming after one week with the new one