Hi, so I had my Samsung Gear Fit 2 for a while and it was working fine used it with a few different phones. Right now, I'm using it with Xiaomi Mi8. Before, there wasn't any problems, but now, it started acting up. Whenever I start a run or a cycle session, it doesn't track how much I run/cycle or how fast. I tried factory resetting it, but that didn't help. Gear Plugin on my phone has location permissions. The watch is out of warranty, so that's not an option.
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Hey there. I've followed all the necessary steps when it comes to setting up the Gear Fit with my Nexus 5. There are no issues pairing, all is well in that regard, however, the date and time on the Gear Fit are way off. It's stuck in November and tells me my birthday in the 80s is in the future when setting up my profile. No matter how often I pair, unpair, reset, whatever, the correct time settings won't push to the watch. Are there any fixes for this? Or should I abandon hope of using it with the Nexus 5 and return it?
Nice day finally.
Went for a 9mile jog. Turned on gps and went with Nike app. Saw the GPS and went.
Went to look at stats and apparently gps stayed grey (couldn't see in bright light)... Stunk. (also stinks couldn't read the red ticker tape at bottom in sun during run)- I'd use shealth if it had splits.
Anyway got home and tried s health. Also wouldn't lock gps. Linked with phone which I previously left home.
Went to gear manager and appa-and some odd update pushed to watch. Then gps worked again after disconnecting phone.
Bummer (and odd)
jeffrubenstein17 said:
Nice day finally.
Went for a 9mile jog. Turned on gps and went with Nike app. Saw the GPS and went.
Went to look at stats and apparently gps stayed grey (couldn't see in bright light)... Stunk. (also stinks couldn't read the red ticker tape at bottom in sun during run)- I'd use shealth if it had splits.
Anyway got home and tried s health. Also wouldn't lock gps. Linked with phone which I previously left home.
Went to gear manager and appa-and some odd update pushed to watch. Then gps worked again after disconnecting phone.
Bummer (and odd)
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Thanks for your post; I'd appreciate it if you could update with your future experience post update and after making sure you have a lock
So today farting around with my GPS. Step 1, turn on gps, step 2 disconnected from phone on gear manager. Step 3- tried s health. And behold. Wouldn't lock. But.... I noticed that the pic showed the watch and the phone trying to lock, yet phone disconnected! Watch still somehow was trying to lock onto phone gps. So... I then turned off watch Bluetooth thinking the watch Bt was still thinking it was connected to phone... And voila... Gps locked. Even locked when I turned on watch Bt afterwards.
Important to note the pic on shealth showing watch or watch plus phone.... This behavior is new since updating to lollipop
I used S health today to test my brand new gear s. I cycled to the office. No problems for this. I even used my BT headphones during this ride (15 minutes). Afterwards I downloaded the gpx data from S health to my dropbox and uploaded the file to my on-and-only favorite running app RUNTASTIC. In runtastic you can see the split times.
bertrums said:
I used S health today to test my brand new gear s. I cycled to the office. No problems for this. I even used my BT headphones during this ride (15 minutes). Afterwards I downloaded the gpx data from S health to my dropbox and uploaded the file to my on-and-only favorite running app RUNTASTIC. In runtastic you can see the split times.
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Correction, gpx only available if activity is cycling. Tried other activities but only cycling is provided with the option to export gpx stats. Strange.
Verstuurd vanaf mijn SM-P900 met Tapatalk
jeffrubenstein17 said:
Nice day finally.
Went for a 9mile jog. Turned on gps and went with Nike app. Saw the GPS and went.
Went to look at stats and apparently gps stayed grey (couldn't see in bright light)... Stunk. (also stinks couldn't read the red ticker tape at bottom in sun during run)- I'd use shealth if it had splits.
Anyway got home and tried s health. Also wouldn't lock gps. Linked with phone which I previously left home.
Went to gear manager and appa-and some odd update pushed to watch. Then gps worked again after disconnecting phone.
Bummer (and odd)
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In Nike+, I found that I have to give the watch a moment to refresh the screen before stopping activity at the end of my run, because every time my screen goes black, the watch remembers those very last stats. When I turn the screen on for the first time after starting my run, it will show 0 km and a grey GPS signal, then go to the actual kms run and green GPS signal after a moment.
I use my Gear S in stand-alone mode, with BT off, location on and data on when running. One of the latest Gear S updates combined sHealth with Nike+ which slows down the signal lock in Nike+, from what I've read, so I don't have it installed. sHealth GPS lock takes forever and a day on my watch, while Nike+ is instantaneous.
Thanks a lot for sharing your experience about Gear S. I have also used Gear S and I found few issues with health monitoring apps. I am not using Gear S anymore. Now I am thinking about having a Modular smart watch.
thanks to biktor_bj soon we will be able to run strava, endomodo, runastic, mapmyfitness, runkeeper and every other amazing apps out there, THANK YOU <3
OMG I totally missed biktor's thread!! Thanks for posting this.
hackerse7en said:
thanks to biktor_bj soon we will be able to run strava, endomodo, runastic, mapmyfitness, runkeeper and every other amazing apps out there, THANK YOU <3
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Who and when will this be ?
peter7 said:
Who and when will this be ?
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we dont know, but he is working on it, some of the things are already working,
you can follow biktor_bj's thread here
I've been using my Gear S in combination with a Note Edge since February 2, and the battery life was good (typically 50% or so at the end of the day). About two weeks ago the Gear S started draining really fast, running out of battery before my day was over. As part of my troubleshooting, I factory reset both the Gear S and the Note Edge, and ran several tests with and without Bluetooth and 3G (I left GPS and WiFi off all the time). The only thing that is causing the rapid battery drain is the Bluetooth connection to the phone (i.e., connected remotely via 3G = great battery life; connected via Bluetooth = crappy-ass battery life).
Is anyone else experiencing this particular scenario (Bluetooth connection recently starting to drain your battery)?
Thanks for any help you may provide.
Have you installed any new apps that could cause this and it functions only on Bluetooth? I had wearable widgets and clock which were not even active but seemed to cause battery drain and slowness.
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Have you installed any new apps that could cause this and it functions only on Bluetooth? I had wearable widgets and clock which were not even active but seemed to cause battery drain and slowness.
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No, I haven't installed any apps on the Gear S since I reset it. It would be nice to have a battery monitoring app.
OK, maybe the charger is different and the battery is not being charged at full power..
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OK, maybe the charger is different and the battery is not being charged at full power..
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The battery gets charged to 100% using the original power supply and charging cradle. And like I said before, the watch lasts forever when connected via 3G, so it can't be a battery issue. I was thinking it was a bad Gear Manager update, but then a lot of people would be having the same issue.
There are many reports of BT battery drain after recent Gear Manager update (a month or two ago). Some solved it by re-install the Gear Manager. Not everyone is affected.
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There are many reports of BT battery drain after recent Gear Manager update (a month or two ago). Some solved it by re-install the Gear Manager. Not everyone is affected.
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I guess you can count me as one of the affected ones. Reinstalling Gear Manager is not doing diddly squat. I ran another test: no apps whatsoever, the only variable being the connection to the phone via Bluetooth. 45% over 5.5 hours during the night, with Do Not Disturb on. Balls...
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There are many reports of BT battery drain after recent Gear Manager update (a month or two ago). Some solved it by re-install the Gear Manager. Not everyone is affected.
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Here's what I've found being with a Gear since V1 was first released. Gear Manager is a PIA and when updates to it or the device occur flaky things can happen. Whenever I update either I always do the following in the order shown:
Unpair the Gear in BT settings so it's no longer a connectable BT device
Hard reset the Gear by long pressing the power button and doing a recovery
In application manager on my phone I go through each Gear-related Samsung and/or third party app installed and delete it making sure the core Gear Manager app is the last uninstalled. Some of the secondary Gear apps come back after they're are installed but get removed with the removal of the core Gear App at the end
Reinstall Gear Manager from Samsung Apps on my phone and go through the whole pairing process again with the Gear being seen by the phone and the phone being seen by the Gear as "virgin."
Even though my G-S was virgin, I set it up enough to take the AT&T update and once it was updated went through all the steps above.
I've had no issues like call forwarding not working, connections are fantastic, and battery life seems reasonable (I've had the G-S less than a week so don't have anything to compare it to). I never had some of the other issues people reported on the Gear I either.
The main difference I would think between connecting via BT and 3G would be the sync of the notifications - on BT it would be synchronous and trying to get all notifications and on 3G the phone just pushes notifications and possibly the watch is not waiting for them.. maybe check the application list in Gear manager to see if any app could be sending a lot of notifications or continuously running..
I recently just did a factory reset on both the Gear S and the Note 4. I used to have around 300 apps that would auto download every time I logged into my Google account. I deleted my Google back up so those apps wouldn't download again. I don't have nearly as many apps on both devices and my battery life has improved dramatically. The more apps you have, the more your battery drains. It doesn't matter if its a smartwatch or a phone.
Thanks for all your suggestions. I had no apps installed on the watch at all, and I only had notifications turned on for texts. Since I had just factory reset the Note Edge, it was also a fresh installation of Gear Manager, and only one Google account set up on the phone - no other apps. So, empty phone, empty watch, and the battery was still draining like crazy when connected via Bluetooth. Then all of a sudden, it fixed itself, without me doing anything. No new version of the Manager, no changing of settings, nothing.
I'm glad it's fixed, but it's bugging me that I have no clue how it got fixed. I've been installing apps on the phone, and everything is still OK. Now I'm going to install apps on the watch, and I have a feeling it'll all be OK with that too.
I have had the same issue and in fact the battery drains fast if gear s bluetooth is on even without it being connected, I have factory reset it and reinstalled gear manager with almost zero apps connected and still get fast drainage, battery dies in less than 3 hours, no idea what to do next apart from Samsung warranty
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