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.
hardtheory said:
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?
hardtheory said:
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
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just thought that we could use a thread for the sport users and comments on the AW2 update, considering how poorly viewed the Moto 360 v2 update was, and how many sport users would definitely profit from viewpoints of those who have the update.
I updated yesterday, and to be honest I was pretty excited. First things first, how the update went; while many people had difficulties updating, I had no such problem with mine. I enabled the always on while charging, got to the update screen, put it on the charger, and let it go( all done through the slow but not too slow Bluetooth connection). It downloaded, installed, and rebooted (which took longer than I anticipated). The setup process was quick and easy for me, and once I got setup I was off. The first thing I did was slide left for my apps, only to remember that this function is reserved for the watch faces now. I actually enjoy this feature, as it took ages to change a face on AW1.5( I can now put my favorite faces in a line, instead of setting the top three faces over and over until they were definitely in my recents). Next, I opened my app menu. This is a great feature now. The ability to put the apps I actually use at the top is very nice. Speaking of apps, let me touch on those. The play store CAN eat up some battery, so you might want to watch it(zing). It wasn't until I got AW2 that I realized that most wear apps are designed now with 2.0 in mind. The usability is increased, there are more options, and the apps are just..... Better. There's not an easy way to explain it without experiencing it.
Overall, I've been very pleased with this update. It seems more stable than AW1.5, not to mention more modern. I do have to say that the battery is going to die faster, but only if you're using it extensively. My watch battery currently is in a better standard than my phone's (but with a LG K10 what can you do?). Today, with activities including looking at my agenda, texting people back with the keyboard (which is so accurate I might DIE), looking through apps on the play store, and checking notifications, my battery is at 30%, and that's with 13 hours. Notifications, when set to high, work completely fine for me and I enjoy the new look greatly. all of the problems faced by the gen2 users I cannot find a existence of. I would recommend this update, as it seems that Motorola took the time they spent denying us our update and used it to fix the problems the gen 2 users had.
I agree - I love this update! With AW 2 the sport feels like a new watch. Sure, accessing apps is different than before ( no more swipe left) but that's fine - easy too adjust.
Battery life is pretty much the same as before for me and love the new look for the app drawer and notifications.
*Edited for corrections
Just got the update, I'll install it later and report back, I'm excited.
Update: okay I installed it a couple days ago and so far it's pretty smooth, better than before. Battery life is hard to tell yet but so far it's good, I'll update on that later. The OS has a ton of new features that were previously only on phones such as disabling apps and turning off Bluetooth which is cool. Typing on the tiny keyboard and with drawing is actually fairly easy. So far I'm loving the update, not a bad thing to say yet besides getting used to the new UI and it's various changes like opening the apps list with the button and scrolling fast up will scroll through the top notification (scrolling has more inertia basically). Oh, and the security patch is April 1, 2017.
Good post @Nobodyslight . I'm enjoying it too although I'm not using it quite as much as you are. I'll need to explore some more but right now I'm doing the Android O thing. One question is on notifications set to high. I haven't done it but I do like that once you view an on screen noti then it doesn't appear again unless you swipe up. You don't even have to swipe it away like before. With it set to high vs normal does that feature go away? In other words will the notification say on top of the face until you dismiss it?
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Good post @Nobodyslight . I'm enjoying it too although I'm not using it quite as much as you are. I'll need to explore some more but right now I'm doing the Android O thing. One question is on notifications set to high. I haven't done it but I do like that once you view an on screen noti then it doesn't appear again unless you swipe up. You don't even have to swipe it away like before. With it set to high vs normal does that feature go away? In other words will the notification say on top of the face until you dismiss it?
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It does stay, but you can swipe down to go back to the watch face. But I think under the app settings in settings you can change which apps can get that priority; so if you wanted only some apps to show up like that, you could arrange it that way
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It does stay, but you can swipe down to go back to the watch face. But I think under the app settings in settings you can change which apps can get that priority; so if you wanted only some apps to show up like that, you could arrange it that way
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Thanks, but not seeing individual permissions. Not a big deal because I really don't want any app noti to stay on top. Good to know that is what high priority does. I'll stay away.
As for battery, I just hade a gps running (Strava) for the past almost 4 hours and I still have 50% left. I'll give it a quick charge now but that's really not too bad.
Mine was stuck on the 'continue setup on your phone' screen and I stupidly de-registered it with my phone. I can't even hard reset cause if I go onto recovery mode I can't swipe up or down. So it's pretty much dead any ideas?
Continuing here from where I reported in on the other thread; Went to bed with 100% battery and started sleep tracking from the watch on Sleep with Android. Put the watch into Theater mode and got a solid 6 hours sleep. Woke up to 50% battery. On Wear 1.5 I was waking up to 73~75%. Some watch owners that use Sleep are reporting that heart rate monitoring during sleep tracking was broken after upgrading to 2.0, while mine was so much more accurate than the last 3 months.
Overall, now that I've got vibration with my notifications, I've got hope for 2.0, battery issues aside. Overall the watch is much more responsive. The animations are smooth. The keyboard, I'm honestly shocked it works this well. Speech to text, 2.0 stomps the old 1.5.
I'm liking it ? We waited for a more polished version I think. I like my watch again.
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Continuing here from where I reported in on the other thread; Went to bed with 100% battery and started sleep tracking from the watch on Sleep with Android. Put the watch into Theater mode and got a solid 6 hours sleep. Woke up to 50% battery. On Wear 1.5 I was waking up to 73~75%. Some watch owners that use Sleep are reporting that heart rate monitoring during sleep tracking was broken after upgrading to 2.0, while mine was so much more accurate than the last 3 months.
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How do you get heart rate monitoring during sleep? What app/settings do you use? Thanks
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Mine is good too. I've just added Swirl Launcher to my custom WhatchMaker face so I don't have to press button for apps.
SAMVREMIX said:
Mine was stuck on the 'continue setup on your phone' screen and I stupidly de-registered it with my phone. I can't even hard reset cause if I go onto recovery mode I can't swipe up or down. So it's pretty much dead any ideas?
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You can try to factory reset without enter recovery mode:
1) from the watch Settings --> System --> Unpair and reset
or
2) from the phone, using Android Wear and selecting "unpair the watch"
Stepman57 said:
You can try to factory reset without enter recovery mode:
1) from the watch Settings --> System --> Unpair and reset
or
2) from the phone, using Android Wear and selecting "unpair the watch"
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Can't enter settings during the initial setup and I disconnected the watch but the watch stays hanging on the setup screen. I tried entering receiver to hard reset it but when I swipe up or down on the screen I can't change the option. I can only reboot
For the life of me, I can't figure out how to shuffle my running playlist since upgrading to AW2.0.
Has anyone figured out how to make this work yet?
But the battery life is not as AW 1.5 BTW which watchfaces do you use for complications support?
Nobodyslight said:
just thought that we could use a thread for the sport users and comments on the AW2 update, considering how poorly viewed the Moto 360 v2 update was, and how many sport users would definitely profit from viewpoints of those who have the update.
I updated yesterday, and to be honest I was pretty excited. First things first, how the update went; while many people had difficulties updating, I had no such problem with mine. I enabled the always on while charging, got to the update screen, put it on the charger, and let it go( all done through the slow but not too slow Bluetooth connection). It downloaded, installed, and rebooted (which took longer than I anticipated). The setup process was quick and easy for me, and once I got setup I was off. The first thing I did was slide left for my apps, only to remember that this function is reserved for the watch faces now. I actually enjoy this feature, as it took ages to change a face on AW1.5( I can now put my favorite faces in a line, instead of setting the top three faces over and over until they were definitely in my recents). Next, I opened my app menu. This is a great feature now. The ability to put the apps I actually use at the top is very nice. Speaking of apps, let me touch on those. The play store CAN eat up some battery, so you might want to watch it(zing). It wasn't until I got AW2 that I realized that most wear apps are designed now with 2.0 in mind. The usability is increased, there are more options, and the apps are just..... Better. There's not an easy way to explain it without experiencing it.
Overall, I've been very pleased with this update. It seems more stable than AW1.5, not to mention more modern. I do have to say that the battery is going to die faster, but only if you're using it extensively. My watch battery currently is in a better standard than my phone's (but with a LG K10 what can you do?). Today, with activities including looking at my agenda, texting people back with the keyboard (which is so accurate I might DIE), looking through apps on the play store, and checking notifications, my battery is at 30%, and that's with 13 hours. Notifications, when set to high, work completely fine for me and I enjoy the new look greatly. all of the problems faced by the gen2 users I cannot find a existence of. I would recommend this update, as it seems that Motorola took the time they spent denying us our update and used it to fix the problems the gen 2 users had.
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nirvikkhanal said:
But the battery life is not as AW 1.5 BTW which watchfaces do you use for complications support?
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I use the lines watch face.
Stepman57 said:
You can try to factory reset without enter recovery mode:
1) from the watch Settings --> System --> Unpair and reset
or
2) from the phone, using Android Wear and selecting "unpair the watch"
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Thing is I can't ener the settings as it's stuck in the setup
Hello everyone!
I have the next issue:
Google feed is not working AT ALL in the moto 360 sport.
I was a beta tester of google app, but leave the beta to test is that make the trick, but again a no-go.
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
drziddo said:
Hello everyone!
I have the next issue:
Google feed is not working AT ALL in the moto 360 sport.
I was a beta tester of google app, but leave the beta to test is that make the trick, but again a no-go.
Any advice would be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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The Google fees isn't as it is in the app. The only things that'll pop up in there is weather, and some location tidbits(assuming you have location on on your phone and watch, and you allow Google to give you location based cards)
I just purchased 2 of the 360 sport and first thing I did was upgrade them to 2.0. I originally had a Gear 2 Neo that was hacked to run android 1.5 on it. My wife had the Gear fit 2. So that is what I compare my experience to.
Here are my impressions so far:
Battery life seems pretty bad. I barely get a full day out of it. My Neo would easily go 2 days and my wife's fit 2 would go 3 - 4.
The screen doesn't respond as I would expect. It seems to not know exactly which way I want to swipe all the time.
Step counter is incredibly inaccurate. both watches consistently seem to only catch 50% of the steps. My wife is sending hers back for this reason.
Even though I have enabled "OK Google" in the settings, it never responds. Only way I can get speech recognition to work is hold down the menu button.
I have had mine randomly reboot twice. My Gear 2 Neo would do this occasionally but it was somewhat expected being hacked to run wear.
Not sure if I should send mine back and purchase a Gear s2. I did some Googling and these issues seem to be very common. Anyone have experience with the Gear S2 that can give me a comparison? Really like the 2.0 interface and the Moto360 is a nice watch, if these bugs were worked out.
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For the life of me, I can't figure out how to shuffle my running playlist since upgrading to AW2.0.
Has anyone figured out how to make this work yet?
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Well that only took 8 months to fix! How the hell it was ever left out I'll never know....
https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/03/21/google-improves-play-music-experience-wear-os/
just bought a 2nd hand moto 360 sport and just in time for AW 2.0 to arrive. i had previously used a 1st gen moto 360 with AW1.5, but it has since died. gotta say, the AW 2.0 is looking solid, i enjoyed it very much, its more fluid, more easy to navigate.. but i think im missing something. i can't find the setting to vibrate or notify when my phone or watch is out of range of each other
I have a Huawei Mate 10 Pro a couple of weeks and I'm really happy with the phone. But I have an occasional issue. The phone suddenly locks and the lock screen starts flickering. The battery indicator is also flashing between current level and 0%. The only way to get rid of this is to restart the phone. Does anybody have the same issue?
Same here 2 times today,wen i wach youtube and soneone wrote me in mesenger....
So it can be a messenger issue. Maybe I should try to uninstall the app and see what happens. Btw the Messenger is a "virus" anyway :laugh:
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So it can be a messenger issue. Maybe I should try to uninstall the app and see what happens. Btw the Messenger is a "virus" anyway :laugh:
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Wen you got this problem?With messenger or just in any cases?
To be honest it's my wife's phone. So I have to investigate a bit. I don't have FB account. But she uses messenger constantly and also watches videos on YouTube or other streaming apps. It happened again a couple minutes ago. She was watching YouTube but she wasn't chatting on Messenger. It also happened when the phone was laying on the table and nobody touched it. So I really don't know what can cause this issue.
Super strange for me...too but i think is some kind software problem..or i hope so
I also hope that next system update will solve the problem. I also tried to uninstall ESET antivirus if that can cause the issue. But still the same
Im new in huawei thing it will be good any old user to share some opinion.....my phone is on 4days so...i will wait few days more and i will ask for replacment.
I'm just wondering if anybody else has the same issue!?
Happened to me today aswell, was listening to music in youtube. I bet it is softwares issue
Do you think it's Android problem or just app problem?
No clue. First phone with problem like this. But I don't think it is phone itself. Maybe youtube and messenger don't work 100% on our phones.
The question is if app's developers know about the issue. It reminds me my Lumia 950XL car bluetooth issue. It took them 4 months to fix it
Saw other topik with that bug it has a lot ppl with Same thing.
Could you post the link to this thread?
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Just tag you there
Thanks
My Huawei mate 9 . On lock screen flickers with the battery flickering same time as if it's charging . Weird .. it's killing my battery
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.
lfom said:
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.
Please have a look at the Images.
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 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.
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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.
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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 ?