H, I am having some issue with my Stratos 3 especially when i am on jump rope mode. The counting sometime reset at 0 and with bizarre timing period. I tried wearing the watch on the other hand with assumption of the buttons are too sensitive with accidental pressing due to wrist movement yet, the problem still occurring. Anyone with same issue of any solution?
I have same exact issue. Not sure when the problem started but just started to notice. I would like to know if there is a work around. Or a good fix. I reset the watch couple of times.
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Guys,
Quick question.
Is there a setting somewhere that allows the gear fit to NOT end the workout if stationary (or bad GPS) after a preset time?
Scenario:
Whenever I am cycling, I inevitably come across traffic lights and have to stop, after some time (normally once I get going again) the gear fit will display a message "No movement detected, workout stopped" or something along those lines.
If I acknowledge the message, then its ok, workout continues until the next stop, but if I don't notice it, and sometimes I don't feel the vibration when cycling, then eventually the workout will stop all together, and I only find out next time I check the device.
This is very frustrating, surely I don't have to keep checking the device to see if it thinks the workout is stopped, very dangerous when cycling.
So currently yes I have to periodically check to make sure it is still recording, if I just leave it, guaranteed it will stop recording without me telling it to.
Anyone else experience this when cycling?
Otherwise great device!
further to this..
yesterday on my ride home I got the "workout stopped" message when I had been moving for at least 3-4 minutes.
so not sure how it is calculating movement or what the threshold is.
luckily i noticed and acknowledged the message and the workout continued.
still very annoying.
surely someone else has experienced this, or am I the only one using the gear fit for cycling?
If i initiate the cycling workout from the app on the S5, it does not record heart rate, even though the device is paired.
Yes, I have found this as well, and annoyed me too. You could go for a 4 hr ride, and it's stopped after 20 minutes haha.
THAT would be annoying!
This is problem for the newest firmware i think, bcoz early i don't have this problem...
scoobydoo_nz said:
Yes, I have found this as well, and annoyed me too. You could go for a 4 hr ride, and it's stopped after 20 minutes haha.
THAT would be annoying!
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Yeap absolutely rubbish!
I am yet to accurately record a workout and I have had the thing for nearly a week.
Tempted to take it back just doesn't do anything it is supposed to do, except send notifications that seems to be the only thing working properly.
I have same problem too. Samsung need to fix this soon with firmware update. Otherwise it will be a great product.
I suffer from the same problem. Anoying..... And if you track from the S Health app have you notice that the distance is way off from what the bike computer measures??? 4 riders, 4 bike computers from Sigma, all measured the same, S Health reported 2,5km LESS.......
I was really fed up with Gear Fit and I've just return it to the seller.
I think i'm going to wait for better devices (or an important upgrade)
I bought it because notifications and tracking options, but it was disconnecting all the time from the cellphone.
Bye bye gearfit!
The movement detector really sucks in this watch. The other day the pedometer prompt came on congratulating me on reaching my daily steps goal. The problem is that it was early morning and I did not go anywhere to reach the 10,000 step goal. Then it occured to me, it must of picked up the movement of me rubbing one out...
Hello all, I have found an unusual problem. I noticed that the button on my gear fit was stuck in the down/on position after I had come off a flight. I figured i might have had a pressure seal problem with my unit. I swapped with my wife's gear fit and the same thing happened to her watch after another flight. This leaves the watch constantly in a reset loop and unresponsive to button presses. It took a few days before the button on my wife's watch to 'pop out' again, i had to pry my one out with a blade. Has this happened to anybody else? My wife and I had bought our watches from independent places and a few months apart. Looks to be a design problem.
This just happened to me after a flight last night. I hope mine pops out.
The button only seem to stick when returning from a warm country so I think it is a combination of temperature and pressure change. I have been able to get the button released by gently warming it in my hands over a radiator.
My gear fit button was stuck after long flight from warm country to US in winter time. The button is still stuck and Samsung customer service reported never heard of this issue.
This happened to me driving back from Breckenridge, CO, to Austin, TX. I notices on the drive that it restarted itself while I was driving and then the button was stuck in. I waited a couple days to see if it would pop back up but it didn't pop back up on its own. Based on the the above post by Ashoktwo, I wrapped my gearfit in a heating pad for about 10 minuted and when I checked on it, the button had popped back out and it appears to be working fine. I have flown on many flights with this watch and it never happened but this is the first time I've driven to and from such a different altitude. Heating up the watch seems to have fixed the problem.
Seemed to have fixed mine. details are here http://forum.xda-developers.com/gear-fit/help/power-sleep-button-gear-fit-t2844822
gear fit button stuck in after flights
This has also happened to me and it took me a while to realise that it was after i'd been on a flight. Button returns to normal usually within 24 hours of landing and functions perfectly afterwards. Must be related to the pressure I'm guessing. Could only find someone who's also had this problem on this forum so thanks for confirming that there is an issue.
So happy I found this! I was looking at the fully charged watch as we landed, coming from the mountains back to 1000 ft elevation, when it just suddenly stopped, and the button was struck in. Sounded goofy to put it in a heating pad, but did for 15-20 min & it worked like a charm! THANK YOU!
Took button three days to get back to normal behaviour
The button of my Gear Fit was useless after a short flight from Ireland to the Netherlands. Keeping the watch warmly packed helped only for one or two button clicks and then the button was receded and of no use again. The slightest pressure on the button would send the Gear Fit in reset/reboot mode.
However, after three days (and me giving up hope) the button is now back at its normal bouncy behaviour.
I thought I'd post my experience because it might pay off to wait a bit longer. After two days I was considering having it repaired and in the end it turned out okay by itself. I did not even have to repeat heating the device.
Hello,
I have the amazfit stratos for few wkks now and in the last 2 day it started to act quite weird.
Out of the blue it starts an activity without touhcing it, it is scrolling through the options rapidly and erractically. all without interacting with it whatsoever (even when the watch is not on my wrist).
I tried to do factory reset twice (once with restoring data and once without) and it did not help and the issue presist.
is there something that I can do to fix it?
Bad digitizer. Clean it well with a soft dry fabric, restart watch and reset data as last resort: unpair, pair again but do NOT restore old data to watch. If it's not fixed after that, it's a hardware issue.
What is digitizer?
AKA Touchscreen.
been there..my stratos acted out like yours too..factory reset or unpair or pairing again to different phones not helping..
so i returned it to the seller and 3 days later i got a new one..
Hello all,
I was using stratos 2 for 21 months, I realy liked the watch. Sometimes notifications didn't work, but it was allways a way to solve it. After the time my HR sensor stopped working. I sent it to service, they replied that in fact it's working, but they didn't do anything. After 2 months I get it back, and sensor was working for 2 days, and stopped working again. I am fighting to get money back, beacuse I have seen here and in many other places that there was a problem with tightness and even with regular usage moisture got inside and caused a few kinds of hardware issues.
No my 3 questions:
- Do you know if there are still problems with construction in the way that moisture getting inside is possible? Anyone had such a case, or no cases after over 1 year using?
- I've seen that there is a lot of topics about software problems (i've read all of them ). Can anybody confirms, or suggests, that updates are going in good way, and thery are fixing problems?
- Are the problems with app/connection/software common for all users, or only for random number?
I am wondering if it is worth waiting and hoping, stratos 3 is water tight and will work as good as stratos 2 especially for the 1st year, or should I look for other brand.
Thanks in advance for the help!!!
Maciek
Hi there! I'm pretty sure there's no fix for this, but I want to give it a try.
I used to pool swim with my Amazfit GTS and it recorded quite well the activity.
It's now some time that the swimming pool measurements are totally wrong. Like half of the distance, but not even precise.
I tried:
- change multiple times the pool distance parameter
- reset, restart the watch
- calibrate the compass
- try a previous stock firmware, then rollback to the last one
No changes... Any further ideas?
Thanks!
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Hi there! I'm pretty sure there's no fix for this, but I want to give it a try.
I used to pool swim with my Amazfit GTS and it recorded quite well the activity.
It's now some time that the swimming pool measurements are totally wrong. Like half of the distance, but not even precise.
I tried:
- change multiple times the pool distance parameter
- reset, restart the watch
- calibrate the compass
- try a previous stock firmware, then rollback to the last one
No changes... Any further ideas?
Thanks!
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Hi jumpertrekker, I came across your question because I have the same problem. I've been using my Amazfit GTS as a swimming counter for 3 months. Despite during the first 2 months it worked well, in the last one the counter kept counting less than half of the distance. I was wondering if you had found out something about how to fix this issue.
Thanks!!
Same here. After over a year with a GTS well functioning, actually my watch shows about half the strokes, and half the distance (of course half the laps too).
Actually I know it's not a matter of lane length. The very strange thing is happened 5 minutes ago, I'm looking for a solution, and I try to "swim" in my bedroom (moving arms in the air) and it shows the RIGHT LENGTH (for me is 34 strokes = 25 meters) without the need of "hit" the border. I try three sets of 34 strokes each, the first I "hit the border", other I don't (simply I stop "swimming in the air"), but the watch counted regular three "laps".Does it make any sense?
I'll try this afetrnoon in the pool water...
EDIT: After some tests:
1) No matter if you hit the pool's border. It doesn't count the lap
2) In the water the counting of the strokes is wrong, this affects the meters and then the numbers of laps
3) Swimming with a MI band 3 on the right and the Amazfit on the left. Mi Band counted right, Amazfit counted half strokes (and half meters, and half laps)