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Moto with Google Fit and no phone on me?

Hi, my first post for the Moto 360.
I'm thinking of buying the current model for me and my wife since they are being discounted at a good price to make room for the new ones. We basically want to use it for fit, Google fit.
Does your phone need to be on you for the Google fit to work on the Moto 360? Will it need WIFI to work and I've read the update for WIFI has been put on hold until Moto works out some problems with the update with Google?
I walk a lot at work and we are not allow to have our cell phones on us. But I wanted to be able to keep track of how many steps and etc. I would like for Google fit to work on the watch without having to have my phone on me.
Thanks in advance!

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jcarlm said:
Hi, my first post for the Moto 360.
I'm thinking of buying the current model for me and my wife since they are being discounted at a good price to make room for the new ones. We basically want to use it for fit, Google fit.
Does your phone need to be on you for the Google fit to work on the Moto 360? Will it need WIFI to work and I've read the update for WIFI has been put on hold until Moto works out some problems with the update with Google?
I walk a lot at work and we are not allow to have our cell phones on us. But I wanted to be able to keep track of how many steps and etc. I would like for Google fit to work on the watch without having to have my phone on me.
Thanks in advance!
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It will do heart rate and steps with no phone.
At some point you will need the phone but it will store steps and heart rate on the watch with no issues.

jcarlm said:
Hi, my first post for the Moto 360.
I'm thinking of buying the current model for me and my wife since they are being discounted at a good price to make room for the new ones. We basically want to use it for fit, Google fit.
Does your phone need to be on you for the Google fit to work on the Moto 360? Will it need WIFI to work and I've read the update for WIFI has been put on hold until Moto works out some problems with the update with Google?
I walk a lot at work and we are not allow to have our cell phones on us. But I wanted to be able to keep track of how many steps and etc. I would like for Google fit to work on the watch without having to have my phone on me.
Thanks in advance!
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You do not need your phone with you for Fit to count steps. Once the phone re-syncs with the watch your steps will be synced to fit. I have tried this and it works just fine, but there are some issues with the Fit app itself.
Last night I did a run on a treadmill for the first time with my watch on and my phone just sitting on the treadmill . When I opened up the Fit app my step count was about what it was before my treadmill run. However when I went to the bar graph of the steps taken by hour all of my steps were showing up in there. If I added up the totals though out the day I was off by several thousand steps. I have two apps the report off the Google Fit stats - Driver watchface and it was picking up all the steps in its totals as well as Cinch and it was picking up the steps correctly. I went in and added an activity to Google Fit and it then added the steps to the daily total and did not change the step counts in the bar graph. I still had about 500 more steps in the bar graph that I had in the totals and I assume this is from times when I left my phone sitting in the house and I was walking around.
So it is not perfect, but it looks like it is an app issue with Google Fit and hopefully they can fix it sooner rather than later.

2 Weeks with Huawei Watch

Hi everyone had the watch for 2 weeks now as an upgrade to the Huawei talkband B2. Firstly i love the look of the watch and the screen is superb but for the money i expected a little bit better. The talkband B2 counted my steps accurately, it knew when i was riding my bike without doing anything, it tracked my sleep accurately. The all singing all dancing Huawei watch does not track sleep why?. The report of steps between google fit on my xiaomi mi5 differs massively from the watch as the watch counts biking as walking which is poor to say the least. The only other issue i have encountered so far is compatibility issues between google and dual sim phones, so for example asking google to send sms to someone works until it comes to sending and it cant differentiate between sims so you need to allow it to send on your phone which sort of defeats the object. The only way i can get it to work is to prioritise sims which then routes any call through 1 sim again sort of defeats the object of a dual sim phone as i want to choose which sim to send it on. Also cards from google re appearing even though they have been dismissed earlier seems to happen quite often. Still love this watch its stylish and the build quality is excellent so hoping someone can help me or future updates from Huawei and Google address my concern.

It could be just me....but i noticed on the last rom i was on it kept lagging on me and acting all sorts of weird i finally updated the ROM and watch works great now.
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It also could just be me, but I find the watch grossly misses my steps, compared to my Fitbit Charge HR, Gear S2, and iWatch. It usually lags behind by 1500 -2000 steps at the end of the day. I have taken 100 steps and none were detected and then repeated it with exaggerating my arm swing and it picked up about 60%. I'm a small guy, but that should not matter I would think. Would love to get rid of my Fitbit Charge HR, but can't relay on my HW Watch accurately counting my steps with normal walking and activity.

chezy86 said:
Hi everyone had the watch for 2 weeks now as an upgrade to the Huawei talkband B2. Firstly i love the look of the watch and the screen is superb but for the money i expected a little bit better. The talkband B2 counted my steps accurately, it knew when i was riding my bike without doing anything, it tracked my sleep accurately. The all singing all dancing Huawei watch does not track sleep why?. The report of steps between google fit on my xiaomi mi5 differs massively from the watch as the watch counts biking as walking which is poor to say the least. The only other issue i have encountered so far is compatibility issues between google and dual sim phones, so for example asking google to send sms to someone works until it comes to sending and it cant differentiate between sims so you need to allow it to send on your phone which sort of defeats the object. The only way i can get it to work is to prioritise sims which then routes any call through 1 sim again sort of defeats the object of a dual sim phone as i want to choose which sim to send it on. Also cards from google re appearing even though they have been dismissed earlier seems to happen quite often. Still love this watch its stylish and the build quality is excellent so hoping someone can help me or future updates from Huawei and Google address my concern.
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It will track sleep if you have the app Sleep with Android.

Help, Ideas, how to make weight watchers, google fit, s health work moto 360

I've search this topic to no end so forgive me if an answers is tucked away in some lost dark corner. I love the S health app on my Galaxy note 5 however I wanted to eco system of Android wear so I went with the second gen Moto 360. There are a couple of things I would like to find out or maybe spark one of you talented developers to create.
1. can we trick, hack, port or whatever the moto 360 to record data into S health, even if it's via a middle man app?????
2. Same question but for weight watchers who is partnered with fitness bands only, is there a way to trick integration?
S health is by far the best and most robust health/fitness tracking app out there, it is a damn shame they lock it down to their Tizen watches that have basically no apps.
Thanks

So anyone else considering upgrading?

Just curious if anyone else is getting ready to upgrade now that it appears highly unlikely anyone is going to be able to get android wear 2.0 on the moto 360 and Motorola has already confirmed they won't. Personally, I think those new google "nexus" watch rumors seem really interesting.

Hello
Im waiting for the watch with new snapdragon 2100. Android Wear 2 dont change stuff so much that i cant wait until turn of the year 2016/2017. New coplication is not so big boom. And keyboard in small screen is it also no win.
Mayby new google watch or Moto 360 3gen , mayby Sony rounded smartwatch 4 ?

as of now, my gen 1 moto 360 still does its job. I feel that a change to any other watch would not be a significant upgrade, as it is hard to find a watch that looks both classy and sporty. my wishlist for my next watch would be a better battery and slimmer profile (and maybe more water resistant).

Mine does what I need it to do, like erm tells the time and keeps smart lock on the phone. As well as Google fit works, so no I'm not changing it.
In honesty, unless smartwatch prices drop a lot, I won't be getting another one this one gives up.

Is it worth it?

I just purchased my first ever smart watch and did I make a good choice? I'm not a fitness junkey so this will be more of a watch/notification watch. Any tips that you guys have will greatly be appreciated.

Perhaps not. Samsung have made the watch half useless if you intended to just use it as a daily watch to get your call notifications. Not so long ago, all Samsung Gear S3 and Galaxy Watch users stopped receiving incoming Skype and Whatsapp call/video call notifications on their watches. I took the issue to Samsung personally and I got told this fairytale that their watches have never been receiving such notifications. As a long-time user of their watches, I know that to be a load of hogwash. So, up to you but I'd recommend returning it and get something else. It's not like receiving those notifications isn't a core function of the watch, or something. In fact, it's sometimes the only reason any of us buy it in the first place. It's also a function that any other watch can do effortlessly.
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intelrhino said:
Perhaps not. Samsung have made the watch half useless if you intended to just use it as a daily watch to get your call notifications. Not so long ago, all Samsung Gear S3 and Galaxy Watch users stopped receiving incoming Skype and Whatsapp call/video call notifications on their watches. I took the issue to Samsung personally and I got told this fairytale that their watches have never been receiving such notifications. As a long-time user of their watches, I know that to be a load of hogwash. So, up to you but I'd recommend returning it and get something else. It's not like receiving those notifications isn't a core function of the watch, or something. In fact, it's sometimes the only reason any of us buy it in the first place. It's also a function that any other watch can do effortlessly.
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I currently have the s9 and yesterday I ordered the galaxy watch and the iconx(2018) headphones together. It only made sense to order everything Samsung. But if you're suggesting returning the product, what would you recommend getting?

I know you mentioned you're not a fitness fanatic but I'll just throw this one at you, try the Fitbit Ionic. It does the important stuff and it looks good. I say that with hesitation because 'looks' becomes subjective, however, technically the watch functions rather well and excels in some areas.
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I have the galaxy watch now after having previous versions. I get Skype and WhatsApp notifications. I think the access to calls texts and emails is great. One thing you will have to search for is watch faces that have what you need on the watch face to make them easy to access.

I dont use Skype and wouldn't touch Whatsapp so I can't comment on those. Stair climbing has never worked because of the 10 ft algorithm Samsung uses but the rest of the fitness functions and GPS on my Galaxy are right on. I use them multiple times a week at the gym and they're spot on. My heart rate will match with the machines always within 1 or 2 bpm. The only thing I compare it to is my previous Fitbit and my wife's Fitbit. Fitbit makes crap and I'll never buy their junk again. Their fitness trackers are a joke so before you buy, make an account there and read through their community posts.

Tel864 said:
I dont use Skype and wouldn't touch Whatsapp so I can't comment on those. Stair climbing has never worked because of the 10 ft algorithm Samsung uses but the rest of the fitness functions and GPS on my Galaxy are right on. I use them multiple times a week at the gym and they're spot on. My heart rate will match with the machines always within 1 or 2 bpm. The only thing I compare it to is my previous Fitbit and my wife's Fitbit. Fitbit makes crap and I'll never buy their junk again. Their fitness trackers are a joke so before you buy, make an account there and read through their community posts.
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Very honest opinion.. and i would add that sometimes when i ride a bike it counts as i m doing cycling

cwb1231 said:
I have the galaxy watch now after having previous versions. I get Skype and WhatsApp notifications. I think the access to calls texts and emails is great. One thing you will have to search for is watch faces that have what you need on the watch face to make them easy to access.
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Is there a way to get free watch faces kinda like paid apps for free?

Tel864 said:
I dont use Skype and wouldn't touch Whatsapp so I can't comment on those. Stair climbing has never worked because of the 10 ft algorithm Samsung uses but the rest of the fitness functions and GPS on my Galaxy are right on. I use them multiple times a week at the gym and they're spot on. My heart rate will match with the machines always within 1 or 2 bpm. The only thing I compare it to is my previous Fitbit and my wife's Fitbit. Fitbit makes crap and I'll never buy their junk again. Their fitness trackers are a joke so before you buy, make an account there and read through their community posts.
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So stick to the Samsung watch?

RussianSolja said:
Is there a way to get free watch faces kinda like paid apps for free?
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Yes, there are plenty of free watch faces on Galaxy Apps and if you don't find what you want you can try apps like facer or watchmaker, plus if you want it you could use the Galaxy Watch Designer app on your pc to make your custom watch faces.
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RussianSolja said:
So stick to the Samsung watch?
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I would say that it's something only you can answer.
For me the galaxy watch is great because it fits all my needs.
I get all the notifications I really need from work, family and friends and I can answer them but it's mostly calls, emails and WhatsApp messages(I do check out the notifications from social media but only to see if It can be interesting to check on the phone or pc).
It also tracks all the workout I do and I can store all the music I need for it so I can go out and do it without any need of my phone.
I know people that need less things from a smartwatch and could do fine with a less expensive one from any other brand, meanwhile other people need or want to use some apps that don't work great with a Samsung watch and choose either a android or apple watch to make it work better with the phone they have.
You should check what you want from a smartwatch and look if a Samsung watch is really what suits your needs.
Feel free to ask more things if you want.

I had several different models. S3 was too big for my hand and stopped working three times. In addition, Samsug's heart rate measurement is bad, you can not measure the heart rate and walk. FitBit is great for fitness but is ugly. There is not too much apps, you can not personalize the watch too much. Some activities recorded only after 10 minutes. My husband has a Garmin tactix and that's the best watch I've ever seen. Unfortunately, the watch is too big for my tight hand. The battery is much better, heart rate measurement is more precise, sleep tracking is better.... I'm impressed

The 1 problem I had with all other watches was i couldn't go all day on a charge with everything turned on.
This one does. Nuff said. For that, it's worth it.