Hey team, couldn't find anything on this so I wanted to get some hopefully quick and helpful answers. I purchased the Fossil Sport because I use the Nike Run app and I know the Galaxy Active doesn't have it. But I'm not fully happy with the Battery life on the Fossil now and am considering switching. So!
1. What's your battery life like with the Glaxay Active?
2. If you can, download the Nike Run app and open it on your phone and walk around a bit... I want to see if you can get notifications or the app on the Samsung watch or at least how the distance/HR/pace happens?
3. Do you think the Active is just as good with other devices as it would be with a Samsung? I have an S10+ now but I change phones like most people change underwear lol.
4. Anything else you can tell me to help me make my final decision..
Thanks in advance.
Hi,
1. In normal usage I get 2-3 days, in energy saving mode 4-5 days.
2. You can link Nike + run in D-Health but I don't know more about that, I only use S-Health.
3. I think it will work on other devices, but WearOS is better for that in my opinion.
4. Sadly tizenOS have no Google Assistant and Bixby is...
And the sleep tracking with S-Health is crap.
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blackastaro said:
Hi,
1. In normal usage I get 2-3 days, in energy saving mode 4-5 days.
2. You can link Nike + run in D-Health but I don't know more about that, I only use S-Health.
3. I think it will work on other devices, but WearOS is better for that in my opinion.
4. Sadly tizenOS have no Google Assistant and Bixby is...
And the sleep tracking with S-Health is crap.
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personally i find the sleep tracking pretty accurate for my use case. since when i wake up, i use the phone. when i sleep, i stop using the phone.
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personally i find the sleep tracking pretty accurate for my use case. since when i wake up, i use the phone. when i sleep, i stop using the phone.
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If you are serious about detailed and more accurate sleep tracking, Sleep as Andriod is the way to go. It supports wearables (All Galaxy watches supported) It'll show you heart rate from your watch overlayed onto your estimated sleep cycles, and it appears to be more accurate than just using the native sleep tracking of the Galaxy Watch / S-Health. The features and add-ons are pretty much limitless for what is possible for just using a watch for sleep tracking, although add on hardware can make it deeper depending on what you want to track.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en_US
https://sleep.urbandroid.org/
You can integrate it into S-Health too: https://sleep.urbandroid.org/documentation/integration/s-health/ but it's honestly not important since the Sleep as Android app does it much better natively. That being said, Sleep as Android is a bit more complicated and has some learning curve.
I have no affiliation with the app, I'm just a fan telling it like it is.
jemfalor said:
personally i find the sleep tracking pretty accurate for my use case. since when i wake up, i use the phone. when i sleep, i stop using the phone.
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I mean the stages of sleep you can track with the watch. Not the sleep tracking itself, sorry for misleading. And this is really bad for me, especially the deep sleep. Most of the time I don't get more than 50 mins or less.
Sleep as android works better, but drain the akku like hell on the watch active and sometimes it freeze on the watch at night. Maybe they fix it in future updates.
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blackastaro said:
Hi,
1. In normal usage I get 2-3 days, in energy saving mode 4-5 days.
2. You can link Nike + run in D-Health but I don't know more about that, I only use S-Health.
3. I think it will work on other devices, but WearOS is better for that in my opinion.
4. Sadly tizenOS have no Google Assistant and Bixby is...
And the sleep tracking with S-Health is crap.
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I don't sleep with my watch on; I used to sleep with a Whoop fitness tracker but the general consensus was that I sleep pretty well almost always lol. I hate any assistant that isn't Google so that stinks but I don't even use G Assistant on my Fossil.
I guess it seems like I should stick with the Fossil Sport and hope the battery gets better...
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If you are serious about detailed and more accurate sleep tracking, Sleep as Andriod is the way to go. It supports wearables (All Galaxy watches supported) It'll show you heart rate from your watch overlayed onto your estimated sleep cycles, and it appears to be more accurate than just using the native sleep tracking of the Galaxy Watch / S-Health. The features and add-ons are pretty much limitless for what is possible for just using a watch for sleep tracking, although add on hardware can make it deeper depending on what you want to track.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.urbandroid.sleep&hl=en_US
https://sleep.urbandroid.org/
You can integrate it into S-Health too: https://sleep.urbandroid.org/documentation/integration/s-health/ but it's honestly not important since the Sleep as Android app does it much better natively. That being said, Sleep as Android is a bit more complicated and has some learning curve.
I have no affiliation with the app, I'm just a fan telling it like it is.
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thanks for sharing. sounds really good. but the thought of having to charge the watch every second or third day makes it a pain point. so the sleep tracking im using now is simply samsung health. so while im outside, it will track my hr too. so it's all cool.
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blackastaro said:
I mean the stages of sleep you can track with the watch. Not the sleep tracking itself, sorry for misleading. And this is really bad for me, especially the deep sleep. Most of the time I don't get more than 50 mins or less.
Sleep as android works better, but drain the akku like hell on the watch active and sometimes it freeze on the watch at night. Maybe they fix it in future updates.
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oh sorry. sometimes i reply, forgetting the forum context.
that sounds really good, being able to track stages of sleep. certainly gonna try it sometime
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Active Watch swimming tracking
GW Active stopped recording distance/laps while swimming in pool. Eg. 30min Swim 0 m. Any ideas for a fix? TIA
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Most of you might have already seen this video somewhere.
I saw it recently and was impressed.
What do you think about the Nexus 10 ?
Source :- Source :- Youtube (Brief Mobile)
Wow, best tablet evAR!! Just from those 5 seconds I can tell it has world dominanca cumming from it's ****.
Ok, seriously...
Phone UI on a tablet not so rad.
Maybe Paranoid Android will be able to do something about that interface.
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Maybe Paranoid Android will be able to do something about that interface.
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if this is the new tablet mode and they removed the old one i doubt that
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What a stupid video...
You can hardly say it's "in action"
that's like showing a video of someone starting a car and saying it's "in action"
The border around the screen makes it look weird..
I'm worried they're getting rid of the tablet UI we like so much.
-Brought to you by Marino's Galaxy Nexus-
Best movie trailer ever. EVER!!
...
I love the phone ui on a tablet, but hopefully they do keep the tablet ui for those who do like it. That's what makes Android great, it's customizable for almost anybody.
Maybe it's just beta software and DPI related. No Android tablet has had that dense a display before (pretty sure its around the 300 mark). If you mess with the DPI on existing android tabs the UI switches to Nexus 7 style (tested on my XOOM).
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if this is the new tablet mode and they removed the old one i doubt that
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Well, it's all open-source. A dev who understands it well enough could probably program the old tablet UI back in.
It has been out for a while now and I was wondering whether Sony had any plans to bring out a new one, or does this version have pretty much all the technology they can hope for right now?
Thinking about taking the plunge but it seems there are lots of things that aren't quite there yet with it? Are these things that can be fixed with software updates?
This watch will continue to get updated just like the rest of the android wear devices. It has gps, wifi, and nfc. More tech than any other android wear device. This is the one watch you can buy that has been future proofed for sure. I wonder worry at all. Since all android wear watches are stock, nexus like, they will all continue to get updates.
the watch has only been out 4 months (or thereabouts) it is hardly a long time, certainly far too early to be talking about support being dropped!
Well it's good then as I finally took the plunge and bought one! Quite happy with it so far and I haven't used it for what I really want yet (running without my phone)
Yeap. Only thing I would have liked was if Sony had added a heart rate monitor. Not necessary but good thing to have. I'd imagine that'll make it an even better sports watch
Heart rate monitoring would've been cool, but look at all the problems involving inaccuracies others have had. Its a cool gimmick, but I think that Sony choose wisely in this regard. Sure they definitely narrowed their consumer base, but focused their attention elsewhere.
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Heart rate monitoring would've been cool, but look at all the problems involving inaccuracies others have had. Its a cool gimmick, but I think that Sony choose wisely in this regard. Sure they definitely narrowed their consumer base, but focused their attention elsewhere.
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Since the HR technology used is the same as an oximeter, the main problem arises from getting the HR on the back of the wrist. It's not a gimmick honestly, it's just that different people have different wrists and this is the limiting factor. Hospital heart rate monitors clip onto your fingers which works for nearly everyone. I wouldn't say it's a wise decision for sony to omit this HR feature but it makes financial sense for them to maximize their profits though they could have captured a larger market with HR included.
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Since the HR technology used is the same as an oximeter, the main problem arises from getting the HR on the back of the wrist. It's not a gimmick honestly, it's just that different people have different wrists and this is the limiting factor. Hospital heart rate monitors clip onto your fingers which works for nearly everyone. I wouldn't say it's a wise decision for sony to omit this HR feature but it makes financial sense for them to maximize their profits though they could have captured a larger market with HR included.
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If the technology has a nearly insurmountable limiting factor, with broad reports of it not working well for a broad base, then i would argue it is a wise decision to leave it out. Personally, given the nature of the sensors, i am happy it was ommited in likely favor of NFC and WiFi, which will be more useful in the near future.
well im sure they will update it until SW4 but sadly as it is Android Wear, Sony must wait for Google all the time cause its not up to Sony, so new updates takes time ! still waiting for proper sleep tracker, wifi and such !
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well im sure they will update it until SW4 but sadly as it is Android Wear, Sony must wait for Google all the time cause its not up to Sony, so new updates takes time ! still waiting for proper sleep tracker, wifi and such !
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You have sleep as android app that has all the sleep tracking functionality with full support for the SW3.
Not that it's free, but in my experience the oem apps from the providers usually aren't good, i own an smartband SWR30 and i have to say lifelog is not good for anything. The sleep tracking charts are just laughable at best.
So although Sony didn't give their own sleep tracking app there are others in the market that actually looks much better.
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You have sleep as android app that has all the sleep tracking functionality with full support for the SW3.
Not that it's free, but in my experience the oem apps from the providers usually aren't good, i own an smartband SWR30 and i have to say lifelog is not good for anything. The sleep tracking charts are just laughable at best.
So although Sony didn't give their own sleep tracking app there are others in the market that actually looks much better.
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True, but im still expecting it from Sony, its been what ? 6 months ? i use sleep as android but im still waiting for proper update for that!
Yes that would be great, but i don't think this is the best place to let sony know that you need an adequate app to monitor your sleep and daily activity.
Lifelog it's pretty bad, it consumes a lot of battery and the charts and stats it collects are crap in any sense.
So if i would be you i would just forget about it, they didn't change it from 2 years ago (i had the SWR30 when it came out) and i'm pretty sure they aren't looking to improve it.
Does anyone use an Android watch? Any recommendations if you do. Was interested in buying one but no idea which one
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Does anyone use an Android watch? Any recommendations if you do. Was interested in buying one but no idea which one
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As of right now, I'd suggest the Huawei watch. Though, if I were you, I'd wait. A whole bunch of new Android wear watches are probably about to be released. Android wear 2.0 is about to come out with a whole bunch of new features, and a bunch of new watches should follow to support these new features.
jbw716 said:
As of right now, I'd suggest the Huawei watch. Though, if I were you, I'd wait. A whole bunch of new Android wear watches are probably about to be released. Android wear 2.0 is about to come out with a whole bunch of new features, and a bunch of new watches should follow to support these new features.
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+1
I am using the Moto 360 2nd gen with my oneplus 3t... Everything working fine! no problems
I have the zenwatch2 and love it.but I also echo the above comments. I would wait it out a month or two and see what's new coming.
Huawei Watch and everything work good
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I read that the Huawei watch will get Android wear 2.0 features via update. So possible just new hardware and new designs?
Huawei watch or wait...
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I'm quite happy with my Sony Smartwatch 3:
- cheap (you can easily find it for ~100€ on Amazon
- I can easily get a full solid day off the battery
i'm using a samsung gear s3 frontier along with my OP3T. notification works well. i can answer calls but I cannot text on the watch (not that I want to). spotify controller works well, and I can read flipboard articles on the watch to pass time.
Huawei watch is pretty good, tho mic and voice commands seems to be worse than on the other watches. Maybe because mic is located underside of the watch, where the band connects. I have been using Android wear 2.0 beta for some time already, and really liking it, much smoother than old version. But Google is propably gonna announce new watches soon, Android wear 2.0 stable is coming in next month. If you find a really good deal for Huawei watch or others, then maybe buy now, but otherwise I would wait and see the new ones which are coming.
No love for the Asus Zenwatch 3 in here?
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I've been using a Sony Smartwatch 3 ever since it was launched and wouldn't change it for anything else. I tried a Huawei Watch for a couple of days and it wasn't as comfortable. Furthermore, I use it as a GPS running watch and it pairs with any BT Smart HRM without any issue. Nice to go for a long run without a phone when you have GPS, MP3-player and HRM on your wrist.
I would recommend the Samsung Gear S3 ,or even the Gear S2 ,the software is superior to Android wear in my opinion .
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i'm using a samsung gear s3 frontier along with my OP3T. notification works well. i can answer calls but I cannot text on the watch (not that I want to). spotify controller works well, and I can read flipboard articles on the watch to pass time.
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I'm planning on getting a gear s3 frontier with my 3T. How is the compability? Any significant limitations compared to pairing it with a Samsung phone?
Anyone miss a call notification once and a while?
Ill notice Ill get a missed call on my watch and it never vibrated
Using Gear S3 Frontier and the only thing i might miss is google assistant unless sammy updates the gear s3 with their own rumoured assistant Bixby.
The rotating bezel, the battery life, and the simple OS are major wins.
and with samsung pay about to launch in India its a major win because of MST.
Does anybody have any recommendations on fitness wearables to pair with the HTC 10?
So far, all I have found is the Under Armor Band, and the HealthBox... and a couple of Garmin devices.
On Sprint, rooted stock Nougat, if that matters.
TIA for input.
I use Asus zenwatch 3 it's work perfect
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snoopyhaeckers said:
I use Asus zenwatch 3 it's work perfect
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That looks like a nice device/watch. Long way from the Galaxy Gear I had with my Note 2!
Thanks for the post. Appreciate the info. Not sure what I want yet on features and that has a lot on it for sure.
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I have a Fitbit and it works fine. No issues at all.
Well... I decided on a Garmin Vivosmart HR. Went basic. Haven't really worn a watch in years and I thought I'd like to stay more on the small and basic side. ASUS does seem to have some good devices they put out from different reviews I've read. My company is basically paying for it through lower insurance rates, more HSA money, and gift cards so starting out with something like this would be OK, then get another one more advanced like the ASUS if I really liked this and wanted something more.
Hello everyone,
I've had my mate se for about 2 weeks now. I like the phone coming with the Windows mobile platform. I'm big on fitness and currently have the flex 2 band. The sync isn't the greatest from my experience. The app is always complaining about not being able to find the tracker. I'm not sure if it's the fitness tracker, or bluetooth on the SE. Has anyone experience this or know of any decent trackers that are fully compatible with this phone? .
I suspect it is the Bluetooth, as I have similar problems with both my Fitbit Charge 2 AND my Pokemon Go Plus. I haven't tried a Bluetooth speaker, yet.
Still debating what to do. Love the phone, trying to decide if lousy Bluetooth is a deal-breaker for me...I *can* move my Charge to my tablet (I think), and--truthfully--I rarely use my GoPlus, and speakers can be wired, soo....
Just frustrating.
You should take a look at the Honor Band 3 available on Honor's website for $60 bucks. I have one and haven't had any issues at all with my Honor 7X! It's actually a pretty nice fitness tracker. It even gets caller ID and app notifications. Here's a link you can check out. https://store.hihonor.com/us/product/10001961788943.html
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You should take a look at the Honor Band 3 available on Honor's website for $60 bucks. I have one and haven't had any issues at all with my Honor 7X! It's actually a pretty nice fitness tracker. It even gets caller ID and app notifications. Here's a link you can check out. https://store.hihonor.com/us/product/10001961788943.html
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The issue is the Bluetooth scanning that prevents the tracker from syncing. I've gone as far as disabling the Bluetooth scanning and that seems to work. However- the scan still runs for what reason I do not know. I'll look into the honor band 3. Can you use it with FitnessPal app? I like to have that functionality of having the app keep track of the calories I burn from the tracker. It makes it easier to determine how much calories I need to take in.
ErickC21 said:
You should take a look at the Honor Band 3 available on Honor's website for $60 bucks. I have one and haven't had any issues at all with my Honor 7X! It's actually a pretty nice fitness tracker. It even gets caller ID and app notifications. Here's a link you can check out. https://store.hihonor.com/us/product/10001961788943.html
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I craved in and bought the honor band 3. I eventually was able to get the fitbit to sync, however getting it to sync I always had to go into bluetooth and stop the scanning which became annoying.
I'm using the mobvoi ticwatch e.
Until I went into the battery settings and turned off the power saving crap... Nothing worked right. Now I probably get 10 minutes less screen on time but I get all notifications and Bluetooth device now work properly. Also.. Oreo update helped even more allowing multiple simultaneous Bluetooth connections.
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someeh said:
Hello everyone,
I've had my mate se for about 2 weeks now. I like the phone coming with the Windows mobile platform. I'm big on fitness and currently have the flex 2 band. The sync isn't the greatest from my experience. The app is always complaining about not being able to find the tracker. I'm not sure if it's the fitness tracker, or bluetooth on the SE. Has anyone experience this or know of any decent trackers that are fully compatible with this phone? .
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Miband 3 works on mine.
No issues here with my Micheal kors and fossil gen 4 almost better than my s8 which would drop them randomly
fitness tracker
someeh said:
Hello everyone,
I've had my mate se for about 2 weeks now. I like the phone coming with the Windows mobile platform. I'm big on fitness and currently have the flex 2 band. The sync isn't the greatest from my experience. The app is always complaining about not being able to find the tracker. I'm not sure if it's the fitness tracker, or bluetooth on the SE. Has anyone experience this or know of any decent trackers that are fully compatible with this phone? .
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there are plenty of compatible options for this phone EX- helathwatch,xwatch,t1tactwatch and Ewatch