Does the moto 360 come with its own app or any way to continuously monitor heart rate? Or does it just give you a single reading which is entirely useless?
Haven't quite figured out how it polls, but it has a tracker for minutes of activity that seems to register if I do something strenuous. Not sure about heart rate...
I think it measures heart rate every 5 minutes or so. There is another app mentioned on android police that constantly monitors it but I haven't tried it.
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I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
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I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
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Is there a way to keep the watch on when monitoring HR. I know it will kill the battery but its just for my workout, and when the screen times out you have to restart the HR app.
Also anyone find an app to see HR on the phone that's measured on the watch? its nice to have the phone sitting on the magazine rack of the treadmill.
Has anybody started working with moto 360? How accurate is the watch?
I ran with it the other night. From a steps perspective it's count was comparable to another pedometer I have, so I'd say it was pretty accurate.
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The background heart rate monitor is really bad though. I really liked that it encouraged you to do 30 mins of vigorous activity a day. I thought it would really help me get in better shape.
The pedometer I agree is fairly accurate and is not off by more than 200 with my LG G3. I try to take 8,000-10,000 steps I take a day so being off by 200 is very good in my books. But as far as keeping track of my daily exercise, there are 2 issues with this... The first is it would be nice to change my vigorous activity goal to 45 mins, 1 hour, or any other value. 30 minutes is recommend by the American heart association but I am sure that trying to double that goal daily would be even better. This issue should be fixed very easily and hopefully soon too. The other and more important issue is how bad it is at keeping track of your exercise time.
Here is how my day went: I woke up and after I put my watch on, I WALKED downstairs and ate a quick breakfast and hopped in my car for work. Then I took an ELEVATOR to the 7th floor and SAT down in my office. After an hour or so of sitting there, I was alerted that I was halfway to my goal for the day or rather Motorola's goal for me... I can pretty much guarantee my heart rate did not go over 90-100 beats the whole time yet somehow the 360 gave me credit for 15 minutes of vigorous exercise. I hope that this like the first issue is a software issue. If it is a hardware issue which it easily could be, the background heart rate monitor is completely useless until the moto 360 2 or whatever they want to call it comes out.
The other weird thing is when I request for my heart rate to be measured, it seems fairly accurate. I don't have any experience with other smart watches but I know this one is not bad. I changed it so that it uses google's app to measure my heart rate which gives me hope that it is just a software issue with the background heart rate monitor and that it will be fixed.
I still think I am going to be keeping the watch for the time being despite the crappy processor, sub par battery, and bad background heart rate monitor. I am excited about android 5/ L/ Lemon Meringue Pie/ Lollipop. I think the software upgrades will make this very good looking and ok performing watch into something of a beast.
The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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The above should speak for itself. My Urbane was good but it was inconsistent some day I would end with 30% others I would have 60% doing this exact same thing. I'm only really on my full second day now but it still seems better overall. I've also noticed its a little faster which it shouldn't be because they are identical hardware wise. I'll report back later this week after I use it at school. I usually really 3-6 miles depending on the day which could kill the battery faster since it's counting my steps. Yesterday I only walked 2 miles which isn't a lot so we will see.
Mine doesn't make it through the day
I've had it 2 1/2 days, maybe it will get better. But it's dead by late evening - maybe 8p, with an 8a start.
Here's today's:
I'm using the same set up as I listed in the OP. Let's see how it does tomorrow now
I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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Yeah it seems to get good better life from my initial impressions. I would say with heavier usage it would get 1.25-1.5days but that depends on how you use it.
So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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I never use the HRM because I know it kills the battery based on experience with AW and my old Samsung Gear Fit. I'm not surprised that it died that fast because its not made to primarily be a fitness watch despite having a HRM and fitness apps. I know that sounds dumb but a fitbit would do a better job because that's is sole purpose. I don't expect the HRM to be accurate on any smart watch; I tested mine yesterday at the gym while on the treadmill. The treadmill say my HR was 165 while the watch said it was 100 so there's a big difference and I trust the treadmill over the watch in this case. I have my display always on still and get good battery life. I don't expect the watch to last forever if I'm cranking the brightness and using the HRM. I'm not defending the watch by any means but rather stating that no AW/smart watch would handke this kind of thing well yet. I enjoy the look of Huawei and convenience it provides with alerts, notes etc... but I'm glad it lasts a day for my type of usage. I wonder if Marshmallow will improve the battery life at all.
Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Good battery backup for a smartwatch
Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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I'd imagine if your anything like me and ignore your alarm for an hour because I'm a heavy sleeper then the vibration motor would certainly bring it down fast. I think that's really odd to drain that much but if it's consistently doing that I would be concerned.
Yeah, I tried using Sports Gear Tracker today to track my workout... didn't work eiter. I thought it was tracking and I checked a few times. The HR appeared frozen again, but the timer was running. But, when I got home, it has no record of the workout. Don't know what happened. Google fit does have the workout. But the Heart rate record is just flat. I'm going to try a hard reset and see if that fixes the Heart rate problem. Would sure like to know if anyone else is having any success with HRM, I'm thinking at this point to send it back as defective and try a different one. Seems odd that it would perform that badly. -cjr-
I'm still not getting through the day - 12 hours tops before it dies. Am wondering about settings - I have everything set as it came out of the box: haven't touched WiFi, so assume it's on; have ambient display always on.; default brightness setting of 4.
I'm not using the HRM at all, and not even really checking the watch constantly.
Any suggestions? (thanks in advance)
I have wifi off. I had it on and I think it really drained the battery.. try turning it off..
Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
Thanks, will give that a try.
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Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
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I'm having the opposite experience here. My Urbane was very inconsistent with battery life but when it had a good day it was around what the Huawei is. Its dependent on your usage but for me its great.
Hi everyone,
I've been using my GWA2 (SM-R820) for about a day and a half and I've noticed, both in the SHealth app on the phone and on the watch that it monitors my heart rate every hour or so instead of every ten minutes I've set it to. I've also found this thread in the Samsung forums where other users complain about this. Is there any known workaround, as people from the forum above say that this started with a late November update?
I also noticed that there is not heart rate info on my auto-tracked walks in Samsung Health. I thought that during an exercise (auto-tracked or not) heart monitoring is supposed to be continuous. Nevertheless, what I get is just a speed graph with no heart rate data at all. Is this normal?
Go to hrm in you watch, scroll down and select measure continuously
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All since I got my watch active 2 during the automn 2019 the puilse measurement has been extremely unreliable. I have tried a total reset of the watch and also been hoping that there is a SW error that will be fixed in next firmware update (but there ARE no updates).
I have also read on the web and experimented with where on the wrist to carry the watch. Nothing helps. During sleep it often gives "OK" readings and most of the times also if I watch TV or work at the office. However. part of the whole idea of having a "Galaxy watch ACTIVE 2" is to use it during training and as a fitness tracker. A few examples from the last 48 hours.
1) Watches TV and I know that the pulse is somewher between 55 and 70. All of a sudden during a period of maybee 10 minutes the watch says my pulse is around 140.
2) At the gym. Doing squats (5 repetitions/set). The watch gives a max pulse of 210 bpm (real valute is somewhere between 100 and 120).
3) Goes and to some hight intensity interval training, real pulse 170 -180 in the peaks and in bestween 150 - 160. Watch says 82 - 94. AFTER doing the interval training when stretchingh the watch all of a sudden (this is 5 minutes later) starts to say 150- 160 as pulse but by then the real pulse is around 80.
The real measurements above is measured both by "pulse-band" around my chest and with the cycle (samre readings) and that is also what a manual count shows.
SO: The watch gives sometimes MORE than 100% error which make "pulse zones" completely useless. IT also adds an extra dimension of uselessness that it is not even consequent in the way that a higher reading corresponds to a higher actual pulse.
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Are your GWA2's equally useless when it comes to measuring pulse during activity?
Are you using continuous hr monitoring?
Actually, I have tested mine compared to a professional blood pressure monitoring device and both heart rate and blood pressure (BP lab app) were pretty close.
I cannot confirm tho that it gives good results throughout the day, only when tested. Some times I find the peak values of the day to be high enough, yet I am a guy with high resting hr, compared to other people.
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Are you using continuous hr monitoring?
Actually, I have tested mine compared to a professional blood pressure monitoring device and both heart rate and blood pressure (BP lab app) were pretty close.
I cannot confirm tho that it gives good results throughout the day, only when tested. Some times I find the peak values of the day to be high enough, yet I am a guy with high resting hr, compared to other people.
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Hi and thanks!
Yes I use continous HR monitoring.
Mine often gives accurate HR readings if I try when sitting still at my desk or just testing in the kitchen. It is during activity it is extremely unreliable. Did you test at any time during any type of excercise?
(mine is sometimes unreliable even when sitting still or watching TV but in thoose case the "normal" is that it gives correct measurements on HR)
Hi, I handled it in to Samsung and a few weeks later I got it back, they said some hardware was bad and had been replaced (so I lost the info in Samsung Pay and the LTE-connection). Reinstalled everything and started using it for training.
While stretching it constantly showed a puls between 140 and slightly above 160 (actual pulse was below 70). Did thereafter some training with cycle indoors and did intervalls and then Watch Active 2 said the pulse was aorund 90 BPM (actual value here was from 160 to 178 in thoose intervalls).
That leaved me with a "fitnesswatch" that only gives correct readings when watching Netflix so I have now handled it back to Samsung and claimed my money back. There is a lot of good things to say about the watch but there is a limit to how bad a key function of a product can be.
I would still be interested to see if other people have made it work fine during training or not.
BR