Galaxy Watch Announcement and Owners Thread

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#2194120 9-Mar-2019 08:51

networkn:
I am not that happy with how my 46mm is tracking my sleep. It's often out by hours.

It's a little frustrating.

Also, it's not consistent when it sends it's report.

I think for that to work accurately you need to turn on constant heart rate monitoring.

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#2194922 10-Mar-2019 09:21

I have thought of getting one but the upgrade from the S3 it much: mainly battery life. Since I've more or less given up wearing the S3, upgrading seems unnecessary, thinking logically.

I want to get a Kronaby but they're not shipped to NZ for some reason the company won't adequately explain to me.

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#2195544 11-Mar-2019 09:17

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the "you are doing a great walk" notification that comes up on my watch every time I walk for more than 5 min. I know I am doing a great walk already and it wastes 30 seconds because I think it's a message and check the notification.

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#2195563 11-Mar-2019 09:22

I believe you can change the notifications in the galaxy wearable app. If you go to Home in the app, open S health, click on the 3 dot menu (top right) and settings - go to notifications. I've just turned all of them off.

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#2202120 19-Mar-2019 22:28

Does anyone know when the galaxy watch active is releasing here? And what the price is going to be?
Thinking about importing one, can get it for around $270 from tobydealsau.com

johny007g

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#2233895 9-May-2019 18:06

johny007g:

How in the name of all that is holy, do I stop my phone buzzing and notifying me each time I go in and out of range of the farking watch? Note 9.

I've got Note 8 but should be same, Galaxy Wearable app then settings then watch connection and turn off connection notification and hopefully this should work. It used to drive me crazy all the time buzzing and notifying me each time.

Yesterday had update for galaxy wearable app and no settings now to turn off connection notifications and now driving me crazy every time go out of range get notification. Googled and one solution to go to watch and settings then connections and alerts to turn off get bluetooth disconnection alerts but does nothing, rebooted watch and phone just did security update and still no joy. Has anybody got solution or any help on how turn off connection notification.

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#2233897 9-May-2019 18:13

You could block notifications on the Galaxy wearable app.

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#2233902 9-May-2019 18:30

landcruiserguy: You could block notifications on the Galaxy wearable app.

allready tried that notifications then manage notifications and turned of a lot of them off no joy. two not sure of tried accessibilty and system tracing but no joy.

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#2234109 9-May-2019 20:58

landcruiserguy:

Can anyone tell me how to turn off the "you are doing a great walk" notification that comes up on my watch every time I walk for more than 5 min. I know I am doing a great walk already and it wastes 30 seconds because I think it's a message and check the notification.

Perhaps it is your Pavlovian response to notifications that is the issue rather than the notification? 😜

johny007g

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#2239495 16-May-2019 19:43

Finally solved how to stop Bluetooth disconnect notifications to let you know in case bugging you, Samsung have moved where to stop. You need to go into phone settings then apps and find galaxy watch plugin, then go down to notifications and down to device disconnected and turn off. I was so relieved
when turned off as notification song 5 minutes long. Hope this helps if anybody else has problem.

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#2246836 28-May-2019 10:02

I've moved from a Gear S2 to a Galaxy Watch this week (purchased off a fellow GZ member - thanks!), and am overall really happy with the upgrade. But with two provisos, the first a substantial one:

Step counting

I calculate that the Galaxy Watch is under-counting my steps by at least 15%; and this isn't a result of the 20-step minimum count issue. On my daily walk this morning I wore my previous and new watches on the same wrist - after counting 500 steps in my head the Gear S2 had registered 496, the Galaxy Watch 459. (With the rowing machine, the difference between the two watches was even greater - 75%.)

Given I always make sure I do at least 10k steps a day, I am having to do at least another 1500 steps to make up for this (probably more, given the S2 counted movement after 10 steps).

So a link given above suggests disabling a couple of auto-detecting exercises, which I've now done (fine with that as the auto-detect doesn't work when using the rowing machine).

I've also found another suggestion in this YouTube video that steps are undercounted if using a watch face that displays steps and/or HR. If the previous 'fix' doesn't work I guess I'll need to try this, but it seriously limits one's choice of watch faces (and removes a beneficial feature).

Has anyone on here managed to sort this problem and can offer a solution that works?

Sleep monitoring

Again, way worse than my S2. That was amazingly accurate at recording both sleep and wake-up times, and (literally!) like clockwork I'd get the results an hour after waking up. This watch - as others have reported above may not even sent the results, and will often completely miss the wake-up time (on Sunday it reported I 'woke up' an hour later than reality, as that's when I got out of bed - my old watch would detect the difference between being asleep and awake!).

Seriously, how can Samsung release new models that are worse than previous models at these basics and fundamentals? And, about nine months later, why are they still not sorted? Instead of spending their time designing flawed foldable phones perhaps they could get their existing products sorted...

That said, I like not having to charge my watch every day; I may not get the 4-5 days others are able to, but even three days is a great improvement.

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#2246862 28-May-2019 10:46

Minanz:

I believe you can change the notifications in the galaxy wearable app. If you go to Home in the app, open S health, click on the 3 dot menu (top right) and settings - go to notifications. I've just turned all of them off.

Or the 'Well done you stood up you lazy bastard' notification.

Well, I'm off to the snack machine to by some food of death. Didn't detect that did ya :)

🤣

I'm not a complete idiot, I still have some parts missing.

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#2246872 28-May-2019 11:03

Had anyone with a Galaxy watch received the latest update, or know how to force it?

https://www.sammobile.com/tag/galaxy-watch/

Mine is reporting it's up to date; its software version R800XXU1BSA4 is not listed on that page as one that's receiving the update at this point.

Just on the off-chance the update may fix the various faults...

johny007g

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#2247931 29-May-2019 18:53

jonathan18: Had anyone with a Galaxy watch received the latest update, or know how to force it?

https://www.sammobile.com/tag/galaxy-watch/

Mine is reporting it's up to date; its software version R800XXU1BSA4 is not listed on that page as one that's receiving the update at this point.

Just on the off-chance the update may fix the various faults...

Just recieved one ui update for watch now so going to have to find out where they moved all settings again to get working.

Answer to your previous query sleep tracking is absolutely useless i actually turned off but must have been in wrong place and so many times it tells me i've when watching a movie that i've been asllep for 2 hours?

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#2248412 30-May-2019 12:28

Got the One UI update this morning. Everything looks a bit different. I use the sleep tracking but don't trust the numbers, particularly the deep sleep number. It's much better if you wear the watch at night rather than letting the phone guess based on when you stop using it and start again in the morning.

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