Hi,
I have had the Gear Sport for a few weeks and while I miss the battery life of my Pebble Time Steel and the app selection of an android wear watch, overall I am pretty happy with it apart from one thing. I bought it as a present to myself to get a bit of inspiration to be more active, mainly running and cycling. Spotify offline and GPS tracking works very well, but I wish I could say the same about heart rate monitoring. It monitors the heart rate OK when I am not active, even if it skips some of the measurements when set at 10 minute interval, but it tolerable. However, when I am running or cycling - apart for some jumps up, or down, the trend is normally just a flat line. I have tried tight strap, loose strap, re-position, inside wrist, etc, but to no avail. I have managed to track HR as it should for one run when I actively used the HR widget (while under running activity) and by that kind of forced (turning off and on a few times) the watch to track HR. Not very practical though.. I can see from the flashing IR that it is continuously trying to measure HR during activity, so apparently there is no hardware faults with my watch. For info I have also tried factory resetting the watch.
I know that wrist HR monitoring will never be accurate, but for a watch with Sport in the name I did expect better than this. Is this just one of the drawbacks with this watch, or do I have a faulty watch and should return it? Experience from other users would be highly appreciated.
Steinar
I have had the Gear Sport for a few weeks and while I miss the battery life of my Pebble Time Steel and the app selection of an android wear watch, overall I am pretty happy with it apart from one thing. I bought it as a present to myself to get a bit of inspiration to be more active, mainly running and cycling. Spotify offline and GPS tracking works very well, but I wish I could say the same about heart rate monitoring. It monitors the heart rate OK when I am not active, even if it skips some of the measurements when set at 10 minute interval, but it tolerable. However, when I am running or cycling - apart for some jumps up, or down, the trend is normally just a flat line. I have tried tight strap, loose strap, re-position, inside wrist, etc, but to no avail. I have managed to track HR as it should for one run when I actively used the HR widget (while under running activity) and by that kind of forced (turning off and on a few times) the watch to track HR. Not very practical though.. I can see from the flashing IR that it is continuously trying to measure HR during activity, so apparently there is no hardware faults with my watch. For info I have also tried factory resetting the watch.
I know that wrist HR monitoring will never be accurate, but for a watch with Sport in the name I did expect better than this. Is this just one of the drawbacks with this watch, or do I have a faulty watch and should return it? Experience from other users would be highly appreciated.
Steinar
