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Gear S for weight lifters

I tried looking around, but all i found was questions about sweaty problems lol Any of you guys or girls know exactly how the gear s heart rate function works? I want to use the S in conjuction with the endomondo app to keep track of a true number of calories burned using the heart rate and such while lifting weights. I sure hope it's not some weird; stay still to get the number and then carry on with your business kinda thing. Thanks in advance!

I lift with mine. It senses heart rate better than the Gear Fit while sweaty so that's good. You can tag your heart rate through the new S Health app. But lifting is not integrated with S Health as an activity, which I do not understand. You're better off with a dedicated HRM.
This is more for running and biking.

Thanks, that helps a lot. Clicky :good: for u

[Q] Real time Heart Rate tracking problem ?

Hi, I have a problem with the heart rate sensor. It don't work correctly and show a random number (60, 56, 110, 60, 60, many result with 60 ...). I did 2 tests many times : on my hand and without my hand => random result.
I decided to test it with a belt heart rate ANT+ (very good, accurate product) and have a real different. The G watch R heart rate in realtime capture have a big problem. The value change from 110 to 70 in five seconds ... And it's not possible to use it when running. Sometime (1 time per 5 ?) it show the good value ...
Another big problem is that isnot possible to show more than 140 heartrates when running ... is it the contact problem ???
I think this is a problem general with the sensor of this watch.
Do you have notice that ?
Note that I tested with application : Sport Gear Tracker, Endomondo, Cardiograph, SensorBox for Wear

No problem for me, works almost same measure in same condition, between 70 and 79 every time in normal way.
You do not move and stay immovable during the measure.

First I'll say, I've never had issues getting readings above 140 when expected.
The watch heart rate monitor works best when you're not moving and it's never going to be as accurate as a chest belt monitor. The watch monitor offers convenience and a general ballpark reading for your workout. Try it for an entire workout. The values will fluctuate, but the overall average may be somewhere in the ballpark of what you might expect. It really all depends how you're holding your arm and the motions you're doing. I've found mine works best for walking actives, but not as well when I'm weight training.
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dersie said:
No problem for me, works almost same measure in same condition, between 70 and 79 every time in normal way.
You do not move and stay immovable during the measure.
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OK, when I don't move, it's okay for cheking heart rate. Sometime it show 60, I think this is a default value when the sensor don't capture well.
But my need is the "real time" heart rate tracking for running. And it's not working well.

I found this and I understood why it cannot show more than 140bpm during "real time tracking"
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-accurate-are-wristband-heart-rate-monitors

Well, it's not very accurate for me either

qdh1502 said:
I found this and I understood why it cannot show more than 140bpm during "real time tracking"
http://www.cnet.com/news/how-accurate-are-wristband-heart-rate-monitors
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That explains it best. Like I was saying, the watch is not going to beat chest monitors and will only give you a ballpark average at best. The watch monitors were not "made" for monitoring during activity.
A good way to cross check heart rate is to use Runtastic's Heart Rate Monitor app. I've found it does a very good job, but it is only snapshot. But a chest monitor is always best.
I've found the watch gives me a sufficient enough overall picture. Although I've found that the "R" gives me lower readings during activity than the Samsung Gear Live does. The Gear Live was giving me values that were too high during activity and the "R" gives me values that are too low during activity. But the ballpark changes give a well enough picture. I can see 55 minutes on the treadmill is working my heart more than 30 minutes of weight training.
I would have thought that watches would have the heart rate sensor on the bottom part of the strap. So they could read pulse from the bottom of your wrist. But I guess that would cost more .
I'm Denzel Washington brown and it works well enough for me.

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OK, when I don't move, it's okay for cheking heart rate. Sometime it show 60, I think this is a default value when the sensor don't capture well.
But my need is the "real time" heart rate tracking for running. And it's not working well.
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60 is normal value if you are relax. 70 is common value.

dersie said:
60 is normal value if you are relax. 70 is common value.
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With the "R", the value never goes below 60 and some people do have pulse below 60.

Darnell_Chat_TN said:
With the "R", the value never goes below 60 and some people do have pulse below 60.
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I will test with later, when I take my beta Blocker my Heart Rate is about 48 pulse

dersie said:
60 is normal value if you are relax. 70 is common value.
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I don' agree with you. Human heart rate is between 60 and 80 at relax (for a professional sportif => less than 60). I have normally 68 when relaxing (test with a real professional machin).
With my GTW, it show many time 60 ... and why not 59 or 61 ???

dersie said:
I will test with later, when I take my beta Blocker my Heart Rate is about 48 pulse
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Or just try it with the watch not on your wrist. Even with no pulse to read at all, it will show a value. I just got the Android 5+ updates. And just tried. It showed a pulse of "52". So maybe that's the new minimum. And that was testing while holding the watch in the air. I tried it with the watch laying flat on a table and it read "70" [emoji15] .
This is certainly not a tool to use when checking for signs of life [emoji1] .
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qdh1502 said:
I don' agree with you. Human heart rate is between 60 and 80 at relax (for a professional sportif => less than 60). I have normally 68 when relaxing (test with a real professional machin).
With my GTW, it show many time 60 ... and why not 59 or 61 ???
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So 60 is in the 60-70 interval no ?

Just an FYI. I got a new watch band for my "R" and it holds the watch to my wrist a bit more snug than the stock band. Now, my heart rate readings during workouts are better than with the old stock band. So, this may be something some of you may want to try, in order to improve readings.
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The Sensor
I've actually been developing for the LG Watch R using its sensors (about 14 sensors or so are reported by the API). One problem is that accessing the heart rate sensor can't be done correctly as the Google API documentation suggests it should (ditto for the Step Detector sensor). Furthermore, the sensor events for the HR sensor will return not one float (as in, readings in bpm as expected) but a list of sixteen numbers!! (your guess here is as good as mine). I'd expect this from a shoddy brand, but LG? Come on!
However, what was most astonishing, is that the sensor is reported by the API as a "PIXART_PPG" . A PPG ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmogram ) is actually a very accurate sensor by definition, way better than the usual LED + Camera combo. Still, most of the events fired by the sensor return 0.0 (actually, a list of 16 zeroes. Sometimes the third number is set to something believable).
I'm actually pondering about contacting LG and asking them about a couple of things : a) Why didn't they update the way you access their sensors when the lollipop update was released and b) Why is their PPG so unreliable?!
What are your thoughts on this?

Response from LG?
Did you every get a response from LG?
Optical wrist sensors aren't inherently unreliable if it's a good sensor and the design seals out external light. Mio makes reliable wrist strap sensors, off the actual physical sensor in the g watch r is good, it should work better than it does.
ei05035 - I know this is an old thread, but did you contact LG? Did you get a response?

Runtastic and heart rate monitoring

Does Runtastic use the built-in heart rate monitor of an Android Wear devices? If yes, does it do it constantly or only on-demand?

no, you can only track heart rate with google fit or the built in LG app... if you sync runtastic with google fit then you can have both heart rate and other stats in one place as android wear is not listed as compatible heart rate monitoring equipment in runtastic. hope it helps.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pnn.android.sport_gear_tracker SGT tracks heart rate and syncs with Fit, though Fit syncing seems buggy
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.endomondo.android Endomondo tracks heart rate. It syncs some details with Fit, but heart rate doesn't get synced
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jwork.wearable.heartratesync2 Heart Rate OS tracks heart rate periodically and syncs with Fit. It does not track anything else and it can't track heart rate continuously during a work out
There are no great fitness trackers that I can find for Wear

heart rate os2, seems to be working well, better than fit.

kaiser_tytnii said:
no, you can only track heart rate with google fit or the built in LG app... if you sync runtastic with google fit then you can have both heart rate and other stats in one place as android wear is not listed as compatible heart rate monitoring equipment in runtastic. hope it helps.
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I got the LG Urbane and also the Bluetooth Heart Rate strap 'Polar H7' (which is amazing btw) but I couldn't find nether an Android wear app that can track the Heart Rate
Runtastic can track your heart rate on the phone continuously but since I don't want to take my phone with me, that kind of sucks :/

jamesst20 said:
I got the LG Urbane and also the Bluetooth Heart Rate strap 'Polar H7' (which is amazing btw) but I couldn't find nether an Android wear app that can track the Heart Rate
Runtastic can track your heart rate on the phone continuously but since I don't want to take my phone with me, that kind of sucks :/
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Anyone made progress on Urbane/Android Wear and heart rate? I have used RunKeeper app for a while, so that was my preferred site for syncing data to. I have a Polar H7 that RK works with and sync's charts up to their site.
I got a FitBit Flex wristband (no heart rate) about a year ago and have stuck with it and their app/site is pretty good too.
Google Fit site still hasn't caught up to RunKeeper or FitBit IMO.
And now with the Urbane, the heart rate seems a waste. Just the one LG app seems to have access to heart rate and the data doesn't sync anywhere. Urbane is too big to wear exercising but could be useful to get my resting heart rate sync'd to RunKeeper or FitBit every week to see if it is improving as I exercise more and lose weight.

itesla said:
Anyone made progress on Urbane/Android Wear and heart rate? I have used RunKeeper app for a while, so that was my preferred site for syncing data to. I have a Polar H7 that RK works with and sync's charts up to their site.
I got a FitBit Flex wristband (no heart rate) about a year ago and have stuck with it and their app/site is pretty good too.
Google Fit site still hasn't caught up to RunKeeper or FitBit IMO.
And now with the Urbane, the heart rate seems a waste. Just the one LG app seems to have access to heart rate and the data doesn't sync anywhere. Urbane is too big to wear exercising but could be useful to get my resting heart rate sync'd to RunKeeper or FitBit every week to see if it is improving as I exercise more and lose weight.
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I had written a very basic app that could track the heart rate from a Polar H7 or possibly other standard Bluetooth monitor.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamesst20.heartratewear
It does not sync with anything, nor it saves anything. That's all I needed in that time

jamesst20 said:
I had written a very basic app that could track the heart rate from a Polar H7 or possibly other standard Bluetooth monitor.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jamesst20.heartratewear
It does not sync with anything, nor it saves anything. That's all I needed in that time
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Cool, will try it out. Where do you find specs for H7 data? Wondering how hard it would be to make a sync app for H7 to FitBit.

itesla said:
Anyone made progress on Urbane/Android Wear and heart rate? I have used RunKeeper app for a while, so that was my preferred site for syncing data to. I have a Polar H7 that RK works with and sync's charts up to their site.
I got a FitBit Flex wristband (no heart rate) about a year ago and have stuck with it and their app/site is pretty good too.
Google Fit site still hasn't caught up to RunKeeper or FitBit IMO.
And now with the Urbane, the heart rate seems a waste. Just the one LG app seems to have access to heart rate and the data doesn't sync anywhere. Urbane is too big to wear exercising but could be useful to get my resting heart rate sync'd to RunKeeper or FitBit every week to see if it is improving as I exercise more and lose weight.
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itesla said:
Cool, will try it out. Where do you find specs for H7 data? Wondering how hard it would be to make a sync app for H7 to FitBit.
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There is no specs for H7 sadly. But it does use the standard bluetooth specs so you should rely on those

itesla said:
Anyone made progress on Urbane/Android Wear and heart rate? I have used RunKeeper app for a while, so that was my preferred site for syncing data to. I have a Polar H7 that RK works with and sync's charts up to their site.
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Not sure if it's what you're looking for,, but ghostracer can use the built in HR sensor or sync a bluetooth chest strap to track HR. I have an LG Urbane 2nd Edition and the built in sensor isn't very accurate but I've use the chest strap successfully. Ghostracer will also directly sync runs to strava, runkeeper or smashrun. I use SyncMyTracks to sync to other platforms like endomondo, Nike, runtastic etc.
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App with Android Wear heart rate sensor support.
itesla said:
Anyone made progress on Urbane/Android Wear and heart rate? (...)
And now with the Urbane, the heart rate seems a waste. Just the one LG app seems to have access to heart rate and the data doesn't sync anywhere. Urbane is too big to wear exercising but could be useful to get my resting heart rate sync'd to RunKeeper or FitBit every week to see if it is improving as I exercise more and lose weight.
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Endomondo has full support for Android Wear heart rate monitor. It reads current and average result from watch's sensor. Also it shows proper Pulse zones in summary.
I'm using it while riding a bike. (Watch Urbane W150)
Note. You need to have watch's screen in always on mode to prevent application from going to sleep. I've noticed that once watch screen goes off app turns off sensor and reports only initial reading. (it's good idea to turn gestures off as well to prevent accidental exiting of an endomondo app).
I've written to Runtastic support asking if there are any plans for adding Android Wear heart rate monitor support. They are not going to add this feature in near future. Too bad. Cash goes to Endomondo

After testing a lot of apps, I think I finally found the best alternative (for me). Sportstracker can track heart rate in real time during workout, from my LG Urbane, and also from my Polar H7. The pro version only requires a one-time payment, so in the long run it turns out being much cheaper than Endomondo.
Lite version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sportstracklive.android.ui.activity.lite&hl=pt_BR
Pro version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sportstracklive.android.ui.activity.pro&hl=pt_BR
I also used Sync My Tracks, so I could import all my previous workout sessions from Runtastic.

You could try as well this Wear OS app: 'Heart for Bluetooth' (can be found on google play store)
It takes the HR data from the watch and sends it to Runtastic on your phone instantly via Bluetooth so no need to sync via other accounts like google fit..

Question Google Fit on Redmi Note 11

Hi Guys,
Now this one may not be a Redmi Note issue as such... and might be more software/Google issue...?
Does anyone on here use Google Fit, and if so, have you been able to get the Heart Rate and Respiratory Monitor to work, via just using the camera....??
So apparently, within Google Fit you can measure you're heart rate using just the camera, and supposedly it's fairly accurate according to reviews. As they compared it to Apple Watch and the real equipment....
According to Google's own wording in the App itself and various other publications via Google it appears it can work on any phone with a camera, it just depends on the phone itself. However looking at the external reviews they keep mentioning using Pixels to do this....
So just wondered, has anyone got it to work.... as I don't have the option/feature in the guide. I found out I had disabled access to the camera in App permissions. But since re-enabling and turning on settings within the App, it still don't show up...
Cheers, Lister

morning lister
i cant get it working either , set permissions and nowt appears when ya press add on home screen . i t might be pixel only .
not the answer i know but the Huawei band 6 app works great on it . got it on sale on amazon a while back ( 32.99 in Argos at the mo ), heart rate monitor does the job well enough , although ya have to download the app from Huawei site cause playstore versions outdated . but everything works , and battery lasts a good 10 / 11 days foe me ( they claim 14 )

Question Body Temperature

Anybody come up with an app for that yet?

Haven't seen or heard anything about a working app for this on our Watch ...

Here's How The Galaxy Watch 5's Temperature Sensor Will Work
The Galaxy Watch 5 has a temperature sensor.
screenrant.com

R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards

More scoop today:
Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro now feature skin temperature measurement
Samsung is now rolling out skin-temperature-based cycle tracking to the Galaxy Watch 5 and Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. Read on to know more!
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adfree said:
R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards
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I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?

rick6548 said:
I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?
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If you have a bugjaeger app on your phone (that you often use for sideloading and extracting apps for galaxy watch) it displays all sensor info. Before it only showed skin temp sensor id with no info. I wonder if with this new WD6 firmware it now displays temperature info too?
It will be awhile before this software update arrives to Canada and LTE variant for me to test.
I would assume if you change your sleep schedule to daytime in Samsung Health than maybe it will measure your body temperature while you work out??

rick6548 said:
I got the update on galaxy 5 watch, only works at night while you sleep(4hrs min). Maybe someone can take this new app and make it take body temperature any time? Also, for non Samsung phones like Dante63 did for the ECG-Blood Pressure apps?
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what does the information show? and how does it work did you have to turn on the menstration cycle? If not then thats still useful info to track if your temperature goes up during illness and if room is to hot or to cold etc.

adfree said:
R900XXU1AWD6/R900OXM1AWD6 found this for Korea...
After reading this:
Galaxy Watch 5 now offers skin temperature-based cycle tracking
Samsung is rolling out a new update for the Galaxy Watch 5 that ties together menstrual cycle tracking with the ...
www.sammobile.com
Only as info.
Best Regards
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As a male, how can i get my menstrual cycle so i can take advantage of this awesome feature?

Srbija2012 said:
As a male, how can i get my menstrual cycle so i can take advantage of this awesome feature?
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Just say you're a female, that's how it works nowadays .

slaytanic said:
Just say you're a female, that's how it works nowadays .
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You don't even need to say you are a female. As a male, I had cycle tracking on since beginning of March when I heard temp sensor was activated when Samsung Health renamed Women's Health to Natural Cycles in 6.23.3 version. But I was disappointed to find out that it's not active so I stopped using it lol. But to my surprise this entire time Samsung Health continued calculating my period
My biggest concern here is that aparently your temperature will only be shown and calculated while you sleep. But I never sleep with my watch (hell no). So how am I supposed to fake that and make it calculate the temperature automatically while I'm in a gym? If it's like blood oxygen continuous monitoring than making my watch think day is night is not going to work cause the watch detects activity even if say you come back home and watch TV while wearing it, the watch still will not measure my blood oxygen automatically. And without manual option, I don't think I will get any temperature info at all.
At least from reading all the crazy reactions on reddit from women saying US government can monitor this data, ladies don't need to worry as man will be using this function alot more than women now which will throw off the data anyways.
Unless, someone comes up with manual measurement hack ofcourse.

Barmenchik said:
Here's How The Galaxy Watch 5's Temperature Sensor Will Work
The Galaxy Watch 5 has a temperature sensor.
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What kind of dystopic world do we live in when the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has to approve the ability to measure your own body temperature?

Aethera said:
What kind of dystopic world do we live in when the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety has to approve the ability to measure your own body temperature?
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Excellent question..... my thoughts exactly. I have been apparently failing the sleep criteria for Samsung Health as reported by the Watch 5 Pro evinced by various irritating messages that I need to enroll in "Sleep Coaching"(their words)...... what are they going to do, send a female android to "coach " me around bedtime? (YUM!) Wait!! Do I hear helicopters?

rick6548 said:
Anybody come up with an app for that yet?
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Yeah, this guy did: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.t1ckt0ck.bodytemperature
Specifically for Watch 5, only takes a few seconds to measure on my GW5Pro running old WB1 firmware since LTE versions are stuck on January patch. I guess temperature sensor has been unlocked all along, but no idea what developer tools he used to access it. The app is very basic thou.

Has some body try it?, I have tried and it seems that shows a little bit low temperature and it not possible to calibrate the software.

워치5 베타가 나왔군요
더 이상 저는 좋은 소프트웨어를 만들기 위한 피드백,오류제보등의 베타가 아닌 미리 체험하는 느낌으로 참여 할려고 합니다. 피드백,오류 제보 열심히 해봐야 소용 없다는걸 알았습니다. 수면 중 피부 온도가 드디어 되네요. 업데이트 하니 새롭긴 합니다.
r1.community.samsung.com
I have tried to look on korean forum about Beta...
Then i saw this post... and Picture about Temp...
No idea...
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As far as I can read from the google translator seems that the temperature while you are sleeping can be viewed on the One UI 5 beta.
A beta tester maybe can confirm.

javi.duro said:
As far as I can read from the google translator seems that the temperature while you are sleeping can be viewed on the One UI 5 beta.
A beta tester maybe can confirm.
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I can't find anywhere to see a result