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Gear Sport Not Tracking Heart Rate When Exercising

(Topic created on: 20-04-2019 11:58 PM)
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Stevevdb3000
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Hi, is anyone else having this issue with their gear sport or gear S3?

I have had 3 gear S3's and now changed it to a gear sport and am still getting the same issue. 

When I first went out cycling with the gear sport yesterday, it tracked my HR just fine when displayed in the shealth app but since then it is just showing it go up and then a straight line which is obviously wrong. I think its a software issue. The gear S2 does it fine.

See graph 1st use and then whats happened since - before and after:1st use cycling1st use cycling

 

2nd use and onwards use2nd use and onwards use

 

 

 

 

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Andrezao
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As I said a long time ago,  the problem is the hardware not the software.  I bought a Huawei BAND 3 PRO fitness tracker,  all the functionalities are working fine.  Samsung refund me too. 

NotoriousGio
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Same here! Very disapodisapp on this issue. The only reason why I got the watch was to track my exercise!

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cyber3825
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Yep same prooblem here, brought a Samsung gear S3 few weeks ago, however only just started to use the exersize, the HR seems too work outside of the exersize app, however once i start to exersize and check later it shows a flat line in the exersize app for the heartrate, and fails to show up at all when i check the heart rate app, i have tried several different ways but the only conclusion i can come up with the moisture cause by sweat is causing the device to fail to monitor the heart rate, which defeat its use as a device for tracking exersize, if i dry the sensor it will start to work again for a while then fails again. It seem too be an ongoing promlem as evident in this thread, and would like to thiink this is being addressed but from the coments Sumsung are ignoring the issue. its really ashame cause i have many samsung items from enterainment to phones and the watch, until the watch i have not had problem with any item. while i hope the problem is fixed, i am mainly adding this comment to add to the thread to hope more can be done with the problem. in summing up Samsung I will not be recommending the watchs built by you until this problem is addressed and a fix is supplied. 

Smukec
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I have got this same problem with my Gear Sport. Its brand new and fully updated. Still the heart rate is a pain, especialy during exercise. It is just not working. Flat line...

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pavlis
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It's been extensively discussed hear and in Galaxy Watch forums. The consensus is that it's a hardware problem and that no software will *ever* fix it.
Return the watch and demand a full refund. I did and am loving my Fitbit Charge 3. It doesn't miss a beat! It just *works*.
Guru11
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I think it's a software problem. I think this is because it was good with the previous SHealth version. Then they updated it and made it virtually hypersensitive. And it is also strange that other apps work and measure properly.

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Andrezao
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Never worked with the last version SAMSUNG HEALTH and doesn't work with others app. 

This is a HW problem. 

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pavlis
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Samsung cannot get fitness tracking working properly no matter how hard they try. Even the latest Watch Active is having major issues with fitness tracking! 

https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-watch-active-review-970667/amp/

 

My Fitbit Charge 3 works great and doesn't miss a beat. I will never, ever buy a Samsung watch or a fitness device! 

 

 

 

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Guru11
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You probably have a hardware problem, but my gear S3 is quite good with other applications. If you sprint then you go up 150-160bpm if you jog then 90-100bpm if you walk then 80-90bpm. (UA Record, Strava

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Meowwh
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Same happens with my gear sport whenever my heart rate goes high it shows it going up to 220 which its probably not cos I'd be dead

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