Also, just whilst I'm moaning. I see a lot of people say that these things are unavoidable and that Samsung aren't perfect.  Well those people know nothing about software development, and that is the problem here.   At no point, should Samsung be pushing live, auto-updates to peoples £400~ watches that stops them working.  There are well defined methods to prevent this kind of thing from happening.  Take Windows for example, you have different branches of updates you can subscribe to, if you want bleeding edge stuff that regularly breaks, that's your call, but by default you should get the stable branch, that's not only had automated unit tests run against it, but also weeks if not months of real world testing, done by real humans against it. Thing is, everyone wants everything today, with no delays, and if Samsung implemented something like the above, they could make both camps of people happy, people who like their nice expensive watch to work as advertised *all* of the time, and those that want it doing crazy new things every other week.   Samsung, please take note.  In the EU, if a device is not fit for purpose, i.e. does not work as advertised, without any fault of the user, within the first 3 years you can get it refunded, by law.  My watch isn't a play ground for your awful developers. ... View more

So after trying a new strap, my first reading was great, but it was purely coincidental as it's been just as unreliable ever since. Thing is, I'm not a fan of Apple, but I bet the blood oxygen check works on their new watch, which is sad to say the least how Samsung quite happily put junk out there. if it doesn't work as advertised, it shouldn't be there until it does. This is my third Samsung smart watch, S2, Galaxy Watch 1 and 3, and each one has had issues that Samsung have either introduced half way through or just not worked from the start. With the first Galaxy Watch the inactivity notifications stopped working for months, it took lots of hounding to get them to fix it, which they did to be fair, but not proactively. I could write a whole list if bugs for them as I'm sure we all could but they won't listen. sad but true. ... View more

maybe you're just walking incorrectly. ... View more

nice, I'll give that a try and see how it goes. thanks. ... View more

yeah I got it to work several times when the watch is super tight, cleaned sensors etc, still I'm only getting like at best 1 in 5 readings. I'm certainly not going to permanently wear the watch tightly as I prefer blood flow to my hand, which goes strengthen my point more, it's poorly designed. The sitting still etc is fair enough, that's not difficult. I don't think it's a worthy feature on what is arguably the best smart watch available. ... View more

lmao, maybe I'm not wearing the watch correctly? yeah okay, more likely the feature just doesn't work properly. and that's confirmed by zEeTv saying that the watch has to be on super tight. yes I can eventually get it to work by keep testing,my point is, it's extremely unreliable. and btw, you might want to pick another name if you want to be taken seriously. ... View more

I can verify that the update fixed tbe issue for me.  I had to manually check for updates in the Gear Wearable app for it to pick up the update. ... View more

That's great news, I look forward to trying it out. Many thanks for your time in looking into this. ... View more

Thanks @AntS that's awesome, you're a star. ... View more

@AndrewL - Any idea how we go about raising this issue further as it seems to me like it's just being ignored at the moment, people purchased the device for this functionality and it's quite clear that an update has broken it, I'm keen to get my device working again. What seems to be happening, from my perspective as a user, is that after a reset, the watch will work again, until it reaches the cut off point for that day, where inactivity reminders are not supposed to be reported on, until the next day. Then the next day, it never seems to come back out of that state. As mentioned above, I have looked into the idea that you have suggested, and that doesn't resolve the issue unfortunately, besides the fact that the phone has no need to be displaying inactivity reminders as it gets left lying about all the time, it's the watch that feature was designed for. ... View more

Oops, sorry for multiple posts. It told me the first one didn't post. ... View more

I can confirm that (for me at least), the option remains disabled on the Phone App regardless of how it is set on the Watch. Is it even a phone feature? My phone idea left of a desk for hours every day, I don't want activity reminders in that. ... View more

I can confirm that made no difference for me, the option in the phone app remains disabled regardless of how it is set on the Watch.    I don't even think you can have activity reminders on the phone can you? It makes sense on the Watch, not on the phone that I regularly leave on a desk for hours.  ... View more

Already have, was the first thing I informed them of and they didn't bother to read through it.  ... View more

I've been communicating with Samsung on Facebook, they have asked me to do the usual.  Resetting the watch got it working for one day, but it had stopped working again by the next day. ... View more

I've had this for a few weeks now, I thought I was imagining it. But it's definitely not working. Get it fixed Samsung!! And test your updates before pushing them to your customers!! ... View more