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β01-13-2023 01:49 PM in
Galaxy WatchMoved to a Galaxy from Fitbit and would love to hear from Galaxy users how they use the Galaxy to monitor their health and/or work around some of the following. I used the Fitbit in a very concise way to monitor my weight, steps, sleep, and resting heart rate. So I am missing the following features:
1. Average resting heart rate. The daily heart rate range and every 10-minute snapshot is not helping me monitor my health from day to day. Is there a way to make it show me the average each day? How do people use the default data in a snapshot way?
2. Is there a way to enter my actual step length? It seems to assume every 5'4" has the same stride. My step count is drastically different from the Fitbit and I think it is wrong. Do you guys lie about your height to make it adjust the stride? But then all those fancy heart & weight scans would be off.
3. How to enter a PRIOR workout that I did earlier that day or the day before? I don't want to have to touch my phone to tell it every time I'm working out. What do you guys do if you forgot to touch your watch before a workout?
4. Is there a way to enter my weight without doing a body scan? I used to log my weight and loved seeing trends over a long period of time. I don't have time to do the scan every time so I'm no longer logging my weight.
5. Is there something I can do to improve the watch's ability to automatically recognize different exercises? My Fitbit recognized my elliptical workouts without me touching it. I read while on the elliptical so my arms aren't always going back & forth & that seems to be the only way the Galaxy knows it is elliptical. So I end up with these 10-minute elliptical workouts with gaps in between them. It's pretty useless data.
6. I have a Samsung phone and they are syncing, which I know I can turn off but then I wouldn't get the texts, which is something it does better than the Fitbit. I can't seem to make the watch alarm vibrate and the phone alarm audible. I've tried various combinations. I hope I'm missing something.
I really liked the idea of having 2 Samsung devices but I'm not able to use the data that this watch is collecting. Help me please!
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β01-13-2023 03:29 PM in
Galaxy Watch@bongid Here is some info:
2. Currently there is no way to enter your stride length.
3. There is no way to enter a prior workout.
4. You can enter your weight in Samsung Health on your phone without doing a scan.
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β01-13-2023 05:34 PM in
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β01-21-2023 05:14 PM in
Galaxy WatchThank you both for your feedback. Here's what I'm realizing. I think my priorities are more fitness related than "smart watch" related. I think the Samsung Galaxy watch is a superior Smart Watch if you want to use it for music, texts, answering phone calls. But I'm very frustrated that it REQUIRES me to interact with it so much. I did a 9-mile hike last week and it auto-recorded it as all these small pieces that I can't stitch together into one hike. For one piece of it, I clicked start a workout I then also had to accept something else before it started recording. It required 2 confirmations to get the information that is recorded without me thinking about it on a Fitbit. I also realized it doesn't record elevation change unless you touch it to tell it to record. I know Apple watches require all the touching too and I find that confounding. I would like to suggest that Samsung mirror Fitbit rather than Apple in this area. My hubby will keep his Galaxy but I think I'm going back to Fitbit. Thanks everyone for the help!

