Had my Samsung Watch 6 SM-R935F for nearly a year.
Over the last few months, the tracking of my runs in Samsung Health has been......funky.
Not all the time, but reasonably frequently, it will be jumping around all over the place from the start...until suddenly deciding to track properly. It quite often adds more than 2 miles to my 5 mile run.
- It's not a built up area.
- It can happen in all weather, including clear skies
- Happens when app says it has detected location
- Mobile networks set to always off
- Bluetooth headphones connected
- The flip to correct tracking occasionally seems to correspond with when I check my stats on the watch, but more often than not, it makes no difference.
- All software updates applied
I'm out of ideas and thinking of returning it under the warranty.
Has anyone managed to resolve this issue?
My GPS tracking is sorta ok. I walk my condo's catwalk and it does not handle the back and forth over the four levels well. It tracks like I've had quite a few drinks. However, my phone tracks much better than the watch. Below are the maps from two separate identical walks on the same day over the same area. One with the watch only and the other with the phone only. The watch thinks I walk on water, as it has me out in the lake at points, but they both show me wandering over to the other side of the building, which would be impossible unless I had the power to walk through concrete. In contrast, the third picture is a straight 1.8 mile walk on flat terrain. I know I was wearing my watch, but I do not remember if I brought my phone along so if this is the combined GPS results of both devices. I'm pretty sure it was just the watch, though.
