As the subject and location suggests, my watch during the middle of a workout has started repeatedly pausing the workout and saying "Seems like you've stopped. Finish workout?" And it does not matter how much I'm moving, how high my heart rate is, or how many times I tell it to resume. The watch did not do this last month and it does not matter what workout I'm doing. Whether I'm walking, running, lifting weights, rowing, doing a dynamic workout, about every 20 seconds to 2 minutes this notification pops up.
I've done everything I can from restarting the watch, resetting the watch, checking for updates, going into each exercise choice and turning off "Auto Pause", going into the settings and turning off "Activities to detect" on both the phone Samsung Health app and in the watch. I've even called Samsung tech support and the man I talked to was saying that it must be an app causing it but i've turned off all app notifications except messaging apps.
The only thing I can think that might be going on is I cannot change "Auto detect workouts" in the Advanced option of the Samsung Health app settings.
I just bought the new galaxy 6 classic watch and ran with it today and this continue to pop up. I bought this watch to help train for a 10k if I cant get a response to fix it the watch it going back and I'm just getting a fit bit.
I have a galaxy watch4 BT. Has worked pretty good till an update I believe around April came out and my watch started acting up. The most annoying issue is anytime I attempt to record a workout i constantly get a message stating " Seems like you have stopped. Finish workout?" It is super annoying. Tons of people have reported the same issue on Samsung members,reddit and other forums. It seems obvious it is a software issue because of the timing and update. Which I agree. Buuuuuut what I starting to find out is I believe it also has something to do with having tattoos.
The reason I am pretty sure is because i tested the wrist detection sensor through the watch diagnostics in the galaxy wearable app. Placed it where I don't have tattoos and where I do multiple times. Everytime there was a tattoo underneath it would not detect it. I then disabled the wrist detection setting ( only can be done on the watch itself) settings>security and privacy>wrist detection. Since then I have no issues at all. It hasn't been a whole day but so far not one issue. What I believe was happening is that the watch would think I wasn't wearing it then that message would appear. Tattoos have been known to cause issues with the galaxy watch and the sensors they use. I still believe it definitely was triggered or re triggered by whatever update they pushed out but at least for me it definitely has to do with tattoos.
I would like to hear what everyone one else thinks but I also want to state that I signed up for the beta 6.0 software which I downloaded and installed on my watch 4. I honestly can't remember if before that I was able to disable wrist detection and use the diagnostics to test the sensor. So that can be one of the biggest differences as well. From what I read Samsung was coming out with an update for users with tattoos on version 6.0.
Turn off the wrist detection. On the watch not the app. I did it a week ago and it has stopped with that stupid notification. Go to settings on the watch and then go to security and privacy and turn off wrist detection. Saved me from smashing this thing into oblivion. Samsung needs to remove the notification, but this is working for now.
Just a Temp fix that worked for me (S3 Frontier watch) use "Other Workout". Has yet to Auto pause and I have sat at my desk typing without pausing for +30 mins before stopping the workout to test.
When recording workout watch constantly stops and message comes up "seems like you've finished. Stop workout?". Super annoying. I have a galaxy watch 4. What corrected for me was to install 6.0 software. Then I disabled the wrist detection setting ( only can be done on the watch itself) settings>security and privacy>wrist detection. If you have wrist detection then you probably don't need 6.0 but if you don't then you will need to download it.
My workouts auto pause if I stop. If I stop for too long, it will ask if I'm done. Not sure of the pause period, but im never really bothered by it, because if i get the message and im not done, I just start moving. If I am done, I ignore it and the routine ends. You don't want it to be in standby while you wait 10 minutes for a treadmill to be free. If you are outdoors biking , running or ealking and waiting for a traffic signal, just tell rhe watch you are not done you can turn on auto pause from within the workout screen in the health app.
