Huawei GT2 heart rate issue - Huawei Watch

Hi all,
I've been having this issue with the watch since day one.
The watch is connected to an iPhone.
The heart rate monitor is way too high in a lot of cases, for instance when I sit down and watch TV it's around 55-60 and then peaks to ~150 with no apparent reason as you can seen in the attached photo.
It's not my first smartwatch and I have never had this problem before.
I send it to huawei's labs for inspection and they said it's working fine and it might be issue with the over sensitive sensor and the fact it is connected to an iPhone and not their phone.
Has anyone else encountered this problem?
Thanks,
Ishay

No such issues with my GT2 connected to Android phone.
It sometimes happens that when I put a watch on (it was off my hand for a while and I put it back on) it spikes to high bpm value (i.e. 110 or so), but quickly reduces to normal. During resting/sitting period, bpm remains constantly low, without spikes that you mention.

bokyfly said:
No such issues with my GT2 connected to Android phone.
It sometimes happens that when I put a watch on (it was off my hand for a while and I put it back on) it spikes to high bpm value (i.e. 110 or so), but quickly reduces to normal. During resting/sitting period, bpm remains constantly low, without spikes that you mention.
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Thanks for the reply!
can you compare my thumbnail with yours? no sport activity during that day..

ishaycc said:
Hi all,
I've been having this issue with the watch since day one.
The watch is connected to an iPhone.
The heart rate monitor is way too high in a lot of cases, for instance when I sit down and watch TV it's around 55-60 and then peaks to ~150 with no apparent reason as you can seen in the attached photo.
Thanks,
Ishay
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I've never had such issue on pair with mate 30 pro, but on high rates (over 186) suddenly drop to about 135 (1/3 less).

I have an opposite effect but only during training. The watch shows on average 20-30bpm less than my previous 2 smart bands. I've read there should be an improvement with the firmware version 1.0.3.62 but I'm stuck on 1.0.2.60.

I had exact same problems..this morning when I was doing elliptical,the hr went up suddenly 188 and said limit exceeded .once I stopped the tracking it came back to normal , insee this problem after I had set the Huawei mobile service region to China to buy few watch faces..

I finally got 1.0.3.62 update so I'll report back in a few days if the HR has improved.

Hi all,
"happy" to read that I'm not the only one with this issue:
Doing elliptical, raises to 160, LED on back is not flickering but steady on. Stop moving, drops down to 96 (fe). Real rate (according Samsung watch on other arm is 96. Moving again and up to 160..
Started with latest firmware update.. what **** is this...

Exact same problem, with last firmware update, when doing elliptical, heart rate is reportef between 20-40 bpm above what the machine is reading, tried with a camera app and it read the same value as the machine and to make sure trackef my pulse and all were the same but the gt2. My phone is a mate 20 lite. Definitely happenef with the latest firmware. Was ok with the two firmwares before.

I have 1.0.3.62.
the clock stuck to 109bpm. i took it out, i put it on again it showed 75bpm for a while then 109bpm again. To say that I sat for so long. i opened the app and as long as it was stuck there is a gap !!! Last clue at the app 109bpm. The clock shows "normally" that stuck for a while constantly.
With 1.0.2.68 i had no problem!!!

Drastic drop
Mine too. Is it hardware or software?

I have exactly the same issue. Driving along and it will suddenly spike up to 170+ occasionally. Same thing happened the other day walking to the shop peaked to 190+...
Although we could all just be really ill??

I did not experience that issue but the opposite - during workout, the highest HR is usually not as high as it should be, sometimes even 20bpm lower (compared to Polar OH1).

I am facing the same problems. Reading jumps from 55 to 120! When I check against another machine I can see I have 60 and the watch is showing 110! This started after I used it for indoor elliptical and sensor went nuts with wrong readings. Never had that problem before. I will try a factory reset and if not fixed send it back (I have had it for about 5 weeks 24-7)

My brand new HONOR MAGIC WATCH 2 doesn't track heart rate on my wrist, however on my Palm, its tracks properly. Shall I return or is it software issue or hardware?

I have a different problem. My GT2 elegant detects puls and stress levels while I'm not wearin it...Of course it happened after one of latest updates...
Don't know how to fix this and it annoys me alot

Yes I've had the same problem. It's connected to a Huawei phone so not sure why this is happening. Did you manage to solve the problem? I might return mine since it's less than 2 weeks since I received it.

I have similar issue... When starting a workout, even if I'm not walking or doing something the heart rate zones shows "extreme" with 70-80 bpm... Anyone knows a fix?

Hi guys! I don't have a GT2 but GT2e instead, with the latest 1.0.6.20 firmware, and might be a heart rate issue here too. When I bought it, I compared with my Honor Magic Watch (which were replaced because the battery draining very quickly, it lasts now for only 2 days), and the GT2e showed higher heart rate, +10-20 bpm. This weekend, the GT2e showed many times seriously high heart rate, example: during sleep, under2 minutes ramped up quickly to 136 bpm , and then back to 60-70. Today in 5 minutes ramped up from 93 to 149, then back to 121, and I immediately started to check my pulse by counting it manually, and it was between 80 and 90, but the watch still showed 110 bpm. I haven't even do any exercising during that time. I was at the doctor a week ago, ECG and heart rhythm checking, nothing unusual was found, later that day I bought the GT2e.
Could it be possible that those high heart rates measured by the watch are "false alarms"?
I watched video reviews from this watch before buying it, especially about the heart rate accuracy compared to expensive smart watches, and the previous gen. Watch GT, and everyone said that the sensors accuracy is very high, and I'm a bit scared now...

azur3orion said:
Hi guys! I don't have a GT2 but GT2e instead, with the latest 1.0.6.20 firmware, and might be a heart rate issue here too. When I bought it, I compared with my Honor Magic Watch (which were replaced because the battery draining very quickly, it lasts now for only 2 days), and the GT2e showed higher heart rate, +10-20 bpm. This weekend, the GT2e showed many times seriously high heart rate, example: during sleep, under2 minutes ramped up quickly to 136 bpm , and then back to 60-70. Today in 5 minutes ramped up from 93 to 149, then back to 121, and I immediately started to check my pulse by counting it manually, and it was between 80 and 90, but the watch still showed 110 bpm. I haven't even do any exercising during that time. I was at the doctor a week ago, ECG and heart rhythm checking, nothing unusual was found, later that day I bought the GT2e.
Could it be possible that those high heart rates measured by the watch are "false alarms"?
I watched video reviews from this watch before buying it, especially about the heart rate accuracy compared to expensive smart watches, and the previous gen. Watch GT, and everyone said that the sensors accuracy is very high, and I'm a bit scared now...
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Try to set heart rate tracking to non-stop and not smart. When I did that it works ok. When it is set to smart it measures in 10 minutes interval. So it is written but I think the watch turns on also when you move and then measures your heart beat. When it does that you get high peaks which I think it is the problem in software because friend of mine has GT2 set to smart and there is no peaks.

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Heart rate monitor.

Does the moto 360 come with its own app or any way to continuously monitor heart rate? Or does it just give you a single reading which is entirely useless?
Haven't quite figured out how it polls, but it has a tracker for minutes of activity that seems to register if I do something strenuous. Not sure about heart rate...
I think it measures heart rate every 5 minutes or so. There is another app mentioned on android police that constantly monitors it but I haven't tried it.
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I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
johnomaz said:
I've been using it often because I think I am experiencing the early stages of high blood pressure so I'm keeping track of my heart rate. It appears to monitor it when you run it but it seems to poll every 5-10 seconds until you close the app.
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Is there a way to keep the watch on when monitoring HR. I know it will kill the battery but its just for my workout, and when the screen times out you have to restart the HR app.
Also anyone find an app to see HR on the phone that's measured on the watch? its nice to have the phone sitting on the magazine rack of the treadmill.

Exercise with motx 360?

Has anybody started working with moto 360? How accurate is the watch?
I ran with it the other night. From a steps perspective it's count was comparable to another pedometer I have, so I'd say it was pretty accurate.
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The background heart rate monitor is really bad though. I really liked that it encouraged you to do 30 mins of vigorous activity a day. I thought it would really help me get in better shape.
The pedometer I agree is fairly accurate and is not off by more than 200 with my LG G3. I try to take 8,000-10,000 steps I take a day so being off by 200 is very good in my books. But as far as keeping track of my daily exercise, there are 2 issues with this... The first is it would be nice to change my vigorous activity goal to 45 mins, 1 hour, or any other value. 30 minutes is recommend by the American heart association but I am sure that trying to double that goal daily would be even better. This issue should be fixed very easily and hopefully soon too. The other and more important issue is how bad it is at keeping track of your exercise time.
Here is how my day went: I woke up and after I put my watch on, I WALKED downstairs and ate a quick breakfast and hopped in my car for work. Then I took an ELEVATOR to the 7th floor and SAT down in my office. After an hour or so of sitting there, I was alerted that I was halfway to my goal for the day or rather Motorola's goal for me... I can pretty much guarantee my heart rate did not go over 90-100 beats the whole time yet somehow the 360 gave me credit for 15 minutes of vigorous exercise. I hope that this like the first issue is a software issue. If it is a hardware issue which it easily could be, the background heart rate monitor is completely useless until the moto 360 2 or whatever they want to call it comes out.
The other weird thing is when I request for my heart rate to be measured, it seems fairly accurate. I don't have any experience with other smart watches but I know this one is not bad. I changed it so that it uses google's app to measure my heart rate which gives me hope that it is just a software issue with the background heart rate monitor and that it will be fixed.
I still think I am going to be keeping the watch for the time being despite the crappy processor, sub par battery, and bad background heart rate monitor. I am excited about android 5/ L/ Lemon Meringue Pie/ Lollipop. I think the software upgrades will make this very good looking and ok performing watch into something of a beast.

Huawei Watch Battery life Thread

The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
Post you battery life below:
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The battery life on the watch seems to be much better than my Urbane so far. I used it all day yesterday and I still had at least another day of use left. I still charged jt last night but I might try to see how long it will last before it dies.
Here it is with ambient mlde always on, WiFi on, and brightness set at 4.
Post you battery life below:
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WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
suzook said:
WOW! Better than the urbane? I had the urbane, and was satisfied with batt life. My one concern with the huawei was the smaller batt.
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The above should speak for itself. My Urbane was good but it was inconsistent some day I would end with 30% others I would have 60% doing this exact same thing. I'm only really on my full second day now but it still seems better overall. I've also noticed its a little faster which it shouldn't be because they are identical hardware wise. I'll report back later this week after I use it at school. I usually really 3-6 miles depending on the day which could kill the battery faster since it's counting my steps. Yesterday I only walked 2 miles which isn't a lot so we will see.
Mine doesn't make it through the day
I've had it 2 1/2 days, maybe it will get better. But it's dead by late evening - maybe 8p, with an 8a start.
Here's today's:
I'm using the same set up as I listed in the OP. Let's see how it does tomorrow now
I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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I used it on the first day full charge. With everything on except google fit and brightness at level 4. I was getting 2.81% decrease/hr. I measured from 7 am to 4 pm; a 9 hr day with at least 30 emails and other notifications from tapatalk and such. 1 phone call and a few texts in that 9hr period. However today in my 2 hr venture to the grocery store, I used up about 5.41%/hr. And I did change up the watchface to a sweeping seconds one. That was the only diff to account for the increased battery. BUT even with that, the battery meter still said it would last another 2 days.
Like many others have said, this is my second full day with it. I assume it will just get stable and get an accurate reading in another day or so.
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Yeah it seems to get good better life from my initial impressions. I would say with heavier usage it would get 1.25-1.5days but that depends on how you use it.
So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
swngdncr said:
So far mixed review on battery life. Yesterday, it didn't last the whole day. But I think the wifi might have been on when I wasn't near a wifi. Did a 90 minute bike ride today and was connected to my phone vis RunGPS application which should have been using the watch HRM. Went from 95% to 45% in those 90 minutes. Don't know the impact, but when I got back, found the HR was stuck at 125 for half the ride, and 72 for the other half of the ride. Just frozen. I charged it fully at 12:00, now at almost 11PM, it has 73% remaining. I have the display set with "always on" turned off.
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I never use the HRM because I know it kills the battery based on experience with AW and my old Samsung Gear Fit. I'm not surprised that it died that fast because its not made to primarily be a fitness watch despite having a HRM and fitness apps. I know that sounds dumb but a fitbit would do a better job because that's is sole purpose. I don't expect the HRM to be accurate on any smart watch; I tested mine yesterday at the gym while on the treadmill. The treadmill say my HR was 165 while the watch said it was 100 so there's a big difference and I trust the treadmill over the watch in this case. I have my display always on still and get good battery life. I don't expect the watch to last forever if I'm cranking the brightness and using the HRM. I'm not defending the watch by any means but rather stating that no AW/smart watch would handke this kind of thing well yet. I enjoy the look of Huawei and convenience it provides with alerts, notes etc... but I'm glad it lasts a day for my type of usage. I wonder if Marshmallow will improve the battery life at all.
Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
I forgot to attach there picture :/
Good battery backup for a smartwatch
Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
Pilz said:
Here's today's battery life. I knocked the watch of my night stand last night so I had to finish charging it when I got campus in case anyone was wondering about the activity tracking and watch on time difference from today. Nevertheless here's today's battery stats. Overall the battery life wasn't impacted that much by walking ~12k steps and over 5 miles which is surprising. I use the standard blue watch face it comes with because it's my favorite one so far and ambient mlde is always on as mentioned above.
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swngdncr said:
Had it fully charged when I went to bed last night, it was down to 30% when I got up this morning. I have no idea why it went down so fast. I put it in theater mode when I go to bed. I slept through the alarms, I'm wondering if maybe they were going off repeatedly and wore the battery down. -cjr-
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I'd imagine if your anything like me and ignore your alarm for an hour because I'm a heavy sleeper then the vibration motor would certainly bring it down fast. I think that's really odd to drain that much but if it's consistently doing that I would be concerned.
Yeah, I tried using Sports Gear Tracker today to track my workout... didn't work eiter. I thought it was tracking and I checked a few times. The HR appeared frozen again, but the timer was running. But, when I got home, it has no record of the workout. Don't know what happened. Google fit does have the workout. But the Heart rate record is just flat. I'm going to try a hard reset and see if that fixes the Heart rate problem. Would sure like to know if anyone else is having any success with HRM, I'm thinking at this point to send it back as defective and try a different one. Seems odd that it would perform that badly. -cjr-
I'm still not getting through the day - 12 hours tops before it dies. Am wondering about settings - I have everything set as it came out of the box: haven't touched WiFi, so assume it's on; have ambient display always on.; default brightness setting of 4.
I'm not using the HRM at all, and not even really checking the watch constantly.
Any suggestions? (thanks in advance)
I have wifi off. I had it on and I think it really drained the battery.. try turning it off..
Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
Thanks, will give that a try.
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Urbane definitely had better batt life. While the huawei is acceptable, its definitely not as good, which I did expect with the battery being 25% smaller.
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I'm having the opposite experience here. My Urbane was very inconsistent with battery life but when it had a good day it was around what the Huawei is. Its dependent on your usage but for me its great.

Galaxy Watch Active 2 monitors heart rate every hour

Hi everyone,
I've been using my GWA2 (SM-R820) for about a day and a half and I've noticed, both in the SHealth app on the phone and on the watch that it monitors my heart rate every hour or so instead of every ten minutes I've set it to. I've also found this thread in the Samsung forums where other users complain about this. Is there any known workaround, as people from the forum above say that this started with a late November update?
I also noticed that there is not heart rate info on my auto-tracked walks in Samsung Health. I thought that during an exercise (auto-tracked or not) heart monitoring is supposed to be continuous. Nevertheless, what I get is just a speed graph with no heart rate data at all. Is this normal?
Go to hrm in you watch, scroll down and select measure continuously
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GWA 2 unreliable pulse measurement

All since I got my watch active 2 during the automn 2019 the puilse measurement has been extremely unreliable. I have tried a total reset of the watch and also been hoping that there is a SW error that will be fixed in next firmware update (but there ARE no updates).
I have also read on the web and experimented with where on the wrist to carry the watch. Nothing helps. During sleep it often gives "OK" readings and most of the times also if I watch TV or work at the office. However. part of the whole idea of having a "Galaxy watch ACTIVE 2" is to use it during training and as a fitness tracker. A few examples from the last 48 hours.
1) Watches TV and I know that the pulse is somewher between 55 and 70. All of a sudden during a period of maybee 10 minutes the watch says my pulse is around 140.
2) At the gym. Doing squats (5 repetitions/set). The watch gives a max pulse of 210 bpm (real valute is somewhere between 100 and 120).
3) Goes and to some hight intensity interval training, real pulse 170 -180 in the peaks and in bestween 150 - 160. Watch says 82 - 94. AFTER doing the interval training when stretchingh the watch all of a sudden (this is 5 minutes later) starts to say 150- 160 as pulse but by then the real pulse is around 80.
The real measurements above is measured both by "pulse-band" around my chest and with the cycle (samre readings) and that is also what a manual count shows.
SO: The watch gives sometimes MORE than 100% error which make "pulse zones" completely useless. IT also adds an extra dimension of uselessness that it is not even consequent in the way that a higher reading corresponds to a higher actual pulse.
Question:
Are your GWA2's equally useless when it comes to measuring pulse during activity?
Are you using continuous hr monitoring?
Actually, I have tested mine compared to a professional blood pressure monitoring device and both heart rate and blood pressure (BP lab app) were pretty close.
I cannot confirm tho that it gives good results throughout the day, only when tested. Some times I find the peak values of the day to be high enough, yet I am a guy with high resting hr, compared to other people.
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thanito said:
Are you using continuous hr monitoring?
Actually, I have tested mine compared to a professional blood pressure monitoring device and both heart rate and blood pressure (BP lab app) were pretty close.
I cannot confirm tho that it gives good results throughout the day, only when tested. Some times I find the peak values of the day to be high enough, yet I am a guy with high resting hr, compared to other people.
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Hi and thanks!
Yes I use continous HR monitoring.
Mine often gives accurate HR readings if I try when sitting still at my desk or just testing in the kitchen. It is during activity it is extremely unreliable. Did you test at any time during any type of excercise?
(mine is sometimes unreliable even when sitting still or watching TV but in thoose case the "normal" is that it gives correct measurements on HR)
Hi, I handled it in to Samsung and a few weeks later I got it back, they said some hardware was bad and had been replaced (so I lost the info in Samsung Pay and the LTE-connection). Reinstalled everything and started using it for training.
While stretching it constantly showed a puls between 140 and slightly above 160 (actual pulse was below 70). Did thereafter some training with cycle indoors and did intervalls and then Watch Active 2 said the pulse was aorund 90 BPM (actual value here was from 160 to 178 in thoose intervalls).
That leaved me with a "fitnesswatch" that only gives correct readings when watching Netflix so I have now handled it back to Samsung and claimed my money back. There is a lot of good things to say about the watch but there is a limit to how bad a key function of a product can be.
I would still be interested to see if other people have made it work fine during training or not.
BR

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