Recent content by craigyjp

It was all going so well, 2 runs within an acceptable tolerance and now after 3 more runs back to way off by 300m plus.That the feck Samsung, it is not that difficult, your a world class company with a second rate product. I even did 2 walks yesterday of 1km each and it only registered one of...

I'm in the UK and it was Tuesday afternoon when I checked my apps and there were several updates available. You do it through the Samsung Gear App on your phone,

One other thing is the stairs counting. I regularly use the stairs, about 12 steps, but the count very rarely changes.

There was a software update to s-health on the watch 2 days ago, I have run 2 times with the watch since then and it has been fairly accurate. Run 1: Gear S3 4.88km vs Garmin 735XT 4.90 - 20 meters difference Run 2: Gear S3 5.01km vs Garmin 735XT 5.10 - 90 meters difference This is acceptable...

Samsung actually contacted me because I rated S-health on the gear as 1* If more people do this that own the S3 frontier then maybe they will take notice.

Thanks for you update regarding running apps. I had a long chat with Samsung today regarding the lack of accuracy and the only advice they could offer was to reset the watch, But they took onboard my concerns.

I had a dedicated fitness watch "tomtom runner 2", but that was buggy as hell and failed sync more times than it worked and is a very ugly watch to boot. If you had read my first post you would have actually seen that. I'm comparing the S3 to the TomTom runner 2, an Iphone 6 running Endemondo...

Well I ran 5.65 km tonight and the S3 recorded 5.11 km. So even with the WIFI Location services turned off the watch was still over 500 m short of the actual distance. We used several other devices to test against and it is clear the S3 is rubbish at distance tracking. I thought maybe it was...

I just bought the gear S3 to replace a TomTom Runner 2 with constant sync issues. So far I'm more than disappointed with the S3 and it's lack of decent apps for running. And whats with this countdown nonsense. I regularly attend Parkruns and having to wait 4 secs to start running with 800...