So I finally made the plunge and got a 360 after finding a great deal on Craigslist! My old activity tracker died so I figured why not get one that also has all the neat properties of a smart watch? Here are my current questions and confusions:
1. Using google fit is kind of confusing so far. I find that google fit on my phone, my watch, and the web all have moderately different step counts, and the google fit card on my watch only ever wants to show me "minutes" despite what I have it set to display on my phone (which isn't particularly useful considering that I'm aware how much time I spend at the gym). It also tends to show me 0 miles instead of the fraction of a mile that I should be at in the early hours of the day. Does it only show whole numbers? Does this data all sync to the phone regularly?
2. Do you need to enable "high accuracy mode" on your phone in order to get better tracking on the watch, or is that entirely separate? They do not specify this within the app.
3. Does having google fit and moto body on the phone double the amount of battery used to count steps/heart rate/etc? I like google fit because it syncs with other services mainly, so it would be great to only need one active. Assuming they're equally accurate of course.
4. Does either google fit or motobody take heart rate measurements on their own or do you have to manually hit the button? I see the green "heart rate scanning" light on every so often, yet as far as I can tell there is no place to go view these heart rates (if that is what it's measuring). Can it tell when you're working out and do a heart rate every so often or do you have to scroll through the list of apps/cards, find google fit, swipe to heart rate, and then press the button every time you want to measure?
1. Using google fit is kind of confusing so far. I find that google fit on my phone, my watch, and the web all have moderately different step counts, and the google fit card on my watch only ever wants to show me "minutes" despite what I have it set to display on my phone (which isn't particularly useful considering that I'm aware how much time I spend at the gym). It also tends to show me 0 miles instead of the fraction of a mile that I should be at in the early hours of the day. Does it only show whole numbers? Does this data all sync to the phone regularly?
2. Do you need to enable "high accuracy mode" on your phone in order to get better tracking on the watch, or is that entirely separate? They do not specify this within the app.
3. Does having google fit and moto body on the phone double the amount of battery used to count steps/heart rate/etc? I like google fit because it syncs with other services mainly, so it would be great to only need one active. Assuming they're equally accurate of course.
4. Does either google fit or motobody take heart rate measurements on their own or do you have to manually hit the button? I see the green "heart rate scanning" light on every so often, yet as far as I can tell there is no place to go view these heart rates (if that is what it's measuring). Can it tell when you're working out and do a heart rate every so often or do you have to scroll through the list of apps/cards, find google fit, swipe to heart rate, and then press the button every time you want to measure?
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