Problem with Gear Fit 2 Bluetooth Disconnection Icon in top right of screen

[AC Question]

Recently got myself a Gear Fit 2 and has mostly been great (apart from battery life). Concerned about this icon in the top right that I have found out to be a notification of bluetooth disconnection. For me, however, the only time it turns off is when the Gear Fit 2 is connected to my phone. When I turn the bluetooth off on the GF2, the icon appears. When I uncheck the button to "not be notified of diconnections" and I have the bluetooth off, the icon appears.

Might be destroying me with OCD issues but I actually thought it might also mean that the bluetooth isn't turning off properly and is constantly seeking a connection and, therefore, draining battery more quickly that the already quickness of it.

Anyone got any ideas?

 

[B. Diddy]

Moved to the Gear Fit 2 forum.

 

[ccomley]

I rarely see that icon. I wish, however, they included it in the list of "Icons you might see", indeed, I don't see why that particular help page doesn't have "all the icons the phone could ever show you". Took me a while to find out what it meant teh first time I saw it.

Basically, at night, my phone is on charge ni the lounge and the watch on my nightstand upstairs and clearly this is borderline range for BT4, sometimes they manage to stay in touch, and sometimes not.

Personally I don't have a problem with it displaying the "not in touch" icon even if you have TOLD it to not be in touch. You might, after all, forget you have done that, it's just reminding you. It's not as if it hides half the screen. I just wonder WHY you have it disconnected on purpose - the onyl time my watch is "offlline" is if I happen to be more than BT4 distance from the phone, which generally only happens when I'm at home. Then the watch can use my house WiFi, so, not that I'm that anal about it, but I never miss an email arriving!

Last week for teh first time ever I used the watch to answer a call - it buzzed to say the wife was ringing and I used the phone to grab the call before it could go to Voicemail even as I lunged across the room to grab the phone to speak into.

I guess I can see the use of being able to talk into the phone but I'm not prepared to pay extra for it! The only feature I really wish the GF2 had was NFC comms so it could be my tap-to-pay device. I see Huawei have a watch that does this now so they HAVE realised people will want to do it...