What happened to ECG on my Epix Pro 2 - It went to crap

When I first got my new watch back in April (Epix Pro Gen 2), I played with ECG several times and it gave me some nice clean looking ECGs. I know I’ve done one since. Today, I was curious what it looked like. I cannot get an ECG that doesn’t look like total garbage. I’ve tried a few times throughout the day. I either get some noise or like four glitches at the start that die out and go to noise. No BPM show up either. I did update my watch software last week prior to going on a trip. What gives?

0 tundracamper 9 months ago

PS. I did just restart my watch and it still looks like garbage.

0 Landrig 9 months ago

Can confirm after update to 8.14, was all fine with 7.28

0 canopenerboy 9 months ago

Hadn’t done one since before the update to 18.14. Just did one…and it was fine. HR 53, no a-fib. No glitches, clean lines on the trace.

0 Landrig 9 months ago in reply to canopenerboy

I tried it two times with absolute trash results. The third one worked (just little different positioning of the fingers). The fourth one was trash again.

I did the same position, etc. often in the past, it was never as bad as currently in this version. Whyever.

0 tundracamper 9 months ago

Not sure what’s different, but it seems to be working fine now. Just ran a couple of times and each had a good signal. Hmm?

0 Landrig 9 months ago in reply to tundracamper

Strange... same here. Different tries and all fine now. Maybe a Solar storm ? ;)

0 tundracamper 8 months ago in reply to Landrig

Well, the crappy readings are back. Just tried like 5 times, once after restarting watch, and I get some real noisy readings followed by what appears to be background noise.

Quite disappointing.

0 John 8 months ago in reply to tundracamper

Well, let's face it. It is nothing more than a gimmick, so just breathe in and breathe out and let it slide. There is no benefit from looking at your ECG in this way, despite what Apple and Samsung adepts tell you.

0 7526928 8 months ago in reply to tundracamper

0 John 8 months ago in reply to 7526928

That is incorrect. The European regulations demand a company the demonstrate the a medical device delivers what it promises. So promise nothing, and deliver mothing usefull like other companies do.