As watch or the norm?

Former Member over 7 years ago

I bought the 5x and tested it on vacation in Utah. The compass was stuck at SW no matter which way I turned. I recalibrated and it worked. Next day, same thing, stuck. Recalibrated and it worked. I repeated this process the entire vacation, frustrating. I drove 2.5 hrs highway, when I stopped I noticed 4000 steps? I rolled out of bed and got on the road! Maybe 200-300 max, not 4000! The altimeter, I calibrated several times. A sign right by my camp told me my altitude and I calibrated to that which happened to be with in 10 feet of my Apple phone calculation. Next day, 300 feet off. Recalibrated, next day 500 feet off? Realibrate drive up the tunnel which is 11,300, watch says 10,100.

The mapping worked fine but man, that?s some serious problems with a 700.00 smart watch. I took it back as soon as I got home but I really wanted the watch to work out. The mapping was just to hard for me to deal with so now I?m thinking should I try a 3HR but I?m nervous I?d have the same issues. Anyone else have all these issues?

0 sis651 over 7 years ago

Yes, everyone has some of these issues except the compass. The only time I see the compass stuck is, when it tries to do WiFi sync. Unless I initiate a WiFi sync in the background, it's always functioning.
Watch accelerometer tries to predict steps via motion of the watch. If you drive on a bad road, vibrations can cause it to count vibrations as steps. You can have steps while hand washing dishes. At the same time, I work as a cameraman and when I walk with the camera it doesn't record my steps, because I walk without jumping my body up and down, so nothing to record for the accelerometer. These are related to sensor settings and has no best setting. Increase its sensitivity, it'll record my steps during camera work, but then it'll record more steps while driving. Decrease its sensitivity and it won't record steps while driving, but it'll start to record less steps even when you're walking.
Altimeter works by measuring the pressure and keeping track of its difference and tries to predict whether the weather pressure changes or pressure changes due to user climbing up or down. So it may easily miss the real elevation as weather pressure change can increase or decrease the pressure change of user movement and cause inconsistencies. Actually with a better algorithm it may function much well but we have this at the moment.
But you definitely had some issues with compass...