Does the Gear S2 Have Continuous Heart Rate Monitor

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• #1

Does this watch support continuous heart rate monitoring during exercise or throughout the day? I have seen conflicting information regarding this feature, some saying that it works in S-Health and Nike+ and others saying you have to manually check each time you want a reading.

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Does this watch support continuous heart rate monitoring during exercise or throughout the day? I have seen conflicting information regarding this feature, some saying that it works in S-Health and Nike+ and others saying you have to manually check each time you want a reading.

Looking for a response on this too. Went to the gym tonight and tried it out, found out I have to press the heart rate monitor to give it a test every time I wanted an update. Was hoping I could just look at the watch to know my current heart rate every time I wanted the info during cardio.

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Looking for a response on this too. Went to the gym tonight and tried it out, found out I have to press the heart rate monitor to give it a test every time I wanted an update. Was hoping I could just look at the watch to know my current heart rate every time I wanted the info during cardio.

Were you using any of the apps (S Health, Nike +)? I saw this thread about the older "s" watch that says they can do it. http://forums.androidcentral.com/samsung-gear-s/459764-continuous-heart-rate-monitoring.html

In S Health on Gear S, start an exercise and you will have the continuous heart rate displayed on screen. It records all the history and has nice chart for it all on the watch itself. If you have a compatible phone (Samsung's 2014 models), you can use S Health app on the phone to show the results as well. Older Samsung phones don't work though without hacking through hell to port the apps that currently are only available on new phones so far.

• #4

I knew I couldn't be the only person with this question. You can see my question and answer to this person's review. At about 10 minutes in his YouTube video he shows some things that the watch does, that I could not get it to do. And he answers the question if it provides live continuous heart rate monitoring while you work out, and the answer is yes. I couldn't get it to do it. But I will try again later today.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UGXC8Npgedo

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• #5

Yes

Yes it has continuous heart rate monitoring. And there is an option to turn it off. I have it off during normal use. However, it always activates when I'm working out. It works pretty well I'm my opinion

• #6

Yes, go to shealth app on watch. Go to record exercise screen. Pick any icon does not matter just use hiking for you work out. Then set a time. It start recording continuous heart rate plus other stats. Then saves them to your shealth account for reference.

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first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx

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first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx

Could've been the sweating or maybe you had the watch too loose.
From my experience, the Heart Rate readings are pretty accurate and fairly consistent with my other devices.

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Could've been the sweating or maybe you had the watch too loose.
From my experience, the Heart Rate readings are pretty accurate and fairly consistent with my other devices.

also make sure that the watch is not sitting on your wrist bone (if there is such a thing) something you have to move the watch off of your bone.

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first time try with new s2 watch and heart rate monitor performed horribly compared to polar chest band..it was as far off as 40 bpms...i am a fit 50 year old man but do have some vascular issues so i tried flipping watch on inside off wrist no luck...was using shealth app.. anyone with similar issues or ideas...thx

I had a similar experience. I was wearing the S2 and a Polar chest strap at the same time. At times they were very close and at times they were VERY far apart. I believe this issue could be the sampling rate of the S2 and that it is not picking up on changes as fast as the chest strap. Does anyone know the frequency of readings in "continuous" mode and how to make it more often?

• #12

Does anyone know if it's possible to remotely monitor someones heart rate? For example, a lot of people are dying from heroin overdose these days, So I was wondering, if the user was cool with it, I could see his heart rate somehow from his watch while sleeping? Not in the same house.

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