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[General Accessories] c0rey:
What helps very much is to have the mac adress of your Mi band (1S)!

After you got it saved in Mi Fit app/other app your band will be found much much easier in future. For me it always worked by then after the mac adress was once in the phone/apps. Before that it never connected and I almost thought that the Mi band was broken. Luckily I tested it on another phone (honor 7) where it worked fine from the beginning. So if you think your band is broken try to get the mac adress of it in your phone saved.

You can do this by this:

- Try to find the bands mac adress by activating Bluetooth and let your phone keep looking for your band in the BT options. If it isn´t found first time reboot Bluetooth (Deactivate, wait 10 seconds and activate again). After a few times looking for you band it might find the band.

- You can use the app Bluetooth Reboot for Rebooting your BT too.

- Or you can get the mac adress by keep connecting with other apps like Mi Band Notify & Fitness (3 lines on the upper left brings you to the options). There in the options menu of the Mi Band Notify app you will find your mac adress of your band if it was once connected. There you can also save the mac adress for future phones by exporting your options to google drive or on your micro sdcard (ES Explorer) etc.

By the way:

Activate GPS BEFORE scanning via Bluetooth/app for your band and go out get a GPS fix once! I don´t know why but it seems to help finding your band via Bluetooth.

You can turn you GPS off after your phone/app found your band once. You do not need to have it on all the time later only if you want to track your distance or sth else.
[General Accessories] Formhault:
So... How do we IMPORT the MAC address in case this is needed? :)
[General Accessories] c0rey:
You can enter the mac adress in the options of the Mi Band Notify & Fitness app if you know it e.g. because you have seen it before in the bluetooth options of this or another phone.

After done that let this app or Mi Fit app scan again for your band for a while. Now your band will be found much easier by the app I guess because it knows what to look for.

After your band was paired once do not unpair it in one of the apps! Now you can shut down GPS and usually you can shut down BT too but I myself keep the Bluetooth on all the time. It does not need much more power than without it.
[General Accessories] Wizard1Canada:
Heart Rate reading works perfectly fine in any situation. Check out my review video I posted and I activate the heart rate reading during the video.
[General Accessories] Guarino95:
Hey guys, what is the procedure to pair my mi band 1s with endomondo? I searched on the post but can't find the exact procedure
[General Accessories] booua:
Hey, I know that i can use Mi Band 1S with Endomondo, but is the same thing possible with Runtastic?
[General Accessories] Valentin4ou93:
Yes :good:
[General Accessories] lucifer76:
Only Endomondo can see my 1S, with Runtastic dont work. Another combination that does not work is Gliderun and Endomondo. Now it looks like I'm stuck to Mi Fit and Endomondo.
[General Accessories] dnguy3:
My Mi Band 1S too sensitive. Every time I move my wrist, it counts multi steps instead of one.

Do you guys have any problem with it?
[General Accessories] Noe83:
Connect mi band 1s with runtastic pro

Finally, I succeeded. All you need is mi band tools. Set landscape mode on smartphone. Activate bluetooth, activate continuous heart rate monitor in mi band tools, in runtastic go to settings/sensore cardiaco (I don't know in English app) and choose "heart rate combo monitor", now ROTATE THE PHONE IN LANDSCAPE MODE and a list of Bluetooth devices will appear, set MI1S and it's done.
[General Accessories] Moksu:
Hi,

Is there an app what will continuously record heart rate with mi band 2?
[General Accessories] DarKnighT916:
Mi Band Tools works for 1S, so I think it already supports 2.
[General Accessories] tlf55:
Can you get other notification on mi band ? I mean if a Text message come, will it vibrate and use led ? or Whatsapp and things like that ? If not with stock app .. Maybe with a third party app ? did you try it ?
[General Accessories] naboleo:
Does Xiaomi provide a SDK ? As a workaround does Tasker detect the device ?
[General Accessories] daneel_:
Hello.

You told a few post ago that you are left-handed (like me) and you wear Mi Band on your left wrist. I'd like to know why you are using Mi Band that way. It seems logical for me to wear it on the right wrist so you avoid movements like drinking water, using the computer mouse and so and just monitor movements related to walking, running, etc. I'm not sure if my logic is flaw. What do you think? Also I'm not sure if Xiaomi recommends anything about it.

Thank you very much.
[General Accessories] tecno321:
Hello. My mi band account password didn't work. What I can do to reset password? Best regards.
[General Accessories] KaylordTheuZ:
I'm a fresh new owner of a mi band too, crazy device for few bucks.

There's one thing that is not clear... did not understand what's the point with LEDs. From the app, I can easily test them, everything is working fine. But apart from that, the band is always off. I didn't found a combo move :D to activate LEDs and currently (it's my first day with this toy, mates) I'm at about 80% of the steps and no LED notification occours. I expected there's a way to have a sight on the progress, i.e. shaking the band, but nothing...:p
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
you have it so use it.This AMA is mainly for those who don't have it yet.Raise it to head level like a smartwatch to see your goal.LEDs will blink.
[General Accessories] KaylordTheuZ:
Sorry for the OT then, but anyway, your solution doesn't work with my miband. Tried a lot of times, it simply doesn't blink. Guess it's defective, but the strange thing is that if I use the software on my Nexus5, then LEDs are fine.

:confused:
[General Accessories] daneel_:
Hello.

Try raising your arm as you were reading a watch but wait until you see the lights. Sometimes it takes a few seconds to show you the info.

Enviado desde mi SM-G900F mediante Tapatalk
[General Accessories] sarkar1990:
How reliable is the vibrate on call?
[General Accessories] sarkar1990:
How do you reset your mi band? So that it starts showing stats from zero?
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
Announcement:The Mi band is being detected as a Bluetooth device and also by Bluetooth low energy scanner after the latest update.However connecting it to the app makes it invisible to this detection.Maybe it would be able to work as a trusted device in the near future. Xiaomi maybe working on it.Remember it couldn't be detected at all except with the app.
[General Accessories] naboleo:
You mean the band is invisible only once it has been associated (and not connected) with phone ? I guess it is as the connection between and phone only occurs when app is running.

To be clair : "Associated" = phone and band know each others VS "connected" = phone and band are exchanging data/keep alive sesssion
[General Accessories] dayaki:
1. How long does it takes for the band to re-connect to the app, mine is taking forever. 2. I was walking earlier today and the band vibrated 2/3 times, that signifies that i have meet my goal? 3. how good is the "water resistant"? can i shower with it, get in the rain with it?
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
Last warning.If you already own a mi band I will not help you.You have a manual and all resources necessary and I think this thread should give you all you need as a user already.Learn the rest yourself.This thread is for those interested in purchasing one.So please mi band users don't be lazy there's so much to learn on your own which is much more gratifying.
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
No No.The band is invisible meaning the system doesn't detect it like another Bluetooth device even when it is connected.It can be connected with the app open in the background.It is a fitness tracking device and it doesn't need to be connected all the time.All it has to do is record data and sync when you need it aka open the app.It is accurate with what it records.When there's a call the app reads the info from your phone then connects and sends a vibration command to the band.If your phone is off too bad.Only fitness info is stored locally on the band.
[General Accessories] peb23:
Hi,

thanks for the AMA. My question:

Does the MiBand work with Google Fit?
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
questions for you.Is the mi band made by Google? Is Google also called xiaomi?
[General Accessories] dimdizo:
how do i sync the miband with QQ or wechat so i can see how many steps i've taken compared to my buddies
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
how do you want someone to explain this to you?Get the band it's straight forward in the app.
[General Accessories] peb23:
You have no idea what Google fit is right? Well then you obviously cannot answer my question.
[General Accessories] thefiqs:
Yeah and forgat to mention you need to set your Band "discoverable" in MiFit app!

Anyway, there isn't any free app with this function? I know I know support the developers and I do, normally. But spend on band, and than spend on Runtastic pro. And still need to spend a 3rd party app to get it work. It is so lame.

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It does.
[General Accessories] framadhan.offici:
App mod
[General Accessories] Cameron--Naidoo:
Is it possible to change the wrist-lift gesture action? I want to use this to tell time. I've got it fully operational but this gesture. It will make it complete
[General Accessories] ATZ-007:
Until recently app stopped connecting to Mi Band 1s, however sometimes I can see MI1S appearing under Bluetooth "Available Devices".

I've tried it with my Nexus 5 and iPhone 5s, both can't connect to the Mi Band 1s.

My phone connects fine to my car Bluetooth.

Any suggestion what I can do to solve this problem?
[General Accessories] al3x_rov3r:
You should use this :www.sancofreight.com.vn/images/stories/silica/silicagel-small.jpg

It saves my bands 's life many times
[General Accessories] ATZ-007:
I assume your MiBand had water damage.

I don't think my phone has water damage.
[General Accessories] Sanjonap:
Quickly discharged, what should I do?
[General Accessories] klsystem1:
I tried a few versions of runtastic. actually the last version v8.11.2 does not run landscape mode... with rotation lock or any app also no bluetooth address is shown.

I checked v6.9.2 it works with landscape trick, but in this version at the moment it is not possible to login to your account! => It always says: Check your internet connection...

Anyone can help to get it run unter runtastic ?
[General Accessories] alphazzz:
I tried pretty much all the best free app available, but the only alternative was to continue using my Mi Band 2 with the same Mi Fit. My dream was to use Runkeeper/Runtastic/Strava, but without adaptations is not possible, who knows in the future there is compatibility.
[General Accessories] klsystem1:
Mifitctxexport app in this forum helps a lot. Import direct to runtastic. Altitude is not right together with my Huawei mate 20 lite. That's the only problem in mifit app...
[General Accessories] alphazzz:
I do not want to import the data, I would use just the runtastic app or runkeeper for example, use their interface rather than the Mifit for the exercises

Enviado de meu Redmi 5 usando o Tapatalk
[General Accessories] klsystem1:
Problem is that if I use the runtastic app, I have no heart rate logged.

I can log heart rate parallel with mifid. But than I can`t fit the data together in runtastic....
[General Accessories] alphazzz:
That's the point, using the monitor in conjunction with the other apps, because MiFit is not the best for running
[General Accessories] siavash.t:
Hi guys i have mi band 7 and use zepp life , i cant find remote camera, anyone know how i cand find it or add it? Pls explain, its my first xiaomi
[General Accessories] Arnold.Ger:
atm it's not working/synchronizing with Google Fit (the only app that works till now with Fit is Runtastic, as far as I know). There are some speculations and wishes but nothing official announced.
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
News:

I switched phones and I'm using a Z3 now.Bluetooth unlock works without a hack as it does on xiaomi devices.I guess Sony has a fitness band so they know how to detect the mi band and use it as a trusted device.This is awesome!May work with any Sony device running their xperia 4.4.4 UI :D
[General Accessories] Cocax:
I'm mostly interested in the vibrating alarm function. I read somewhere that you can only set a max of 3 alarms on the Mi Band. Is this true? Would it be possible for me to set an alarm for every hour or every 30 min?

Also, I read that the smart wake alarm only vibrates 4 times and then turns off, despite you being awake or not. Is this true or you can set it to stop vibrating only when you do something (tap it, flick your wrist, open the app, or something)
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
Tapping stops the vibartions.I have never used the smart alarm feature cuz it is hit or miss for me.Only 3 alarms max yes and you can't set it to vib every 30mins
[General Accessories] kazaawang:
Which Runtastic app works with MI band?

Which Runtastic app can work with MI band please? I tried Runtastic Running, it only can connect to Pebble, Sony watch and Samsung Galaxy Gear.

Thanks.
[General Accessories] Arnold.Ger:
I said workig with fit, not with the Mi Band
[General Accessories] kazaawang:
sorry I misread it. :)
[General Accessories] waxrock:
that's an extremely inappropriate way to answer someone in an AMA... lol. why even bother doing one if you're so rude.

Anywho, I just received mine today. AFAIK, it can't be used as a trusted device with a nexus 5 since it isn't detected nor listed on the bluetooth devices list while it's paired through the app. If it isn't paired through the app, it shows up as 'MI' on the devices list, but you can't connect to it.
[General Accessories] naboleo:
A modded app allows various notifications (vibrate+led)

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[General Accessories] dadam30:
The moded app is cool I just need trusted device now...

I think on Android 5.0 the vibrate on nortifications does not work. It is activated but the app does not try to request admin access.
[General Accessories] mafiablues:
hi, thanks for your help.

How can I turn off the bluetooth on the band please? I can't see how to do it from the app.

I dont want to have a device emetting waves near my head all day long (and night!) even if it is a low power one.

Thanks
[General Accessories] utopicofidelio:
Pairing problem

Hello,

I purchased the MI band a week ago and I have associated with a 5 Nexus with Android 5.0 and everything worked perfectly. Yesterday I have associated the MI band in a Tablet LG Gpad 8.3 and is automatically updated the firmware first and associated with the Tablet and operate normally. However, after this operation, the MI band does not work with the Nexus while with the Tablet continues to operate normally. On Nexus tells me this message: "Could not complete the pairing - has been detected more than one MI band I near. You can keep only one over 10 meters." Can i solving this problem? I'm italian, sorry for my englis. thanks
[General Accessories] dadam30:
The band can't ne paired with more than one device. [MENTION=6197461]utopicofidelio[/MENTION]
[General Accessories] utopicofidelio:
[MENTION=5427461]dadam30[/MENTION]

but I've disconnect the mi band from the tablet. Can I use the mi band alternately with the tablet and with the smartphone? This is possible?
[General Accessories] dadam30:
Week I think that if you unpair the band it should work. I have not testee yet with my tablet. Let us know the results plz!
[General Accessories] utopicofidelio:
I have tried. With the Nexus does not connect.
[General Accessories] dadam30:
I assume you havent unpair the band on the Nexus so your might need to uninstall the app and reinstall it.
[General Accessories] utopicofidelio:
Thanks for the help but I have already tried that too.
[General Accessories] mariuccio90:
hi! if i go out for a run or a walk only with the miband leaving the phone home, when i will get home on the bluetooth range will it automatically sync? i am asking if the miband works also alone?

thanks
[General Accessories] dadam30:
Yes it work alone and sync with the app when on range or when you force it from the app.
[General Accessories] dadam30:
I can't say for question 2 but when the app on the phone is updated the band will update from the app. On first start your band have been updated but may be younhavent noticed it.

Trusted feature does not work because the band is not listed as a Bluetooth device in android. Only the App connect to it. According to several users there is no way to enable it on Android 5 even with root for the moment.
[General Accessories] ATZ-007:
Thanks for your reply.

Regarding trusted device, I've seen few reviews where the presenter mentioned that this Band has this feature.

Is this feature restricted to Mi phones only? I thought its on the App.
[General Accessories] dadam30:
I can't say. But on KitKat it was possible to add the band to the Bluetooth devices via root and an xposed framework module. As you know exposed is not xposed with ART and 5.0 for now.
[General Accessories] SnZ:
Hi,

just wanted to buy this gadget, but a bit not sure how i will identify genuine one.

Can somebody give some tips, and latest firmware number?

Thanks! :)
[General Accessories] Asovse1:
Third-party notifications for the Mi Band have arrived!

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Sign up and post looks like the only way to obtain the modded APK however. :(
[General Accessories] dadam30:
And it work quite really well. There are not noticeable battery drain.
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
Only you, I clock 15000steps+ regularly.
[General Accessories] dadam30:
Modes app juste as Lollipop trusted device support.
[General Accessories] IL_DEMONICO:
hi i've got an acer iconia a1 810 tab.

manual scan sees the bt mi band, but in app scan doesn't sees it at all

any suggestion ?

Sorry for bad english
[General Accessories] BigJeff:
So does the Nexus 5 with lollipop now allow trusted devices so it can be unlocked by the mi band?

Thanks!
[General Accessories] dadam30:
Yes that's right BigJeff with a tweaked apk.

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[General Accessories] mantiyeah:
I get a bit confused after reading the OP messages and the tweaked mi band version changelog

Is it possible right now to get whattsapp notifications in the band? And the unlock feature works with any 5.0 device right?

Thank you
[General Accessories] dadam30:
Yes it is. Just take the notify version of the tweaked app.
[General Accessories] ATZ-007:
I've ordered 4 more Mi Band. One for each member of my family. I really hope synchronisation does not clash.
[General Accessories] hackarchive:
News:

9/12/2014 Android 5.0 smart unlock and custom notification vibrations possible via a custom mi band app from

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Forum Moderator

Use it at your risk.Xiaomi or no one else takes responsibilities if your device has any sorts of problems with the custom app.
[General Accessories] Honusnap:
Direct link ?

Hi,

A direct link to the application is possible ?

Thankks,
[General Accessories] dadam30:
1.0.4.9 here SnZ