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[Other SmartWatches] Comboqueerjet:
Hello,

I have this watch for like one month and very happy. Small problem though :

i changed my phone and i need to re-connect my M600 to my new phone android. For this, i have to apparently reset the watch BUT i have a big run inside that i don't want to loose and it's not yet uploaded on the web !

how can i do please?

thx for any help
[Other SmartWatches] BlairCollins:
bluetooth connection

I'm actually having daily issues with the bluetooth staying connected. The watch keeps failing back to wifi then disables it to save the battery from draining so fast so my notifications stop working. I find I have to restart the watch for it to reconnect over bluetooth. I'm using a Nexus 6P and have tested lots of settings like background network sharing to see if I can get the bluetooth to be more reliable. I haven't found a solution yet.

What phone models are others using that work smoothly with bluetooth and the M600?

Second issue is the wrist heart rate is way off compared to my Polar V800 with the H7 chest strap. I'm going to keep experimenting like tightening the wrist strap even more. I gave my wife my Polar A360 when I upgraded to the M600 and didn't have issues with its wrist heart rate monitoring. I'm running in below freezing temperatures.

Overall I think it's a great product once I can get the connectivity issues solved.
[Other SmartWatches] charlie03:
I am using an HTC One Max running CM13 on Android 6.0.1. I do not have any issues with the bluetooth connectivity and all of my alerts come in just fine from hangouts, text, emails, etc.

Have you tried to just un pair the device from your phone and start from scratch? and are there other devices connected to your phone via bluetooth at the same time as your polar M600? Are you also running the latest version of Android wear?

I was having an issue with my blue jay ear buds where no matter what i would lose bluetooth connectivity and I went ahead and un paired them from my phone and started from scratch and have not had any issues again. I know this is not very technical or even a great work around but in my case it did fix the issues I was having.

As for the heart rate issues I do tend to agree that some of the readings are a bit off but then again they will never be as accurate as wearing the chest strap imo.
[Other SmartWatches] BlairCollins:
Thank you for the response. Will try the unpair and pair eventually but first I think mine needs to update the software. The update tried to run but failed and I can't seem to get it to run again.

What version does everyone have?

I'm seeing:

Android Wear 1.5.0.3095245

Google Play 10.80.84

Android OS: 6.01

Android Security: July 1,2016
[Other SmartWatches] charlie03:
I have the following

Android Wear: 2.0.0.138705214

Google Play Services: 10.0.84

Android OS: 6.0.1

Android Security: October 5, 2016

Polar Flow App: 3.2.7

FYI,

When I did update to Android Wear 2.0 I did receive an error message "" This phone has been flashed with an unsupported configuration for companion. You must re-flash it as either signed/user or unsigned/userdebug "" because i am running CM13. To fix it I did the following

1. Downloaded BuildProp Editor

2. Find the line "ro.build.type=userdebug"

3. Change "userdebug" to "user"

4. Reboot

That fix that issue for me. I am just mentioning this in case you run into the same issue.
[Other SmartWatches] BlairCollins:
I think 2.x is the phone Android wear version. What does the watch say under settings, about, touch to view...
[Other SmartWatches] charlie03:
Android wear: 1.50.3095245

Google play services: 10.0.84

Android OS: 6.0.1

Security patch: July 1, 2016
[Other SmartWatches] BlairCollins:
Thanks. I guess it actually did upgrade.

But, I'm going to return the M600. The clincher is the poor wrist based heart rate monitoring. I tested it last night by wearing the Polar A360 on one arm and the M600 on the other and during mountain climbers the M600 showed only 65 beats vs the actually 130. I'd noticed that the M600 thought my runs burned way less calories vs the Polar V800 or the A360 due to the same issue.

I'm 135 lbs with thin wrists so I think the heart rate monitoring is only suited to thicker wrists. The A360 which is much smaller seems to work fine for me.

Second issue is the bluetooth connectivity dropping with my Nexus 6P.

Third issue is the watch screen frequently freezes up and won't respond to swipes. Then suddenly it frees up and works again.

The key features I wanted over the V800 was wrist heart rate and music without my phone.

I'm going back to my A360 for daily wear plus gym workouts and the V800 for running.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Today Polar released the 1.4 version of the Polar App running on the m600. New features and fixes. Someone can extract upload the apk file for me?

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
Is it possible to extract the Polar wear apk and face from the phone rather than from the watch? If so, does anyone know the path?
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
I have uploaded it here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/w20kmvvhsk4rdnt/android_wear_micro_apk_3.2.8.apk?dl=0

On your watch, how does the Polar watch face look? On my Moto 360 sport 2nd gen it's cut off on all 4 sides, I'm guessing since it's expecting the device to be square.

I figured it out. In /data/app/fi.polar.polarflow-2, extract base.apk. In your extracted path, the wear apk is /res/raw/android_wear_micro_apk.apk and this can be sideloaded.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Hi,

thanks for uploading the apk. I have a Huawei Watch and there are two watchfaces. One square and one round. But the activity tracking doesnt work at all. Any suggestions at this?

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
Thanks, at least now I have the round one. I have noticed that the activity tracking doesn't work as well now that I have it installed. I'm wondering if a build.prop edit might do the trick but my watch isn't rooted.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Mine also isnt rooted. But what should a build.prob edit do to make the activity tracking work? The PolarFlow app at the phone says its a M600 and the online version also lists it.

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
I'm wondering if the Polar app is checking the device name/type, and maybe it could be fooled by a build.prop edit to change the device name to an M600.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
I will give it a try. What build.prob lines do i need to edit?

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
I also have an M600 (I am testing it alongside the Moto 360 Sport to determine which one I like better) but it's not rooted. I was able to determine that its code name is "pike" via adb. I'm away from the computer currently so I'll try to access its build.prop later.

However I think setting the following is worth a shot:

ro.product.model=Polar M600 4510

ro.product.brand=polar

ro.product.name=pike

ro.product.device=pike

ro.product.board=pike

ro.build.product=pike

Your watch would need to be rooted though.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
I rooted it this second... I've done this and build.prob edits often at my smartphone, but not yet at the watch. How do i get the build.prob off the watch ? Or is there a tool to use at the smartphone like bubild.prob editor?

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
You could pull it via adb, edit it on your computer, and then push it back. That's what I would do.
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Changed the build.prop settings you named above without affect. I also noticed that the m600 app doesnt recognizes the activity of the last days (generated by my V800). But in the training settings all my profiles are synced. So there is a problem only with the activity thing....

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] compchick813:
Well that sucks!
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Mmmhhhhh any news on this? Any suggestions? Perhaps the Polar M600 is too bind on the Mediathek Chipset.....

Einhard
[Other SmartWatches] falecomych:
doubt

hi there

is there an app that has voice coach (android wear) without having to connect it to the phone?

best regards
[Other SmartWatches] Rudiy:
Someone can upload the firmware?
[Other SmartWatches] Byte_76:
In Android Wear, it seems that all notifications for all apps are forwarded to the watch with options in the wear application to block (blacklist) specific apps. This is a very impractical way to manage notifications. I only want to receive notifications from a small list of apps on my phone. (messaging, email, calendar, phone calls and one or two other apps.)

Is there a way to change notification management for Android Wear?

I think it would make a lot more sense to select which notifications I do want to see on my watch rather than which ones I don't.
[Other SmartWatches] tombfox:
Can somebody make a ROM backup when AW 2.0 arrives?
[Other SmartWatches] cjoliver:
Hi M600 users.

Can someone possibly upload the system IMG of the polar watch. Or even a link to an image.

Thanks a lot

Cheers
[Other SmartWatches] sapir_hv:
I have this phone for several weeks now.

at the beginning it was amazing. but all of a sudden the Bluetooth just stopped working all together.

I tried to hard reset the watch by unpairing it and now it wont even start the initial pairing with my phone (or any other phone) witch makes it a very expensive bracelet at the moment. as far as i can tell, the issue is with the Bluetooth connection, witch is not functioning at all..

Anyone else had these issues?
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Its out

http://support.polar.com/en/updates/android_wear_20_for_all_m600_users_with_polar_app_20
[Other SmartWatches] wleesee:
AW2.0

Yes... Mine updated this morning. Did a full watch reset to be sure everything working as it should. Works nicely. New user interface to learn though.

Quick question... did a swimming training set. Can not work out how to record my swim metrics? Anyone been able to track distance/ number laps/ etc?
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
Can you share the image?
[Other SmartWatches] wleesee:
Sorry... share the image of what?

The screens all look the same; just the changed swipe direction/s get some getting use to...

There is a very cut-down Android Play available direct from the watch.. which is a welcome bonus, but I suspect the Android play is that useful because you can't search it...
[Other SmartWatches] Einhardj:
The image of the ROM, so we can flash it to.
[Other SmartWatches] wleesee:
Oops.. Sorry complete newbie question.... how do I create a ROM backup of an Android Wear device?

BTW: Polar Flow app on my M600 just updated a few hours ago... I can now set the swimming pool length - So suspect next time I go swimming it will **fingers crossed** provide some swimming metrics....
[Other SmartWatches] tombfox:
backup should be possible If it's visible in SP Flash tool on PC
[Other SmartWatches] amyren:
Where can I find more information about how to root the M600?

Edit:

I just got my watch recently, and there was an update available so it got updated as soon as I had wifi set up.

Now the info reads this,

Model Polar: M600

Unit name: Polar M600 B41B

Android Wear: 2.0.0.149356742

Google Play Services: 10.2.98 (534-146496160)

Android OS: 7.1.1

Perhaps rooting is not possible on this android os version yet?

BTW. I have read reviewes of this watch, saying one of the negative things is the short battery time. But depending on how you use it, I find that the battery is not bad. I am 6 hours short of 3 days now, and it still remains 70% charge. I have set it to airplane mode when not in use, and turning off the screen. I have only used wifi for a few minutes each day, and turn on the screen only if I wnat to know th etime or check my step counts.
[Other SmartWatches] dberky:
Well in fact bluetooth connectivity is the only (but deal breaking) issue I have with this watch. It is perfect

=> light

=> comfortable

=> good looking

=> precise HR senzor (compared with Garmin chest strap)

=> reasonable battery

However after one or two days is just loses connection with my phone & I am not able to restore it by other means than Factory reset & repairing with phone. My phone is HWI Mate 9, but I had the issue even on other phones. i thought AW2 wil fix that , but not , still there.

Iam not an ordinary BT user, I have 5 watches & headphones paired with my phone , so potentially it might be issue related to "too many BT devices" or something like that ....

Any advice ? ( I plan to give it another shot by FR phone& watch , connect just one watch & see how it works, but am skeptical as all other wathces conect juts fine even now ....)
[Other SmartWatches] sapir_hv:
BTW, notice that an update to android wear 2.0 just came out for the M600, so it might just resolve some things..

In my case I just brought it to Polar warranty and they replaced it once they heard that the front button wasn't working.
[Other SmartWatches] seblog:
Hi, I am quite please by the M600 so far, just noticed a shorter battery life after I updated to AW 2.0

What's others opinion on that ?

I am trying an hard reset right now to see if battery life improves with a fresh installation of AW ...
[Other SmartWatches] DeMonHell82:
hi all. it's a few days that i have this smartwatch, updated to android wear 2.0 right away:

- battery life is around 33 hours. (screen off, wifi off) is that fine? (mileage can vary, i know, but is kinda far from 2 days)

- often it "cant connect to google" when using assistant or voice-typing. does it happens to you to? this happens with playstore (on watch) too. I'd say it happens a third of the times i try to use them
[Other SmartWatches] gigafooly:
I want to completely clean install my polar m600. Last night I spent several hours reading information on how to get and install an new android wear image on the M600 but not succeeded. Is there any source available of and installer file and instructions to execute the installation?
[Other SmartWatches] galaxys:
M600 Still ranks as one of the best here
[Other SmartWatches] joeriv:
Is there a way to transfer music files over to the watch by usb ?

I find wear-media disconecting alot.

Now i'm using google play music but it takes me a while to get the download working.
[Other SmartWatches] DeVilio:
Well, i was writing lots of things and my fking pc decide to eats it all and turned off by itself so here is shorter version:

I`ve had Polar M400 and later i go to Samsung Gear 2 (not S2 - just 2), to go on i buy Sony SW3 and now change it to Polar M600 - so as you can see im not now with smartwatches. (My father have Samsung Gear S1 and for few days had LG urbane 2).

What i dont like in polar m600 - screen - why polar dont want to use transreflective screen that Sony SW3 had? I trully dont know, that type of screen is perfect for smartwatches (till the time when color eink will be in use). No tft, no amoled or samoled screen is better for smartwatches. Another thing - charge time. Polar like to be in your hand all time o be precise and 2 hours for charging? Well - not good. And lat thing (for now) - first configuration that takes me more than 4 hours. WTF Polar?! It came to me with older android wear version and upgrade process despite of wifi turned on, and conected to my work wifi it takes about 2 hours to download and install it. And i have to reset completly my watch about 4 times to make him work properly. i almost give it back as damaged, thank god that i`m stubborn as hell and dont want to lose for stupid smartchwatch (well :D )

What i like: Battery life! WOW WOW WOW! 3 full days without trying to save energy. So far i tested two configurations, two more to go. Four cases, one screen always on, wifi, gps, bt - all on. Second - the same but wakes screen to look and screen is off. Now i am testing it with wifi off (i noticed that wifi using about 50% of battery!! what the hell?) and next one will be screen off and wifi off and wakes to look option off.

Watch is very big but comfortable, i was worrying before buying it that it will be to big for my tiny writst but is ok. HR sensor is very accurate, and much more comfortable that hr strap (i have it with m400 model). GPS accurate is amazing! It ever register at what side of street i was runing, no zig-zacks, no strange marks. It works as it should. All time activity tracking - i like it. Android wear - very good system despite of first configuration.

What should works better: That function that allows you to have screen of and wakes it only when you raise your hand, i forgot what is named, at my m600 it works only for about hour from turned it on, later i must touch screen to wakes it up. Magnetic charger - ok it is good but could be better, it is not too strong, could be stronger. Wierd position of watch when i charge it. Why it dont have side charger plug? Too dificult to make? Screen is very very tiny. Now when everybody is making as big screen as they can polar give as something that is as big as post stamp. And as allways - silicon strap helps me to clean my place, any peace of dust, cat hair, my wife - everything is sticking to it :eek: ;) I must clean it everyday to keep it looking good.

So far so good. I`m waiting to end my battery tests and later i will post it with screenshots here, at xda with my comments. Stay tuned!
[Other SmartWatches] glaudrem:
Please update us about battery. I just got the watch (waiting to receive it, in fact)

Thx
[Other SmartWatches] gforums:
Hi guys,

just my two cents on this topic:

I succesfully installed the polar app on my huawei watch 2. while at the first attempts, the app closed, I am now able to track my activities with GPS and heart rate and sync it with the polar flow app.

It's just the screen that cuts the edges, therefore the app doesn't show all information well.

Despite this everything seems working fine.

All I did was putting the app from this thread via Wifi-ADB and installing the polar flow app on the smartphone.

-christian
[Other SmartWatches] cjoliver:
Hi,

Would you mind sending me the wear APK for polar? Would love to try it on my 360 sport.

Thanks

Cj
[Other SmartWatches] gforums:
Hi there, I used the upload from this thread, page 4:

Link
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
Hi Guys,

I just got my m600, but lately i´ve been having some issues. Lot of "ghost" touches, feels as if the screen is defective.

I even made a video.

https://goo.gl/photos/ED6NS7febMuwSaTh7

I just want know if anyone came across this problem, and if so, how it was solved.

Thanks
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
OK, About the post above, it is indeed a hardware problem.

On another topic, I manage to get the polar app running on the Sony Smartwatch 3. The only catch is having a heartrate sensor paired (i'm using the Polar H7). Without one, it would show a black screen when I tried to start a new activity.

The only thing that is not working for me is the 24/7 activity monitoring, like walking and such. But i guess i'll at least have a backup while the m600 is in repair.
[Other SmartWatches] rodgpi:
same screen problem

i recently bought polar m600
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
Yeap, that´s a hardware problem, gonna need to send it back to Polar.... Sorry
[Other SmartWatches] Black89:
Got the M600 and am really liking it. I am training for a 5k and do different types of runs throughout the week. Long hour and a half runs, interval running from 0.75 miles intervals to 0.25 mile intervals. I used endomondo on my phone paired to my H7 chest strap monitor. Than Polar app on M600, every time I looked down they were within 1 beat. Reviewing data after a week of runs I don't run with the chest strap anymore (no bra!).

Battery life is good, I charge it at work at my desk usually daily because sometimes I run late so to ask two days with two runs would be a lot.

Going to load music on it and use it to listen to music on runs too, unfortunately I haven't found a pair of BT headphones that don't annoy me when I run yet.

Only thing that was disappointing is it doesn't do continuous heart rate monitoring. I was looking forward to this because I had msft band 2 before and could get my resting heartrate at night all in one app. Is there anyway to port the app from the A370 or M430? It sucks using heart trace and polar app separately.
[Other SmartWatches] djurkash:
Unfortunately not, I also miss that feature perhaps the most. It would be good to enable it, but so far haven't found any proof against it, nor that it'll be released soon...
[Other SmartWatches] ribogushter:
A bit off-topic, but this heart trace, does it allow you to turn the M600 into a de facto continuous heart rate monitor? Or for that matter any AW watch that lacks continuous heart rate monitoring?
[Other SmartWatches] Black89:
Yes, but now cardiogram is available and I have been using that.
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
Cardiogram, is that an app?
[Other SmartWatches] Black89:
Yes, they just released it for Android wear and m600 is one of the few supported devices. So far it has worked really well for me.
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
I can't seem to find it on the play store, would you be so kind as to provide me with a link?
[Other SmartWatches] Black89:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cardiogram.v1
[Other SmartWatches] swissalpine:
I'm searching for some things to tweak my Polar M600 - any help would be appreciated:

- // working fastboot driver (adb works as it should) // closed: I had to choose the driver manually, works fine now.

- kernel source or rom

- working twrp-image

Thanks in advance
[Other SmartWatches] ribogushter:
Does anyone use the m600 with Sleep As Android? If so, any comments? Would the m600/SAA combo be better than the m600 sleep stuuf alone? Thanks.
[Other SmartWatches] Black89:
Yes I use it. You get the heart rate throughout the night. Unless I reset the m600 before sleeping sometimes it does not display heart rate during sleep.
[Other SmartWatches] Maheidem:
I do use, but i don't really understand the data all that well, but i is much more detailed than the standard polar app
[Other SmartWatches] rakhilh:
my polar m600 is stuck on the flashing google images - anything I can do?
[Other SmartWatches] ribogushter:
After update? Restart?

---------- Post added at 05:25 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:21 AM ----------

What would you say the major differences between heart trace and cardiogram are?
[Other SmartWatches] drviver:
Reading back partitions

Polar m600

I wonder if someone has a polar m600 and would mind reading back its partitions, cause I f**ked up my cache partition and therefore can't boot. Would really appreciate it. And or get the partition offsets and sizes so I can make a scatter file for it.

If you would like to participate in me making a custom rom for the m600, contact me via pm, I can give you the required instructions and tools to extract the partition, rom images for me. So you are helping me and the community.

For now I have extracted all the partitions except the cache, cause that one is corrupt as mentioned above, but as soon as somebody gets it I will start the development of said custom rom.

Thanks in advance

---------- Post added at 09:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:50 PM ----------

Please post a photo of your screen so we can tell you what to do
[Other SmartWatches] drviver:
Got the Rom for android wear 2.0

Ok since my last post I managed to fix my m600 and now created a scatter file and the partition images -> rom, flashable by mediatek flashtools. If someone still has any issues that can't be fixed with traditional methods, I can help. Furthermore I will start the development of a custom rom, pre rooted and other features
[Other SmartWatches] goofnorf101:
TWRP 3.0 for Polar M600

With assistance from drviver, here is an unofficial TWRP 3.0 for the Polar M600 smartwatch

To use, hold down the left power button till the watch turns off, then press and hold both buttons at the same time and select fastboot from the menu.

Then use fastboot PC command:

fastboot –i 0xda4 boot twrp-joh-polar-m600.img

If you haven't previously unlocked your bootloader then you will also need to do that first:

fastboot –i 0xda4 oem unlock
[Other SmartWatches] swissalpine:
Great! TWRP fits perfectly on the screen and works as expected: You can do a backup, pull and put directories/files, install ...