yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Amazfit] yan84:
HI

I think that this are the distances on climb and on descent. Not the elevation gain and loss. It would be great to have also the elevation gain and loss, necessary during trail run. This sport activity (trail run) is not available on Amazfit bip but ok on Amazfit pace.
[Amazfit] nuramohammed26:
Is there a chance that voice actions can be implemented on a future update, if you turn it upside down, you could see a small hole that could be a microphone. I stand to be corrected.
[Amazfit] dukynko:
It's hole of barometer.
[Amazfit] fitbip:
Regarding the barometer, mine reads low by about 50 hPa, a very large error. Perhaps Mi Fit could obtain the true pressure from the same source as the weather and automatically calibrate the barometer.

Regarding heart rate, mine is very inaccurate when the heart rate is fast, during vigorous exercise. Either the sensor or the software needs to be improved.

Sleep monitoring is grossly inaccurate for sleep duration and deep sleep. Mine tells me I am asleep when I am not and that I get hardly any deep sleep, contrary to all other measurements and common sense. This aspect of the software definitely needs improvement.
[Amazfit] KoltesPunti:
This is a 50€ smartwatch which isn't designed to be precisely - if you want exact data you need other devices! This is a funny gadget - not more!
[Amazfit] fitbip:
Xiaomi products may be inexpensive but they did not succeed in the huge competitive Chinese market by making rubbish. I am sure they expect the bip to be as good as possible because they know that their competitors are not far behind.
[Amazfit] yan84:
THe Amazfit pace is very accurate and cost only 90€. So I beleave that the bip should improve very soon.
[Amazfit] iulyanpreda:
Hey all , a future update to set an alarm from the watch directly, I saw the countdown , like that to set an alarm how you set the countdown to set the alarm. Would be nice !
[Amazfit] weilunt0219:
Random input from a person who has no knowledge on actually performing these actions, but has anyone entertained the idea of AsteroidOS on the Amazfit BIP?

I'm sorry if this sounds naive and childish. I only know that it can flash custom firmware and AsteroidOS is open source.

Any comments?
[Amazfit] zipzag:
I know this is supposed to be mostly an activity tracker vs fully featured smartwatch, but it'd be nice if there was a smart reply option for SMS.
[Amazfit] fitbip:
Since daylight saving finished the time shown by Mi Fit in Heart Rate Today is one hour behind the correct time.
[Amazfit] 4draan:
Pebble had the "Get Back To" ( https://apps.getpebble.com/en_US/application/550bf37f1e540c856300005e ), which was mostly JavaScript as I understand.

Developer can possibly help to transport the code to Amazfit ?

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GPS, by its nature has an inaccuracy between 5 and 50 meters, perhaps more (or even 'no fix'), depending on #satellites and amount of disturbance in surroundings (large buildings, trees, reflections etc.).

The result is that when logging locations and drawing lines these are a scribble-pattern. (Software can even this out, but you'd have to be in that spot for about 10 minutes.)

Personally I have a "Weloop Hey 3S", which is much like the Bip. I validated both GPS and HR to have an overall accurate reading/ value. On a run the end-result over 10 kilometers is within a 75m difference between iPhone and Hey. Such differences are on the 'very accurate' end of comparing results from multiple GPS's and their 'flattening out' algorithms.

I compared the HR to my Mio Alpha sportswatch, and again.... the momentary values can be a few beats off .... (or more especially when accelerating or stopping the run; again this is caused by the software that tries to even-out measurements). On a 'stable speed' the Mio and Hey show same HR. On a detailed graphic, the Mio shows some more detail but the Hey is more than adequate to be able to track your progress.

This info just for reference, to never expect full accuracy, and alway expect -some- difference between devices. These devices are not meant to be medical references.

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[Amazfit] sailme:
Would love a sailing app with its gps and waterproof functions.

load up a series of course marks from a phone app. Use the screen to select the next target mark.

Then give your speed over ground ( straight gps ) , bearing to mark , distance to mark. VMG ( velocity towards the mark )
[Amazfit] skipguy:
personally

GPS, by its nature has an inaccuracy between 5 and 50 meters, perhaps more (or even 'no fix'), depending on #satellites and amount of disturbance in surroundings (large buildings, trees, reflections etc.).

The result is that when logging locations and drawing lines these are a scribble-pattern. (Software can even this out, but you'd have to be in that spot for about 10 minutes.)

Personally I have a "Weloop Hey 3S", which is much like the Bip. I validated both GPS and HR to have an overall accurate reading/ value. On a run the end-result over 10 kilometers is within a 75m difference between iPhone and Hey. Such differences are on the 'very accurate' end of comparing results from multiple GPS's and their 'flattening out' algorithms.

I compared the HR to my Mio Alpha sportswatch, and again.... the momentary values can be a few beats off .... (or more especially when accelerating or stopping the run; again this is caused by the software that tries to even-out measurements). On a 'stable speed' the Mio and Hey show same HR. On a detailed graphic, the Mio shows some more detail but the Hey is more than adequate to be able to track your progress.

This info just for reference, to never expect full accuracy, and alway expect -some- difference between devices. These devices are not meant to be medical references.

....[/QUOTE]

4draan i am well aware of the *inaccuracies* of Gps in relation to satellites and movement ...etc, but nevatheless the *inaccuracies* are evdent when standing still the Gps km distance still ticks over which is just plain wrong, i have never seen that before and i used to have a Olympus Triathlon watch and this never did anything like this.

As for comparablility i have compared it to a few apps both runtastic and distance sportrackr app (which is very good) and the watch has proved to register distance early with runtastic registering late, and sportrackr proving the most accurate, i did a walk of 5km last night with a gain i guess you could say of 200metres for the watch over runtastic WHILE not a huge amount it is notable, but for me, the most....damning thing for a watch is the inability for the distance to hold when you are not in motion....
[Amazfit] 4draan:
4draan i am well aware of the *inaccuracies* ..., the most....damning thing for a watch is the inability for the distance to hold when you are not in motion....[/QUOTE]

It that case you may be not-aware that "not in motion" is determined by GPS only .... Each time a GPS registers a measurement... the accuracy may be different.

As I said .... if you stand still, the measurements for location may differ up to 50m or more in a sequence of measures, depending on weather and many other conditions.

There is a way to 'average' the location, by calculating the average of measurements over a 15min or more period, while leaving out the low-signal results or spikes.

What you'd get is roughly a series of spots roughly around a counterpoint, which is then considered the average actual location.

The calculations on that are software specific. I know that some GeoCaching apps are able to pinpoint a spot ... using the above filtering (I found accuracy up to about 1 meter)

As far as the Bip is concerned when using the GPS signal ..... you are ALWAYS in motion. This is 'as designed'. The source of the signal is in Geo orbit, some 20 thousand km or more from where you are ... with a lot of possible momentary disturbance between it .... and your little Bip that's trying to catch the timed signal..

So instead of ..damning the watch, there are other ways to look at the situation.

A different way in applications may be that they keep a 'steady' (wrong) location if you're not moving according to the pedometer.

But when you look-up that location on a map in detail..... you may find your 'dot' to be a very long way from where you actually are.

Using the algorithm as discussed above (with averaging) would slowly drag your 'dot' to where you actually are....

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That is what the 'GetBackTo' app for the Pebble did., including management of a series of target locations.

Now .... we 'd have to hope that the creator of that app is aware, and capable to make a 'big' version of his program

==Would have to contact Peter Summers (https://forums.pebble.com/u/PeterSummers) and origin SamuelMR (https://github.com/samuelmr)

I'll try to initiate a status 'ping'.

==== Tried to contact both, no response .... so GetBackTo may need to be re-coded for BIP by a different codemaker

==> Update request and suggestions .... who is actualy working on such anyway ??
[Amazfit] cfn_2000:
Time visible in more areas

For the stopwatch, timer and suspended during activity screen. I would like to see the time at the top of the watch with seconds. I think that would be a really useful (hopefully simple to implement) feature.
[Amazfit] hamedhd:
It would be amazing if they add persian character support in this watch, for now if you get notifications with persian character you see only question marks like this : ???????????

I hope they hear our voices
[Amazfit] fitbip:
Time zone watch setting

For international air travel it would be nice to be able to set the time zone on the watch without needing to use the phone.
[Amazfit] rontol:
I'm looking around but couldn't seems to find this feature:-

1) Make option to set screen lock time/hard-lock, this is for kid protection haha :D

e.g

-Lock screen after 1 minutes/X minutes

-Only enable unlock with long press...

2) Calendar menu/shortcut

I know there's notification alert for Calendar for Google,

but i guess some would appreciate if Bip has 1 more column dedicated for Synced Calendar that can be viewed from the watch
[Amazfit] Galadan05:
Hi all,

Today I'm trying to use the Amazfit Bip for send a standard message (sms) when I try to stop the call.

Can I open a new page afther press refuse button during a call for send a new standard message like: "I'll call you later"..?

Or this is impossible to do for this little amazfit bip?
[Amazfit] LostEchoes:
Hello all !

Guys is anyone using Google Calendar around here ? I have the Amazfit COR but I know it uses the same font as the BIP !

In my effort to fix the font issues (meaning: the fonts that the BIP / COR does not support in some languages and show up as "?"), I have noticed that every time I get a notification from Google Calendar app, some characters *before and after* the event title show up as "?".

Please have a look at the attached screenshot.

Now, while I have managed to correct / fix most of the other fonts that show up as "?", on messages, alerts, etc, I have found no way to fix those "?" showing up on the Google Calendar notifications on the BIP / COR. The reason is that I cannot understand which characters these are, so I cannot really replace them or anything like that. So in my case, an event called "Test Event" and it's time is 09:00 - 10:00, will show up like this:

?? Test Event ?? : ?? 09:00 - 10:00 ?? (just like the screenshot shows)

I initially thought that those "?" characters were the (") or (') character, but I was probably wrong.

Now, is there anyone here that does NOT have this issue with Google Calendar alerts / notifications, that could upload a screenshot / photo from his BIP or COR here, so that we could see and make sense of what those "?" characters really are ?

Thanks in advance !
[Amazfit] matrixrio:
Hi i think that if your phone language or google account language/ cauntry selection is not standart latin alphabet may be google apps show different character/ char codes which are not installed in your bip?
[Amazfit] LostEchoes:
Yeah, maybe something like that, but not sure yet.

My phone language is English. My google account is assigned to Greece as a stated country.

Funny thing is that with the Samsung Calendar app, everything works and shows up fine, without any extra special weird - showing "?" characters !

This is why I'm asking from people from other countries to try a Google Calendar notification on their BIP to see if it is related to country - specific characters. Let me also add to this, that I have managed to make every other Greek character show up fine.

I suspect that these specific characters that show up on the Google Calendar app, are not from a Greek ascii character set.
[Amazfit] MEGHSHAH:
Hey, good idea though. Btw does your step count work accurately?? How perfect is it?
[Amazfit] alfienoakes63:
Amazfit Bip - I'd like more 12hr clocks without the leading 0

for example "7.30" (pm) instead of "19.30" or "07.30"
[Amazfit] :
they need to add Hiking (Activity): Walking + GPS + Altitude
[Amazfit] orioldev:
Let developers create apps for them.
[Amazfit] itp6008:
Amazfit BIP sleep tracking

Had my BIP for about a week and happy with it except for sleep tracking.

As far as I can work out and/or been told by Amazfit support

1. The MiFit/Bip combination monitors sleep patterns between 8pm and 6am and this can't be changed

2. if you wake in the night then MiFit/Bip will cancel sleep monitoring, especially if you turn over

3. If you get up in the night for a short period MiFit/Bip will also cancel sleep monitoring

4. If you are a restless sleeper then MiFit/Bip will probably cancel sleep monitoring

5. Might be something peculiar to my skin type but I can only get sleep monitoring to occur if I wear the Bip on the underside of my arm. Not due to a hairy arm!

What I would like to see is

1. User selectable sleep monitoring period

2. Sleep monitoring to take place during this whole period regardless of whether I wake and/or get up and/or if I am a restless sleeper. In other words, cater for multiple sleep periods within the requested monitoring period.

This was covered in this forum in some of the earlier postings and it seems there have been some improvements, but there are more improvement required to make this function usable.
[Amazfit] ebsebs:
Regardless of what you were told, I don't think # 2 - 4 are correct.

Last night, my BIP recorded my sleep pattern accurately, from 11:01pm to 5:53am, including a 16 minute period that I was awake (3:29am - 3:45am).

I got out of bed and took the top blanket downstairs to put it in the washing machine (the dog threw up in the bed, don't ask...).

MiFit recorded about an hour of deep sleep, 5:45 of light sleep (I do toss and turn), and 16 minutes awake.

Sleep monitoring wasn't canceled when I rolled over, woke up or got out of bed.

Regards,

Eric
[Amazfit] itp6008:
Strangely my BIP recorded accurate sleep pattern details last night for the first time, verified by time observations on bedside clock. Will just have to keep monitoring it to see if it continues.

Would still like an update to be able to nominate my start/stop times for sleep monitoring.
[Amazfit] itp6008:
Change font size for notifications

This may not be the right place to ask this but is there any way to change the font size on notifications?
[Amazfit] ebsebs:
Definitely - you can make the font bigger or bolder (the one I'm using).

Here's the link to the thread explaining how to download and install the font files: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76374541&postcount=13

Regards,

Eric
[Amazfit] Piotr Niewie:
Hi there,

I've set up button to simply launch activity tracking - Cycling. It performs as it should but after GPS signal is fixed, there is one more confirmation screen to start tracking. I've found this pointless and also very annoying especially during winter. I'd like to press button and get tracking as soon as GPS will be fixed and don't have to press or click anything else. Please give me any tip or advice, if someone found the way how to get rid of this second confirmation. Thanks in advance. Merry X-Mas :)
[Amazfit] tmohammad:
Can it be made to wake up after a double tap on the screen?
[Amazfit] :
check what infos other watch and phone apps are offering when you use the Hiking activity, you will understand what I meant.
[Amazfit] BarnOwl:
Thank you for your extensive report. I bought a BIP thanks to your report here and I think it is an amazing watch for the money ! :good:
[Amazfit] 4draan:
Thx, enjoy the BIP & Notice that it also has no problem with shower, hot bath, or (surface) swimming. .... I'd say its all-weather proof.
[Amazfit] trkicks:
The option to sync MiFit workout directly to Strava or to export GPX/TCX data from the workout directly from the MiFit app would be great.
[Amazfit] Polis4:
Where is this option?
[Amazfit] strongst:
This is a suggestion thread for improvements, hence it's not present ;)
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] NoNameID:
Hey xda i have a little problem getting root to work. I tried multiple approaches but it alway resulted into a bootloop and i had to reset my phone.

Here is what i tried:

First i downloaded twrp from here: https://twrp.me/samsung/samsunggalaxys8.html

then i followed this guide https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8+/development/recovery-twrp-galaxy-s8-exynos-t3594756

and this https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8/development/recovery-twrp-galaxy-s8-exynos-t3594902

then i wanted to initialize TWRP with this:

https://build.nethunter.com/android-tools/no-verity-opt-encrypt/

And i didn't get any more further.

My phone:

S8

Moddel: SM-G950F

Region: DBT

Thank you for reading.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] kekistaneerefugee:
We need to know which firmware you are on. If you are not on the latest firmware you need to jump back down one version of twrp and you should be able to then boot it up. Also, when you setup to add your recovery the steps should be like this: Flash recovery and IMMEDIATLY boot into recovery or else you wont get in. Once in, DO NOT swipe to allow modifications, this will bootloop you. go to wipe/format data (you will lose everything) and then reboot recovery. next flash the dm-verity zip and reboot and you are done, from there you should make your first backup before doing anything else.
[Samsung Galaxy S8 Questions and Answers] NoNameID:
Thank you i will try that out when I have time, for the time being i flashed this https://xdaforums.com/galaxy-s8/sam...o-v2-beta-port-samsung-s8-s8plus-8-0-t3704005

And it worked.

You have to excuse me i'm still a noob on samsung, I only bought it yesterday and this first thing i wanted to do is to root the phone.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Hunikel:
hello !

I've got a G5 at the moment (H860) and it's battery life sucks but camera is amazing. I've had for about a month a Xiaomi note 4 rooted with custom ROM that had almost no idle drain, 6h SOT with 40% battery left but a bad camera.

I gave my xiaomi to my brother and I think about selling my G5, and buy the G6, can you guys please tell me if I root a G6 and use a custom ROM I'll get around 6-7h sot ?

thank you :)
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] endva3:
I have H870. Im on stock ROM, no root. I have 5-5.5 SOT with 2 days usage. 6-7 SOT with day-day and half. I want use fulmics ROM but im very happy with stock.
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] mingo_mgx:
on lineage os i get around 7-8 hours of SOT(ive disabled almost all background apps and location syncing and nfc)
[LG G6 Questions and Answers] Hunikel:
Thank you :)

Guess I'll wait for Black Friday to buy it :)
[LeEco Le Max 2 Accessories] Diesen_Dev:
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[Touch Cruise Accessories] cybertron:
Hi

Just got my motorola s9, which are supposed to be good. The soundquality is great, although it is alot choppy when putting the phone in pocket. Does anyone else have this problem??

some more thoughts:

It seems to work ok when inside my house, but as soon as I leave the house it starts skipping. .......
[Touch Cruise Accessories] victoradjei:
I have same issue. But my other phone connects very well without the skips.

I am yet to use it on TC with the new radio. I hear it has a better connectivity.
[Touch Cruise Accessories] cybertron:
ok, then perhaps I should try it out with my hermes that is laying around here somewhere?!

and then wait for the new radio....and hope for the best before selling the headset.
[Touch Cruise Accessories] cybertron:
ok, I have now tested first with the upgraded radio, no change .

second I tried it with my hermes and WOW, the soundquality is equal to polaris (maybe a little bit worse but not much, in either case, i can easely use the headset in my pocket outside and through walls, no problem getting about 20meters from the device and so on....

so it is definetly something fishy here...

I am going to change my "usual" bluetooth regsettings for setting the audio like I have on the hermes and see how that goes...

i'll report here

edit:

Ok, I have now changed the bitpool value from 64 decimal (0x00000040) to 46 (0x0000002E) and that seems to cure the problem, I will have to try more later since I need to work a little as well, but initial testing is that it is working better, I got some skips (2 in 1 song when outside, none inside). Probably will go down to 30 (0x0000001E) on both BitPool and MaxSupportedBitPool. I know that the quality will be reduced, but it sound pretty good at 46 soo...well see.

edit2: disappointing news, it is a little better but still skips ALOT.

Anyone knows what the BtA2dpSnd -> Prefix = WAV does?

i am going to lower the settings down to 25 and add priority256 = dword 60

Edit 3:

when lowered the settings to 25, it actually does work...nor perfect and certainly not great quality as to the sound, but I can have the device in the pocket of my jacket.

I will probably have to wait until a new radio rom that might fix this?
[Touch Cruise Accessories] Abbsta:
I didn't have major skipping with mine. Mainly in certain spots where I know I would get interference of some sort that it cuts in and out.

I haven't tried it outdoors yet with Bepe's Rom or with the new *Test* radio (which I haven't installed) and once I do I'll report back.
[Google Pixel 2 XL Questions & Answers] C5Longhorn:
I have the opportunity to pick up an unopened Pixel 2 at a discount from someone who received it as a gift but wants an Iphone. This would be a face to face transaction, but I have a couple of questions that I'm uncertain about.

1) Does Google warranty unopened devices that were not explicitly purchased from them?

2) The seller posted their IMEI publicly in the ad (the IMEI comes back clean from checking online sites); I know this is something that you should not do, but is it a deal breaker that the IMEI has been publicly posted?

Any other factors I should take into consideration when thinking about purchasing from reseller? We will meet at a phone store and I will test my SIM card.

Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rick