Hi! i'm Boris.
On my amazfit pace, since 1 week, my compass doesn't work anymore, and that's why my elevation gain sticks at 0..... I never let it down, i made a factory reset, update, restart... etc... nothing!!!!!
Somebody as an idea what going wrong???!!!
Thx for your answers.
Do you have a magnetic wristband?
fzelle said:
Do you have a magnetic wristband?
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No!!!! It works 3 months and suddenly nothing..... Is it possible that the MTB shocks break or weakens the compass? My Elevation Gain also sticks at 0, there is a relation??
THX for your answer fzelle!
Yes, when the compass isn't working, elevation isn't as well.
As it is not a mechanical part, I doubt that you can break it with riding MTB.
Tried a restart?
Yes... shut down-restart, factory reset, smartwatch and apps update....
Maybe there is a way to disable the compass after a bad setting?
It's a strange situation....
...... my air pressure is also sticking on "loading" (outside in an open space)!!!!
Maybe pressure captor's hole is clogged? It's the small hole on the side at 9H, isn't it?!?!
Too much suggestions...... i need to understand.....
fzelle said:
Yes, when the compass isn't working, elevation isn't as well.
As it is not a mechanical part, I doubt that you can break it with riding MTB.
Tried a restart?
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If you google: "mems magnetic field sensor", you will see that it indeed IS a mechanical part.
malimukk said:
If you google: "mems magnetic field sensor", you will see that it indeed IS a mechanical part.
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But if you go there, even a transistor is a mechanical part that could break.
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But if you go there, even a transistor is a mechanical part that could break.
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True but all those inertial sensors have moving mechanical parts inside, which is not the case for transistors :silly:
Hi there, I have the exact same problem...the compass is stuck on 0 and air pressure is loading. It has been loading for quite a few days now but still nothing
liakoc said:
Hi there, I have the exact same problem...the compass is stuck on 0 and air pressure is loading. It has been loading for quite a few days now but still nothing
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You managed to find a solution for this?
no i haven't... hae to send it for repair
Some solution?
Same problem three months and GPS and altitude damaged
The compass does not show the altitude
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Same happened to me and I don't know if it's related to a high battery draining (less than a day)
Can it be Software related?
the same here! battery and compass issue
I'm having the same issue. Did reset and using official FW but compass is not working and battery dies really fast. I'm outside of china and the return fees are quite high. Have anyone tried to fix it by themself? I do not have the best experience with Gearbest support.
Hi all,
I have the same situation, few hours of battery and compass stuck on 0°.
This is my experience: after a month since the purchasing, suddenly, the battery started to last max 8 hours (it was 5 days with continuous HR monitor before! ).
I asked on my custom rom Telegram group about this and the general answer was that it was due to the charger I used, too powerful for the watch, and that I had to use exclusively my laptop's USB.
Little by little, it went up to 35 hours and I was wondering if it may be resolved with a battery calibration (if exists).
Didn't noticed the compass issue at that moment, but now that I found this thread I see a correlation.
zioTomTom said:
I asked on my custom rom Telegram group about this and the general answer was that it was due to the charger I used, too powerful for the watch, and that I had to use exclusively my laptop's USB.
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That is complete and utter BS.
It has nothing to do with too powerfull, what happens with most cheap chargers is that they have spikes in their output.
To prevent that, just use a powerbank, that's the safes option.
same problem
I also have the same problem compass and barometric pressure are also not working
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I have some trouble, n its solved.
I have try to reset many times, not work. Try to downgrade firmware(cause i use latest), not work.
Try using small magnet(from refrigerator door accesoris) with power is on, not work.
I, ve given UP. just try to charge the wacth on flat position, try using small magnet with power off.
I didnt cek after that, but when i wear the battery life normal again, then i check compas is normaly again.
u can try
note : rotate the magnet on watch
For me, it started with new update. Anyone else?
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I have a strange issue related to kenzo(rn3). My battery was swollen. So got rid of it. But when I went to buy a new battery the touch stopped working. So I tried to get it repaired in local shops bcz mi center were charging 4k. But local guys couldn't fix it. The issue was may be of motherboard. After some days I again restarted(with charger only, didn't bought battery) as usual, this time the touch worked with no problem even after restarts. So I bought the battery and was using the phone. But the battery backup was not good bcz of miui 9.5. So I searched for a good sot rom. I downgraded to miui 7.6.3. No imei issue happened but touch again is unresponsive. I tried installing miui 9.5 with no luck. I think the issue is on the software part. I clean flash installed roms every time by miflash. Help anyone. Please.
I think your problem is a unique case, I can't relate. However, I DO get those touchscreen problems. I get that very-very-rarely. A forced restart by holding the power fixes it.
I recently changed to MIUI 9.5.6.0, haven't gotten any of it yet. I previously came from Official Nougat LOS, and then changed to xiaomi.eu ROM before finally change to this genuine stock MIUI. I got that issue in both LOS and xiaomi.eu.
Restarting couldn't help me.
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I think your problem is a unique case, I can't relate. However, I DO get those touchscreen problems. I get that very-very-rarely. A forced restart by holding the power fixes it.
I recently changed to MIUI 9.5.6.0, haven't gotten any of it yet. I previously came from Official Nougat LOS, and then changed to xiaomi.eu ROM before finally change to this genuine stock MIUI. I got that issue in both LOS and xiaomi.eu.
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Maybe there is some hardware issue. But why after flashing the stock rom it doesn't responding.
Do you use original touch? Or focaltech?
If you change some hardware i recommend to reinstall rom and kernel (the rom with fastboot).
Equally the battery (i think) may not generate this issue.
Oh! I remember in other device my charger freeze my phone... But its very rare... What charger do you use commonly?
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Do you use original touch? Or focaltech?
If you change some hardware i recommend to reinstall rom and kernel (the rom with fastboot).
Equally the battery (i think) may not generate this issue.
Oh! I remember in other device my charger freeze my phone... But its very rare... What charger do you use commonly?
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I once got the touch repaired at the service center. It was 2 years ago. I have installed rom in edl mode. When the touch again worked on its own, there was only charger connected to it. The issue may not be with the charger. May be I should try with more local repair shops.
Use aida or other software to see touch model and if you have focaltech i recommend to you agni kernel 13. In Aroma do you set focaltech option.
If you have original touch the problem may be other...
flash agni use focaltouch libs
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Use aida or other software to see touch model and if you have focaltech i recommend to you agni kernel 13. In Aroma do you set focaltech option.
If you have original touch the problem may be other...
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The touch is not working in twrp too. Any other way to install kernel. May be using miflash?
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The touch is not working in twrp too. Any other way to install kernel. May be using miflash?
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i dont know... do you can ask to developer to only focaltech compilation... equally i dont know... I believed that Focaltech was compatible in recovery but not in system (i never have Focaltech and im not sure if your problem is it.)
Your problem is very rare... but make me remember similar problems in notebooks with touchpad and steel case...
in some notebooks if the case is steel and you touch the case, the touchpad not work but if you dont touch the case work perfect (yeah... this is rare but in my opinion is "ground" (talking about electricity) problem.)
i dont have more ideas, your problem is very strange and probably hardware.
Good luck bro
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i dont know... do you can ask to developer to only focaltech compilation... equally i dont know... I believed that Focaltech was compatible in recovery but not in system (i never have Focaltech and im not sure if your problem is it.)
Your problem is very rare... but make me remember similar problems in notebooks with touchpad and steel case...
in some notebooks if the case is steel and you touch the case, the touchpad not work but if you dont touch the case work perfect (yeah... this is rare but in my opinion is "ground" (talking about electricity) problem.)
i dont have more ideas, your problem is very strange and probably hardware.
Good luck bro
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Thanks for the suggestions. May be its more hardware related. It was just a luck when the touch worked on its own. May be some shorting is there. One more point I want to add is that when the battery was swollen the display bent too. Some impact may be on the motherboard too. The local repair guys confirmed touch is good. May be the motherboard is dying.
U.U
Remember: you can use keyboard and mouse USB if you need to use "Titanium Backup" or other app.
What's happened is most likely this. The swollen battery bent the mainboard's PCB and either cracked some solder joints or lifted a pad/broke a trace. Now you have bad, intermittent connection. You could probably reflow the joints using a hot air station but you wouldn't be here asking for help if you had the required tools. If it's a lifted pad under a big chip, that's simply too much work (anyone that can do that would ask for at least the cost of a new phone).
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What's happened is most likely this. The swollen battery bent the mainboard's PCB and either cracked some solder joints or lifted a pad/broke a trace. Now you have bad, intermittent connection. You could probably reflow the joints using a hot air station but you wouldn't be here asking for help if you had the required tools. If it's a lifted pad under a big chip, that's simply too much work (anyone that can do that would ask for at least the cost of a new phone).
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From what I have seen on the pcb, there is a probable smd part near the power ic. You correctly inferred that I don't have tools to fully inspect/try blowing hot air. But I did tried blowing hot air using a hair dryer. I also do suspect that repair shops I went didn't tried that. Thanks for the suggestions.
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What's happened is most likely this. The swollen battery bent the mainboard's PCB and either cracked some solder joints or lifted a pad/broke a trace. Now you have bad, intermittent connection. You could probably reflow the joints using a hot air station but you wouldn't be here asking for help if you had the required tools. If it's a lifted pad under a big chip, that's simply too much work (anyone that can do that would ask for at least the cost of a new phone).
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Some more questions. What is a lifted pad?
Some more insights are, Once the touch was worked on its own, it worked pretty well. I then purchased the battery and installed. Used the phone for 2 days. And then I downgraded and touch went unresponsive. Could it be really a hw issue? Well I too think that it's a hw issue. But couldn't help myself question this. Maybe there is some irregular voltage being supplied. The touch might now be accustomed to the power provided by the old battery?
Some devices can work with charger without battery (notebooks, some tablets and phones, i dont know if all)
Try with this to test if work fine all... If yes i recommend you test your battery voltage/ampers.
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Some devices can work with charger without battery (notebooks, some tablets and phones, i dont know if all)
Try with this to test if work fine all... If yes i recommend you test your battery voltage/ampers.
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When the touch worked on its own, it was only without battery because i dumped the old one and didn't bought new because the touch wasn't working. When the touch worked it was connected to the charger only. Battery is giving output of 3-4 Volts.
Rishab kaushik said:
When the touch worked on its own, it was only without battery because i dumped the old one and didn't bought new because the touch wasn't working. When the touch worked it was connected to the charger only. Battery is giving output of 3-4 Volts.
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3 or 4? the bm47 (our battery if im right) suply 4.4v your problem may be this.
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3 or 4? the bm47 (our battery if im right) suply 4.4v your problem may be this.
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The voltage when checked fluctuated bw 3 to 4. The multi meter reading was not showing volts after decimal. I will check. Again with a more accurate multimeter in a while.
The battery model is bm46 though. And what does 3.85 depict on the battery?
what i dont know (again)...
4.4v charger voltage (after pass of diode and otherf circuit?)
3.85v to output? (phone use)
if yes your multimeter reading is good (3v and 4v).
i try to help you with ideas but is very rare this.
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From what I have seen on the pcb, there is a probable smd part near the power ic. You correctly inferred that I don't have tools to fully inspect/try blowing hot air. But I did tried blowing hot air using a hair dryer. I also do suspect that repair shops I went didn't tried that. Thanks for the suggestions.
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Well, modern electronics use lead free solder with a melting point that's somewhere around 250°c. Basically you need an extra 100 degrees to reflow and I doubt your hair dryer can go as high as that. It's only good enough to melt adhesive.
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Some more questions. What is a lifted pad?
Some more insights are, Once the touch was worked on its own, it worked pretty well. I then purchased the battery and installed. Used the phone for 2 days. And then I downgraded and touch went unresponsive. Could it be really a hw issue? Well I too think that it's a hw issue. But couldn't help myself question this. Maybe there is some irregular voltage being supplied. The touch might now be accustomed to the power provided by the old battery?
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A lifted pad is when the copper contact is ripped off the board as a result of excessive flexing or overheat, usually under a big IC. This ends up damaging or cutting the trace leading to that pad. To fix that, you can only micro solder a very thin insulated wire under a microscope. You may need to desolder the component resting on that pad first to fix the pcb.
Certainly, a component might operate just a bit out of specs but since you don't have schematics, you'd have to do hours of guess work, assuming you already know how. I suppose you could randomly replace likely culprits and hope for the best but... Well, let's say it's far from ideal.
Hello to everyone, a few days ago my watch started shutting down after a while, sometimes write after boot and sometimes after 5 or 10 minutes or so. I tried reverting to stock settings (factory reset) also sync it with a new account from other phone, I even installed Everest Rom and still it shuts down after a few minutes. Also sometimes it gets very hot, all over the watch not only at the bottom or the front glass.
The watch is in my possession for around 1,5 year and it is the international version.
Same behavior, is the result of water geting in...
How is that possible , it is water resistant!?
Did you open it easily?
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How is that possible , it is water resistant!?
Did you open it easily?
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It was used a year, never taken off the hand unless charging., so it got into sea swiming, hot showers/baths, everything, and i did not kept it in clean water for 10 min, or what the manual says... . So all that chemicals and salt afected the seals ...
It was opened by the service guys, i sent it for waranty, which they ofcourse void it (apparantely no device is covered by waranty if liquides get inside them ... ?!?)
I will try to test if is fixable by my self.... with no water resistance...
Thank you my friend for your time and answers, I will try to open it and see if this is wrong with my watch too. Last year after every swim I did clean it up but this year I never did so maybe this is what happened to mine also.
My problem was not from getting water in
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My problem was not from getting water in
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Can't really tell from the image, but it looks like there is some corosion/oxidation on the capacitors near the sensor ? (seems like some green/blue colored contacts). If so, maybe try to gentaly clean it, it could make electrical contact between components that should not be in contact.
Also look at the battery and see if there is any visible damage to it
... my battery is 0 volts, and a little puffy, i will try to see if it takes charge.
If yours got extremely hot as mine did, pls consider the safty issues of the situation
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Can't really tell from the image, but it looks like there is some corosion/oxidation on the capacitors near the sensor ? (seems like some green/blue colored contacts). If so, maybe try to gentaly clean it, it could make electrical contact between components that should not be in contact.
Also look at the battery and see if there is any visible damage to it
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I think you are wright my friend, I 'll get back home and see it more closely and try to clean it up and see if that helps.
Well you were wright about sensor
I tried to clean as good as I could but with no luck , I also checked the battery and it seemed ok to me.
Then I decided to cut the sensor power by cutting the cable that connects to it and then booted up the watch and everything is working fine ,no shutdowns, no overheating problems and no battery consumption at all. I guess that the sensor is no longer working at all and it isn't anymore waterproof but at least I have a fully functional watch until i decide what to do. Thanks again for pointing out the corrosion-oxidation of the sensor. The only thing I cannot comprehend is how did that happen to the sensor capacitors, since there where no moisture inside the watch!?!?
Thanks again my friend!
Yesterday suddenly my amazfit stratos starts to turn off after some minutes and the buttery is running off very fast. After full charged the 100% becomes 50% few minutes later. Also I realized that the watche's temperature is very high. Please does anyone knows how to fix it?
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Yesterday suddenly my amazfit stratos starts to turn off after some minutes and the buttery is running off very fast. After full charged the 100% becomes 50% few minutes later. Also I realized that the watche's temperature is very high. Please does anyone knows how to fix it?
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Very similar to my moto360 sport, guess what I found, battery is dead.
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Very similar to my moto360 sport, guess what I found, battery is dead.
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Αnd what about overheating?
I had a Stratos for about 1 year and then it died, with the problem that you said. I can't say if it has the same problem, but in my case, was the heart rate sensor that went crazy and was making that. I was hiking and it began to overheat and shutting down and I don't realized the reason and keep trying to turn it on. I was sweating, and when we stop to eat, I take off the watch and realized that the little plastic that protects the heart rate sensor in the back, has jump of, and I think that was the reason that leave HR to malfunction. The HR was already having some crazy measures in the last times, giving alerts that I had high readings and should stop, when was not truth, I was normal, but I never concern about that, but now when I think about it, I suspect that was HR getting malfunction, that I suspect has origin in a design error in the protection that covers it. I think that is enough it began to "leaking" to HR fail
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I had a Stratos for about 1 year and then it died, with the problem that you said. I can't say if it has the same problem, but in my case, was the heart rate sensor that went crazy and was making that. I was hiking and it began to overheat and shutting down and I don't realized the reason and keep trying to turn it on. I was sweating, and when we stop to eat, I take off the watch and realized that the little plastic that protects the heart rate sensor in the back, has jump of, and I think that was the reason that leave HR to malfunction. The HR was already having some crazy measures in the last times, giving alerts that I had high readings and should stop, when was not truth, I was normal, but I never concern about that, but now when I think about it, I suspect that was HR getting malfunction, that I suspect has origin in a design error in the protection that covers it. I think that is enough it began to "leaking" to HR fail
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Did you install an app lately? Maybe it's all about rom? I really don't know...
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Did you install an app lately? Maybe it's all about rom? I really don't know...
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I had a Stratos for about 1 year and then it died, with the problem that you said. I can't say if it has the same problem, but in my case, was the heart rate sensor that went crazy and was making that. I was hiking and it began to overheat and shutting down and I don't realized the reason and keep trying to turn it on. I was sweating, and when we stop to eat, I take off the watch and realized that the little plastic that protects the heart rate sensor in the back, has jump of, and I think that was the reason that leave HR to malfunction. The HR was already having some crazy measures in the last times, giving alerts that I had high readings and should stop, when was not truth, I was normal, but I never concern about that, but now when I think about it, I suspect that was HR getting malfunction, that I suspect has origin in a design error in the protection that covers it. I think that is enough it began to "leaking" to HR fail
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I just noticed that the little plastic that protects the heart rate sensor in the back, has jump of just like yours. Is there any solution? Maybe if I put insulating tape on the sensor will fix the problem?
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Did you install an app lately? Maybe it's all about rom? I really don't know...
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Nothing to do with software, was a hardware problem
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I just noticed that the little plastic that protects the heart rate sensor in the back, has jump of just like yours. Is there any solution?
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When it jump (about 2 months ago) I search a little bit and there was some people that disable totally the HR (and it continues working without HR, but I didn't even see how they disable it. If you have warranty send it for them. I didn't try do anything, in the rest it was very good, so I sell it for parts.
And made the BIG mistake of buying GTR, that GPS is bad (my bad, because I didn't realise that there was going to be a Stratos 3, and thought that GTR was the Stratos replacement)
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Nothing to do with software, was a hardware problem
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When it jump (about 2 months ago) I search a little bit and there was some people that disable totally the HR (and it continues working without HR, but I didn't even see how they disable it. If you have warranty send it for them. I didn't try do anything, in the rest it was very good, so I sell it for parts.
And made the BIG mistake of buying GTR, that GPS is bad (my bad, because I didn't realise that there was going to be a Stratos 3, and thought that GTR was the Stratos replacement)
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I put a piece of insulating tape on the sensor, 1 hour ago, and it works fine. I believe that I solved the problem, without heart rate sensor of course.
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I put a piece of insulating tape on the sensor, 1 hour ago, and it works fine. I believe that I solved the problem, without heart rate sensor of course.
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Yes, when I search people say it is possible, and if I know that GTR is this piece of s*** I would try to.
Hello guys,
My HR Stratos 2.3.10.5 sensor is overheating right after turning on the watch. I had already noticed that I could not measure the pulse rate and a few days later I began to feel a slight burning in the skin, when taking the watch I see that the problem is the sensor.
Visually everything is ok and if you turn off the clock it cools again.
Has it happened to anyone or do you know how to solve it ?
Thanks in advance.
I am having the same issue, even got my skin burnt by the sensor. Have you fixed your watch?
The first time I was sleeping and I thought it was pulling my hairs from my wrist and took it off, but today after cycling it started to hurt again and when I saw the sensor was extremely hot and there was two little burnt spots in my wrist.
Was researching and saw many people complaining about it but no solution at all.
Check HR sensor conver: either it fell off or let moisture get inside the device, corroding the HR sensor. Either open the watch and remove / replace the sensor module (it won't be easy to find a replacement) or replace the whole watch.
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Check HR sensor conver: either it fell off or let moisture get inside the device, corroding the HR sensor. Either open the watch and remove / replace the sensor module (it won't be easy to find a replacement) or replace the whole watch.
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Now that you point that out, I really don't remenber if there was a cover or not... Anyways, if that fell off, it came off without any pressure, bump or whatever... It should not fall so easily, now my watch is overheating very quickly, specially when I turn on the HR, it even shuts down. I am trying to contact the shop and Huami.
Less than 3 months using it, the watch is great besides this issue, let's see what happens.
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Now that you point that out, I really don't remenber if there was a cover or not... Anyways, if that fell off, it came off without any pressure, bump or whatever... It should not fall so easily, now my watch is overheating very quickly, specially when I turn on the HR, it even shuts down. I am trying to contact the shop and Huami.
Less than 3 months using it, the watch is great besides this issue, let's see what happens.
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the small glass - hr cover is off on your watch... the same here after 8 months. I'm using the watch only for running or treadmill. (somethimes weightlifting..) . I was newer swimming or in the sauna...
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the small glass - hr cover is off on your watch... the same here after 8 months. I'm using the watch only for running or treadmill. (somethimes weightlifting..) . I was newer swimming or in the sauna...
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Me too, always very careful with it, but as you can see I cannot use it anymore, tryed to contact the ebay seller/ ebay/ paypal/ Xiaomi/ Amazfit
Ended up losing my money as even if I wanted to pay to fix it, no representative here in Australia would fix it for me... Extremely disappointed with the brand.
Hi!
Has anyone had a gps problem with Sports Tracker or Suunto App? They suddenly stops recording the route. The recording of the route is usually interrupted at the beginning and sometimes in the middle of the trip. I have tried restoring the factory settings but does not help. The power saving+location settings are in order and the necessary rights have been granted. The latest versions of the application and system are in use.
I tested the same on the One Plus 8. I took both the OP8 and OP10T phones into my backpack and turned on the recording of the Sports tracker or Suunto app. One Plus 8 recorded the traveled route correctly, but One Plus 10t left part of it unrecorded..
I would like to save bicycle trips and hiking on the map, but it is currently completely impossible with the phone model in question.
I have the same issue with two different 10Ts, I have not found a solution besides either leaving the screen on or connecting to power during GPS usage. If I ever figure it out I will make sure to post the fix.
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I have the same issue with two different 10Ts, I have not found a solution besides either leaving the screen on or connecting to power during GPS usage. If I ever figure it out I will make sure to post the fix.
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Good to know I'm not the only one with this problem. It's quite annoying. Fortunately, the screen can be "locked" when it's on. So there is no fear that the phone will press the buttons by itself.
I did a factory reset again. After a week of testing, the route was saved normally every day.
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I did a factory reset again. After a week of testing, the route was saved normally every day.
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Thanks for the update. I might have to try that myself!