Hi,
I am trying to work around Mi Fit requiring location to connect to the BIP. I don't usually have location on (and don't want to) and every night when I set flight mode the connection is lost and notifications won't work until I enable location again and Mi Fit connects.
So, is there an app that does not require location to connect to the BIP? I asked Amazfit support and they said it is necessary - but didn't say what for.
If not, would it be possible to trick Mi Fit into "thinking" that location is on? Would there be an app to do that? I've seen apps to fake GPS location, but what I'd like to do is make Mi Fit read location as enabled (and maybe remember last location obtained?) without having location really enabled.
Any ideas on how to keep the connection between the phone and the watch without enabling location every time are welcome.
Thanks!
In case anyone wonders, I got it to connect by connecting to the watch via Bluetooth settings. First I had to force stop Mi Fit, then go to Settings, Bluetooth and link the phone to the Bip. Then, reopen Mi Fit and it connects everytime you expect it to
Cheers!
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Want to share my experience on fixing my GPS tracking during my run.
BACKGROUND
For a few weeks, I noticed that my Samsung Gear Fit 2 no longer tracks location during a run and walk. But it was doing that when I brough my Fit2 last year. I have Google and not much info on the problem. I have noticed that the Fit2 was working properly when I had a Samsung phone. The problem occurs when I switch to a new (non-Samsung) phone. Location is turned on on the Fit2, GPS was turned on on my new phone, reset Fit2, etc... nothing would bring back the GPS. More specifically, the problem is that after my run, the map would not show up in SHealth.
Until I read a post somewhere that Fit2 will not use its onboard GPS until it is disconnected from the phone. In a nutshell, someone on the Internet suggested that turning off Bluetooth on the phone allows her to track her run. I use GPS Info Watch watch face to verify. Bingo solution. But not yet. What about my alerts during my exercise? If I turn off Bluetooth, I would not be receiving alerts.
SOLUTION
The solution is simple. Enable Your Location (aka GPS) App Permissions on Gear Fit Plugin.
It seemed that Samsung design the logic of the Fit2 to read GPS location first from the phone (if the Fit2 is connected via Bluetooth). If the Fti2 loss connection to the phone, it will activate the onboard GPS. In my case, because My Location was blocked in App Permissions for Gear Fit Plugin, GPS location was not passed onto my Fit2.
I wish Samsung would have better design and support for its product. But XDA fills in the gap. XDA ROCKS :highfive:
same problem
r_fung said:
Want to share my experience on fixing my GPS tracking during my run.
BACKGROUND
For a few weeks, I noticed that my Samsung Gear Fit 2 no longer tracks location during a run and walk. But it was doing that when I brough my Fit2 last year. I have Google and not much info on the problem. I have noticed that the Fit2 was working properly when I had a Samsung phone. The problem occurs when I switch to a new (non-Samsung) phone. Location is turned on on the Fit2, GPS was turned on on my new phone, reset Fit2, etc... nothing would bring back the GPS. More specifically, the problem is that after my run, the map would not show up in SHealth.
Until I read a post somewhere that Fit2 will not use its onboard GPS until it is disconnected from the phone. In a nutshell, someone on the Internet suggested that turning off Bluetooth on the phone allows her to track her run. I use GPS Info Watch watch face to verify. Bingo solution. But not yet. What about my alerts during my exercise? If I turn off Bluetooth, I would not be receiving alerts.
SOLUTION
The solution is simple. Enable Your Location (aka GPS) App Permissions on Gear Fit Plugin.
It seemed that Samsung design the logic of the Fit2 to read GPS location first from the phone (if the Fit2 is connected via Bluetooth). If the Fti2 loss connection to the phone, it will activate the onboard GPS. In my case, because My Location was blocked in App Permissions for Gear Fit Plugin, GPS location was not passed onto my Fit2.
I wish Samsung would have better design and support for its product. But XDA fills in the gap. XDA ROCKS :highfive:
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I have a same problem, but with bicycle, at first it worked, but after one time using, it does not recognize GPS and past track anymore, the permission is on, I just reinstaled galaxy wear app, I will see what will be now
shota_k said:
I have a same problem, but with bicycle, at first it worked, but after one time using, it does not recognize GPS and past track anymore, the permission is on, I just reinstaled galaxy wear app, I will see what will be now
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the GPS does not work with a bicycle
I have an Amazfit Bip clock and it has blocked in "Activity" page.
The touch screen does not respond, the physical side button either, the Mi Fit fails to connect, ...
The clock continuously displays that "Activity" menu screen and you can not interact with it.
How can I reset it or what should I do to use the watch?
I use Mi Fit 3.0.5, FW-0.9.14
Thanks
montarelonf said:
I have an Amazfit Bip clock and it has blocked in "Activity" page.
The touch screen does not respond, the physical side button either, the Mi Fit fails to connect, ...
The clock continuously displays that "Activity" menu screen and you can not interact with it.
How can I reset it or what should I do to use the watch?
I use Mi Fit 3.0.5, FW-0.9.14
Thanks
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Yes, it happens when BIP trying updating A-GPS data. Run MiFit, keep watch close phone and let him update. Sometimes is failed, but close MiFit, clear memory and try again until success.
Thanks a lot.
In fact, it must be something related to what you say, becasuse as soon as the clock was recovered and connected again to the Mi Fit, it began to update the A-GPS.
What I do not know is if the solution you proposed works, because while it was blocked, the Mi Fit did not recognize it (it always put Connecting ...), it did not connect and I mismatched it and then I could not find it to link it again. That is, there was no bluetooth connection between My Fit and Clock, so I do not know how I could have updated the A-GPS clock trough the Mi Fit
Fortunately, the clock went off and when I put it to charge it started well and it works.
Hi there,
since today i have got the same problem. Sadly the battery is charged 100% so waiting for discharge may take some time. Does somebody know how to reset or force reboot or force discharge the watch?
Thanks in advance!
Amazfit bip problem
Hi, i got exactly the same problem with you..
After i switched my smartphone (from huawei P9 to LG V20) My amazfit Bip suddenly updating A GPS and after that, the touch display is hardly responding, then when i long press the button, it start to displays workout session that cannot be stopped or interrupted in the meantime, Mi Fit can not sync/interract during workout session).
After spent several frustating days, finally i conclude that the main issue is the firmware.
So here is what i did :
- Let the Amazfit watch battery drain (since the activity/workout session can not be stopped, it will drain faster than ussual).
- Recharge the watch until more than 10% and re-connect it to Mi Fit app. (Don't charge it too long, because when something goes wrong you will have to take time to drain the battery again).
- Download NOTIFY & FITNESS FOR AMAZFIT" app from google playstore and connect your Amazfit with the app.
- When the Amazfit Bip paired to Notify & Fitness For Amazfit,
unpaired the watch from the Mi Fit App, then uninstall Mi Fit from your phone.
- Now you have only 'Notify & Fitness for Amazfit' app connected to your amazfit bip.
.- Go to setting section in the app, scroll down and you will find firmware update section, then update the amazfit firmware (you will find some option : english/spain/italian etc., i've choosen english version)
- There imare 3 items that you have to sequintly update one by one : firmware, recources and gps (i failed to update the gps, but all i know, it doesn't matter anyway...)
- After the update finished (sometimes it failed, but i repeat it on and on untill it's succeed), my amazfit starts to work proper and not displaying work out session anymore.
Notify & Fitness for Amazfit is my saviour!
It works better than the official Mi Fit app.
Blocked after Workout
I also had a blocked Amazfit Bip:
On my first workout (a 3 hour bicyle ride), I wanted to stop it. Unfortunately the watch always restarted the workout again.
First I thought that I had double tapped the screen after pressing the Ok (to finish) button. But I tried this for at least 30 times. It always restartet the workout.
I still got a connection from the Mi Fit App, but it told me that the watch is within a workout.
I disconnected / reconnected the MiFit App several times and somehow I was able to quit the Workout.
I immediately switched off the watch, restarted and everything was fine again. No new firmware flashing was required.
I only have it since two days.
[Firmware 0.1.0.26]
I have the Xiaomi Amazfit Stratos watch, which worked well with my old Mi A1. However, since getting the Poco F1 notifications to the watch do not work (unless the app is open in the foreground). In addition, the VW Connect app (also a background app that uses GPS and connects automatically) did not pick up any trips made since using pairing with the new phone....
This made me think it was something to do with the MIUI battery saver settings. Since then I have changed the settings on both these apps to 'No restrictions' and it has made a slight improvement (I would say about 50% of the notifications are making it to the phone now). So I am at a bit of a loss now....
You would assume that a smartwatch made by Xiaomi would work seamlessly with a phone of the same manufacturer.... but it seems not!
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
I've been using an Amazfit Bip together with the Mi Fit app for a long time without any problems. The Bip hardly ever lost connection to the phone. Then I bought an Amazfit Bip S and as the Mi Fit app does not support it, I had to use the Amazfit app. I recognized that the Bip S permanently lost bluetooth connection to the phone, no matter what settings I changed. So I thought it would be a problem of the Bip S and bought a normal Bip again. But same problem... if the phone does not lie directly on the table, most of the time Bip has no bluetooth connection. Even if the phone is in its case on my belt, the Bip loses connection.
So it must have something to do with the Amazfit app, I guess. Somewhere I read that if you uninstall and reinstall it, Bluetooth connection problems may be gone. But if I uninstall the app, I lose all data, so before I do that I try to investigate what could be the problem.
The phone is a Blackview BV9700 Pro. I already cleared all data and cache of the Bluetooth app. I restarted the phone. I turned Bluetooth off and on again. I turned the option for a permanent notification in the Amazfit app on and off, makes no difference.
Can anyone confirm that the Amazfit app has a bad Bluetooth connection compared to the Mi Fit app? Could the problem be caused because both apps were installed at the same time at the beginning? I had Mi Fit installed, installed Amazfit and because the Bip was recognized by both apps I uninstalled Mi Fit and kept only Amazfit.
In case my english sounds strange from time to time: I'm from Germany
Homer J. S. said:
I've been using an Amazfit Bip together with the Mi Fit app for a long time without any problems. The Bip hardly ever lost connection to the phone. Then I bought an Amazfit Bip S and as the Mi Fit app does not support it, I had to use the Amazfit app. I recognized that the Bip S permanently lost bluetooth connection to the phone, no matter what settings I changed. So I thought it would be a problem of the Bip S and bought a normal Bip again. But same problem... if the phone does not lie directly on the table, most of the time Bip has no bluetooth connection. Even if the phone is in its case on my belt, the Bip loses connection.
So it must have something to do with the Amazfit app, I guess. Somewhere I read that if you uninstall and reinstall it, Bluetooth connection problems may be gone. But if I uninstall the app, I lose all data, so before I do that I try to investigate what could be the problem.
The phone is a Blackview BV9700 Pro. I already cleared all data and cache of the Bluetooth app. I restarted the phone. I turned Bluetooth off and on again. I turned the option for a permanent notification in the Amazfit app on and off, makes no difference.
Can anyone confirm that the Amazfit app has a bad Bluetooth connection compared to the Mi Fit app? Could the problem be caused because both apps were installed at the same time at the beginning? I had Mi Fit installed, installed Amazfit and because the Bip was recognized by both apps I uninstalled Mi Fit and kept only Amazfit.
In case my english sounds strange from time to time: I'm from Germany
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Hello,
Few things:
- I would recommend you to use only one App, AmazFit or MiFit at a time. I guess AMazFit is preferable depending on the watch you have. Unpair from one app and uninstall the app you don't want to use
- if you uninstall and reinstall the Amazfit or MiFit app with same credentials, Mi account or with mail/phone number, you should recover your data saved and you won't loose all your history. Maybe the one from the current day, I think. I jumped from MiFit to Amzfit with same account with no problem, recovering data for many years
- concerning the bluetooth, not sure what OS your are using, iOS or Android. You could check in the Amazfit or Mi Fit app properties if the OS is not using "battery saver" functions. Sometimes, by default, the battery saving is in "restricted mode" which can affect connections like wifi/bluetooth to save power. Try to see if you have this battery saving function ON and set to "no restrictions" - at least this is what I do on my Android phone.
Tzar92 said:
Hello,
Few things:
- I would recommend you to use only one App, AmazFit or MiFit at a time. I guess AMazFit is preferable depending on the watch you have. Unpair from one app and uninstall the app you don't want to use
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Yeah - as I wrote I uninstalled Mi Fit and only use Amazfit now.
- if you uninstall and reinstall the Amazfit or MiFit app with same credentials, Mi account or with mail/phone number, you should recover your data saved and you won't loose all your history. Maybe the one from the current day, I think. I jumped from MiFit to Amzfit with same account with no problem, recovering data for many years
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Hm, now as you said it... the Amazfit app also loaded the data from the Mi account.
- concerning the bluetooth, not sure what OS your are using, iOS or Android. You could check in the Amazfit or Mi Fit app properties if the OS is not using "battery saver" functions. Sometimes, by default, the battery saving is in "restricted mode" which can affect connections like wifi/bluetooth to save power. Try to see if you have this battery saving function ON and set to "no restrictions" - at least this is what I do on my Android phone.
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The phone uses Android 9. The Amazfit app is not restricted by any battery saving modes as I put it on "Not optimized" just like the Mi Fit app before.
Hi. the tittle says it all.. i just bought this watch and i find it a pretty good watch, everything works fine but i cannot activate phone calls. When i try to switch it on, the phone ask for pairing with bluetooth ( when its already paired and conected) Its this normal ? If not, there is some workaround or fix ?
iPhone Xs
iOS 14.3
Thanks you for your help
Jotze0 said:
Hi. the tittle says it all.. i just bought this watch and i find it a pretty good watch, everything works fine but i cannot activate phone calls. When i try to switch it on, the phone ask for pairing with bluetooth ( when its already paired and conected) Its this normal ? If not, there is some workaround or fix ?
iPhone Xs
iOS 14.3
Thanks you for your help
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I have exactly the same problem, with my Sony Xperia 10 III (Android 11) phone.
I had an Amazfit Bip, which is a great watch. I was undecided between a GTS 2 mini and this watch. I paid €80 more specifically to get the phone function, and I can't turn it on.
Amszfit seems to have zero support, other than an FAQ.
Jotze0 said:
Hi. the tittle says it all.. i just bought this watch and i find it a pretty good watch, everything works fine but i cannot activate phone calls. When i try to switch it on, the phone ask for pairing with bluetooth ( when its already paired and conected) Its this normal ? If not, there is some workaround or fix ?
iPhone Xs
iOS 14.3
Thanks you for your help
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I have managed to solve this problem, but I don't really understand how it worked.
My GTS 2 was connected to my phone (Android 11) and I assumed there was a Bluetooth connection. However this phone function couldn't be activated because Zepp said there was no associated device.
I turned off Bluetooth and attempted to reactivate it manually. On my phone, the watch wasn't visible. I rebooted both the watch and the phone, but no luck. However, I realized that the phone was finding my old Amszfit Bio, which I had disassociated. I turned off the Amazfit Bip and tried again. I ended up having to reboot phone and watch once more, but now I am able to activate the phone function.
I can also respond to phone calls and it works well.
I hope this is helpful. You can try the above, and if it doesn't work, light a candle. I must say that Zepp is really inadequate for this watch. It was barely acceptable for the Bip, but falls far short for the complexity of the GTS 2.
What I really don't understand is that there was a Bluetooth connection, activated by QR code when I set up the phone, that allowed the watch to synchronise data with the phone, and which managed to send notifications, but was not functional for activating phone calls, unless a connection was made manually using the phone's Bluetooth settings.
Second method work for me. you need to tap pair on watch too at same time during pairing.
Start the Zepp app and go to "Profile > Amazfit GTS 2 > App settings". On the Phone page, turn on "Call on watch", then pair the watch and your phone through Bluetooth as instructed. Or you can try second mothed.
1. On your phone, go to Settings, then select "Bluetooth" to turn on the Bluetooth, and set the phone to be discoverable. On the watch, go to App list > Settings > Network and connections > Bluetooth. Ensure the Bluetooth is turned on.
2. Find the watch in the search results for available devices on your phone, and tap to pair them. Or, find your phone in the Bluetooth search results on the watch, and tap to pair the devices.