Galaxy watch counting steps n floors while driving a car.

[Rajdadra]

Hi everyone......

I've been using Samsung gear sport watch for more than a year and been using Galaxy watch for almost 8 or 9 months.

One thing, i noticed on both of my watches that they keep counting steps while I'm driving a car.

For example, if I've walked 5000 steps and then start driving my car, after around an hour, it displays more than 6000 steps.. (means it adds almost 1000 steps to my already taken steps for an hour's driving)

Same goes for the floors. If i climb 4 floors, it counts 6 floors.

Anyone else facing sick issues?

Thanks for the insights

[Anonymous]

inside car it can count steps for bumpy roads because jerking measured as steps..but no idea about stairs...I observed in my device that,pedometer takes to count after 1 or 2 seconds..means it can skip 3 or 4 steps which is negligible but you observing extra steps when climbing thats have no idea

[Rajdadra]

Yeah..... but they should stand by the product's name. These are called smart watches n these should be smart enough to distinguish between steps n bumps

[Anonymous]

no it's not possible because sensor made up of such a way that related to device movements with some vehicles or human...as an example if you put a steps then little jerking detecting as steps same when you are traveling too

[Socratic_Desciple]

Not possible? really?  This watch has its own network it has GPS I'm pretty sure... You would think that it could sense it's linear travel is much faster than a person can run and could shut off the pedometer motion. That's about as basic of an if/then logic function as you can get

[Rajdadra]

Yeh.....i know that bro.
What I'm saying is it should be the other way around.
Like Fitbit and Garmin measure steps n health data perfectly

[contactvv]

Hi,

I recently bought this watch 1 month ago.  Although I like this watch and a great motivation to keep moving, I also noticed the same issue as stated above.  I suppose the watch should be smart enough to detect that we are travelling in a automobile and not walking or running.   

May be we need to turn on the location sensor?

May be Samsung should provide some insight on this.

[Anonymous]

did you tried with your device? is it normal or same as galaxy watch?

[Rajdadra]

That's normal

[Anonymous]

ok...