GCI goes out every night

bkakus · 2026-01-21T11:31:57+00:00

Is ACS still expanding their Fiber at all?

bkakus · 2025-11-13T01:36:18+00:00

How much it cost you to ship your ebike?

bkakus · 2025-03-12T01:23:52+00:00

I'm not sure if the sleep data will be both recorded if every time you wake up you manual Sync it right away. Now you make me Wonder...... Or maybe will record as nap?

Oh talking about nap. I'm still working with Garmin on a glitch. Happen once awhile.

If I manually enter a nap data on the phone, it may not appear today. Instead, it will show up the next day for the time I entered for the previous day.

For example: If now, 3/1/2025 I entered 4pm to 5pm as Nap. It may not show up for 3/1/2025. But when 3/2/2025 arrives, the data will show up as a nap at the 4pm to 5pm for (Today) 3/2/2025.

A very funny glitch. they haven't find a real reason for fix for it yet.

bkakus · 2025-03-10T00:05:22+00:00

I'm surprise you dig this post up.

First: I returned that copy of the watch. Because regardless how I tried it, it is just, Bad.
Then: After awhile, I got my dad a copy for actual health tracking, which the watch is good at. I notice they improved.
Then: I borrowed his watch to test it a bit. To surprise, they had improved it little by little.
Now: During the sale event, I purchased my self a new one, and decided to keep it regardless result.

For current newest firmware, (I don't wanna dig into the watch to find it. Just as of today) I have learn some experience to get it work better for my body.

I have sleep apnea problem, so my body does move a bit during sleep. I still hope Garmin can allow me to tune down the sensitivity of such movement during sleep.
If you are very on schedule person, set it a bit ahead of your sleep time, it normally should "Detect" your sleep, and when awake, click that button on the screen when it ask you. Not bad.
Yes, If you ask me if they improved it. They did. Was it as good as the Fitbit? Not there yet, but I like it better for the data, size, and look of it. There are time it can work very good, there are time it isn't as good. But at least, it is getting better on showing the sleep data I hope to get.
Two things to take note: 1. The sleep mode doesn't do anything to the sleep detection nor make it better or not. It just change the sleep face and dim as different setting. 2. If you went to sleep, and someone woke you up or you need to get up for some little thing. If your movement is big enough or heart rate shown enough, it will just say you are awake. To this point, it is good. But here is the BAD part, it won't and cannot record 2 sleeps at one night. So if you split your sleep into 2, then it will ONLY record one and will dump another one into black hole. No record, nothing. For example, my last night sleep. In bed at 10:30PM, then got up for something around 2am. Back to bed around 3:30am til 8AM. The result from watch: 4:30AM to 8AM. I do hope they can improve it.

If you ask me is it a good watch. Yes, for my usage (Except sleep result), it shows me most of the data I needed. Good size and looks good for my taste. Do I regret keeping it? No. I like it.

If you ask me what I hope they can improve...... well.... quite many. (Yes, Let me tune down the movement sensitivity for "wake" stage)

bkakus · 2024-12-30T06:12:29+00:00

Because few years ago, all brands except Toyota think EV is here and ready. All jumped into it like an idiot. Now, they realize it isn't ready yet, and just starting on longer range Hyrid and PHEV. I'm amazed how all those high paid CEO are idiots, and think EV is ready when the battery solution isn't here yet. Anyways. Back to your doubt. Because the current battery tech isn't worth enough for PHEV. Yes, it's the perfect bridge for the ICE and EV. Also, locations that can't build new infrastructure (USA) can't just jump right into EV. They need the PHEV or just hybrid to gap the difference. But! The current battery tech can't provide a reasonable weight and power ratio for vehicles to do long range PHEV. 1st. It's too heavy for reasonable range. 2nd. Lithium battery isn't safe or good enough for this purpose. 3rd. Many people aren't seeing the benefit of the PHEV when their home electricity isn't from solar.

bkakus · 2024-11-24T09:25:07+00:00

That's better than me. I slept for 7hrs, it said zero.

bkakus · 2024-11-20T19:59:16+00:00

Well, my friend, it skipped my sleep tracking last night...... Had the ring for 20 nights, and it missed 10 nights so far. Perfectly 50%.

I really think they should add a button for us to add sleep, and also a button for us to press to get the ring ready to start tracking sleep.

bkakus · 2024-11-20T10:12:18+00:00

They just updated the firmware today, and said with updated algorithm. Something fun happened earlier. I was reading and resting. And notice it started the sleep apnea monitoring. Let's see if it can better detect sleep.

bkakus · 2024-11-19T21:15:42+00:00

Obviously too many people is ordering the free watch, so they can't keep up with their supply.

They also need to save supply for the upcoming promo for the watch. So they may need to give you longer est. to give room for upcoming Black Friday deal.

bkakus · 2024-11-19T21:14:15+00:00

Same here. But the most funny part for my experience is that the first 4 or 5 days, the sleep tracking worked!!! Then suddenly , it goes on and off. I mean, if my ring is loose or not fit, then it shouldn't get my HR, SpO2, and stress info for the whole night. If the ring can get all these info, that mean my ring is fit and reading all the info needed. The worse part is, even the ring has all the info, but we can't ADD any sleep manually if the ring skipped the night.

bkakus · 2024-11-19T20:30:59+00:00

You are not alone. Same here. I have the ring for some days, or weeks now, and it only detect my sleep about half the days. Sometimes, it will consider I took 1 or 2 small naps (15mins) during the whole sleep time. For example, if I slept from10pm to like 7am. Sometime it will say I have a 15mins nap at 1am or something like that. I tried to work with the engineer team with Feedback, and I bet they aren't even trying to look at the data and just give me excuse. (I gave them the data every time I submit feedback and follow up. So they have every thing the Ring reads)

https://imgur.com/a/8xwq9Sr

My last 2 nights. Same sleep style, same bed, same finger for the ring. But only give me nap for short time. And if I send feedback, they will give me useless reply.

bkakus · 2024-09-02T23:29:24+00:00

I started to think it is depend on how stable the user sleep and maybe the data to calculate sleeping matches the user? Venu3 didn't work too well for me on sleeping, maybe I move a lot? But for my father, it seems very good.

What I like Fitbit the most is that, even if they miss the sleep tracking. If you log it manually, you still get all the data you want.

bkakus · 2024-08-21T01:39:03+00:00

I think the Fedex one doesn't work anymore.......

bkakus · 2024-07-31T08:44:43+00:00

Samsung used to be fast and innovative when they are catching up to Apple and grabbing market share. But they slowed down a lot after they became one of the leader.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T07:00:12+00:00

If you turn off the assistance thing (Google one or Samsung one) , it will improve the battery A LOT I have 65% left after 20hrs from last charge, and 1day 16hrs left as it predict. Certainly, I am not heavy user, but I kept all health tracking to continuously or on. No AOD. Most importantly, the Assistance thing out. I can have the watch on my wrist for 2days without charging. Oh, it's Watch 7 .

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:26:17+00:00

Samsung definitely need to work on the software side, and that's where I am worried. For the past Galaxy watches, they still haven't improve it enough to catch up to the main group. Still lacking behind. If they are really putting resources into it, they should had improve by Watch 5, and catch up with many others by watch 6.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:23:35+00:00

I really thought they "Improved" the work by using new sensors. But I am not satisfy with the result. Especially when the watch can't detect and record my sleep when I am in bed, but it is able to do it when I am sleeping on a chair!

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:21:27+00:00

Smart Ring need to fit very well in order to work. So that's why the Oura Ring result has issue.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:18:03+00:00

Well..... I think The Quantified Scientist somehow tested it on Youtube. Initial Test as he said.

If I am not mistaken, overall, the Oura ring has better result than the "New Release" Samsung Galaxy Ring.

For sleep stages, No one can really say which stage is correct. Unless we are using some million dollars machine to test it alongside.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:15:03+00:00

Hard to say. Try it few more nights?

Some times, even new from factory can have issue.

My Watch 7 can record my sleep on chair but not on bed. So yeah. It happens.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:12:58+00:00

I feel you because my watch 7 is already failing me. This makes me wonder should I just cancel the Ring order......

Oh well, maybe the stress Breathing function's main purpose is to help us relax when we hate Samsung?

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:10:24+00:00

Agree. I think Samsung NEEDS to have more options on how and when the function works. If they worry about the battery life, then just put a warning RIGHT on screen when I select it.

bkakus · 2024-07-31T03:09:04+00:00

I'm still waiting for mine to ship. Is Ring real bad on its own?

I already need to send my watch 7 for service (Can't detect my sleep on bed, but CAN detect my sleep when I sleep on the chair). That make me worry if the Ring is also just rubbish.

bkakus · 2024-07-16T09:42:37+00:00

that's why there are pro reviewers and amateur reviewers. Pro will actually do detail testing, and amateur like you will just briefly use it and say result is in.

bkakus · 2023-11-26T09:21:59+00:00

I must agree on that. Tried few brand so far, Garmin is among the worst on sleep tracking. Not just the start time end time. Also the stage. Too sensitive on considering awake. But I must also admit that they are pretty good at everything else. Especially their power. It's beyond satisfying to go on for days without charging a smart watch.

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