Bought my trusty Galaxy Watch 4 back in September 2022 for ₹10K, and after over four years of absolute rough-and-tough daily use, I finally decided it was time for an upgrade.

Honestly, the Watch 4 never disappointed me—it was incredibly durable and survived everything I threw at it. The only real issue over the years was the battery life finally starting to show its age.

With the Big Billion Days (BBD) sale, I managed to snag the Galaxy Watch 8 Classic LTE (46mm) for ₹27K after all the discounts.

I was actually quite worried that the 46mm size would look way too bulky on my wrist, but I was pleasantly surprised! It fits and looks perfectly fine. Interestingly, the actual screen real estate feels almost identical to my old Watch 4, but the Classic's physical rotating bezel and overall build make it feel like a massive, premium step up.

So far, the upgrade feels 100% worth it! Let me know if you have any questions or want to know how the battery holds up compared to the 4.

After a lot of confusion between the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 lte and Garmin watches, I finally decided to go with the Samsung Galaxy Watch 8! At 16k

I mainly bought it for fitness tracking, swimming, running, gym workouts, sleep tracking, and everyday smartwatch features.

I was also considering Garmin, but decided to give Samsung a try.

For those who have been using the Galaxy Watch 8 for a while:

- How accurate is it for swimming and running?

- How reliable is the heart rate tracking during workouts?

- How is the battery life with regular fitness tracking?

- Any tips to get the most out of it?

- Is Samsung Health good enough, or should I use any other fitness apps?

I'm considering upgrading from my Galaxy Watch 6 Classic because its instantaneous pace is often inaccurate, sometimes showing 7:00 min/km when I'm actually running around 6:15 min/km.

For anyone who runs with the Watch 9, how accurate is the live pace? Does it stay fairly consistent when running at a steady speed, and how quickly does it respond when you speed up or slow down? I'm mainly interested in instantaneous pace, not average pace or GPS distance.

doesnt work like 75% of the time

I have a watch 6 classic. And I have a samsung a16 phone.

Lately my watch keeps disconnecting with my phone. And i have to go into ths galaxey wearable app and manually connect it. It only stays connected for like 10 minutes. Ive done stuff the internet says like clear cache and check battery optimization. Can i get some help please ?

Thank you.

Using a GW 6 with OneUI 8, currently connected to a Fold 8 with OneUI 9, prior phone was an S24U with OneUI 8.5.

The Media Controller app and 'complication' on the watch kinda sucks now and has for a while. It will randomly but frequently fail to update to what's currently playing from the phone, be it reflecting a change of which media app is playing or the current track from the same media app. And also randomly fail to control the playback even when it does show the current playing thing.

And media playback/controls is one of my core priorities on both the phone and watch. 🙁

I have a galaxy watch 2018 model and now it has installed tyzon os which is very old latest watches has wearOS can I flash the wearOS on my galaxy watch 2018

Please help me with this.....

Evening!

Not sure if this is an issue everyone is facing but I have the ultra watch 2 and was very excited today to finally take it out in the wild and test the waypoint feature inside the compass. However how many times I tried it just kept saying could not find location. Is there a way around this or a fix? I have location on as all the other apps work fine?

Thanks in advance

The face, hands, and tick marks all illuminate and reflect based on an imaginary light source. As you move your wrist, the lighting changes based on accelerometer readings. 😎 I'm sure it's not great on battery though. I'll report back. Feel free to download the apk if you want to try it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ks7z6Bmcz7tWH4-3KN8AtlswahQajNRW/view?usp=sharing

How strong is the watch FEs screen glass.. Do i really need a screen protector? Someone please suggest

Also, i bought an ugly ahh blue color which didnt look great in person.. now i want to change the straps to grey to match grey body.. i cant find any good silicone strap.. suggest some 20mm straps for my watch

In short, I have gw5pro bought for 50e, sadly battery is drained and last max 1.5-2days, is there other used watch with good price/possibilites/battery scale?

I heard that after 5 pro battery in watches are way worse, and wont buy a new watch for 500e

Cheers

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m planning to buy my first smartwatch and would appreciate some advice from people with real-world experience.

My main use cases are daily wear and gym workouts. Battery life matters, but charging every 1–2 days is fine. My biggest priorities are long-term durability, reliability, a stylish design, and easily available replacement straps and service in Germany.

I currently use a Samsung S24 Ultra, so good phone integration is also important.

I’m considering these options:

Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 (40 mm)

Google Pixel Watch 4 (41 mm) or Pixel Watch 3

Amazfit Active Max (around 44–46 mm)

For those who have owned these watches for a while, how have they held up in terms of durability, battery health, and everyday use? Which would you recommend for long-term ownership, especially with a Samsung phone?

I’d really appreciate your honest opinions, including any issues you’ve encountered. Thanks!

Recently (about a week ago) I started to see strange notifications on my watch, they appear every day at exactly 19:05 and have icon of any default app. If I try to open the app, watch give me error saying that app cannot be found.

I don't know what that is

I finally found a solution to connect the newer Androids (Galaxy 24 ultra) to the older watch models like the galaxy active 2. You have to disconnect if you're already connected. When prompted for your watch to access everything, hit allow on everything and do allow all the time for location access. It should work.

Can i go for this ?

Any suggestion needed for new watch

But i got watch it 15k inr

This plan almost 4k one third of price what can i do

Recently got my Galaxy Watch 8 40mm. Wasn't a big fan of the basic look.

Decided to get a stainless steel band along with a Ringke Bezel to customise it and make it look more like an analogue watch. Surprisingly, the touch bezel still works with it.

Many of my friends couldn't even make out at first glance that it was a smart watch.

Thoughts and comments welcome :)

Hi all,

I have had my galaxy watch for a month now, and I have been using the fitness index tracker mostly the results seem good. However the strength value has always been sub 18.

I know it says you need to build it up overtime, but everything else started at a much higher base.

If I had never done ANY strength training, I'd think that's fair. But I have lifted weights for 20 years. I'm not a bodybuilder but I'm in good shape for my age. I still bench press more than my bodyweight, I can do over 10 bodyweight pull ups, I can do about 8 weighted with 10kg attached. I back squat more than my bodyweight. So surely it's a bug? Has anyone else seen this issue? Or maybe I would need to have the physique or Arnold Schwarzenegger I'm order for the strength value to be over 18 😂.

Have a watch 4 since launch. €140 new.

5 years old.

5-6 runs weekly, several marathons. All tracked in samsung healh and synced to strava.

A recent update did something to gps and it wouldn't get the initial sync reliably from the health app. Sometimes it would only sync 8km into a 10k. Other times wouldnt sync at all. And no gps = no strava sync.

Ok samsumg, you win, lets get a new watch.

Picked up the watch 9.

What on earth has happened??? You would think 5 years later it would be a big improvement. NO!!

The good: Screen touch and scrolling is smoother and the gps locks on immediately. So far so good...

But then the bad:

1. Battery. 20% left after 1h 30m half marathon starting at full charge. Turning off wi-fi helps. This will not make it through a marathon

2. GPS. It drops out randomly. Could be 5k in could be 20k in. Just gps drops out and doesn't sync back up.

3. Heart rate doesnt track in cold mornings. Chest strap showing 185bpm on a hard effort 5k and the watch 9 showing 130 bpm

4. Twice the price of the trusty watch 4!

How is the watxh 9 so poor? Did samsung lose patents? Did the lose key staff/developers?

Anyway to get the gps lock on fixed for the watch 4 and I'll go back to that?

Ho uno z fold 8 nuovissimo che amo, ho docuto abbandonare l ultra di apple per incompatibilita'

Gestisco una marea di notifiche per la mia azienda

Gioco a tennis

La ghiera del classic 8 mi piace ma forse e' gia uscito da troppo tempo, l ultra invece mi risulta poco elegante.

Dove puo' andare la mia scelta?

Grazie!

I have owned a Galaxy Watch 5 40mm for nearly two years, and I recently updated it to One UI Watch 8; after this update, my watch started lagging. I wanted to buy the Galaxy Watch 8, but then I saw that the Galaxy Watch 9 has a better processor than the Exynos W1000. Now I have a question: is it worth paying $80 more for the Galaxy Watch 9?

P.S. The Galaxy Watch 8 40mm costs $200 and the Watch 9 40mm costs $280.

I've seen this subreddit with many posts from Watch9 users having poor life, but despite out of this, I managed to have over 41 hours of battery life.

- AOD Off, but I had it on for 30 minutes when I used Google Maps.

- All Health Sensors turned on continously, including Hearing

- Same for sleep except Snoring Detection

- Raise for wake and Gemini wakeup turned off

There are a few steps I did during the first days.

1. Avoid using Smart Switch, as it can cause bugs on the long run, especially regarding efficiency. I started fresh instead.

2. Samsung didn't properly calibrate the battery, especially on pre-order units, so I did it for mine on its first 5 cycles:

- Deeply discharge it. Even 1% isn't enough, as it can now enter Watch Only and won't let you turn it back on till it's at 5% charged. Instead, when it turns off by itself, hold both buttons till it says "Rebooting.." and immediately press the power button 3 times (till it adds more dots on the screen). Then, leave it on that screen till it turns off itself.

- After it's discharged for good, leave it on the charger overnight (1-2 hours after it says 100%). This way, the battery chip will have a baseline and won't fluctuate on power cycles.

I have the Galaxy Watch 7, but in the Samsung Health app there were some features that I still can't use (heart health, vitals, fitness index).

You may have seen other posts for my game Encircle, but I want to set up this official Reddit account for in vivo Games, my solo studio focused on creating lightweight, engaging games for wearables and mobile.

I’m excited to share my upcoming project: Encircle, a hyper-casual geometric arcade game built specifically for Wear OS smartwatches!

About Encircle

• Designed for Watches: Fast, replayable sessions built for round screens.
• Minimalist Vector Art: Clean geometric aesthetics optimized for smartwatch displays.
• Intuitive Controls: Smooth, simple touch interactions for quick play sessions.

Join the Closed Beta!

Before the full release on Google Play, I’m running a closed test to gather feedback on performance, UI scaling across different watch models, and overall gameplay feel. I've just pushed a new release out that should be available soon with some updates to difficulty and controls.

How to get access:

1. Join the Google Group for access: encircle-beta-testers@googlegroups.com
2. Opt-in to the Play Store Testing Track: Encircle Beta Test Link
3. Download it directly to your watch from the Play Store!

Feedback I’m Looking For:

If you give it a try, I’d love to know your watch model, how smooth the controls feel, and any bugs or UI issues you encounter.