As the subject and location suggests, my watch during the middle of a workout has started repeatedly pausing the workout and saying "Seems like you've stopped. Finish workout?" And it does not matter how much I'm moving, how high my heart rate is, or how many times I tell it to resume. The watch did not do this last month and it does not matter what workout I'm doing. Whether I'm walking, running, lifting weights, rowing, doing a dynamic workout, about every 20 seconds to 2 minutes this notification pops up.
I've done everything I can from restarting the watch, resetting the watch, checking for updates, going into each exercise choice and turning off "Auto Pause", going into the settings and turning off "Activities to detect" on both the phone Samsung Health app and in the watch. I've even called Samsung tech support and the man I talked to was saying that it must be an app causing it but i've turned off all app notifications except messaging apps.
The only thing I can think that might be going on is I cannot change "Auto detect workouts" in the Advanced option of the Samsung Health app settings.
Don't bother with FitBit. They have the same problem. I have a FitBit Sense 2, and I stopped using it and switched to my Galaxy Watch 5 exclusively, because it had this problem too. But I can't win against technology that is supposed to make my life easier and better, I guess. These watches just have a mind of their own and go rogue. I've tested my Galaxy Watch by starting tracking of a walk and then sat at my computer, watching Netflix for an hour. Not once did it ask me if I wanted to end my workout, or decide for itself to end tracking because it thought I wasn't being active. I had to manually end it myself. But when I actually do workout, nope, it has to go all self-aware-rogue-AI and make a decision for me. It can't wait for me to manually tell it stop tracking, like I indicated in the Settings - because what, I'm not smart enough or honest enough to tell it when I truly stop working out? It's the device's call, not mine? I've turned off auto-detect, auto-pause, and turned off screen wake (I have to press the button, so that accidental touches by clothing don't cause anything). None of this helps. I've now turned off wrist detection as someone suggested above. I don't have tattoos in the first place, but whatever. Hopefully this will help. But then I question why device users should have to dumb down the watch's full capabilities to almost zero, just so they can have a better and more reliable outcome from the watch on basic tasks. Why bother buying such an expensive device? Might as well pick up a basic pedometer to count steps, and use a Polar chest-strap heart rate monitor for all the rest - Polar can feed the data into Samsung Health. The only "hack" I came up with was to set the split guide to every 5 minutes (in the individual activity settings when swiping right, not from the quick launch menu). It's annoying, but at least if I don't hear it talk after what seems longer than 5-10 minutes, I know to stop and check it. Sure enough, I've busted it going rogue sooner, rather than after I finish my walk or run. Then I can at least re-start tracking and not lose the rest of my workout. But then I have to go back and add the missing segment into Samsung Health manually - waste my time going to Google Maps and figuring out the distance, time, etc., and that will be all I have - no heartrate, VO2 max, etc. for the missing segment - but at least I'm not completely "ripped off" of a workout credit. Sad that device owners have to resort to workarounds, because the device fails at carrying out its basic tasks. Seems like robustness and quality of performing basic functions is not as important to Samsung as implementing the latest and greatest flashy new features. I've had it record me as being stressed after something like this happens. No kidding. But maybe if it could just do its basic job well, I'd actually reap the benefits of my workout rather than those being negated by having another source of stress added to my life - and I wouldn't need a feature that tells me when I am stressed.
I have a galaxy watch4 BT. Has worked pretty good till an update I believe around April came out and my watch started acting up. The most annoying issue is anytime I attempt to record a workout i constantly get a message stating " Seems like you have stopped. Finish workout?" It is super annoying. Tons of people have reported the same issue on Samsung members,reddit and other forums. It seems obvious it is a software issue because of the timing and update. Which I agree. Buuuuuut what I starting to find out is I believe it also has something to do with having tattoos.
The reason I am pretty sure is because i tested the wrist detection sensor through the watch diagnostics in the galaxy wearable app. Placed it where I don't have tattoos and where I do multiple times. Everytime there was a tattoo underneath it would not detect it. I then disabled the wrist detection setting ( only can be done on the watch itself) settings>security and privacy>wrist detection. Since then I have no issues at all. It hasn't been a whole day but so far not one issue. What I believe was happening is that the watch would think I wasn't wearing it then that message would appear. Tattoos have been known to cause issues with the galaxy watch and the sensors they use. I still believe it definitely was triggered or re triggered by whatever update they pushed out but at least for me it definitely has to do with tattoos.
I would like to hear what everyone one else thinks but I also want to state that I signed up for the beta 6.0 software which I downloaded and installed on my watch 4. I honestly can't remember if before that I was able to disable wrist detection and use the diagnostics to test the sensor. So that can be one of the biggest differences as well. From what I read Samsung was coming out with an update for users with tattoos on version 6.0.
Turn off the wrist detection. On the watch not the app. I did it a week ago and it has stopped with that stupid notification. Go to settings on the watch and then go to security and privacy and turn off wrist detection. Saved me from smashing this thing into oblivion. Samsung needs to remove the notification, but this is working for now.
Just a Temp fix that worked for me (S3 Frontier watch) use "Other Workout". Has yet to Auto pause and I have sat at my desk typing without pausing for +30 mins before stopping the workout to test.
When recording workout watch constantly stops and message comes up "seems like you've finished. Stop workout?". Super annoying. I have a galaxy watch 4. What corrected for me was to install 6.0 software. Then I disabled the wrist detection setting ( only can be done on the watch itself) settings>security and privacy>wrist detection. If you have wrist detection then you probably don't need 6.0 but if you don't then you will need to download it.
My workouts auto pause if I stop. If I stop for too long, it will ask if I'm done. Not sure of the pause period, but im never really bothered by it, because if i get the message and im not done, I just start moving. If I am done, I ignore it and the routine ends. You don't want it to be in standby while you wait 10 minutes for a treadmill to be free. If you are outdoors biking , running or ealking and waiting for a traffic signal, just tell rhe watch you are not done you can turn on auto pause from within the workout screen in the health app.
The issue is it does it when y I am not stopped. Does it constantly. Multiple times in a minute which is really annoying. It is because I have tattoos which messes with the sensor. Known issue with galaxy watch
Oh okay I don't have tattoos but the turning off wrist detection has been around for quite a while for people with tattoos. I did not realize that it also affected the workouts.
