Xiaomi - Smart Band 9 Active
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"battery lasts me forever, I charge it once a week and I game every day."
"especially because of the battery life. ... The mouse I had right before this was the steelseries super light one, that was an every other day charge at minimum. Whereas this one is like once a week at most - and I work from home and game all night."
"Oh, and the battery lasts days even when exercising a lot (weeks without excercise)."
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"I'm in an ocean swimming group of about 30 regulars. EVERYONE is on garmin. Those that were on Apple have switched, because they never got accurate distances."
"Improved swimming mode allows you to monitor your progress as you swim. ... The app syncs well with Health Connect (Google Fit) and actually syncs my swims as swims, not walking. ... The swim tracking seems accurate and the device is responsive immediately after getting out the pool."
"Next day and ever since it has been spot on mate."
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"App zepplife sync well with my iphone n strava."
"I would possibly argue that the app (Android) is an improvement over Zepp Life in many ways, it has dark mode, it transferred my Zepp data across and it has some additional features, like Sleep Animal, and AI insights that Zepp Life doesn't have."
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"Larger, brighter screen that feels more responsive and smoother."
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"the auto-lap function is completely useless and will result in total frustration as your set of 10x50 gets counted as 125+300+75+400+50."
"when I’d swim in pools it would so often double count my lengths…"
"My garmin 955 is awful for swimming."
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"Terrible readings during sleep. ... Active runner with 45-50bpm during sleep… skyrocketed to 140bpm for entire hours…. ... A colleague at work had the same issue. He kept it longer to try the newer updates, but the problem persisted, so he returned it last week."
"It's nonsense it doesn't measure anything after 1 day, no sleep no heart rate no spo2 no anything"
"last week I got a sore throat higher resting heart rate 42 -> 52 and lower hrv 130 -> 80 and despite all of that my sleep and biocharge was spot on. 7 Days later I’m still sick, now even with a cold, and it doesn’t recognize it and says I’m ready for a high intensity training. ... That’s why I won’t trust it anymore"
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"There’s no GPS? So I’m supposed to have the band on my wrist and my phone along with me for all the workouts, to get the distance tracked?"
"need mo ng phone para sa gps nito"
"Wala yatang built in gps band 9."
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"I had a weird encounter where I was doing a 30km hike, at almost 9hrs into the activity, the watch kept vibrating saying I have to connect it with the phone because it needs to transfer data to free space again on the watch (im confused), which it was already connected with the phone. ... Made sure it was connected, warning did not go away. pressed done, the tracking ended, bummer."
"Mine has that warning too, despite having enabled run in background."
"the mi fitness app keeps telling me to have the app running on the background and I've already gone to my phone settings and allowed majority of everything, that way I can keep getting notifications from my phone."
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"I would change the band on it because it is garbage and I can't believe they keep putting out new models without changing the band. ... Mine would come loose and one day it came loose and it fell off and the watch broke."
Jusqu'ici j'avais un Redmi Smart Band Pro et il assurait le suivi de la natation (il détectait même le style de nage...) Mais comme il commençait à fatiguer (sutout les attaches du bracelet), j'ai pris un Xiaomi Smart Band 9 Active (50 modes de sport) Hélas, la natation n'apparait même pas dans la liste des activités sur le bracelet... Je vais sûrement utiliser le mode Entrainement pour le suivi Je suis un nageur occasionnel donc ça me suffira Le Smart Band 9 "classic" a 150 modes de sport donc j'imagine que la natation en fait partie
r/Swimming • xiaomi mi band for swim tracking? ->I had 2 Fitbit charges (4 and 5) and both died at around 2 years. Currently using Xiaomi Band 9 and loving it so far.
r/japanlife • Recommendation for a fitness watch ->Wala yatang built in gps band 9. Currently using watch 2 lite, nagagamit ko kahit di dala yung phone and nag sync naman sa strava after.
r/PHRunners • Review for Xiaomi Smart Band 9 ->I'm using a Xiaomi Mi-band 9 to count laps. There's more, but it counts laps fine, is cheap and has a battery that lasts me a week.
r/Swimming • How do you record your swims? ->Xiaomi makes a decent smartwatch on the cheap. The smart band 9 is solid if you want sleep tracking/fitness stuff for less than $60.
r/fitness30plus • What's the best smartwatch for android currently? Has it really motivated you? ->I know that Greg Mairs uses Zoop. Personally, I use a Mi Band 9. It lasts for a couple of weeks and heart rate is quite accurate +/- 3bpm. OnePlus has a watch that tracks shots played and so forth
r/badminton • Fitness Tracker for Badminton players ->I got a xiaomi smart band 9 for $30 USD from Amazon a couple of weeks ago. If you're in the US, it uses metric units; idk if that'd be a deal breaker for you. I just wanted something cheap to track steps and tell the time, and it works great for that. There is a period tracker, but I decided not to use it. Didn't seem like the best idea, being a woman in the US.
r/walking • step / fitness tracker ->Wouldn't really recommend Pro 2 for that (either). It's just a nice looking watch with GPS. Xiaomi could be better.
r/CMFTech • Should I buy the CMF Watch Pro 2? ->Currently rocking a Xiaomi Mi Band 9 and it's pretty good. Battery life lasts about 2 weeks with my settings (pretty average). For ~$30 USD, can't really complain. My only real "complaint" is that it doesn't have NFC / Google Pay integration, because that would be neat. The Fitbit Charge 6 has it - but costs 6x as much. The app situation is a bit of a mess. DO NOT under any circumstances enable Health Connect syncing in the Mi Fitness app. It won't be immediate but after a week or so it will peg your phone's CPU to 100% and absolutely murder your battery life. The only solution is to uninstall/reinstall (for about another week). It's a long standing bug (you can find discussion of it going back years). So just don't do it. Also - older bands (7 and older) use the Zepp Life app instead. Which is also fine. The annoyance for me is I have the Xiaomi Body Composition Scale 2 which also only uses Zepp Life - and then the band uses Mi Fitness and there's no way to have them on the same app.
r/Frugal • Inexpensive smart watches for fitness ->I haven't tried walking in place yet, but I've jogged in place while wearing a Mi Band 9. (I'm not really recommending this watch... I'm sure there are better ones on the market. I only settled for this one because I'm a cheapskate lol.. But it serves its purpose, for the most part. ) Whenever I jog in place while on my phone, I hold the phone and scroll using the hand/arm that isn't wearing the watch (i.e. right hand). I continue swinging the arm that is wearing the watch (i.e. left arm). I've also seen videos and read about people wearing their watches on their ankles instead, whenever their watches are undercounting steps due to lack of arm movement... like if they're on a walking pad while working at a standing desk... I might try walking in place and wearing my watch on my ankle just to see how it goes.
r/walking • fitness watch that tracks walking on the spot? ->Just so you know, I did an experiment wearing my Mi Band 9. I walked in place for five minutes in each scenario. Here are the results: .a) wearing the watch on my ankle - I'm not sure how accurate the heart rate is, since these watches are meant to be worn on the wrist. But it picked up my step count just fine. .b) wearing the watch on my left wrist, making sure to keep my left arm swinging. ( I was holding my phone in my right hand and scrolling , so my right arm wasn't swinging.) It also picked up my step count just fine. .c) wearing the watch on my left wrist but holding on to my phone with both hands (no arm swinging). The watch did not pick up my step count at all, and it said that the distance was too short to record. Conclusion: If you're going to use a fitness tracker/watch to track your step count while walking in place, you need to be swinging at least the arm that is wearing it. If you won't be swinging your arms, then wear the watch on your ankle. I'm not going to recommend this brand/watch. There are probably better ones out there. I was just curious and wanted to know for myself if it would detect my steps while walking in place. PS. I have a pedometer too, I might also test that while walking in place. But based on my previous experience with it, it doesn't detect my footsteps when my footsteps are too light. Or maybe I just got a bad one. https://preview.redd.it/zjy8e1cva4df1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f7957f7875e5d14d16013b475e0e7dfb83d0a2d5
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