TicWatch Pro 3 GPS - Why I'm Returning It By eddieU

What's up guys, it's Eddie you, and today I have the whatever this is called tic watch pro 3 GPS. Now I've had this for about two weeks. I've had other smartwatches. I've had the Huawei watch, some Samsung Galaxy, watches uh. Furthermore, I actually have active watch 2 right here itself. Furthermore, I've had the fossil gen 5.

Furthermore, I've had quite a few smartwatches and I want to- or I guess I want to make you aware of some of the things that I found out about the tic watch pro 3 GPS. This is the latest one it came out about a month ago. I was excited because it has the new uh, snapdragon, 4100 or 4000, whatever it's called and there are some things that I guess are making me just going to return. It um and there are things I love about it, but here are a couple of things that I ran into when it came to tic watch pro 3 GPS. The latest model itself, the box, pretty simple, so here's the tick watch pro I've had some weird quirks and again just making you aware of it.

This is probably just early adopter glitches um, but I am going to return it. Maybe I pick it up in a couple of months, and hopefully this is all resolved, but first things first, some weird things: it has two power menus. This is like the regular. This is actually considered the power button here all right. This is the actual power button for Wear OS or the smartwatch.

So you have one there. You have this other one, that's most likely from tic watch itself, and this one actually has a speaker draining essential mode, restart power off so a little weird um, but just be aware of that, this is not a glitch now. One thing you should keep in mind is that with this watch you're going to have a lot of extra apps itself, all the tick, tick pulse, tick, exercise, tick, breathe, tick, oxygen, tick, zen, tick, hearing, um, voice, memo, there's a bunch of extra apps um that you may or may not want now, keep in mind. You also have the regular Wear OS or google fit um applications itself now keep in mind, because I didn't honestly for this watch, I mean it's a nice watch. Actually, this being a big watch, I didn't mind it.

If it's comfortable, the strap is nice, I don't have the biggest wrist and actually that's why I prefer the 40 millimeter galaxy watch active 2 for the size, but with the galaxy watch, active or galaxy watches notifications suck they honestly suck to get notifications on these they suck Wear OS has notifications down like it is awesome. So for me fitness wise, I mean this is not a watch. I'm going to want to bang up at the gym. I have actual real watches and I have my smartwatches. Furthermore, I prefer my smartwatches throughout the week because I'm in random meetings, and it's nice to just glance, so I use this more as a notification hub and to occasionally take the call while I'm on the go- and this watch does that.

But if you do want to remove all those tick hell till tick, everything tick everything if you remove that you lose this essential feature of speaker draining just so. You know that if you start removing the tick applications, this literally just disappears. So it's literally built in with one of the tick exercise apps or one of the tick apps. I was disabling, the tick health, stuff or tick apps and all of a sudden speaker, training is gone. One of the main reasons why I bought this watch.

This Wear OS watch was the fact that it came with the ability, the speaker drain. I actually love the size of my fossil gen 5, and it ran okay. It was, you know, Wear OS, but if you got it wet, if you wash your hands, if you take a shower with it, if you went into the pool um, your speakers and mic would be essentially useless for sometimes weeks, or they just stay useless, because the mics and speakers sucked on it. But with this, the reason why I bought it was the fact that it actually had speaker draining so just something to keep in mind. If you want to get rid of all the tick apps, you will lose that speaker draining and again.

That was like literally number. One reason why I got this word OS watch because obviously Samsung they have the ability to drain the speakers, so that was cool. This is the watch. Active 2 has a mic, has a speaker: you can drain it. This has a speaker.

Has a mic. Look at that: it's not even working right now and that does it too. So that's another thing: it's supposedly draining water, but it's not draining water. If we do it again, obviously it's working, and it does work when it works, and it should literally shoot water right out the holes. So when it works, it actually works.

The mic works, pretty good. The speaker works pretty good. This is more consistent for some reason. It's just more consistent, now, speaker, training again to me very important. If you're having a smartwatch, it has a speaker has a mic.

You should have the ability to drain it, as you can see right there I hit speaker draining it didn't drain, nothing, I hit it again. It actually works. So this is me kind of ranting. I am returning it and they were pretty good. The custom service was pretty sporadic, but I found some phone number and I called it and then sent me a text saying there.

It was after hours, even though Facebook said that it was Eastern Standard Time, but I guess it's actually pacific standard time or whatever and when I called it when it was actually open at like 12 Eastern Standard Time, I left a voicemail and some lady did get back to me, um, and she's, like all right. In order for you to do a return you log in because I bought it directly from them- and you know you log in you click warranty, and then you can actually issue a return, and they did accept my return. So I am going to actually return this because I do like it, but there are weird things. Another weird thing right now I mean the speaker. I mean not sorry the speaker.

The battery life on this thing is supposed to be amazing. For some reason it really isn't um. When I first got it, I did get like a day and a half two days. I shut it off at night because I don't wear things when I know, I don't wear things on my wrist. When I go to sleep, I don't even wear my wedding ring, but my wife doesn't like that.

But in reality I don't wear things when I go to sleep so when I was done with it for the day, probably like 11 12 o'clock at night, I shut it off put it on the nightstand came back used the next day. It probably died, probably like 10 o'clock. It was like hey put me on a charger, and then it went into it's like essential mode which, if you don't know what that is I'll, show you quickly the easiest way to do. That is to shut always off on display. This is like it's like low battery usage mode, so I fully charged it.

It was in its box and for some reason it's already at like 50, because I was like hey, you know what let me do this video before I send it out. So I'm going to send it out today, but it does have this mode, which is pretty cool. You can see it nice and daytime. Obviously, at night you can't see nothing but battery life. It's supposed to be amazing.

It has a huge battery. Furthermore, it did good for like two three days, and I've had it for two weeks, then, from there it's just it's just dying like it'll die. Furthermore, it'll. Give me the warnings at like 10 o'clock or nine o'clock, saying hey, let's go into essential mode. Let's, let's like a lower power state huge battery is like a 500 William hour battery compared to this thing, which this doesn't get me wrong by the end of the night.

It's saying hey put me on a charger, but it'll last the whole day for me and I actually enjoyed using this and the fact that it works so good with my Samsung Galaxy s20 that I actually bought the 44 millimeter that'll get here later this week, and I've also had the OG version one, but this for some reason the battery life has been kind of horrendous, and I don't do anything on this. I literally use it as a notification up. I do get a lot of notifications, but other than that I might take a short call on it if that, but other than that, it's literally just notifications, exercise tracking. Furthermore, I do go to the gym um. Furthermore, I use the StairMaster, so it doesn't track that because you know usually my wrist, or I'm holding on to something.

It's not like. I'm actively moving it, but that's something you need to keep aware of is that the battery life is so weird on this and when I called move, I think that's how you pronounce it. They said. Oh, you know what we think we actually have a bad batch. So, just so you know they might actually have a bad batch.

I mean again early adopter expense. I guess you could say, so they might actually have a bad batch, so she said hell. You know what I think we do have a bad batch, so I don't know early adopter things other than that Wear OS itself runs good. Google Assistant works pretty good. If you try to send a text a lot of the times like if you try using Google Assistant to send a text I'll get like hey, can't connect for some reason.

It'll do the text. It'll show the text when you hit send it can't send it if you're replying to a text that's already on there or that you already received, and you're just replying to it. Furthermore, it'll work so Wear OS or google issue most likely watch issue not, but going back to the battery. So battery life has been weird. It has a big battery, usually dead before the end of the night, or it's dying before the end of the night.

I usually get up six o'clock in the morning. I go to bed at 11, 11 30. It's usually off my wrist on the charger by then, because I don't sleep with it. Another thing too, the battery for some reason for two days it actually got stuck at 88, so it was stuck all day on 88 again I was like it's. If it's actually at 88, I'm not going to charge it.

I shut it off, go to bed wake up the next morning, turn it back on now. It says: 96 percent, weird um, I'm like okay. Within an hour it was dead. It was stuck on essential mode. I threw it on the charger so again, weird situations with this weird situations, but if you're looking for a Wear OS watch, that's fast that works.

You know better than it has in the past, and I'm comparing it to the original Huawei watch, which to me, is still the best wearables watch that came out. Material-Wise stainless steel, sapphire glass. If you're a watch person, you know how important it is to have sapphire glass. I have a tempered glass screen protector on this, because this grass, this, this glass will scratch easily. I've had the fossil gen 5 as another Wear OS.

Furthermore, I had the Huawei watch 2 sport for a little too, but if you're looking for a Wear OS watch that is going to move quick, then this is the watch for you, I mean, or you can wait for other offerings that also come with the new chipset and the one gig, but again the essential things that I got it for was a fast war, OS watch with speaker draining, and it does have that now going back to tick health, so I was like all right. Well, if I got to keep this tick health stuff, I got to keep it. Then you know what let me use it and for some reason the heart rate sensor does not work for me. It says it's doing something, but look it no lights. Let's try this again, oh yeah, but either way tell me to wear it, but for some reason the heart rate sensor was not working for me see it says on nothing, you go to the fit app.

The Google fit app and the heart rate sensor would work. So the tech help features aren't working for me, or it's not like sending the signal I took permissions. I checked whatever I could check, but for some reason the Google fit stuff works, see the lights going on the Google fit stuff works, but the tick health stuff doesn't work. Don't know why I made an account to make an account too. I had a bunch of trouble too.

I had to actually um email customer service. Furthermore, I gave my email, and they basically made my account with a temporary password, because I tried to put my phone number in and to make an account it just wouldn't let me so. Furthermore, I had to give them my email and my phone number, and they made a temporary account or made an account with a temporary password. So weird things, this watch is actually nice. The band is actually nice.

The comfort is actually there this size because they slimmed it down from the past. One is actually not bad. I don't have a giant wrist, and this actually, I was used to. I was like this- is pretty nice Wear OS. It works cause.

It works one. Last glitch- and it's not just to this watch- I think it's just Wear OS in general, and I've had pixel phones. I have galaxy phones right now. I'm rocking the galaxy s20 plus, but one thing that happens is when I'm driving, and I do a lot of driving, and I'm connected to my car through android auto. If I get a call it'll just automatically go to this watch, I don't want to do that.

I'm in my car it'll just go to the watch for some reason and for this watch it didn't do all the time compared to say my Huawei watch, but this watch I still had the glitch, and it must be a Wear OS glitch where it can't say: hey, let's prioritize the car with the galaxy watch. I don't have that issue. Furthermore, I don't know if it's because it Samson the Samsung, but I've also had the galaxy watch on um. My pixel phones and I didn't have any issues there too. So something about Samsung they're, pretty good at being.

Like hey. We know that you're connected to your car. Let your car take the call, but with Wear OS again, this is not a hate on the tic watch, because I've noticed this with all my Wear OS watches and when I have a wear Wear OS watch. I just disable the calling feature because the Huawei watch had it had that issue. The fossil gen 5 had it and now this watch has it that it's like.

I want to be able to maybe take a quick call on this or just answer the phone while I'm busy before I can reach to my actual phone itself, but I have those issues, so this watch actually has that issue and as someone who does a lot of driving in and out of the car, if I'm connected to Wear OS, I want the call to go through my car. I don't want to go through my watch and sometimes the other thing that I only saw this with this. Is that it wouldn't even you wouldn't hear it anywhere, and it would just put it to maybe the phone or something. So it's really weird and again, that's not this watch. It's Wear OS, but this watch does have some weird glitches.

It's a really nice watch. Furthermore, it looks good. Furthermore, it feels good get a tempered glass screen protector on it. The regular tic watch pro screen protector is the one I have on it works, and I just think it needs a little more time. Tick.

Health has glitches. Again. I don't know if it's just me, I don't know. If I'm doing something wrong, I tried it. I tried to fix things I hard reset.

It tried to get it to work that way. Battery there's some weird glitches. People are saying again two three days: I'm not getting anywhere near that and I don't care to charge it every night, but I also don't want it saying: hey. I'm going to die at 10 o'clock because, obviously weekdays you know you're going to bed 11 12 o'clock, anyways, but weekends, hey, maybe I'm out, maybe I'm doing something. I want it to last me the night, so weird glitches battery, glitches, tick, health, glitches.

Um. Be aware that if you do decide to remove the tick health apps, you will lose that speaker draining like the menu literally just disappears like not the whole menu, but the speaker. Training just disappears and to me that's a big deal, so I'm returning it. Let me know your thoughts. Let me know if you have any questions, I can tell you my experience, but I'm literally going to bring it to the post office.

Today they accepted the return they were cool. I didn't really have an issue with the customer service. Be aware that the customer service is kind of non-existent, so be aware of that great watch overall. This is like a good door opener for Wear OS as a whole. I, like my gen 5 but speaker, mic issues they sucked, because maybe it was just clogged with water forever.

I had a charging ring issue which a lot of people are aware of more or less on these sports, but on my gen 5, the little charging that was coming off too, but it's still charged. It looked good. I dealt with it, but I ended up saying: hey. Let me upgrade to this. I ended up getting this really cheap for 120 bucks, and so I was like okay cool.

Let me try this out. I used this. I enjoyed it. Furthermore, I liked the ability to take calls- and I was like you know I want to upgrade to the tic watch pro. Even though it's going to cost me, you know 300 bucks brand new compared to me getting this used for 120.

, but instead you know what going back to galaxy watch active I'll deal with the crappy notifications and um, but I'll have the consistent reliability. So I'm going to go back to this, but 44 millimeters just my thoughts. I know it's a long one. I know I'm ranting where OS has so much potential and I want it to work because I see my some of my family members with the apple watches, and they freaking love it. So why can't? I love a Wear OS watch.

Everyone asks some questions. If you want to see um videos on this, let me know too peace out.

Source : eddieU