Almost a Smart Watch - Amazfit Band 5

[@camshand]

"Fitbits are just like Tamagotchis, except the stupid animal you're trying to keep alive is you" - some funny meme I found 😂 For real though, the amount of days I glance down at my wrist and I'm hardly over 1000 steps is too damn high! How do you keep moving? what fitness tracker do you use?

[@nicku365]

How does this not have more views, I love this channel and wish more people knew about it

[@max8818]

The quality is better than the quality of some KZbinrs with 1 million subscribers

[@theamitivanshow9073]

Highly agreed! Such a detail review.

[@sporadic29414]

Thanks for the deep and honest review. Not like the 100s of other guys out there just doing gloss overviews of every piece of tech they can get their hands on. Picked one up this week and am liking it so far!

[@camshand]

Awesome to hear it helped you Shelby ☺️ I've worn this watch everyday since the review and I love it. Also yeah there's a difference between reviewing everything on offer to being selective. I prefer to spend the time and give an honest review after really using the features

[@SukhJeerhYT]

I'm still surprised! Why you only have 5k subscribers, you are farrrrrr far better than other channels!

[@camshand]

Dude thank you 😍 Very kind of you!

[@corey_lajoie_fan]

TO ANYONE HAVING THE ISSUE OF NOT BEING ABLE TO POWER THE WATCH ON, EVEN WHEN CHARGING: Basically, I contacted the company and it seems that this was a big oversight in the manual. Super great, complex manual, but they forgot to tell you how to turn it on lmao. Basically, the band 5 almost always comes completely dead from the factory. After all, it is a brand new battery. And, with the kind of battery it uses, it takes about 20 minutes to “pop off” and wake up the battery, if you get my drift. So, just plug the watch’s charger into a usb brick and click the other end of the charger onto the back of the watch, and boom. It’s charging. Give it at least 30 minutes , or 60% before the setup process. NOW: FOR PEOPLE WHO SAY THE BATTETY IS BS Again, with this kind of battery, it takes 1-2 weeks for it to “grow”, so expect the battery the first couple days to be dismal. But, for me, after 2 weeks, I can last an entire day with everything turned on and go to bed at 80%. That reminds me of Another thing. If there is one thing that smart watch owners hate doing, it’s charging their smart watch. Well, this one charges super quickly. So, i would advise to wear this thing 24/7 (unless you don’t want to wear it to sleep, in that case charge it at night) and only charge it while you are during the shower. It often charges to 99% or so, while i’m in the shower. And I take quick showers. Hope this helps!

[@camshand]

Yes theres no on or off method, it'll just turn on when it has charge, and off when it's flat haha, different to most smart devices. Good to hear you've solved your charging issues. And the long battery life is phenomenal! You're right, charging is lightning fast, I'll pop it on, go do something, wonder where my watch is, and realise it's on charge, usually done by the time I realise I'm not wearing it haha

[@manifestanything4703]

Best breakdown of the band 5 I've seen. Well done👏🏼

[@camshand]

wow really appreciate the comment 😊 this vid was quite the project so glad to hear it's helped you!

[@gwmtnbiker]

QUESTION: Can “Morning Wake Alarm” be determined by sleep cycle? It would be a nice feature to have alarm go off when it knows I’m in “shallow sleep.”

[@Gryphin]

Amazing review, so much better than others fitness bands reviews on KZbin. You actually fully test it and use it unlike other where they just run the features out and show you the product. Keep doing great video and I hope you get more subscribers. I'm definitely thinking of buying one, I just need one to track the amount of calories I burn a day to help me loose a bit of weight, so hopefully this will do.

[@camshand]

Thank you! Ive been wearing this every day since the vid, my $300 smartwatch sits in a drawer as I prefer this one. Only issue I've got is it'll randomly prompt to say "next goal" but not tell me what it is haha. But for the price ,it gives so much value and sleep tracking is great given its battery life is 2 weeks so it actually stays in your wrist over night unlike many smartwatch users that have to put on charge

[@JuustJayden]

@@camshand Hahah me looking at my Apple Watch 8 hoping it'll be give me kind of PAI score, stress and sleep score and what to do with all the metrics and numbers without any interpretation. Luckily I found 3rd party app that creates amazing insight pulling Health Data from my watch to make it more useful.

[@My03Tundra]

After I bought one of these, I realized how “inflated” my GTR 2 was as a lot of the core features are IDENTICAL. The three biggest advantages of the GTR 2 is the gorgeous larger display (cannot lie), on-board GPS for exercise (don’t care about this feature) and more exercise modes. Are these enough to warrant the far more expensive “upgrade?” To me, it’s a hard call, but I’m trying to clean up my wearable “bloat.” I’m even going to try a Charge 4, to see if it can replace my Sense I recently picked up. I just wish the Fitbit devices supported Pulse Ox spot checks like the far cheaper Amazfit devices I own can. Maybe an update will allow this? As for the Amazfit Band 5, I will say features like Alexa are awesome to have on such a small device. Maybe the Amazfit Band 6 (don’t think we will see one, with parent company Xiaomi under scrutiny) will have the larger screen from the Xiaomi Band 6, and a few more bells and whistles?

[@quickcheckcoke]

I’m gonna start using the term wearable bloat from now on thank you😂 I also have some wearable bloat I’m trying to clean up from the whole covid hibernation I hope you’re close to your goal!

[@RoniRachmani]

Extremely curious how did you do the watch hologram at 00:03? 🤯

[@camshand]

It was a little tricky, filmed the watch face top down with each of the menu options showing. Cropped the footage to be just the screen in editing, and used a blending option possibly screen to make any dark colour transparent. Then added glitch/fade between the menus and finally motion tracked it to my arm to give the *hologram* feeling from my wrist 👍

[@RoniRachmani]

Thank you!!! It looks perfect. Will totally try that!

[@JuustJayden]

Thank you for this very detailed, comprehensive and real practical review! I originally picked up a few FitBit Inspire 3's for Black Friday but based on the ability to control music, among other things I'll get a few of these with the savings now it's $44 CAD only! Cheers!

[@camshand]

That sounds like a great bargain, well done! 👍

[@nicklim9299]

Great review! 👍

[@donnalopezwildenstein7512]

My Amazfit band is locked and wants a PIN. I may need a factory reset, but HOW?

[@nainmain]

17:50 YES, what on earth are those random vibrations, can someone explain?

[@camshand]

haha man it's wild, I did factory reset with a newer software version and they seem to have stopped now, however I now get "good work, next goal" with no data on the screen haha. for it's price I can forgive it but it is annoying to be interrupted for no good reason.

[@nainmain]

@@camshand agreed I got it new for only 30€

[@DFlemming]

Superb informative video! Thank you.

[@camshand]

Happy to help 👍

[@njcivicwagon1]

Great review. Thanks for sharing

[@camshand]

Still wearing the watch everyday since the review! Great budget friendly tracker with smart features 👍

[@goodman7097]

Great review man.. really well done. One of the better reviews I have seen on KZbin in awhile.

[@kathleenhehir1131]

Awesome review, best I have seen. I love my band 5 except swimming app seems faulty (getting a new one to verify); could not exit out of it after my open water 1/2 mile swim 🙁. Also indoor walking freaks out if connected to phone/zepp app since GPS is not moving much against steps, so a good activity to add by zepp/amazfit would be indoor walking. I am 62 yo but my PAI fitness age is 33, not sure how accurate that can be but my PAI has been ~150 for over a week which make me feel good.

[@camshand]

Oh that's a shame, I hardly swim so wasn't really able to test out that feature so thanks for the info! As for issues with indoor tracking, you select Treadmill. This will track movement of walking or running indoors without a GPS signal 👍

[@venkatasubramanian3525]

Hi does it track activity automatically as i do regular, walking, running & cycling. Please suggest.

[@kenstanislav4077]

Can you record indoor cycling data on the zepp app? I realize you're not going anywhere but a record of the data is really important to me.

[@camshand]

Yes Ken, if I look in the workout section on my wrist now there's Indoor Cycling and Outdoor Cycling, both are separate options 🚴‍♂️ have a good day 👍

[@Hyzblood4Lyfe]

Great presentation! Well done! Thank you for your time!

[@camshand]

Thank you Stanley, Im still wearing this every day and night since the vid! Really enjoy the watch

[@janteen23]

Does the Mi Band 6 also track HR zones? Do they do this on the watch face or only on the app?

[@samuelsmilze5069]

You just earned a subscriber 🙌

[@camshand]

Good to have you here Samuel 👍

[@brendamckinley4754]

Do you know if you can edit the distance you went on treadmill once it saves it? It only recorded .5 miles but I went 3.5 miles and I want to change it. Thanks.

[@camshand]

I don't believe there is Brenda, I just checked in my app and can't find a way to manually enter information. It should be basing exercise performance metrics on heartrate and duration mostly, so the distance would be more of a record keeping element.

[@brendamckinley4754]

@@camshand it’s way off in distance according to treadmill and run keeper app. Hopefully they’ll change it. Thanks!

[@jf8050]

I did a ten minute timer. I can't see anything else on the band such as the current time while the timer is on?

[@camshand]

Yeah same for me too which is annoying. Would be better to add the current time on the top like it does in exercise mode (however that is too faint in bright environments). I've sold my Mi Band 5 since the vid so can't compare to it, but yeah it's annoying that it locks the screen to the active mode only

[@ellothere2799]

So, did we have to connect the band into the app first to sync fitness tracking in the app? Or we can just do exercise and connect it them with app, and it will sync the latest data?

[@camshand]

It will sync the latest data once connected, I can't remember the internal storage but I do recall almost a week before it'll run out.

[@ellothere2799]

@@camshand cool.. thanks

[@ramaachalla6316]

Good review...... Keep up good work

[@camshand]

Thanks mate, will do ☺️👍

[@lorrainecasey6680]

How to change the time

[@felipefontes5140]

Great review, bro. Greetings from Brazil!

[@venkatasubramanian3525]

Hi, can you help me in clarifying how many workouts does the band recognize automatically. Is it 2 workouts or 6 Workouts

[@kathleenhehir1131]

There are 11 activities that can be monitored. Walking, pool swimming, outdoor cycling, freestyle, yoga, indoor cycling, treadmill, eliptical, rowing machine, jump rope and outdoor running.

[@PatrickRomSim]

Hated it. Gave it two weeks and returned it. I especially did not like how I had to go back into the app to unpair it from my iPhone, even after I had selected for my iPhone to forget the device. That seemed a little sus to me.

[@camshand]

Maybe it doesn't work well with iPhones? Works fine with android for me, has been on my wrist everyday since this video

[@paths2go]

great review! thanks

[@camshand]

Happy to help dude 😊

[@cedrick7126]

How do you make a custom watch screen

[@muhammadfaraj11]

There is an option in the app

[@ItzMission]

It vibrates when you reach a goal or you are sitting still for too long

[@camshand]

Yeah but sometimes my screen is blank. I've disable sitting still alerts too, only have the goal ones pop up

[@Framey_aep]

i got this only for 33 dollars and it works pretty good!

[@DonnaBradleyYankiAndTheBrit]

Most Excellent Sire ;)

[@camshand]

Happy to help mate 😄👍

[@lmalemhousain7428]

Thanks brooooow

[@ItsJuicyJett]

Why does no one show how to turn it on 😭

[@camshand]

Because it is always on haha. Once charged it just stays on, I think there's maybe a way to turn it off but because it has 2 weeks battery life it's just always on :)

[@dropshit8888]

if it doesnt on. keep in charge till 1 hour

[@donnalopezwildenstein7512]

Tap the bottom of the screen on your band. It will go on.

[@aslaradfx7068]

I want to see the notification :''

[@impossivel2006]

Only 1 thing.....Jump rope IS REALLY FUN :)

[@camshand]

oh mate I was struggling haha, really got my heart rate up though which was perfect for the test!

[@katehillier1027]

I want NOTHING to do with Alexa this delightful watch not smart enough if I think about it scares me enough as it is. I wish Amazon world follow Fitbit in auto recognising stair climbing and swimming.

[@DonnaBradleyYankiAndTheBrit]

I have one on order, and Alexa is the first thing I shall turn off, other than that, can't wait.

[@katehillier1027]

@@DonnaBradleyYankiAndTheBrit Alexa is NOT turned on in my Fitbit watch and Alexa has been eavesdropping as things come up in scrolling down that I did not search for. Search terms being respected honoured by big tech only expression of many of internet automony.

[@spiritualrockofstrength8486]

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[@tinaalexander8719]

Good message, but why all the shouting-(all caps)? ALL CAPS IS ALSO very hard to read!