LG V30 Cell Phone Does Work With Fitbit Ionic
LG V30 Cell Phone Does Work With Fitbit Ionic
I had a Fitbit Blaze and was really disappointed using it with my LG V30 cell phone. I did research and found some people claiming the Ionic would properly marry with my phone. I found a good price in a local store and purchased it. I have since found the Ionic to be pretty good marriage to my LG V30 phone.
Ionic wrist strap: Odd concept and a bit hard to attach. I personally do not like it. I found that the wrist band needs to be very tight to get best heart rate readings.
Link to phone: Good. Way better than the Blaze. But, my wife and I went to Alaska where there was no WiFi. We were in a location where the time change was one hour and the Ionic would not sync with the phone as to time for the whole trip. I find it incompetent that the Ionic needs WiFi to sync and can not rely on Bluetooth.
Messages between phone and Ionic: Acceptable
Fitbit Cell Phone Application: Very good. (See below)
Global Position System (GPS): Yes
Ionic Applications:
I did remove all the paid to use Ionic applications. I am nearly totally against paying monthly fees when not a necessity. I make it a habit to check my monthly credit card payments to see if there is any charge that I do not recognize. This is how I discovered money being sucked out of my bank account. It is really easy to remove or add applications when using the cell phone Fitbit software.
Time: Accurate.
BPM or heart rate beats per minute: Way better than the Blaze but far from being accurate most of the time. The user understands that the unit not tight to the skin can make for a bad reading. For me, this feature is useless. It is almost always in error.
Steps: I can only guess it to be somewhat accurate. When I get to the steps I set for the day, 10,000, the Ionic gives you a short fire works award display and it vibrates.
Calories: I have no idea how the Ionic comes up with this calculation. On the cell phone, you need to input what you eat using the cell phone application and then the cell phone unit does the math to deduct your exercise to come up with your calorie total.
Timer: Very good. Stopwatch and countdown included.
Alarms: Very good.
Tips: Not impressed.
Wallet: No verdict as I have not used this feature.
Relax: Never used this.?Exercise: Very good. You need to go to your Fitbit application on your phone and look for “Exercise Shortcuts” when viewing the Ionic sub menu. You can choose up to 7 items out of 9. You slide the one’s you like the most up to the top by placing your finger on the short 4 horizontal lines just to the left of the exercise.
Coach: Not impressed. I do not use it.
Settings: Includes some simple settings for you to consider and set.
Vibration: This occurs for alarms, rewards, notifications, etc. Very good.
Display: I found this display to be clear, sharp and detailed. Very good.
Mileage: This pops up when you choose to walk or hike from the Exercise option. No way so far to determine how accurate it is but I just love to see how many miles I walk or hike.
Here are the free Ionic applications I have added:
News: Fair. Not as elegant at the NY Times
NY Times: Very good.
Weather: Pretty darn good. You can also add more than one weather reporting location for a total of 3.
Stocks: Good for stocks that it offers but it does not track all stocks.
Torch: In case I need a flashlight the Ionic screen turn white and bright.
Med ID: A very nice simple application to show emergency responders some of your important medical information. The problem for me is all the data disappeared from the Ionic. My cell phone shows all the correct data but none of it transferred to the Ionic for some reason. I sent the developer an e-mail concern and here is his reply (December 25, 2019):
“The data missing from your phone was not your fault. With fitbit’s new release of their 4.0 operating system I needed to change the way that the data is transferred between the mobile device and the watch to accommodate the new Versa 2. Unfortunately that means the data needs to be re-entered. I apologize for any convenience that causes and I didn’t try to work around that issue but there was no way to avoid it.I’m including a link below to my support page with detailed instructions on how to make sure that your data gets saved back to your watch.Jason Olsen”
Wiki Places: Shows local places to consider visiting.
JayPS Maps: I can not use this application when I walk because I always run Exercise > Walk or Exercise > Hike. The Ionic is not able to run two applications at the same time so this application has never been used. I am keeping this application as a backup to help me find my location in Alaska.
TIP: when looking at the clock face, use your finger and swipe downward and you should see news and notifications. It took me quite some time to discover this.
NOTE: I gave my Fitbit Blaze to a friend who has a Apple cell phone and it works perfectly with that phone.
Disappointments:
- When I set my Ionic to track my walk or hike, the unit seems incapable to multitask. I can not see my messages or any other application. Only one application at a time seems the rule.
- A friend of mine, sent me a image with text message. The text went to the Ionic. The image did not and I do not expect it to. But, I think the image locked the text message into my Ionic so I could not get rid of the message. I tried everything. Nothing worked to erase the text message. Finally, I had to press the left side button switch and the bottom right side button for a very long time to initiate a device reset. The reset did erase the message.
Summary: I have slowly warmed up to this device partly because it has taken me a lot of time to explore it’s many capabilities. I have slowly grown to appreciate this Ionic and the cell phone Fitbit application because the marriage between the two really expands beyond them rated and used separately .
