20 thoughts on “Amazfit STRATOS – Bluetooth Sensor Pairing Quirks”

1. I have this watch and coming from a Ticwatch S and before that a Garmin Vivoactive HR I’m very pleased with it. Especially at the price. Not sure if agree with all your quirks (3 and 4 are just an observation of the watch working correctly surely?) but otherwise handy to know.

   Can I ask if you have a build quality issue? On my device the screen sits higher than the bezel on one side, and lower than the bezel on the other. A manufacturing issue perhaps? Would this affect the water resistance?

   Might be worth noting if all units have this as it goes to show where the money is being saved. Otherwise I think it’s a brilliant watch and the Strava integration is great! (Accept a walk is recorded as a run. Doh!)

   1. hi
      thank you for the feedback
      1. yes no quality/bezel issue here
      2. a full review is to follow
      3. quirk/normal operation..yep i guess so

      i reviewed the ticwatch a while back. not great.. i reviewed the vivoactive a while back…flawed. actually so is the stratos but it’s great fun! i tried to count all the different screen display yesterday and lost count

2. I had my first stratos Tri experience this weekend (Wildflower Triathlon). It was quite annoying that none of the three activities can be exported. Normally it does NOT export indoor activities, but everything outdoors (until now) has been able to be exported. I did use a dedicated bike computer as well for the cycling leg (lezyne), so I could manage my power. That was obviously able to be synced like any other ride.

   Other than the non-exportability, the Stratos performed really really really well. I was thoroughly impressed. I felt like the iterations through transitions were smooth. The tracking was pretty spot on from what I can tell via the Amazfit app. Elevation data was good (the bike elevation was much closer with the Strava corrected elevation data than even the Lezyne unit). As usual, heart rate on Stratos should basically be just thrown out the window. Open water swim mode seemed to track really well. Battery life was great. It went from 78 to 66% during my 2hr 51min race. Not too shabby.

   I’ve had my statos for just over 1 month. Overall I’m really happy. HR stinks and I wish there was more options for third party sensors (power please Amazfit), it should be able to export any workout as a .fit to share on any platform I wish, but it mostly just works. It is versatile, has great battery, stays connected to my phone, mostly easy to use/intuitive. Besides the poor HR I am hoping most issues can be addressed via firmware…we’ll see.

   1. yep i think you need a bit of gps in there somewhere to force the strava export. same is true on some other platforms eg fitbit
      lezyne: yep i’ve found elevation not great on that at all. then again i found same on the amazfit
      hr stinks-yep!
      i don’t like the too-long press for t1/t2 changes. minor point
      it’s wierd tho isn’t it. you and i both seem to notice the obvious flaws (that I would really not like at other times) and yet STRATOS has something that makes us want to like it ..a certain je ne sais quoi

3. Can i connect polar hr and bt headphones to work tohether in one time?

   1. yes

4. thank you for your information man! looking forward to update about speed&cadence sensors and HR simultaneous performance!

   1. i cant get speed/cadence sensors to work at all.

      1. Same here. Really as shame and it would be goo update that Ilinthe review. This is a showstopper for me as I would need a separate computer for cadence data capture such as a Garmin Edge. Working in two different apps is inpractical.

5. Hi, I have Jabra Elite Sport.
   Could you say me if it’s possible to pair Jabra to smartphone for audio and pair to Stratos for smart HRM?
   Thanks in advance.

   1. that wont work

6. Hi, can i ask if this will work with Polar H7 or other HRM of Polar?
   I’m about to buy an external HRM, but I want to make sure it will work, because I will purchase it overseas. Thanks!

   1. yep

      1. hi, were you able to connect it to the polar H7?

      2. the h7 is a standard ble chest strap and it should connect like any other

7. Any hacks to extend battery life while using HRM strap over BT.
   It eats the battery as is 39% for a two he run approx

   1. I have done some research on this recently.
      using the oHR uses LESS battery than the battery required to run the BLE connection to a chest HRM

      1. Anyway of minimising the drain on battery with chest strap HRM as more accurate?
         Thanks

      2. use a sport mode with no gps.
         turn down the screen brightness or use a screen with more black in it
         if you want the hr after the workout then use a hr strap that caches and do not link to the stratos

8. Any update on pairing a cadence sensor to this? Thx

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