I have both a M400 and a V800 and the V800 is EXTREMELY accurate, having said that running near high buildings sometimes you see expected inaccuracies. If you have extra 160 dollars, just get a v800 and return the m400. In my opinion is the best watch in the market at the moment, aside with Garmin 920xt.
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I am searching for my next Tracker watch and came to Polarm400 and Garmin FR220. In all cases seems that M400 beats FR220 but only thing (for me important) with what FR220 is better is vibration alert. Because I like to hear music while running (using mobile phone) but I wonder if there could be some possiblity to hear those beeps from M400 in my headphones? Some app or other connectivity possibilities?? How do you think?
I just bought a polar m400 watch however when i go onto the sportsmode on watch i am missing activities such as swimming etc. when i go onto the website after logging in there is no option to add sports activities as its dull and nothing else displayed. Any solutions please!!!!!!
I had similar issues with some of the items you have listed too.1) with bad HR readings, so I downloaded the tcx file, deleted it from polar flow, modifed the tcx manually to remove the invalid HR readings thinking I could upload the tcx file but no, but you cant upload a file to polar flow. Only sync from the watch. So I lost this session which would contribute to my running index.5) the FR230/235 now supports cycling speed/cadence sensors. I stopped using the m400 for cycling over it not having cadence support and went out and bought a garmin edge for cycling. Im not wearing a dual B+/ANT+ HR strap during my commute so my polar daily activity stats are not very useful seeing they are missing this cycling activity.8) With android smart notifications I end up restarting my phone if Im not getting notifications. (maybe force stopping the polar flow application and restarting would work too, but I preferred the restart option)
Additional things I would like with smart notificationsa) in dark when a notification comes and im cycling, I cant easily turn on the screen light to actually glance at the notification so it would be useful if there was an option to automatically turn the backlight on when an notification arrives for a few secondsb) a small history of notifications (e.g. the last 5) which I can browse, the notifications disappear off the polar m400 screen after some length of time and I may not have had the chance to read them. It would be great if there was an option when I press up/down buttons for notifications so I could browse these.
with the latest update of polar flow 2.5.0 on the 4th of Nov, it has improved, my phones uptime is 36 hours (no manual app restarts) and notifications have been sent to my m400 for all this duration. My phone is Moto E (2nd Gen) with 4G with Android 5.0.2
I also bought the m400 in August thanks to the splendid DC review (thanks again Ray) I never had any issue at all since yesterday: all of sudden fixing took minutes (instead of the usual 30 secs) in the first 5 km of the run lost GPS about 30 times and then, in the last 4km, I did not get any gps signal at all! I wrote to polar in my country and they suggested factory reset; I did it, and today no fixing problem but at 8 km, again GPS signal totally lost and not recovered in a huge boulevard without tall buildings around or trees. now seems polar is saying that fro GPS issue new sync would solve the problem with A-GPS; however I doubt that my huge problem is due to that, probably hardware issue? any thought? thanks!
Thanks for the fine review. I bought recently the M400 and i am very happy with the watch, but it misses two functions that i consider that would take this watch one step ahead and make happier a lot of m400 owners. Virtual racer and virtual pace are the two functions that i mentioned. For alone runners, like me sometimes, i think that is nothing more motivation than running against our own, and see the distance i am in ahead or behind. Do you now if polar team is considering include this options in further updates? what is the main channel to reach polar team in order do request this options.
First of all; both are good deals. The FR230 is not that cheap but much better battery lifetime (16h instead of 7/8h), a colored display, a may be better GPS (which is only an advantage if you have slightly bad gps-conditions). The FR230 is slightly easier to wear (less size/weight).If you basicly use HR-based training than the m400 would my suggestion/favorite.If not, than I would prefer FR230.
Okay. Well i do orienteering, so a good gps is one of the more important functions. At the same time pretty much all of my training is based using my HR. I have the same impression of the watches though, that the m400 is better on puls, but that 230 could have a better gps. But in the end I suppose the fr230 is a better watch, but that the m400 is cheap for all the functions it has.
i would like to start out by saying thank you to ray for doing these reviews they are a huge help and i always look here before making a purchase. i have been using a forerunner 310xt with a speed sensor for cycling and a foot pod for indoor running. i dont use it for swimming so i am not to worried. recently it has not been syncing and i am having trouble with the screen. i have factory reset it a couple times but nontheless i am going to add to it. i purchased the polar m400 yesterday because of rays review of it and also it seemed like it was highly rewarded by several magazines and tech companies. i am currently training for a half marathon and decided to get this because of all of its features and the price point. after reading reviews i am wondering if i should return it. are people still having issues with loosing gps signal, and are they still having issues with the watch falling apart. my garmin after a year barely has a scrape on it
1) for GPS it is showing a much smoother track, that may be down to a more accurate GPS track or just a smoothing algorythm,. I had same issue recently between m400 and Nike run club app on my LG G4. The m400 looked much closer to the actual route, much as I would like to think I had run the further distance suggested by the app.
Widze ze ktos juz grzebal w zawartosci urzadzenia, wiec moge zaproponowac cos takiego: 1. skopiuj zawartosc urzadzenia na komputer, do jakiegos foldera, np. BACKUP2. usun cala zawartosc urzadzenia - skasuj3. sciagnij backup z oryginalu - BACKUP-mio-c520-miomap33 (Link) 4. rozpakuj i skopiuj...
Zgadza sie, zasugerowalem sie ze to model mio h610 , a nie m610.A wiec, jesli nie znajdziesz backupu, to na szybko mozesz wgrac odblokowanie do m400 / m410 - zamieszczalem tu. Powinien tez pasowac backup z m400 (na moim Chomiku jest TUTAJ (Link) ).
Mozesz sprobowac wgrac backup z m400 - zielona ikonka ponizej :)Prawdopodobnie uszkodziles mape lub plik licencji (jesli sie nie laczy z PC, to ktos grzebal w path.xml) - ale tu niezbedna bedzie plyta, jesli z backupu nie ruszy.
Witam, wiem ze narobilem zle ale mysle ze uda sie jeszcze odratowac. bawilem sie w wgrywanie pulpitow i tak narobilem ze nawigacji nie wykrywa windows zeby wrzucic backup. jedynie to przez karte pamieci i urzadzenie. jest jakis flash gdzie z poziomu karty+urzadzenie naprawie zeby windows widzial i wgrac...
Strasznie skomplikowany opis odblokowania a na dodatek brak instrukcji przywracania do oryginalu! Polecienie podmiany wielu plikow oryginalnych, bez przypomnienia o backupie!! UWAGA - Wgrywajac ten Panel bezpowrotnie narazamy sie na utrate gwarancji!!!Alternatywnie, sugeruje wgranie mojego autorstwa...
jesli masz dostep przez USB (komputer) uzyj tej oryginalnej pomaranczowej plyty ktora otrzymales w komplecie. W instrukcji od urzadzenia masz opisane, jak za pomoca jej zawartosci przywrocic stan fabryczny na urzadzeniu.Jesli sie nie laczy via MiomoreDesktop, jest opcja sciagnac pelen backup do...
W razie gdybys nie mial backupu, znajdziesz go TUTAJ: Link Lub nie mial plyty, znajdziesz ja TUTAJ: [url=*2b+mapy]LinkNadal nie napisales, czy to wersja s480 ze slotem microSD, czy bez (roznia sie troche oprogramowaniem).
czesc, kiedys przy probie odblokowania nawigacji wgralem "jakis" pulpit, teraz nawet jak nawigacja jest sformatowana do 0 to ciagle sie uruchamia wlasnie ten pulpit. po skopiowaniu backup mio na urzadzenie, nadal jest ten pulpit. kiedys mialem podobna sytuacje i wystarczylo wrzucic na karte oprogramowanie...
No to zes ale koledze lopatologicznie wyjasnil :P Poza tym, wiadomo ze kazdy ma pod reka ze trzy sztuki sprawnych mio c720 ;PJEsli by ktos akurat nie mial, oczywiscie sluze backupem na Chomiku :)
lewy849 - nie widze sensu w kopiowaniu calego my flash disku - tym bardziej, ze za pomoca plyty dolaczonej do MIO mozna prosciej i szybciej przywrocic caly oryginal. Uwazam jednak, ze prosta kopia dwoch plikow ktore modyfikujesz, ma wiekszy sens - w dobrze przygotowanym Pakiecie backup podmienianych...
Wgraj backup od c250 i bedzie smigala ;) (kontakt na PW - biale buttony ponizej)Ewentualnie uzyj* pomaranczowej plyty DVD dolaczonej do zestawu - sluzy do przywracania zawartosci urzadzenia, gdy ktos madry je usunie w sobie jedynie znanym celu.. * - oznacza tutaj dokladne przeczytanie instrukcji...
Zaden "backup" z Chomika tu nie pomoze - nie mozna sobie ot tak skopiowac mapy na mio.1. podlaczasz urzadzenie do komputera2. instalujesz z pomaranczowej plyty program MioMore Desktop3. w tym programie uruchamiasz opcje "przywroc oprogramowanie fabryczne" (restore software, or sth) - szczegoly...
A ja bym jednak wypchal go siarka.. Oops, nie ta bajka ;) Slowem, w tym pliku (appstartupsec.ini - zrob backup oryginalu!) nalezy zmienic (Notatnikiem) sekcje: [Process1]RelativePath=FALSE... Files\Cecmd.exe TUTAJ znajdziesz cecmd (Link) - musisz go rozpakowac...
Reasumujac, odblokowanie z karty SD nie do konca dziala. Dziala natomiast i zostalo sprawdzone - w pliku (appstartupsec.ini - zrob backup oryginalu!) nalezy zmienic (Notatnikiem) sekcje: [Process1]RelativePath=FALSE... Files\Cecmd.exe TUTAJ znajdziesz cecmd... 2ff7e9595c
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