Samsung is a brand that manufactures luxury and nice smartwatches and fitness trackers. They have some fantastic features, and they are performing incredibly. But sometimes you have to face minor problems with your Samsung watch. Don’t worry; you can solve these problems yourself after reading this post.
Let’s take a look at its possible reason and solutions:
Probably your Samsung watches green light flashes while measuring the heart rate and pulse rate. And also, when you wear it on your wrist, its sensors cannot work correctly. You should try to restart and do a soft reset to fix this problem. And also, you should check for the latest software update on your Samsung watch.
Here we will take a deep look at its possible solution:
How to Fix the Samsung Watch Green Light Flashing Problem?
Here are a few methods by which you can try to fix your Samsung watch.
Restart Samsung Watch And Phone
The first method you should implement to fix your Samsung watch is to restart the watch.. Because all the minor problems can be solved by restarting your devices. Restarting also refreshes the devices and clears all the caches.
Follow the steps to restart your Samsung watch:
Restart Samsung Watch
- Press and hold the Home/Power button for 7 to 10 seconds
- The rebooting process will start on your Samsung watch
- After completing the rebooting process, your watch will restart normally
Now that you have completely restarted your devices, you can check whether your device is working correctly or not.
You should restart your Samsung watch every single week. If it’s showing any severe problems or not having any issues. This method will keep your device refreshed ,and it will work properly.
Turn Off Heart Rate and Stress Rate Monitoring & Clean Up Sensors
If your Samsung watch’s green light is not stopped flashing, you should disable the always heart and stress rate monitoring feature. Because continuously or always heart rate and stress monitoring is the reason to flash the green light.
There can be debris on your watch’s backside, which can cause your watch to not measure the heart rate accurately. And the green light always flashes.
When you disable this feature, your watch stops measuring your heart and stress rate from the wrist. And the green light flashing problem will be fixed.
Follow the steps below to disable the heart and stress rate monitoring:
- Launch the app section screen on your Samsung watch
- Select the Samsung Health app
- Scroll down and select the Heart Rate feature
- On this menu, scroll down to the bottom and choose HR and Stress Management
- Disable Measure Continuously from this screen
You will see some other features on this menu. One of them is monitoring every 10 minutes and a manual monitoring feature.
You should enable the manual heart rate and stress rate monitoring on your watch.
Clean Up the BackSide of the Watch
- You should take a toothpick and wipe the dirt with a bit of rubbing alcohol; dry the watch thoroughly.
- Use a clean brush like a toothbrush to remove all the debris from the watch’s sensors.
- Don’t use chemicals and abrasive soaps to clean the backside of the Samsung watch.
- You should keep your wrist clean to remove all the debris from it. And it’s not going to the watch’s bottom.
- Clean the watch after the exercise and remove the sweat from the watch’s surface.
Reset the Samsung Watch
If your Samsung watch is not stopped flashing the green light. Another way which you should try to fix this problem is to reset your Samsung watch.
Resetting the process can refresh the device and wipe all the caches from the device. If any apps are crashed, or your device is working slowly, the resetting method solves these issues.
However, you will lose all your saved data and user-entered activities. You should ensure you have a backup of the data.
You can do this from the Galaxy Wearable app; Go to the watch settings> Account and Data Backup> Backup Settings> choose what kind of backup you want> tap on backup.
Reset Samsung Watch
- Press and hold the Power and Back buttons same time
- Hold them until Rebooting appears on the watch screen
- Quickly press the Home button until Rebooting mode menu appears
- Press the power key to navigate the Recovery
- Press the power/ home key to reboot and starts the recovery process
Ensure Battery Watch has Charged
Finally, you should ensure that your watch battery is above 30 %. The green light can flash if your watch has a battery of at least 30 %. It indicates the low battery percentage; you should plug your Samsung watch into the charger.
Ensure that your watch does not have a low battery. If the watch is at a low battery percentage, you should plug it into the computer USB port or wall adapter.
Leave the Samsung watch for at least 50 to 60 minutes and then check it after this time. If your watch is stopped or not flashing the green light.
Check the Latest Update For Galaxy Watch
You should also ensure your watch is running the latest software version. If you don’t have installed the latest update, you can face these kinds of minor issues with your Samsung watch.
You can check or install the latest software update on your watch from the Galaxy Wearable app and by itself.
Follow the steps below to check and install the update on the Samsung watch:
- From the watch screen, press the Home key to the open app screen
- Select Settings and then tap on General
- Tap on
- If there is any update available, tap on Download
- If a message appears, the latest update is already installed, and tap on Ok.
If this problem is still not fixed, it can be a hardware issue. You should contact Samsung Galaxy support and also claim a warranty.
You can also go to the nearby Samsung Galaxy watch repair shop.