G-Shock GBD-H1000 NOTIFICATIONS - Set Up, Review, Look, How they Work - Heart Monitor Smart Watch 

The beast the best.

Very nice

It is complex

I gonna turn those off

Does it read whatsapp notifications?

Does it give notifications on whatspp, instagram etc? Can we decline call using watch? I suppose it vibrates when we receive notification, yes? Thank you.

Just running.

they made it worse

Sad thing is they could do a lot of improvements only upgrading the firmware. No hw improvements required.

It's the other way round - which apps you allow to send notifications on your phone, those will also appear on the watch (unless there's a bug, like with the previous firmware, where SMS messages did not trigger a watch notification but now they do). The only 'specific' thing is that they have notifications' categories and anything non phone / text / calendar / mail appears in the 'others' category. Sad thing (for battery saving sake) is that Bluetooth is switched off after ca. 1 hour of no use (no notification, no button pressed), however it seems to hold when you move your hand. If the watch is left on a desk, no notification will come through after an hour of inactivity (BT icon blinks on the watch, app on the phone says 'waiting for connection...'). It's resumed when you lift the watch or press any button. Regarding diacritics - it seems Casio thought about it (perhaps it relies on the selected country - IDK!?) I can see Unicode characters properly. So not just Western ISO, but things like national diacritical characters are displayed properly (if they appear properly on the phone). I've checked e-mails in Polish, so you know... we kinda have a lot of weird ą,ę,ó etc. :)

@@Waybeyond 1. Do we get notifications of whatspp, instagram etc? 2. Can i decline call using watch? Thank you.

@@sundaramgolakiya5771 1. Yes 2. No Ad, 1, It's very irritating, as like I mentioned earlier - anything that triggers a notification on the notification bar of the phone, lands on the watch as well. So far it's not possible to select which apps' notifications should reach to watch. Casio really needs to learn from Garmin here, as they use the same service provider and could have done it much better.

Jeremiah Dudek Thats a great idea... it’s especially tedious when you pass up the notification window and have to cycle through all over

@@GiShockGo I also have a Samsung Galaxy watch and it makes it much better to organize. Seems logical to me as notifications and steps are almost always interacted with while heartrate is shown on the main screen anyway. When you aren't working out it quickly becomes tedious and overkill it looks like to constantly sort through #casio

Agreed - should be very simple to do. Also - the notifications can be opened up from the menu screen - for example you can read short app updates (sports scores etc) and even read a short message. You should therefore be able to press a button (run button for example) and open the notification. A few other issues - vibrating alarm only lasts for 10 seconds (they claim this is to save battery life), yet heart rate measurement stays on for ages after you remove the watch, you can’t select the notifications you want, so you’re getting notifications for every email you receive - all of which will drain the battery so make no sense. Also the Bluetooth/app connection needs a rethink - the app constantly disconnects and you have to turn off bt and turn it on again to get the app to work. Recovery time also either doesn’t work in the app and the rc displayed on the watch never matches the app. Apart from that - it’s great!! 😂

Yup. I got mine today. Hopefully there is a faster access method.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Did they fixed the missing notifications issue in the end? Was it iOS or Android phone if I may ask?

Yes / No - user configurable sound and / or vibration or nothing :)

@@Waybeyond how about incoming call notification, does it vibrate too?

@@absolutelymiey522 Yes, unless you switch Vibrations off or disable Bluetooth etc. Mind the veeery short range. If you're in another room, connection often gets lost. If the app has access to contacts, the watch will show the caller ID as well. Managing notifications is pure crap. Lack of ability to disable certain apps' notifications for almost a year made me loose any hope and faith in Casio's intentions. Nice G-Shock. Wasted 'smart' potential. Blunt Casio response to what users ask for ever since this watch was launched. Would I buy again? Hell no!

Yes! Got mine this morning!

@@stargavstar i am going to get it too then

Yes

You can go on app and change light time from 1.5 seconds to 3 seconds

You need to allow the watc and the Gshock Move app to enter your phonebook. You can do that in your phone, go to settings, then Apps, then you have to find there Move app and allow app to enter phonebook. I allowed everything and everything works fine.

Firmware is updatable. I already got an update on the first day of use. It fixed the issue described in some reviews (no notification for SMS) and probably brought some other improvements. I really hope for more updates fairly soon. Especially allowing to customize the watch menu layout :)

99% it won't be sufficient. 14 hours with GPS, 66 hours with HR running constantly. That's without any light. In full direct sunlight it might cover up for the power drain, but I would be hesitant. They say it's 9 minutes at direct sunlight (50k Lux) for 1-day operations (time keeping + BT 12h + 1 alarm + 1 backlight etc.). So in real outdoor conditions I'd say it's feasible to have a weekend without a charge, keeping HR and GPS (only while walking) on, provided that it's sunny during the day. Longer, few-days-long trips - nope. The good thing however is that when you drain the battery to a low level, HR and GPS is automatically switched off, leaving time keeping and BT notifications active for several weeks. So it won't die on you in the middle of nowhere. You'll just loose GPS tracking and HR monitoring.

Same doubt

Manual says 1 year. And that is without the solar support. So in normal use, without (or with occasional HR / GPS use) you don't need to use the charger at all. If you want details / confirmation. Ask me in a year ;) So far mine is holding, but I only got it yesterday. 1 battery bar down after playing around with HR and GPS for a few hours. Without them it's holding still. Even if auto-backlight is not helping ;)

@@Waybeyond it's been a year.. it's time

@@sanketnegi1 LOL, yes :) Well, since the watch itself is kinda crap in terms of anything 'smart' and Casio did ZERO improvements in this regards (still notifications are the lest menu entry, still no option to choose which apps' notifications should go to the watch, still lousy app stability and syncing issues etc.) I almost don't use it. It just works as a big display G-Shock for me that more often than not also shows on the screen that something happens on the phone. Battery - 1 year declaration without solar support is probably possible without Bluetooth on. Anyways, with solar charging and with very little GPS usage, I don't need to use the cable. Last time I used one was spring 2021 when I brought the charge level to 2 bars due to GPS active while cycling. On a daily basis GPS and HR measurement are both off. Only BT active. In December the battery dropped to ca. 50% (half the bars). So, with lots of outdoor time but no GPS or HR, battery will have plenty of juice, like normal 'Tough Solar' Casio watches. In the fall and winter, with more indoor time and little sunlight exposure, it slowly discharges. 1 year would be questionable though. Surely, if one uses this as activity tracker with HR and GPS, cable will be in frequent use. If used only as a watch with notifications and HR only occasionally, then if one allows some outdoor light exposure during the summer, then indeed - cable won't be needed throughout the year.

@@Waybeyond quick response much appreciated.. thanks 🙂

@gi-shock-go help! I have the same question. Too many clicks to get to the notifications mode with no option to view when they appear on the screen. Possibly an update could fix?

@@andrewamburgey8679 I hope the update on future

Emmett Quattlebaum it’s automatic once you set up the Bluetooth connection

Gi-Shock-Go Hi - great to see someone reviewing this watch and actually mentioning some of its issues instead of simply saying that it’s great. It’s great - I love it - I’ve always been a. G-Shock fan and I’m a runner so was very excited when I saw they were releasing this watch. I agree that the notifications should be able to be tailored to what you want to see, for example I don’t need to see emails - just messages, calls etc. My main issue is the so called ‘permanent’ Bluetooth connection - it’s not permanent - or at least it is if you keep the phone within the pathetic 2 metre range - is you just go out of range for a second - it loses it’s connection, to get it to reconnect you have to close the app, or turn Bluetooth off and on again, this is not good. Also - I’m in the UK so our date format is Day/Month/Year - not Month/Day/Year - there needs to be a way of changing this. Also - this may be partly to do with the G Shock Move app - but the recovery time doesn’t move - it stays the same on the phone app and the watch. If you are in contact with anyone from Casio - I hope they pay attention to what you’ve said. Another observation - it that during your video - the heart rate sensor continued to show a reading - despite not being anywhere near your wrist. I’m not convinced it’s too accurate even when it’s on my wrist to be honest - so I’d say this needs looking at too. Again - great video btw! 👍🏻