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To: Red Badger
My daily wear is a Fitbit Charge 4 and a Casio Multi-band G-Shock (WWVB and Chinese radio time standards).

I purchased a Samsung Watch 3. All black and upgraded with a black finish metal band identical to the Casio. A nice setup. It has 4G LTE as well. The specs are great, but I ran into a problem. The small laser scanners used to get blood SP02 and pulse generated a 2nd degree burn on my skin inside of 3 weeks. Others with the same model had the same experience. Samsung was very secretive about dealing with customers with the problem. I sent my watch to their facility for "repair". They held it for 5 weeks trying to decide if a repair or refund was the approach. I had to lean hard on them to return my property as they really didn't want to do a refund. They feigned a repaired. On return, the watch performed as before. I only wear it for special occasions when I want a "dressy" watch. It can't live on my wrist without burning it. It turns out that even the Charge 4 puts a small 2nd degree burn on my wrist under the heart rate/SPO2 sensor window. It's just much smaller than the Watch 3 sensor "footprint", so the blister was smaller.

18 posted on 04/11/2022 1:35:05 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

Solution:

Scotch tape over the sensor window. It is transparent and will block some of the energy from the laser but the sensor might still work without burning your wrist.............


22 posted on 04/12/2022 5:12:51 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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