the app can also retrace your steps, so you can challenge yourself later. Keeping the GPS on measures the distance you've run and tracks your pace and route. All you have to do is select it, and it begins a timer.
Plus, you map out your ride via GPS, track your current and average speeds both on the band and in the mobile app, and review your custom splits and see an estimate for how long it will take your body to recover from the ride. It can also track elevation and elevation gain, distance and duration and calorie burn which is viewable in the Microsoft Health app. When the Bike tile is active, the heart rate monitor becomes "optimized specifically for biking activities."
It lets you track your rides outdoors, or indoors if you prefer, hence the new guided workouts. Since launching, five new indoor biking workouts have been added to the Guided Workouts app, including: Indoor Bike Tabata Sprints, Indoor Bike Hour of Sweat, Indoor Bike Total Body, Indoor Bike Pyramid and Indoor Bike Intervals.Ī completely new Bike app has been added to the band's exercise-heavy roster as well.
It's a barebones way to exercise, but easy and great for people like me who prefer to keep an already arduous chore as hassle free as possible.
If you aren't sure how to do an exercise, there are short videos that accompany each workout that you can watch from you phone beforehand. After each rep, the haptics would buzz, letting me know there would be a moment to rest, then it would buzz again beginning the next set. The app synced with my band and after choosing the tile, it would start the timer and I would begin the workout. Maybe something else will follow.I chose a 14-minute beginner's crunch and plank routine to start with. There is no syncing, there is nothing that goes beyond making your band work like a standalone device, but it's a start. Information on how exactly to do it is provided at the bottom of the page, PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY! We don't want any broken bands. I don't get any ads revenue through it or track anyone, it's just the program and information about it)
(I hope the mods will be fine with me posting this link. This will obviously lead to the GPS taking ages to lock, but at the very least, you'll have a working watch.įor anyone who wants to try it out, here's the link. However, I've found that there is a way through the demo mode (used in stores to showcase the device) that will get you around that step and made a program that does just that. This file would have to come from the Microsoft servers that have been shut down, so there is no way to do it, really. One of the few last steps to actually set it up for real would be to send an ephemeris file to the band. The way it works is by feeding the band some fake data so it thinks it has been paired to the Microsoft servers. You'll need a PC, the USB Cable and your band for this. I've programmed a little tool that will trick your band into thinking you set it up without needing the official app from Microsoft. Let me introduce to you: A really hacky way to bypass the setup of your Microsoft Band 2! I've been bothered by that quite a lot and decided to do something about it. This subreddit is suitable for both Office warriors and newbies.Īs we all know, Microsoft has pronounced the Band dead and if yours wasn't set up when they killed it or you reset it since then, your band is nothing more than a really pretty bracelet (with possible cracks in the elastomer). Surface - dedicated to Surface powerful laptop/tablet and discussions around it and its peripherals.Įxcel - dedicated to Excel, powerful program of Office suite. Xbox One - dedicated to Xbox One console and its peripherals, news and discussions.
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