Do you have a question about the WATCH GT2 and is the answer not in the manual?
Questions and answers
hadi tayefe
January 22, 2025
Hello, my watch is a Huawei G2-CF8, recently my phone burned out and I had to buy a new phone, but my watch will not be factory reset at all so that I can reconnect to the new phone, may you advise me. In the setting section and the reset option, when I click on the reset option, it does not work and I cannot reset the watch.
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HUAWEI WATCH GT2 User Guide-(01,en-us) Issue Date 2019-11-20 HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
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Notice The purchased products, services and features are stipulated by the contract made between Huawei and the customer. All or part of the products, services and features described in this document may not be within the purchase scope or the usage scope. Unless otherwise specified in the contract, all statements, information, and recommendations in this document are provided "AS IS"...
1.15 Viewing the Bluetooth name and MAC address......................15 1.16 Viewing version information............................16 1.17 Viewing Device SN..............................16 1.18 Updating the watch and the Huawei Health app......................16 1.19 Restoring the watch to its factory settings........................16 2 App management.........................18 2.1 Getting notifications and deleting messages........................ 18 2.2 Setting favorite contacts (using a watch to make/receive a call)..................19...
1.15 Viewing the Bluetooth name and MAC address 1.16 Viewing version information 1.17 Viewing Device SN 1.18 Updating the watch and the Huawei Health app 1.19 Restoring the watch to its factory settings 1.1 Wearing the watch Attach the heart rate monitoring area of your watch on the top of your wrist, as shown in the following figure.
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Download and install the Huawei Health app from App Store. If you have already installed it, make sure that it is up-to-date. Open the Huawei Health app, go to Devices > + > Smart Watch, and touch the device you wish to pair.
A watch can be connected with only one phone at any given time, and vice versa. If you want to pair your watch with another phone, disconnect your watch from the current phone using the Huawei Health app, and then pair your watch with another phone using the Huawei Health app.
Method 2: Swipe the home screen from top to bottom and then check the battery level in the drop-down menu. Method 3: Check the battery level on the device details screen in the Huawei Health app. 1.6 Buttons and gestures The watch is equipped with a color touchscreen that is highly responsive to your touches and can be swiped in different directions.
Swipe down on the home screen to open the shortcut menu. Enable Show Time and the screen will stay on 5 minutes. You can enable the Raise wrist to wake screen function in the Huawei Health app by going to the details screen of your watch.
Language & input, set the language, and then connect the watch with your phone to sync the settings. 1.11 Enabling frequently used features After connecting your watch to your phone through the Huawei Health app, you can enable features for your watch in the app. Frequently used features include: HUAWEI TruSleep...
Method 2: Your watch's Bluetooth name and MAC address are laser engraved on the back of the watch. If you are using the HUAWEI WATCH GT, the Bluetooth name is written as "HUAWEI WATCH GT XXX." The 12 alphanumeric characters next to MAC: are your watch's MAC address.
Method 3: Perform the following in the Huawei Health app: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, and the name of your watch will be displayed. Touch its name to access the details screen. Locate Restore factory settings, and the 12 alphanumeric characters next to it are your watch's MAC address.
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1 Getting started removed when you restore the watch to its factory settings, please exercise caution before confirming. Method 2: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, touch the device name, and then touch Restore factory settings. Issue 01 (2019-11-20)
2.1 Getting notifications and deleting messages Getting notifications Ensure that the watch is paired with your phone using the Huawei Health app, then perform the following: For Android users: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, and then touch your device.
To delete a message, swipe right on it. To delete all messages, touch Clear All. 2.2 Setting favorite contacts (using a watch to make/receive a call) Open the Huawei Health app and touch Devices. Touch your device name to access the watch settings screen. Touch Favorite contacts. Then perform the following: –...
√ in the upper-right corner of the screen. From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Music, and then touch Choose music that you have added in the Huawei Health app and then touch the play icon to play the music.
2.7 Setting an alarm You can use the Huawei Health app to set a Smart alarm or an Event alarm for your watch. The Smart alarm will wake you up if it detects that you are in a light sleep during a preset period.
Touch an alarm to edit or delete it. l Event alarms set on your watch can be synced to the Huawei Health app. You can set a maximum of five Event alarms. l You can only set one Smart alarm for your watch.
To check the weather information on your watch, you are advised to open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, touch your device name, and then enable Weather reports.
After a workout, touch Workout records to view detailed workout records. Starting a workout using the Huawei Health app: To start a workout using the Huawei Health app, you need to bring your phone and watch together to ensure that they are connected properly.
To view your activity records using the Huawei Health app, ensure that the watch is connected to your phone. l Workout data on your watch can be synced to the Huawei Health app, but data recorded in the app cannot be synced to your watch.
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3 Professional workouts For iOS users: To share your fitness data to a third-party app, open the Huawei Health app, go to Discover > Third party services and select the platform you want to share to. Follow the onscreen instructions specific to each platform.
4.5 Enabling HUAWEI TruSleep™ 4.1 Monitoring your heart rate The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 features an optical heart rate sensor, which can monitor and record your heart rate all day. To use this feature, you need to enable Continuous heart rate in the Huawei Health app.
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The heart rate zone calculation methods while you are running are not affected by the settings in the Huawei Health app. For most running courses, HRR percentage is selected by default. Your watch will display different colors when your heart rate reaches corresponding zones during a workout.
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Heart rate monitoring during swimming is supported on the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2. Continuous heart rate monitoring To enable this feature, connect your watch to your phone using the Huawei Health app and enable Continuous heart rate monitoring in the Huawei Health app. Once this feature is enabled, your watch can measure your real-time heart rate.
Heart rate alerts are only available during active workouts and are not generated during daily monitoring. To enable High heart rate alerts for your resting heart rate, open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices then your device, go to Continuous heart rate monitoring > High heart rate alert, and set your heart rate upper limit.
User Guide-(01,en-us) 4 Health and fitness a light or deep sleep. You can sync and view your sleep data in detail in the Huawei Health app. Your watch measures your sleep data from 20:00 to 20:00 on the following day (24 hours in total).
User Guide-(01,en-us) 4 Health and fitness l Stress tests are only available with a HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 and require an Android phone. l During the stress test, wear your watch correctly and keep still. l Your watch will be unable to accurately detect your stress level during a workout or when you move your wrist too frequently.
Display > Watch face, and then swipe left or right to choose a watch face. Method 3: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices and then the device name, touch More next to Watch faces, touch Mine, choose a watch face as needed, and then touch SET AS DEFAULT.
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User Guide-(01,en-us) 5 Watch faces Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, go to Watch faces > More > Mine, and touch Gallery. Touch + and choose to either upload an image from your phone's Gallery or take a new photo.
Android phone. When the downloaded watch faces are synced to your watch, pair the watch back with your iOS phone. l To download or delete watch faces, update your watch and the Huawei Health app to the latest versions.
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Do you have a question about the WATCH GT2 and is the answer not in the manual?
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Hello, my watch is a Huawei G2-CF8, recently my phone burned out and I had to buy a new phone, but my watch will not be factory reset at all so that I can reconnect to the new phone, may you advise me. In the setting section and the reset option, when I click on the reset option, it does not work and I cannot reset the watch.