Arccos WearOS/TizenOS users?

Tupperwolf · January 23, 2022

Just curious if anyone out there is using Android for Arccos and using a smartwatch. I like the idea of having a smartwatch that can have my GPS distances on it plus track my Arccos rather than buy the link system. Doesn't need to be fancy, cheaper the better as long as the battery will last a full round of golf. I wouldn't be wearing it as a 24/7 watch, just for golf.

Tupperwolf · January 27, 2022

I ended up ordering a refurbished Samsung Galaxy Watch4 for a cheap price. They delivered the pink/rose gold one instead of the black I ordered, lol. I'll be rocking it until I recieve the correct black one and return the ladies' version...

I downloaded the Arccos app to the watch and haven't had a chance to get out on course yet. When I select the app the screen just goes blank, so here's hoping that when I'm on the course and have Arccos running the watch face will get its GPS data and display it. A bit disappointing that the watch can't do shot tracking like the Apple watch with its microphone or pin setting on the greens, but GPS display at a glance is better than nothing... better review to follow.

TomBomb51 · January 27, 2022

I have had a Galaxy phone and Galaxy Watch for the last couple years and also bought into Arccos. Started with the Galaxy S20 and now the S21, same Galaxy Watch 3 (running Tizen not the new WearOS) since the day of release.

When the app works on the phone and the watch, the whole system is great. Its super accurate at detecting shots (as long as your phone is in your pocket or you have the Arccos Link device, which I do not). The problem is, it doesnt always work. When it doesnt, USUALLY a reboot of the phone and watch clears it up, but even that is annoying. I do not want to be fumbling around with my watch and phone when I am playing golf. There have been multiple times where reboots dont even work, though. Then you get into it with support and they basically take you thru the dumb troubleshooting steps that you've already done and if it still doesnt work, they recommend factory resetting. Which is asinine to request.

Support has also come out and said to me that the app is built on the iOS platform and essentially ported over to Android. Sometimes GPS doesnt work in the Arccos app so it doesnt show distances on the watch, sometimes its fine on the phone but you watch still isnt showing yardages. It is honestly a mess.

I have a friend who also got it and has a Galaxy Note 20 and a Samung Galaxy Watch Active and the whole system works like 10 percent of the time. He is constantly fiddling around to try and get everything to work and it often misses shots even with the phone in his pocket.

When it works, its fantastic. The amount of data you can pull from it is a geeks dream. But it just seems like everything about it is janky as hell. Too many moving parts and when the app isnt built for the Android ecosystem, it just gets messy.

I am not renewing this year and I have moved on to the Precision Pro R1 rangefinder (for the weather elements/GPS and yardages). I will also manually upload my scores into TheGrint for some data after the round.

Tupperwolf · January 27, 2022

4 hours ago, TomBomb51 said:

I have had a Galaxy phone and Galaxy Watch for the last couple years and also bought into Arccos. Started with the Galaxy S20 and now the S21, same Galaxy Watch 3 (running Tizen not the new WearOS) since the day of release.

When the app works on the phone and the watch, the whole system is great. Its super accurate at detecting shots (as long as your phone is in your pocket or you have the Arccos Link device, which I do not). The problem is, it doesnt always work. When it doesnt, USUALLY a reboot of the phone and watch clears it up, but even that is annoying. I do not want to be fumbling around with my watch and phone when I am playing golf. There have been multiple times where reboots dont even work, though. Then you get into it with support and they basically take you thru the dumb troubleshooting steps that you've already done and if it still doesnt work, they recommend factory resetting. Which is asinine to request.

Support has also come out and said to me that the app is built on the iOS platform and essentially ported over to Android. Sometimes GPS doesnt work in the Arccos app so it doesnt show distances on the watch, sometimes its fine on the phone but you watch still isnt showing yardages. It is honestly a mess.

I have a friend who also got it and has a Galaxy Note 20 and a Samung Galaxy Watch Active and the whole system works like 10 percent of the time. He is constantly fiddling around to try and get everything to work and it often misses shots even with the phone in his pocket.

When it works, its fantastic. The amount of data you can pull from it is a geeks dream. But it just seems like everything about it is janky as hell. Too many moving parts and when the app isnt built for the Android ecosystem, it just gets messy.

I am not renewing this year and I have moved on to the Precision Pro R1 rangefinder (for the weather elements/GPS and yardages). I will also manually upload my scores into TheGrint for some data after the round.

Hmmmm thank you!

I have been using Arccos on my phone for about 15 rounds. I have a Google Pixel 6 Pro. Overall the system has worked very well. Yes, there's the occasional fiddling with missed or accidentally added shots, but I've made it part of my routine on each tee box to check and adjust quickly and it's not a big deal for me. I am hoping that adding the watch in for GPS usage and occasionally adjusting the number of strokes on a hole won't break the system... I haven't had any problems with having to restart the app or phone or losing data mid round.

Thank you very much for the detailed response. I'll update once I get out on the course this weekend.

Tupperwolf · January 30, 2022

Back for promised update. Arccos was fine on my watch. The GPS was helpful. It shows actual distances front/middle/back and an Arccos Caddie recommended club to the middle of the green. I found this accurate as I disregarded its recommendation a couple of times by taking an extra club and ended up going long. Next time I might play a whole round using the Caddie recommended clubs on every approach. From the GPS view, you can swipe over to see the number of strokes that have been picked up on that hole and adjust the number of putts. 2 complaints: I wish there was a button to mark the flag location, and I wish I could quickly check the scores on each hole to make sure they were accurate. I had to go back after the round in the app and make several adjustments. Overall I liked not being in my phone on every hole.

Skorpion22 · June 14, 2023

On 1/30/2022 at 10:44 AM, Tupperwolf said:

Back for promised update. Arccos was fine on my watch. The GPS was helpful. It shows actual distances front/middle/back and an Arccos Caddie recommended club to the middle of the green. I found this accurate as I disregarded its recommendation a couple of times by taking an extra club and ended up going long. Next time I might play a whole round using the Caddie recommended clubs on every approach. From the GPS view, you can swipe over to see the number of strokes that have been picked up on that hole and adjust the number of putts. 2 complaints: I wish there was a button to mark the flag location, and I wish I could quickly check the scores on each hole to make sure they were accurate. I had to go back after the round in the app and make several adjustments. Overall I liked not being in my phone on every hole.

What setting did you select for Watch on the app? When I tried to use my Samsung watch during my round it just had ? On it the whole time. The phone app was perfectly fine during that round though.