How to sync Samsung S Health (SHealth) to MFP (MyFitnessPal)

luvsdbu

Oh and thanks much MsEbony that was the step I was missing!! :-)

vnb_208

luvsdbu wrote: »

@ MikeRay, I could not find it either in the app selection so I just did a manual search for it and it popped up!

Remember to do the "Data Permissions"!!

OMG THANKS FOR THAT GENERAL SEARCH INFO!

moots4me

@BigRican69 I am getting the same error message as you. Steps were syncing at first then stopped yesterday. Also, I walked at lunch today and then did a treadmill jog this evening. Both workouts show on S Health, but the first was deleted from MFP and replaced by 2nd workout.

I appreciate everyone sharing their tips here!

citylife4eva

MomReborn

Thanks, everyone for sharing these tips. I found the data permissions in S Health and activated the proper settings. I also found that a clearing the caches for both apps, closing the apps and a restart helped get everything "talking" as it should for my device, Samsung Galaxy Note 4. I've found the syncing pace between different APIs sometimes needs to have a fresh start to get things going.

highlightshadow

So happy i found this!!!!
Was fighting with google fit until this. Awesome

rrodgers1973

I have a gear fit 2 and Galaxy S5. Got all the data reading and writing from S Health to MFP except steps. I tried pairing the fit2 with MFP won't connect yet. Any Suggestions?

amkremsreiter10

@BigRican69 I am also having that error message when trying to pair myfitnesspal to s health. If someone could help that would be great.

rrodgers1973

Update on last, as of the following morning everything is crossing over between both S Health and MFP. Couldn't be happier!

pennyjwills

I came across this discussion for the same reason. I love S Health as Endomondo isn't as good and I have a Gear S2 watch. Thank you! I set data permissions on both to Write All and set the MFP steps to S Health and now my steps and exercise come into MFP and my food goes into S Health

resq93

Recently set up my gear, when looking in S health I have the ability to see the steps counted by my phone (s7) and the steps counted by my gear fit 2. Then there is a setting that says all steps, but this never matches either the total of the two or the difference between the two. A recent example is a total count of 3996, phone count of 2553 and a gear count of 2805.

The bigger issue is that it is the total count that is sent to other apps that are connected like withings and mfp.( is there any way to select the source of the step count that should be imported?)

Anyone have any ideas?

tomteboda

Anyone know how to fix this? Because apparently exercise can be a substitute for food now!

maritsat

So I've tried everything here and MFP and S Health still won't talk. It's driving me batty. Any tips?

joelartygreenwood

I just got it to work, and it took some jumping through hoops, probably not all are necessary.

1. Clear data from S-Health, MyFitnessPal (Android App Settings)
2. Log back into each
3. Ensure under "Steps" it has S-Health checked
4. Ensure under "Apps & Devices" it has S-Health connected
5. In S-Health, Ensure under Settings->Data Permissions MyFitnessPal has access to everything
6. Go to Home and pull down to refresh (or go into Diary to check Exercise)
7. Kill both apps if it's not working and start them again

SylviazSpirit

So glad I found this! Thanks everyone for posting the help, suggestions, and success! It's working for me!

rits_jena

@BigRican69 I'm also having the same issue! Nothing has fixed it so far! Can anyone help please?

rits_jena

I cleared the data on SHealth, uninstalled and re installed mfp and now it is synced! Magic

MtnScramble

The data permissions in S Health was what I was missing. It is working the way I want it to now Enter food in MFP, use S Health for steps and workouts.

Thanks for creating and updating this thread. --- Joel

taliasattler1

@resq93 - I am also seeing double steps. We're you able to figure out how to change this?

liampboyle1

@rits_jena I was having the same issue until I uninstalled and reinstalled MFP on my S7 active (paired with a Gear S2).

khoilette

Thank you Joel your suggestion worked when I added all the datapermissions while adding SH to MFP in MFP instead of doing it after in SH. Thanks again

hayleyteasdale71

I have 5 days worth of entries on Samsung health that I want to transfer to MFP as the food tracker is better, I have connected both apps, made sure the permissions are selected etc, restarted my phone, uninstalled and reinstalled MFP, checked that both apps are the latest version, but the apps still arent syncing and I get the same error as rits_jena above. Does anyone have any suggestions other than be manually adding everything to MFP?!

hayleyteasdale71

UPDATE: MFP has allowed me to select Samsung Health as my steps tracker, and one days breakfast has transferred but thats all?

bweemes

There are known issues with S-Health (now Samsung Health) and MFP integration. Things get real wacky when S-Health send an exercise to MFP. Check out https://myfitnesspal.desk.com/

humphreythepug

I wonder if anyone can help with my step log issue.

I have a gear S3 that is linked to MFP, steps import across to MFP and register calories used etc, however when I do some exercise it only logs the exercise calories in MFP not the exercise calories + daily steps calories.

For example I have 15980 steps recorded on my S3 for yesterday and I also did 500 odd calories of exercise, the steps are showing on MFP but with no calorie amount, however the exercise calorie amount is recorded on MFP.

I didn't have this issue when I had a Fitbit.

See below:

tomteboda

Same thing happened to me, but now Shealth is only crediting steps, regardless of how they accumulate (hiking, walking, running) at a low pace caloric burn. It's confusing as anything.

forhimandme

rits_jena wrote: »

I cleared the data on SHealth, uninstalled and re installed mfp and now it is synced! Magic

Were you able to get your old data back at all? I have sooo much data in my SHealth saved I'd hate to lose it all but so far nothing else suggested has worked for me.

Also does anyone know how to get a Samsung Gear Fit 2 connected? It's not showing up as an option when I search for it in the 'Apps & Devices' section.

forhimandme

Update: I tried everything but it didn't work. Oddly though I was able to get my steps to show up under my status bar by opening my diary/daily log.

Sometimes I had to open the log (like I was going to log some food) then exit back out to the homepage and then my steps would update and show the accurate numbers

MsValerieAnne

Thanks for these, I will try them. I'm curious though, do I HAVE to make S Health the steps counter? I have a fitbit that I use daily (and have for years). I have been pondering getting an S2 Watch (for a fit2 watch) but I like the fitbit too much at the moment. So, I ONLY want MFP items to transfer to S Health (mainly food). I can't seem to get it to read anything. So far my settings are the accounts are connected and I have S Health set up to READ all information for MFP. I have WRITE turned off as I don't want information from S Health transferred over. Is the only way it can read anything from MFP if I have S Health as the steps source?

cwagler73

MsEbony wrote: »

chrisb22 wrote: »

Harmony9 & lydiab6 want settings are you using in MFP to get S-health to sync. I follow Harmony9 instructions for the s-health side but I don't know how to set-up the MFP side. In MFP, what is selected as your step device?

Chris in MFP app home the 3 lines on left > steps (pic of shoes) > change from default iphone to S health and then you will see a progress bar displaying your steps show underneath your daily stats banner.

thank you @MsEbony ....IT WORKED!!!! Thank you so much!!! You are the best!!