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

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

@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!

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.

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?

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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:

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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.

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?