It’s time to write detailed instructions in Russian on how to connect the Huawei Honor Band fitness bracelet to your phone and set up a smart watch through a mobile application. Unfortunately, I didn’t have Honors 3 and 4, so there’s no way to compare them. But let’s look with a fresh, uncluttered look at how to turn on an alarm clock, measure your pulse, and blood pressure on the Honor Band 5. We’ll also learn how a pedometer works, check the weather, change the dial and set up notifications. The guide will be universal for both Android smartphones (Xiaomi, Samsung, Honor, Huawei, Meizu, etc.) and iPhone.
Which smart bracelet app should I download to my phone?
The Honor Band is configured using a mobile phone application. There is a version for both Android and iPhone, but there is a slight difference between them, which I will talk about a little later. In the meantime, you need to download the Huawei Health program from Google Play Market or AppStore and install it on your smartphone.
- Before installation on your phone, the application will ask you to give it all the necessary permissions to work - to use Bluetooth and send notifications
- After which we agree to send your personal data to Huawei servers (don’t worry, no one is going to spy on you) and accept the user agreement
- Next, you need to fill out your profile so that the fitness tracker can correctly calculate your steps and other biometric indicators. Here you need to indicate gender, height, weight, date of birth. And if you wish, you can add a photo by taking it right now or selecting a ready-made photo from the gallery.
- In the next step, it is possible to synchronize data from the Huawei Health application with the built-in Health program.
- To do this, we allow the transfer to your smartphone of all your data about your heart rate, distance traveled in steps, sleep duration and other daily activities.
You can now return to the main screen of the Huawei Health app.
Mi fit
An analogue of “Health” from Huawei is Mi Fit, an application for tracking activity and sleep indicators from Xiaomi. The user can set desired goals to achieve a certain weight, as well as set the number of steps he must take per day.
The program allows you to track your weight and synchronizes well with fitness bracelets from Xiaomi and generally any other companies, and all Mi bracelets can be paired with various third-party applications and use them as the main one. While Honor Band only works with the original program from Huawei. More details about the functionality of Mi Fit can be found on Google Play.
Instructions on how to connect Honor Band to your phone
Let's move on to connecting the Honor Band smart bracelet to the phone.
- To do this, in the Huawei Health application, go to the “Devices” menu from the main screen
- To add an Honor fitness tracker, click on the plus sign in the upper right corner
- Next, go to “Smart Bracelet”
- And choose your Huawei model - we need “Honor Band 4” or “5”
- When performing a search, the application will prompt you to select our Honor Band to connect to your smartphone
- And confirm the creation of the pair on the screen of the tracker itself by clicking on the green icon.
- After which we will once again be asked to allow pairing between the phone and the fitness tracker via Bluetooth and sending notifications
What to do if you forgot your account password
reset your password using the Security or Disaster Recovery Center. In the first case, the user must log into Security Center, then select “Recover Password,” enter the PIN, and re-set a new password.
If password recovery is required during authorization, you can log into your account via SMS message or using the “Forgot your password?” function. When you select an SMS message, an activation code will be sent to the specified SIM card. It must be linked to the account, otherwise restoring access becomes impossible.
To recover your password using the “Forgot your password?” function. necessary:
- Click on the line “Forgot your password?”.
- Confirm your email address.
- Click next.
- Click on receive code via SMS.
- If the number is not used, then you need to select the line “Change confirmation method”.
- Click on the email address.
- Click on “Code” to receive the code by email.
- Enter the received numbers.
- Click next.
- Set a new password.
If the user does not have access to both the phone number and the email to which the account was registered, then it is almost impossible . Except in cases of establishing an emergency number, then when receiving the code you can specify it.
Detailed bracelet setup
Now you can proceed to the detailed setup of Honor Band. Some parameters can be adjusted from the screen of the bracelet itself, which we have already seen in the full review. But all basic configurations are performed through the mobile application.
To go to the bracelet settings, you need to open the same “Devices” menu. Now it’s no longer empty, but “Honor Band 5” is displayed - click on it
And we get to the main section
Sleep monitoring
First on the list is Huawei TrueSleep sleep monitoring. There are no settings here - only enabling or disabling the mode. Information about your sleep will subsequently be displayed on the main page of the application.
However, the function is useful not on its own, but as an auxiliary one for working with the same alarm clock, helping to wake you up at the right time.
Setting an alarm
What is a fitness bracelet without an alarm clock? The Honor Band has the ability to set a vibration signal not only for a certain time.
There is also a smart alarm clock that will work based on your sleep phases at the most favorable moment for your health. For it to work, sleep monitoring on the bracelet must be turned on.
Setting your heart rate
The first step on the Honor Band is to set up heart rate tracking. Some people mistakenly call this pressure, but in fact, the pulse is measured here.
When you activate the switch in this section, heart rate measurement will be performed regularly at the frequency specified here. It only makes sense to activate it when you really need to monitor it constantly. For example, when doing any exercises.
There are two heart rate measurement modes:
- In real time at a certain interval
- “Smart” - when measurements are made based on statistics of your activity during the day
It is also possible to enable high heart rate notifications to be sent to your phone. The boundary that should be considered critical is also configurable in the application.
You need to understand that constantly measuring pressure greatly drains the bracelet’s battery, which means your Honor Band will live autonomously for several fewer days than it could have. Therefore, I personally would recommend using the heart rate monitor as needed, calling this function manually from the tracker screen.
Correctly unlinking your phone from your account
The account itself contains information on how to unlink your email or change your phone number. It is impossible to completely unlink a SIM card if it was entered during registration. You can replace it with another one or relink it to another account.
To unlink your email and replace the linked SIM card, you need:
- Launch settings.
- Go to the “Account and Protection” menu item.
- Select a number or email and replace SIM/unbind.
Features of Honor Band
In the “Function Settings” menu, we have the opportunity to turn on or off certain parameters that will be displayed on the bracelet screen.
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For example, if you do not track your sleep phases or the amount of oxygen in your lungs, then simply click on the “brick” icon, and this data will disappear from the fitness tracker menu.
Notifications from your phone
Two menu items are responsible for displaying notifications from the phone on the screen of the Honor Band - “Do not disturb” and “Notifications”.
In Do Not Disturb mode, we can configure in detail the conditions under which notifications about events from smartphone applications will not be received.
- Do not disturb all day - notifications will not be sent to the tracker at all
- Do not disturb when the device is not worn is also a good feature that will not sound if the bracelet is not in use. Since the vibration motor is triggered when notified, this will save the battery capacity of the Honor Band.
- Schedule—set the days and times when notifications will be turned on or off.
- They also included an option to activate the screen by raising your wrist. Also a small but nice feature that will save you a couple of moves to activate the bracelet
In the notification settings on Android, we can specifically specify which applications we want to receive messages from.
But in iOS on the iPhone the list of them is very limited - this is a standard application for SMS messages, WhatsApp, Instagram and Other.
But the latter refers to all other applications that are installed on the smartphone and that send alerts. They will be duplicated on the fitness bracelet when this item is activated.
Weather display
Setting the current weather display consists of turning on this function and selecting the temperature scale. The data will be loaded from the standard application on the phone, taking into account its current geolocation.
Analogs
There are a large number of applications on Google Play that are similar in functionality. They differ in the team of developers who created the program and in certain individual features that are present in some applications and not in others.
Select apps, such as Nike Training Club, provide workout plans to help you develop and improve your fitness. Such programs do not have sleep monitoring or any additional features, but there are a large number of sports programs that are selected individually based on gender, age, weight or general activity.
Customizing watch faces
To select a watch face on the Honor Band that differs from the standard one, you can go in two ways. Firstly, there are several preinstalled ones directly in the bracelet itself. To do this, go to the “More - Dials” menu and select one of the proposed
Another option is to install the watch face from an app on your phone. Unfortunately, at the time of writing this feature is not available in the modification for iPhone and is only available on Android.
There are a huge number of watch faces available to choose from to suit every taste.
But as it turned out in practice, it is impossible to simply install directly from the Huawei Health application. To download, you need to first download another application - Huawei Mobile Services. And register in it or log in using an existing account.
Registration and authorization
A Huawei ID is required for the application to work.
To register it you need:
- Go to the registration page (https://uniportal.huawei.com) and click “Registration”.
- Fill in all fields marked with red asterisks.
- Accept the agreement for the processing of personal data and click “Registration”.
This completes the creation of Huawei ID.
Questionnaire for creating a new Huawei ID.
When you first launch the application, you will be prompted for a login and password for the previously created account.
How to play music through the Honor fitness bracelet?
A reasonable question that I asked myself after watching several reviews on the Internet was how to enable music control on the phone through the Honor Band. And I found the answer only after connecting the bracelet to the Xiaomi smartphone. It turns out that the developers also cut out this option for iPhone owners, leaving it only for working with Android.
It can be deactivated through the settings in the application. And when turned on, the screen with music playback control is located in the main menu on the fitness tracker screen
Password reset
Everyone has encountered the problem of a forgotten password. Even if one incorrectly entered character, the login will not take place. The most important thing is that the email address is correct. In this case, reset your password. To do this, click on the “Forgot password” button. Now run the automatic reset email. Form a new combination and write it down separately.
In the modern world, a lot of different information is stored in the cloud, with the help of which you can not only free up as much memory as possible in your mobile device, but also not worry about losing the necessary files if your smartphone goes missing.
In order to use cloud storage, the user will need to register. One of the most popular cloud services is the cloud from Huawei. When purchasing a smartphone from this manufacturer, the user will be prompted to create a Huawei account when setting up their device for the first time. But not all users immediately create an account for a number of reasons. Some people don’t think it’s necessary, others don’t have time for this at the moment, etc. and so on. There are many reasons, but what if the user changes his mind?
Benefits of a Huawei account
It’s worth creating your personal Huawei account on a mobile device, if only to have access to cloud storage. On Huawei gadgets, users can set auto-synchronization of all settings and data, as well as multimedia files.
This way, you don’t have to store a bunch of files on your mobile device, taking up space, but put them in the cloud for further storage. In this case, it’s not even scary if the smartphone breaks down beyond repair or disappears, since all files can be quickly retrieved from cloud storage.
