Sleepwalker?

I have had the Samsung Galaxy Gear Fit for sometime now.  It functions as my primarily as a watch as its most basic feature.  And of course being a healthband it has various health functions associated with it.  Two of these functions would sleep monitoring and a pedometer.

The sleep monitor application basically measures how long you sleep which is triggered by a "start" button until such time you wake up and press "stop".  Similarly it would measure the percentage of "motionless" sleep you have based on the gyrometers built in.  The logic of less movement, better sleep.

While the pedometer function is activated each time you power on the device and would keep on measuring your steps each day until you turn it off (which automatically happens when your device has a drained battery) or if you manually stop step logging via the pedometer function stop button.  Similarly it measures your steps via the built-in gyrometer in the device.  Bottomline it should measure actions that is related to the person walking/running and not just shaking the device.

I use both functions on a regular basis and I just find it ackward that Samsung did not develop the logic to turn off the sleep monitor automatically when it detects that the pedometer is already counting steps.  It could be in their logic that constant sleep movement can simulate a step which is possible but at least turn the monitor off after logging 50 constant steps?  I would sometimes forget to turn off the sleep monitor and I would have done some activities awake which had involved walking for around 30 minutes or more.  This skews the data for sleep monitoring and basically to me is non logical. 

I do hope that Samsung can look into this and basically improve on the next firmware release.

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