Fitbit Charge Not Counting Floors Correctly

Sometimes if i went up in an elevator i got credit for more floors.

Fitbit charge not counting floors correctly.

Although i haven t tested this trick with the new. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed. Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters. Today i ve apparently climbed 26 floors already and ha.

Has been fine until yesterday. But my charge 2 does not count them correctly at all. My activity was 18 holes of golf on a relatively flat course. Press the button three times within eight seconds alta or three times within five seconds flex 2.

Your device uses changes in barometric pressure to detect elevation change and therefore requires that you physically change elevation in order to properly record floors. I took advantage of target s 20 gift card promotion and got the alta only to discover it counted the flights of steps with almost the same inconsistency. Partial floors are not counted so if you climb 15 ft you get credit for one floor. Yesterday the charge 2 gave me 1 stair climb of 14.

My fitbit one did a great job of floor climbs. Hold down the buttons on your device until the lights on your tracker flash or you see a fitbit logo. My fitbit charge hr counted my floors correctly. If you have a fitbit alta or fitbit flex 2.

The unit uses the air pressure altimeter to count floors and it only counts floors going up not down. Fitbit devices do not count the elevation gains simulated from a stairmaster inclined treadmill or other stationary exercise equipment. The reverse can happen if you are out in a windy environment you could get changes in air pressure around your fitbit and it will register phantom floors. 7th floor and i took stairs to go down and up multiple times with in last 3 days and my floor count is not.

My fitbit said i had climbed 226 floors. I climbed 6 flights of stairs a while ago and i got credit for 2. Often the very next day it seems to count them more accurately. And i hung 3 loads of washing on the line and brought it back in when dry.

A pressure difference equivalent to about 10 ft is counted as 1 floor. If you have a fitbit blaze fitbit charge or charge hr fitbit charge 2 fitbit one or fitbit surge. With a 3 story house i love to record my floors. My fitbit is only two weeks old.

I was not carrying anything. It is so frustrating i am going back to the flex 2 because it does not do stairs. Blaze not counting floors properly answered options. However neither of my charge hr s nor my charge 2 record floors.

Mark topic as new. In the meantime i switched to the newer fitbit charge hr 2.