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charge hr whilst DRIVING

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‎02-08-2016 09:23

‎02-08-2016 09:23

My charge hr is counting a ridiculous amount of floors (20+) and hundreds of steps added when I'm driving! Anyone else have this issue and what can be done to stop it occurring other than not wearing it which defeats the object.
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‎02-08-2016 17:11

‎02-08-2016 17:11

If you're in a vehicle that vibrates a fair amount, it will register as steps. There are a couple ways around this. You can plug it into a charger while you are driving or you can create the manual activity "driving" to overwrite steps, calories, etc for the time period you are driving. If you're driving on a regular basis, you might want to look into something like the 3rd party app "DriveBit," which you can activate while you're driving and will create that activity automatically for you. Best of luck!

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‎02-08-2016 17:11

‎02-08-2016 17:11

If you're in a vehicle that vibrates a fair amount, it will register as steps. There are a couple ways around this. You can plug it into a charger while you are driving or you can create the manual activity "driving" to overwrite steps, calories, etc for the time period you are driving. If you're driving on a regular basis, you might want to look into something like the 3rd party app "DriveBit," which you can activate while you're driving and will create that activity automatically for you. Best of luck!

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‎08-02-2016 05:05

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‎08-02-2016 05:05

Sadly drivebit stopped working for me today - the android version, anyway.  I'm now stuck with no way of negating steps counted while driving which will screw up my stats.  I tried the android app method of logging it under activities, and all it did was reduce my calories out/calories remaining figures - didn't reduce steps AT ALL.  Am really annoyed at this. 

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