6 hours sleep but no sleep stages

[RichardMW]

I just switched from a Surge to a Blaze, thinking that it would track sleep more accurately.

Days 1 & 2, I saw sleep stages.

Days 3 & 4 I did not. Instead I saw a message that I needed at least 3 hours sleep to see stages.

Is there any way to fix this?

Does that mean 3 hours continuous? I wake up often during the night.

Here was the summary it reported.

   Time asleep 6 hr 1 min 

   4 min to fall asleep

   3 times awake

  12 times restless

   40 minutes awake / restless.

Sleep schedule:   2:19 AM to 9:00 AM (it detected 4:10 AM as wake up time. I edited that to 9:00 AM)

I switched the Blaze heart rate tracking last night from "auto" to "on"

The good news is that it detected the time I started to go to sleep, but after I woke up briefly (2 hours), it decided I was awake and failed to see that I went back to sleep. I edited it to accurately have the time I actually awoke.

[AlejandraFitbit]

It's great to see you around @RichardMW. If your Blaze is not recognizing your sleep, I recommend restarting your tracker, then test it. Also, please take a look at this post, where our friend @FerdinandFitbit is providing more information about how this feature works.

Let me know the outcome. 

[RichardMW]

AlejandraFitbit,

I had restarted my Blaze several times. It had no effect.

I had read the FerdnandFitbit post on this issue more than once and tried his suggestions. They did not help.

A lot of people are posting with this problem and no one says the proposed solutions work.

It got worse last night.

I went to sleep around 2:15 AM and woke up at 8:30 AM.

The fitbit sleep panel said sleep was from 4:39 AM to 6:47 AM. A failure to detect.

Yes, I was awake briefly at 4:38 AM and again at 6:47. But, I was in bed, asleep from 2:15 to 8:30 AM.

I did wake up briefly around 3:15 AM.

I edited the fitbit panel setting sleep from 2:15 AM to 8:30 AM.

It said I was asleep for 4 hours 53 minutes. Much more than the 3 hrs that FerdnandFitbit said was needed for sleep stages.

I still do not see any sleep stages for last night.

Based on reading other posts, I think there are flaws in the detection algorithms. I suspect that sleep stages only show up if there is at least one sleep segment greater than 3 hours.

Right now there are 2 sleep settings: Normal & Sensitive.

I think, for people who wake up often at night that a 3rd setting is needed. "Frequent wake ups".
Maybe a setting is needed to force showing sleep stages for intermittent sleepers.

Tonight I will try the manual "going to sleep now" setting and see if that helps.

This what FitBit reported after I edited the sleep times.

 

[RichardMW]

Last night I tried manually setting "going to sleep now" using my phone.

It looked like it worked and brought up a screen with a button click after waking up "I'm awake now".

This feature does not work at all.

I went to bed at 1:15 and got out of bed at 9:03 AM.

I clicked "I'm awake now".

It said it could not save because there already were sleep segments logged.

[RichardMW]

Maybe someone can explain what was logged and how I can get sleep stages again.

Still a big problem last night after I manually updated the auto sleep log.

I went to bed at 1:15 and got out of bed at 9:03 AM last night.

The first 2 days I got the Blaze, I saw sleep stages. But, nothing since then.

I woke up for 2 minutes around 2 AM.

I then got out of bed at 3:30 AM and was awake for about 30 minutes.

I was awake again at 6 AM for 2 minutes and went back to sleep.

I woke up and got out of bed at 9:03 AM.

Fitbit recorded 2 sleep segments automatically: 

4:08 - 5:58

7:12 - 9:03

This is what it looked like when I manually corrected the start and end time.

6 hrs 46 minutes of sleep but no sleep stages.

It shows 7 times awake, but the graph does not show that I was awake from 3:30 - 4 AM

[Rich_Laue]

Hat does your heartrate look like durring your sleep period?

[RichardMW]

Rich_Laue,

How do I find that information?

On the dashboard, I see a tile for resting heart rate. Is that what you are asking for?

It varies between 58 to 62 over a few weeks.