Accuracy WAY off?!?!

[Alyusha]

I woke up the a few days ago, turned the silent alarm off on my blaze and noticed I had already taken 66 steps that day... While sleeping. I know I did not get up in the middle of the night, and unless I have a dance party while sleeping, the blaze is counting steps that are not there. I figured oh well. What’s 66 steps? I can deal with a little bit of errors. 

I went to the gym today and "ran" on an elliptical, and used the elliptical exercise programmed into my watch. I "ran" 2.03 miles according to the machine I was on. Now I know I am not really moving, so there is no gps setting to actually track my distance traveled.. But I look at this workout on my Fitbit, and it says 1.09 miles. So either this thing is not meant to track distance for elliptical, and if that’s the case, why does it even say anything? Or I paid $200 + tax for junk. There is no reason why it is missing a mile. Is it not tracking my steps? I would ask if it was a stride setting, but it should not matter since when using an elliptical, it is a set stride.. Kind of.

Now this brings me back to having 66 steps taken while sleeping... If it messed up 66 steps in the 5 hours of the day while I was lying in bed not moving (according to Fitbit, I did not move from 12 AM till I woke up), how many steps are added / missing throughout the day of actually doing stuff?

I have lost faith in my Fitbit and am about to get rid of it, I am just hoping this is some kind of setting that I need to change. 

FYI, I did a 10 mile bike ride on Saturday, and it was dead on with that (but of course, it was connected to my phones GPS).

Thanks for any help.

[Rich_Laue]

@scrubsz I'll have to do a search, but Fitbit has responded in the main thread about the Blaze step count.

@marleysmom when you say that you don't know which tracker is off, try a step count test. The way I do it is to turn on the tracking mode, then count off 100 left foot steps, this gives a step count of 200. Now look at the tracker, how many steps did it count?

[marleysmom]

i haven't hit 10,000 steps yet either and decided to just take the blaze back. I'm back to my Charge.

[Teribeari]

I think the charge is more sensitive. It logs my drumming in the car as steps and something I had been doing the last couple weeks I used it caused it to think I climbed 87 flights of stairs. My guess is that they use a more reliable way of tracking steps with the new software wear for the blaze?

[HurricaneDave]

I tested putting the Blaze in my pocket while on my FreeStrider. I did 1.3 miles on the machine and the Blaze showed .46. That was a little bit better than wearing it on my wrist. (But not good at all.)

I used the Elliptical exercise mode to track it. FitBit, we should NOT have to jump through hoops to get a product to work as it was advertised. If it was off by just a bit, I could live with that. But this thing is WAY off in accuracy.

Someone is going to end up getting hurt following this thing, thinking it's accurately tracking that is.

[Sybrash]

No, I don't believe it is designed to track distance on an elliptical - or really anything but walking and running - based on your programmed stride times the number of steps, and also running or bicycling - based on GPS.  The reason they have the different exercise modes is because they use some kind of avg calorie burn for different types of exercise to help determine how many calories you burned - which begs the question "Why does it even display distance for the elliptical?"

[HurricaneDave]

Exactly. If it doesn't work like people expect it to then don't put it
on there or advertise that it can do it.

[Fands]

my treadmill tracking continues to be skewed, i just did 1.35 miles according to the treadmill and Blaze gave me credit for .99.

as i said, they are replacing mine, it might be here today, I will check the new one and see if it is any different.

and it does not make any difference in how charged my battery is--I charged it up full last night before bed, still there is a big difference.

I think i hit my target steps about once a week if i am lucky....it just irritates me.

hopefully this is getting fixed sooner than later.  it was reported the fitbit recognized the issue a few weeks ago.  I hope that is resolved. if they do not, they will not be selling many Blazes, no matter what the color of the frame.