Bike GPS / mileage

[mattor]

I recently did some biking in Canada, where my phone / GPS is imperfect.

It looks like, on one ride the GPS / mileage tracking quit about half way through, and on another it got the endpoints but nothing in between and recorded as 0.00 miles. 

Is there a means by which to correct at least the route / distance?

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[MikeF]

Route - no.

Distance - only by deleting the activity and manually entering a replacement for it from the exercise log page on the website.

[AlejandraFitbit]

It's great to see you around @mattor and @MikeF thanks for stopping by and for the information.  I would like to know if you keep having problems with your GPS feature? If you are, I recommend checking our Why isn't GPS working with my Blaze? article, where you will be able to find some information and troubleshoot for this inconvenience.

Let me know the outcome. 

[Chardington]

I've been getting exactly the same issue with my charge 2. It gets all my heart rate date, elevation and recognises active time, calories burnt etc. But fails to recognise any distance at all or count it against steps, which is really disappointing as this entirely the reason I chose to get a charge 2, so I could map my bike rides and track improvement! Any ideas?

[MikeF]

It won't count any steps for cycling because you're not taking any steps so that behaviour is normal. If you're using Connected GPS with your phone then I can't answer for the distance question.

[mattor]

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@MikeF wrote:
It won't count any steps for cycling because you're not taking any steps so that behaviour is normal. If you're using Connected GPS with your phone then I can't answer for the distance question.

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Now that I've had the fitbit a few months longer, the patterns have become clearer: My arm movements, not my steps, are the basis for the count.

On the bike, my arm is stationary on the handle bar, so no steps.

If I go kayaking, I can rack up thousands of "steps," even though my legs don't move.

Go to the CostCo, the whole thing will be 0 steps if I keep my arms on the cart, thousands of steps if I push with the ftibit-free arm.

If I shave, standing in place, hundreds of steps if the fitbit hand is holding the shaver. No steps if it's the other hand.

If I drive my car and move my arm in a mock "lifting weight" repetitive movement, massive steps -- and floors.

While that makes sense in the abstract, the general idea is to measure activity. I have an associated incentive, that is unfortunately tied to "steps."

So I'd like to make a "step equivalent" for this activity, as the idea wasn't to incentivize walking over biking as an activity (nor was it to encourage people to shave with a particular hand).

As an example, this page from the US Army would convert it at a "per minute" rate, based on speed: http://www.polk.amedd.army.mil/docs/hp/Step%20Conversion%20Chart.pdf

I'd like something like that, that I could -- at my option as a user -- enable for the device.

People who aren't interested, could leave it turned off.

At this point, just my idea... It's something I'd like.