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Blaze step/treadmill and floor inaccuracies

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‎02-25-2016 18:23

‎02-25-2016 18:23

Hi. My wife and I received our blaze two days ago and have tested it out. Few different ways now. We've come to the conclusion that either our Flex was highly inaccurate or the blaze is highly inaccurate.

I wore the Flex on my right wrist and blaze on my left. I set them up to the appropriate wrist as well. My blaze would always be about 1500 steps behind the flex. Two days in a row this has happened. The blaze also seems to take considerably longer to recognize that I am walking on a treadmill.

My wife walked 3 miles this morning and the blaze gave her .66 miles of treadmill walking and less than a half mile of standard steps.

We tested the floor feature as well. I ran up and down our steps from basement to second floor (12 feet between floors) and it registered about half or less than half of the floors we would go up. I did 40 flights of stairs yesterday and the blaze had me down for 22.

Pretty disappointed. Going to give this another few days but if there is no improvement, it's unfortunately going back.

Is anyone else experiencing anything like this?
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‎06-03-2016 12:17

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‎06-03-2016 12:17

I realize these devices cannot be spot on but I was hoping for something in the general ballpark. I do a fair amount of traveling and usually jump on the treadmill for a run in the morning. As a recent owner of the Blaze, I gave it its first spin on the treadmill this morning. I ran just over 3 miles and my fitbit watch logged .54 miles. Really disappointed. I understand size of stride etc. but this is crazy. My understanding is I'm not alone. I don't mind it when it's clearly stated that a product isn't supposed to perform (as FitBit states to an extent) but this is way off the mark. The only good news here is that I paid for this one dearly through a charity auction or it would go right back to FitBit. I'm tempted to sell my stock as well..

@emJones wrote:
After reading these posts, I'm pretty disappointed. I just got my Blaze last week and ohmygosh - LOVE the look and feel of this watch! My husband has the Surge and is pretty happy with it so I'd originally bought that one. However, I have small wrists and honestly, it looked like I had one of those trackers on that somebody under house arrest would be wearing. It was huge! So I settled for no GPS and went with the Blaze.

I wore it for the first time yesterday and compared to both the stair machine and the treadmill, it was way off. I've never worn one of these watches though so I thought maybe I was doing something wrong (which is definitely still a possibility) but after reading all of your issues, I don't think it's ALL me, for sure.

I did the stairs (on that specific exercise setting) and the times matched up but the Blaze had me more than 20 flights less than the stair machine did. Same with the treadmill: times were nearly exact, but according to the mill I ran 4.75 miles and according to the Blaze, I ran 2.9. My hubby and I went for a walk outside last night thigh and it was closer - we went 1.7 miles and the Blaze measured 1.5.

I've researched a lot of watches for awhile and was so hopeful about fitbit, but I'm now debating whether or not I want to keep this or go for the Apple watch. From what I've read/know, Apple's features regarding exercise are pretty lacking, but for the most part, Apple tends to be pretty flawless overall and I haven't heard many/any complaints from people with their watches.

But again, since this is my first I don't have anything to compare it to either... Anybody on here have any suggestions? Or have you figured out how to better "fine tune" your Blaze? I really want this watch to work, but it's way too expensive to be SO inaccurate!

 

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