FitBit Blaze counting while plugged in

[MHabks]

My FitBit was plugged in from midnight to noon. I chose this time frame because I wanted to see if it tracked stuff while not being on my body and it DID. Now I’m trying to reset the and pressing all 3 buttoned isn’t working. It tracked that I burned 878 calories and walked 25 steps. It was sitting on my bathroom counter THE entire time. I chose midnight ON PURPOSE. 

[FerdinandFitbit · Accepted solution]

Hi there @MHabks. Great to see you in the Community Forums! 🙂

Let me give you a hand with this. Your tracker shouldn't record anything while not being worn other than calories burned. It will track calories burned because your body does burn calories even when you're sleeping. This is for your vital body functions as your lungs breathing, your heart beating, etc.

Now, for the steps, this is a little strange. On the bathroom counter, do you have by any chance anything that would vibrate? Vibrations often make trackers record false steps, for example when they're placed near fan stations or similar. If this was not the case, try to restart your tracker to prevent this from happening in the future.

You can easily do this by pressing the left and lower right buttons for 10-12 seconds. This will make your tracker to reboot. Let me know if you continue to experience this issues.

[MHabks]

Thank you for responding. I accept that the tracker counts our calories while sleeping but it wasn’t tracking a heartbeat during those 12 hours so I’m not sure why it would track. Don’t you think that over 800 calories burned during 12 hours of supposed sleeping is high?

In regards to the steps and the bathroom counter, I do not keep anything plugged in the bathroom like a hair dryer or curling iron. I charge my phone in my bedroom. I don’t have a fan on in the bathroom either, so the vibration question was good but doesn’t answer my dilemma.

The way that I read he instructions to reset were that I needed to press all three buttons, which I did about 8 times but if that was wrong, I can see why it didn’t work. The next time I need to charge the battery, I will do the same thing, wait until midnight and try this again.

[FerdinandFitbit]

Thanks for getting back @MHabks. You're right. 800 calories seem a little high. Try restarting it and try also leaving it somewhere else just to see if it makes any difference and see if it continues to record any steps.

Keep in mind that if right at midnight, you take it to the place you'll leave it for the night, those steps will be counted and also the steps when you pick it up in the morning, so just keep an eye on that.

Let me know how it goes!

[Rich_Laue]

Restarting is just pressing the left and lower right buttons. 

Have you by any chance enabled mobile revs on your phone? 

As for the BMR calories, these are the basic calories burnt to keep the body alive and gets counted without looking at the heart rate.