Not tracking sleep

[JoeT]

With The blaze,  I have noticed that when I have the sleep mode activated,  it shuts off earlier than I am awake and out of bed.   For example today, it said I woke at 7 am, but I was out cold until 8 30.   (I am retired, eat your heart out :)). I fixed it manually.

Yesterday,  it showed that I awoke at 1:15 and went back to sleep at 1:16, made two sleep records.  Oh I did a manual fix and it is fine.

I wear the band sort of tight, but not too tight.    I do like the unit.  I have been putting it through its paces since I got it and got 4 days of charge, which isn't too bad really.  

When I did get it, it had a long update to the software and I am assuming that there will be future fixes as time goes on. 

   JT

[FerdinandFitbit]

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

I think -based on what you say- that it's because of the fact of staying in bed after actually waking up.

Autodetection is based on your movement. When you haven’t moved in over an hour, algorithms assume that sleep has begun, which is confirmed by the length of time your movements are indicative of sleep behavior only (rolling over, etc). Morning movement tells your tracker that you’re awake. If you’re not moving but not asleep for long periods of time it’s possible for your tracker to falsely record sleep, in which case you can delete the sleep record from your dashboard as you have been doing.

For more information on how sleep tracking works, you can take a look at this article.

If you have any other question, let me know and I'll be glad to help! 🙂

[eddiemack]

Since I got the Blaze 6 ro 8 months ago the sleep report is terrible. I might go to bed at midnight and get up at 6:30 am with one time up for a bathroom break. The tracking report will say I went to bed at maybe 2:45 and register that I slept 2 1/2 hours.

Is there an update available? I originally had that small fitbit and it was real accurate but much more so than the Blaze.

[FerdinandFitbit]

Welcome to the Fitbit Community @eddiemack! 🙂

If your tracker is not keeping a correct log of your sleep, I can recommend two things. The first one will be to change the settings for the sleep sensitivity. Go to the account section on your app, then scroll down to Advanced Settings. go down to Sleep Sensitivity and here change it to "Sensitive"

After that, restart your tracker by pressing the left and lower right buttons on your Blaze for about 10-12 seconds and after that, get it to sync to take the changes and try it out the next night to see how it goes.

Let me know if this makes any difference.

[eddiemack]

I had the setting at "Sensitive" already so I reset my Blaze. Actually, the
night before it had read pretty accurately.

Last night I went to be just after midnight and got up after 8 this morning.
My Blaze recorded three events:

12:21 AM - 1:26 AM

2:36 AM - 3:53 AM

6:54 AM - 8:27 AM



I don't sleep very solidly but I was in bed and asleep more than what was
recorded.

Not sure what is going on.

[LEHJ]

I have same problem with length of nightly sleep being recorded wrong by my Blaze.  Already have Sleep sent to sensitive setting and restarted Blaze.  This seems to happen after latest software upgrade to give view of the Sleep Stages..