Trouble with my Blaze

[Giggitti]

I've had this fitbit for 3 months and unless the next update fixes some of the issues I will be selling it. Here are my top reasons for not recommending any Fitbit products to my friends:

- It is hit or miss when syncing via bluetooth with MacBook Air running iOS 10.11.6. Works only one in ten times.
- It is hit or miss when syncing via bluetooth with Blackberry Z30. This I can understand since Fitbit doesn't support Blackberry.
- Won’t sync with Nexus 7.
- Battery barely makes it 2 days with everything but the heart rate monitor turned off.
- Fitbit holds your data hostage, only giving you interpreted results.
- There are only four watch faces.
- There is no sleep mode so the watch dies in the middle of the night because the back light keeps coming on.

Really, if your going to charge this much for a product it should at least work as good as its competitors.

Moderator Edit: Clarified subject

[Houstonnick]

More to the point, it should ACCURATELY do what it is advertised to do.

[andrea444]

I agree. Mine is sitting in the original box. I wear my Alta or Charge HR instead. Wondering if anyone will even buy my Blaze if I put it on EBay or somewhere like that.

[Rich_Laue]

I disagree i find that mine performs as accurate as i would expect any real world device to work. Syncs with no problems, but sometimes slow. Yes after an.app update i might need to restart the phone or at least BT. This is because the fitbit drivers get embedded into the os. 

Step count a 1000 step walk gives me 1000 +/- 20 steps on the tracker. 

While sitting or durring every day activity i did not expect a device that monitors hand motions to be really accurate at counting feet motions. Close maybe. 

Sleep sometimes on the app has taken up to 6 hours to show, web seems to be fine. 

Also my 2 ideal clock faces are a available. 

[SunsetRunner]

I agree with Rich.  I've had my Blaze since January and have not had a major problems.  I find it as accurate as my past Fitbits.  Not every tracker is for everyone.  This is a tool, and no tool is perfect. 

[Visualtps]

Why would you want a sleep mode when you can turn off the Quick View anytime you want under Settings which is what I do at night.  I have had no problems with my blaze and I have had it since it was first released.

[Rich_Laue]

I agree @Visualtps turning quick view of would be very close to a sleep mode, which would necessitate being manually entered. Currently the auto sleep detection happens in the cloud, not the tracker, after a person has woken up. :cloud: 

[bbarrera]

For best value, I recommend the following trackers:

- Fitbit MobileTrack (free) 

- Fitbit One

- Fitbit Charge HR

When Blaze was released, a lot of reviews came to the same conclusion - Charge HR is best bang for buck if you want heart rate data. Otherwise you'll get a more accurate step count from One, and when I started walking for fitness it did a great job estimating calories.

Blaze is nice tracker to splurge on if you love Fitbit, or own Fitbit stock. Not the best value, and not the most accurate tracker in the market. Nice having the screen, not crazy about yet another proprietary Fitbit charger or the industrial design (lack of waterproofing to swim with it, build quality, plastics).

[Pruttinyllet]

Very good points Giggitti! I share your views.

I would ignore whatever Rich says. After having read several threads here, its obvious that he's a Fitbit apologist who won't acknowledge or respect any criticism. I don't know if he's a Fitbit employee in disguise or if he owns stock in the company, or what. But I think it's fishy how he enters each and every thread just to defend Fitbit's poor decisions. Don't take it personal!

[Rich_Laue]

@Pruttinyllet you should learn how to properly mention somebody, and of course it is very easy to know who are paid fitbit employees. 

Not sure about the apologist but a realistic, after having Fitbits since 2012, i kinda have an idea of how fitbit updates work. It is also easy to see my relation, hint look at the sig. 

[J-flex]

I have a Blaze and am very happy with it.

[SunsetRunner]

I agree with bbarrera.
The older products do what they do nicely.
The surge will not get past 12 months
The blaze imo is not a surge upgrade.

[twingirls2]

I'm over the charge a)so. It doesn't count steps when you are carrying something that requires both hands or when shopping for groceries and both hands are needed to push the cart. I still have my one so when I go grocery shopping I wear the One. When I sync the one all the steps for the day on the blaze rested of what is on the Blaze. Call support no luck. I sure it's going back only had it about a month.

[Rich_Laue]

Unless I'm carrying something that is like 50 or more pounds, my blaze counts steps fine.. As for a shopping cart, this is a limitation of the tracker being on the arm, it is only able to monitor arm motions. 

[jmattwood]

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@twingirls2 wrote:
I'm over the charge a)so. It doesn't count steps when you are carrying something that requires both hands or when shopping for groceries and both hands are needed to push the cart. I still have my one so when I go grocery shopping I wear the One. When I sync the one all the steps for the day on the blaze rested of what is on the Blaze. Call support no luck. I sure it's going back only had it about a month.

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I overcome that limitation by doing one of the following:

1. Give my wife the job of pushing.

2. Slip the Fitbit in my pocket.