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Another post about bad step tracking

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‎01-05-2023 06:37

‎01-05-2023 06:37

Woke up this morning - said I'd already logged 72 steps.  Pet the dog - log 30 steps.  Sit in a chair and work at my computer for 50 minutes and logged 332 steps...yet when I ACTUALLY take steps, it's dead on accurate.

 

Yesterday my Charge 5 (bought a week ago today) said I logged over 7000 steps.  There's NO way.  Last Saturday it was almost 13000 steps.  Again, there's NO way I could've even gotten near half that many on Saturday because I worked ALL day, at a desk. 

 

I really wanna like this thing.  I love the features and SUPPOSED abilities...but it makes it a little tough to trust when it's telling me I'm burning 4000 calories a day from all these steps I'm supposedly taking.

 

Here's what I've tried doing:

Restarting the fitbit

Logging in and out and back in.

Fully charging

Setting the "hand" to dominant

I've tried different placements on my wrist as described by Fitbit and forum users

Fully updated firmware

 

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Is there a model that would be more accurate because this is just not acceptable considering it was my reason for purchasing.  


Thoughts?

 

Thanks for reading.  Curious if anyone else has had the same luck or if I'm just a weird arm swinger of something.  I mean...I can't even pet the dog or brush my teeth without walking a half mile?  Seems odd...

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‎01-05-2023 06:59

‎01-05-2023 06:59

2 points I want to point out:

"I really wanna like this thing. I love the features and SUPPOSED abilities...but it makes it a little tough to trust when it's telling me I'm burning 4000 calories a day from all these steps I'm supposedly taking."

Steps have no bearing on calories burned. Calories are based on heart rate.

 

It's on your wrist, not on your leg. It can only infer steps from wrist/leg movement.  It can never be precise for step count.  If step count if the only important thing to you, get a pedometer to wear on your hip, but it won't know your heart rate or calorie burn.  When you pet your dog 30 times, no way something on your wrist can distinguish that from walking.

Before posting, re-read to see if it would make sense to someone else not looking at your Fitbit or phone.

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