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How are steps counted?

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‎02-03-2018 20:29 - last edited on ‎02-05-2019 19:20 by Moderator Alum

‎02-03-2018 20:29 - last edited on ‎02-05-2019 19:20 by Moderator Alum

How the steps count? I have iconic watch and sometimes it's count even or add numbers, also sometime it's count 7 steps at one time?  How it's work

 

 

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‎02-04-2018 00:41

‎02-04-2018 00:41

There are motion detectors in the fitbit. When the fitbit detects that it is moving it analyses the movement to decide whether it is down to a step being made or it's just random arm movement.

 

Sometimes it needs to see a few steps before it decides they are indeed steps and that's why the count can sometimes seem to start at around 7 or so.

 

The algorithms that it uses to decide whether it's a step or not are not 100% accurate so sometimes it misses a step, other times you may get a step in error. There's a help file on this here: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1136/

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‎02-04-2018 00:41

‎02-04-2018 00:41

There are motion detectors in the fitbit. When the fitbit detects that it is moving it analyses the movement to decide whether it is down to a step being made or it's just random arm movement.

 

Sometimes it needs to see a few steps before it decides they are indeed steps and that's why the count can sometimes seem to start at around 7 or so.

 

The algorithms that it uses to decide whether it's a step or not are not 100% accurate so sometimes it misses a step, other times you may get a step in error. There's a help file on this here: https://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1136/

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