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I lost my 55 active minutes when I logged it as an activity. This is not what usually happens.

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‎08-19-2018 12:48

‎08-19-2018 12:48

I had 55 minutes of activity showing.  I viewed it on the activity graph to confirm the start time.  Then I logged my activity - which has 5 minutes fat burn 41 minutes of cardio and 4 minutes of peak as 'mowing lawn'.  My activity went away and now shows as zero, although I still have the activity and the steps.  This is not usually what happens.

This is on a google pixel 2.

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‎08-19-2018 13:09

‎08-19-2018 13:09

A manual log will overwrite what the tracker has recorded.

A manual log will look at the activity and assume that it was done at a steady rate throughout the time period. This could very well remove active minutes from the periods when more calories where burnt.

Did your calories change after manually logging your unknown activity?

 

Just a note, removing the activity will bring the active minutes back.

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‎08-19-2018 13:26

In response to Rich_Laue

‎08-19-2018 13:26

Correct.  The active minutes and calories came back when I deleted the activity.  But I wanted the activity.  This is the first time I have used the phone to enter an activity - usually I do this from my browser app. on my laptop. 

 

I put the activity back as a 40 minute activity from my browser, as I usually do.  This time I kept the activity minutes and calories.

@Rich_Laue wrote:

A manual log will overwrite what the tracker has recorded.

A manual log will look at the activity and assume that it was done at a steady rate throughout the time period. This could very well remove active minutes from the periods when more calories where burnt.

Did your calories change after manually logging your unknown activity?

 

Just a note, removing the activity will bring the active minutes back.

 

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‎08-19-2018 22:25

In response to MomBee

‎08-19-2018 22:25

In theory manually adding an exercise from the app or the browser should not matter, as long as they are entered the same way.

With both methods the data goes to the same database at fitbit.com. Therefore I'm not following you or im not sure what is going on. 

When it comes to your ionic, there are 20 different exercises, of which up to 7 may be loaded at a time onto the versa.

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