700 steps while sleeping?!

[MissPenn]

Every night at exactly 11pm on the dot, my fitbit one logs that I went for a walk. It also actually logs it as an counted exercise towards my weekly goal. So at the end of the week, I end up having 7 out of 3 goals met and some of those are fake. Sometimes it''s for 10 mins sometimes longer. I take my fitbit off and lay it on a dresser every night at around 9pm.and it doesn't move or shake at all.  I don't use it to track sleep. 

So I have a ghost who uses my fitbit to walk at night. 

I have rebooted my one and redownloaded the app on my phone. 

Any other suggestions to get it to stop?

[WendyB]

I would do a restart. Do it at least 3 times.

Restart
http://help.fitbit.com/articles/en_US/Help_article/1186/?q=restart&l=en_US&fs=Search&pn=1

If that doesn't help
Contact Support
http://help.fitbit.com/?cu=1

[Baltoscott]

Looks like a manual exercise entry.  Do you sync with MyFitnessPal, and are you adding exercise in that program at the end of the day?

[MissPenn]

I do sync with MFP but only log exercises in the morning

Sent from my iPad

[Baltoscott]

---

@MissPenn wrote:
I do sync with MFP but only log exercises in the morning

Sent from my iPad

---

I think that's the issue.  If you decide to keep logging walks in MFP, sync right after you do so and they should show up on your Fitbit excercise log at the correct time.  Probably the better practice would be to just delete the walking exercises from MFP from your fitbit exercise log after they show up.  Fitbit has already figured out your calorie burn for those activities from your tracker.  (It makes sense to let activities like rowing to spread because your tracker won't get the calorie burn of those right on its own, but it is designed to measure walking/running so manual records for that type of activity don't add anything). 

[MissPenn]

I do my exercises, walking included and log through MFP. I get home and sync FB right away. The exercises show up immediately in FB and MFP. I have always done it that way. Don't think that is the problem. Thanks for the advice though 😀

Sent from my iPad

[RCH99]

I had the same problem with my Charge 2. I was getting the walking exercise 3.0 mph at midnight each night. Fitbit support first claimed to have never heard of this issue. They offered the usual advice to restart, logout, etc. That didn't work so I reached out to the MyFitnessPal folks, They were able to provide the solution.

I have the Fitbit app linked to MFP since I use them both each day. I also use Endomondo to track and map bike rides. At some point I also linked Endomond to both MFP and the Fitbit app. That was the cause of the problem. Having all 3 apps linked. Nobody has explained why this causes the random exercise during sleep issue but I confirmed linking all 3 apps does cause the issue.

Simply unlink Endomondo from MFP to break the 3 way link. You can leave Fitbit linked to MFP and Endomondo.

Since Endomondo and MFP are both from Under Armor this same issue may crop up if you link MFP and Fitbit to another one of their applications but I haven't tested that theory.

[Baltoscott]

That is fascinating @RCH99 — I have MFP linked to Fitbit and Garmin linked to MFP which results in Garmin activities showing up as activities in Fitbit, (which is why I suggest users check their activities when unexpected steps show up), but generating an activity at a random time simply by linking programs is a new one.  Glad you figured it out and posted —might help someone else.

Cheers.