Sigh (sort of). I am returning #2 from Amazon, that one didn't track sleep. Now I'm on #3, but this is a seller refurb from ebay. Doesn't track sleep either. (I suppose one good thing, the step counts have all been consistent between the 3.) This one came in a generic box, in two little baggies. The unit with a wrist band in one bag, and the other wrist band and charger in the other bag. One interesting things was that for the first two, they were "new" units, such that I 1st had to charge them, the f/w updated on both automatically, and then I could pair them with my tablet. For this refurb, it came maybe 60% charged, and the f/w was already up to date. Meh, still doesn't track sleep at all. Just the faded out moon on the unit every day so far, and no sleep stats on Fitbit's web site.
There are manufacturer refurbs on ebay too. That's what I'll try next. If that doesn't work, I'll either try another Fitbit model (probably not, tired of these not working and no response from the company), or try a Garmin.
You could rightly say, dude, you've had 3 of these now, none of then have tracked sleep, maybe you're doing something wrong. Well, you could say that, but you'd be wrong. 🙂 Remember, I had a Fitbit Flex 2 originally, and that tracked sleep really well. I have a cheap Chinese Akasma activity tracker from Amazon now, that also tracks sleep fine. (Actually, I don't remember the Flex 2 doing this, but the Akasma tracks awake time, light sleep time, and deep sleep time. I think the Flex 2 only tracked sleep and being awake.) So it ain't me. 😉 I personally can only conclude that there is a manufacturing defect such that some of these? most of these? don't track sleep. Maybe this doesn't get more visibility, because most people are only interested in the fitness/step tracking.
