Sleep data wildly innacurate

[sgbednar]

My tracker does not seem to be recording sleep time accurately.  If I get up to use the restroom, it may decide I wasn't asleep after all and drop the first portion of my sleep.  Alternatively, it may decide I am done sleeping now and fail to record the rest of the night.  This appears to throw off all of my other data, since it relies on sleep data.  I can't trust any recommendations, because I know they are based on faulty data. 

My device is charged, I adjust the band to fit tightly at night, and push it up higher on my wrist.  Sometimes if I re-sync multiple times, the problem will resolve.  Other times, no amount of refreshing will make a difference.  Today I tried adjusting the erroneous sleep times in the app, but was prompted that sleep times had already been recorded.  I am out of ideas.  I need a more accurate device!

[Natasha81]

My sleep data is sometimes a little wonky too, either from sleeping poorly or it tracks my morning meditation as sleep.

But you can edit the sleep log. Instead of creating a new sleep log altogether (which is what you’re doing if it’s telling you a sleep log already exists), open today’s sleep log. You should see your last night’s stats (i.e. time asleep, deep and REM, restoration).

From that screen, click the three dots at the top right. It will give you the option to edit log. 

Touch the start time and adjust. Then touch the wake up time and adjust. If it tells you a sleep log already exists you are likely just adjusting the wrong time (i.e. start vs wake time). It defaults to editing your wake up time first, so just make sure to select the correct time.

You might need to sync once after you fix the sleep log. But then all your other stats should then align with your sleep data. 

[sgbednar]

Thank you.  I just tried to do this for last night.  It did change my sleep time (sort of) but would not accept any numbers before midnight.  So I am missing any sleep I got before midnight.  Also, none of my other stats adjusted, even after syncing.  I think there is a software bug that was triggered by the time change, as it simply will not acknowledge any sleep that happened before midnight.  

[Natasha81]

Hm, did you double check the day? I mean when you are editing your start time for sleep, make sure the day is set to yesterday's date, and then select a time before midnight. I've run into that before (if the time is after midnight, it'll be today's date, and it won't let you go backward). I hope that helps. 

[sgbednar]

Ah!  Thanks for this!  I will try.

[sgbednar]

OK.  I edited the last two nights time logs, as you suggested.  Last night looks more close to what I remember.  The night before I had a hard time changing, finally got it right, but somehow lost all of the sleep stage information that was previously there.  Other data did not seem to change, so evaluation of stress management, readiness, and such are probably not appropriate, but at least I have a more accurate picture of how I am sleeping.  Thank you! 

I get really frustrated with this, because I have a sleep disorder and am working on trying to establish a better schedule and figure out what helps me and what doesn't.  Lost data or innacurate data means I can't really track my progress (other than the old way of noticing how tired I am!)

[Natasha81]

I’m glad it worked. My guess about losing the sleep data from previous nights is that the watch itself only keeps data for so long, so it can no longer sync with the app if too much time has passed. Hopefully if you edit the sleep log on the day of, the rest of the data will start to be more accurate. Good luck.