How to set up text notifications?

[sanlee]

How do i set up receipt of text messages and responses

Put a flower on the screen which opens as it meet my targets?

Put other activities such as hiking on the fitbit?

The heart rate seems to differ considerably which what the treadmill in the gym says? Anybody else have this problem and which is more accurate

Moderator edit: Subject for clarity 

[WendyB]

Welcome to the forums!

Treadmill
If you are holding on to the bars it will not count accurately. Also you not covering an exact distance because you are not moving forward.

Also See this thread by MrMarv
It explains it very well

https://community.fitbit.com/t5/Alta-HR/Step-calculation/m-p/2586363/highlight/true#M22198

The manual is here and can help a lot

http://help.fitbit.com/?p=versa Its at the top of the page

Check out the discussions boards! A lot going on and I'm sure you have some contributions as well!
Hope to see you around!

[sanlee]

Thank you the step count makes sense. I have found out my versa is not compatible with my Huawei  P20 lite despite Curry's telling me it was ! no wonder it's not synching 

[lenny4d]

@WendyB"If you are holding on to the bars it will not count accurately." .... It appears you are referring to stepcount instead of HR...  The OP never asked about distance.

@sanlee"The heart rate seems to differ considerably which what the treadmill in the gym says? Anybody else have this problem and which is more accurate"

Both systems do some form of filtering, but for as long as your HR is reasonably stable the treadmill will be 100% accurate. There are many threads on the accuracy of the HR sensor on the Versa, Ionic, Charge 3. It is fair to say that for some/many people there are issues at higher HR's. Usually it is correct up to maybe 120bpm, and beyond that starts to differ in weird patterns. That's my observation at least. The Charge 2 was always spot on up to 160bpm. Something has changed, a lot of ppl have noticed it, but fitbit isn't really admitting it. I am almost contemplating going back to my Charge 2.

That said I have the following tips, particularly for the treadmill:

• Try to not move your arm with the tracker too much
• Follow the instructions on tracker placement, you may need to experiment with tightness of the band and distance from wrist
• Keep sweat away
• IF you want to calibrate against the treadmill, take a reading from the watch, then hold the handlebars and compare with the earlier tracker reading. Do not compare with the tracker while holding.