My Versa tracked steps while on charge

[Clovergirl]

 Last night I plugged in my brand new versa on my nightstand. This morning I woke up and had 4764 magic steps, but hadn’t moved it all night. Has anyone else had their versa count steps when it’s sitting still?

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[Cantryboy]

Free stops for all those times you walked before a Fitbit 😋

[swim4lifekac]

Were you wearing another Fitbit tracker?

[Clovergirl]

Nope. I was sleeping without wearing it had unpaired the old tracker from my account prior to pairing my new Versa. 

[Clovergirl]

[Clovergirl]

Another odd detail.... When I looked at the hourly tracking to see where the steps were "taken" on the timeline of night hours, no bars were showing up. Now that I am up, I am seeing bars, as expected. 4000+ seems like a lot of steps for no tracking (bars). So weird!

[swim4lifekac]

Very wierd...

[DramaQueenDiva]

Was it near a vibrating source like a fan or a vent?  If it was, that is what caused you to have extra steps.

[Clovergirl]

There is, in fact, a small fan nearby. I've used several fitbit trackers and tried an apple watch. All have been charged in the same place and I've never seen this before. The fan was my first thought, but when I didn't see any steps in the hourly view, I was perplexed!

[st33vil]

You were obviously sleepwalking.

[Lufalulz]

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@Clovergirl wrote:

There is, in fact, a small fan nearby. I've used several fitbit trackers and tried an apple watch. All have been charged in the same place and I've never seen this before. The fan was my first thought, but when I didn't see any steps in the hourly view, I was perplexed!

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That's the most intriguing part.

I've read that there's a bug with the Ionic counting steps on its own when you have it on a surface that's vibrating. It is related to its firmware (which is the same the Versa has). But it makes absolutely no sense for the device to track steps and not show them on that graph.

I'm assuming those steps didn't even give you mileage.

[Clovergirl]

You are 100% correct I am at .16 miles, despite having 5000 steps!

[N8teGee]

I've experienced exactly the same with the Ionic, although it seems to have fixed itself. The steps are completely phantom though, no calories or distance awarded.

As already suggested, it's worth moving it to a different location when changing. 

[Telfa]

Same here. The first night, I had it off just to give my wrist a break and it gave me around 3k steps, and the second day I moved its location and it gave my 8k steps while it was nowhere on me. I also have been having inaccurate floor counting while simply walking in a building with no elevation raises. 
I can ignore the floors, and I am grateful that these ghost steps are not counting towards my calorie count... but I feel it defeats the purpose of challenges when I am getting more steps for zero work.
Hopefully it is a simple patch fix or something and not an issue with my Versa itself.

[Hooks]

This has happened the last two nights - first night had 8k magically appear and today I had 7400 —- I had it off my wrist to sleep both times —will try to move in a different location and see if that works -