Consistant Restless Periods

[WMarc]

Night after night good majority of my Restless periods show up as 11 minutes. Last night out of 17 periods registered 12 showed as 11 minutes. Finding that rather odd.

[Odyssey13]

@WMarc  Many of us have the same thing. Here is mine from last night

"Last night 5h 26min asleep
You were awake for 12 mins (3x) and restless for 153 mins (12x)"

I tend to move my blankets and flip my pillow around at night, which I'm sure makes me appear more restless.

Welcome to the forums.

[WMarc]

I'm not questioning how I am restless, I'm commenting on how the majority of the restless periods show up as being 11 minutes.

[EmilyEL]

@WMarc I'm not sure whether there is a correlation between your sleep cycle and the 11 minute increment of restless time, or if there is something strange going on with your tracker.

The Fitbit Support team can definitely look into this on the back end, though...so I'd encourage you to reach out to them if you're skeptical. 

Thanks!

[Tanyak12]

mine shows 11 minute increments also and I cannot find anything online that will explain that... it is driving me crazy.  Might just return it.  I have been using it for 3 weeks now and I love it, but that single aspect makes me feel as though something is amiss with the accuracy of the tracker.

[WMarc]

I have found by wearing the unit at my waist during the night rather than on my wrist, the increments now show up as varied providing perhaps a more accurate (?) recording of the night.  Find it interesting too how the report on my iPhone shows awake, restless and sleep as opposed to the online reports which show only if you're either awake or asleep. I have found the other reports– steps, floors, etc. to be right on the mark but can see short of being wired up, the short comings of a device which measures movement attempting to determine states of sleep, restlessness or wakefulness. 

[EmilyEL]

@Tanyak12 If you have a screenshot of this phenomenon, please post it here so that we can see what you're referencing! I'm not sure about the 11-minute issue you're describing...I'd be interested to know more!

Have you witnessed this occurrence on multiple nights?

[Tanyak12]

Sent from my iPhone

[Tanyak12]

I will try to send it again as it didn't go through

[BobbyD17]

The majority of those pink lines are 11 minutes. I have had this happen on multiple days, but perhaps, when you roll over in your sleep, that is the time it takes for the average person to get into a comfortable position and stop moving. I wouldn't put too much trust in the accuracy while sleeping though. Just use it as a guide to know if you slept more or less than other nights.

[petitchef]

i have no idea how to post a screenshot but theother night i went to beed close to 1am and wokeup after 9am. the tracker said i went to sleep @ 5am and fell asleep right away. gorwing frustrated.

[Greenmyrtle]

Same here; On sensitive the charge suggests I am restless most of the night, ~50% of restless periods are 11 mins. Suspicious number are multiples of 11. Then times I KNOW I was awake are not registered, eg last night I woke up too hot around 3am, got up, found a fan, clipped it onto the shelf above my bed, went downstairs, got water, came upstairs, didn't get back to sleep til nearly 4... Fitbit shows it as a few brief awake minutes. I've been running argus sleeptime on my iPhone since the Fitbit is so off, and indeed without being strapped to my arm, without walking around the house with me, or up and down stairs, just from the movement of the mattress, Argus sleeptime registered that I was awake for exactly the period I know I was awake.

I've tried Fitbit on "normal" and that tracks nothing. Almost zero restlessness or awake time when I know there was.

On sleeptime I often see 60-90min sleep cycles on the graph, and when those align with me coming to consciousness I can verify that they seem fairly accurate. Fitbit on the other hand shows random series of brief sleep/restless/sleep/restless.. Sleep periods rarely exceeding 1/2hr. Just doesn't match my experience ever.

Fitbit help articles suggest you "choose" which of the 2 settings seem right to you. So I'm meant to decide whether I get 8hrs of sleep or 3hra of sleep? Isn't that what the device is meant to tell me?

I think the 11 minute thing is a huge clue that the sleep tracker is badly buggy and hasn't been fixed.