Counting far too many steps - Versa 4

[MIdlifeReBoot78]

I recently bought a Versa 4 as a replacement for my Amazefit Bip U. The extra features of the Fitbit made it a no-brainer, as I'm trying to get lean and healthy. However, where the Amazefit was about 100 steps a day out, my Fitbit is on the order of thousands of steps over. I wear it on my non-dominant wrist, but have the app set to dominant. I have set the stride length to auto and done it manually, with no changes. I have even got to the point where I take it off while driving (I'm a courier), but the steps are still registered. I was at the gym today and drove home. It was a ten-minute drive, and the Fitbit registered 270 steps. On Friday, while I was at work, I did 3500-ish steps before I went out on my round, took my watch off as soon as I got in the van and didn't put it back on until I had finished; my step count was over 11000! How is it, a company as large as Fitbit and now Google can't sort this out yet, a small Chinese company can pretty much get it bang on?

Any ideas as to what I can do, as I'm seriously considering returning the Fitbit and staying with Amazefit? 

[Rich_Laue]

Hi @MIdlifeReBoot78 are you saying that your Amazefit was only recording 100 steps in a day? Have you worn both watches durring a day? 

I would restart the Versa 4, by holding in the button. Then take a walk and test. I use the walk recording mode and count every left step. After I count a few hundred left steps, stop the walk recording. Double the number I have and compare to the step count on the Versa. 

[MIdlifeReBoot78]

No, I was saying the Amazfit was counting pretty much accurately. Where the Fitbit was about 3k steps over, every day, the Amazfit was about 100 steps over each day. Which I can live with. The Amazfit also doesn't count any steps while I'm driving. None at all. 

I have returned the Fitbit now anyway. I'm going back to Amazfit.  

Thanks so much for the reply.