Fitbit Charge Not Counting Floors Correctly

I climbed 6 flights of stairs a while ago and i got credit for 2.

Fitbit charge not counting floors correctly.

My fitbit charge hr counted my floors correctly. Fitbit devices do not count the elevation gains simulated from a stairmaster inclined treadmill or other stationary exercise equipment. Has been fine until yesterday. My fitbit said i had climbed 226 floors.

My activity was 18 holes of golf on a relatively flat course. I was not carrying anything. It is so frustrating i am going back to the flex 2 because it does not do stairs. Often the very next day it seems to count them more accurately.

If you have a fitbit alta or fitbit flex 2. A pressure difference equivalent to about 10 ft is counted as 1 floor. In the meantime i switched to the newer fitbit charge hr 2. Hold down the buttons on your device until the lights on your tracker flash or you see a fitbit logo.

Although i haven t tested this trick with the new. However neither of my charge hr s nor my charge 2 record floors. Yesterday the charge 2 gave me 1 stair climb of 14. Sometimes if i went up in an elevator i got credit for more floors.

If you have a fitbit blaze fitbit charge or charge hr fitbit charge 2 fitbit one or fitbit surge. The reverse can happen if you are out in a windy environment you could get changes in air pressure around your fitbit and it will register phantom floors. This story happened to me in 2015 while wearing a fitbit charge hr fitness tracker. The unit uses the air pressure altimeter to count floors and it only counts floors going up not down.

My fitbit one did a great job of floor climbs. And i hung 3 loads of washing on the line and brought it back in when dry. Today i ve apparently climbed 26 floors already and ha. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure to detect elevation change and therefore requires that you physically change elevation in order to properly record floors.

I took advantage of target s 20 gift card promotion and got the alta only to discover it counted the flights of steps with almost the same inconsistency. Problem with fitbit one not counting flights of steps correctly is inconsistent. 7th floor and i took stairs to go down and up multiple times with in last 3 days and my floor count is not. My fitbit is only two weeks old.

Press the button three times within eight seconds alta or three times within five seconds flex 2. Partial floors are not counted so if you climb 15 ft you get credit for one floor. Mark topic as new. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.

Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation. Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.