Fitbit One Not Counting Floors

It does not count floors accurately and i have been trying to determine when it does and doesn t count.

Fitbit one not counting floors.

When i first started using my fitbit back in october 2018 i tracked 10 20 floors per day. I purchased this to replace my fitbit blaze and old asus zw2 which is dying and wanted 1 device to cover both of their functionality. Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time. Often the very next day it seems to count them more accurately.

I normally do around 40 60 floors a day and no i m lucky if it registers 1. I used to try and actually climb stairs during the course of the day. Partial floors are not counted so if you climb 15 ft you get credit for one floor. My fitbit surge is not counting floors ive been up down loads of times but it wont move off 2.

I also question the step count. It seems now that i m regularly tracking 100 150 floors per day. If i pause after one floor then make the next flight it will count two. Unfortunately the fitbit app does not allow you to delete floors or steps for that matter.

I live in a house which has three floors with two flights of stairs. Over the past week my fit bit has stopped counting floors. It s not ideal but there is a workaround. Pausing when you go up a flight of stairs can cause the device to not count the floor.

The fitbit community is a gathering place for real people who wish to exchange ideas solutions tips techniques and insight about the fitbit products and services they love. A pressure difference equivalent to about 10 ft is counted as 1 floor. The unit uses the air pressure altimeter to count floors and it only counts floors going up not down. I am assuming that the fitbit is broken but thought inwould raise the issue on here if it can be fixed easily with the app.

I have a 2 story house and it registered 1 floor all day. Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation. I thought buying the gw vs gear s3 frontier was a smart futureproof buy but not if it isn t accurate. I have noticed that if i go up the two flights in one continuous trip it will count only one floor.

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. It consists of adding a driving activity to override the. Ive had one problem after another i wish i d bought a garmin. One cruise ship at a time.