Fitbit Tracking Too Many Floors

It also count some of my walking as bicycling.

Fitbit tracking too many floors.

I have just earned a satellite badge for 35 000 lifetime floors. It logs way too many floors sometimes over 200 floors per day day after day. Because my charge 3 was counting way too many floors i had it replaced under warranty. I logged 44 floors today and actually climbed 6.

Fitbit devices don t count floors on stationary exercise equipment such as a stairmaster or treadmill or when you go down a flight of steps. I m asking because the altimeter on the charge 2 is sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Pressure changes due to things like weather or gusts of wind. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.

I got a charge 3 in december 2019 i think it was my fourth fitbit tracker over the years. The fitbit uses an altimeter to count floors so drops in air pressure can fool the fitbit into thinking you were going up. Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors. Just going about our day as usual to notice the.

Watch this video to learn how to correct the entry. 212 floors 181 floors. I too will be looking at competitors if fitbit does not fix this issue. Thanks for trying some tips to fix this issue with your charge 2 tracking so many floors.

Just got my charge 2. The new charge 3 is also counting too many floors 10 floors while walking 1 km on level ground at sea level. No way i deserve that badge. What to do if your fitbit counts too many floors july 28 2019 ivan jovin 1934 views 0 comments how to smartwatch.

I understand subtle pressure changes may affect the accuracy by a floor or two or five. Thanks for the info. In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors. I am tracking sometimes over 100 floors when it should be 15 20.

Just got my new charge 2 and the floors are way off by hundreds. All of the suddden my new fitbit thinks i m climbing sky scrapers every day. It s inner altimeter will calculate altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Hope this helps eric two wrongs don t make a right but three lefts do.

Let me ask you this by any chance have you left your fitbit close to a fan. The only thing that really changed was winter vs. I am thinking of going back to my old charge 1. We ve all had this happen.

It is weird it worked fine for some time then went haywire. I ve had a charge for a year. I normally get around 20 40 floors day. Does your fitbit app show more floors climbed than it should.

Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.