Fitbit Floors Climbed Too High

All of the suddden my new fitbit thinks i m climbing sky scrapers every day.

Fitbit floors climbed too high. Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time. 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. Both of our floors started going nuts last saturday 3 23. I ve had a charge for a year.

Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed. Before with charge 2 i didn t have this issue. I haven t seen an answer for this yet. But the reaction not to use floors is not an acceptable solution.

Fitbit devices detect floors using something called an altimeter. I just got my charge 3 last week and notice the same problem. You ve climbed 500 floors since joining fitbit. You ve climbed 1 000 floors since joining fitbit.

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 expected the calorie count on the way up to be higher than when i logged that same mile separately on the way back down. Just got my charge 2. Just got my new charge 2 and the floors are way off by hundreds.

The device on your wrist takes these readings to estimate. By joining our community you agree to uphold these guidelines so please take a moment to look them over. I have a charge 2 and my husband has a charge 3. Thanks for the info.

I never had a problem with the charge and my floor count. I normally get around 20 40 floors day. I spoke with a fitbit rep on saturday and we reset my charge 3 but it s still having the same problem. I ve done 7 8 stairs today probably less but my fitbit charge 2 shows 59 floors.

You ve climbed 2 000 floors since joining fitbit. Hello i have same issue counting floors even when i do not climbed a floor. It seems to be counting 3x what i ve actually climbed. Anyone still having problems with the floor counter counting too high.

Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation. 212 floors 181 floors. In fact i climbed up a relativey steep hill for 1 mile which was 36 floors. This is a sensor that measures altitude based on atmospheric pressure.

You ve climbed 4 000 floors since joining fitbit. At first we thought it was because of a winter storm and extremely high winds but that is over.