Fitbit Tracking Too Many Floors

I understand subtle pressure changes may affect the accuracy by a floor or two or five.

Fitbit tracking too many floors. I got a charge 3 in december 2019 i think it was my fourth fitbit tracker over the years. Let me ask you this by any chance have you left your fitbit close to a fan. I never had a problem with the charge and my floor count. Though your device is designed to look for pressure changes.

I ve had a charge for a year. Watch this video to learn how to correct the entry. 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. What to do if your fitbit counts too many floors july 28 2019 ivan jovin 1934 views 0 comments how to smartwatch.

I logged 44 floors today and actually climbed 6. All of the suddden my new fitbit thinks i m climbing sky scrapers every day. 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 the info.

Just going about our day as usual to notice the. The new charge 3 is also counting too many floors 10 floors while walking 1 km on level ground at sea level. Just got my charge 2. I normally get around 20 40 floors day.

It also count some of my walking as bicycling. Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors. I am thinking of going back to my old charge 1. I am tracking sometimes over 100 floors when it should be 15 20.

Does your fitbit app show more floors climbed than it should. We ve all had this happen. I m asking because the altimeter on the charge 2 is sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.

I have just earned a satellite badge for 35 000 lifetime floors. I too will be looking at competitors if fitbit does not fix this issue. No way i deserve that badge. Pressure changes due to things like weather or gusts of wind.

It s inner altimeter will calculate altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Thanks for trying some tips to fix this issue with your charge 2 tracking so many floors. It logs way too many floors sometimes over 200 floors per day day after day. It is weird it worked fine for some time then went haywire.

Hope this helps eric two wrongs don t make a right but three lefts do. Just got my new charge 2 and the floors are way off by hundreds. In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors. 212 floors 181 floors.

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