You ll see that it is a really cool tracker.
Does fitbit charge 2 track floors.
A number of the fitbit trackers can measure floors climbed.
In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors.
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.
Most of the times it is just about knowing how the fitbit trackers work.
Look at specifications on their website.
Your charge 2 will celebrate when you reach your main goal.
Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
Calories burned total for day including rest active minutes with strenuous activity.
All day heart rate and zones.
In the meantime i switched to the newer fitbit charge hr 2 although i haven t tested this trick with the new.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
In fact floors do not count for anything floors do not carry any incremental caloric burn value it s just a statistic aimed at keeping people motivated.
Simple comfortable and very helpful.
And other times when you walk uphill your charge 2 will also record floors.
Though your tracker is designed to look for pressure changes based on elevation gains pressure changes due to other causes such as a gust of wind a weather change or opening a door can occasionally cause your.
August 26 2017 at 7 46 am.
Your fitbit charge 2 calculates floors using an altimeter which is a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
It does not track the floors climbed.
And of course it does not register floors when you go down.
What info does the fitbit read when you cycle.
And yes it tracks floors.
Beside that it tracks steps distance calories burn heart rate sleep hourly movements active minutes and it has breathing sessions that you can adjust to 2 or 5 minutes.
I realized this on the second day and looked at the blog and reset it as directed.
This is my fourth day of having the fitbit charge 3.
Congrats on getting a new charge 2.
Couldbe welcome to the community.
Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time.
This story happened to me in 2015 while wearing a fitbit charge hr fitness tracker.
It worked for one day i woke up in the morning and it did not work that day then recorded one floor but not the rest.
But all your steps for both going up and down do get counted irrelevant of the floor.
Only up one floor in my house and already in my fitbit i have 10.
Unfortunately fitbit s floor functionality does not recognize the incremental effort of climbing up.