Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time.
Does fitbit charge 2 track floors.
Only up one floor in my house and already in my fitbit i have 10.
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.
Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors.
August 26 2017 at 7 46 am.
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.
Maybe it would track the elevation gain and you would get floor badges.
Your charge 2 will celebrate when you reach your main goal.
And of course it does not register floors when you go down.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
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.
But all your steps for both going up and down do get counted irrelevant of the floor.
You ll see that it is a really cool tracker.
And yes it tracks floors.
Congrats on getting a new charge 2.
Your fitbit charge 2 calculates floors using an altimeter which is a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
And other times when you walk uphill your charge 2 will also record floors.
This is my fourth day of having the fitbit charge 3.
Unfortunately fitbit s floor functionality does not recognize the incremental effort of climbing up.
A number of the fitbit trackers can measure floors climbed.
Fitbit one fitbit charge and fitbit ionic to name a few.
In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors.
Wear your charge 2 everyday to track a variety of stats.
Couldbe welcome to the community.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
In the meantime i switched to the newer fitbit charge hr 2 although i haven t tested this trick with the new.
I realized this on the second day and looked at the blog and reset it as directed.
All day heart rate and zones.
Most of the times it is just about knowing how the fitbit trackers work.
What info does the fitbit read when you cycle.
Simple comfortable and very helpful.
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.
This story happened to me in 2015 while wearing a fitbit charge hr fitness tracker.
Look at specifications on their website.