Fitbit a piece of crap

Alatariel75

My Charge HR was great for 2 years until the little band that holds the band down broke. 2 days later it fell off my wrist while I was shopping.

I contacted Fitbit, because a few people mentioned how good their service was. Lo and behold, they replaced my out-of-warranty, well used Fitbit with a brand new one, for free. I was astounded. New one works great too!

GottaBurnEmAll

I've owned two Fitbits now, and the only reason for that is I wanted to upgrade to one with move reminders.

I have had no issues with them and find them to be very useful devices.

trigden1991

New FitBit user here but 2 weeks in and I love it. Keeps me motivated to stay at the top of my friends list for steps which in turn is boosting my TDEE. Win/Win.

Makeitso39

I have a Fitbit One and I love it! I lost it once and customer services sent me a brand new one! I'd love to upgrade but not allowed to wear at work so no point. I think you were very unlucky OP.

mimiyoyo1

Garmin for the win. Just sayin'. Love my Vivoactive HR. Glad I didn't bother with a Fitbit.

Nataliea87

I have a Fitbit Blaze, and I love mine! It usually tracks pretty well with my level of activity- IE, when I'm working on a serving shift, or doing barn chores, it definitely counts the calories/extra steps I've burned with the heart rate tracker. My yoga instructor and I love comparing how many calories we've burned at the end of a sculpt class, she has started having me track it so I can see my progress

rosnz

I like my Charge 2 and find it motivating. I have a triathlete family who all have fancy top of the range Garmin watches and cyclometers plus a separate gps unit so I've had lots to 'check' its accuracy against. Once I calibrated my stride correctly we've found it is surprisingly accurate - steps and distance are usually within 1%. Time will tell how robust it is but for now I'm pleased for the price

7lenny7

Nice thread resurrection!

WinoGelato

7lenny7 wrote: »

Nice thread resurrection!

Oh man! I didn't even notice. Good catch.

Troutsy

I went through a lot of fitbits and have gotten multiple replacements from customer service. I was fed up and decided enough is enough. I bought a Samsung Fit gear2. It's much better and I haven't had one issue with it.

Edit: I didn't realize it was a necro thread.

hazcad

I recently purchased the charge 2. I sent it back 3 days later!
Brushing my hair gained 50 odd steps, changing clothes nearly 100. Preparing dinner 70 odd.
It was great when I was actually walking places but for everyday general use it counted way too many steps I didn't do.

I tried both hands and fiddling with the setting with no luck. They really need to work on the sensitivity settings I think to make it more accurate.

But on a positive I'm loving the Fitbit scales.

FitKat123

I have the flex. It registers steps if I'm rocking in a rocking chair. But I know that so I either take it off or put it in my pocket. I used to wear it as a necklace and it worked pretty well that way. It takes getting to know the limitations. I do find it motivating.

GottaBurnEmAll

hazcad wrote: »

I recently purchased the charge 2. I sent it back 3 days later!
Brushing my hair gained 50 odd steps, changing clothes nearly 100. Preparing dinner 70 odd.
It was great when I was actually walking places but for everyday general use it counted way too many steps I didn't do.

I tried both hands and fiddling with the setting with no luck. They really need to work on the sensitivity settings I think to make it more accurate.

But on a positive I'm loving the Fitbit scales.

Mine doesn't do that at all. So weird.

Woodspoon

Overgrown pedometers, was given a charge hr for free, total rubbish, burned 100 calories while making bread, 40 while unloading the washing machine, 200 while walking less than a mile.
most people seem to like them because they massively overstate the calories used for whatever they are doing which makes them feel good.

Iknewyouweretrouble

people have been having trouble with the charge and HR causing overestimations from what i have been reading on here as of late. mine is pretty spot on with the occasional glitch, i have the old flex. any charge HR people can chip in on the overestimation issue.

arya8

Iknewyouweretrouble wrote: »

people have been having trouble with the charge and HR causing overestimations from what i have been reading on here as of late. mine is pretty spot on with the occasional glitch, i have the old flex. any charge HR people can chip in on the overestimation issue.

I have charge 2 and it over estimates my calories burned by at least 500 every day. My tdee is around 2000 most days but it keeps telling me it's 2500. So it wants me to gain weight!

nutmegoreo

7lenny7 wrote: »

Nice thread resurrection!

Yup. Pretty sure the OP is over it by now.

jazzyspender

Had 2 Fitbit with broken wristbands. I emailed Fitbit and they sent me new ones at no charge!

MeanderingMammal

Iknewyouweretrouble wrote: »

people have been having trouble with the charge and HR causing overestimations from what i have been reading on here as of late. mine is pretty spot on with the occasional glitch, i have the old flex. any charge HR people can chip in on the overestimation issue.

Any step tracking that includes HR in the measurements will overstate calories. Switch off the HR monitoring and see what that does.

trigden1991

Woodspoon wrote: »

Overgrown pedometers, was given a charge hr for free, total rubbish, burned 100 calories while making bread, 40 while unloading the washing machine, 200 while walking less than a mile.
most people seem to like them because they massively overstate the calories used for whatever they are doing which makes them feel good.

Your body burns calories by living so if you spent an hour making bread, you could have burned 100 calories in that time.