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Sorry, I haven't had any problems with mine not working. I just plug it in, wait a couple seconds and the site opens on its own with the updated information.

I've been wearing one for about a month now and I really like it. I'm going just put a bunch of info out there and if you have questions on any of it just ask and I'll try to answer those.

When you connect to Bodymedia to your computer it syncs up to the computer; uploads the current data to their site, starts charging the battery and opens up the main page of the Bodymedia Activity Manager. You will see seven categories on the screen in the window. Each category has a little down arrow (upside down triangle) that allows you to expand that section. The categories are:

Calories Burned, showing you your calories burned today and a guestimate of how many calories you will burn for the whole day. If you expand this section you see a nifty chart showing your minute by minute burn. There are two sliders at the bottom that let you select just a specific chunk of the day to look at if you want.

Calories Consumed, showing how many calories you've entered for the day. For me this is auto imported from MFP. If I expand this section I see the meals I logged for the day (but not the individual food items) and a customizable breakdown of nutrients. It showed Calories, Carbs, Fat and Protein by default and I added cholesterol and sodium to mine. Activity Manger yells at me every day that I eat too much sodium. Poor Activity Manager.

Calorie Balance, showing how many calories you should eat for the rest of the day to meet your goal for your daily deficit. There's no option to expand this one.

Physical Activity, showing the total minutes you have spent this day not being a couch potato. When you expand this section you get a bar graph showing when during the day you were active and if it was moderate or vigorous. I have only been vigorous once since I started wearing the band. They either set the bar high or I am just not a role model for exercise.

Steps taken, showing how much you moved that day. Expanding this gives you a nice bar graph as well showing when you took your steps.

Sleep duration, showing how long you slept last night. Expanding it shows you a color coded chart of when during the night you were sleeping vs just lying down vs actively moving.

Weight, shows your last logged weight and has a box to enter your current weight. Expanding this shows you a graph of all your entries plus a projection of when you will hit the goal you entered into the system if you meet your goal each week. I wish you could hover over the graph and get a projected weight and date for where you are hovering but it only shows the projected end date based on your goal. If I do an eyeball guess it looks like I should hit 200 pounds in November but if I put my house on that spot the mouseover box just says 170 pound in Feb '14.

At the top of the interface is Today's date and forward and backward buttons that let you move back and forth through your history so you can see what you did on any recorded day.

There's also some tiny text you can click (bad design) that takes you to reporting and exporting. The PDF report that it spits out is pretty cool looking though.

I hope some of this helps you.