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Just a little vent

puraze
puraze Posts: 55 Member
edited November 19 in Social Groups
Today is only my 2nd day with my HR, so of course I'm excited and obsessing over it a bit. Anyways, today all started great; then we went for a drive to tour a historic town near us. I decided to charge my Fitbit during the drive and turned heart rate off whil doing so (am thinking I should have left it on auto:-/ ). During our tour which had tons of walking there was no cell service or data service and my heart rate option wouldn't turn back on. My steps were counted, nearly reached 10,000 plus we stopped on way home to get firewood, so I was climbing up and down a hill to get the logs and then piling them in the back of the truck. I know on a whole I was more active than yesterday, however when we got back to cell range my calories actually decreased from before we'd left!? At any rate, no biggie, tomorrow is a new day. Just bummed to have a flawed record in day 2 of tracking with my HR:-/

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    Fitbit was making assumption for daily burn outside any new syncs, and yesterday was it.

    And it was wrong, over-inflated, at the start of the day.

    Yes, your hill walking wasn't seen, carrying extra weight wasn't seen totally, though heavier step impact may have helped a tad. So you got smaller calorie burn per steps than you might have gotten per HR.
    If you had started an activity to enable HR based calorie burn in the first place. If you did not - it would have used step based anyway unless HR went up high enough to show it was a workout.
  • NancyN795
    NancyN795 Posts: 1,134 Member
    I have found that turning the HR function on/off using my Android phone either doesn't work at all, or is unreliable. And that's when my cell does have a data signal. So, I only try to do it at home, using the web, rather than the phone app.

    Obviously, I don't know if the same thing is true with the iPhone app, but the Android app seems to have a bug (or it did last time I tried to do it using the app).

    Not getting good data for that time has to be frustrating, but I look on glitches like that as part of my learning curve.
  • puraze
    puraze Posts: 55 Member
    Exactly, I'm still learning all the ins and outs to best utilize my HR, and that's not factoring in any bugs or glitches beyond my control. I never thought to start activity yesterday prior to carrying the logs, maybe it would have made a difference. At any rate, today's a new day AND I'll be in cell range all day so everything should be status quo!
  • editorgrrl
    editorgrrl Posts: 7,060 Member
    puraze wrote: »
    I never thought to start activity yesterday prior to carrying the logs, maybe it would have made a difference.

    I'm pretty sure tracking an activity just gives you a "snapshot" of your data during that time. It doesn't affect your burn at all.

    I, too, am still getting to know the ins & outs of my Charge HR. (I upgraded from a Flex, so I already trust my Fitbit burn.)
  • NancyN795
    NancyN795 Posts: 1,134 Member
    Putting the Fitbit into exercise mode yesterday wouldn't have made any difference, since the HR function was off. When it's in exercise mode, and HR is on, it takes more frequent HR readings (every second vs every 5 seconds) but other than that, it just lets you get a closer look at the period of time when you were exercising.
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