bksalt
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than my band is not working properly my surge is showing o floors and my Band2 is showing 27 climbed right now at 1:45pm
Well this all sounds good but here in ft myers fl the weather has been the same for the last 2 weeks no bad or better weather just same old same old. I also have a fitbit surge and the stair climb has been right on when I go to the mall it registers flights climbed, and the barometric pressure has no effect on it. Only my band2 is doing this.
I have been one of the ones complaining from day one. Mine is off over 40 BPM every time. I have posted several times on the MS community site as well. I called customer service and while the rep said "i guess you just want a refund", (I will have to travel 125 miles to the nearest store) he said I was the first one to complain.why is nearly nobody complaining about the HRM? the reading of the heartrate is way worse on the band 2 than it was on the band 1. the average heartrate after sports is up to 10 beats. on band 1 it was about 1 or 2.
in the beginning of my sports the heartrate if off by up to 20 beats. it goes up very (way to) quick and stays there most of the time.
the floor counter is a cheap joke and nothing more than a random counter.
both the HRM and floor counter are annoying and nearly useless and if ms does not fix both, i will not buy a band 3.
My fitbit always say I climbed 2000 stairs when I was supposedly sleeping. So I won't really count fitbit stairs accuracyIt has not fixed the altimeter I went up 1 flight of stairs at the gym this morning and it is registering 24 flights imagine that, I would not call that a fix. I had a fitbit surge previous and it was spot on with stairs all the time.
My fitbit always say I climbed 2000 stairs when I was supposedly sleeping. So I won't really count fitbit stairs accuracy
My stair count and HRM seems fairly accurate. At the end of the day the stair count is usually around 15-16 which is what I would expect given my daily activities. I've had the HRM go way higher than it should so I would like to see the accuracy of it fixed.
My FitBit Surge's stairs count is nearly 100% accurate. You must have a seriously defective one as FitBit uses both the altimeter and arm motion sensors for calculating stairs counts.
After using the Surge for nearly a year, I purchased a Band 2 mainly for the style and screen. However, the step count, stair count, HR, and calorie counts are very inaccurate. I wore both the Surge and the Band 2 for a couple weeks. I was so disappointed with the Band 2, I powered it off and stopped using it. As one example, my Surge had an accurate stair count of 19 by the end of the day. The Band 2 had registered 215 floors.
I did try the Band 2 again last week after the f/w update, but the accuracy problems are still there. So I'm back wearing my Surge.
Round of golf on Sunday was terrible. Course data was corrupt and of course the swing count did not work either. I will try again but between the HR issue always off and the hit and miss golf app, these are the only two things that makes this a usable device for me other than any other smart watch. And now we early suckers are eating $50 on the new price reduction.
devbent: seeing as you know so much about this altimeter why when I live in Florida no steep inclines, I have not climbed any stairs, I am retired so not real active but right now 4:15pm My Band 2 is showing 27 flights of stairs climbed and I have not gone any where and no stairs in my house. Most days my Band2 shows around 45 flights continually daily. This surely is not any where accurate.