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Boddy battery not working

My vivo active4 body battery stopped working properly 4 days ago. It's fully drained and won't go up past 5 even though I have been getting lots of sleep and had plenty restful moments over these days. It just keeps saying mty stress is super high and not moving past 5. T says this even at rest. I've turned it on and off and also updated but nothing is working. Can you help? Thanks!

0 trux over 3 years ago in reply to 3099221

Not sure whether you are really asking why your body battery does not recharge, or why the watch detects that you are stressed.

In the first case, as it was already told, and it is quite apparent from the graphs you posted - the battery recharges only when you are in rest, and not stressed (your HR Variability is high). On 14th and on 15th, there were sufficiently long stress-free periods (blue marked). In contrary, on 16th the measured stress level during the day was already quite high, so the body battery drained significantly. And the last screenshot shows that that day the body battery was already so drained, that even the very brief periods of low stress did not recharge it (the level 5 may be the lower limit actually shown, not to scare people with zero).

Now, if you ask why does the watch show that you were stressed - we do not know. You should know better. There are many possibilities, many of them mentioned in the document I linked previously:

Alcohol/Stimulants
Excessive Physical Activity
Extreme Temperatures
Bright Light/Loud Noises
Infection/Disease
Pain
Dehydration/Indigestion
Exhaustion
Anticipation
Exhilaration
Thrill/Excitement
Joy
Anxiety
Fear
Sorrow
Being Overwhelmed
...

Of course, it could be also a malfunction of the device, for example due to bad fit of the wrist band, dirty sensor, or a faulty unit, but we really cannot know. Also a pace-maker, betablockers, or other cardiac medication can cause such reading - that's why I asked about it in my first post, but you did not answer that question.