Can anyone tell me how to stop the watch from showing me the number of floors climbed? The darn thing is so inaccurate that it's just plain annoying now.
Your "darn thing" could be inaccurate, my watch is very accurate. That said, why your is so inaccurate? could you explain to us in order to help you?
Hi, this is the second unit that I have had and neither of them have counted the correct number of floors/stairs climbed.
At home I can climb the stairs 10 times in a day and it will count/show 6 or less. I had a Fitbit Blaze that counted the floors every time but the Fenix simply doesn't. Each morning I go back upstairs to take my wife a drink, I can guarantee the watch never ever counts that first flight of stairs climbed. Today I know that I have climbed the stairs twice so far today yet the watch shows nothing for floors climbed.
I am so frustrated by it that I want to turn the floor count off but I am unable to find a way to do so. I have tried changing the floor count setting to zero but that just means it shows what it thinks is the number of floors climbed but with a green tick at the side to show that I have overachieved.
Hi, this is the second unit that I have had and neither of them have counted the correct number of floors/stairs climbed.
At home I can climb the stairs 10 times in a day and it will count/show 6 or less. I had a Fitbit Blaze that counted the floors every time but the Fenix simply doesn't. Each morning I go back upstairs to take my wife a drink, I can guarantee the watch never ever counts that first flight of stairs climbed. Today I know that I have climbed the stairs twice so far today yet the watch shows nothing for floors climbed.
I am so frustrated by it that I want to turn the floor count off but I am unable to find a way to do so. I have tried changing the floor count setting to zero but that just means it shows what it thinks is the number of floors climbed but with a green tick at the side to show that I have overachieved.
A good test should be to open your altimeter widget and check the difference from ground to last step, if i remember well F5 will recognize multiples of 3 meters in elevation.
A good test should be to open your altimeter widget and check the difference from ground to last step, if i remember well F5 will recognize multiples of 3 meters in elevation.
let us to know, ty
Will do and thanks for your suggestion/assistance.
Well I don't know what to report really, having climbed the stairs 4 times with the altimeter showing on the watch the elevation didn't change from the bottom to the top at all on any of the stair climbs - nor on the way back down (I would guess the difference is actually c3 mtrs) but it did register one floor climbed on the score sheet (goal achieved)
I did a soft reboot and that didn't make any difference either.
I have activity tracking switched on and "auto cal" on. Watch mode set to "Auto" in Barometer.
Most houses have 8 feet (or a bit more) of stair height, and not almost 10 feet, which is more like an office building.
The other day, I had a total of 6 floors up, and 1 down in the house - even though I always go up and down equally.
There's a part of the stair climbing that gets missed a lot. Holding onto the handrail with the hand that has the watch or skipping steps will return bad stair readings. Ever look at your watch after going up in an elevator to see if it added the floors? It won't since you aren't moving in an elevator the way you do when climbing stairs.
There's a part of the stair climbing that gets missed a lot. Holding onto the handrail with the hand that has the watch or skipping steps will return bad stair readings. Ever look at your watch after going up in an elevator to see if it added the floors? It won't since you aren't moving in an elevator the way you do when climbing stairs.
I've tried swinging my arms more (look like an orang-utan:cool:) and don't skip stairs but nothing makes any difference. It can't be difficult to make this work properly in a £500+ watch, Fitbit do it for a fraction of the price.
I've tried swinging my arms more (look like an orang-utan:cool:) and don't skip stairs but nothing makes any difference. It can't be difficult to make this work properly in a £500+ watch, Fitbit do it for a fraction of the price.
While I agree with FitBit being more accurate on stairs, their watches are very poorly made.
They are not "waterproof" and not even "splash proof". I wore one in high humidity, and the
face fogged up and the watch was useless. Even a slight rain will have the same result.
