All Fitbits: Sleeping Not Tracking, Not Accurate, Not Working? FInaly FIXED!!

[@GregMeece]

Definitely going to try this tonight. I've had my Versa 4 for about 6 weeks now, and in that time it's only given me detailed sleep data maybe 6 times. Very frustrating. As you say in the video, detailed sleep data is very important to me as well! Edit: I tried it last night and much to my (delighted) surprise, your "hack" worked! This is a wonderful find! My suspicion is that they didn't design it with enough cache/memory to hold a whole day's worth of data, and that syncing allows it to flush what it's storing (including detailed heart tracking) so that when you are sleeping it has enough memory to hold all the details.

[@GregMeece]

Unfortunately, it only worked for one night. I think the truth is that Fitbit doesn't like how I sleep. I typically sleep with my arms above my head and somehow it doesn't seem to track my heart rate accurately, so I get a basic sleep score almost every night. 🫤

[@mydlonozka]

did it help you?

[@leonmatheka7211]

Trying this tonight. Honestly even if it doesn’t work I’m so glad I finally found a video that makes sense on the issue. Nobody else is talking about this. Thanks in advance mate

[@whoofoto]

Thanks! It's March 23, 2024 and just got a Fitbit Inspire 3. It recorded three consecutive days with 5-hours of sleep before going to bed! Also a suggestion that you minimize showing your right hand gestures so frequently in your next video. Perhaps use the time to show more cuts with close-up views on the app. Appreciated your helpful video and will try it tonight.

[@ell_emm_ohh]

Wow, really lmao. People really will complain about the most ridiculous things.

[@JONO3679]

Absolutely crap save you money i have insomnia and was given one of these i didn't sleep at all just sat there staring at the ceiling. And it said I had 6 hours sleep.

[@clevername8832]

Wow that's quite the perspective compared to the people who always sleep but don't have their sleep tracked. I wish you rest and recovery despite insomnia my friend.

[@brooklynd2654]

I sync mine about 30 mins before I fall asleep, and have worn it at the same notch ever since I got it, but the past 3 days, it’s only recording 3-4 hours of sleep when I sleep 8-9 hours. I can’t figure out what the problem is!

[@FotomakerAcademy]

I'm with you! Same thing. See just above!!! I think Google *blanked* something up with their software coding, servers and products. I have the Inspire 3 that launched Sept. 2022 - same experience as you've noted .😥

[@johankarlsson7484]

Same experience here with my fitbit charge 6. Went to sleep at 00 and wake up at 08. It only shows 3.53 houers of sleep. Feels like I tried everything but nothing helps.

[@ana-ruxandrailiescu633]

Same here with sense 2 bought end of 2023. too sad they don’t manage to bring out a proper thing

[@garyhyndman1105]

Even if/when I have an early night, it doesn't record or acknowledge pre midnight sleep time.

[@beccles1959]

Thank you….my sleep is now tracking ❤️

[@vijaygopal9557]

I was so frustrated with the erratic tracking of sleep by my Fitbit Inspire HR. I tried everything - including contacting Fitbit support. Nothing worked. But ever since I tried your hack, I am getting regular sleep readings. This was a great help. Thank you so much!

[@BusterMcCheese]

Appreciate the effort, yet not really any new information. Have a Versa 2 that is very inconsistent and just got a Versa 3 and 4 days and no score at all. Versa 2 sometimes would work if you unpair/pair practically every day, but only other Fitbit CS recommendations are to sleep in certain positions and wear it high like you show. Very disappointed as have Premium and this is a big takeaway.

[@a.m.215]

My problem is the opposite. My watch can not differentiate meditation from sleeping! Every Single Time I meditate, my watch counts it as sleep. And occasionally this happens when I am focused on other activities, such as watching TV or KZbin, writing, reading… Very annoying! .

[@lany_07gaming]

Nice info for the Fitbit user's.👍

[@AndrewMichael69]

Syncing worked for DayBand too.

[@theblowupdollsmusic]

I find it takes a long time to update sleep data in the morning. I can be awake for an hour before I show any sleep data, usually I have to sync in the morning or restart the app on my phone. I can tell some thing is wrong because the weather doesn't sync with my watch either. Typically once I can get weather data to show, sleep data also shows up. Maybe it sends data upstream to a data center to process or some thing, and it can take a while to get the data back. I'm not sure.

[@kamarpreet]

Thank you! Your video ended my frustration with my watch!!

[@FotomakerAcademy]

I got a Fitbit Inspire 3 in the past wk. It isn't tracking sleep properly - so your vid was of interest. I wear it about 1" above the wrist bone for sleep & have regularly sync'd before going to bed. That matched to your advice. Here's what mine's doing...I go to bed around 11:45pm. Get up middle of night. Go back to bed. Have slept all the time surrounding that. Wake up for good b/wn 7:15-8:15am. The Inspire 3 says I have 3 hours of sleep! I can delete that and manually add sleep/wake up times in the app. It contains the other data. But that's a pain & defeats auto-sleep detect & isn't accurate tracking... Have you found anything else that works in the past yr with the newer devices to prevent that? Thx for taking the time to make the vid!

[@curtvincent3728]

Thanks for doing this, it is appreciated. But no go. Charge 2 stopped working so I bought a Versa 2. Still no go. Not a happy camper. Today I am sorry I own 2 Fitbits that aren't doing the primary thing I bought them for, tracking sleep. Just get random bars, either device. Even reloaded software on Android phone.

[@FamilyKiss]

Same problem with Charge 5. I've tried all the tips from here and from Fitbit multiple times. I even returned the device for a replacement. The funny thing was my previous fitbits did fine, so it's not like I'm all of a sudden thrashing about for seven hours a night. It's frustrating me so much I might just return it for a refund and go in a different direction like Apple Watch, which isn't as detailed but can do an on-demand SpO2 reading, or something else.

[@ell_emm_ohh]

Thank you so much for making this video. I have not tried it yet, but I just finished the syncing, and I am all set to try this tonight. The only reason I really bought this, was to track my sleeping so it is extremely frustrating when I can't get the information. I am also wondering if anyone knows if it tracks for a 24-hour period because I fall asleep often throughout the day and would like to get an idea of how much sleep I really do get.

[@apkirby]

Thanks!

[@cathyelton1517]

Thank you!!! Mine had not tracked my sleep in over a week. Could not figure out what was wrong!! Your video was so helpful!!

[@ronaung1332]

Thanks but it didn’t work. I tried both of your methods. I also restarted the device. Still not giving me sleep score.

[@michaelsullivan1572]

Me neither

[@Anakiki1989]

Please watch the following video, it solved my issue! kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZeZfYWLe9F3mNU

[@Anakiki1989]

@@michaelsullivan1572 read my comment above, hope it helps you guys.

[@ronaung1332]

@@Anakiki1989 thanks for your help. It could help on the days my device doesn’t record the entire sleep duration. Mine has been recording the whole time that I was asleep, but it didn’t show not sleep cycles every night. It worked on some days where I saw sleep cycles, and it didn’t on others. I don’t know what the trigger is.

[@xtreem1475]

I only use my dashboard on my PC though not my cell, so how do you sync it on the PC dashboard??? can not find any Sync option at all anywhere

[@hillbillyredneck6723]

anyway to make it work for people who don't work first shift hours? got this watch after going through a couple others and have found they are designed to only track sleep for early bird schedule. if you work nights and sleep during the day it only registers as napping no matter how many hours you sleep

[@Nataliatg89PW]

Did you figure out how to do it?

[@gbin99]

Thank you for this video I did not know how to sync my fitbit . 👍

[@luisperna6308]

Cannot get a sleep score, either on Charge 5 or Sense. I have it at the sweet spot and synced before bed but still cannot get a sleep score or the Rem, deep, light sleep data. Any thoughts?

[@pdfortune]

This is my second week with it and I’m getting sick of using this piece of garbage. It doesn’t measure anything accurately. One night of sleep it measured over 2 hours. They should rename it FitSh•t

[@klpack]

The first three days it tracked, it was called “sleep pattern.” It included the sleep cycles (REM, light, deep, etc.) throughout the night. Now it’s “sleep stages” and does not include the cycle information. I can’t find anything that talks about that and it doesn’t appear to be something I have any control over. I feel like I had a software downgrade.

[@davidberriman5903]

@@pdfortune Fitbit calls mine Sense. I call it Nonsense. It is over priced junk.

[@robk.3622]

Mine was tracking just fine with all the data and the sleep score and now all of a sudden it has stopped. Only give me the basic awake and sleep times

[@oerwhat]

Fitbit's arent worth the stress they cause you with all the bullshit you gotta put up with

[@seban-jackedweeb5513]

Bro, wtf is your own sleep bro💀. Bro's having hallucinations every OTHER day.

[@jill_fisher]

FitBit Inspire 2: Having trouble setting the control parameters. I want to cover the whole 24 hours to see what is happening during the day too as I am not well. It won't change the parameters from the way I first set it up.

[@johngrillo1599]

My problem is my watch thinks I'm asleep when I take it off.

[@ob6l414]

Do u fix this

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

You are the second channel to say the same and still mine doesn't record sleep anymore. There has to be a better reason than syncing up.

[@WorldofTech]

If still no go then I would try these…. Use rubbing alcohol and clean the sensors on the tracker, delete ur tracker from app then add it back, restart both phone and tracker, try to factory reset. Also I did have an issue w a previous Fitbit can’t remember which model but sleep was all over the place I had to turn of dnd mode and/or sleep mode then it started working perfectly.

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

@@WorldofTech Thanks for the reply, but I have no clue what you are talking about. (dnd mode)? I am not happy about restarting as I want to keep the diary of miles and steps and all else from the beginning.. I am a handicapped vet with a lousy and fused back. Trying to get some life back... Thanks again..

[@valerie8320]

My fitbit Charge 2 stopped recording my sleep habits on September 15, 2021. It worked for 3 days in October and back to only telling me how long I slept. I tried the synching last night and still no luck. I will try to clean my sensors and see if that works.

[@valerie8320]

@@SteveP-vm1uc Hi Steve, I think dnd is do not disturb mode.

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

@@valerie8320 Thank you, Valerie!! It's nice to get help without a smart ass remark!! So thank you very much!!

[@spiritedreviewexc]

so i have the problem where it won't track on my phone but it's showing up on the website. I can't take a screen shot cause i don't know how. Like where the "sleep setting" was, it's not there AT ALL i did everything from resetting the app, to restarting my phone and talking to fb (They were very un helpful to the point of stupidness) I kept trying to tell them it was them, and not me, but they're not doing a lick (anything) About it.

[@linhint6434]

My Fitbit 2 is not tracking because the tile isn't even showing up. I reset it and everything. Any fixes for that? Thx.

[@mydlonozka]

i'll try to sync every night before bed because my watch is exactly the same as yours

[@monalisa-xe6wm]

My heart rate wasn’t showing I managed to sort that but my active minutes are still not showing

[@artvandeleah9952]

my problem is that while watching tv in bed fitbit sense watch thinks i am sleeping.

[@chaerulr]

I always cant track my sleep, bcs im work at night and always sleep in the morning until afternoon. Do you have a solution?

[@ayaankhan4730]

hey Thanks that was useful

[@MrHacksawJoe]

How do I turn on sleep tracking? I can't find it anywhere.

[@ileanbrown1545]

Mine is an apex fit and there isn't even an option for "today" and sync.

[@MNREZGUI]

Thank you My galaxy watch 5 pro BT will drive me crazy . Sometimes it doesn't detect sleep at all and sometimes it doesn't detect sleep unless i get up at night for drinking water for example and when I sleep again it works. it occasionally trucks my sleep after 2 or three hours of sleeping but in all cases the stages are innacccuarte. I activated all what is required by the sleep tracking feature, such as blood oxygen during sleeping, snore detection, continuous heart rate tracking... I also reset the watch, cleaned the sensors, and wore the watch well as instructed, upside down but nothing changed. the Samsung Health and the galaxy wearable apps are up to date, the watch is also up to date. My number of steps, heart rate and my sports sessions are always detected correctly. There is only a problem with sleep. I cleared the cache - and restarted my phone and the watch.

[@vivianesantos6006]

Thank you so much it worked 💜🙏

[@JoshuaG85]

I can’t set mine up. It’s Saturday. I try setting to start Saturday at 3:30am and wake at 1:30 pm. It keeps saying I can’t set it for future dates. Haha. It’s today. I can do nothing.

[@friskymi3057]

Thank you for this I will try tonight. I need to know if I’m having restorative sleep! Very frustrating I hate to have to go to another brand. Will report back. Great video!

[@jasonjones3159]

How set up?

[@aduring]

My versa 2 tracked automatically not issue and I didn't need to synce...day one of my sense 2 and no tracking ...

[@peteriddqd]

my charge 5 isnt tracking only sleep stages... do i have to have wifi on all the time ?

[@lynhendrick175]

Mine won’t sync

[@jtraveny]

i just got my versa 2 and the first night it got all the info for like rem sleep light and deep, but since the first night it just has times restless and stuff but nothing on how long i was in each stage, will doing this fix that?

[@Anakiki1989]

I've just had my fit bit versa 3 and what helped me was deleting the log and log it back in again. Just take a screenshot or write down the times you went to sleep and woke and the dates of course, and it will show up with the Rem and all those details. I'll try and find the link for the video I watched.

[@Anakiki1989]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hZeZfYWLe9F3mNU Watch that video. Hopefully the gentleman on this channel won't mind me posting a video of another person. But it helped me and I had the same issue as you.

[@pascal5023]

@@Anakiki1989 do you have the link?

[@MattRobloxYT1]

Nice

[@leonardopineda3829]

Didn't work for me

[@earlinevincent360]

Didn’t work for me

[@coachk2450]

Not helpful and the majority of the comments suggest the same

[@suelandless2965]

Ever since ive had my inspire hr it wont show sleep data on wrist device, ive tried everything, even sent back and was given a refurb capsule and it still doesnt work. any ideas why ?

[@dan56273]

I watched your video about factory resetting a kindle with a passcode that won't delete the entire account will ir?

[@Karelife]

Does it track 24 hours? I don’t sleep more than 2 hours at a time so I take naps during the day. Versa 2 has been hit or miss on tracking my sleep so I’m going to try your tips. Thank you so much

[@ReneMihelcic]

you must sleep more than 3 hours or the watch wont track it

[@Berrypancakes229]

Helpful solution.

[@psyntax1]

Didn’t work

[@shithitthefan]

Sounds like a lot of frustration. Garmin is much better

[@juliebie]

You have over 299,000 emails!

[@timberskid]

Sheesh..big bug..not convenient which should be the principle of all these devices. 😵

[@JayGodfrey]

Bro I will kiss you if this works man. This thing has been doing my head in. I’ll check in tomorrow morning 🥰🥰🥰

[@RayOfSunhine2012]

Did it work

[@isis_taliban]

did it work

[@mattshu]

299k messages hot hallelujah