Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing

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Your Fitbit is useless – unless you consent to unlawful data sharing - Lemmy

I have two Fitbit Charge devices. I took two months of using it. I went to go use them, one will simply not boot (turns in for 1/2 seconds and shuts off) and the other now will only stay charged for a few hours and dies. I’m not sure what’s going on here, but it seems suspicious.

If you left them with their batteries empty then the batteries are likely actually dead.

If you’re going to leave a device untouched for an extended period, make sure the battery is atleast 50% or more full before doing so.

IIRC you can’t turn off Fitbit devices. You have to drain the batteries completely so that the device powers down by itself. Utter shit design, but it is what it is.