How To Set Up Your Fitbit Flex

Fitbit Flex User Manual

User Transmission Version 1.ane

Getting Started

Welcome to the Fitbit Flex™ Wireless Activity + Sleep Wristband.

What's in the box

Your Flex box includes:

Flex tracker
Charging cable
Wireless sync dongle
ane pocket-size and 1 large wristband

What'southward in this certificate

This transmission gets you started quickly getting your tracker on your wrist then setting
it up. Setup ensures that your tracker can synchronize its information with fitbit.com or the
Fitbit app, where you can get detailed information on your stats, view historical
trends, log food, and much more. Every bit soon as setup is complete y'all're ready to start
moving.

The balance of the transmission walks you lot through every function on your Flex and as well explains how to keep your tracker up to appointment with complimentary firmware updates.
Throughout the manual you'll notice that for tasks that can be done on the fitbit.com dashboard or the Fitbit app, only the fitbit.com instructions announced—if you lot have the Fitbit app for iOS, Android, or Windows, you tin can hands discover instructions in our articles at https://help.fitbit.com.

The transmission concludes by explaining how to restart your Flex in the upshot you lot
encounter difficulty with your tracker. All other troubleshooting suggestions, as well as detailed information about how Fitbit trackers and services work, can be found in the articles at https://help.fitbit.com

Putting on your Fitbit Flex

Your Flex comes with a large and a pocket-size wristband. If you want to use the small
wristband, complete the adjacent task before continuing. If you want to use the big
wristband, skip the adjacent job and go directly to Inserting the tracker into the
wristband.

Moving the clasp from the large to modest wristband

If yous choose the small wristband, you lot'll need to remove the clasp from the big
wristband and put it into the small wristband. To do and so:

Button the squeeze out with i thumb from the within of the wristband.
Pull out the clasp.
Insert the clasp into the small wristband by pressing a few times with both
thumbs to ensure that the squeeze is apartment and in line with the wristband.

Annotation: If there is a bulge on the inside of the band between the two inside prongs of the squeeze, find a small object similar a credit carte to push it flat.

Inserting the tracker into the wristband

Hold the tracker in your hand with the grey pointer facing up. Insert this end into the wristband, with the arrow pointing toward the holes in the wristband.

Securing your wristband

Put on the wristband so the window of lights are closest to the outside of your
wrist and facing you.
Align both ends of the wristband so they are directly overlapping each other
with the clasp over the two holes that best fit your wrist.

Squeeze both the clasp and the wristband betwixt your pollex and forefinger
until you hear a click.

You'll know your Flex wristband is securely fastened if both ends of the wristband are fully inserted.

Notation: If you're having trouble, try securing the wristband off your wrist to get a experience for how information technology securely clasps so try again on your wrist.

Setting up your Fitbit Flex

You tin can ready your Flex using a computer or the Fitbit apps for iOS, Android, or
Windows.

Setting upwards your tracker on your mobile device

The Fitbit app is uniform with more than than 200 mobile devices that support iOS,
Android, and Windows x operating systems.

To get started:

Make certain the Fitbit app is uniform with your mobile device past checking
http://www.fitbit.com/devices
Find the Fitbit app in i of these locations, depending on your device:
• The Apple® App Shop® for iOS devices such as an iPhone® or iPad®.
• The Google Play™ Shop for Android devices such as the Samsung®
Milky way® S5 and Motorola Droid Turbo.
• The Microsoft® Windows Shop for Windows 10 mobile devices such equally
the Lumia™ phone or Surface™ tablet.
Install the app. Notation that you'll demand an account with the applicable store
earlier you can download fifty-fifty a gratis app such as Fitbit.
When the app is installed, open it and tap Join Fitbit to get started. You lot'll be
guided through the procedure of creating a Fitbit account and connecting
(pairing) your Flex to your mobile device. Pairing makes sure the tracker and
mobile device can communicate with one another (sync their data).

Notation that the personal information yous're asked during setup is used to calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), which helps decide your estimated calorie expenditure. This data is private unless y'all go into your Privacy settings and opt to share historic period, height, or weight with Fitbit friends.

Afterward setup y'all're fix to go moving.

Setting upwards your tracker on your Windows 10 PC

If y'all don't take a mobile device, you lot tin set up and sync your tracker on your
Windows 10 PC using the same Fitbit app bachelor for Windows mobile devices.

To get the app, click the Commencement button and open the Windows Store (called Store).
Search for "Fitbit app." Note that if you've never downloaded an app from the store to your computer, y'all'll exist prompted to create an business relationship.

Open the app and follow the instructions to create a Fitbit account and ready upward your
Flex. You tin set and sync wirelessly if your estimator has Bluetooth®, otherwise yous'll need to use the wireless sync dongle that came in the box with your Fitbit Flex.

Setting up your tracker on your Mac

If you don't accept a uniform mobile device, y'all can set upwards your tracker with a
figurer and come across your Fitbit stats on fitbit.com. To use this setup method y'all'll commencement install a gratis software awarding called Fitbit Connect that lets Flex sync its data with your fitbit.com dashboard.

To install Fitbit Connect and set up your tracker:

Go to http://www.fitbit.com/setup
Scroll down and click the choice to download. If the button does non correctly
testify your blazon of estimator (for example, if information technology says "Download for Mac"),
choose the correct type, then click the push.
When prompted, save the file that appears.
Double-click the file (Install Fitbit Connect.pkg). The Fitbit Connect installer
opens.
Click Continue to motility through the installer.
When prompted, choose Set a New Fitbit Device.
Follow the onscreen instructions to create a Fitbit business relationship and connect your
Flex.

Note that the personal data you're asked during setup is used to calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), which helps determine your estimated calorie expenditure. This data is private unless you lot become into your Privacy settings and opt to share age, height, or weight with Fitbit friends.

Syncing your tracker data to your Fitbit account

Once you've ready and started using Flex, you'll need to make sure it regularly
transfers (syncs) its data to Fitbit so you can track your progress, run into your practice
history, earn badges, analyze your sleep logs, and more than on your Fitbit dashboard. A
daily sync is recommended only not required.

The Fitbit apps utilize Bluetooth Low Free energy (BLE) technology to sync with your Fitbit tracker. Each fourth dimension you open up the app it will sync if the tracker is nearby, and the app will besides sync periodically throughout the solar day if you have the all-day sync setting enabled. If yous're running the Fitbit app on a Windows ten PC that doesn't have Bluetooth, yous'll need to brand sure the tracker is connected to the reckoner.

Fitbit Connect on a Mac® too uses Bluetooth for syncing (if available), otherwise
you'll need to make sure your wireless sync dongle is plugged into the figurer.
You lot can forcefulness Fitbit Connect to sync at any fourth dimension or it volition happen automatically every fifteen minutes if:

The tracker is within 20 feet of your computer.
The computer is powered on, awake, and connected to the Internet.

Getting to know your Fitbit Flex

This section tells you lot how best to vesture, charge, and care for your tracker. Your Flex
is designed to be nigh accurate when worn on your wrist.

Wearing on your dominant vs. not-dominant wrist

To get the most accurate reading from your Flex, make sure your account knows if
you're wearing the wristband on your dominant or not-dominant wrist. Your
dominant wrist refers to handedness, that is, the manus that you use for activities such as writing and throwing a ball.

To configure this setting:

Log in to fitbit.com and click the gear icon in the top-correct corner.
Click Settings > Devices.
Under Dominant Mitt choose the right setting.
Sync your tracker to save the change:
a. Click the Fitbit Connect icon nearly the appointment and time on your computer.
b. Click Sync Now.

Using your Flex in wet atmospheric condition

Your Flex is water-resistant, which ways it is rain-proof and splash-proof and can
stand upwardly to fifty-fifty the sweatiest conditioning.

Do not swim with your Flex. We likewise don't recommend showering with your Flex;
though the water won't hurt the device, wearing it 24/seven does not give your pare a
gamble to breathe. Whenever you get your Flex wet, dry it thoroughly before putting information technology dorsum on.

Understanding the LED indicator lights

Your Flex has 5 LED indicator lights. The lights behave differently depending on what the tracker is doing.

Goal tracking

The indicator lights illuminate as you hit xx% increments towards your goal. Tap your Flex to meet your progress. When you reach your goal, Flex volition celebrate by buzzing and flashing its lights.

Slumber mode

When you tap your Flex rapidly for 1 or 2 seconds to manually enter slumber
mode, it will vibrate and brandish 2 slowly dimming lights. During manual sleep
mode, two blinking lights alternating. After you tap your Flex rapidly to exit manual sleep style, it will vibrate and flash all five lights iii times and then display a
spinning light pattern.

These low-cal patterns only apply to manual sleep mode. If yous let Flex detect your
sleep automatically, no special light patterns announced.

Charging

While your Flex is charging, an indicator light will pulse to prove the battery level
every few seconds. Each indicator lite represents progress towards the total
charge. When the Flex has charged completely, all 5 indicator lights will blink.

Updating

If an update fails to complete, your Flex's LED indicator lights may bicycle back and
forth repeatedly, from left to right, and your Flex no may longer respond to taps,
charging, or resets.

Alarms

When a silent alert goes off, the Flex vibrates and the eye lite flashes.

Charging your Flex

With normal employ, your Flex should last up to five days before needing a accuse. You lot
can bank check the level of your bombardment by logging in to fitbit.com and clicking on the
gear icon on the top-correct corner of the page.

To charge your Flex, plug the charging cablevision into the USB port on your computer.
Remove the tracker from the wristband, and insert it into the charging cable, with the LED indicator lights facing up.

The LED indicator lights will progressively illuminate on your Flex as it charges. Each calorie-free represents 20% of the maximum charge. In one case all five lights pulse in unison, your Flex will be fully charged. Charging completely can take up to three hours.

Care

It'southward important to clean and dry out your Flex regularly. For instructions and more
information encounter http://world wide web.fitbit.com/productcare

Tracking with Fitbit Flex

Your Flex tracks:

Steps taken
Calories burned
Distance traveled
Active minutes
Fourth dimension asleep
Quality of sleep
Number of times awoken

Setting goals

Your Flex is designed to track your progress towards the fettle goal you choose.
Goals can be set for steps taken, calories burned, or distance traveled.

To choose the specific goal you desire to track:

Log in to your fitbit.com dashboard and click the gear icon in the superlative correct
corner.
Click Settings > Devices.
Under Daily Goal Progress, choose the goal you would like to track.
Sync your Flex to send the new goal to your tracker.

Note: Your Flex starts tracking your goal for the side by side day at midnight, co-ordinate to
the time zone yous've selected for your account. The reset that occurs at midnight does not delete the previous day'south information; all your data will appear on your dashboard when you sync your tracker.

Once you've chosen which goal you want to track, you can set a specific value for
that goal on the fitbit.com dashboard folio or using the Fitbit app. For example,
instead of the default 10,000 steps per day, you may want your goal to be 15,000
per day. To change your goal value using your fitbit.com dashboard:

Discover the tile that corresponds to your goal.
Click the gear icon in the lower left corner of the tile.
Change your Daily Goal value.

Checking your goal progress

Tap your Flex twice to see the LED indicator lights indicate your progress towards
your goal.

Each fully lit indicator represents 20% of your full goal. A blinking light shows the
electric current segment of the goal y'all're working on.

In the example below, two lights are solid and the third is blinking. This means you've achieved between 40% and 60% of your overall goal.

When you achieve your goal, your Flex will vibrate and wink the LED indicator lights to celebrate.

Tracking slumber

Your Flex can rail the length and quality of your sleep to help you improve your
sleeping habits.

To rail your slumber, merely wearable your Flex to bed. When your tracker syncs with
your account in the morn, you'll be able to detect your sleep information on your Fitbit
dashboard.

If y'all want to run into the time it takes you lot to fall asleep, y'all can use manual sleep mode instead of tracking sleep automatically. To put your tracker into sleep mode, tap your Flex quickly for one to two seconds. It will vibrate and display two slowly dimming lights. During the dark yous'll see alternating blinking lights that represent sleep way. When you lot wake upward, tap your Flex apace for one to two seconds to plow off sleep style. Your Flex will vibrate and flash all five LED indicator lights to allow you know sleep mode is off.

Using silent alarms

Your Flex can gently vibrate to wake or alert yous with its silent alarm feature. Silent
alarms can be configured to recur every mean solar day or on particular days of the week. Yous
can create up to viii silent alarms.

Setting silent alarms

You can add, edit, and delete silent alarms from the Fitbit app or in the fitbit.com
dashboard.

To set up silent alarms using your fitbit.com dashboard:

Log in to your fitbit.com dashboard.
Click the gear icon in the top right corner of the folio.
Click Settings.
Detect Silent Alarms and click the Add Alarm push button.
Enter the time you lot want the alarm to warning you.
Cull how often yous want the warning to occur:
a. One time – Your alarm will alert you at the specified time, and not repeat.
b. Repeats – Choose which days you want this alarm to repeat every calendar week.
Click Save.
Sync your Flex to update your tracker with the new alarms.

Dismissing silent alarms

Your Flex will vibrate and the LEDs will illuminate when your silent alarm goes off. This notification will repeat iii times or until dismissed. Yous can dismiss the alarm past tapping a few times after the vibration has stopped.

You lot'll know your alarm has been dismissed when one light appears in the middle of
your Flex'due south display, so slowly fades. If you do non dismiss the alarm, your Flex
alarm volition repeat in nine minutes.

Using your fitbit.com Dashboard

Fitbit provides a free online tool — the fitbit.com dashboard — to help you track,
manage, and evaluate your fitness progress. Use the dashboard to meet your progress
towards goals, analyze details about specific activities or exercises, view historical
graphs, and log food.

Browser requirements

Adding and removing tiles

Information on the dashboard is organized by tile. Add together or remove tiles to customize the dashboard. If you remove a tile, you lot can add it back at any time.

To add a tile:

Click the grid icon on the upper left side of the dashboard.
Cheque the tile(s) y'all want to add, and so click Done.

To delete a tile:

Hover over a tile until you run across the gear icon at the lower left.
Click the gear icon, and then click Remove Tile.
When prompted, confirm that you want to remove the tile.

Managing your Flex from fitbit.com

To manage various settings for your business relationship, click the gear icon in the top correct
corner of your fitbit.com dashboard and select Settings. From here yous can edit your personal information, your notification preferences, your privacy settings, and much more.

Click Devices to change the following settings for your Flex:

Daily Goal Progress: Cull which goal you desire your Flex to brandish when
checking your progress. Y'all tin edit the value of this goal from the fitbit.com
dashboard.
Dominant Hand: Choose which wrist y'all wear your Flex on to become the well-nigh
accurate data readings.
Sleep Tracking: Prepare the sensitivity of your slumber. The Normal setting is sufficient for most people. If you lot are a sound sleeper, you can choose Sensitive
to capture the smallest movements of your torso.

Your changes will take effect after you sync your tracker.

Updating your Fitbit Flex

Gratis feature enhancements and product improvements may be made available for
your Flex through firmware updates.

Updating the firmware on your Flex takes several minutes and is demanding on the
battery. We recommend that you charge your device earlier updating or while the
update is in progress.

You tin can update your Flex past using the Fitbit app or by using Fitbit Connect on your reckoner.

To update your Flex using Fitbit Connect:

Plug in your dongle and have your tracker nearby, turned on, and charged.
Open Fitbit Connect.
Click Open Main Carte, and so click Cheque for device update.
Log in to your account using your fitbit.com credentials. Fitbit Connect will
now await for your Flex. You can make Flex easier to discover by tapping it twice to
wake it up.
If an update is found for your Flex, Fitbit Connect displays a progress bar
indicating that the update is in progress. Go along your Flex shut to your computer during the update.

You'll come across a notification when the update completes.

Troubleshooting your Fitbit Flex

If you feel 1 of the following problems, it may be stock-still by restarting
your tracker:

Your Flex is not syncing
Your Flex is not responding to movement
Your Flex isn't tracking your steps
Your Flex isn't responding to taps

To restart your Flex:

Remove the tracker from the wristband.
Plug your charging cable into the USB port and insert your tracker into the
charging cable.
Insert a paperclip into the minor pinhole on the back of the charger.
Printing on the pinhole for three-4 seconds. Your Flex volition restart and you lot tin can put it
back in the wristband.

Your Flex should now work normally.

For additional troubleshooting suggestions or to contact Customer Support, see
http://assistance.fitbit.com

Fitbit Flex General Info & Specifications

Sensors and motors

Your Flex uses a MEMS 3-axis accelerometer that measures your movement patterns to determine your calories burned, distance traveled, steps taken, and sleep quality.
Flex also contains a vibration motor, which allows information technology to vibrate when alarms become off.

Battery

Your Flex comes equipped with a rechargeable lithium-polymer battery.

Size and weight

Environmental atmospheric condition

Aid

Troubleshooting and aid for your Flex can be found at http://aid.fitbit.com

Return policy and warranty

Warranty data and the fitbit.com Store Return Policy can be institute online at
http://www.fitbit.com/returns

Regulatory & Rubber Notices

Model Proper name: FB401

USA: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) argument

This device complies with FCC role 15 FCC Rules.
Operation is subject field to the following two weather condition:

This device may not cause harmful interference and
This device must accept any interference, including interference that may
cause undesired operation of the device.

FCC Warning

Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the political party responsible for
compliance could void the user's potency to operate the equipment.

Annotation: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may crusade harmful interference to radio communications.

However, there is no guarantee that interference volition non occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can exist determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to attempt to correct the interference past ane or more than of the following measures:

Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.
Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to
which the receiver is continued.
Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

This device meets the FCC and IC requirements for RF exposure in public or
uncontrolled environments.

Canada: Industry Canada (IC) statement

IC Detect to Users English language/French in accord with RSS GEN Issue 3:
This device complies with Manufacture Canada license exempt RSS standard(s).
Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

This device may not cause interference, and
This device must accept whatever interference, including interference that may
cause undesired operation of the device.

This Class B digital appliance complies with Canadian ICES-003.

FCC ID XRAFB401
IC ID 8542A-FB401

European Wedlock (European union)

Simplified EU Declaration of Conformity

Hereby, Fitbit, Inc. declares that the radio equipment type Model FB401 is in
compliance with Directive 2022/53/European union. The full text of the Eu declaration of
conformity is available at the post-obit internet address:
http://www.fitbit.com/safety

United Arab Emirates

TRA REGISTERED NO:
ER35025/14
DEALER NO:
DA35294/14

Safety statement

This equipment has been tested to comply with safe certification in accordance
with the specifications of EN Standard: EN60950-i:2006 + A11:2009 + A1:2010 + A12: 2022, + A2:2013.

Important safety instructions

Read these instructions.
Keep these instructions.
Mind all warnings
Follow all instructions
Practice not attempt to open the tracker. Substances independent in this product
and/or its battery may damage the environs and/or human health if
handled and tending of improperly.
Exercise not tamper with your Flex.
Do not use abrasive cleaners to make clean your Flex.
Do not place your Flex in a dishwasher, washing motorcar or dryer.
Exercise not betrayal your Flex to extremely high or low temperatures.
Practice not use your Flex in a sauna or steam room.
Do not exit your Flex in straight sunlight for an extended menses of fourth dimension.
Do non leave your Flex near open up flames.
Do not dispose of your Flex in a burn. The battery could explode.
Do not endeavor to detach your Flex. It does not comprise serviceable
components.
Never allow children to play with the Flex; the small-scale components may exist a
choking hazard!

Built-in battery precautions

Practice not attempt to replace your Flex' battery. It is congenital-in and not
changeable.
Accuse the battery in accord with the instructions supplied with this
guide.
Use only the charger that shipped with your production to charge the battery.
Charge your Flex using a certified computer, powered hub or ability supply
Practice not attempt to forcefulness open up the built-in battery.
Your product uses a California Energy Commission bombardment charger.

Disposal and recycling information

The symbol on the product or its packaging signifies that this product has to be disposed separately from ordinary household wastes at its cease of life. Please kindly exist aware that this is your responsibleness to dispose electronic equipment at recycling centers then as to help conserve natural resources. Each state in the European Union should have its collection centers for electrical and electronic equipment recycling.

For information about your recycling drop off point, delight contact your local
electrical and electronic equipment waste matter management authority or the retailer
where you bought the production.

Do not dispose of the Flex with household waste.
Batteries are not to be tending of in municipal waste matter stream and require
divide collection.
Disposal of the packaging and your Flex should be washed in accordance
with local regulations.

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