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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Setting up your tracker on your Mac .................... 3   Syncing your tracker data to your Fitbit account ..............4     Getting to know your Fitbit Charge 2 ....................5 Wrist placement ............................ 5   All-day wear and exercise ......................5  ...
  • Page 3 16   GPS requirements ..........................16   Tracking exercise ..........................17     Practicing Guided Breathing with Charge 2 .................. 18   Using Silent Alarms ..........................19 Enabling or disabling silent alarms ....................19   Dismissing silent alarms ........................19  ...
  • Page 4 Troubleshooting your Fitbit Charge 2 .................... 25 Heart-rate signal missing ......................... 25   Unexpected behavior ........................25     Fitbit Charge 2 General Info & Specifications ................27 Sensors ..............................27   Materials ..............................27   Wireless technology .......................... 27  ...
  • Page 5 Singapore ............................... 34   South Africa ............................34   South Korea ............................35   Taiwan ..............................35   United Arab Emirates ........................36   Safety statement ..........................36  ...

  • Page 6: Getting Started

    Getting Started Welcome to Fitbit Charge 2™, the smart fitness band that helps you reach your goals in style. Take a moment to review our complete safety information at http://www.fitbit.com/safety. What you’ll find in the box Your Fitbit Charge 2 box includes:...

  • Page 7: Setting Up Your Fitbit Charge 2

    Setting up your Fitbit Charge 2 For the best experience we recommend using the Fitbit apps for iOS, Android, or Windows 10. If you don’t have a mobile device, you can also use a Bluetooth®- enabled Windows 10 PC or Mac. For non-Bluetooth options visit help.fitbit.com.

  • Page 8: Setting Up Your Tracker On Your Mac

    7.   Follow the onscreen instructions to create a Fitbit account, or login to your existing account, and connect your tracker with Fitbit Connect. When you’re done with the setup steps, Fitbit guides you through an introduction to your new Charge 2 and then takes you to the fitbit.com dashboard.

  • Page 9: Syncing Your Tracker Data To Your Fitbit Account

    Syncing your tracker data to your Fitbit account When you start using your Charge 2 you'll need to regularly sync it with your Fitbit dashboard. The dashboard is where you’ll track progress, see your exercise history, track your sleep patterns, participate in challenges, and much more. We recommend syncing at least once a day.

  • Page 10: Getting To Know Your Fitbit Charge 2

    Review these tips to make sure you’re wearing your tracker for optimal results. All-day wear and exercise For all-day wear when you’re not exercising, your Charge 2 should usually rest a finger’s width below your wrist bone and lay flat, as you would normally wear a watch.

  • Page 11: Wrist Choice And Dominant Hand

    Personal Info section of your fitbit.com dashboard settings. Navigation Charge 2 has an OLED tap display and one button. Waking a dimmed screen When you’re not using Charge 2 the display is off. To wake it up: •   Press the button...

  • Page 12: Using The Clock And Menus

    •   Turn your wrist towards you. This behavior, known as Quick View, can be turned off in your tracker settings. •   Double-tap your tracker. Using the clock and menus The default or “home” screen is a clock, which is available in several styles. On the clock screen you can: •...

  • Page 13: Tapping Your Tracker

    Finding your current battery level If your battery is low, when you wake up your Charge 2 you’ll see a low battery icon after a few seconds. If you see a critical battery icon you’ll be unable to navigate to...

  • Page 14: Charging Your Tracker

    any of the tracker screens until you charge your tracker. Your tracker continues to track your activity until your battery runs out. You can check your battery level at any time on the battery screen on your tracker or on your Fitbit dashboard. To see the battery screen you must turn on the battery menu item in the Fitbit app.

  • Page 15: Care

    Removing a wristband To remove the wristband: 1.   Turn over your Charge 2 and find the band latches—there’s one on each end where the band meets the frame. 2.   To release the latch, press down on the flat metal button on the strap.

  • Page 16: Attaching A New Wristband

    4.   Repeat on the other side. If you’re having trouble removing the band or if it feels stuck, gently move the band back and forth to release it. Attaching a new wristband Before you attach a new wristband, first identify the top and bottom bands. The top band has a watch buckle at the end of it.

  • Page 17: Automatic Tracking With Fitbit Charge 2

    Viewing all-day stats Press the button to wake up your Charge 2 and see the time of day. Tap the screen to see each of these all-day stats: •...

  • Page 18: Default Heart-Rate Zones

    Default heart-rate zones Default heart-rate zones are calculated using your estimated maximum heart rate. Fitbit calculates your maximum heart rate with the common formula of 220 minus your age. The heart icon you see above your current heart rate tells you your zone. Refer to the following table for an explanation of the different heart rate zones.

  • Page 19: Custom Heart-Rate Zones

    Rate Association information, see help.fitbit.com. Tracking sleep Wear your Charge 2 to bed to automatically track both your time spent asleep and your sleep quality. To see your sleep information, sync your tracker when you wake up and check your dashboard.

  • Page 20: Tracking Hourly Activity

    Tracking hourly activity Charge 2 helps keep you active throughout the day by keeping track of when you’re stationary and reminding you to move. If you haven’t walked at least 250 steps in a given hour, at ten minutes before the hour you’ll feel a vibration reminding you to walk.

  • Page 21: Exercising With Fitbit Charge 2

    For more information about customizing your Exercise menu, see help.fitbit.com. Note: Charge 2 does not have built-in GPS. Its connected GPS feature works with the GPS sensors on your nearby mobile device to give you real-time pace and distance information, as well as recording a map of your route. Turning on connected GPS enables more precise tracking of your exercise stats.

  • Page 22: Tracking Exercise

    b.   Tap the exercise you want to track and make sure Connected GPS is turned on. Tracking exercise To track an exercise: 1.   On your tracker, press the button until you get to the Exercise screen and then tap to find the exercise of your choice.

  • Page 23: Practicing Guided Breathing With Charge 2

    Practicing Guided Breathing with Charge 2 Charge 2 provides personalized guided breathing sessions on your tracker to help you find moments of calm throughout the day. You can choose between two-minute and five-minute long sessions. To begin a session: 1.   On your tracker, press the button until you get to the Relax screen.

  • Page 24: Using Silent Alarms

    Using Silent Alarms Charge 2 can gently vibrate to wake or alert you with its silent alarm feature. You can set up to eight alarms to recur every day or on particular days of the week only. For more information about customizing and using silent alarms, see help.fitbit.com.

  • Page 25: Receiving Call, Text, & Calendar Notifications

    If you have an iOS device, your Charge 2 shows notifications from all calendars synced to the default iOS Calendar app. If you have a third-party calendar that is not synced to the iOS Calendar app, you won’t see notifications from that calendar.

  • Page 26: Fitbit App For Android

    Fitbit app for Android To turn on call, text, or calendar notifications: 1.   With your tracker nearby, tap the Charge 2 tile at the top of the Fitbit app dashboard. 2.   Tap the Charge 2 tile again.
  • Page 27 For text messages the message scrolls one time and then disappears. The sender’s name scrolls once and remains static. For calendar events, the name of the event scrolls one time and then disappears. The event time scrolls once and remains static. If the text message, calendar event, sender or event time, is short enough to show on the screen, the information does not scroll.

  • Page 28: Customizing Your Fitbit Charge 2

    For more information about turning Quick View on or off, see help.fitbit.com. Adjusting the heart rate tracker Your Charge 2 uses PurePulseÒ technology to track heart rate automatically and continuously. The Heart Rate setting has three options: •   Auto (the default)—Heart rate tracking is active when you’re wearing your tracker.

  • Page 29: Updating Your Fitbit Charge 2

    Keep your tracker and mobile device close to each other during the update process. Note: Updating your Charge 2 takes several minutes and may be demanding on the battery. For this reason we recommend updating while your tracker is fully...

  • Page 30: Troubleshooting Your Fitbit Charge 2

    Heart-rate signal missing Charge 2 continuously tracks your heart rate while you’re exercising and throughout the day. Occasionally the heart rate tracker may have difficulty finding a good signal. When this happens you’ll see dashed lines where your current heart rate usually...
  • Page 31 3.   Make sure the button on your tracker is aligned with the button opening on the charging cable. You’ll know the connection is secure when the tracker vibrates and you see a battery icon on your tracker’s display. Your Charge 2 will begin charging.

  • Page 32: Fitbit Charge 2 General Info & Specifications

    •   An optical heart rate tracker Materials The wristband that comes with Charge 2 is made of a flexible, durable elastomer material similar to that used in many sports watches. It does not contain latex. Accessory wristbands are available in genuine leather.

  • Page 33: Display

    Stored data consists of steps, distance, calories burned, floors, active minutes, heart rate, exercise, sleep, and stationary vs. active hours. Charge 2 can store a maximum of 10 hours of exercise data. This means that if you exercise for more than 10 hours and don’t sync your tracker, your exercise history will not include everything.

  • Page 34: Learn More

    30,000 feet Maximum Operating Altitude (10,000 m) Learn More To learn more about your tracker and dashboard, visit help.fitbit.com. Return policy and warranty Warranty information and the fitbit.com return policy can be found at http://www.fitbit.com/returns.

  • Page 35: Regulatory & Safety Notices

    Regulatory & Safety Notices Model Name: FB407 USA: Federal Communications Commission (FCC) statement Notice to the User: The FCC and Industry Canada IDs can also be viewed on your device. To view content: •   While your tracker is charging, press the button to scroll to the Regulatory screen.

  • Page 36: European Union (Eu)

    Déclaration simplifiée de conformité relative à la directive 1999/5/CE: Fitbit Inc. déclare par la présente que le Fitbit Charge 2 (modèle FB407) est en conformité avec les exigences essentielles et autres dispositions pertinentes de la directive 1999/5/CE. La déclaration CE de conformité de ce produit est disponible à...

  • Page 37: Australia And New Zealand

    Australia and New Zealand Notice to the User: Regulatory content for this region can also be viewed on your device. To view the content: •   While your tracker is charging, press the button to scroll to the Regulatory screen. R-­NZ  ...

  • Page 38: Mexico

    Compliant with the standard R&TTE 99/CE/05 Mexico Conforme à la norme R&TTE 99/CE/05 Australia and New Zealand IFETEL: RCPFIFB16-0649 R-NZ La operación de este equipo está sujeta a las siguientes dos condiciones: 1.   Es posible que este equipo o dispositivo no cause interferencia perjudicial y 2.

  • Page 39: Philippines

    Philippines Serbia И   0 05   1 6   Singapore Complies with IDA Standards DA00006A South Africa Notice to the User: Regulatory content for this region can also be viewed on your device. To view the content: •   While your tracker is charging, press the button to scroll to the Regulatory screen.

  • Page 40: South Korea

    TA-2016/1368 South Korea Notice to the User: Regulatory content for this region can also be viewed on your device. To view the content: •   While your tracker is charging, press the button to scroll to the Regulatory screen. 클래스 B 장치 (가정 사용을위한 방송 통신 기기) : EMC 등록 주로 가정용 (B 급)으로하고, 모든 지역에서 사용할 수 있습니다 얻을이 장치.

  • Page 41: United Arab Emirates

    第十四條   低功率射頻電機之使用不得影響飛航安全及干擾合法通信；經發現有干擾現象時，應立即停用， 並改善至無干擾時方得繼續使用。   前項合法通信，指依電信法規定作業之無線電通信。   低功率射頻電機須忍受合法通信或工業、科學及醫療用電波輻射性電機設備之干擾。 Article 12 Without permission, any company, firm or user shall not alter the frequency, increase the power, or change the characteristics and functions of the original design of the certified lower power frequency electric machinery. Article 14 The application of low power frequency electric machineries shall not affect the navigation safety nor interfere a legal communication, if an interference is found, the...
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