Fitbit Versa 5 Manual

[Jacinto Dieujuste]

Soyesterday, got my versa, super excited! Found out one thing tho, the screen is suuuppppeeeerrr sensitive. I would hardly move my arm and my screen turns on. And when it turns on, it doesn't turn off for another 10 seconds which is super annoying because that really drains my battery. Also, there's this feature where you put your palm on the screen and it's supposed to turn off... supposed to. The second I move my hand away, it turns back on and sometimes I have to put my palm on the screen for about 3-5 seconds or slowly peel my palm off the screen and even then it still doesn't always turn off. Anyone else have this problem? And can we change the options for how long the screen stays on (backlight delay)? I'm too lazy to go the features suggestions. Thanks!!

Hi there @sarah_lin8, nice to see you one more time in the Fitbit Community! Regarding your concern about the screen is sensitive, this feature should react normally when you turn your writs towards your face.

If you feel the screen is too sensitive, perhaps turning Off Screen Wake option will help you to save battery. Swipe left to access the shortcuts screen. On the shortcuts screen you can select from Auto to Manual.

Now regarding the concern of the backlight note that the minimum time to set, are 10 seconds. This is a normal behavior of your Fitbit watch. Manage basic settings including brightness, heart rate, and paired Bluetooth devices directly on your Settings app and tap a setting to adjust it.

Also, I'm not sure if this is related, but now that I'm paying more attention to this I noticed that the screen stays off when notifications come in or when my alarm goes off to wake me up. I think those issues started when I set my screen wake to manual, but I'm not sure.

As far as I can tell, it's working as designed. The manual setting prevents the wrist turn from starting the screen on. Taps to the screen or the band where it meets the screen, as well as the buttons, will also wake the device.

I too am experiencing this issue. At work I started setting the screen wake to manual but that did not work either. After lots of testing and returning my first Versa for a new one I discovered that any sort of vibration on the watch band causes the screen to wake (even when set to manual). So if you rest your hand on a desk or set it on a counter at work it can easily wake the screen. See video linked below.

Is Screen Wake set to "Auto" or "Manual"? If you hold the left button down for two seconds it will open a menu. There should be two or three screens you can scroll between. Music - Screen/Notification - Wallet (if NFC Payment in enabled).

I have the same issue. I decided to go to manual to save battery life after driving at night and realizing how often the screen would light up. The screen still switches on without my input. You would think manual mode would prevent this.

Whenever I move the watch on my wrist (ie, fidgeting) the screen turns on. It is especially problematic at night - when the screen turns on by itself the light disturbs my sleep. Is there a "sleep mode" or something that I can turn on before I go to sleep and turn off manually when I wake up? This way no matter how much I move at night the watch will stay off unless I press the left button?

My versa is the opposite. It' on auto wake and I can flick my wrist 2,3,4 times before it will turn on. I realise there' s a slight delay but even waiting it won' t turn on unless I flick really hard. Any suggestions?

When set to manual, I just discovered that screen will come on but not when I flick my wrist but when I touch the face of the watch it will come on I would rather leave it in manual and touch the screen each time rather than having it come on constantly when I move my wrist and running the battery down more quickly.

When selecting manual laps for any workout type there is no option to view the lap related stats on the watch, like lap count or lap time? This is available on the versa 2, disappointed to see this is missing on the versa 4.

@Rich_Laue it's not what @Rager0111 is asking about (at least I think so). There is no way to see metrics for lap (neither current nor previous) during workout. I find it also very limitting. Fitbit isn't sophisticated enough to allow programming interval workouts but without lap metrics it also makes impossible to track intervals kind of "manually". For example, if I had a lap distance, lap pace and lap time fields I could manually follow structure like 1mi WU + 10x(1'@Z5 + 0:30@Z1) + 10'CD. For that, I would need to see current lap distance (for warmup, to know when to hit next lap), lap time for Z5 and Z1 intervals and for cooldown. If target of interval is pace then I would need lap pace, etc.

3a8082e126