Month: January 2018

Fitbit Ionic initial setup and firmware update…

Recently bought an Fitbit ionic, reason being

  1. I don’t need to carry a phone or another device for music and GPS.

the initial setup was a bummer thought of returning it back, the only way I could update the firmware was doing the following

  1.  Have 3g on the phone.
  2. Make the phone a hotspot
  3. Install the Fitbit app on Mac or windows(blue tooth).
  4. Add a new device and run the setup through the computer.
  5. Configure Fitbit WiFi to use to the Mobile Hotspot from step 2.
  6. And on the update configuration screen just select activity tracking, leave the others they will get automatically installed.

That’s it.. well then what combination did not work.

  1. With the app on windows configuring the Fitbit WiFi to use  Hotel/Home/Office WiFi did not work all were 2.4 GHz.
  2. Tried the same setup above with a phone instead of an windows box did not work.
  3. Tried both the above steps with Bluetooth instead of WiFi did not work.


Alll the best and post comments for any other information or questions.

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