Module No. 3589

Step Count

You can use your watch to keep track of your step count while walking, engaging in your normal daily activities, etc.

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Step Reminder

Studies suggest that sitting too much is bad for the health.
Step Reminder displays an indicator and sounds an alert when it determines you have not walked enough during a specific period. This is valuable feedback that helps achieve your exercise goals.
If the watch performs a Step Reminder alert operation, get up and walk for about five minutes.

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Counting Steps

If you are wearing the watch correctly, the watch will count your steps as you walk or engage in your normal daily activities.

Important!

Since this watch is a wrist-worn device, it may detect non-step movements and count them as steps. Also, abnormal arm movements while walking may cause a miss count of steps.

Getting Ready

To enable the most accurate step count, wear the watch with the face on the outside of your wrist and tighten the band securely. A loose band may make it impossible to obtain correct measurement.

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Performing Measurement

The pedometer will start counting your steps when you start walking.

To check the step count

Displaying the Step Count

Displaying the Step Count

  1. Enter the Timekeeping Mode.

    2. Navigating Between Modes

  2. Press (A) to change to the step count display.

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Interpreting the Step Count Graph

The Step Count Graph shows the number of steps (up to 1,000) you have taken each hour. This lets you easily check your walking pace over the past 7 or 8 hours.

The Step Count Graph is not displayed while the step count is zero.

Graph contents are normally updated at the top of each hour.

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Checking Your Progress to Your Daily Step Target

The graphic display area shows your current progress toward achieving the daily step target specified by you.

Example: Daily target of 10,000 steps

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Note

The step count can show a value up to 999,999 steps. If the step count exceeds 999,999, the maximum value (999,999) remains on the display.

To prevent miscounts, the displayed count does not increase for about 18 seconds after you start walking. After you have been walking for about 18 seconds, the correct count appears, including the steps you took during the previous 18 seconds.

The step count is reset to zero at midnight each day.

To save power, step counting stops automatically if the watch is removed from the wrist and no movement is detected for about two to three minutes.

Graph contents are also updated when any one of the events below occurs.

When the step counting is disabled to save power

When counting is not possible due to accelerometer error or insufficient power

Resetting Today’s Step Count

  1. Enter the Timekeeping Mode.

    2. Navigating Between Modes

  2. Hold down (B) and (D) for at least two seconds. Release when [CLR] and the step count stop flashing.

    3. This resets the step count.

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Specifying a Daily Step Target

You can specify a daily step goal within the range of 1,000 to 50,000, in units of 1,000 steps.

  1. Enter the Timekeeping Mode.

    2. Navigating Between Modes

  2. Hold down (A) for at least two seconds.

    3. This causes the current step reminder setting ([ON] or [OFF]) to flash on the display.

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  3. Press (C).

    4. This causes the current daily step target to flash.

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  4. Use (B) and (D) to specify a step count target value.

  5. Press (A) to complete the setting operation.

Step Reminder

If the watch determines that you have not walked for a preset amount of time, it will sound a tone and display a flashing Step Reminder indicator. If the watch performs this Step Reminder alert operation, get up and walk for five minutes to clear it.

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Clearing a Step Reminder Alert Indicator

To clear the step reminder alert indicator ([STEP!]), press any button besides (B).

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Enabling/Disabling Step Reminder

  1. Enter the Timekeeping Mode.

    2. Navigating Between Modes

  2. Hold down (A) for at least two seconds.

    3. This causes the current step reminder setting ([ON] or [OFF]) to flash on the display.

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  3. Press (D) to toggle Step Reminder between enabled and disabled.

    4. [ON]: Enabled

    [OFF]: Disabled

  4. Press (A) to complete the setting operation.

Causes of Incorrect Step Count

Any of the conditions below may make proper counting impossible.

Walking while wearing slippers, sandals, or other footwear that encourages a shuffling gait

Walking on tile, carpeting, snow, or other surface that causes a shuffling gait

Irregular walking (in a crowded location, in a line where walking stops and starts at short intervals, etc.)

Extremely slow walking or extremely fast running

Pushing a shopping cart or baby stroller

In a location where there is a lot of vibration, or riding on a bicycle or in a vehicle

Frequent movement of the hand or arm (clapping, fanning movement, etc.)

Walking while holding hands, walking with a cane or stick, or engaging in any other movement in which your hand and leg movements are not coordinated with each other

Normal daily non-walking activities (cleaning, etc.)

Wearing the watch on your dominant hand

Walking for 18 seconds or less

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