Amazon.com: Customer reviews: Garmin vivofit 3 Activity Tracker, Regular fit

Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2018

After my first fitness band being the Jawbone Up 2, I'd fallen in love with it. Loved the app for food and step tracking. However, my band broke and I was unable to use it. That was after roughly 8-10 months of use. Loving it, I decided to buy the up 3 and reconnect to my app. I couldn't even get the thing to charge, so I couldn't sync it. Bought it brand new. After buying and waiting for it to get here I was utterly disappointed. Amazon was amazing and made the return simple. So I scoped out reviews, and came across this! It's been about 6-ish months and I love it! The internal app is great and the syncing ability for other apps is great as well! (Works with myfitnesspal app) Wears well, don't care for the original band, (which is not the biggest deal, but worth mentioning,) it tracks well, can wear in shower with no issues and no need for charging! May upgrade but definitely within the Garmin family of fitness trackers.

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Karmen Fiedler

Perfect for an avid hiker/desk job-worker

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2017

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I wore this on a hiking trip in Canada, and I chose this one specifically because it doesn’t need charging (no outlets in the canadian wilderness). The app it connects to is super easy to navigate and very informative. A little slow to sync, though, especially after I updated it.
The wristband itself is simple, slick, and works well for me. I’m just a step-counter and hiking enthusiast, not a Runner. I also like to keep track of how active I’m being (since I have a desk job) and it does that perfectly. LOVE not having to charge it. I wear it literally constantly. Big fan of Garmin.

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Loretta K Glaze

The watch did not work.

Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2022

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The watch came and did not work. We contacted the company, and they said they would send a new battery. We waited a week and did not receive a battery. We purchased a battery, and went to install it to find the watch did not come with a battery. We installed the new battery in the watch and it still did not work. We contacted the seller and returned the watch .

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JP

Had a couple issues, but overall decent. My first one, not sure how it compares to others.

Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2018

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Pretty good little tracker. Not terribly accurate, but good enough for my purposes. I’m not a super active person, and I used the tracker to track my steps at work. The tech is occasionally glitchy. Had trouble syncing with the garmin in app on my iPad once in awhile, but I usually restarted my iPad or resynced the tracker. The sleep tracker was neat and it was fun seeing my weekly patterns. I also used My fitness pal with the garmin app and the two would adjust my exercise and calorie count accordingly. Actually, my Vivofit just died today. I’d say it lasted almost a full year, with daily use and regular syncing up with the app, give or take a week or two.

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Jazzie Holt

Very good watch!

Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2017

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This would be the second one of these I bought. They are great watches and perfect for tracking steps, calories, sleep and distance. I like that you can do the split screen and military time thing so you can see how far you've walked and have military time for those that use it. My biggest gripe with this watch, and the reason that I ultimately had to get the Samsung Gear Fit2 is because it WILL NOT count seconds, and as an upcoming EMT, I need a watch that does both military time and seconds. The thing I miss most about this watch is its "always on" display that I don't have to push a button or flick my wrist to get it to display the time. It does have a stop watch on it, but you have to press and hold the button for a couple of seconds to get it going, and when you're trying to get a pulse and respiration rate in a hurry, that couple of seconds is critical. But for a beginner fitness tracker and for those that don't need the complicated options, this is a great watch, is very kid friendly (because the second one is for my daughter) and has some great bands to go with it.

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J. Knight

Stopped working

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2017

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Bought this refurbished here on Amazon. I had a difficult time pairing it with the app on my Android phone. That took me probably fifteen minutes, not counting the time it took to install the app. Once I got it set up (finally), it worked fine. I was surprised to find that the sync schedule isn't frequent. I never paid close attention to the specifics, but you may want to look that up before buying.

The band is comfortable, seemed durable, and was fairly inconspicuous. I had no problems with it in the shower or getting it wet. And the lack of a need to charge it is awesome.

So why theee stars? The band stopped working. One night it just went to an error screen, permanently engaged its backlight, and would not respond to normal button presses. I tried resetting it, googling the issue, and everything else. But nothing would work. So it was returned. If not for this problem, I'd have kept it, because I enjoyed having it. I guess sometimes you lose out with the refurbished items.

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VA Customer

I had owned it for about two years and I was pretty pleased with it and decided to purchase another Garmin

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2018

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I had the original Garmin vivofit until it stopped syncing reliabily with the corresponding app and then a few weeks later it died. I had owned it for about two years and I was pretty pleased with it and decided to purchase another Garmin.The Vivofit 3 has not disappointed me. I like this one better than the original. It is smaller, with a much sleeker design which I like and it offers all the information that I need. It provides time, steps, steps to goal, calories burned, heart rate etc.. It is waterproof so the only time I take it off is if I'm getting a massage or something like that. I love the fact that it does not have to be charged because I WOULD FORGET and then not have it for my workout. The corresponding app has been updated and is pretty user friendly and it syncs pretty easily with my phone. When I was loosing weight, the app also synced with the myfitness pal app which I was using so that was very convenient ( I did not have to enter the information twice). Overall it is a great purchase for the money, the only drawback is that it does not appear to have a backlight when its dark...otherwise....great device!

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Stephanie

Works for me!

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2019

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Bought this for friend but purchased one for myself 2ish years ago because I needed something simple to use at work. Is it accurate? No and I doubt you'll find a pedometer that is but it's close enough. It gets me moving which is better than the alternative - sitting on my lazy arse all day. Desk jockey and recliner cruiser. Oh yeah... step counts occur with arm movements while mixing, bouncy golf cart rides, vibrations during motorcycle rides, blah, blah, blah. I take it off during those events. And steps aren't counted when using a grocery cart. To smooth a ride. I put it in my pocket while shopping. Def want those steps counted. Not going to have a stress attack because it doesn't behave exactly the way I want it to. I work around its tiny faults. Again, it gets me moving. I love that it has a battery. No having to remember to recharge. Have changed battery once since purchase and it wasn't difficult to do especially after I Googled the instructions. As to ease of use, so easy if you read directions! I don't regret the purchase. Try it. If you don't like it, you don't. Probably won't be the first time in your life you don't like something you paid for. If you like it, move, move, move!

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Brian T

Troublesome sync issues that were never resolved, MAJOR issues with Verizon/Samsung or potentially just Garmin in general.

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2017

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What a waste! I spent hours on the phone the day this arrived with Garmin customer support. I couldn't get this tracker to sync with my Note 4 despite multiple reboots on my device and resets on the tracker. They blamed it on an update Verizon had pushed out and said I would need an ANT stick to sync to my PC for now and they would create a ticket and some day would patch things up so it would work again. The ANT stick came in and I was able to get it to sync one time before it started doing the exact same thing with it! I never got credit for a single step tracked. I don't think this unit was ever "refurbished" like they claim, or Garmin just can't get their act together. I recommend you look elsewhere if you want a fitness tracker. This was a massive waste of my time.

Update, I never got around to sending this unit back and Garmin sent me a free Ant stick. I was using it to synch with my pc but the last Garmin update seems to have fixed the Android issue. Now there only real issue I have is the band will pop off, twice now I have found it laying on the ground. A nicer band for this would be helpful.

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N. Stephan

After 3 months and 2 batteries it died [EDIT: Garmin replaced and it worked for another 1.5 years]

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2018

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I had the vivofit 3 for less than three months before it stopped working! The first battery died after six weeks, but since the tracker was a refurb I figured it had just been sitting on a shelf, slowly sucking power. So I changed the battery, and got another month out of it. Then I had to change the battery again... and it came back to life only to flicker and die within the hour.

I started to worry that it was a problem with the vivofit series, because my vivofit 2 trackers had screen issues... pixels would die after a few months, I'd exchange the tracker for another one, then after a few months more I'd have to do the same thing all over again. And I wasn't sure I was going to try another Garmin device... but I submitted a repair request to Garmin and received a replacement that worked perfectly for a year and a half! I submitted another repair request and hopefully will receive a replacement soon.

I'm still disappointed with Amazon... apparently, the product support window closed after two months, even though this product was listed as having at least a 90-day warranty. I couldn't even leave feedback for the seller... how convenient! Perhaps I should reconsider how I make my purchases, because this is the second such issue I've had with Amazon in the last year.

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