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Anyone else having a bit of trouble with iPhone 3gs and its gps signal. Im killing myself up hills and blasting it on sections where i know there are segments, only to find that when i get home and upload it to the strava servers the gps doesnt line up! and all my hard work is down the pan!
its annoyed me so much I have gone and brought a garmin edge!
Anyone else pissed off...
Your hard work isn't down the pan, just your willy waving. Get over it. If you're good you'd win races; that's where the glory is.
i find mine is only fairly reliable if its in the top pocket of my backpack.
if its in the shorts pocket (getting bounced about) it never syncs right.
Joking by the way!
Willy waving is good!
You can always use a different app to record the route then upload up to strava as a gpx when you get home...
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I use one of these on stem, no gps issues,and is waterproof
Find it on an Garmin Edge too, rode a trail today with Scottishbadger, and neither of us have it showing as a segment.
It does have its oddities and I've missed out some section because of it.
I might not be your data that's dodgy and therefore not matching to segment - it can be that the data used to make the segment is a bit crappy. You could try remaking the same segment from your own data and then compare how many rides match your segment and the original one to work out which is 'best'. If yours is better you might try leaving a comment on the other one asking the person who made it to consider deleting it.
One point with Garmin's - I reckon it's probably worth setting them to "per second" recording not "smart recording" for Strava purposes.
It can work the other way. I think I have a KOM because of a dodgy signal.
Do you have your wifi on? Apparently that improves gps signal, no idea why
I've tried Strava yet but used Ensomondo last year lots until summer and then routes just showed big long straight lines so were useless.
That is with a 3GS. Mrs zbonty uses her HTC phone and that seems spot on.
Same issue...
Yeah it's a bit erratic on a 3gs. It's also free.
had same problem recording with strava.
now record with cyclemeter & email to strava.
No issues on 4 although i dont go looking for segments just find out after if i rode em
Do you have your wifi on? Apparently that improves gps signal, no idea why
Because its assisted gps, it uses the location of wifi hotspots to work out where you are when the gps is on the blink. Great in the city. Not too great on a mountain
Went for a loop around a local country park which has about 10 segments... today I only picked up 4