Timeline for what could be the reason for very inacurate strava tracks of my bike excursions?
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| Aug 10, 2017 at 21:21 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | @GregHewgill I'm drawing a distinction between the GPS components (which are dedicated and should not lag) vs the device's CPU which can certainly lag when loaded, or when on low power mode. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 20:13 | comment | added | Greg Hewgill | @Greg: The software (apps) running on your phone have no effect on the GPS. It's much more likely to be a physical effect, either poor satellite position, atmospheric effects, vegetation (trees), buildings, your own body position relative to satellites, etc. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 13:55 | comment | added | Greg | wow, that was one quality answer, thank you. can you see this very activity? strava.com/activities/… the track seems to be all over the place and there are even sections where the gps did not work. this hasn't happened before and I keep the gps exactly as I used to, in the side pocket of my shorts so my guess was that some apps disturb the gps unit/events. it would be easiest to use the Garmin gps but frankly it would be too much effort for those short rides to/from work. | |
| Aug 10, 2017 at 9:35 | history | answered | Criggie♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |