#MyTracks is a fantastic GPS tracker for your phone, minimal battery drain, rates to many formats, e-mail them easily from the app, just a good simple application. Thanks to Rick Horsfield for the tip, but this this question goes to you as well Rick.
If you are already using it, has it suddenly started missing huge swathes of your rides? I am hoping not and it is something fixable at my end but I suspect a recent update may have broken it...
This might be an odd thing to say, but if you haven't tried it, do, it really is/was good :-)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.maps.mytracks
can't say for my tracks specifically, but various GPS apps seem to have a glitch once in a while. Never really figured out why. I think woodland, buildings, where it is on your body etc all play a part.
ReplyDeleteYea, used to the "no signal in wet woods" effect but this was consistently, and repeatably, very poor out in the open where and when it's usually fine. And Strava for instance would be fine (not simultaneously though). Found what might have been a new setting about letting other applications control it though. Disabled that and it has just tracked every inch of an hour long sledging trip in the snow so hopefully the update "broke" it, and it is now fixed...
ReplyDeleteTime will tell I guess.
It never ceases to amaze me that GPS works at all though. Some guy described it as something like receiving the light from a 60 watt bulb from a million kilometers or something equally ridiculous. Essentially it is magic :-)
ReplyDeleteI used my tracks when it came out, but dropped it as I wasn't using it. I then discovered orux maps, but I think it is getting a bit bloated, so I may revert back to my tracks.
ReplyDeleteChris Auton As far as I can tell mine has been working just fine. I did switch off the Auto Update though & haven't updated the App for a few months now. It was working good so didn't bother as I read the update was just a different map view & widget. I imagine your tracks have been recorded & saved properly but the software might have a glitch. A few updates ago it stopped showing average moving time, but a couple of updates later it came back & showed it for all previous recorded tracks.
ReplyDeleteMight be worth saving all your tracks then uninstalling then reinstalling the app or the last update. My G+ app was totally unusable a few months ago so I uninstalled the latest update & that version worked fine. Good luck, hope you get it sorted.
Rick Horsfield hadn't considered the possibility that it just wasn't showing the results. With some partial chunks showing I just assumed the rest was missing, might be worth a go, although I won't lose much if it doesn't work...
ReplyDeleteCould be a signal problem but doubt it. I've never had a connection failure in the past 12 months. I ride in covered woodland on practically every ride & the canopy at Steetley is that tight you don't even get much daylight shining through. Sometimes forget to stop the GPS & it still tracks in the house.
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