Strava

Probably confused him with a plane coming into Stansted.

It's all about confidence boosting as far as I can tell from all the patronising little emails I've had from Strava about new followers etc. Obviously it feels sorry for him because he's blowing a valve or two and wants to give him a bit of a leg up.

Airplane mode shouldn't stop GPS as GPS is not transmitting. This is the case on Android, don't know what failphones do.

Fail.

But until I have a large enough hallway I am unable to prove this statement is actually true:

The iPhone 3G and all subsequently released iPhone models use A-GPS -- or "Assisted GPS" -- which in basic terms accesses an intermediary server when it is not possible to connect directly via satellite -- indoors, for example -- and this server provides the nearest satellite with additional information to make it possible to more accurately determine a users position.

pretty much any modern phone does aGPS these days. my Nokia N95 did it...
I'm no GPS engineer but as far as I know all it does is use the identity of the mobile cell you're in to lookup where in the world you are, making it quicker for the GPS calculations to get an initial fix.
looking at Wikipedia it appears that it doesa bit more. if yo u have weak GPS reception then the aGPS node can fill in some of the blanks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

Pretty much all phones then:

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_devices_with_Assisted_GPS[/ame]

Afternoon all. This may have been dealt with on here before and I admit I can't be arsed to read the last 20 pages. iPhone 4s, full battery, strava for 4 hrs battery out. Any tips on making that battery run a little longer? Is there some sort of 'background' setting I can employ or are iPhones just bollocks for this sort of ride?

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plug one of these into your phone...

Yep, I was considering one of those if I couldn't slow the rate of battery decline sufficiently.

2nd place by 2s to Wouter Sybrandy. #tryharder

water is 2nd place to brandy. #doingwell

Surly you meant to say.

Today's ride did all sorts of weird shit, including not registering everything, flying me across the park and stopping on the way home. http://app.strava.com/rides/25294133
Any ideas why?

You are Tyler Durden AICM£5.

Those new views on veloviewer are good aren't they?

Quick question (cross-posted from 'Any questions' thread):

The girlfriend and I ride a lot together (quiet, you) and we both use Strava. I think only once have we had it display '...and one other' on the log. Why is it not registering us as riding together?

She generally starts at her apartment and I'll start at mine (a few km apart) and likewise stopping - would this be enough to confuse it? Do we have to start and stop them pretty much simultaneously at the same place? Surely it should realise that two people covering 65km together are in a group, regardless of the 3km either side...

It seems pretty arbitrary. I've done whole rides with people and it's not registered, but then it picked up a bloke who I wasn't riding with but who happened to share a couple of similar roads to me about half an hour later.

And there's no way of forcing it, right?

I do love Strava but sometimes it's a bit hit-and-miss. Clocked me at 83km/h (50-odd mph) on an (admittedly very steep, long) downhill the other day, fixed on 46:18. I'm assuming it's wrong there, but I'm still bragging! :P

Every time I've used the snap 'Stava needs a polish' tool it ends up matching me with someone who has ridden a similar route. Random.

I've started recording most of my "active" stuff in Strava, which is quite handy.

It totals riding/running separately from the other activities such as swimming and gym.

but it adds walks/hikes in the ran miles totals though, which kind of messed up all my numbers before I realised it a while ago.

Ah, didn't know that- I have not added any walks or hikes.

i am not a follower of my own KOM's and find it bizarre when Strava tells me I have lost KOM's that I did not know I even held

i find it most informative for MTB use, so for example i regularly go to Swinley Forest, and repeat the same bits of trail and can then see how i am doing on segments versus other visits. had not been out on the MTB for a while so it was interesting to see that some trails I was doing well on, but that my fitness has suffered, so was lagging on quite a few.

i tend not to repeat road rides so often so the comparisons are not so informative. urban segments are utterly pointless as generally the traffic and traffic lights are the deciding factors, so comparing my performance on segments in London tells me next to fuck all, though I did discover that i often ride faster in town on the bike with the best braking ability

ahah not a big deal, I keep adding hikes, just mark them as kitesurf sessions :)

And there's no way of forcing it, right?

I do love Strava but sometimes it's a bit hit-and-miss. Clocked me at 83km/h (50-odd mph) on an (admittedly very steep, long) downhill the other day, fixed on 46:18. I'm assuming it's wrong there, but I'm still bragging! :P

Strava only displays your gps data, most likely this is what is wrong not strava. iphone or garmin?

I had a top speed of 397mph this morning, thanks Strava. I think it got a bit confused by the fog...

Strava only displays your gps data, most likely this is what is wrong not strava. iphone or garmin?

iPhone, so yeah, almost certainly the hardware.