Strava

hippy's right, that is bollocks, Dammit. Where I live, even with a dedicated GPS unit (200) I have to wait up to 2 minutes or so to get a lock. Not every time - it's been known to happen almost instantaneously on a clear, summer, windless weekend day. It was the same level of randomness with my phone. If I lived in the same pastoral splendour as yourself, perhaps I'd share the luxury of consistent instalock. Life's tough in the inner city, seen?

My phone grabs a GPS fix instantly, in Farringdon, overlooked by tall buildings on either side.

Dedicated GPS units are slower than phones due to the lack of A-GPS which Hippy mentioned upthread.

This is true with either of my phones- an Android handset (Galaxy Note) and an iPhone 4.

I'm sticking to my guns- if your phone is not picking up sufficient GPS fix for Strava to fire at once, then there is something wrong.

Hippy mentioned that his S2 picked up a signal at once also, did he not?

I've got A-GPS. Everything's more spaced out in Farringdon than Finsbury. Plus we've got the ley lines and plague pit echoes which fuck with signals.

I suppose I do keep my phone in a wok.

Anyway, I use a dream-catcher on my balcony now as a permanent signal store and dispenser.

^do you recommend one? Might stick up a wanted ad...

the ken hom(ing signal) range is meant to be ok...

Ok, SamJT- where are you?

If he's anywhere in London, or the South of England pretty much, you can apologise.

If he's in the middle of Lapland or similar then I'll say sorry.

We've already established that his phone works within 300m of the OP running so it can't be the phone or the OS.

Two other factors: User settings - was GPS off?
Environmental/Location settings - were the satellites obscured?

The nice thing is, it doesn't matter what the answer is, you're wrong, since we know the device works. We've already had a last post wins thread, there's no need to make another, so I'll accept your apology.

hippy's right, that is bollocks, Dammit. Where I live, even with a dedicated GPS unit (200) I have to wait up to 2 minutes or so to get a lock. Not every time - it's been known to happen almost instantaneously on a clear, summer, windless weekend day. It was the same level of randomness with my phone. If I lived in the same pastoral splendour as yourself, perhaps I'd share the luxury of consistent instalock. Life's tough in the inner city, seen?

My phone locks very quickly when it has cached location data. If I travel OS and use the GPS then it takes a bit longer to lock.

My Edge 800 and Garmin Hcx on the other hand can take minutes or kilometres to get a lock.

Hippy mentioned that his S2 picked up a signal at once also, did he not?

No, It was a Galaxy, not an S2. An older, inferior device to the S2.

My GPS worked today. #win

See, you're wrong there- working "within 300 metres" is not working.

It should work at once.

That's his issue, which you advise fixing by "waiting".

#win

All I have to do to win it to wait, apparently.

You're wrong.

All I have to do to win it to wait, apparently.

If your snap/jump is your strength, then yes.

Not true. I am the KOM of an unsafe segment that is still listed in my KOMs. Not that this is something to be proud of, as it is rightly flagged as unsafe.

Same here, I was just bimbling on the brompton and saw I'd got a kom when I finished the ride, someone then flagged it and it's banked for me. It's fair to say it's unsafe but there's a few I was attempting that have been struck off that were just in a bus lane with no junctions...curious

in a bus lane

Sounds sufficiently urban to merit 'unsafe' status.

I don't use the Strava app - because there isn't one for Blackberry, but the GPSLogger app I do use always takes a while to lock on. Sometimes a minute, sometimes longer. Tuesday evening it refused to lock on at all. The Google Earth app is much faster to lock on to my location. So... phone or app? Or do I just continue to wait? Mind you if I wait long enough HR will get round to giving me an iPhone to replace the Blackberry and the problem will go away.

Maybe....

If two GPS apps behave differently on the same device, it can't be the device now can it? Google Earth probably cheats a bit with cached A-GPS data.

#win

I peformed a test this morning.

Took phone out of pocket, stated Strava app, instant fix.

Boom! Proof I'm right.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

#win

It's not anecdotal, I wore a lab coat and noted my test results, whilst boiling some water with a bunsen burner.