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StuH
StuH
Jun 2022
9:17pm, 20 Jun 2022
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StuH
When I've used livetrack I've found the drain on the phone battery to be the biggest issue
Oranj
Oranj
Jun 2022
7:59am, 21 Jun 2022
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Oranj
Garmin connect is down and even the status page is "500..." connect.garmin.com . Looking on Twitter, seems there's a problem with Cloudflare servers this morning.
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
Jun 2022
8:30am, 21 Jun 2022
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K5 Gus
Cloudfare have now resolved their problem - affected websites, including garmin, are back :-)
Oranj
Oranj
Jun 2022
9:19am, 21 Jun 2022
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Oranj
Phew. Had a wonder whether they'd been hacked. I gather they don't manage the majority of whole sites, just the SSO part. It does make you wonder just how un-distributed the WWW is!
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
Jun 2022
12:05pm, 28 Jun 2022
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K5 Gus
Anyone else had problems with their GPS trace today ? I had acquired a GPS signal on watch before I started the run, yet the starting point showing on the map is about 200m SE of my house. The trace continued to be out by quite a bit, between 50m and 200m over the course of the whole run, generally it was showing too far SE, but at some points it was due east.

I recall something similar happened 2 or 3 years ago that affected everyone, but can't remember what the reason was.

Not implying this is a fetch problem in any way, same trace showing on Garmin abd Strava.
StuH
StuH
Jun 2022
12:12pm, 28 Jun 2022
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StuH
I haven't ran today, but noticed the same for a couple of people I follow on strava
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
Jun 2022
12:29pm, 28 Jun 2022
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K5 Gus
Thanks Stu, good to know it's not my watch that's faulty !

Thought I'd have a look on the Garmin forums to see if there was anything there - can't see a general forum, just a forum per watch series ( Fenix5, F6, F7, FR245, FR255, etc ) and there sa a couple of reports on the FR245 forum. They are saying when it happened the last time it was a faulty CPE file. A qoogle indicates the CPE file is what is used to give you the quick satellite acquisition, rather than the 2 or 3 mins like it used to take in the old days.

Not a big problem, it still measured more or less the correct distance. It did give me a Conq zone that I normally just miss on that loop, so I suppose I should relinquish that :-)
Looby Loo
Looby Loo
Jun 2022
12:37pm, 28 Jun 2022
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My other half has a polar device and said he clicked his first mile way before he should this morning and at one point was doing 5 minute miles. ( not his usual pace)
K5 Gus
K5 Gus
Jun 2022
12:48pm, 28 Jun 2022
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K5 Gus
Oh, that's interesting LL, it can't be faulty Garmin CPE files if it's affecting Polar watches as well

I suppose we'll just need to blame Putin then, he's no doubt trying to disrupt all these weapon systems that use GPS :-o
larkim
larkim
Jun 2022
1:08pm, 28 Jun 2022
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larkim
I read something on reddit which suggested that there was a big magnetic field issue yesterday which resulted in a lot of GPS shift eastwards.

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