Strava... Cant find where to post a Q

[Levo-Lon]

Anyhow.
My strave continues to go off during rides, then after phone reboot it says its recovered.. No it hasn't.
It then gives me a false log, and does straight line back to start.

Any ideas?
Is this likely to be phone or strava app?
If i go out with son in law i just get him to share the ride as my data will say 3 miles when we've done 20 odd miles.

Any info thoughts?

Mods, move if there is a strave section, thanks

 

[Fnaar]

Do you make sure you have a satellite fix before starting?
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917707-Bad-GPS-Data-What-Why-How

 

[User6179]

Turn off auto pause if you have it turned on, if that does not work then delete Strava and download again.

 

[Spiderweb]

I had a problem like this some time ago, Auto Pause was on and didn’t always restart ie. when stopped at traffic lights. I turn Auto Pause off and have never had anymore issues.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I'll have a look at auto, and then delete app,
It always worked perfectly until recently

 

[Levo-Lon]

Well i cant find turn off pause... Looking in settings

 

[Katherine]

Well i cant find turn off pause... Looking in settings

Go to start recording a ride and settings is on the top bar.

 

[Katherine]

Mods, move if there is a strave section, thanks

I'll put it in General Cycling as that is where previous strava threads are.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Go to start recording a ride and settings is on the top bar.

Thank you @Katherine easy whn you know

 

[pjd57]

I had problems with a Nokia 5 phone . Constantly putting straight lines in rides.
Tried all the usual resets, uninstall reinstall stuff.
Eventually gave up and changed back to a Moto phone.
Problems solved.

 

[Sheffield_Tiger]

I feel your pain. Having just returned to cycling I got a 55 miler in today which is the farthest I've done for years. But it's not recorded, I had to find the spots on mapmyride that matched where the tracking failed and map the distance that way, then subtract the "straight line" distance to get an accurate mileage. Obvs with no speed etc

 

[Levo-Lon]

I had problems with a Nokia 5 phone . Constantly putting straight lines in rides.
Tried all the usual resets, uninstall reinstall stuff.
Eventually gave up and changed back to a Moto phone.
Problems solved.

That's interesting i too have a nokia 5, which also plays up with my fit bit app

 

[Levo-Lon]

I feel your pain. Having just returned to cycling I got a 55 miler in today which is the farthest I've done for years. But it's not recorded, I had to find the spots on mapmyride that matched where the tracking failed and map the distance that way, then subtract the "straight line" distance to get an accurate mileage. Obvs with no speed etc

I reported the issue via app to strava, which had a " are you getting straight lines" in the help

 

[Levo-Lon]

Checked my Strava today on work commute
Seems fine after turning off auto pause.

Thanks for the help CCers

 

[Jon62]

Had this problem on my Samsung S9, I had set the phones power saving to a lower one, it turned out one of the things it was doing to save power was turn the gps off on standby ☹