Switching GLONASS on/off for IQ Apps possible?

Hello,

To my understanding the Position.enableLocationEvents(...) does not specify GPS or GPS + GLONASS. Different to other activities like running, cycling there is no GPS settings for IQ-Apps on the watch (at least Forerunner235) either.

So, what GPS mode is used in those apps? Anybody has insight? Can this be configured?

Thanks
Martin

Former Member over 9 years ago

It would be good, if one can enable it system wide on the vivoactive hr, like 1s data recording. Then it should be used by ciq apps, too, or am i wrong?
I read here somewhere, that for some watches there is a global system wide setting to enable glonass. But for vivoactive hr definitely only per app in the native garmin apps.
So if the user uses a non native ciq app, he probably will have only normal gps set active.

That is correct .. on the VAHR you cannot turn on Glonass unless you use the native Garmin apps. It would be nice if it could be a global thing .. that you could turn on and off. You have my please vote. :)

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 9 years ago

On the vivoactive HR, Connect IQ is going to use the settings from the last native app that was run on the device. I don't think this is ideal, so I'll file a ticket to see if we can get this changed.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Thank you Brandon .. for me that would not work that well as I do not use Garmin apps but only my own Connect IQ apps. But I think that is not that common. However I have never really had any GPS issues .. other than it shows me running on the wrong side of the street. :)

Former Member over 9 years ago

On the vivoactive HR, Connect IQ is going to use the settings from the last native app that was run on the device. I don't think this is ideal, so I'll file a ticket to see if we can get this changed.

For me not a real solution, too, as I didn't use garmin apps. I use CIQ-Apps for running and cycling that has much more comfort.
So for me it would be nice to have a global setting. Hope development can make it possible

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 9 years ago

We're going to look at putting a design together to allow developers to select the GPS mode they prefer to use within their app. It's not a guarantee that this feature will be implemented, but we'll investigate the best way to approach this problem.