I was contacted by a user of my Radar Widget who is having problems on his Edge 1030 after upgrading to FW version 11.00 and 11.10 that his device will lose GPS fix when trying to run my widget. The device will run fine until any CIQ widget that tries to access GPS position is run. Once it has the short drop in GPS fix, it will continue to lose the location fix until the device is rebooted.
Here are some troubleshooting steps tested by another Edge 1030 user who was able to reproduce the same issue both with my radar widget link and with the Accuweather Minutecast widget.
I've just now pulled my 1030 out (it spends 99.99% of the time on the shelf ready as a backup) and it's on 10.2 but is telling me 11.0 is available (11.0, not 11.10, even though I see on the Garmin forums that 11.10 is available which appears to NOT be an OTA update, but has to be manually installed) I let the GPS sync up (confirmed five bars), checked my location on the map, looked at the radar, confirmed I still had five bars, and looked at my location on the map again. No problems. At this point I upgraded to 11.0. And then the fun begins. Here's my observation. I swipe down the screen. I notice that GPS has five bars. I swipe right, and my first widget is Accuweather MinuteCast (https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/c1facb1f-db5a-4352-adf3-9dd09e6fc668) Immediately the Edge 1030 tells me on the top line of the screen "Lost Satellites" but Accuweather still brings up current conditions. I swipe one more screen right and I have WRW4. The "Lost Satellites" notification is still on the top line, but it also pulls up the radar. I swipe left two screens to get back to the "main" Garmin widget and I have no GPS bars, and then I quickly get all five back. I can replicate this quite a few times before it starts behaving properly. While this behaviour is happening, occasionally swiping between Accuweather and WRW4 I do notice that sometimes Accuweather will say "We're unable to get data for your location" which usually indicates to me that I either don't have a good data connection or I don't have a good GPS fix, and WRW4 will sit on "Waiting for position", but going back to the "main" Garmin widget I'll see that I have no GPS bars, but will get them back quickly, and then swipe back to that widget and it's hit and miss and whether the widget will get a location. In my testing, it seems the longer the 1030 is on, the less chance of all of this behaviour is of happening. Until it gets to where it won't happen at all and will function perfectly. But rebooting the device causes it to start happening again. I recreated all of this from a fresh start three times with the same results. In the spirit of good testing, I checked my 1030 Plus for this same behaviour. It did not display it.
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