For me the improvement is clearly noticeable. i am still convinced that the gps performance without galileo, for the segment in which the watch moves, is very weak. with galileo, however, things look different for me. thanks to garmin at this point! Picture one is with galileo, picture two without. The route on picture two was recorded a year ago, showing me walking on a very busy street ;) Just a joke, i was the same route as on the left picture.
I'm on 9.2 and am really happy with the GPS accuracy, played golf with a guy who had a laser rangefinder and my F5 was within a yard or two every time.
Hello, my name is Ivan,new to this forum and recently proud owner of 5s,I was very upset reading gps accuracy issue but I am very pleased I couldn't confirm most of them.Here are my running course today gps+glonass,3d speed on 3d distance on,green area on the map is very dense wood.Instant pace in wooded areas were off but lines are strait.On 4.km I made a stop and set on the near bench and on 5.km a made wrong turn.Both places are shown corectly on the.map. Check out my running activity on Garmin Connect. #beatyesterday https://connect.garmin.com/modern/ac...re_unique_id=6
We're up to version 11.00, has anyone experienced a better GPS signal? Mine still records tracks as if I was running drunk, but I swear I run in a straight line most of the time, cutting corners, flying over buildings,...
Somewhere after GPS 2.24 with pace improvement sad to report they broke the distance estimation. Now the watch always reports 1% too long distance, even though the pace may be slightly better seems this has come with cost of distance accuracy. It seems to do this regardless off GPS setting as I've also tried switching GALILEO off.
Back to using Stryd for distance until they (hopefully) figure it out. The reason I used GPS was that with different shoes the Stryd calibration might be slightly off, but now I mostly run in the same shoes anyway (Adidas pureboost DPR, in which the cushion lasts a lot longer than any other shoe so far).
That's the frustration with Stryd; I tested mine running along a 700m section of path repeatedly at faster and faster paces, and it measured the distance impressively consistently. Move it to another shoe, though, and it changes; even the same type of shoe - I keep one pair at work and one at home, and switching can change the distance by a couple of percent. There are winding tree covered routes where the Stryd distance will be better than GPS even uncalibrated, because the F5 will just cut corners and underread every time, but with a decent sky view, it's a wash for me.
Anyone else see an improvement with GPS + Galileo turned on? I am using a Fenix 5 with SW 11.0 and GPS 2.3. This is based on a very small sample since I upgraded the other day, but so far the results are markedly better on a route that gives GPS issues that I run very often. Distance is what I believe to be more correct (based on stryd and Ambit 3 Peak. Old Garmin 305) and the track is tighter and closer to where it should be.
To note, the first run with the new firmware was really off. The second time I let the watch soak in the GPS for 5 minutes before starting and this appears to have made a pretty large difference.
