Ridiculous amount of ANT+ disconnects since update

try riding without connecting your phone

I ride with my phone connected via Bluetooth, but turn Wifi off on the phone.  I also keep Wifi turned off on the 530.  Wifi was causing my Livetrack to disconnect.  I almost never get sensor disconnects, so maybe keeping Wifi off is helping, maybe not.

As an aside, I'm not sure why I need Wifi on the 530.  I never turn it on.  It downloads to the phone via Bluetooth, just don't need it.  When my ride is done I turn my phone Wifi back on.

Cranky K. said:

I almost never get sensor disconnects

Try riding with your Bluetooth switched off, I'm not going to guarantee 100% that you'll never get disconnects but I'm convinced you most likely will - based on personal experience, I never see any drop outs when I ride offline, which is what I do all the time. I also don't use WiFi.

I'm nearly 100% free of disconnects now, that's my point.  I like having my phone connected via Bluetooth and it isn't a problem.  I just mentioned my success in conjunction with my WiFi being off in case it might help someone else.  I should add that all my sensors are Ant+ connected (HRM2, Speed Sensor, Remote).

May have corrected itself today.

Five hour ride, two very brief Varia disconnects/immediate reconnects.

I'd rather not turn off BT, since I use the messaging alerts & LiveTrack.

Wife uses LiveTrack to see when I'm about 10 minutes from home, and has an egg & cheese on an English waiting for me when I get in.

I'm not giving that up!

With 9.73 I had many disconnects. With 9.75 only speed sensor had dropouts. On my todays ride I disabled WiFi on the Edge, kept BT on and used LiveTrack. No disconnect at all. Seems that WiFi is the reason for that issue. I will continue to observe and report.

Yes, as I mentioned above, having WiFi turned off on both the Edge and phone has been successful for me.  I don't need WiFi on my phone while I ride, and I never need WiFi on the Edge.  I'm not really sure when I would bother with WiFi on the Edge, I don't see a need for it.  I'm not sure why more people across all the Edge devices haven't at least tried turning off WiFi on both to improve sensor connections.

That's interesting.

Ive been experiencing some power dropouts (Favero Assioma Uno) and a fewer HRM dropouts (Polar H10).

It started to occur just recently, i've never had any powerdrops before which made me think the problem was with the PM.

I always leave bluetooth and wifi on, both on my phone and Edge.

I'll try turning wifi off to see what happens.

Thanks.

I also support this suggestion to turn wifi off on both phone and Edge 530. I am having success with this. Live track is still active by Bluetooth connection to phone.

Turning phone wifi off has been fairly successful for me.
Also report the issue to Garmin Support. I did that this morning. They don't have any solutions at the moment but they have added me to a list of people with the issue and I should be notified when a solution is found.