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Drift in gps tracks

Former Member over 4 years ago

Hi! After syncing a run I discovered an unusual drift in the gps track. It started with an offset, and during the activity the offset increased. I’ve seen an offset before, but not a constantly changing/drifting offset like this time. Does anybody know how this could happen? And what I can do to prevent it from happening again?

Gps settings during activity:

Climbpro: off
Automatic elevation (unsure of the translation): off
3D speed enabled
3D distance ensbled
gps+glonass

The activity was on a flat running field.

Link to activity:

connect.garmin.com/.../5361315710

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8016151 over 3 years ago in reply to tttedp +1

tttedp said:
they also added a track mode activity to deal with this specifically.

I'm not sure that would help much in this instance. Track Run is supposed to take your first 3 laps around the track as…

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0 4555976 over 3 years ago

and no response?

0 8016151 over 3 years ago in reply to 4555976

I assume you're having this issue? Happens to me on rare ocassions. Usually fixed by deleting the \GARMIN\REMOTESW folder, then syncing with Garmin Express. Also, since this post was a year ago, this might have been related to the Sony chipset issue that was happening around that same time.

0 tttedp over 3 years ago in reply to 8016151

they also added a track mode activity to deal with this specifically.

0 8016151 over 3 years ago in reply to tttedp

tttedp said:
they also added a track mode activity to deal with this specifically.

I'm not sure that would help much in this instance. Track Run is supposed to take your first 3 laps around the track as a reference, then lock in the remaining laps for consistency. So if you run in lane 1, the rest of the workout will be in lane 1. In the image provided it looks like the entire run is shifted to the right.