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(Known Issue) GPS accuracy on Jan 01 2021?

Just had a run with my 945. GPS was way off during the run, I mean about 50-100 meters off reality during the whole route.

Has anyone else had this today? Using GPS+Glonass setting.

Janne / Finland

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CloggyAbroad over 3 years ago +15

I have done a few more experiments and think I have worked out what is going on.

Before going for a run today I connected to GC on my PC and did a sync. I verified the CPE had downloaded correctly by checking…
seilogramp over 3 years ago +13 verified

Not impacting everyone, but it is a system-wide issue impacting multiple device types, not only Garmin devices.

From Garmin's support site - The Activity GPS Track From My Garmin Watch Is Inaccura…
DavidJJones over 3 years ago in reply to CloggyAbroad +8

I've just done some work today, and you can take the GPX file and make a manual adjustment to the lon / lat and correct it.

It would be too labour intensive, so I made a small python file to make the…

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0 MichaelW over 3 years ago in reply to who knows

Nah, it's a problem in NZ too (on 2 Jan runs, rather than 1 Jan no doubt due to the time difference).

0 Chilly996 over 3 years ago

Hello,

Same for me in FRANCE with GPS+Galileo.

I did a walk yesterday and the trace was a few hundred meters on the west.

0 jellis over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

Also fine for me on the 1st in NZ, however today’s run on the 2nd was impacted by this bug.

0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago in reply to jellis

2nd Jan bike ride - 945 https://www.strava.com/activities/4551656138

2nd Jan parkrun - F6 https://www.strava.com/activities/4550925784

And for comparison parkrun on 25th December F6 https://www.strava.com/activities/4513663154

Interesting? Can’t understand why when I look at my Strava feed of people in NZ I see good tracks without problems?

Now, I’m not denying the absence of a problem, there are plenty of ‘me too’ posts (a few with evidence to confirm the veracity of their posts) so clearly there are some problems. But hard to fathom why the people I see in New Zealand and Australia have good tracks. Weird eh?

0 jdt80 over 3 years ago

Yes I've had the same issue with my run on 1st January being off the route that I took and today it was better but still off at the start of the run. I assumed it was just due to the cold and not allowing enough time for the watch to pick up the gps signal so thought I'd see if there were any tips to improve gps, but if it's actually a general issue....has anyone checked with Garmin Support at all?

0 bikej over 3 years ago

Same was in Poland. Huge track offset and some records annouced by watch (eg. 400m in 60s:) Might have been explosions on Sun;)

0 2234700 over 3 years ago in reply to bikej

Is your CPE expired? Mine is, sync via Garmin Express brings a new CPE-File but it’s still expired. Come on Garmin!

0 2706032 over 3 years ago

Same problem in New Zealand.

0 9386496 over 3 years ago

Same here

0 CloggyAbroad over 3 years ago

I don't expect the two laps to overlap exactly, but I do expect the two laps to show me on (or near) the road I actually ran on.