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GPS not working

Hi,

I've noticed today that I'm having problems with the GPS accuracy on my watch. This morning when setting up my activity I noticed that the map on my watch showed my start location as approximately 200 metres or more away from my actual start location. I did eventually get it to show the correct starting position by turning it off and on again. However, when I checked again later the GPS was showing the same as in the morning with my start position actually 200 metres plus from my actual start position and this time I've not been able to get it to correct itself by turning the watch off and on. Is anyone else having this problem? And does anyone know of a solution to this?

Other than turning it off and on I've tried:

- changing the GPS settings for the activity

- syncing to Connect

Thanks

Jonathan

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0 Crashoveride07 over 2 years ago

The same thing happened to me today, the usual route was mixed on the track by about 200 m to the side, this already happened in early January 2021, then everything was fixed quite quickly at Garmin.

0 Radu Dumitrescu over 2 years ago

The same here, in the exact manner!

It happened for both running and walking activities. A bit more accurate on GPS + Glonass.

0 Crashoveride07 over 2 years ago in reply to Radu Dumitrescu

I used GPS + Galileo

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 2 years ago in reply to Crashoveride07

Crashoveride07 said:
happened in early January 2021

If I remember correctly, this event was across all manufactures with the Sony chipset. Some sort of bad GNSS almanac data file.

0 JKampos over 2 years ago

I don’t know how much it was off for my run, but the recorded route didn’t match the route I ran. It went all over the place

a day later I had no problem. I did change gps setting from gps to gps+galileo

0 ultra_runner over 2 years ago

Same here.

When starting an activity, the GPS location is 50-200 m off the real position. This offset continues during the activity. After an hour or so it corrects itself.

But when starting a new activity, the same thing happens again.

This is independent of GPS/Glonass/Galileo settings.

Similar to the situation we had on January 1st, 2021.

This is really annoying when using the device for navigation in the mountains.

EDIT: On my next run (16 hours later) the offset from the correct course was already about 500 meters.

0 Mrose over 2 years ago

Same issue here. During a walk this morning, the route “corrected” within about 10 minutes. This afternoon, the route was shifted east by about two city blocks for my whole run.

0 doubleoseven1986 over 2 years ago

Same here, my GPS location was all over the place today. Mostly heavily shifted, and partly jumped around resp. didn’t catch again after passing under a bridge. Actually I already thought that my watch has now reached its end of life after 3 years and I started to make my peace with upgrading to a 955 until I found this thread :-)

0 shokked over 2 years ago

Same here. CPE is up to date.

0 ptlewis2000 over 2 years ago

Same here, 245.