Originally Posted by
John_V
The point I was trying to make was that a lot of people will buy a Garmin for that feature and not realize that it requires your Garmin to be connected to your phone the whole time Live Track is being used. So if you want to use your phone and keep a full charge for emergency calls, you can't use this feature for long rides or if you do, you will exhaust quite a bit of battery power and defeat the purpose of why you carry your phone.
Fortunately Live Track too is bugged.
-If your Garmin pauses your ride it will crash. Say autopause to stop and have a granola bar for 30 seconds or to take a leak.
-If you leave cell phone data reception it will crash.
LiveTrack doesn't actually burn that much more smartphone battery over BT pairing to start with. Odds are on long rides your E1000 will run out of battery before your phone will...with GPS only, BT pairing on and ANT+ speed/cadence and screen lock on-hope for about 7 hours before the E1K is complaining about low battery.