Does anyone have trouble with strava?
08-25-16, 06:04 PM
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Does anyone have trouble with strava?
I have been trying to use Strava (and map my run) for the past 3 weeks with no progress. I'm in the woods and on pole lines, it never calculates correctly to my garmin edge. It only ever gives me straight lines on the map,it seems to loose connection as I ride. My location is ON my Galaxy active phone. I'm wondering how my garmin will track every move but strava won't. Does anyone out there have this trouble? Thanks again
08-25-16, 07:01 PM
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If you have a Garmin, why are you using your phone's GPS? Why not just upload the Garmin data to Strava?
08-26-16, 05:39 AM
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08-26-16, 05:51 AM
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Nope. I just have a phone with Strava. But I know people upload their Garmin data to Strava. I'm planning to do that once I buy a Garmin to stop exhausting my phone battery and hopefully get better GPS data.
08-26-16, 06:46 AM
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Damn,looks like my garmin is too old. I think you may need a new one possibly with blue tooth to sync. I will have to do more research.
08-26-16, 07:40 AM
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No just upload the fit file into garmin connect on your computer and set it up to sync with strava from there or download the fit file onto your computer and upload it to Strava directly.
08-26-16, 08:02 AM
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You can connect your 305 to a computer through the docking station and USB cable and download the activity files. You may also be able to connect to Garmin Express and have that application retrieve the files from the device directly. Once they're loaded into Garmin Connect you can link your Garmin account to Strava and they should show up over there as well.
08-26-16, 11:21 AM
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Not me. I don't even know exactly what Strava is.
08-26-16, 11:34 AM
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I don't use it so no trouble at all... 
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08-27-16, 07:00 PM
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I said this in another thread.
Power saving settings. When it's not set to "normal" it will shut the GPS or app down until you pull it back up again. Now and then mine gets reset to "Smart" for some reason and that's when I get the straight line GPS error because it shuts down and doesn't record until I check to see if it's recording or use the phone for some other purpose. Drives me crazy when it gets set off of "Normal".
Power saving settings. When it's not set to "normal" it will shut the GPS or app down until you pull it back up again. Now and then mine gets reset to "Smart" for some reason and that's when I get the straight line GPS error because it shuts down and doesn't record until I check to see if it's recording or use the phone for some other purpose. Drives me crazy when it gets set off of "Normal".
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