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Ionic and Versa together, GPS tracking descrepancy

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‎07-15-2018 06:39

‎07-15-2018 06:39

This is just a disapointment, now its roughly 10 days ago I bought a Ionic for me and a Versa for my wife.

Today we went for a walk using GPS traking. Me with the built in GPS, she was using the phone GPS linked to the Versa.

It was a one our walk, mine was logged with a length of 7.25 KM and her's was logged with 6.4KM.

When comparing the maps both maps match perfectly, so we can exclude that one of the GPS signals got lost. 

What's the problem? Why that huge discrepancy?

 

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‎07-15-2018 06:50 - edited ‎07-15-2018 12:00

‎07-15-2018 06:50 - edited ‎07-15-2018 12:00

I've done extensive testing with the Versa and Ionic on a 400M Track.

The Versa does not use GPS data for the distance. It just uses the stride length set in the app.

It if the stride length is set to auto it's supposed to use past GPS data to calculate the length.

It doesn't do it. So the Versa's external GPS is almost useless, It only draws nice looking pictures on the Dashboard.

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