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Hi - my recently bought Samsung Galaxy Watch 8 has issues finding the GPS when I open it pre-run.

I've tried resetting the watch completely, giving all permissions to the Strava app, rebooting, clearing the cache, force stop etc, but go through periods of 'error preparing exercise, please try again' on the GPS fix screen when trying to start a run.

Sometimes it does work, then other times not despite locations not varying. Not sure if this is a hardware issue but checking to see if others have the same issue...

Fixed it - I’ve had to setup and use Samsung Health as the basis for running with GPS, and using the app on the watch to track, and then that seems to sync with Strava as soon as done.

 

Phew. Money not wasted!