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override the weak gps signal interruption

  • August 7, 2025
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This has just happened to me too many times. It’s a huge disappointment.

It goes like this: I stand next to my car and start Strava, it seems fine. I put my phone back into my Camelback or jacket or whatever I’ll be transporting the phone with. As far as I’m concerned, Strava starting recording my activity. It was showing the timer and speed.

I pull my pack/garment out of the car and put it on and begin my activity. Today it was a mountain bike ride. I am TRAINING. I want this data! I finish my workout and there is Strava with a little warning dialog saying “Weak GPS signal. Do you still want to record your activity?”

DOH! I just finished!!! And I’ve got NOTHING.

Pardon me, but this has happened several times in the past 2 weeks. I just renewed my subscription too, because I’m training for a race. Not helpful! And no way for me to know as I left the car that Strava had given up because my phone was in the car for less than a minute.

I want a setting in the app that overrides this stupidity.

It seems soooo unecessary and NOT user friendly.

HELP!

Bill

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    • Jo61jo
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    • January 11, 2026

    Strava has great difficulty recording GPS. 

    Lately, I keep getting weak or no GPS messages at the start of an activity. 

    I then open a GPS app on my phone to check and of course, GPS is sensed and fine with plenty of satellites available.  I close the GPS app, return to Strava and now, Strava is able to grab onto the GPS signal and works form then on. 

    Then there is the Strava problem with GPS drift, where sitting still at a rest point, I will SEE MY DISTANCE INCREASING!  I now have learned to put Strava on pause during rest stops but this FAILURE has to make one question the quality of the statistics Strava reports.  AND you have to remember to unpause prior to restarting or you will lose recording for the remainder of the activity, something I have done on occasion.

    So annoying!  You need to do better Strava or consider selling the business to a company with more competent development.  Or maybe try using an AI to assist your developers.

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