Subsurface isn't matching my last 4 dives from the service

Dirk Hohndel dirk at hohndel.org
Sun Jun 22 16:17:47 PDT 2014


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 01:02:55PM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks like you have a 30-minute sampling rate, and quite a lot of them are
> missing (presumably due to not getting a GPS lock). And so there are no GPS
> markers around 16:45 and the next 45 minutes..
> 
> There is one at 15:54 and then at 17:54, but the ones in between are
> missing...
> 
> Bad phone GPS? Or maybe the phone was in a metal container on the boat?
> 
> The default 30-minute interval is pretty long, especially if your phone has
> trouble getting a lock. You might want to try to cut it down to 15 or even
> 10 minutes. It will eat more battery, but generally not *that* much..

I have mine now set at 5 minutes and as long as I switch to airplane mode
my phone easily survives three days of being on with the service running
non stop.

/D


More information about the subsurface mailing list