A question please.
Does a phone know a person’s position better if it has an active SIM card installed? I have a dumb Samsung S10 phone (in other words one without an active SIM card in it) which I use only on my 1600 when using BMW’s Connected app. I am doing this only because an Android phone maintains its WiFi link to the bike, absolutely reliably. This is in contrast to my otherwise very good iPhones, which do not.
I have noticed that the Connected app will sometimes lose the bike’s position. I can’t tell if this is because:
A. The S10 phone, without an active SIM card, isn’t very good at keeping a tab on its position.
B. A weakness within the BMW Connected app itself.
C. The phone being housed in the dedicated cubbyhole on my 2022 1600 GT. I guess I can check this by moving where I put the phone but housing it in the cubbyhole is useful, as it can be kept powered there.
I am well aware that even modern Garmin GPS devices can lose or inaccurately display a bike’s position, if they lose a good sight of a sufficient number of satellites; there is a spot only 200 yards from my house where this happens quite regularly. But the drop out on the dumb Samsung S10 phone was much more frequent. I know this as I was running my XT and the BMW Connected app together. The XT held its position very reliably, whilst the S10 phone / BMWcConnected combination did not.
Thank you for any advice.
Does a phone know a person’s position better if it has an active SIM card installed? I have a dumb Samsung S10 phone (in other words one without an active SIM card in it) which I use only on my 1600 when using BMW’s Connected app. I am doing this only because an Android phone maintains its WiFi link to the bike, absolutely reliably. This is in contrast to my otherwise very good iPhones, which do not.
I have noticed that the Connected app will sometimes lose the bike’s position. I can’t tell if this is because:
A. The S10 phone, without an active SIM card, isn’t very good at keeping a tab on its position.
B. A weakness within the BMW Connected app itself.
C. The phone being housed in the dedicated cubbyhole on my 2022 1600 GT. I guess I can check this by moving where I put the phone but housing it in the cubbyhole is useful, as it can be kept powered there.
I am well aware that even modern Garmin GPS devices can lose or inaccurately display a bike’s position, if they lose a good sight of a sufficient number of satellites; there is a spot only 200 yards from my house where this happens quite regularly. But the drop out on the dumb Samsung S10 phone was much more frequent. I know this as I was running my XT and the BMW Connected app together. The XT held its position very reliably, whilst the S10 phone / BMWcConnected combination did not.
Thank you for any advice.